The sappy boughs Attire themselves with blooms, sweet rudiments The green heat the ripe, and the ripe give fire Philips. to the green; to which the bigness of their leaves, and hardness of their stalks, which continue moist and sappy long, doth much contribute. Mortimer. 2. Young; not firm; weak. This young prince was brought up among nurses, till he arrived to the age of six years: when he had passed this weak and sappy age, he was committed to Dr. Cox. Hayward. SA'RABAND. N. s. [Garabande, Spanish; sarabande, Fr.] A Spanish dance. The several modifications of this tune-playing quality in a fiddle, to play preludes, sarabands, jigs, and gavots, are as much real qualities in the instrument as the thought is in the mind of the composer. Arbuthnot. SARCASM. n. s. [sarcasme, Fr. sarcasmus, Lat.] A keen reproach; a taunt; a gibe. Sarcasms of wit are transmitted in story. Government of the Tongue. Rejoice, O young man, says Solomon, in a severe sarcasm, in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart; but know that for these things God will bring thee into judgment. Rogers. When an angry master says to his servant, It is bravely done, it is one way of giving a severe reproach; for the words are spoken by way of sarcasm, or irony. Watts. SARCASTICAL. adj. [from sarcasm.] SARCA'STICK. Keen; taunting; se vere. Why art thou then exasperate, thou idle immateríal skein of sley'd silk, thou green sarcenet flap for a sore eye, thou tassel of a prodigal's Shakspeare. purse? If they be covered, though but with linen or sarcenet, it intercepts the effluvium. Brown. These are they that cannot bear the heat Of figur'd silks, and under sarcenets sweat. Dry. She darts from sarcenet ambush wily leers, Twitches thy sleeve, or with familiar airs Her fan will pat the cheek; these snares disdain. Gay. To SA'RCLE. v. a. [sarcler, Fr. sarculo, Lat.] To weed corn. Ainsworth. SARCOCE'LE. n. s. [σάρξ and κήλη; sarcocele, Fr.] A fleshy excrescence of the testicles, which sometimes grows so large as to stretch the scrotum much beyond its natural size. Quincy. SARCOMA. n. 5. [σάρκωμα.] A fleshy excrescence, or lump, growing in any part of the body, especially the nosBailey. trils. SARCOPHAGOUs. adj. [σάρξ and φάγω.] There was no sarcophagy before the flood; and, without the eating of flesh, our fathers preserved themselves unto longer lives than their posterity. Brown. SARCOTICK. n. s. [from σαρξ; sarcotique, Fr.] A medicine which fills up ulcers with new flesh; an incarnative. The humour was moderately repressed, and breathed forth; after which the ulcer incarned with common sarcoticks, and the ulcerations about it were cured by ointment of tuty. Wiseman. SARCULATION. n. s. [sarculus, Latin.] The act of weeding; plucking up weeds. Dict. A sort of precious stone. He that sat was to look upon, like a jasper and a sardine stone. Revelations. Thou shalt set in it four rows of stones: the first row shall be a sardius. Exodus. A precious stone. SA'RDONYX. n. 5. The onyx is an accidental variety of the agat kind; 't is of a dark horny colour, in which is a plate of a bluish white, and sometimes of red: when on one or both sides the white there happens to lie also a plate of a reddish colour, the jewellers call the stone a sardonyx. Woodward. SARK. n. s. [rcynk, Sax.] 1. A shark or shirk. 2. In Scotland it denotes a shirt. Flaunting beaus gang with their breasts open, and their sarks over their waistcoats. Arbuthnot. SARN.n.s. A British word for pavement, or stepping-stones, still used in the same sense in Berkshire and Hampshire. SA'RPLIER. n. s. [sarpilliere, French.] A piece of canvas for wrapping up wares; a packing-cloth. SA'RRASINE. n. s. [In botany.] A kind of birthwort. Bailey. Bailey. SA'RSA. n. s. Both a tree and To SARSE. v. a. [sasser, Fr.] through a sarse or searse. Bailey. To sift Bailey. Bailey. SART. n.s. [In agriculture.) A piece of 1. A belt worn by way of distinction; a 2. A window so formed as to be let up and down by pullies. She ventures now to lift the sash; The window is her proper sphere. She broke pane in the sash window that Their maws with full repast? Philips. Sated with rage, and ignorant of joy. Prior. Thy useless strength, mistaken king, employ, SATELLITE, n. s. [satelles, Lat. satellite, Fr. This word is commonly pronounced in prose with the e mute in the plural, as in the singular, and is therefore only of three syllables; but Pope has in the plural continued the Latin form, and assigned i it four; I think, improperly.] A small planet revolving round a larger. Four moons move about Jupiter, and five about Saturn, called their satellites. Locke. The smallest planets are situated nearest the sun and each other; whereas Jupiter and Saturn, that are vastly greater, and have many satellites about them, are wisely removed to the extreme regions of the system. Bentley. Ask of yonder argent fields above, Why Jove's satellites are less than Jove? Pope. SATELLITIOUS. adj. [from satelles, Lat.] Consisting of satellites. Their solidity and opacity, and their satellitious attendance, their revolutions about the sun, and their rotations about their axis, are exactly the same. To SATIATE. v. a. [satio, Latin.] Cheyne. Those smells are the most grateful where the degree of heat is small, or the strength of the smell allayed; for these rather woo the sense than satiate it. Bacon. Buying of land is the result of a full and satiated gain; and men in trade seldom think of laying out their money upon land, 'till their profit has brought them in more than their trade can well employ. Locke. The loosen'd winds Hurl'd high above the clouds; 'till all their force He may be satiated, but not satisfy'd. Norris. 3. To gratify desire. I may yet survive the malice of my enemies, although they should be satiated with my blood. King Charles. 4. To saturate; to impregnate with as much as can be contained or imbibed. Why does not salt of tartar draw more water out of the air, than in a certain proportion to its quantity, but for want of an attractive force after it is satiated with water? Newton. SA'TIATE. adi. [from the verb.] Glutted; full to satiety. When it has with, it seems a participle; when of, an adjective. Our generals, retir'd to their estates, In life's cool evening, satiate of applause, Nor think of bleeding ev'n in Brunswick's cause. Pope. Now may'rs and shrieves all hush'd and sa tiate lay, Yet eat, in dreams, the custard of the day. Pope. SATIETY.n.s. [satietas, Lat. satieté, Fr.] Fulness beyond desire or pleasure; more than enough; wearisomeness of plenty; state of being palled or glutted. He leaves a shallow plash to plunge him in the deep, And with satiety seeks to quench his thirst. Sbakspeare. Nothing more jealous than a favourite, especially towards the waining-time and suspect of Wotton. satiety. In all pleasures there is satiety; and after they be used, their verdure departeth. Hakew. They satiate and soon fill, Though pleasant; but thy words, with grace diImbu'd, bring to their sweetness no satiety. vine Milton. No action, the usefulness of which has made it the matter of duty, but a man may bear the continual pursuit of, without loathing or satiety. South. The joy unequall'd, if its end it gain, Pope. SA'TIN. n.s. [satin, Fr. drapo di setan, Italian; sattin, Dutch.) A soft close and shining silk. Upon her body she wore a doublet of skycolour satin, covered with plates of gold, and as it were nailed with precious stones, that in it she might seem armed. against a particular person; but they are too frequently confounded: it has on before the subject. He dares to sing thy praises in a clime Where vice triumphs, and virtue is a crime; Where ev'n to draw the picture of thy mind, Is satyr on the most of human kind. My verse is satire; Dorset, lend your ear, Dryden. And patronise a muse you cannot fear. Young. SATIRICAL.) adj. [satiricus, Lat. satiSATIRICK. I rique, Fr. from satire.] 7. Belonging to satire; employed in writing of invective. You must not think, that a satyrick style Allows of scandalous and brutish words. Roscom. What human kind desires, and what they shun, Rage, passions, pieasures, impotence of will, Dryden. Shall this satirical collection all. 2. Censorious; severe in language. Slanders, sir; for the satirical slave says here, that old men have grey beards; that their faces are wrinkled, Sbakspeare. He that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid of his wit, so he had need be afraid of others memory. On me when dunces are satirick, I take it for a panegyrick. Swift. SATIRICALLY. adv. (from satirical.] With invective; with intention to censure or vilify. He applies them satirically to some customs, and kinds of philosophy, which he arraigns. Dryd. SA'TIRIST. n. s. [from satire.] One who writes satires. Hall. I first adventure, follow me who list, And be the second English satirist. Wycherly, in his writings, is the sharpest satyrist of his time; but, in his nature, he has all the softness of the tenderest dispositions: in his writings he is severe, bold, undertaking; in his nature gentle, modest, inoffensive. Granville. All vain pretenders have been constantly the topicks of the most candid satyrists, from the Codrus of Juvenal to the Damon of Boileau. Cleland. Yet soft his nature, though severe his lay; His anger moral, and his wisdom gay : Blest satyrist! who touch'd the mean so true, As show'd vice had his hate and pity too. Pope. TO SA'TIRIZE. v. a. [satirizer, Fr. from satire.] To censure as in a satire, Covetousness is described as a veil cast over the true meaning of the poet, which was to satirize his prodigality and voluptuousness. Dryd. Should a writer single out and point his raillery at particular persons, or satirize the miserable, he might be sure of pleasing a great part of his readers; but must be a very ill man if he could please himself. Addison. I insist that my lion's mouth be not defiled with scandal; for I would not make use of him to reVile the human species, and satirize his betters. Spectator. It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues. Swift. SATISFACTION. n. s. [satisfactio, Latin; satisfaction, Fr.1 1. The act of pleasing to the full, or state of being pleased. Run over the circle of earthly pleasures, and had not God secured a man a solid pleasure from his own actions, he would be forced to complain that pleasure was not satisfaction. The act of pleasing. South. They strain their memory to answer him setisfactorily unto all his demands, Digby. SATISFACTORINESS. n.s. [from satisfactory.] Power of satisfying; power of giving content. The incompleatness of the seraphick lover's happiness ess in his fruitions, proceeds not from their want of satisfactoriness, but his want of an entire possession of them. Boyle SATISFACTORY. adj. [satisfactoire, Fr. satisfactus, Lat.] 2. a I. Giving satisfaction; giving content. An intelligent American would scarce take it for a satisfactory account, if, desiring to learn our architecture, he should be told that a pillar was thing supported by a basis. Locke. Atoning: making amends. A most wise and sufficient means of redemption and salvation, by the satisfactory and meritorious death and obedience of the incarnate Son of God, Jesus Christ. Sanderson, To SA'TISFY. v. a. [satisfaire, Fr. satis facio, Latin.] 1. To content; to please to such a degree as that nothing more is desired. A good man shall be satisfied from himself. Proverbs. I'm satisfy'd, My boy has done his duty. 2. To feed to the fill. Addison. Who hath caused it to rain on the earth, to satisfy the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the bud of the tender tree to spring forth? Job. I will pursue and divide the spoil: my lust shall be satisfied upon them. Exodus. The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul. Proverbs 3. To recompense; to pay to content. He is well paid that is well satisfied He declares himself satisfied to the contrary, in which he has given up the cause. Dryden. When come to the utmost extremity of body, what can there put a stop and satisfy the mind that it is at the end of space, when it is satisfied that body itself can move into it? Locke. The standing evidences of the truth of the Gospel are in themselves most firm, solid, and satisfying. Atterbury. TO SATISFY. v. n. 1. To give content. 3. To make payment. By the quantity of silver they give or take, they estimate the value of other things, and satisfy for them: thus silver becomes the measure of commerce. Locke. SA'TURABLE. adj. [from saturate.] Impregnable with any thing till it will receive no more. Be the figures of the salts never so various, yet if the atoms of water were fluid, they would always so conform to those figures as to fill up all vacuities; and consequently the water would be saturable with the same quantity of any salt, which it has not. Greru. SA'TURANT. adj. [from saturans, Latin.] Impregnating to the fill. To SA'TURATE. v. a. [saturo, Latin.] To impregnate till no more can be received or imbibed. Rain-water is plentifully saturated with terrestrial matter, and more or less stored with it. Woodward. Thomson. His body has been fully saturated with the fluid of light, to be able to last so many years without any sensible diminution, though there are constant emanations thereof. Cheyne. Still night succeeds A soften'd shade, and saturated earth Awaits the morning beam. SATURDAY. n. s. [rærersdæg, or sæternsdæg, Sax. according to Verstegan, from særen, a Saxon idol; more probably from Saturn, dies Saturni.] The last day of the week. This matter I handled fully in last Saturday's Addison. Spectator. SATU'RITY.n.s. [saturitas, from saturo, Lat.] Fulness; the state of being saturated; repletion. SATURN. n. s. [saturne, Fr. saturnus, Latin.] 1. A remote planet of the solar system: supposed by astrologers to impress melancholy, dulness, or severity of temper. The smallest planets are placed nearest the turn. SATU'RNIAN. adj. [saturnius, Lat.] Happy; golden used by poets for times of felicity, such as are feigned to have been in the reign of Saturn. Th' Augustus, born to bring saturnian times. Pope. SA'TYR. n. s. [satyrus, Lat.] A sylvan god: supposed among the ancients to be rude and lecherous. Satyrs, as Pliny testifies, were found in times past in the eastern mountains of India. Peacham. SA'TYRIASIS. n. s. [from satyr.] If the chyle be very plentiful, it breeds a satyriasis, or an abundance of seminal lymphas. Floyer. SA'VAGE, adj. [sauvage, Fr. selvaggio, Italian.] 1. Wild; uncultivated. These godlike virtues wherefore do'st thou hide, Affecting private life, or more obscure In savage wilderness? Milton. Cornels, and savage berries of the wood, And roots and herbs, have been my meagre food. 2. Untamed; cruel. Dryden. Chain me to some steepy mountain's top, Where roaring bears and savage lions roam. Shakspeare. Hence with your little ones: To fright you thus, methinks, I am too savage; To do worse to you, were fell cruelty. Shaks. Tyrants no more their savage nature kept, And foes to virtue wonder'd how they wept. Pope 3. Uncivilized; barbarous; untaught; wild; brutal.. Thus people lived altogether a savage life, 'till Saturn, arriving on those coasts, devised laws to govern them by. The savage clamour drown'd Both harp and voice. Raleigh. Milton. A herd of wild beasts on the mountains, or a savage drove of men in caves, might be so disordered; but never a peculiar people. Spratt. SAVAGE. n. s. [from the adjective.] A man untaught and uncivilized; a barbarian. Long after these times were they but savages. Raleigh. The seditious lived by rapine and ruin of all the country, omitting nothing of that which seavages, enraged in the height of their unruly behaviour, do commit. Hayward. To deprive us of metals is to make us mere savages; to change our corn for the old Arcadian diet, our houses and cities for dens and caves, and our clothing for skins of beasts: 'tis to bereave us of all arts and sciences, nay, of revealed religion. Bentley. Plains immense, And vast savannas, where the wand'ring eye, Unfix'd, is in a verdant ocean lost. Thomson. SAUCE. n. 5. [sauce, saulse, Fr. salsa, Italian.] 1. Something eaten with food to improve its taste. The bitter sauce of the sport was, that we had our honours for ever lost, partly by our own faults, but principally by his faulty using of our faults. Sidney. To feed were best at home; From thence the sauce to meat is ceremony; Meeting were bare without it. Shakspeare. Epicurean cooks Sharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite. Shak. Such was the sauce of Moab's noble feast, 'Till night far spent invites them to their rest. strained to so unworthy a bondage, and yet restrained by love, which I cannot tell how, in noble minds, by a certain duty, claims an answering. Sidney. All the delights of love, wherein wanton youth walloweth, be but folly mixed with bitterness, and sorrow sauced with repentance. Spenser. Thou say'st his meat was sauc'd with thy upbraidings; Unquiet meals make ill digestions. Shaks. SA'UCEBOX. n.s. [from sauce, or rather from saucy.] An impertinent or petu lant fellow. The foolish old poet says, that the souls of some women are made of sea-water: this has encouraged my saucebox to be witty upon me. Spectator. SAUCEPAN. n.s. [sauce and pan.] A small skillet with a long handle, in which sauce or small things are boiled. Your master will not allow you a silver saucepan. Swift. SA'UCER.N.S. [sauciere, Fr. from sauce.] 1. A small pan or platter in which sauce is set on the table. Infuse a pugil of new violets seven times, and it shall make the vinegar so fresh of the flower, as, if brought in a saucer, you shall smell it before it come at you. Some have mistaken blocks and posts Bacon. Hudibras. 2. A piece or platter of china, into which a tea-cup is set. SA'UCILY, adv. [from saucy.] Impudently; impertinently; petulantly; in a saucy manner. Though this knave came somewhat saucily into the world before he was sent for, yet was his mother fair. Shakspeare. A freed servant, who had much power with Claudius, very saucily, had almost all the words; and, amongst other things, he asked in scorn one of the examinates, who was likewise a freed servant of Scribonianus, I pray, sir, if Scribonianus had been emperor, what would you have done? He answered, I would have stood behind his chair, and held my peace. Bacon. A trumpet behaved himself very saucily. Addison. SA'UCINESS. n. s. [from saucy.] Impudence; petulance; impertinence; contempt of superiours. With how sweet saws she blam'd their sauci ness, Taylor. To feel the panting heart, which through her side Did beat their hands. Sidney. High sauces and rich spices are fetched from the Indies. Baker. By his authority he remains here, which he thinks is a patent for his sauciness. Spakspeare. Being intercepted in your sport, Great reason that my noble lord be rated Shakspeare. It is sauciness in a creature, in this case, to reBramball. ply. Imputing it to the natural sauciness of a pedant, they made him eat his words. L'Estrange. You sauciness, mind your pruning-knife, or Dryden. I may use it for you. This might make all other servants challenge the same liberty, and grow pert upon their masters; and when this sauciness became universal, what less mischief could be expected than an old Scythian rebellion? Collier. SA'UCISSE. n. s. (Fr.) In gunnery, a long train of powder sewed up in a roll of |