Sable () The fur of the sable.

Sable () A mourning garment; a funeral robe; -- generally in the plural.

Sable () The tincture black; -- represented by vertical and horizontal lines crossing each other.

Sable () Of the color of the sable's fur; dark; black; -- used chiefly in poetry.

Sabled () of Sable

Sabling () of Sable

Sable () To render sable or dark; to drape darkly or in black.

Sabot () A kind of wooden shoe worn by the peasantry in France, Belgium, Sweden, and some other European countries.

Sabot () A thick, circular disk of wood, to which the cartridge bag and projectile are attached, in fixed ammunition for cannon; also, a piece of soft metal attached to a projectile to take the groove of the rifling.

Sabotiere () A kind of freezer for ices.

Sabre () See Saber.

Sabretasche () A leather case or pocket worn by cavalry at the left side, suspended from the sword belt.

Sabrina work () A variety of applique work for quilts, table covers, etc.

Sabulose () Growing in sandy places.

Sabulosity () The quality of being sabulous; sandiness; grittiness.

Sabulous () Sandy; gritty.

Sac () See Sacs.

Sac () The privilege formerly enjoyed by the lord of a manor, of holding courts, trying causes, and imposing fines.

Sac () See 2d Sack.

Sac () A cavity, bag, or receptacle, usually containing fluid, and either closed, or opening into another cavity to the exterior; a sack.

Sacalait () A kind of fresh-water bass; the crappie.

Sacar () See Saker.

Saccade () A sudden, violent check of a horse by drawing or twitching the reins on a sudden and with one pull.

Saccate () Having the form of a sack or pouch; furnished with a sack or pouch, as a petal.

Saccate () Of or pertaining to the Saccata, a suborder of ctenophores having two pouches into which the long tentacles can be retracted.

Saccharate () A salt of saccharic acid.

Saccharate () In a wider sense, a compound of saccharose, or any similar carbohydrate, with such bases as the oxides of calcium, barium, or lead; a sucrate.

Saccharic () Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, saccharine substances; specifically, designating an acid obtained, as a white amorphous gummy mass, by the oxidation of mannite, glucose, sucrose, etc.

Sacchariferous () Producing sugar; as, sacchariferous canes.

Saccharified () of Saccharify

Saccharifying () of Saccharify

Saccharify () To convert into, or to impregnate with, sugar.

Saccharilla () A kind of muslin.

Saccharimeter () An instrument for ascertaining the quantity of saccharine matter in any solution, as the juice of a plant, or brewers' and distillers' worts.

Saccharimetrical () Of or pertaining to saccharimetry; obtained by saccharimetry.

Saccharimetry () The act, process or method of determining the amount and kind of sugar present in sirup, molasses, and the like, especially by the employment of polarizing apparatus.

Saccharin () A bitter white crystalline substance obtained from the saccharinates and regarded as the lactone of saccharinic acid; -- so called because formerly supposed to be isomeric with cane sugar (saccharose).

Saccharinate () A salt of saccharinic acid.

Saccharinate () A salt of saccharine.

Saccharine () Of or pertaining to sugar; having the qualities of sugar; producing sugar; sweet; as, a saccharine taste; saccharine matter.

Saccharine () A trade name for benzoic sulphinide.

Saccharinic () Of, pertaining to, or derived from, saccharin; specifically, designating a complex acid not known in the free state but well known in its salts, which are obtained by boiling dextrose and levulose (invert sugar) with milk of lime.

Saccharized () of Saccharize

Saccharizing () of Saccharize

Saccharize () To convert into, or to impregnate with, sugar.

Saccharoid () Alt. of Saccharoidal

Saccharoidal () Resembling sugar, as in taste, appearance, consistency, or composition; as, saccharoidal limestone.

Saccharometer () A saccharimeter.

Saccharomyces () A genus of budding fungi, the various species of which have the power, to a greater or less extent, or splitting up sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid. They are the active agents in producing fermentation of wine, beer, etc. Saccharomyces cerevisiae is the yeast of sedimentary beer. Also called Torula.

Saccharomycetes () A family of fungi consisting of the one genus Saccharomyces.

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