n. (Ethnol.) See Sacs. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Sake, Soc. ] (O.Eng. Law) The privilege formerly enjoyed by the lord of a manor, of holding courts, trying causes, and imposing fines. Cowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. L. saccus a sack. See Sack a bag. ] 1. See 2d Sack. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Biol.) A cavity, bag, or receptacle, usually containing fluid, and either closed, or opening into another cavity to the exterior; a sack. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A kind of fresh-water bass; the crappie. [ Southern U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Saker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] (Man.) A sudden, violent check of a horse by drawing or twitching the reins on a sudden and with one pull. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ NL. saccatus, fr. L. saccus a sack, bag. ] 1. (Biol.) Having the form of a sack or pouch; furnished with a sack or pouch, as a petal. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Saccata, a suborder of ctenophores having two pouches into which the long tentacles can be retracted. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) (a) A salt of saccharic acid. (b) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Chem.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. saccharon sugar + -ferous. ] Producing sugar; as, sacchariferous canes. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Saccharified p. pr. & vb. n. Saccharifying ] [ L. saccharon sugar + -fy: cf. F. saccharifier. ] To convert into, or to impregnate with, sugar. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A kind of muslin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. saccharon sugar + -meter: cf. F. saccharimètre. ] An instrument for ascertaining the quantity of saccharine matter in any solution, as the juice of a plant, or brewers' and distillers' worts. [ Written also saccharometer. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The common saccharimeter of the brewer is an hydrometer adapted by its scale to point out the proportion of saccharine matter in a solution of any specific gravity. The polarizing saccharimeter of the chemist is a complex optical apparatus, in which polarized light is transmitted through the saccharine solution, and the proportion of sugar indicated by the relative deviation of the plane of polarization. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to saccharimetry; obtained by saccharimetry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., from L. saccharon sugar. ] (Chem.) 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). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) (a) A salt of saccharinic acid. (b) A salt of saccharine. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. saccharin, fr. L. saccharon sugar, Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, &unr_;, Skr. çarkara. Cf. Sugar. ] Of or pertaining to sugar; having the qualities of sugar; producing sugar; sweet; as, a saccharine taste; saccharine matter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A trade name for benzoic sulphinide. [ Written also saccharin. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Chem.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Saccharized p. pr. & vb. n. Saccharizing ] To convert into, or to impregnate with, sugar. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. saccharon sugar + -oid: cf. F. saccharoïde. ] Resembling sugar, as in taste, appearance, consistency, or composition; as, saccharoidal limestone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A saccharimeter. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; sugar + &unr_;, &unr_;, a fungus. ] (Biol.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. (Biol.) A family of fungi consisting of the one genus Saccharomyces. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A salt of saccharonic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Saccharin + lactone. ] (Chem.) (a) A white crystalline substance, C6H8O6, obtained by the oxidation of saccharin, and regarded as the lactone of saccharonic acid. (b) An oily liquid, C6H10O2, obtained by the reduction of saccharin. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, saccharone; specifically, designating an unstable acid which is obtained from saccharone (a) by hydration, and forms a well-known series of salts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) Cane sugar; sucrose; also, in general, any one of the group of which saccharose, or sucrose proper, is the type. See Sucrose. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Saccharine. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. See Saccharine. ] (Bot.) A genus of tall tropical grasses including the sugar cane. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Saccholactic. ] (Chem.) A salt of saccholactic acid; -- formerly called also saccholate. [ Obs. ] See Mucate. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. saccharon sugar + lac, lactis, milk. ] (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid now called mucic acid; saccholic. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Saccholactic. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A salt of sacchulmic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Saccharine + ulmic. ] (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained as a dark amorphous substance by the long-continued boiling of sucrose with very dilute sulphuric acid. It resembles humic acid. [ Written also sacculmic. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) An amorphous huminlike substance resembling sacchulmic acid, and produced together with it. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. saccus a sack + -ferous. ] (Biol.) Bearing a sac. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. saccus a sack + -form. ] (Biol.) Having the general form of a sac. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. L. saccus a sack + Gr. &unr_; a tongue. ] (Zool.) Same as Pellibranchiata. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like a sac; sacciform. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Furnished with little sacs. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. sacculus, dim. of saccus sack. ] A little sac; specifically, the sacculus of the ear. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Pertaining to the sacculus and cochlea of the ear. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Pertaining to the sacculus and utriculus of the ear. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Sacculi [ L., little sack. ] (Anat.) A little sac; esp., a part of the membranous labyrinth of the ear. See the Note under Ear. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Sacci [ L., a sack. ] (Biol.) A sac. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Sacella [ L., dim. of sacrum a sacred place. ] (a) (Rom. Antiq.) An unroofed space consecrated to a divinity. (b) (Eccl.) A small monumental chapel in a church. Shipley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. sacerdotalis, fr. sacerdos, -otis, a priest, fr. sacer holy, sacred: cf. F. sacerdotal. ] Of or pertaining to priests, or to the order of priests; relating to the priesthood; priesty; as, sacerdotal dignity; sacerdotal functions. [ 1913 Webster ]

The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belongs to intellectual superiority. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The system, style, spirit, or character, of a priesthood, or sacerdotal order; devotion to the interests of the sacerdotal order. [ 1913 Webster ]