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Sac"cate , a. 1. Having the form of a sack or pouch; furnished with a sack or pouch, as a petal.
The common saccharimeter of the brewer is an hydrometer adapted by its scale to point out the proportion of saccharine matter in a solution of any specific gravity. The polarizing saccharimeter of the chemist is a complex optical apparatus, in which polarized light is transmitted through the saccharine solution, and the proportion of sugar indicated by the relative deviation of the plane of polarization.
, a. Resembling sugar, as in taste, appearance, consistency, or composition; as, saccharoidal limestone.
Sac"cule , n. A little sac; specifically, the sacculus of the ear.
||Sac"cus , n.; pl. Sacci . A sac.
The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belongs to intellectual superiority.
Macaulay.
Sach"el , n. A small bag. See Satchel.
Sa"chem , n. A chief of a tribe of the American Indians; a sagamore. See Sagamore.
||Sa`chet" , n. A scent bag, or perfume cushion, to be laid among handkerchiefs, garments, etc., to perfume them.
Sack , n. A name formerly given to various dry Spanish wines. "Sherris sack." Shak.
Sack posset, a posset made of sack, and some other ingredients.
Sack, n. 1. A bag for holding and carrying goods of any kind; a receptacle made of some kind of pliable material, as cloth, leather, and the like; a large pouch.
Sack bearer . See Basket worm, under Basket. -- Sack tree , an East Indian tree which is cut into lengths, and made into sacks by turning the bark inside out, and leaving a slice of the wood for a bottom. -- To give the sack to or get the sack, to discharge, or be discharged, from employment; to jilt, or be jilted.
Sack, v. t. 1. To put in a sack; to bag; as, to sack corn.
Bolsters sacked in cloth, blue and crimson.
L. Wallace.
Sack, n. The pillage or plunder, as of a town or city; the storm and plunder of a town; devastation; ravage.
The town was stormed, and delivered up to sack, -- by which phrase is to be understood the perpetration of all those outrages which the ruthless code of war allowed, in that age, on the persons and property of the defenseless inhabitants, without regard to sex or age.
Prescott.
Sack, v. t. To plunder or pillage, as a town or city; to devastate; to ravage.
The Romans lay under the apprehensions of seeing their city sacked by a barbarous enemy.
Addison.
Sack"age , n. The act of taking by storm and pillaging; sack. H. Roscoe.
Sack"but , n. A brass wind instrument, like a bass trumpet, so contrived that it can be lengthened or shortened according to the tone required; -- said to be the same as the trombone. Moore .
The sackbut of the Scriptures is supposed to have been a stringed instrument.
Sack"cloth` , n. Linen or cotton cloth such as sacks are made of; coarse cloth; anciently, a cloth or garment worn in mourning, distress, mortification, or penitence.
Gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner.
Thus with sackcloth I invest my woe.
Sandys.
Sack"clothed` , a. Clothed in sackcloth.
Sack"er , n. One who sacks; one who takes part in the storm and pillage of a town.
Sack"ful , n.; pl. Sackfuls . As much as a sack will hold.
Sack"ful, a. Bent on plunder. Chapman.
Sack"ing, n. Stout, coarse cloth of which sacks, bags, etc., are made.
Sack"less, a. Quiet; peaceable; harmless; innocent.
Sack"-winged` , a. Having a peculiar pouch developed near the front edge of the wing; -- said of certain bats of the genus Saccopteryx.
Sacque , n. Same as 2d Sack, 3.
Sa"cral , a. Of or pertaining to the sacrum; in the region of the sacrum.
I'll take the sacrament on't.
Shak.
God sometimes sent a light of fire, and pillar of a cloud . . . and the sacrament of a rainbow, to guide his people through their portion of sorrows.
Jer. Taylor.
Syn. -- Sacrament, Eucharist. -- Protestants apply the term sacrament to baptism and the Lord's Supper, especially the latter. The R. Cath. and Greek churches have five other sacraments, viz., confirmation, penance, holy orders, matrimony, and extreme unction. As sacrament denotes an oath or vow, the word has been applied by way of emphasis to the Lord's Supper, where the most sacred vows are renewed by the Christian in commemorating the death of his Redeemer. Eucharist denotes the giving of thanks; and this term also has been applied to the same ordinance, as expressing the grateful remembrance of Christ's sufferings and death. "Some receive the sacrament as a means to procure great graces and blessings; others as an eucharist and an office of thanksgiving for what they have received." Jer. Taylor.
The sacramental host of God's elect.
Cowper.
Papists, Anabaptists, and Sacramentaries.
Jer. Taylor.
Both to preach and sacramentize.
Fuller.
Sa"crate , v. t. To consecrate.
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