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SARCO'SHAGOUS, adj. [Grip and péyw.] Attire themselves with blooms, sweet rudiments

Flesh-eating ; feeding on flesh. Of future harvest.

Pbilips.

SARCO'PHAGY. n. s. [caps and périen] The green heat the ripe, and the ripe give fire to the green; to which the bigness of their

The practice of eating fesh. leaves, and hardness of their stalks, which con

There was no sarcophagy before the flood; ţinue moist and sappy long, doch much contri

and, without the eating of Hesh, our fathers prebute.

Mortimer. served themselves unto longer lives than their posterity.

Brown. 2. Young; not firm; weak. This young prince was brought up among

SARCO'TICK, n. s. [from oo; sarcotique, nurses, till he arrived to the age of six years :

Fr.] A medicine which fills up ulcers when he had passed this weak and sapoy age,

he with new flesh; an incarnative. was committed to Dr. Cox. Hayward. The humour was moderately repressed, and SA'R ABAND. n. so (çarabande, Spanish; breathed forth; after which the ulcer incarned sarabande, Fr.] A Spanish dance.

with common sarcoticks, and the ulcerations The several modifications of this tune-playing

about it were cured by ointment of tuty. quality in a fiddle, to play preludes, sarabands,

Wiseman. įígs, and gavots, are as much real qualities in the SARCUL A'TION. n. so (sarculus, Latin.] instrument as the thought is in the mind of the The act of weeding; plucking up weeds. composer. Arbuthnot.

Dict. SARCASM. n. s." (sarcasme, Fr. sarcas- SA'RDEL. mus, Lat.) A keen reproach; a taunt ;

A sort of pre

SA'RDINE Stone. a gibe.

cious stone.

SARDIUS. Sarcasms of wit are transmitted in story,

He that sat was to look upon, like a jasper and Government of the Tongue. a sardine stone.

Revelations. Rejoice, O young man, says Solomon, in a se- Thou shalt set in it four rows of stones: the vere sarcasm, in the days of thy youth, and walk

first row shall be a sardius.

Exodus. in the ways of thy heart; but know that for these

SA'R DONYX. n. s. A precious stone. things God will bring thee into judgment.

Rogers,

The onyx is an accidental variety of the agat

kind; 't is of a dark horny colour, in which is a When an angry master says to his servant, It is bravely done, it is one way of giving a severe

plate of a bluish white, and sometimes of red:

when on one or both sides the white there hapreproach; for the words are spoken by way of sercasm, or irony.

Watts.

pens to lie also a plate of a reddish colour, the SARCA'STICAL. adj. [from sarcasm.]

jewellers call the stone a sardonyx. Woodward.

SARK. n. s. (rcynk, Sax.] SARCA'STICK. ) Keen ; taunting ; se

I. A sbark or shirk.

2. In Scotland it denotes a shirt. What a fierce and sarcastick reprehension would this have drawn from the friendship of

Flaunting beaus gang with their breasts open,

and their sarts over their waistcoats. Arbutbnot. the world, and yet what a gentle one did it receive from Christ?

Soutb.

SARN.N. S. A British word for pavement, SARCA'STICALLY. adv. [from sarcas- or stepping-stones, still used in the same tick.] Tauntingly; severely.

sense in Berkshire and Hampshire. He askeu a lady playing with a lap-dog, whe- SA'RPLIER. n. s. (sarpilliere, French.] A ther the women of that country used to have piece of canvas for wrapping up wares; any children or no? thereby sarcastically re- a packing-cloth.

Bailey. proaching them for misplacing that affection SA'RRASINE. n. s. [In botany.) A kind opon brutes, which could only become a mo

of birthwort. ther to her child. South,

Bailey,

SA'RSA. SA'RCENET. n. s. (Supposed by Skinner

n. s. Both a tree and to be sericum saracenicum, Lat.] Fine

SARSAPARE'LLAS

an herb.

Ainsw. thin woven silk.

SARSE. n. s. (perhaps because made of Why art thou then exasperate, thou idle im- sarcenet.] A sort of fine lawn sieve. material skein of sley'd silk, thou green sarcenet

Bailey. fap for a sore eye, thou tassel of a prodigal's TO SARSE. v. a. (sasser, Fr.) To sift purse?

Shakspeare. through a sarse or searse. Bailey. If they be covered, though but with linen or jarcenet, it intercepts the effuvium. Brown.

SART. n. s. [In agriculture.] A piece of These are they that cannot bear the heat

woodland turned into arable. Bailey. Of figur'd silks, and under sarcenets sweat. Dry. SASH, n. s. [Of this word the etymolo

She darts from surcenet ambush wily leers, gists give no account: I suppose it Twitches thy sleeve, or with familiar airs

comes from sçache, of sçavoir, to know, Her fan will pat the cheek; these snares disdain.

a sash worn being a mark of distinca

Gay. TO SA'RCLE. v. a. (sarcler, Fr. sarculo,

and a sash window being made Lat.] To weed corn. Ainsworth.

particularly for the sake of seeing and

being seen.) SARCOCE'LE. n. s. codes and xvían; sarco

1. A belt worn by way of distinction; a cele, Fr.] A fleshy excrescence of the testicles, which sometimes grows so

silken band worn by officers in the large as to stretch the scrotum much army.

2. A window so formed as to be let up beyond its natural size. Quincy.

and down by pullies. SARCO'MA. n. s. [Geçrupa.] A feshy

She ventures now to lift the sash; excrescence, or lump, growing in any The window is her proper sphere. Swift. part of the body, especially the nos- She broke e pane in the sash window that trils. Bailey. looked into the yard.

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SA'sHoon.n. y. A kind of leather stuting Consum'd, her rav'nous jaws th' earth satiate put into a boot for the wearer's ease,

clos'd.

Pbilips. Ainswortb. a To glut; to pall; to fill begond naSA'SSAFRAS. N. s. A tree. The wood is

tural desire. medicinal.

Whatever norelty presents, children are pre

sently eager to have a taste, and are as soon saSAT. The preterit of sit.

fiated with it.

Locke, The picture of fair Venus, that For which, men say, the goddess sat,

He may be satiated, but not satisfy’d. Norris. Was lost, 'till Lely from your look

3. To gratify desire.

I Again that glorious image toak. Waller.

may yet survive the malice of my enemies, I answered not the Rehearsi, because I knew

although they should be satiated with my blood. the author sat to himself when he drew the pic

King Cbarles, ture, and was the very Bays of his own farce. 4. To saturate; to impregnate with as

Dryden. much as can be contained or imbibed. SATA’NICAL. adj. [from Satan, the

Why does not salt of tartar draw more water SATA’NICK. ) prince of hell.] Devil.

out of the air, than in a certain proportion to ish ; infernal,

its quantity, but for want of an attractive force

after it is satiated with water? Newton. The faint sataniek host, Defensive scarce.

Milton.

SA'T LATE. adi. [from the verb.] Glut. SA'TCHEL. N. s. [seckel, German ; saccio

ted; full to satiety. When it has with, lus, Lat. Perhaps better sachel.) A

it seenis a participle; when of, an ado little bag : commonly a bag used by

jective.

Our generals, retir'd to their estates, schoolboys. The whining schoolboy with his satebel,

life's cool evening, satiate of applause,

Nor think of bleeding ev'n in Brunswick's cause. And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillinglý ro school.

Sbakspeare. Now may’rs and shrieves all hush'd and sa. Schoolboys lag with satcbels in their hands.

tiate lay,

Swift. TO SATE. v. a. (satio, Lat.) To satiate; SATI'ETY.n. So [satietas, Lat. satieté, Fr.)

Yet eat, in dreams, the custard of the day. Pope. to glut; to pall; to feed beyond na

Fulness beyond desire or pleasure ; tural desires. Sated at length, ere long I might perceive

more than enough; wearisomeness of Strange alteration in me.

Milton.

plenty; state of being palled or glutted. How will their bodies stript

He leaves a shallow plash to plunge him in the Enrich the victors, while the vultures sate

deep, Their maws with full repast ? Pbilips.

And with satiety seeks to quench his thirst. Thy useless strength, mistaken king, employ,

Sbakspeare. Sated with rage, and ignorant of joy. Prior. Nothing more jealous than a favourite, espeSAPTELLITE, n. s. (satelles, Lat. satellite,

cially towards the waining-time and suspect of satiety.

W'ottoni. Fr. This word is commonly pronounc- In all pleasures there is satiety; and after ed in prose with the e mute in the plu- they be used,

their verdure departeth. Hakow. ral, as in the singular, and is therefore

They satiate and soon fill, only of three syllables ; but Pope has in Though pleasant; but thy words, with grace dithe plural continued the Latin form,

Imbu'd, bring to their sweetness no satiety. and assigned it four ; I think, improper

Milton. ly.) A small planet revolving round a No action, the usefulness of which has made larger.

it the matter of duty, but a man may bear the Four moons move about Jupiter, and five continual pursuit of, without loathing or satiety: about Saturn, called their satellites. Locke.

Soutb. The smallest planets are situated nearest the The joy unequallid, if its end it gain, sun and each other; whereas Jupiter and Sa- Without satiety, though e'er so blest, turn, that are vastly greater, and have many sa. And but more relish'd as the more distress'd. tellites about them, are wisely removed to the

Pope. extreme regions of the system. Bentley. SA'TIN. n. s. (satin, Fr. drapo di setan, Ask of yonder argent fields above,

Italian ; sattin, Dutch.] A soft close Why Jove's satellites are less than Jove? Pope.

and shining silk. SATELLI'Tious. adj. [from satelles, Lat.)

Upon her body she wore a doublet of skyConsisting of satellites.

colour satin, covered with plates of gold, and as Their solidity and opacity, and their satelli

it were nailed with precious stones, that in it tious attendance, their revolutions about the sun, she might seem armed.

Sidney. and their rotacions about their axis, are exactly The ladies dress'd in rich symars were seen, the same.

Cheyne. Of Florence satin, flower'd with white and green. TO SA'TIATE. v. a. (satio, Latin.]

And for a shade betwixt the bloomy gridelin. 1. To satisfy ; to fill.

Dryden. Those smells are the most grateful where the Her petticoat, transformid apace, degree of heat is small, or the strength of the Became black satin Hounc'd with lace. Swift. smell allayed; for these rather woo the sense Lay the child carefully in a case, covered with than satiate it.

Bacon.
a mantle of blue satin.

Arbuthnot. Buying of land is the result of a full and sa- SA'TIRE. n. S. (satira, anciently satura, tiated gain; and men in trade seldom think of

Lat. not from satyrus, a satyr; satire, laying out their money upon land, 'till their pro

Fr.] A poem in which wickedness or fit' has brought them in more than their trade can well employ:

Locke.

folly is censured. Proper satire is disThe loosen'd winds

tinguished, by the generality of the re. Hind high above the clouds; 'till all their force fcctions, from a lampoon which is aimed

vine

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against a particular person ; but they are

The mind, having a power to suspend the ex® too frequently confounded : it has on

ecution and satisfaction of any of its desires, is before the subject.

at liberty to consider the objects of them. Locke. He dares to sing thy praises in a clime

3. The state of being pleased. Where vice triumphs, and virtue is a crime;

'T is a wretched satisfaction a revengeful man Where ev'n to draw the picture of thy mind,

cakes, even in losing his life, provided his enerny Is satyr on the most of human kind.

L'Estrange. Dryden

go for company. My verse is satire; Dorset, lend your ear,

There are very few discourses so short, clear, And patronise a muse you cannot fear. Young.

and consistent, to which most men may not, with SATI'RICAL. adj. (satiricus, Lat. sati.

satisfaction enough to themselves, raise a doubt.

Locke, SATI'RICK, 1 rique, Fr. from satire.] 4. Release from suspense, uncertainty, or 3. Belonging to satire ; employed in writ. uneasiness; conviction. ing of invective.

Wile thou leave me so unsatisfied ? You must not think, that a satyrick style -What satisfaction can you have? Sbakso. Allows of scandalous and brutish words. Ro.com. 5. Gratification; that which pleases. What human kind desires, and what they Of ev'ry nation each illustrious name, shun,

Such toys as these have cheated into fame; Rage, passions, pieasures, impotence of will, Shall this satirical collection ill.

Exchanging solid quiet to obtain

Dryden. 2. Censorious ; severe in language.

The windy satisfaction of che brain. Dryden.

6. Amends; atonement for a crime ; reSlanders, sir; for the setirical slave says here, chat old men have grey beards; that their faces

compense for an injury. are wrinkled,

Sbakspeare,

Die he or justice must; unless for him

Some other able, and as willing, pay · He that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid of his wit, so he had need be afraid satisfa'ctive. adj. (satisfuctus, Latin.]

The rigid satisfaction, death for death. Milton. of others memory. On me when dunces are satirick,

Giving satisfaction. I take it for a panegyrick.

Swift. By a final and satisfactive discernment of faith, SATIRICALLY, adv. [from satirical.]

we lay the last effects upon the first cause of all things.

Brown. With invective; with intention to censure or vilify:

SATISFACTORILY. adv. [from satisfacHe applies them satirically to some customs,

torp.) So as to content. and kinds of philosophy, which he arraigns. Dryd.

Bellonius hath been more satisfactorily expe

rimental, not only affirming that chameleons feed SA'TIRIST. n. s. [from satire.] One who on fies, but upon exenteration he found these writes satires.

animals in their bellies.

Brown, I first adventure, follow me who list,

They strain their memory to answer him seAnd be the second English satirist. Hall.

tisfactorily unto all his demands, Digby. Wycherly, in his writings, is the sharpest sa. srist of his time; but, in his nature, he has all

SATISFA'CTORINESS. n. s. [from satisthe softness of the tenderest dispositions: in his

factory.) Power of satisfying ; power writings he is severe, bold, undertaking; in his of giving content. nature gentle, modest, inoffensive. Granville. The incompleatness of the şeraphick lover's

All vain pretenders have been constantly the happiness in his fruitions, proceeds not from topicks of the most candid satyrists, from the their want of satisfactoriness, but his want of an Codrus of Juvenal to the Damon of Boileau. entire possession of them.

Boyle Cleland. SATISFACTORY, adj. (satisfactoire, Fr. Yet soft his nature, though severe his lay; His anger moral, and his wisdom gay:

satisfactus, Lat.) Blest satyrist! who touch'd the mean so true,

1. Giving satisfaction; giving content. As show'd vice had his hate and pity too. Pope.

An intelligent American would scarce take it TO SA'TIRIZE, v. a. (satirizer, Fr. froin

for a satisfactory account, if, desiring to learn our

architecture, he should be told that a pillar was satire.] To censure as in a satire, Covetousness is described as a veil cast over

a thing supported by a basis.

Locke. the true meaning of the poet, which was to sa

2. Atoning: making amends.

Amost wise and sufficient means of redemption dirige his prodigality and voluptuousness. Dryd. Should a writer single out and point his raillery

and salvation, by the satisfactory and meritorious

death and obedience of the incarnate Son of God, at particular persons, or satirize the miserable,

Jesus Christ.

Sanderson, he might be sure of pleasing a great part of his readers; but must be a very ill man if he could TO SA'TISFY. v. a. (satisfạire, Fr. satise please himself.

· Addison. facio, Latin.] I insist shat my lion's mouth be not defiled with

1. To content; to please to such a degree scandal; for I would not make use of him to reJile the human species, and satirize his betters.

as that nothing more is desired. Spectator A good man shall be satisfied from himself.

Proverbs. It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of discin

I'm satisfy'd, My boy has done his duty. guished virtues. Swift.

Addison. SATISTA'CTION. n. š. (satisfactio, Latin ;

2. To feed to the fill.

Who hath caused it to rain on the earth, to sasatisfaction, Fr.]

tisfy the desolate and waste ground, and to cause 1. The act of pleasing to the full, or state the bud of the tender tree to spring forth? Yob. of being pleased.

I will pursue and divide the spoil: my lust shall Run over the circle of earthly pleasures, and be satisfied upon them.

Exodus, had not God secured a man a solid pleasure from The righteous cateth to the satisfying of his his own actions, he would be forced to complain soul.

Proverbse that pleasure was not satisfaction. South.

3. To recompense ; to pay to content, a. The act of pleasing

He is well paid that is well satisfieds

turn.

SAT

And I, delivering you, am satisfied,

sun and each other; whereas Jupiter and Sa. And therein do account myself well paid. Shak. turn, that are vastly greater, are wisely removed 4. To appease by punishment.

to the extreme regions.

BentleyWill he draw out,

From the far bounds For anger's sake, finite to infinite

Of utmost Saturn, wheeling wide his round. In punish'd man, to satisfy his rigour,

Thomson Satisfi'd never? That were to extend

2. [In chymistry.) Lead. His sentence beyond dust and Nature's law. SA'TURNINE. adj. (saturninus, Lat. satur

Milton.

nien, Fr. from Saturn.] Not light; not 5. To free from doubt, perplexity, or sus- volatile ; gloomy; grave; melancholy ; pense. Of many things useful and curious you may

severe of temper: supposed to be born

under the dominion of Saturn.
satisfy yourselves in Leonardi de Vinci. Dryd.
This I would willingly be satisfied in, whether

I may cast my readers under two divisions, the the soul, when it thinks thus, separate from the

mercurial and saturnine: the first are the gay

part, the others are of a more sober and solemn body, acts less rationally than when conjointly

Addison. with it?

Locke. 6. To convince.

SATU'RNIAN. adj. (saturnius, Lat.] HapHe declares himself satisfied to the contrary,

py; golden : used by poets for times of in which he has given up the cause.

Dryden. felicity, such as are feigned to have been When come to the utmost extremity of body, in the reign of Saturn. what can there put a stop and satisfy the mind Th’ Augustus, born to bring saturnian times. that it is at the end of space, when it is satisfied

Pope. that body itself can move into it? Locke. SA'TYR. n. s. (satyrus, Lat.] A sylvan The standing evidences of the truth of the

god : supposed among the ancients to be Gospel are in themselves most firm, solid, and

rude and lecherous.

Atterbury.
satisfying.
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Satyrs, as Pliny testifies, were found in times

past in the eastern mountains of India. Peacbam, 1. To give content.

SATYRIASIS. n. s. [from satyr.] 2. To feed to the full.

If the chyle be very plentiful, it breeds a satye 3. To make payment.

riasis, or an abundance of seminal lymphas. By the quantity of silver they give or take,

Floyer. they estimate the value of other things, and sa- SAVAGE. adj. [sauvage, Fr. selvaggio, tisfy for them: thus silver becomes the measure

Italian.]

Locke.
of commerce.
SA’TUR ABLE, adj. [from saturate.] Im-

1. Wild; uncultivated.

These godlike virtues wherefore do'st thou pregnable with any thing till it will re

hide,
ceive no more.

Affecting private life, or more obscure
Be the figures of the salts never so various, yet

In savnge wilderness?

Milton. if the atoms of water were fluid, they would al- Cornels, and sazvage berries of the wood, ways so conform to those figures as to fill up all And roots and herbs, have been my neagre food. vacuities; and consequently the water would be

Dryden. saturable with the same quantity of any salt, 2. Untamed ; cruel. which it has not.

Grew.

Chain me to some steepy mountain's top, SA'TURANT. adj. [from saturans, Latin.] Where roaring bears and savage lions roam. Impregnating to the fill.

Sbakspeare. TO SA'TURATE. v. a. (saturo, Latin.]

Hence with your little ones:

To fright you thus, methinks, I am too savage; To impregnate till no more can be re

To do worse to you, were fell cruelty. Shiks. ceived or imbibed.

Tyrants no more their savage nature kept, Rain-water is plentifully saturated with terre- And foes to virtue wonder'd how they wept. strial matter, and more or less stored with it.

Woodward. 3. Uncivilized; barbarous; untaught ; His body has been fully saturated with the fluid of light, to be able to last so many years

wild ; brutal.. without any sensible diminution, though there

Thus people lived altogether a savage life, 'till

Saturn, arriving on those coasts, devised laws to

Cleyne.
are constant emanations thereof.
Still night succeeds

govern them by.

Raleigb. A soften'd shade, and saturated earth

The savage clamour drown'd

Milton.
Both harp and voice.

Thomson.
Awaits the morning beam.

A herd of wild beasts on the mountains, or a
SA'TURDAY. n. s. [rætensdæg, or

savage Grove of men in caves, might be so dissæternsdæz, Sax. according to Verste- ordered; but never a peculiar people. Spratt. gan, from sæzer, a Saxon idol ; more

SA'VAGE. n. s. (from the adjective.] A probably from Saturn, dies Saturni.]

man untaught and uncivilized; a barThe last day of the week.

barian.
This matter 'I handled fully in last Saturday's

Long after these times were they but savages.
Spectator.
Addison.

Raleigh:
SATU'RSTY. n. s. (saturitas, from saturo,

The seditious lived by rapine and ruin of all Lat.] Fulness; the state of being satu- the country, omitting nothing of that which sarated ; repletion.

vages, enraged in the height of their unruly beSA'TURN. n. s. (saturne, Fr. saturnus,

haviour, do commit.

Hayward. Latin.)

To deprive us of metals is to make us mere

sasares; to change our corn for the old Arca1. A remote planet of the solar system:

dian diet, our houses and cities for dens and supposed by astrologers to impress me

caves, and our clothing for skins of beasts : 'tis lancholy, dulness, or severity of temper. to bereave us of all arts and sciences, nay, of The smallest planets are placed nearest the revealed religion.

Bentley.

Pope.

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TO SA'VAGE. v. a. [from the noun.] To strained to so unworthy a bondage, and yet reinake barbarous, wild, or cruel. A word

strained by love, which'I cannot tell how, in nonot well authorized.

ble minds, by a certain duty, claims an answer

Sidney. Friends, relations, Love himself, Savag'd by woe, forget the tender tie. Thomsor.

All the delights of love, wherein wanton youth

walloweth, be but folly mixed with bitterness, SA'vAGELY. adv. [from savage.] Barbar- and sorrow sauced with repentance. Spenser. ously; cruelly.

Thou say'st his meat was sauc'd with thy upYour casale is surprized , your wife and babes

braidings;

Unquiet meals make ill digestions. Sbaks. SA'V AGENESS. n. s. [from savage.] Bar- SA'UCE BOX. n. s. [from sauce, or rather barousness; cruelty; wildness.

from saucy.] An impertinent or petus, A savageness in unreclaimed blood

lant fellow. Of general assault.

Sbakspeare. The foolish old poet says, that the souls of Wolves and bears, they say,

some women are niade of sea-water: this has Casting their savageness aside, have done

encouraged my saucebox to be witty upon me. Like ottices of pity. Shakspeare.

Spectator. The Cyclops were a people of Sicily, remarkable for savageness and cruelty. Broome,

Sa'UCEPAN, n. so (sauce and pan.) A SA'VAGERY. n. s. [from savage.]

small skillet with a long handle, in

which sauce or small things are boiled. 1. Cruelty; barbarity.

Your master will not allow you a silver sauceThis is the bloodiest shame,

pan.

Swift. The wildest savag'ry, the vilest stroke, That ever wall-ey'd Wrath, or staring Rage,

SA'ucer. n. s. (sauciere, Fr. from sauce.] Presented to the tears of soft Remorse. Sbaks. 1. A small pan or platter in which sauce 2. Wild growth.

is set on the table. Her fallow lees

Infuse a pugil of new violets seven times, and The darnel, hemlock, and rank fumitory,

it shall make the vinegar so fresh of the flower, Doth root upon; while that the culter rusts, as, if brought in a saucer, you shall smell it beThat should deracinate such savagery. Sbaks. fore it come at you.

Bacon. SAVA’NN A. n. s. [Spanish, according to

Some have mistaken blocks and posts Bailey.) An open meadow without

For spectres, apparitions, ghosts,

With saucer eyes and horns. Hudibras. wood; pasture-ground in America.

He that rides post through a country may tell 2. A piece or platter of china, into which how, in general, the parts lie; here a morass, and a tea cup is set. there a river; woodland in one part, and savan

SA'Ucily, adv. [from saucy.) Impunas in another.

Locke.
Plains immense,

dently ; impertinently; petulantly; in And vast savannas, where the wand'ring eye, a saucy manner. Unfix'd, is in a verdant ocean lost.

Tbomson.

Though this knave came somewhat saucily into SAUCE. n. s. [sauce, saulse, Fr. salsa,

the world before he was sent for, yet was his Italian.]

mother fair.

Shakspeare.

A freed servant, who had much power with 1. Something eaten with food to improve

Claudius, very saucily, had almost all the words; its taste.

and, amongst other things, he asked in scorn one The bitter sauce of the sport was, that we had of the examinates, who was likewise a freed serour honours for ever lost, partly by our own vant of Scribonianus, I pray, sir, if Scribonianus faults, but principally by his faulty using of our had been emperor, what would you have done? faults.

Sidney.

He answered, I would have stood behind his To feed were best at home;

chair, and held my peace.

Bacon. From thence the sauce to meat is ceremony;

trumper behaved himself very saucily. Meeting were bare without it. Shakspeare.

Addison. Epicurean cooks Sharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite. Shak. SA'Uciness. n. s. [from saucy.] Impu

Such was the sauce of Moab's noble feast, dence; petulance ; impertinence ; con'Till night far spent invites them to their rest. tempt of superiours.

Cowley. With how sweet saws she blam'd their sauci He that spends his time in sports, is like him

ness, whose meat is nothing but sauces; they are To feel the panting heart, which through her side healthless, chargeable, and useless. Taylor. Did beat their hands.

Sidney. High sauces and rich spices are fetched from By his authority he remains here, which he the Indies.

Baker. thinks is a patent for his sauciness. Sbakspeare, 2. To serve one the same SAUCE. A vul- Being intercepted in your sport, gar phrase to retaliate one injury with Great reason that my noble lord be rated

For sauciness. another.

Shakspeare.

It is sauciness in a creature, in this case, to reTO SAUCE. v. a. (from the noun.]

ply.

Bramball. 1. To accompany meat with something of Ímputing it to the natural sauciness of a pedant, higher relish.

they made him eat his words.

L'Estrange. 2. To gratify with rich tastes. Obsolete. You sauciness, mind your pruning-knife, or Earth, yield me roots;

I may use it for you.

Dryden. Who seeks for better of thee, sauce his palate

This might make all other servants challenge With thy most operant poison. Sbakspeare.

the same liberty, and grow pert upon their ma3. To intermix or accompany with any

sters; and when this sauciness became universal,

what less mischief could be expected than an old thing good, or, ironically, with any

Scythian rebellion ?

Collier. thing bad.

Then fell she to sauce her desires with threat- SA'UCISSE. n. s. (Fr.] In gunnery, a long ening, so that we were in a great perplexity, re- train of powder sewed up in a roll of

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