The same plant produceth as great a variety of juices as there is in the same animal. Arbuthnet. 2. That which was mentioned before. Do but think how well the same he spends, Who spends his blood his country to relieve. SA'MENESS. n. s. [from same.] Daniel. 1. Identity; the state of being not another; not different. Difference of persuasion in matters of religion may easily fall out, where there is the sameness of duty, allegiance, and subjection. K. Charles. 2. Undistinguishable resemblance. If all courts have a sameness in them, things may be as they were in my time, when all employments went to parliamentmen's friends. Swift. SA'MLET. n. 5. [salmonet, or salmonlet.] A little salmon. A salmon, after he is got into the sea, becomes from a samlet, not so big as a gudgeon, to be a salmon, in as short a time as a gosling becomes a Walton. goose. SA'MPHIRE. n.s. [saint Pierre, Fr. rithmum, Lat.] A plant preserved in pickle. This plant grows in great plenty upon the rocks near the sea-shore, where it is washed by the salt water. It is greatly esteemed for pickling, and is sometimes used in medicine. Miller. Half way down Hangsone that gatherssamphire: dreadful trade! Methinks he seems no bigger than his head. Shakspeare. Determinations of justice were very summary and decisive, and generally put an end to the vexations of a law-suit by the ruin both of plaintiff and defendant: travellers have recorded some samples of this kind. Addison. Prior. From most bodies Some little bits ask leave to flow; And, as through these canals they roll, Bring up a sample of the whole. TO SAMPLE. v.a. To show something similar. Ainsworth. SAMPLER. n. s. [exemplar, Lat. whence it is sometimes written samplar.] A pattern of work; a piece worked by young girls for improvement. O love, why do'st thou in thy beautiful sampler set such a work for my desire to set out, which is impossible? Sidney. Fair Philomela, she but lost her tongue, And in a tedious sampler sew'd her mind. Shak. We created with our needles both one flower, Both on one samplar, sitting on one cushion; Both warbling of one song, both in one key, As if our hands, our sides, voices and minds Had been incorp'rate. Sbakspeare. Coarse complexions, And cheeks of sorry grain, will serve to ply The sampler, and to teize the housewife's wool. Milton. I saw her sober over a sampler, or gay over a jointed baby. Pope. SA'NABLE. adj. [sanabilis, Lat.] Curable; susceptive of remedy; remediable. SANATION. n. 5. [sanatio, Latin.] The act of curing. Consider well the member, and, if you have no probable hope of sanation, cut it off quickly. Wiseman. SA'NATIVE.adj. [from sano, Lat.] Powerful to cure; healing. The vapour of coltsfoot hath a sanative virtue towards the lungs. Bacon. SA'NATIVENESS. n. s. [from sanative.] Power to cure. SANCTIFICATION. n.s. [sanctification, Fr. from sanctifico, low Latin.] 1. The state of being freed, the act of freeing from the dominion of sin for the time to come. The grace of this sanctification and life, which was first received in him, might pass from him to his whole race, as malediction came from Adam. unto all mankind. Hooker. 2. The act of making holy; consecration. The bishop kneels before the cross, and devoutly adores and kisses it: after this follows a long prayer for the sanctification of that new sign of the cross. Stilling fleet. SA'NCTIFIER.n.s. [from sanctify.] He Derbani. To SA'NCTIFY. v. a. [sanctifier, Fr. sanctifico, Latin.] SAMPLE.n. s. [from example.] A speci- 1. To free from the power of sin for the men; a part of the whole shown, that judgment may be made of the whole. He entreated them totarry but two days, and he himself would bring them a sample of the oar. Raleigh. I have not engaged myself to any: I am not loaded with a full cargo: 't is sufficient if I bring a sample of some goods in this voyage. Dryden. time to come. For if the blood of bulls, sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ? Hebrews. 2. To make holy. What actions can express the entire purity of thought which refines and sanctifies a virtuous man? Addisan Here i' th' sands Thee I'll rake up, the post unsanctified. Shaks. Bacon. Calling for more paper to rescribe, king Philip shewed him the difference betwixt the ink box and sand box. Horvel. If quicksilver be put into a convenient glass vessel, and that vessel exactly stopped, and kept. for ten weeks in a sand furnace, whose heat may be constant, the corpuscles that constitute the quicksilver will, after innumerable revolutions, be so connected to one another, that they will appear in the form of a red powder. Engag'd with money bags, as bold As men with sand bags did of old. Hudibras. The force of water casts gold out from the Dowels of mountains, and exposes it among the sands of rivers. Boyle. Dryden Shells are found in the great sand pit at WoolWoodward. wich. Prior. Celia and I, the other day, Walk'd o'er the sand hills to the sea. 2. Barren country covered with sands. Most of his army being slain, he, with a few of his friends, sought to save themselves by flight over the desert sands. Knolles. Her sons spread Beneath Gibraltar to the Lybian sands. Milion. So, where our wild Numidian wastes extend, Sudden th' impetuous hurricanes descend, Wheel through the air, in circling eddies play, Tear up the sands, and sweep whole plains away. The helpless traveller, with wild surprise, Sees the dry desart all around him rise, And smother'd in the dusty whirlwind dies. Addison SANDAL. N. s. [sandale, Fr. sandalium, Latin.] A loose shoe. Thus sung the uncouth swain to th' oaks and While the still morn went out with sandals grey. The sandals of celestial mold, 1. A mineral of a bright colour, not much unlike to red arsenick. Bailey. 2. A white gum oozing out of the juniper tree. Bailey. SA'NDBLIND. adj. [sand and blind.] Having a defect in the eyes, by which small particles appear to fall before them. My true begotten father, being more than sandblind, high gravelblind, knows me not. Shakspeare. SANDBOX Tree. n. s. [hura, Latin.) A plant. The fruit of this plant, if suffered to remain on 'till they are fully ripe, burst in the heat of the day with a violent explosion, making a noise like the firing of a pistol, and hereby the seeds are thrown about to a considerable distance. These seeds, when green, vomit and purge, and are supposed to be somewhat a-kin to nux vomica. Miller. Aromatize it with sanders. SA'NDEVER. N. s. Bailey. Wiseman. That which our English glassmen call sandever, and the French, of whom probably the name was borrowed, suindever, is that recrement that is made when the materials of glass, namely, sand and a fixt lixiviate alkali, having been first baked together, and kept long in fusion, the mixture casts up the superfluous salt, which the workmen afterwards take off with ladles, and lay by as ittle worth.. Boyle. SA'NDISH. adj. [from sand.] Approaching to the nature of sand; loose; not close; not compact. Plant the tenuifolia's and ranunculus's in fresh sandish earth, taken from under the turf. Evelyn. SA'NDSTONE. N. s. [sand and stone.] Stone of a loose and friable kind, that easily crumbles into sand. Grains of gold in sandstone, from the mine of Costa Rica, which is not reckoned rich; but every hundred weight yields about an ounce of gold. Woodward. SA'NDY. adj. [from sand] 1. Abounding with sand; full of sand. I should not see the sandy hourglass run, But I should think of shallows and of flats. Sbak. Safer shall he be on the sandy plains, Than where castles mounted stand. Shakspears. A region so desert, dry, and sandy, that travellers are fain to carry water on their camels. Brorun. SANGUIFICATION. n. s. (sanguification, Fr. sanguis and facio, Latin.] The production of blood; the conversion of the chyle in the blood. Since the lungs are the chief instrument of sangsification, the animal that has that organ faulty can never have the vital juices, derived from the blood, in a good state. Arbuthnot. Asthmatick persons have voracious appetites, and consequently, for want of a right sanguificatien, are leucophlegmatick. Arbuthnot. SA'NGUIFIER, n. s. [sanguis and facio, Latin.] Producer of blood. Bitters, like choler, are the best sanguifiers, and also the best febrifuges. Floyer. v. n. TO SA'NGUIFY. [sanguis and facio, Latin.] To produce blood. At the same time I think, I command: in inferior faculties, I walk, see, hear, digest, sanguify, and carnify, by the power of an individual soul. Hale. SA'NGUINARY.adj. [sanguinarius, Latin; sanguinaire, Fr. from sanguis, Latin.] Cruel; bloody; murderous. We may not propagate religion by wars, or by sanguinary persecutions to force consciences. Bacon. The scene is now more sanguinary, and fuller of actors: never was such a confused mysterious civil war as this. Horvel. Passion transforms us into a kind of savages, and makes us brutal and sanguinary. Broome. SA'NGUINARY.N.S. [sanguis, Latin.] An Ainsworth. SA'NGUINE. adj. [sanguin, Fr. sanguineus, from sanguis, Latin.] 1. Red; having the colour of blood. herb. This fellow Upbraided me about the rose I wear; Shakspeare. A stream of nect'rous humour issuing flow'd Sanguine. Dire Tisiphone there keeps the ward, Girt in her sanguine gown. Milton. Dryden. Her flag aloft, spread ruffling to the wind, And sanguine streamers seem the flood to fire: The weaver, charm'd with what his loom design'd, Goes on to sea, and knows not to retire. Dryd. 2. Abounding with blood more than any other humour: cheerful. The cholerick fell short of the longevity of the sanguine. Brown. Though these faults differ in their complexions as sanguine from melancholy, yet they are frequently united. Government of the Tongue. 3. Warm; ardent; confident. A set of sanguine tempers ridicule, in the number of fopperies, all such apprehensions. Swift. SA'NGUINE. n. s. (from sanguis.) Blood colour. A griesly wound, From which forth gush'd a stream of gore, blood thick, That all her goodly garments stain'd around, And in deep sanguine dy'd the grassy ground. Fairy Queen. SA'NGUINENESS. n. 5. [from sanguine.] SANGUINITY. Ardour; heat of expectation; confidence. Sanguinity is Perhaps only used by Swift. Rage, or phrensy it may be, in some perhaps Batural courage, of sanguineness of temper in VOL. IV. others; but true valour it is not, if it knows not as well to suffer as to do. That mind is truly great, and only that, which stands above the power of all extrinsick violence; which keep sitself a distinct principality, independent upon the outward man. Decay of Piety. I very much distrust your sanguinity. Swift. SANGUINEOUS adj. [sanguineus, Latin; sanguin, French.] I. Constituting blood. This animal of Plato containeth not only sanguineous and reparable particles, but 15 made up of veins, nerves, and arteries. 2. Abounding with blood. Brown. Arbuthnot. A plethorick constitution, in which troue blood abounds, is called sanguineous. SA'NHEDRIM. n. s. [synedrium, La.in.] The chief council among the Jews, consisting of seventy elders, over whom the high priest presided. SA'NICLE. n. s. [sanicle, Fr. sanicula, It began with a round crack in the skin, without other matter than a little sanies. Wiseman. SA'NIOUs. adj. [from sanies.) Running a thin serous matter, not a well-digested pus. Observing the ulcer sanious, I proposed digestion as the only way to remove the pain. Wiseman. SA'NITY. n. s. [sanitas, Latin.) Soundness of mind. How pregnant, sometimes, his replies are! SANK. The preterit of sink. Shakspeare. As if the opening of her mouth to Zelmane had opened some great floodgate of sorrow, whereof her heart could not abide the violent issue, she sank to the ground. Sidrey. Our men followed them close, took two ships, and gave divers others of their ships their death's wounds, whereof soon after they sank and pe rished. Bacon. SANS. prep. [French.) Without. Out of use. Vegetables consist of the same parts with animal substances, spirit, water, salt, oil, earth; all which are contained in the sap they derive from the earth. Arbuthnot. To SAP. v. a. [sapper, Fr. zappare, Ital.] To undermine; to subvert by digging; to mine. Their dwellings were sapp'd by floods, Their houses fell upon their houshold gods. Dryd. TO SAP. V. n. To proceed by mine; to proceed invisibly. For the better security of the troops, both assaults are carried on by sapping. Tatler. In vain may heroes fight, and patriots rave, If secret gold saps on from knave to knave. Pope. SAPPHIRE. n. s. [sappbirus, Latin: so that it is improperly written saphire.] A precious stone of a blue colour. Saphire is of a bright blue colour. Woodward. In enroll'd tuffs, flow'rs purfled, blue and white, Like saphire, pearl, in rich embroidery. Shaksp. He tinctures rubies with their rosy hue, And on the saphire spreads a heavenly blue. Blackmore. There the sapient king held dalliance. Milton. SA'PLESS. adj. [saploos, Dutch.] Denham. |