Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SAN-GUIN'E-OUS, a. [L. sanguineus.]

1. Abounding with blood; plethoric. – Arbuthnot.
2. Constituting blood. – Brown.

SAN-GUIN'I-TY, n. [for Sanguineness, is not in use.]

– Swift.

SAN-GUIN-IV'OR-OUS, a. [L. sanguis, blood, and voro, to eat.]

Eating or subsisting on blood.

SAN-GUIN'O-LENT, a.

Bloody.

SAN'GUI-SUGE, n. [L. sanguisuga; sanguis, blood, and sugo, to suck.]

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

SAN'HE-DRIM, n. [Low L. synedrium; Gr. συνεδριον; συν, with, together, and ἑδρα, 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. Encyc.

SAN'I-CLE, n. [from L. 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. – Fam. of Plants.

SA-NID'I-UM, n.

A genus of fossils of the class of selenites, composed of plain flat plates. Encyc.

SA'NI-ES, n. [L.]

A thin reddish discharge from wounds or sores; a serous matter, less thick and white than pus, and having a slight tinge of red.

SA'NI-OUS, a. [from sanies.]

1. 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.
2. Excreting or effusing a thin serous reddish matter; as, a sanious ulcer. – Wiseman.

SAN'I-TY, n. [L. sanitas. See Sane.]

Soundness; particularly, a sound state of mind; the state of a mind in the perfect exercise of reason. – Shak.

SANK, v. [pret. of Sink, but nearly obsolete.]

SAN'NAH, n.

The name of certain kinds of India muslin.

SANS, prep. [Fr.]

Without. Shak.

SAN'SCRIT, n. [According to H. T. Colebrooke, Sanscrit signifies the polished dialect. It is sometimes written Shanscrit, and in other ways. Asian Res. 7, 200.]

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.

SANS-CULOTTES, n. [Sans culottes; Fr. without breeches.]

Ragged fellows.

SANS-CU'LOT-TISM, n.

A ragged state of men.

SANS-SOUCI, a. [Sans souci; san soosee. Fr.]

Without care; free and easy.

SAN'TA-LIN, n.

The coloring matter of red sandal, obtained by digesting the rasped wood in alcohol, and adding water. – Brande.

SAN'TER, v.

See SAUNTER.

SAN'TON, n.

A Turkish priest; a kind of dervis, regarded by the vulgar as a saint, lierbert.

SAN'TO-NIN, n.

A proximate vegetable principle obtained from the seed of the Artemisia santonica; white, crytalizable, and bitterish. – Brande.

SAP, n.¹ [Sax. sæp; D. zap; G. saft; Sw. saft, safve; Dan. saft, sæve; Fr. seve; Arm. sabr; probably from softness or flowing. Qu. Pers. زَبَه zabah, a flowing.]

1. The juice of plants of any kind. The ascending sap flows in the vessels of the alburnum or sap-wood, and is colorless, while the descending sap flows in the vessels of the liber or inner bark, and is often colored. This remark however is applicable to exogenous plants only. 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, n.²

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

SAP, v.i.

To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining. Both assaults are carried on by sapping. – Tatler.