Sale – Sapphic

Sale

SALE, noun [The primary sense of sell, is simply to deliver or cause to pass from one person to another.]

1. The act of selling; the exchange of a commodity for money of equivalent value. The exchange of one commodity for another is barter or permutation, and sale differs from barter only in the nature of the equivalent given.

2. Vent; power of selling; market. He went to market, but found no sale for his goods.

3. Auction; public sale to the highest bidder, or exposure of goods in market. [Little used.]

4. State of being venal, or of being offered to bribery; as, to set the liberty of a state to sale

5. A wicker basket.

SALE, adjective Sold; bought; as opposed to homemade. [Colloquial.]

Salebrosity

SALEBROS'ITY, noun [See Salebrous.] Roughness or ruggedness of a place or road.

Salebrous

SAL'EBROUS, adjective [Latin salebrosus, from salebra, a rough place; probably allied to salio, to shoot out.] Rough; rugged; uneven. [Little used.]

Salep

SAL'EP, noun [said to be a Turkish word; written also salop, saloop and saleb.]

In the materia medica, the dried root of a species of orchis; also, a preparation of this root to be used as food.

Salesman

SA'LESMAN, noun [sale and man.] One that sells clothes ready made.

Salework

SA'LEWORK, noun Work or things made for sale; hence, work carelessly done. This last sense is a satire on man.

Salic

SAL'IC, adjective [The origin of this word is not ascertained.]

The salic law of France is a fundamental law, by virtue of which males only can inherit the throne.

Salient

SA'LIENT, adjective [Latin saliens, salio, to leap.]

1. Leaping; an epithet in heraldry applied to a lion or other beast, represented in a leaping posture, with his right foot in the dexter point, and his hinder left foot in the sinister base of the escutcheon, by which it is distinguished from rampant.

2. In fortification, projecting; as a salient angle. A salient angle points outward, and is opposed to a re-entering angle, which points inward.

SA'LIENT, adjective [Latin saliens, from salio, to leap or shoot out.]

1. Leaping; moving by leaps; as frogs.

2. Beating; throbbing; as the heart.

3. Shooting out or up; springing; darting; as a salient sprout.

Saliferous

SALIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin sal, salt, and fero, to produce.]

Producing or bearing salt; as saliferous rock.

Salifiable

SAL'IFIABLE, adjective [from salify.] Capable of becoming a salt, or of combining with an acid to form a neutral salt. salifiable bases are alkalies, earths and metallic oxyds.

Salification

SALIFICA'TION, noun The act of salifying.

Salified

SAL'IFIED, participle passive Formed into a neutral salt by combination with an acid.

Salify

SAL'IFY, verb transitive [Latin sal, salt, and facio, to make.]

To form into a neutral salt, by combining an acid with an alkali, earth or metal.

Salifying

SAL'IFYING, participle present tense Forming into a salt by combination with an acid.

Saligot

SAL'IGOT, noun A plant, the water thistle.

Salination

SALINA'TION, noun [Latin sal, salt; salinator, a salt maker.]

The act of washing with salt water.

Saline

SALI'NE,

SALINIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin sal, salinum, and fero, to produce.] Producing salt.

Saliniferous

SALINIF'EROUS, a. [L. sal, salinum, and fero, to produce.] Producing salt.

Saliniform

SALIN'IFORM, adjective [Latin sal, salinum, and form.] Having the form of salt.

Salino-Terrene

SALINO-TERRENE, adjective [Latin sal, salinum, and terrenus, from terra, earth.] Denoting a compound of salt and earth.

Salinous

SALI'NOUS, adjective [Latin sal, salt.]

1. Consisting of salt or constituting salt; as saline particles; saline substances.

2. Partaking of the qualities of salt; as a saline taste.

SALI'NE, noun A salt spring, or a place where salt water is collected in the earth; a name given to the salt springs in the United States.

Salite

SAL'ITE, verb transitive [Latin salio, from sal, salt.] To salt; to impregnate or season with salt. [Little used.]

Saliva

SALI'VA,

SAL'IVAL,

SAL'IVARY, adjective [from saliva ] Pertaining to saliva; secreting or conveying saliva; as salivary glands; salivary ducts or canals.

Salival

SAL'IVAL,

Salivary

SAL'IVARY, a. [from saliva.] Pertaining to saliva; secreting or conveying saliva; as salivary glands; salivary ducts or canals.

Salivate

SAL'IVATE, verb transitive [from saliva.]

To excite an unusual secretion and discharge of saliva in a person, usually by mercury; to produce ptyalism in a person. Physicians salivate their patients in diseases of the glands, of the liver, in the venereal disease, in yellow fever, etc.

Salivated

SAL'IVATED, participle passive Having an increased secretion of saliva from medicine.

Salivating

SAL'IVATING, participle present tense Exciting increased secretion of saliva.

Salivation

SALIVA'TION, noun The act or process of promoting ptyalism, or of producing an increased secretion of saliva, for the cure of disease.

Salive

SAL'IVE, noun [Latin saliva.]

The fluid which is secreted by the salivary glands, and which serves to moisten the mouth and tongue. It moistens our food also, and by being mixed with it in mastication, promotes digestion. When discharged from the mouth, it is called spittle.

Salivous

SALI'VOUS, adjective Pertaining to saliva; partaking of the nature of saliva.

Sallet

SAL'LET, noun A head-piece or helmet.

Salleting

SAL'LETING, noun [corrupted from salad. Not in use.]

Salliance

SAL'LIANCE, noun [from sally.] An issuing forth. [Not in use.]

Sallow

SAL'LOW, noun [Latin salix.] A tree of the willow kind, or genus Salix.

SAL'LOW, adjective [Latin salix, the tree, supra.]

Having a yellowish color; of a pale sickly color, tinged with a dark yellow; as a sallow skin.

Sallowness

SAL'LOWNESS, noun A yellowish color; paleness tinged with a dark yellow; as sallowness of complexion.

Sally

SAL'LY, noun [See the Verb.] In a general sense, a spring; a darting or shooting. Hence,

1. An issue or rushing of troops from a besieged place to attack the besiegers.

2. A spring or darting of intellect, fancy or imagination; flight; sprightly exertion. We say, sallies of wit, sallies of imagination.

3. Excursion from the usual track; range.

He who often makes sallies into a country, and traverses it up and down, will know it better than one that goes always round in the same track.

4. Act of levity or extravagance; wild gaiety; frolic; a bounding or darting beyond ordinary rules; as a sally of youth; a sally of levity.

SAL'LY, verb intransitive [Latin salio. Gr. to impel, to shoot. See Solar, from Latin sol. Gr.]

1. To issue or rush out, as a body of troops from a fortified place to attack besiegers.

They break the truce, and sally out by night.

2. To issue suddenly; to make a sudden eruption.

Sally-Port

SAL'LY-PORT, noun

1. In fortification, a postern gate, or a passage under ground from the inner to the outer works, such as from the higher flank to the lower, or to the tenailles, or to the communication from the middle of the curtain to the ravelin.

2. A large port on each quarter of a fireship for the escape of the men into boats when the train is fired.

Sallying

SAL'LYING, participle present tense Issuing or rushing out.

Salmagundi

SALMAGUN'DI, noun [See salpicon.]

A mixture of chopped meat and pickled herring with oil, vinegar, pepper and onions.

Salmiac, a contraction of sal ammoniac.

Salmon

SALMON, noun sam'mon. [Latin salmo.]

A fish of the genus Salmo, found in all the northern climates of America, Europe and Asia, ascending the rivers for spawning in spring, and penetrating to their head streams. It is a remarkably strong fish, and will even leap over considerable falls which lie in the way of its progress. It has been known to grow to the weight of 75 pounds; more generally it is from 15 to 25 pounds. It furnishes a delicious dish for the table, and is an article of commerce.

Salmon-Trout

SALMON-TROUT, noun sam'mon-trout. A species of trout resembling the salmon in color.

Saloon

SALOON', noun [See Hall.]

In architecture, a lofty spacious hall, vaulted at the top, and usually comprehending two stories with two ranges of windows. It is a magnificent room in the middle of a building, or at the head of a gallery, etc. It is a state room much used in palaces in Italy for the reception of embassadors and other visitors.

Saloop

SALOOP,

SALOP, [See Salep.]

Salop

SALOP, [See Salep.]

Salpicon

SAL'PICON, noun

Stuffing; farce; chopped meat or bread, etc. used to stuff legs of veal; called also salmagundi. [I believe not used.]

Salsamentarious

SALSAMENTA'RIOUS, adjective [Latin salsamentarius.] Pertaining to salt things. [Not in use.]

Salsify

SAL'SIFY, noun Goat's beard, a plant of the genus Tragopogon.

Salsoacid

SALSOAC'ID, adjective [Latin salsus, salt, and acidus, acid.]

Having a taste compounded of saltness and acidness. [Little used.]

Salsuginous

SALSU'GINOUS, adjective [from Latin salsugo, from sal, salt.] Saltish; somewhat salt.

Salt

SALT, noun [Gr.; Latin The radical sense is probably pungent, and if s is radical, the word belongs to the root of Latin salio; but this is uncertain.]

1. Common salt is the muriate of soda, a substance used for seasoning certain kinds of food, and for the preservation of meat, etc. It is found native in the earth, or it is produced by evaporation and crystallization from water impregnated with saline particles.

2. In chimistry, a body compounded of an acid united to some base, which may be either an alkali, an earth, or a metallic oxyd. Accordingly, salts are alkaline, earthy, or metallic. Many compounds of this kind, of which common salt (muriate of soda, ) is the most distinguished, exist in nature; but most of these, together with many others not known in nature, have been formed by the artificial combination of their elements. Their entire number exceeds 2000. When the acid and base mutually saturate each other, so that the individual properties of each are lost, the compound is a neutral salt; when the acid predominates, it is a super salt; and when the base predominates, it is a sub salt Thus we have a subcarbonate, a carbonate, and a supercarbonate of potash.

3. Taste; sapor; smack.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

4. Wit; poignancy; as Attic salt

SALT, adjective

1. Having the taste of salt; impregnated with salt; as salt beef; salt water

2. Abounding with salt; as a salt land. Jeremiah 17:6.

3. Overflowed with salt water, or impregnated with it; as a salt marsh.

4. Growing on salt marsh or meadows and having the taste of salt; as salt grass or hay.

5. Producing salt water; as a salt spring.

6. Lecherous; slacious.

SALT, noun

1. The part of a river near the sea, where the water is salt

2. A vessel for holding salt

SALT, verb transitive

1. To sprinkle, impregnate or season with salt; as, to salt fish, beef or pork.

2. To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber.

SALT, verb intransitive To deposit salt from a saline substance; as, the brine begins to salt [Used by manufacturers.]

SALT, noun A leap; the act of jumping. [Not in use.]

Salt-Work

SALT'-WORK, noun A house or place where salt is made.

SALT'-WORT, noun A plant of the genus Salicornia; jointed glasswort.

Saltant

SALT'ANT, adjective [Latin saltans, from salto, to leap.] Leaping; jumping; dancing.

Saltation

SALTA'TION, noun [Latin saltatio, from salto, to leap.]

1. A leaping or jumping.

2. Beating or palpitation; as the saltation of the great artery.

Saltcat

SALT'CAT, noun A lump or heap of salt, made at the salt-works, which attracts pigeons.

SALT'-CELLAR, noun [salt and cellar.] A small vessel used for holding salt on the table.

Salted

SALT'ED, participle passive Sprinkled, seasoned or impregnated with salt.

Salter

SALT'ER, noun

1. One who salts; one who gives or applies salt.

2. One that sells salt.

Saltern

SALT'ERN, noun A salt-work; a building in which salt is made by boiling or evaporation.

Saltier

SALT'IER, noun [Latin salto, to leap.]

In heraldry, one of the honorable ordinaries, in the form of St. Andrew's cross.

Saltinbanco

SALT'INBANCO, noun A mountebank; a quack. [Not in use.]

Salting

SALT'ING, participle present tense Sprinkling, seasoning or impregnating with salt.

SALT'ING, noun The act of sprinkling or impregnating with salt.

Saltish

SALT'ISH, adjective Somewhat salt; tinctured or impregnated moderately with salt.

Saltishly

SALT'ISHLY, adverb With a moderate degree of saltness.

Saltishness

SALT'ISHNESS, noun A moderate degree of saltness.

Saltless

SALT'LESS, adjective Destitute of salt; insipid.

Saltly

SALT'LY, adverb With taste of salt; in a salt manner.

SALT'-MINE, noun A mine where fossil salt is obtained.

Saltness

SALT'NESS, noun

1. The quality of being impregnated with salt; as the saltness of sea water or of provisions.

2. Taste of salt.

First occurrence in the Bible(KJV): Mark 9:50

Saltpeter

SALTPE'TER, 'TRE, noun [salt and Gr. stone.] A neutral salt formed by the nitric acid in combination with potash, and hence denominated nitrate of potash. It is found native in the East Indies, in Spain, in Naples and other places. It is also found on walls sheltered from rain, and it is extracted by lixiviation from the earths under cellars, stables and barns, etc.

Saltpetrous

SALTPE'TROUS, adjective Pertaining to saltpeter, or partaking of its qualities; impregnated with saltpeter.

Salts

SALTS, noun The salt water of rivers entering from the ocean.

SALT'-WATER, noun Water impregnated with salt; sea water.

Salubrious

SALU'BRIOUS, adjective [Latin saluber, salubris, from salus. See safe.]

Favorable to health; healthful; promoting health; as salubrious air or water; a salubrious climate.

Salubriously

SALU'BRIOUSLY, adverb So as to promote health.

Salubrity

SALU'BRITY, noun [Latin salubritas.] Wholesomeness; healthfulness; favorableness to the preservation of health; as the salubrity of aid, of a country or climate.

Salutariness

SAL'UTARINESS, noun [See Salutary.]

1. Wholesomeness; the quality of contributing to health or safety.

2. The quality of promoting good or prosperity

Salutary

SAL'UTARY, adjective [Latin salutaris, from salus, health.]

1. Wholesome; healthful; promoting health. Diet and exercise are salutary to men of sedentary habits.

2. Promotive of public safety; contributing to some beneficial purpose. The strict discipline of youth has a salutary effect on society.

Salutation

SALUTA'TION, noun [Latin salutatio. See Salute.]

The act of saluting; a greeting; the act of paying respect or reverence by the customary words or actions; as in inquiring of persons their welfare, expressing to them kind wishes, bowing, etc. Luke 1:29. Mark 12:38.

In all public meetings and private addresses, use the forms of salutation reverence and decency usual among the most sober people.

Salute

SALU'TE, verb transitive [Latin saluto; salus or salvus.]

1. To greet; to hail; to address with expressions of kind wishes.

If ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? Matthew 5:47.

2. To please; to gratify. [Unusual.]

3. To kiss.

4. In military and naval affairs, to honor some person or nation by a discharge of cannon or small arms, by striking colors, by shouts, etc.

SALU'TE, noun

1. The act of expressing kind wishes or respect; salutation; greeting.

2. A kiss.

3. In military affairs, a discharge of cannon or small arms in honor of some distinguished personage. A salute is sometimes performed by lowering the colors or beating the drums. The officers also salute each other by bowing their half pikes.

4. In the navy, a testimony of respect or deference rendered by the ships of one nation to the ships of another, or by ships of the same nation to a superior or equal. This is performed by a discharge of cannon, volleys of small arms, striking the colors or top-sails, or by shouts of the seamen mounted on the masts or rigging. When two squadrons meet, the two chiefs only are to exchange salutes.

Saluted

SALU'TED, participle passive Hailed; greeted.

Saluter

SALU'TER, noun One who salutes.

Salutiferous

SALUTIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin salutifer; salus, health, and fero, to bring.] Bringing health; healthy; as salutiferous air.

Salvability

SALVABIL'ITY, noun [from salvable.] The possibility of being saved or admitted to everlasting life.

Salvable

SALV'ABLE, adjective [Latin salvus, safe; salvo, to save.]

That may be saved, or received to everlasting happiness.

Salvage

SALV'AGE, noun [Latin salvus, salvo.]

In commerce, a reward or recompense allowed by law for the saving of a ship, or goods from loss at sea, either by shipwreck or other means, or by enemies or pirates.

SALV'AGE, for savage, not used. [See Savage.]

Salvation

SALVA'TION, noun [Latin salvo, to save.]

1. The act of saving; preservation from destruction, danger or great calamity.

2. Appropriately in theology, the redemption of man from the bondage of sin and liability to eternal death, and the conferring on him everlasting happiness. This is the great salvation

Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation 2 Corinthians 7:10.

3. Deliverance from enemies; victory. Exodus 14:13.

4. Remission of sins, or saving graces. Luke 19:9.

5. The author of man's salvation Psalms 27:1.

6. A term of praise or benediction. Revelation 19:1.

Salvatory

SALV'ATORY, noun A place where things are preserved; a repository.

Salve

SALVE, noun sav. [Latin salvus.]

1. A glutinous composition or substance to be applied to wounds or sores; when spread on leather or cloth, it is called a plaster.

2. Help; remedy.

SALVE, verb transitive sav.

1. To heal by applications or medicaments. [little used.]

2. To help; to remedy. [Little used.]

3. To help or remedy by a salvo, excuse or reservation. [Little used.]

4. To salute. [Not in use.]

Salver

SAL'VER, noun A piece of plate with a foot; or a plate on which any thing is presented.

Salvific

SALVIF'IC, adjective [Latin salvus and facio.] Tending to save or secure safety. [A bad word and not used.]

Salvo

SAL'VO, noun [from the Latin salvo jure, an expression used in reserving rights.] An exception; a reservation; an excuse.

They admit many salvos, cautions and reservations.

Salvor

SALV'OR, noun One who saves a ship or goods at sea.

Samaritan

SAMAR'ITAN, adjective

1. Pertaining to Samaria, the principal city of the ten tribes of Israel, belonging to the tribe of Ephraim, and after the captivity of those tribes, repeopled by Cuthites from Assyria or Chaldea.

2. Denoting the ancient characters and alphabet used by the Hebrews.

SAMAR'ITAN, noun

1. An inhabitant of Samaria, or one that belonged to the sect which derived their appellation from that city. The Jews had no dealings with the Samaritans.

2. The language of Samaria, a dialect of the Chaldean.

Sambo

SAM'BO, noun The offspring of a black person and a mulatto.

Same

SAME, adjective [Latin simul, together. Gr. Shall we suppose then that s has passed into an aspirate in this word, as in salt, Gr. or has the Greek word lost s? The word same may be the Latin idem or dem, dialectically varied. The primary sense is to set, to place, to put together.]

1. Identical; not different or other.

Thou art the same and thy years shall have no end.

Psalms 102:27.

The Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread. 1 Corinthians 11:23.

2. Of the identical kind or species, though not the specific thing. We say, the horse of one country is the same animal as the horse of another country. The same plants and fruits are produced in the same latitudes. We see in men in all countries, the same passions and the same vices.

Th' etherial vigor is in all the same

3. That was mentioned before.

Do but think how well the same he spends, who spends his blood his country to relieve.

4. Equal; exactly similar. One ship will not run the same distance as another in the same time, and with the same wind. Two balls of the same size have not always the same weight. Two instruments will not always make the same sound.

SAME, adverb Together. obsolete

Sameness

SA'MENESS, noun

1. Identity; the state of being not different or other; as the sameness of an unchangeable being.

2. Near resemblance; correspondence; similarity; as a sameness of manner; a sameness of sound; the sameness of objects in a landscape.

Samian earth. [Gr. the isle.] The name of a marl of two species, used in medicine as an astringent.

Samiel

SA'MIEL,

SAM'ITE, noun A species of silk stuff. obsolete

Samite

SAM'ITE, n. A species of silk stuff. Obs.

Samlet

SAM'LET, noun A little salmon.

Samp

SAMP, noun A species of food composed of maize broken or bruised, boiled and mixed with milk; a dish borrowed from the natives of America, but not much used.

Sampane

SAMP'ANE, noun A kind of vessel used by the Chinese.

Samphire

SAM'PHIRE, noun [said to be a corruption of Saint Pierre.]

A plant of the genus Crithmum. The golden samphire is of the genus Inula.

Samphire grows on rocks near the sea shore, where it is washed by the salt water. It is used for pickling.

Sample

SAM'PLE, noun [Latin exemplum.]

1. A specimen; a part of any thing presented for inspection or intended to be shown, as evidence of the quality of the whole; as a sample of cloth or of wheat. Goods are often purchased in market by samples.

I design this as a sample of what I hope more fully to discuss.

2. Example; instance.

SAM'PLE, verb transitive To show something similar.

Sampler

SAM'PLER, noun [Latin exemplar, supra.] A pattern of work; a specimen; particularly, a piece of needle work by young girls for improvement.

Samsons-Post

SAM'SON'S-POST, noun In ships, a notched post used instead of a ladder; also, a piece of timber that forms a return for a tackle fall.

Sanable

SAN'ABLE, adjective [Latin sanabilis, from sano, to heal; sanus, sound. See Sound.]

That may be healed or cured; susceptible of remedy.

Sanation

SANA'TION, noun [Latin sanatio, from sano, to heal.] The act of healing or curing. [Not used.]

Sanative

SAN'ATIVE, adjective [Latin sano, to heal.] Having the power to cure or heal; healing; tending to heal.

Sanativeness

SAN'ATIVENESS, noun The power of healing.

Sanctificate

SANC'TIFICATE, verb transitive To sanctify. [Not in use.]

Sanctification

SANCTIFICA'TION, noun [See Sanctify.]

1. The act of making holy. In an evangelical sense, the act of God's grace by which the affections of men are purified or alienated from sin and the world, and exalted to a supreme love to God.

God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation, through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth. 2 Thessalonians 2:13. 1 Peter 1:2.

2. The act of consecrating or of setting apart for a sacred purpose; consecration.

Sanctified

SANC'TIFIED, participle passive

1. Made holy; consecrated; set apart for sacred services.

2. Affectedly holy.

Sanctifier

SANC'TIFIER, noun He that sanctifies or makes holy. In theology, the Holy Spirit is, by way of eminence, denominated the sanctifier

Sanctify

SANC'TIFY, verb transitive [Low Latin sanctifico; from sanctus, holy, and facio, to make.]

1. In a general sense, to cleanse, purify or make holy.

2. To separate, set apart or appoint to a holy, sacred or religious use.

God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it. Genesis 2:3.

So under the Jewish dispensation, to sanctify the altar, the temple, the priests, etc.

3. To purify; to prepare for divine service, and for partaking of holy things. Exodus 19:10.

4. To separate, ordain and appoint to the work of redemption and the government of the church. John 10:36.

5. To cleanse from corruption; to purify from sin; to make holy be detaching the affections from the world and its defilements, and exalting them to a supreme love to God.

Sanctify them through thy truth; thy word is truth.

John 17:17. Ephesians 5:26.

6. To make the means of holiness; to render productive of holiness or piety.

Those judgments of God are the more welcome, as a means which his mercy hath sanctified so to me, as to make me repent of that unjust act.

7. To make free from guilt.

That holy man amaz'd at what he saw, made haste to sanctify the bliss by law.

8. To secure from violation.

Truth guards the poet, sanctifies the line.

To sanctify God, to praise and celebrate him as a holy being; to acknowledge and honor his holy majesty, and to reverence his character and laws. Isaiah 8:13.

God sanctifies himself or his name, by vindicating his honor from the reproaches of the wicked, and manifesting his glory. Ezekiel 36:23.

Sanctifying

SANC'TIFYING, participle present tense

1. Making holy; purifying from the defilements of sin; separating to a holy use.

2. adjective Tending to sanctify; adapted to increase holiness.

Sanctimonious

SANCTIMO'NIOUS, adjective [Latin sanctimonia, from sanctus, holy.]

Saintly; having the appearance of sanctity; as a sanctimonious pretense.

Sanctimoniously

SANCTIMO'NIOUSLY, adverb With sanctimony.

Sanctimoniousness

SANCTIMO'NIOUSNESS, noun State of being sanctimonious; sanctity, or the appearance of it. [little used.]

Sanctimony

SANC'TIMONY, noun [Latin sanctimonia.] Holiness; devoutness; scrupulous austerity; sanctity, or the appearance of it. [Little used.]

Sanction

SANC'TION, noun [Latin sanctio, from sanctus, holy, solemn, established.]

1. Ratification; an official act of a superior by which he ratifies and gives validity to the act of some other person or body. A treaty is not valid without the sanction of the president and senate.

2. Authority; confirmation derived from testimony, character, influence or custom.

The strictest professors of reason have added the sanction of their testimony.

3. A law or decree. [Improper.]

SANC'TION, verb transitive To ratify; to confirm; to give validity or authority to.

Sanctioned

SANC'TIONED, participle passive Ratified; confirmed; authorized.

Sanctioning

SANC'TIONING, participle present tense Ratifying; authorizing.

Sanctitude

SANC'TITUDE, noun [Latin sanctus, sanctitudo.] Holiness; sacredness.

Sanctity

SANC'TITY, noun [Latin sanctitas.]

1. Holiness; state of being sacred or holy. God attributes no sanctity to place.

2. Goodness; purity; godliness; as the sanctity of love; sanctity of manners.

3. Sacredness; solemnity; as the sanctity of an oath.

4. A saint or holy being.

About him all the sanctities of heav'n - [Unusual.]

Sanctuarize

SANC'TUARIZE, verb transitive [from sanctuary.] To shelter by means of a sanctuary or sacred privileges. [A bad word and not used.]

Sanctuary

SANC'TUARY, noun [Latin sanctuarium, from sanctus, sacred.]

1. A sacred place; particularly among the Israelites, the most retired part of the temple at Jerusalem, called the Holy of Holies, in which was kept the ark of the covenant, and into which no person was permitted to enter except the high priest, and that only once a year to intercede for the people. The same name was given to the most sacred part of the tabernacle. Leviticus 4:6.

Hebrews 9:1.

2. The temple at Jerusalem. 2 Chronicles 20:8.

3. A house consecrated to the worship of God; a place where divine service is performed. Psalms 73:17.

Hence sanctuary is used for a church.

4. In catholic churches, that part of a church where the altar is placed, encompassed with a balustrade.

5. A place of protection; a sacred asylum. Hence a sanctuary-man is one that resorts to a sanctuary for protection.

6. Shelter; protection.

Some relics of painting took sanctuary under ground.

Sand

SAND, noun

1. Any mass or collection of fine particles of stone, particularly of fine particles of silicious stone, but not strictly reduced to powder or dust.

That finer matter called sand is no other than very small pebbles.

2. Sands, in the plural, tracts of land consisting of sand like the deserts of Arabia and Africa; as the Lybian sands.

SAND, verb transitive

1. To sprinkle with sand It is customary among the common people in America, to sand their floors with white sand

2. To drive upon the sand

Sandal

SAN'DAL, noun [Latin sandalium; Gr.]

1. A kind of shoe, consisting of a sole fastened to the foot. The Greek and Roman ladies wore sandals made of a rich stuff, ornamented with gold or silver.

2. A shoe or slipper worn by the pope and other Romish prelates when they officiate. A like sandal is worn by several congregations of monks.

Sandal-Wood

SAN'DAL-WOOD,

SAN'DARAC,

SAN'DARACH, noun [Latin sandaraca.]

1. A resin in white tears, more transparent than those of mastic; obtained from the juniper tree, in which it occupies the place between the bark and the wood. It is used in powder to prevent ink from sinking or spreading. This is the substance denoted by the Arabic word, and it is also called varnish. For distinction, this is called gum sandarac or sandaric.

The sandarach is obtained from the Thuya articulata, from the Juniperus cedrus.

2. A native fossil; also, a combination of arsenic and sulphur; orpiment.

SAND'-BAG, noun A bag filled with sand; used in fortification.

SAND'-BATH, noun A bath made by warm sand, with which something is enveloped.

SAND'-BLIND, adjective Having a defect of sight, by means of which small particles appear to fly before the eyes.

SAND'-BOX, noun

1. A box with a perforated top or cover, for sprinkling paper with sand.

2. A tree or plant of the genus Hura. It is said that the pericarp of the fruit will burst in the heat of the day with a loud report, and throw the seeds to a distance.

Sandarach

SAN'DARACH, n. [L. sandaraca.] 1. A resin in white tears, more transparent than those of mastic; obtained from the juniper tree, in which it occupies the place between the bark and the wood. It is used in powder to prevent ink from sinking or spreading. This is the substance denoted by the Arabic word, and it is also called varnish. For distinction, this is called gum sandarac or sandaric.The sandarach is obtained from the Thuya articulata, from the Juniperus cedrus.2. A native fossil; also, a combination of arsenic and sulphur; orpiment.

Sanded

SAND'ED, participle passive

1. Sprinkled with sand; as a sanded floor.

2. adjective Covered with sand; barren.

3. Marked with small spots; variegated with spots; speckled; of a sandy color, as a hound.

4. Short sighted.

SAND'-EEL, noun The ammodyte, a fish that resembles an eel. It seldom exceeds a foot in length; its head is compressed, the upper jaw larger than the under one, the body cylindrical, with scales hardly perceptible. There is one species only, a native of Europe. It coils with its head in the center, and penetrates into the sand; whence its name in Greek and English. It is a delicate food.

Sanderling

SAND'ERLING, noun A bird of the plover kind.

SANDERS. [See Sandal.]

Sanders

SAN'DERS, noun

A kind of wood which grows in the East Indies and on some of the isles of the Pacific. It is of three kinds, the white, the yellow, and the red. The tree which produces the two former is of the genus Santalum. It grows to the size of a walnut tree. Its wood has a bitter taste and an aromatic smell. The oriental nations burn it in their houses for the sake of its fragrant odor, and with the powder of it a paste is prepared, with which they anoint their bodies. The white and the yellow sandal-wood are different parts of the same tree; the white is the wood next to the bark; the yellow is the inner part of the tree. The red sandal-wood is obtained from a different tree, the Pierocarpus santolinus. It is of a dull red color, has little taste or smell, and is principally used as a coloring drug.

Sandever

SAN'DEVER,

SAND'INESS, noun [from sandy.]

1. The state of being sandy; as the sandiness of a road.

2. The state of being of a sandy color.

Sandiness

SAND'INESS, n. [from sandy.] 1. The state of being sandy; as the sandiness of a road.2. The state of being of a sandy color.

Sandish

SAND'ISH, adjective [from sand.] Approaching the nature of sand; loose; not compact.

Sandiver

SAN'DIVER, noun

Glass-gall; a whitish salt which is cast up from the materials of glass in fusion, and floating on the top, is skimmed off. A similar substance is thrown out in eruptions of volcanoes. It is used by gilders of iron, and in the fusion of certain ores. It is said to be good for cleansing the skin, and taken internally, is detergent.

SAND'-FLOOD, noun A vast body of sand moving or borne along the deserts of Arabia.

SAND'-HEAT, noun The heat of warm sand in chimical operations.

Sandix

SAND'IX, noun A kind of minium or red lead, made of ceruse, but inferior to the true minium.

Sandpiper

SAND'PIPER, noun A bird of the genus Tringa.

Sandstone

SAND'STONE, noun [sand and stone.] sandstone is, in most cases, composed chiefly of grains of quartz united by a cement, calcarious, marly, argillaceous, or even silicious. The texture of some kinds is loose, of others close; the fracture is granular or earthy.

Sandstones usually consist of the materials of older rocks, as granite, broken up and comminuted, and afterwards deposited again.

SAND'-WORT, noun A plant.

Sandy

SAND'Y, adjective

1. Abounding with sand; full of sand; covered or sprinkled with sand; as a sandy desert or plain; a sandy road or soil.

2. Consisting of sand; not firm or solid; as a sandy foundation.

3. Of the color of sand; of a yellowish red color; as sandy hair.

Sane

SANE, adjective [Latin sanus, Eng. sound. This is the Eng. sound. See sound.]

1. Sound; not disordered or shattered; healthy; as a sane body.

2. Sound; not disordered; having the regular exercise of reason and other faculties of the mind; as a sane person; a person of a sane mind.

Sang

SANG, preterit tense of sing.

SANG FROID, noun

1. Coolness; freedom from agitation or excitement of mind.

2. Indifference.

Sangiac

SAN'GIAC, noun A Turkish governor of a province.

Sanguiferous

SANGUIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin sanguifer; sanguis, blood, and fero, to carry.]

Conveying blood. The sanguiferous vessels are the arteries and veins.

Sanguification

SANGUIFICA'TION, noun [Latin sanguis, blood, and facio, to make.]

In the animal economy, the production of blood; the conversion of chyle into blood.

Sanguifier

SAN'GUIFIER, noun A producer of blood.

Sanguifluous

SANGUIF'LUOUS, adjective [Latin sanguis, blood, and fluo, to flow.] Floating or running with blood.

Sanguify

SAN'GUIFY, verb intransitive To produce blood.

Sanguifying

SAN'GUIFYING, participle present tense Producing blood.

Sanguin

SAN'GUIN, adjective [Latin sanguineus, from sanguis, blood.]

1. Red; having the color of blood; as a sanguine color or countenance.

2. Abounding with blood; plethoric; as a sanguine habit of body.

3. Warm; ardent; as a sanguine temper.

4. Confident. He is sanguine in his expectations of success.

SAN'GUINE, noun Blood color. [Not in use.]

SAN'GUINE, verb transitive

1. To stain with blood. [But ensanguine is generally used.]

2. To stain or varnish with a blood color.

Sanguinary

SAN'GUINARY, adjective [Latin sanguinarius, from sanguis, blood.]

1. Bloody; attended with much bloodshed; murderous; as a sanguinary war, contest or battle.

2. Blood thirsty; cruel; eager to shed blood.

Passion - makes us brutal and sanguinary

SAN'GUINARY, noun A plant.

Sanguine

SAN'GUINE,

SAN'GUINELESS, adjective Destitute of blood; pale. [A bad word and little used.]

Sanguineless

SAN'GUINELESS, a. Destitute of blood; pale. [A bad word and little used.]

Sanguinely

SAN'GUINELY, adverb Ardently; with confidence of success.

Sanguineness

SAN'GUINENESS, noun

1. Redness; color of blood in the skin; as sanguineness of countenance.

2. Fullness of blood; plethory; as sanguineness of habit.

3. Ardor; heat of temper; confidence.

Sanguineous

SANGUIN'EOUS, adjective [Latin sanguineus.]

1. Abounding with blood; plethoric.

2. Constituting blood.

Sanguinity

SANGUIN'ITY, for sanguineness, is not in use.

Sanguisuge

SAN'GUISUGE, noun [Latin sanguisuga; sanguis, blood, and sugo, to suck.]

The blood-sucker; a leech, or horse leech.

Sanhedrim

SAN'HEDRIM, noun [Low Latin synedrium; Gr. with, together and seat.]

The great council of seventy elders among the Jews, whose jurisdiction extended to all important affairs. They received appeals from inferior tribunals, and had power of life and death.

Sanicle

SAN'ICLE, noun [from Latin sano, to heal.] Self-heal, a plant or genus of plants, the Sanicula; also, a plant of the genus Saxifraga. The American bastard sanicle is of the genus Mitella, and the bear's ear sanicle of the genus Cortusa.

Sanidium

SANID'IUM, noun A genus of fossils of the class of selenites, composed of plain flat plates.

Sanies

SA'NIES, noun [Latin] A thin acrid discharge from wounds or sores; a serous matter, less thick and white than pus.

Sanious

SA'NIOUS, adjective [from sanies.]

1. Pertaining to sanies, or partaking of its nature and appearance; thin; serous; as the sanious matter of an ulcer.

2. Running a thin serous matter; as a sanious ulcer.

Sanity

SAN'ITY, noun [Latin sanitas. See Sane.] Soundness; particularly, a sound state of mind; the state of a mind in the perfect exercise of reason.

Sank

SANK, preterit tense of sink, but nearly obsolete.

Sannah

SAN'NAH, noun The name of certain kinds of India muslins.

Sans

SANS, preterit tense Without.

Sanscrit

SAN'SCRIT, noun

The ancient language of Hindoostan, from which are formed all the modern languages or dialects of the great peninsula of India. It is the language of the Bramins, and in this are written the ancient books of the country; but it is now obsolete. It is from the same stock as the ancient Persic, Greek and Latin, and all the present languages of Europe.

Santer

SANTER. [See Saunter.]

Santon

SANT'ON, noun A Turkish priest; a kind of dervis, regarded by the vulgar as a saint.

Sap

SAP, noun

1. The juice of plants of any kind, which flows chiefly between the wood and the bark. From the sap of a species of maple, is made sugar of a good quality by evaporation.

2. The alburnum of a tree; the exterior part of the wood, next to the bark. [A sense in general use in New England.]

SAP, verb transitive

1. To undermine; to subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine.

Their dwellings were sapp'd by floods.

2. To undermine; to subvert by removing the foundation of. Discontent saps the foundation of happiness. Intrigue and corruption sap the constitution of a free government.

SAP, verb intransitive To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining.

Both assaults are carried on by sapping.

SAP, noun In sieges, a trench for undermining; or an approach made to a fortified place by digging or under cover. The single sap has only a single parapet; the double has one on each side, and the flying is made with gabions, etc. In all saps, traverses are left to cover the men.

Sapadillo-Tree

SAPADIL'LO-TREE, noun A tree of the genus Sloanea.

Sapajo

SAP'AJO, noun The sapajos form a division of the genus Simia, including such of the monkeys of America as have prehensile tails.

SAP'-COLOR, noun An expressed vegetable juice inspissated by slow evaporation, for the use of painters, as sap-green, etc.

Sapid

SAP'ID, adjective [Latin sapidus, from sapio, to taste.]

Tasteful; tastable; having the power of affecting the organs of taste; as sapid water.

Sapidity

SAPID'ITY,

SAP'IDNESS, noun Taste; tastefulness; savor; the quality of affecting the organs of taste; as the sapidness of water or fruit.

Sapidness

SAP'IDNESS, n. Taste; tastefulness; savor; the quality of affecting the organs of taste; as the sapidness of water or fruit.

Sapience

SA'PIENCE, noun [Latin sapientia, from sapio, to taste, to know.]

Wisdom; sageness; knowledge.

- Still has gratitude and sapience to spare the folks that give him ha' pence.

Sapient

SA'PIENT, adjective Wise; sage; discerning.

There the sapient king held dalliance.

Sapiential

SAPIEN'TIAL, adjective Affording wisdom or instructions for wisdom. [Not much used.]

Sapless

SAP'LESS, adjective [from sap.]

1. Destitute of sap; as a sapless tree or branch.

2. Dry; old; husky; as a sapless usurer.

Sapling

SAP'LING, noun [from sap.] A young tree.

Nurse the saplings tall.

Saponaceous

SAPONA'CEOUS, adjective [from Latin sapo, soap.] Soapy; resembling soap; having the qualities of soap. saponaceous bodies are often formed by oil and alkali.

Saponary

SAP'ONARY, adjective Saponaceous.

Saponification

SAPONIFICA'TION, noun Conversion into soap.

Saponify

SAPON'IFY, verb transitive [Latin sapo, soap, and facio, to make.]

To convert into soap by combination with an alkali.

Saponule

SAP'ONULE, noun A combination of volatile or essential oil with some base.

Sapor

SA'POR, noun [Latin] Taste; savor; relish; the power of affecting the organs of taste.

There is some sapor in all aliments.

Saporific

SAPORIF'IC, adjective [Latin sapor and facio, to make.]

Having the power to produce taste; producing taste.

Saporosity

SAPOROS'ITY, noun The quality of a body by which it excites the sensation of taste.

Saporous

SA'POROUS, adjective Having taste; yielding some kind of taste.

Sapota

SAPO'TA, noun In botany, a tree or plant of the genus Achras.

Sappadillo-Tree

SAPPADIL'LO-TREE,

SAP'PARE, noun A mineral or species of earth, the kyanite; called by Hauy, disthene.

Sappare

SAP'PARE, n. A mineral or species of earth, the kyanite; called by Hauy, disthene.

Sapped

SAP'PED, participle passive Undermined; subverted.

Sapper

SAP'PER, noun One who saps. In an army, sappers and miners are employed in working at saps, to protect soldiers in their approach to a besieged place, or to undermine the works.

Sapphic

SAPPHIC, adjective saf'ic. Pertaining to Sappho, a Grecian poetess; as sapphic odes; sapphic verse. The sapphic verse consists of eleven syllables in five feet, of which the first, fourth and fifth are trochees, the second a spondee, and the third a dactyl, in the first three lines of each stanza, with a fourth consisting only of a dactyl and a spondee.