See Sandix.

Being in a healthy condition; not deranged; acting rationally; -- said of the mind.

The state of being sane; sanity.

imp. of Sing.

Freedom from agitation or excitement of mind; coolness in trying circumstances; indifference; calmness.

Wine and water sweetened and spiced, -- a favorite West Indian drink.

See Sanjak.

See Holy Grail, under Grail.

The Abyssinian ox (Bos Africanus syn. Bibos Africanus), noted for the great length of its horns. It has a hump on its back.

Conveying blood; as, sanguiferous vessels, i. e., the arteries, veins, capillaries.

The production of blood; the conversion of the products of digestion into blood; hematosis.

A producer of blood.

Flowing or running with blood.

To produce blood from.

Producing blood; as, sanguigenous food.

Of a blood-red color; sanguine.

A genus of plants of the Poppy family.

In a sanguinary manner.

The quality or state of being sanguinary.

The yarrow. The Sanguinaria.

To stain with blood; to impart the color of blood to; to ensanguine.

Destitute of blood; pale.

In a sanguine manner.

The quality of being sanguine.

Abounding with blood; sanguine.

The quality of being sanguine; sanguineness.

Subsisting on blood.

The state of being sanguinolent, or bloody.

Tinged or mingled with blood; bloody; as, sanguinolent sputa.

A bloodsucker, or leech.

Subsisting upon blood; -- said of certain blood-sucking bats and other animals. See Vampire.

the great council of the Jews, which consisted of seventy members, to whom the high priest was added. It had jurisdiction of religious matters.

A member of the sanhedrin.

A collection of vedic hymns, songs, or verses, forming the first part of each Veda.

Any plant of the umbelliferous genus Sanicula, reputed to have healing powers.

A variety of orthoclase feldspar common in certain eruptive rocks, as trachyte; -- called also glassy feldspar.

A thin, serous fluid commonly discharged from ulcers or foul wounds.

Pertaining to sanies, or partaking of its nature and appearance; thin and serous, with a slight bloody tinge; as, the sanious matter of an ulcer.

An advocate of sanitary measures; one especially interested or versed in sanitary measures.

A sanitarian.

A health station or retreat; a sanatorium.

Of or pertaining to health; designed to secure or preserve health; relating to the preservation or restoration of health; hygienic; as, sanitary regulations. See the Note under Sanatory.

The act of rendering sanitary; the science of sanitary conditions; the preservation of health; the use of sanitary measures; hygiene.

The condition or quality of being sane; soundness of health of body or mind, especially of the mind; saneness.

A district or a subvision of a vilayet.

imp. of Sink.

A chank shell (Turbinella pyrum); also, a shell bracelet or necklace made in India from the chank shell.

A Hindu system of philosophy which refers all things to soul and a rootless germ called prakriti, consisting of three elements, goodness, passion, and darkness.

Same as Sannup.

A married male Indian; a brave; -- correlative of squaw.

The sandpiper.

Without; deprived or destitute of. Rarely used as an English word.

A fellow without breeches; a ragged fellow; -- a name of reproach given in the first French revolution to the extreme republican party, who rejected breeches as an emblem peculiar to the upper classes or aristocracy, and adopted pantaloons.

Pertaining to, or involving, sans-culottism; radical; revolutionary; Jacobinical.

Extreme republican principles; the principles or practice of the sans-culottes.

Without care; free and easy.

See Sanskrit.

Of or pertaining to Sanskrit; written in Sanskrit; as, a Sanskrit dictionary or inscription.

Sanskrit.

One versed in Sanskrit.

Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Santalaceae), of which the genus Santalum is the type, and which includes the buffalo nut and a few other North American plants, and many peculiar plants of the southern hemisphere.

Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, sandalwood (Santalum); -- used specifically to designate an acid obtained as a resinous or red crystalline dyestuff, which is called also santalin.

Santalic acid. See Santalic.

A genus of trees with entire opposite leaves and small apetalous flowers. There are less than a dozen species, occurring from India to Australia and the Pacific Islands. See Sandalwood.

One of the seven confederated tribes of Indians belonging to the Sioux, or Dakotas.

See Saunter.

A Turkish saint; a kind of dervish, regarded by the people as a saint: also, a hermit.

A salt of santonic acid.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid (distinct from santoninic acid) obtained from santonin as a white crystalline substance.

A white crystalline substance having a bitter taste, extracted from the buds of levant wormseed and used as an anthelmintic. It occassions a peculiar temporary color blindness, causing objects to appear as if seen through a yellow glass.

A salt of santoninic acid.

Of or pertaining to santonin; -- used specifically to designate an acid not known in the free state, but obtained in its salts.

Any marine annelid of the genus Hyalinaecia, especially Hyalinaecia tubicola of Europe, which inhabits a transparent movable tube resembling a quill in color and texture.

A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.

See Sapodila.

The sapajou.

Any one of several species of South American monkeys of the genus Cebus, having long and prehensile tails. Some of the species are called also capuchins. The bonnet sapajou (Cebus subcristatus), the golden-handed sapajou (Cebus chrysopus), and the white-throated sapajou (Cebus hypoleucus) are well known species. See Capuchin.

Abounding in sap; sappy.

A weak-minded, stupid fellow; a milksop.

Manifest; -- applied to the two principal superficial veins of the lower limb of man. Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the saphenous veins; as, the saphenous nerves; the saphenous opening, an opening in the broad fascia of the thigh through which the internal saphenous vein passes.

Having the power of affecting the organs of taste; possessing savor, or flavor.

The quality or state of being sapid; taste; savor; savoriness.

Quality of being sapid; sapidity.

The quality of being sapient; wisdom; sageness; knowledge.

Wise; sage; discerning; -- often in irony or contempt.

Having or affording wisdom.

Sapiential.

To make sapient.

In a sapient manner.

Of or pertaining to an order of trees and shrubs (Sapindaceae), including the (typical) genus Sapindus, the maples, the margosa, and about seventy other genera.

A genus of tropical and subtropical trees with pinnate leaves and panicled flowers. The fruits of some species are used instead of soap, and their round black seeds are made into necklaces.

Destitute of sap; not juicy.

A young tree.

A tall, evergeen, tropical American tree (Achras Sapota); also, its edible fruit, the sapodilla plum.

A white crystalline substance obtained by the decomposition of saponin.

Resembling soap; having the qualities of soap; soapy.

The quality or state of being saponaceous.

Saponaceous.

Capable of conversion into soap; as, a saponifiable substance.

The act, process, or result, of soap making; conversion into soap; specifically (Chem.), the decomposition of fats and other ethereal salts by alkalies; as, the saponification of ethyl acetate.

That which saponifies; any reagent used to cause saponification.

To convert into soap, as tallow or any fat; hence (Chem.), to subject to any similar process, as that which ethereal salts undergo in decomposition; as, to saponify ethyl acetate.

A poisonous glucoside found in many plants, as in the root of soapwort (Saponaria officinalis), in the bark of soap bark (Quillaja saponaria), etc. It is extracted as a white amorphous powder, which produces a soapy lather in solution, and produces a local anaesthesia. It is used as a detergent and for emulsifying oils. Formerly called also struthiin, quillaiin, senegin, polygalic acid, etc. By extension, any one of a group of related bodies of which saponin proper is the type.

A hydrous silicate of magnesia and alumina. It occurs in soft, soapy, amorphous masses, filling veins in serpentine and cavities in trap rock.

A soapy mixture obtained by treating an essential oil with an alkali; hence, any similar compound of an essential oil.

Power of affecting the organs of taste; savor; flavor; taste.

Having the power to produce the sensation of taste; producing taste, flavor, or relish.

The quality of a body by which it excites the sensation of taste.

Having flavor or taste; yielding a taste.

The sapodilla.

Of or pertaining to a natural order (Sapotaceae) of (mostly tropical) trees and shrubs, including the star apple, the Lucuma, or natural marmalade tree, the gutta-percha tree (Isonandra), and the India mahwa, as well as the sapodilla, or sapota, after which the order is named.

Kyanite.

One who saps; specifically (Mil.), one who is employed in working at saps, building and repairing fortifications, and the like.

A Sapphic verse.

Of or resembling sapphire; sapphirine; blue.

Resembling sapphire; made of sapphire; having the color, or any quality of sapphire.

Any one of several species of brilliant South American humming birds of the genus Sappho, having very bright-colored and deeply forked tails; -- called also firetail.

The quality of being sappy; juiciness.

See Sapodilla.

Musty; tainted.