Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SAP'PHIR-INE, a.

Resembling sapphire; made of sapphire; having the qualities of sapphire. Boyle.

SAP'PI-NESS, n. [from sappy.]

The state or quality of being full of sap; succulence; juiciness.

SAP'PING, ppr.

Undermining; subverting.

SAP'PY, a. [Sax. sæpig.]

1. Abounding with sap; juicy; succulent. Mortimer.
2. Young; not firm; weak. When he had passed this weak and sappy age. Hayward.
3. Weak in intellect.

SAP'PY, a. [Qu. Gr. σηπω, to putrefy.]

Musty; tainted. [Not in use.]

SAP-ROPH'A-GAN, a. [Gr. σαπρος and φαγω.]

Feeding on animal and vegetable substances in a state of decomposition.

SAP-ROPH'A-GAN, n.

An insect which feeds on substances in a state of decomposition.

SAP'TUBE, n.

A vessel that conveys sap. De Candolle.

SAP'-WOOD, n.

The external part of wood.

SAR'A-BAND, n. [Sp. zarabanda; Port. and It. sarabanda; Fr. sarabande.]

A dance and a tune used in Spain, said to be derived from the Saracens. Sp. Dict. Encyc.

SAR'A-CEN, n.

An Arabian; so called from sara, a desert.

SAR-A-CEN'IC, a.

1. Pertaining to the Saracens, inhabitant of Arabia.
2. Denoting the architecture of the Saracens, the modern Gothic. Johnson.

SAR'A-SIN, or SAR'RA-SINE, n.

1. A plant, a kind of birth-wort. Bailey.
2. A portcullis or herse.

SAR'CASM, n. [L. sarcasmus; Gr. σαρκασμος, from σαρκαζω, to deride or sneer at, primarily to flay or pluck off the skin.]

A keen reproachful expression; a satirical remark or expression, uttered with some degree of scorn or contempt; a taunt; a gibe. Of this we have an example in the remark of the Jews respecting Christ, on the cross, “He save others, himself he can not save.”

SAR-CAS'TIC, or SAR-CAS'TIC-AL, a.

Bitterly satirical; scornfully severe; taunting. What a fierce and sarcastic reprehension would this have drawn from the friendship of the world. South.

SAR-CAS'TIC-AL-LY, adv.

In a sarcastic manner; with scornful satire. South.

SAR'CE-NET, n. [Qu. saracenicum or saracen, silk.]

A species of fine thin woven silk. Dryden.

SAR'CO-CARP, n. [Gr. σαρξ and καρπος.]

In botany, the fleshy part of a drupaceous pericarp, situated between the integument or skin, and the putamen, endocarp, or stone. Lindley.

SAR-CO-CARP, n.

The middle portion of the pericarp of a fruit. [1841 Addenda only.]

SAR'CO-CELE, n. [Gr. σαρξ, flesh, and κηλη, tumor.]

A fleshy and firm tumor of a testicle, with a simple vascular texture, not inflammatory. It is the Sarcoma vasculosum of Good.

SAR'CO-COL, or SAR-CO-COL'LA, n. [Gr. compounded of σαρξ, flesh, and κολλα, glue.]

A semi-transparent solid substance, imported from Arabia and Persia in grains of a light yellow or red color. It is an inspissated sap, supposed to be produced by a species Penæa. It has its name from its supposed use in healing wounds and ulcers. Encyc.

SAR'CO-LINE, a. [Gr. σαρξ, flesh.]

In mineralogy, flesh-colored. Shepard.

SAR'COL-ITE, n. [flesh-stone.]

A substance of a vitreous nature, and of rose flesh color, found near Vesuvius. The French call it hydrolite, water-stone. Dict. Nat. Hist. Sarcolite is a variety of analcime. Ure.

SAR-CO-LOG'IC-AL, a.

Pertaining to sarcology.

SAR-COL'O-GY, a. [Gr. σαρξ, flesh, and λογος, discourse.]

That part of anatomy which treats of the soft parts of the body, as the muscles, fat, intestines, vessels, &c. Encyc.