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An American Dictionary of the English Language

by Noah Webster

Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)

Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865

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  1. Săn'gui-na-ry, a.p. 1169Attended with much bloodshed; bloody; murderous; as, a sanguinary war, contest, or battle. 2. Bloodthirsty; cruel; eager to shed blood. Passion ... makes us brutal and sanguinary. Broome.…
  2. Săn'gui-na-ry, n.p. 1169(Bot.) A plant of the genus Sanguinaria; bloodwort; bloodroot.
  3. Săn'guine, a.p. 1169Having the color of blood; red. “Like to that sanguine flower inscribed with woe.” Milton. 2. Characterized by abundance and active circulation of blood; as, a sanguine bodily temperament. 3. Warm…
  4. Sān'guīne, n.p. 1169Blood color. Spenser. 2. Bloodstone.
  5. Sān'guīne, v. t.p. 1169To stain with blood, or of the color of blood; to ensanguine.
  6. Sān'guīne-less, a.p. 1169Destitute of blood; pale. [Rare.]
  7. Sān'guīne-ly, adv.p. 1169In a sanguine manner; ardently; with confidence of success. I can not speculate quite so sanguinely as he does. Burke.
  8. Sān'guīne-ness, n.p. 1169The condition or quality of being sanguine; redness; fullness of blood; heat or ardor of temperament.
  9. San-guīn'e-ōūs, a.p. 1169Abounding with blood; sanguine. 2. Of, or pertaining to, blood. 3. Constituting blood. Browne. 4. Blood-red; crimson.
  10. San-guīn'i-ty, n.p. 1169Sanguineness. [Obs.] Swift.
  11. Sān'gui-nīv'o-roūs, a.p. 1169Eating or subsisting on blood.
  12. San-guïn'o-len-cy, n.p. 1169The state of being sanguinolent or bloody.
  13. San-guïn'o-lent, a.p. 1169Tinged or mingled with blood; bloody.
  14. Sān'gui-sūge, n.p. 1169(Zoöl.) The blood-sucker; a leech, or horse-leech. See LEECH.
  15. Sān'he-drīm, n.p. 1169(Jewish Antiq.) The great council of the Jews, which consisted of seventy members, to whom the high priest was added. It had jurisdiction of religious matters. [Written also sanhedrin.]
  16. Sān'i-cle, n.p. 1169(Bot.) A plant of several species of the genus Sanicula; black snake-root; — so called from its reputed healing qualities.
  17. Sā'ni-ēs, n.p. 1169(Med.) A thin, serous fluid commonly exhaled at the surface of ulcers. Dunglison.
  18. Sā'ni-ōūs, a.p. 1169Pertaining to sanies, or partaking of its nature and appearance; thin and serous, with a slight bloody tinge; as, the sanious matter of an ulcer. 2. Excreting or effusing a thin, serous, reddish…
  19. Săn'i-ta-rīst, n.p. 1169An advocate of sanitary measures; one especially interested in sanitary measures or reforms.
  20. Sān'i-tā'ri-ŭm, n.p. 1169A health station. [Rare.] “A sanitarium for troops.” Oliphant.
  21. Sān'i-ta-ry, a.p. 1169Pertaining to, or designed to secure, sanity or health; relating to the preservation of health; hygienic; as, sanitary regulations. [See Note under SANATORY.]
  22. Săn'i-ty, n.p. 1169The condition or quality of being sane; soundness or healthiness of body or mind, especially the latter; saneness.
  23. Săn'jak, n.p. 1169The same as SANGIAC.
  24. Sānk, imp.p. 1169of sink. See SINK.
  25. Sān'pan, n.p. 1169See SAMPAN.
  26. Sāns, prep.p. 1169Without; deprived or destitute of. [Obs.] Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans every thing. Shak.
  27. Sān'serit, n.p. 1169The same as SANSKRIT, q. v.
  28. Sans-culotte, n.p. 1169A fellow without breeches; a ragged fellow; — a name of reproach given in the first French revolution to the extreme republican party, who rejected breeches as an emblem or badge peculiar to the…
  29. Sans-en-lŏt'tism, n.p. 1169Extreme republican principles; the principles or practice of the sans-culottes.
  30. Sān'skrit, n.p. 1169The ancient language of the Hindoos, long since obsolete in vernacular use, but preserved to the present day as the literary and sacred dialect of India. It is nearly allied to the Persian, and to…
  31. Sans-souci, adv.p. 1169Without care; free and easy.
  32. Sănʹta-līne, n.p. 1169(Chem.) The coloring matter of red-sanders, or sandal-wood, obtained by digesting the rasped wood in alcohol, and adding water. Brande.
  33. Săn’ter, v. i.p. 1170See SAUNTER.
  34. Sān'ton, n.p. 1170A Turkish saint; a kind of dervis, regarded by the vulgar as a saint; also, a hermit.
  35. Sān’to-nīne, n.p. 1170(Chem.) A proximate vegetable principle obtained from the Artemisia, especially A. contra. It is bitter, volatile, and colored yellow by the action of light. Gregory.
  36. Sāp, n.p. 1170The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices essential to nutrition. ☞ The ascending is the crude sap, the assimilation of which takes place in the leaves, when it…
  37. Sāp, v. t.p. 1170To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of. Their dwellings were sapped by floods. Dryden. 2. (Mil.) To pierce with saps.
  38. Sāp, v. i.p. 1170To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining. Both assaults are carried on by sapping. Tatler. 2. (Mil.) To execute saps. Craighill.
  39. Sāp, n.p. 1170(Mil.) An approach made to a fortified place by digging under cover of gabions, &c. ☞ The single sap has only a single parapet; the double has one on each side. In all saps, traverses are left to…
  40. Sāp'a-dĭl'lo, n.p. 1170See SAPODILLA.
  41. Săp'a-jəp. 1170Synop., § 130}, n.
  42. Săp'a-joup. 1170(Zoöl.) A monkey of South America, having a prehensile tail; — applied especially to those of the genus Cebus, but also to those of the genera Ateles and Lagothrix. P. Cyc.
  43. Sa-păn'-wōōd, n.p. 1170(Bot.) A dye-wood yielded by Cæsalpinia sapan, a thorny tree of Southern Asia and the neighboring islands. It resembles Brazil-wood in color and properties. [Written also sappan-wood.] P. Cyc.
  44. Sāp'-făg'ot, n.p. 1170(Mil.) A fascine about three feet long, used in sapping, to close the crevices between the gabions before the parapet is made.
  45. Sāp'ful, a.p. 1170Abounding in sap; sappy.
  46. Sāp'-green, n.p. 1170A light-green pigment prepared from the juice of the ripe berries of the Rhamnus catharticus, or buckthorn. Francis.
  47. Sāp'-hĕad, n.p. 1170A stupid fellow; a sap-skull; a blockhead. [Cant.] Halliwell.
  48. Sa-phē'nā, n.p. 1170(Anat.) One of two subcutaneous veins of the lower limb and foot. Dunglison.
  49. Săph'īre, n.p. 1170A sapphire. See SAPPHIRE.
  50. Sāp'id, a.p. 1170Having the power of affecting the organs of taste; possessing savor or flavor; having a relish; savory.
  51. Sa-pid'i-ty or Sa'pid-ness, n.p. 1170The quality of being sapid; taste; tastefulness; savor; savoriness. When the Israelites fancied the sapidness and relish of the flesh-pots, they longed to taste and to return. Bp. Taylor.
  52. Sā'pi-ence, n.p. 1170The quality of being sapient; wisdom; sageness, knowledge. If I might sit beside your feet, And glean your scattered sapience. Tennyson.
  53. Sā'pi-ent, a.p. 1170Wise; sage; discerning. There the sapient king held dalliance. Milton. 2. Would-be wise; supposing one's self sage; — in irony or contempt. Syn.—Sage; sagacious; knowing; wise; discerning.
  54. Sā'pi-ēn'tial, a.p. 1170Affording wisdom, or instructions for wisdom. [Obs.] “Out of the sapiential books of the Old [Testament];” viz., Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, &c. Bp. Taylor.
  55. Sā'pi-ēn’tial-ly, adv.p. 1170In a sapiential or wise manner. Baxter.
  56. Sā'pi-ĕn’tious, a.p. 1170Sapiential; sapient; wise. [Obs.]
  57. Sā'pi-ēn/tize, v. t.p. 1170To make or render sapient or wise. [Obs.]
  58. Sā'pi-ent-ly, adv.p. 1170In a sapient manner; wisely; sagaciously.
  59. Săp'/in-dā'/ceous, a.p. 1170(Bot.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling an order of trees, of which the type is the genus Sapindus.
  60. Sa-pīn'dus, n.p. 1170(Bot.) A genus of trees, found in America and the West Indies, remarkable for containing the saponaceous principle in large proportion, the berries of certain species being used in some countries as…