Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Sapphic (2)

Sap″phic, n.(Pros.) A Sapphic verse.

758

Sapphire

Sap″phire (? or?; 277), n. [OE. saphir, F. saphir, L. sapphirus, Gr. �, of Oriental origin; cf. Heb. sappīr.] 1. (Min.) Native alumina or aluminium sesquioxide, Al2O3; corundum;...

759

Sapphire (2)

Sap″phire, a. Of or resembling sapphire; sapphirine; blue. “The sapphire blaze.” Gray.

760

Sapphirine

Sap″phir‐ine (?), n. Resembling sapphire; made of sapphire; having the color, or any quality of sapphire. “Sapphirine degree of hardness.” Boyle.

761

Sappho

Sap″pho (?), n. [See Sapphic.] (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of brilliant South American humming birds of the genus Sappho, having very bright-colored and deeply forked tai...

762

Sappiness

Sap″pi‐ness (?), n. The quality of being sappy; juiciness.

763

Sappodilla

Sap′po‐dil″la (?), n.(Bot.) See Sapodilla.

764

Sappy

Sap″py (?), a. [Compar.Sappier (?); superl.Sappiest.] [From 1st Sap.]1. Abounding with sap; full of sap; juicy; succulent.2. Hence, young, not firm; weak, feeble.When he had pas...

765

Sappy (2)

Sap″py (?), a. [Written also sapy.] [Cf. L. sapere to taste.] Musty; tainted.

766

Saprophagan

Sa‐proph″a‐gan (?), n. [Gr. σαπρόσ rotten + φαγει̑ν to eat: cf. F. saprophage.] (Zoöl.) One of a tribe of beetles which feed upon decaying animal and vegetable substances; a car...

767

Saprophagous

Sa‐proph″a‐gous (?), a.(Zoöl.) Feeding on carrion.

768

Saprophyte

Sap″ro‐phyte (?), n. [Gr. σαπρόσ rotten + φυτόν a plant.] (Bot.) Any plant growing on decayed animal or vegetable matter, as most fungi and some flowering plants with no green c...

769

Saprophytic

Sap′ro‐phyt″ic (?), a. Feeding or growing upon decaying animal or vegetable matter; pertaining to a saprophyte or the saprophytes.

770

Saprophytism

Sap″ro‐phyt‐ism (?), n. State or fact of being saprophytic.

771

Sapsago

Sap″sa‐go (?), n. [G. schabzieger; schaben to shave, to scrape + zieger a sort of whey.] A kind of Swiss cheese, of a greenish color, flavored with melilot.

772

Sapskull

Sap″skull′ (?), n. A saphead.

773

Sapucaia

Sap′u‐ca″ia (?; Pg. �), n. [Pg. sapucaya.] (Bot.) A Brazilian tree. See Lecythis, and Monkey-pot. [Written also sapucaya.]Sapucaia nut(Bot.), the seed of the sapucaia; — called ...

774

Sapwood

Sap″wood′ (?), n.(Bot.) The alburnum, or part of the wood of any exogenous tree next to the bark, being that portion of the tree through which the sap flows most freely; — disti...

775

Sarabaite

Sar″a‐ba‐ite (?), n. [LL. Sarabaïtae, pl.] (Eccl. Hist.) One of certain vagrant or heretical Oriental monks in the early church.

776

Saraband

Sar″a‐band (?), n. [F. sarabande, Sp. zarabanda, fr. Per. serbend a song.] A slow Spanish dance of Saracenic origin, to an air in triple time; also, the air itself.She has broug...

777

Saracen

Sar″a‐cen (?), n. [L. Saracenus perhaps fr. Ar. sharqi, pl. sharqiīn, Oriental, Eastern, fr. sharaqa to rise, said of the sun: cf. F. sarrasin. Cf. Sarcenet, Sarrasin, Sirocco.]...

778

Saracenic

{ Sar′a‐cen″ic (?), Sar′a‐cen″ic‐al (?) }, a. Of or pertaining to the Saracens; as, Saracenic architecture. “Saracenic music.” Sir W. Scott.

779

Sarasin

Sar″a‐sin (?), n.(Arch.) See Sarrasin.

780

Saraswati

‖Sa′ras‐wa″ti (?), n. [Skr. Sarasvatī.] (Hind. Myth.) The sakti or wife of Brahma; the Hindoo goddess of learning, music, and poetry.

781

Sarcasm

Sar″casm (?), n. [F. sarcasme, L. sarcasmus, Gr. σαρκασμόσ, from σαρκάζειν to tear flesh like dogs, to bite the lips in rage, to speak bitterly, to sneer, fr. σάρξ, σάρκοσ, fles...

782

Sarcasmous

Sar‐cas″mous (?), a. Sarcastic. “Sarcasmous scandal.” Hubidras.

783

Sarcastic

{ Sar‐cas″tic (?), Sar‐cas″tic‐al (?) }, a. Expressing, or expressed by, sarcasm; characterized by, or of the nature of, sarcasm; given to the use of sarcasm; bitterly satirical...