Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SAC'RIST-AN, n. [Fr. sacristain; It. sacristano; Sp. sacristan; from L. sacer, sacred.]

An officer of the church who has the care of the utensils or movables of the church. It is now corrupted into sexton.

SAC'RIST-Y, n. [Fr. sacristie; Sp. and It. sacristia; from L. sacer, sacred.]

An apartment in a church where the sacred utensils are kept; now called the vestry. Dryden. Addison.

SAC'RO-SANCT, a. [L. sacrosanctus; sacer and sanctus, holy.]

Sacred; inviolable. [Not in use.] – More.

SAD, a. [In W. sad signifies wise, prudent, sober, permanent. It is probable this word is from the root of set. I have not found the word in the English sense, in any other language.]

1. Sorrowful; affected with grief; cast down with affliction. Th' angelic guards ascended, mute and sad. – Milton. Sad for their loss, but joyful of our life. – Pope.
2. Habitually melancholy; gloomy; not gay or cheerful. See in her cell sad Eloisa spread. – Pope.
3. Downcast; gloomy; having the external appearance of sorrow; as, a sad countenance. – Matth. vi.
4. Serious; grave; not gay, light or volatile. Lady Catherine, a sad and religious woman. – Bacon.
5. Afflictive; calamitous; causing sorrow; as, a sad accident; a sad misfortune.
6. Dark colored. Woad or wade is used by the dyers to lay the foundation of all sad colors. – Mortimer. [This sense is, I believe, entirely obsolete.]
7. Bad; vexatious; as, a sad husband. [Colloquial.] – Addison.
8. Heavy; weighty; ponderous. With that his hand more sad than lump of lead. Spenser. [Obs.]
9. Close; firm; cohesive; opposed to light or friable. Chalky lands are naturally cold and sad. Mortimer. [Obs.] [The two latter senses indicate that the primary sense is set, fixed; W. sadiaw, to make firm.]

SAD-DEN, v.t. [sad'n.]

1. To make sad or sorrowful; also, to make melancholy or gloomy. – Pope.
2. To make dark colored. [Obs.]
3. To make heavy, firm, or cohesive. Marl is binding, and saddening of land is the great prejudice it doth to clay lands. [Obs.] – Mortimer.

SAD'DEN-ED, pp.

Made sad or gloomy.

SAD'DEN-ING, ppr.

Making sad or gloomy.

SAD'DER, a. [comp. of Sad.]

SAD'DER, n.

An abridgment of the Zendavesta by the Guebres.

SAD-DLE, n. [sad'l; Sax. sadel, sadl; D. zadel; G. sattel; Dan. and Sw. sadel; W. sadell; Ir. sadhall; Russ. sedlo or siedlo; from the root of sit, set, L. sedeo, sedile.]

1. A seat to be placed on a horse's back for the rider to sit on. Saddles are variously made, as the common saddle and the hunting saddle, and for females the side-saddle.
2. Among seamen, a cleat or block of wood nailed on the lower yard-arms to retain the studding sail-booms in their place. The name is given also to other circular pieces of wood; as, the saddle of the bowsprit. – Mar. Dict.

SAD'DLE, v.t.

1. To put a saddle on. Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his ass. – Gen. xxii.
2. To load; to fix a burden on; as, to be saddled with the expense of bridges and highways.

SAD'DLE-BACK-ED, a.

Having a low back and an elevated neck and head, as a horse. – Far. Dict.

SAD'DLE-BAGS, n.

Bags, usually of leather, united by straps, for carriage on horseback, one bag on each side.

SAD'DLE-BOW, n. [Sax. sadl-boga.]

The bows of a saddle, or the pieces which form the front.

SAD'DLED, pp.

Furnished with a saddle; loaded.

SAD'DLE-MAK-ER, or SAD'DLER, n.

One whose occupation is to make saddles.

SAD'DLER-Y, n.

Saddles in general; the manufactures of a saddler.

SAD'DLE-TREE, n.

The frame of a saddle.

SAD'DLING, pp.

Putting a saddle on; fixing a burden on.

SAD-DU-CE'AN, a.

Pertaining to the Sadducees, a sect among the ancient Jews, who denied the resurrection, a future state, and the existence of angels. – Acts xxiii.

SAD'DU-CISM, n.

The tenets of the Sadducees. – More.

SAD'I-RON, n.

An instrument for smoothing or ironing clothes, a flat-iron.

SAD'LY, adv.

1. Sorrowfully; mournfully. He sadly suffers in their grief. – Dryden.
2. In a calamitous or miserable manner. The misfortunes which others experience we may one day sadly feel.
3. In a dark color. [Obs.] – B. Jonson.

SAD'NESS, n.

1. Sorrowfulness; mournfulness; dejection of mind; as, grief and sadness at the memory of sin. – Decay of Piety.
2. A melancholy look; gloom of countenance. Dim sadness did not spare / Celestial visages. – Milton.
3. Seriousness; sedate gravity. Let every thing in a mournful subject have an air of sadness.

SAFE, a. [Fr. sauf, sauve, contracted from L. salvus, from salus, safety, health.]

1. Free from danger of any kind; as, safe from enemies; safe from disease; safe from storms; safe from the malice of foes.
2. Free from hurt, injury or damage; as, to walk safe over red hot plowshares. We brought the goods safe to land.
3. Conferring safety; securing from harm; as, a safe guide; a safe harbor; a safe bridge.
4. Not exposing to danger. Phil. iii.
5. No longer dangerous; placed beyond the power of doing harm; a ludicrous meaning. Banquo's safe. / – Aye, my good lord, safe in a ditch. – Shak.