| Sap |
n. |
The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition. |
| Sap |
n. |
The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree. |
| Sap |
n. |
A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop. |
| Sap |
v. t. |
To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of. |
| Sap |
v. t. |
To pierce with saps. |
| Sap |
v. t. |
To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken. |
| Sap |
v. i. |
To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps. |
| Sap |
n. |
A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc. |
| Sapadillo |
n. |
See Sapodila. |
| Sapajo |
n. |
The sapajou. |
| Sapajou |
n. |
Any one of several species of South American monkeys of the genus Cebus, having long and prehensile tails. Some of the species are called also capuchins. The bonnet sapajou (C. subcristatus), the golden-handed sapajou (C. chrysopus), and the white-throated sapajou (C. hypoleucus) are well known species. See Capuchin. |
| Sapan wood |
|
A dyewood yielded by Caesalpinia Sappan, a thorny leguminous tree of Southern Asia and the neighboring islands. It is the original Brazil wood. |
| Sapful |
a. |
Abounding in sap; sappy. |
| Saphead |
n. |
A weak-minded, stupid fellow; a milksop. |
| Saphenous |
a. |
Manifest;
applied to the two principal superficial veins of the lower limb of man. |
| Saphenous |
a. |
Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the saphenous veins; as, the saphenous nerves; the saphenous opening, an opening in the broad fascia of the thigh through which the internal saphenous vein passes. |
| Sapid |
a. |
Having the power of affecting the organs of taste; possessing savor, or flavor. |
| Sapidity |
n. |
The quality or state of being sapid; taste; savor; savoriness. |
| Sapidness |
n. |
Quality of being sapid; sapidity. |
| Sapience |
n. |
The quality of being sapient; wisdom; sageness; knowledge. |
| Sapient |
a. |
Wise; sage; discerning;
often in irony or contempt. |
| Sapiential |
a. |
Having or affording wisdom. |
| Sapientious |
a. |
Sapiential. |
| Sapientize |
v. t. |
To make sapient. |
| Sapiently |
adv. |
In a sapient manner. |
| Sapindaceous |
a. |
Of or pertaining to an order of trees and shrubs (Sapindaceae), including the (typical) genus Sapindus, the maples, the margosa, and about seventy other genera. |
| Sapindus |
n. |
A genus of tropical and subtropical trees with pinnate leaves and panicled flowers. The fruits of some species are used instead of soap, and their round black seeds are made into necklaces. |
| Sapless |
a. |
Destitute of sap; not juicy. |
| Sapless |
a. |
Fig.: Dry; old; husky; withered; spiritless. |
| sapling |
n. |
A young tree. |
| Sapodilla |
n. |
A tall, evergeen, tropical American tree (Achras Sapota); also, its edible fruit, the sapodilla plum. |
| Sapogenin |
n. |
A white crystalline substance obtained by the decomposition of saponin. |
| Saponaceous |
a. |
Resembling soap; having the qualities of soap; soapy. |
| Saponacity |
n. |
The quality or state of being saponaceous. |
| Saponary |
a. |
Saponaceous. |
| Saponifiable |
a. |
Capable of conversion into soap; as, a saponifiable substance. |
| Saponification |
n. |
The act, process, or result, of soap making; conversion into soap; specifically (Chem.), the decomposition of fats and other ethereal salts by alkalies; as, the saponification of ethyl acetate. |
| Saponified |
imp. & p. p. |
of Saponify |
| Saponifier |
n. |
That which saponifies; any reagent used to cause saponification. |
| Saponify |
v. t. |
To convert into soap, as tallow or any fat; hence (Chem.), to subject to any similar process, as that which ethereal salts undergo in decomposition; as, to saponify ethyl acetate. |
| Saponifying |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Saponify |
| Saponin |
n. |
A poisonous glucoside found in many plants, as in the root of soapwort (Saponaria), in the bark of soap bark (Quillaia), etc. It is extracted as a white amorphous powder, which occasions a soapy lather in solution, and produces a local anaesthesia. Formerly called also struthiin, quillaiin, senegin, polygalic acid, etc. By extension, any one of a group of related bodies of which saponin proper is the type. |
| Saponite |
n. |
A hydrous silicate of magnesia and alumina. It occurs in soft, soapy, amorphous masses, filling veins in serpentine and cavities in trap rock. |
| Saponul |
n. |
A soapy mixture obtained by treating an essential oil with an alkali; hence, any similar compound of an essential oil. |
| Sapor |
n. |
Power of affecting the organs of taste; savor; flavor; taste. |
| Saporific |
a. |
Having the power to produce the sensation of taste; producing taste, flavor, or relish. |
| Saporosity |
n. |
The quality of a body by which it excites the sensation of taste. |
| Saporous |
a. |
Having flavor or taste; yielding a taste. |
| Sapota |
n. |
The sapodilla. |
| Sapotaceous |
a. |
Of or pertaining to a natural order (Sapotaceae) of (mostly tropical) trees and shrubs, including the star apple, the Lucuma, or natural marmalade tree, the gutta-percha tree (Isonandra), and the India mahwa, as well as the sapodilla, or sapota, after which the order is named. |
| Sappan wood |
|
Sapan wood. |
| Sappare |
n. |
Kyanite. |
| Sapped |
imp. & p. p. |
of Sap |
| Sapper |
n. |
One who saps; specifically (Mil.), one who is employed in working at saps, building and repairing fortifications, and the like. |
| Sapphic |
a. |
Of or pertaining to Sappho, the Grecian poetess; as, Sapphic odes; Sapphic verse. |
| Sapphic |
a. |
Belonging to, or in the manner of, Sappho;
said of a certain kind of verse reputed to have been invented by Sappho, consisting of five feet, of which the first, fourth, and fifth are trochees, the second is a spondee, and the third a dactyl. |
| Sapphic |
n. |
A Sapphic verse. |
| Sapphire |
n. |
Native alumina or aluminium sesquioxide, Al2O3; corundum; esp., the blue transparent variety of corundum, highly prized as a gem. |
| Sapphire |
n. |
The color of the gem; bright blue. |
| Sapphire |
n. |
Any humming bird of the genus Hylocharis, native of South America. The throat and breast are usually bright blue. |
| Sapphire |
a. |
Of or resembling sapphire; sapphirine; blue. |
| Sapphirine |
n. |
Resembling sapphire; made of sapphire; having the color, or any quality of sapphire. |
| Sappho |
n. |
Any one of several species of brilliant South American humming birds of the genus Sappho, having very bright-colored and deeply forked tails;
called also firetail. |
| Sappiness |
n. |
The quality of being sappy; juiciness. |
| Sapping |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Sap |
| Sappodilla |
n. |
See Sapodilla. |
| Sappy |
superl. |
Abounding with sap; full of sap; juicy; succulent. |
| Sappy |
superl. |
Hence, young, not firm; weak, feeble. |
| Sappy |
superl. |
Weak in intellect. |
| Sappy |
superl. |
Abounding in sap; resembling, or consisting largely of, sapwood. |
| Sappy |
a. |
Musty; tainted. |
| Saprophagan |
n. |
One of a tribe of beetles which feed upon decaying animal and vegetable substances; a carrion beetle. |
| Saprophagous |
a. |
Feeding on carrion. |
| Saprophyte |
n. |
Any plant growing on decayed animal or vegetable matter, as most fungi and some flowering plants with no green color, as the Indian pipe. |
| Saprophytic |
a. |
Feeding or growing upon decaying animal or vegetable matter; pertaining to a saprophyte or the saprophytes. |
| Saprophytism |
n. |
State or fact of being saprophytic. |
| Sapsago |
n. |
A kind of Swiss cheese, of a greenish color, flavored with melilot. |
| Sapskull |
n. |
A saphead. |
| Sapucaia |
n. |
A Brazilian tree. See Lecythis, and Monkey-pot. |
| Sapwood |
n. |
The alburnum, or part of the wood of any exogenous tree next to the bark, being that portion of the tree through which the sap flows most freely;
distinguished from heartwood. |
