Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SAR-CO'MA, a. [Gr. from σαρξ, flesh.]

Any fleshy and firm tumor not inflammatory, attended with dull sensations and sluggish growth. There are numerous varieties of sarcoma.

SAR-COPH'A-GOUS, a. [See Sarcophagus.]

Feeding on flesh; flesh-eating. Dict.

SAR-COPH'A-GUS, n. [L. from Gr. σαρκοφαγος; σαρξ, flesh, and φαγω, to eat.]

1. A species of stone used among the Greeks in their sculptures, which was so called because it consumed the flesh of bodies deposited in it within a few weeks. It is otherwise called lapis Assius, and said to be found at Assos, a city of Lycia. Hence,
2. A stone coffin or grave in which the ancients deposited bodies which they chose not to burn. Encyc.

SAR-COPH'A-GY, n. [supra.]

The practice of eating flesh. Brown.

SAR-COT'IC, a. [Gr. σαρξ, flesh.]

In surgery, producing or generating flesh.

SAR-COT'IC, n.

A medicine or application which promotes the growth of flesh; an incarnative. Coxe.

SAR-CU-LA'TION, n. [L. sarculatio, a raking.]

A raking or weeding with a rake.

SAR'DA-CHATE, n.

The clouded and spotted agate, of a pale flesh color.

SAR'DAN, n.

A fish resembling the herring. Dict. Nat. Hist.

SARDE, or SAR'DOIN, n.

A mineral, a variety of carnelian, which displays on its surface a rich reddish brown, but when held between the eye and the light, appears of a deep blood red. Ure.

SAR'DEL, or SAR-DINE, n. [or SAR-DIUS. L. sardius; Gr. σαρδιον; from Sardis, in Asia Minor, now Sart.]

A precious stone. One of this kind was set in Aaron's breastplate. Exod. xxviii.

SAR'DIN, n.

A fish on the coast of Brazil, having gold-colored scales, crossed by black lines.

SAR-DO'NI-AN, or SAR-DON'IC, a.

Sardonian or sardonic laughter, a convulsive involuntary laughter, so called from the herba sardonia, said to be a species of ranunculus, which is said to produce such convulsive motions in the cheeks and lips as are observed during a fit of laughter. Encyc. [Qu. A contemptuous laugh.]

SAR-DON'IC, a.

Denoting a kind of linen made at Colchis. Bryant.

SAR'DON-YX, n. [L. sardonyches, from Gr. σαρδονυξ, from Sardis, a city of Asia Minor, and ονυξ, a nail; so named, according to Pliny, from the resemblance of its color to the flesh under the nail. Plin. Lib. 37, 6.]

A silicious stone or gem, nearly allied to carnelian. Its color is a reddish yellow, or nearly orange. We are informed that the yellow or orange colored agate, with an undulating surface, is now often called sardonyx. Encyc. Cleaveland.

SAR'GUS, n.

A fish of the Mediterranean, whose body is variegated with brown transverse rings, resembling the variegations of the perch. This is also a name of the gardon. Dict.

SAR-I-GUE, n.

The popular name of Didelphis opossum, a marsupial mammal of Cayenne, nearly allied to the Virginian opossum.

SARK, n. [Sax. syrc.]

1. In Scotland, a shirt.
2. A shark. [Not used.]

SAR'LAC, n.

The Bos Pœphagus, or grunniens, the grunting ox of Tartary.

SAR-MA'TIAN, or SAR-MAT'IC, a.

Pertaining to Sarmatia and its inhabitants, the ancestors of the Russians and Poles.

SAR-MENT'OUS, a. [L. sarmentosus, from sarmentum, a twig.]

A sarmentous stem, in botany, is one that is long and filiform and almost naked, or having only leaves in bunches at the joints or knots, where it strikes root. Martyn.

SA-RON'IC, a.

Denoting a gulf of Greece between Attica and Sparta. D'Anville.

SAR'PLAR, n.

A sarplar of wool is a sack containing 80 tod; a tod contains two stone of 14 pounds each. Encyc.

SAR'PLI-ER, n. [Fr. serpillière.]

Canvas, or a packing cloth. Bailey.

SAR'SA, or SAR-SA-PA-RIL'LA, n.

A plant, a species of Smilax, valued in medicine for its mucilaginous and farinaceous or demulcent qualities. Encyc.