Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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.

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, n. [or SAR-DINE 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.