Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 1
S () The nineteenth letter of the
English alphabet, is a consonant, and is often called a sibilant, in allusion
to its hissing sound. It has two principal sounds; one a mere hissing, as in sack,
this; the other a vocal hissing (the same as that of z), as in is, wise.
Besides these it sometimes has the sounds of sh and zh, as in sure, measure. It
generally has its hissing sound at the beginning of words, but in the middle
and at the end of words its sound is determined by usage. In a few words it is
silent, as in isle, debris. With the letter h it forms the digraph sh. See
Guide to pronunciation, [sect] [sect] 255-261.
Note: Both the form and the name of the letter S are
derived from the Latin, which got the letter through the Greek from the
Phoenician. The ultimate origin is Egyptian. S is etymologically most nearly
related to c, z, t, and r; as, in ice, OE. is; E. hence, OE. hennes; E. rase,
raze; erase, razor; that, G. das; E. reason, F. raison, L. ratio; E. was, were;
chair, chaise (see C, Z, T, and R.).
-S () [OE. es, AS. as.] The suffix
used to form the plural of most words; as in roads, elfs, sides, accounts.
-S () [OE. -s, for older -th, AS. -[eth].] The suffix used to form the third person singular indicative of English verbs; as in falls, tells, sends.
-S () An adverbial suffix; as in towards, needs, always, -- originally the genitive, possesive, ending. See -'s.
'S () A contraction for is or (colloquially) for has. "My heart's subdued." -- Shak.
S (n.) 1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites [syn: second, sec, s].
S (n.) An abundant tasteless odorless multivalent nonmetallic element; best known in yellow crystals; occurs in many sulphide and sulphate minerals and even in native form (especially in volcanic regions) [syn: sulfur, S, sulphur, atomic number 16].
S (n.) The cardinal compass point that is at 180 degrees [syn: south, due south, southward, S].
S (n.) A unit of conductance equal to the reciprocal of an ohm [syn: mho, siemens, reciprocal ohm, S].
S (n.) The 19th letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: S, s].
S (n.) (Thermodynamics) A thermodynamic quantity representing the amount of energy in a system that is no longer available for doing mechanical work; "entropy increases as matter and energy in the universe degrade to an ultimate state of inert uniformity" [syn: randomness, entropy, S].
S, () A statistical analysis language from AT&T.
["S: An Interactive Environment for Data Analysis and Graphics", Richard A. Becker, Wadsworth 1984].
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Saadh (n.) See Sadh.
Saan (n. pl.) (Ethnol.) Same as Bushmen.
Sabadilla (n.) (Bot.) A Mexican liliaceous plant (Schoenocaulon officinale); also, its seeds, which contain the alkaloid veratrine. It was formerly used in medicine as an emetic and purgative.
Sabaean (a. & n.) Same as Sabian.
Sabaeanism (n.) Same as Sabianism. Sabaeism
Sabianism (n.) The doctrine of the Sabians; the Sabian religion; that species of idolatry which consists in worshiping the sun, moon, and stars; heliolatry. [Written also Sabaeanism.]
Sabaeism (n.) Alt. of Sabaism.
Sabaism (n.) See Sabianism.
Sabal (n.) (Bot.) A genus of
palm trees including the palmetto of the
Sabaoth (n. pl.) Armies; hosts.
Note: [Used twice in the English Bible, in the phrase
"The Lord of Sabaoth."]
Sabaoth (n. pl.) Incorrectly, the Sabbath.
Sabaoth (n.) (plural) Hosts or armies; used in the book of Romans in the New Testament; "Lord of Sabaoth"
Sabaoth, () The transliteration of the Hebrew word _tsebha'oth_, meaning "hosts," "armies" (Rom. 9:29; James 5:4). In the LXX. the Hebrew word is rendered by "Almighty." (See Rev. 4:8; comp. Isa. 6:3.) It may designate Jehovah as either (1) God of the armies of earth, or (2) God of the armies of the stars, or (3) God of the unseen armies of angels; or perhaps it may include all these ideas.
Sabaoth, Lord of hosts
Sabbat (n.) In mediaeval demonology, the nocturnal assembly in which demons and sorcerers were thought to celebrate their orgies.
Sabbat (n.) A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery; in the Middle Ages it was supposed to be a demonic orgy [syn: sabbat, witches' Sabbath].
Sabbatarian (n.) One who regards and keeps the seventh day of the week as holy, agreeably to the letter of the fourth commandment in the Decalogue.
Note: There were Christians in the early church who held this opinion, and certain Christians, esp. the Seventh-day Baptists, hold it now.
Sabbatarian (n.) A strict observer of the Sabbath.
Sabbatarian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Sabbath, or the tenets of Sabbatarians.
Sabbatarian (a.) Pertaining to the Sabbath and its observance.
Sabbatarian (n.) One who observes Saturday as the Sabbath (as in Judaism).
Sabbatarianism (n.) The tenets of Sabbatarians. --Bp. Ward (1673).
Sabbath (n.) A season or day of rest; one day in seven appointed for rest or worship, the observance of which was enjoined upon the Jews in the Decalogue, and has been continued by the Christian church with a transference of the day observed from the last to the first day of the week, which is called also Lord's Day.
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. -- Ex. xx. 8.
Sabbath (n.) The seventh year, observed among the Israelites as one of rest and festival. -- Lev. xxv. 4.
Sabbath (n.) Fig.: A time of rest or repose; intermission of pain, effort, sorrow, or the like.
Peaceful sleep out the sabbath of the tomb. -- Pope.
Sabbath breaker, One who violates the law of the Sabbath.
Sabbath breaking, The violation of the law of the Sabbath.
Sabbath-day's journey, A distance of about a mile, which, under Rabbinical law, the Jews were allowed to travel on the Sabbath.
Syn: Sabbath, Sunday.
Usage: Sabbath is not strictly synonymous with Sunday. Sabbath denotes the institution; Sunday is the name of the first day of the week. The Sabbath of the Jews is on Saturday, and the Sabbath of most Christians on Sunday. In New England, the first day of the week has been called "the Sabbath," to mark it as holy time; Sunday is the word more commonly used, at present, in all parts of the United States, as it is in England. "So if we will be the children of our heavenly Father, we must be careful to keep the Christian Sabbath day, which is the Sunday." -- Homilies.
Sabbath (n.) A day of rest and worship: Sunday for most Christians; Saturday for the Jews and a few Christians; Friday for Muslims.
Sabbath, () (Heb. verb shabbath, meaning "to rest from labour"), the day of rest. It is first mentioned as having been instituted in Paradise, when man was in innocence (Gen. 2:2). "The sabbath was made for man," as a day of rest and refreshment for the body and of blessing to the soul.
It is next referred to in connection with the gift of manna to the children of Israel in the wilderness (Ex. 16:23); and afterwards, when the law was given from Sinai (20:11), the people were solemnly charged to "remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy." Thus it is spoken of as an institution already existing.
In the Mosaic law strict regulations were laid down regarding its observance (Ex. 35:2, 3; Lev. 23:3; 26:34). These were peculiar to that dispensation.
In the subsequent history of the Jews frequent references are made to the sanctity of the Sabbath (Isa. 56:2, 4, 6, 7; 58:13, 14; Jer. 17:20-22; Neh. 13:19). In later times they perverted the Sabbath by their traditions. Our Lord rescued it from their perversions, and recalled to them its true nature and intent (Matt. 12:10-13; Mark 2:27; Luke 13:10-17).
The Sabbath, originally instituted for man at his creation, is of permanent and universal obligation. The physical necessities of man require a Sabbath of rest. He is so constituted that his bodily welfare needs at least one day in seven for rest from ordinary labour. Experience also proves that the moral and spiritual necessities of men also demand a Sabbath of rest. "I am more and more sure by experience that the reason for the observance of the Sabbath lies deep in the everlasting necessities of human nature, and that as long as man is man the blessedness of keeping it, not as a day of rest only, but as a day of spiritual rest, will never be annulled. I certainly do feel by experience the eternal obligation, because of the eternal necessity, of the Sabbath. The soul withers without it. It thrives in proportion to its observance. The Sabbath was made for man. God made it for men in a certain spiritual state because they needed it. The need, therefore, is deeply hidden in human nature. He who can dispense with it must be holy and spiritual indeed. And he who, still unholy and unspiritual, would yet dispense with it is a man that would fain be wiser than his Maker" (F. W. Robertson).
The ancient Babylonian calendar, as seen from recently recovered inscriptions on the bricks among the ruins of the royal palace, was based on the division of time into weeks of seven days. The Sabbath is in these inscriptions designated Sabattu, and defined as "a day of rest for the heart" and "a day of completion of labour."
The change of the day. Originally at creation the seventh day of the week was set apart and consecrated as the Sabbath. The first day of the week is now observed as the Sabbath. Has God authorized this change? There is an obvious distinction between the Sabbath as an institution and the particular day set apart for its observance. The question, therefore, as to the change of the day in no way affects the perpetual obligation of the Sabbath as an institution. Change of the day or no change, the Sabbath remains as a sacred institution the same. It cannot be abrogated.
If any change of the day has been made, it must have been by Christ or by his authority. Christ has a right to make such a change (Mark 2:23-28). As Creator, Christ was the original Lord of the Sabbath (John 1:3; Heb. 1:10). It was originally a memorial of creation. A work vastly greater than that of creation has now been accomplished by him, the work of redemption. We would naturally expect just such a change as would make the Sabbath a memorial of that greater work.
True, we can give no text authorizing the change in so many words. We have no express law declaring the change. But there are evidences of another kind. We know for a fact that the first day of the week has been observed from apostolic times, and the necessary conclusion is, that it was observed by the apostles and their immediate disciples. This, we may be sure, they never would have done without the permission or the authority of their Lord.
After his resurrection, which took place on the first day of the week (Matt. 28:1; Mark 16:2; Luke 24:1; John 20:1), we never find Christ meeting with his disciples on the seventh day. But he specially honoured the first day by manifesting himself to them on four separate occasions (Matt. 28:9; Luke 24:34, 18-33; John 20:19-23). Again, on the next first day of the week, Jesus appeared to his disciples (John 20:26).
Some have calculated that Christ's ascension took place on the first day of the week. And there can be no doubt that the descent of the Holy Ghost at Pentecost was on that day (Acts 2:1). Thus Christ appears as instituting a new day to be observed by his people as the Sabbath, a day to be henceforth known amongst them as the "Lord's day." The observance of this "Lord's day" as the Sabbath was the general custom of the primitive churches, and must have had apostolic sanction (comp. Acts 20:3-7; 1 Cor. 16:1, 2) and authority, and so the sanction and authority of Jesus Christ.
The words "at her sabbaths" (Lam. 1:7, A.V.) ought probably to be, as in the Revised Version, "at her desolations."
Sabbath. The same as Sunday. (q.v.)
Sabbath, (n.) A weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh. Among the Jews observance of the day was enforced by a Commandment of which this is the Christian version: "Remember the seventh day to make thy neighbor keep it wholly." To the Creator it seemed fit and expedient that the Sabbath should be the last day of the week, but the Early Fathers of the Church held other views. So great is the sanctity of the day that even where the Lord holds a doubtful and precarious jurisdiction over those who go down to (and down into) the sea it is reverently recognized, as is manifest in the following deep-water version of the Fourth Commandment:
Six days shalt thou labor and do all thou art able,
And on the seventh holystone the deck and scrape the cable.
Decks are no longer holystoned, but the cable still supplies the captain with opportunity to attest a pious respect for the divine ordinance.
Sabbathless (a.) Without Sabbath, or intermission of labor; hence, without respite or rest. -- Bacon. Sabbatic
Sabbatic (a.) Alt. of Sabbatical.
Sabbatical (a.) Of or pertaining to the Sabbath; resembling the Sabbath; enjoying or bringing an intermission of labor.
Sabbatical year (Jewish Antiq.), Every seventh year, in which the Israelites were commanded to suffer their fields and vineyards to rest, or lie without tillage.
Sabbatic (a.) Of or relating to the Sabbath; "Friday is a sabbatical day for Muslims" [syn: sabbatical, sabbatic].
Sabbatism (n.) Intermission of labor, as upon the Sabbath; rest. -- Dr. H. More.
Sabbaton (n.) A round-toed, armed covering for the feet, worn during a part of the sixteenth century in both military and civil dress.
Sabean (a. & n.) Same as Sabian.
Sabian (a.) [L. Sabaeus.] [Written also Sabean, and Sabaean.] Of or pertaining to Saba in Arabia, celebrated for producing aromatic plants.
Sabian (n.) An adherent of the Sabian religion; a worshiper of the heavenly bodies. [Written also Sabaean, and Sabean.]
Sabeism (n.) Same as Sabianism.
Sabella (n.) (Zool.) A genus of tubicolous annelids having a circle of plumose gills around the head.
Sabellian (a.) Pertaining to the doctrines or tenets of Sabellius. See Sabellian, n.
Sabellian (n.) (Eccl. Hist.) A follower of Sabellius, a presbyter of Ptolemais in the third century, who maintained that there is but one person in the Godhead, and that the Son and Holy Spirit are only different powers, operations, or offices of the one God the Father.
Sabellian (n.) An extinct Osco-Umbrian language of ancient Italy that survives only in a few inscriptions.
Sabellianism (n.) (Eccl.) The doctrines or tenets of Sabellius. See Sabellian, n.
Sabelloid (a.) (Zool.) Like, or related to, the genus Sabella. -- Sa*bel"loid, n. Saber
Saber (n.) Alt. of Sabre
Saber, Sabre, (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Saberedor Sabred; p. pr. & vb. n. Sabering or Sabring.] [Cf. F. sabrer.] To strike, cut, or kill with a saber; to cut down, as with a saber.
You send troops to saber and bayonet us into submission. -- Burke. Saberbill
Saber, Sabre, (n.) A sword with a broad and heavy blade, thick at the back, and usually more or less curved like a scimiter; a cavalry sword.
Saber fish, or Sabre fish (Zool.), The cutlass fish. Saber
Saber (n.) A fencing sword with a v-shaped blade and a slightly curved handle [syn: saber, sabre].
Saber (n.) A stout sword with a curved blade and thick back [syn: cavalry sword, saber, sabre].
Saber (v.) Cut or injure with a saber [syn: sabre, saber].
Saber (v.) Kill with a saber [syn: saber, sabre].
Sabotage (n.) [F.] Scamped work.
Sabotage (n.) [F.] 破壞；妨害 Malicious waste or destruction of an employer's property or injury to his interests by workmen during labor troubles.
Sabotage (n.) [F.] Any surreptitious destruction of property or obstruction of activity by persons not known to be hostile; -- in war, such actions carried out behind enemy lines by agents or local sympathisers of the hostile power.
Sabotage (n.) A deliberate act of destruction or disruption in which equipment is damaged.
Sabotage (v.) (v. t.) 破壞 Destroy property or hinder normal operations; "The Resistance sabotaged railroad operations during the war" [syn: {sabotage}, {undermine}, {countermine}, {counteract}, {subvert}, {weaken}].
Sabotage (v.) [T] （為阻止敵人或對手成功而）毀壞，破壞（設備、武器或建築物） To damage or destroy equipment, weapons, or buildings in order to prevent the success of an enemy or competitor.
// The rebels had tried to sabotage the oil pipeline.
Sabotage (v.) [T] 暗中破壞，蓄意破壞（計畫或行動） To intentionally prevent the success of a plan or action.
// This was deliberate attempt to sabotage the ceasefire.
Sabre (n.) A sword with a broad and heavy blade, thick at the back, and usually more or less curved like a scimiter; a cavalry sword.
Saber fish, or Sabre fish (Zool.), The cutlass fish. Saber
Sabre, (n. & v.) See Saber.
Sabre (n.) A fencing sword with a v-shaped blade and a slightly curved handle [syn: saber, sabre].
Sabre (n.) A stout sword with a curved blade and thick back [syn: cavalry sword, saber, sabre].
Sabre (v.) Cut or injure with a saber [syn: sabre, saber].
Sabre (v.) Kill with a saber [syn: saber, sabre].
SABRE, () Semi-Automatic Business Related Environment (OS, IBM 7090)
Sabered (imp. & p. p.) of Sabre.
Sabred () of Sabre.
Sabering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sabre.
Sabring () of Sabre.
Saber (v. t.) Alt. of Sabre.
Sabre (v. t.) To strike, cut, or kill with a saber; to cut down, as with a saber.
You send troops to saber and bayonet us into submission. -- Burke. Saberbill
Saberbill (n.) Alt. of Sabrebill.
Sabrebill (n.) (Zool.) The curlew.
Sabian (a.) Of or pertaining to Saba in Arabia, celebrated for producing aromatic plants.
Sabian (n.) An adherent of the Sabian religion; a worshiper of the heavenly bodies. [Written also Sabaean, and Sabean.].
Sabian (a.) Relating to the religion of Saba, or to the worship of the heavenly bodies.
Sabianism (n.) The doctrine of the Sabians; the Sabian religion; that species of idolatry which consists in worshiping the sun, moon, and stars; heliolatry. [Written also Sabaeanism.]
Sabicu (n.) The very hard wood of a
leguminous West Indian tree ({Lysiloma Sabicu), valued for shipbuilding.
Sabicu (n.) The wood of the
sabicu which resembles mahogany [syn: sabicu, sabicu wood].
Sabicu (n.) West Indian tree
yielding a hard dark brown wood resembling mahogany in texture and value [syn:
sabicu, Lysiloma sabicu].
Sabine (a.) Of or pertaining to
the ancient Sabines, a people of Italy.
Sabine (n.) One of the Sabine
people.
Sabine (n.) See Savin.
Savin, Savine (n.) (Bot.) (a) A coniferous shrub ({Juniperus Sabina}) of Western Asia, occasionally found also in the northern parts of the United States and in British America. It is a compact bush, with dark-colored foliage, and produces small berries having a glaucous bloom. Its bitter, acrid tops are sometimes used in medicine for gout, amenorrhoea, etc.
Savin, Savine (n.) (Bot.) (b) The North American red cedar ({Juniperus Virginiana}.)
Sabine (a.) Of or relating to or characteristic of the Sabines
Sabine (n.) A river in eastern Texas that flows south into the Gulf of Mexico [syn: {Sabine}, {Sabine River}].
Sabine (n.) A member of an ancient Oscan-speaking people of the central Apennines north of Rome who were conquered and assimilated into the Roman state in 290 BC
Sabine -- U.S. Parish in Louisiana
Population (2000): 23459
Housing Units (2000): 13671
Land area (2000): 865.265038 sq. miles (2241.026064 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 146.245561 sq. miles (378.774247 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1011.510599 sq. miles (2619.800311 sq. km)
Located within: Louisiana (LA), FIPS 22
Location: 31.559894 N, 93.558327 W
Headwords:
Sabine
Sabine, LA
Sabine Parish
Sabine Parish, LA
Sabine -- U.S. County in Texas
Population (2000): 10469
Housing Units (2000): 7659
Land area (2000): 490.268814 sq. miles (1269.790346 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 86.342394 sq. miles (223.625764 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 576.611208 sq. miles (1493.416110 sq. km)
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 31.339367 N, 93.857347 W
Headwords:
Sabine
Sabine, TX
Sabine County
Sabine County, TX
Sable (n.) (Zool.) A carnivorous animal of the Weasel family (Mustela zibellina) native of the northern latitudes of Europe, Asia, and America, -- noted for its fine, soft, and valuable fur.
Note: The sable resembles the marten, but has a longer head and ears. Its fur consists of a soft under wool, with a dense coat of hair, overtopped by another still longer. It varies greatly in color and quality according to the locality and the season of the year. The darkest and most valuable furs are taken in autumn and winter in the colder parts of Siberia, Russia, and British North America.
Note: The American sable, or marten, was formerly considered a distinct species ({Mustela Americana), but it differs very little from the Asiatic sable, and is now considered only a geographical variety.
Sable (n.) The fur of the sable.
Sable (n.) A mourning garment; a funeral robe; -- generally in the plural. "Sables wove by destiny." -- Young.
Sable (n.) (Her.) The tincture black; -- represented by vertical and horizontal lines crossing each other.
Sable (a.) Of the color of the sable's fur; dark; black; -- used chiefly in poetry.
Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne,In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden scepter o'er a slumbering world. -- Young.
Sable antelope (Zool.), A large South African antelope ({Hippotragus niger). Both sexes have long, sharp horns.
The adult male is black; the female is dark chestnut above, white beneath.
Sable iron, A superior quality of Russia iron; -- so called because originally stamped with the figure of a sable.
Sable mouse (Zool.), The lemming.
Sabled (imp. & p. p.) of Sable.
Sabling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sable.
Sable (v. t.) To render sable or dark; to drape darkly or in black.
Sabled all in black the shady sky. -- G. Fletcher.
Sabot (n.) A kind of wooden shoe worn by the peasantry in France, Belgium, Sweden, and some other European countries.
Sabot (n.) 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 (n.) A kind of freezer for ices.
Sabre (n. & v.) See Saber.
Sabretasche (n.) 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 (a.) Growing in sandy places.
Sabulosity (n.) The quality of being sabulous; sandiness; grittiness.
Sabulous (a.) Sandy; gritty.
Sac (n.) See Sacs.
Sac (n.) The privilege formerly enjoyed by the lord of a manor, of holding courts, trying causes, and imposing fines.
Sac (n.) See 2d Sack.
Sac (n.) A cavity, bag, or receptacle, usually containing fluid, and either closed, or opening into another cavity to the exterior; a sack.
Sacalait (n.) A kind of fresh-water bass; the crappie.
Saker (n.) [Written also sacar, sacre.] (Zool.) (a) A falcon ({Falco sacer) native of Southern Europe and Asia, closely resembling the lanner.
Note: The female is called chargh, and the male charghela, or sakeret.
Saker (n.) (b) The peregrine falcon. [Prov. Eng.]
Saker (n.) (Mil.) A small piece of artillery. -- Wilhelm.
On the bastions were planted culverins and sakers. -- Macaulay.
The culverins and sakers showing their deadly muzzles over the rampart. -- Hawthorne.
Sacar (n.) See Saker.
Sacar, wares; A price.
Saccade (n.) (Man.) A sudden, violent check of a horse by drawing or twitching the reins on a sudden and with one pull.
Saccade (n.) A rapid, jerky movement of the eyes between positions of Rest.
Saccade (n.) An abrupt spasmodic movement [syn: jerk, jerking, jolt, saccade].
Saccate (a.) (Biol.) Having the form of a sack or pouch; furnished with a sack or pouch, as a petal.
Saccate (a.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Saccata, a suborder of ctenophores having two pouches into which the long tentacles can be retracted.
Saccharate (n.) (Chem.) A salt of saccharic acid.
Saccharate (n.) (Chem.) 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 (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.
Compare: Melassic
Melassic (a.) [See Molasses.] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from molasses or glucose, and probably identical with saccharic acid (also called D-glucaric acid or tetrahydroxyadipic acid). See Saccharic.
Sacchariferous (a.) Producing sugar; as, sacchariferous canes.
Saccharified (imp. & p. p.) of Saccharify.
Saccharifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Saccharify.
Saccharify (v. t.) To convert into, or to impregnate with, sugar.
Saccharify (v.) Sweeten with sugar; "sugar your tea" [syn: sugar, saccharify].
Saccharify (v.) Convert into a simple soluble fermentable sugar by hydrolyzing a sugar derivative or complex carbohydrate.
Saccharilla (n.) A kind of muslin.
Saccharimeter (n.) 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.]
Note: 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.
Saccharimetrical (a.) Of or pertaining to saccharimetry; obtained by saccharimetry.
Saccharimetry (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.
Saccharin (n.) (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).
Saccharine (n.) (Chem.) A trade name for benzoic sulphinide. [Written also saccharin.].
Saccharin (n.) A crystalline substance 500 times sweeter than sugar; used as a calorie-free sweetener.
Saccharinate (n.) A salt of saccharinic acid.
Saccharinate (n.) A salt of saccharine.
Saccharine (a.) Of or pertaining to sugar; having the qualities of sugar; producing sugar; sweet; as, a saccharine taste; saccharine matter.
Saccharine (n.) (Chem.) A trade name for benzoic sulphinide. [Written also saccharin.].
Sulphinide (n.) (Chem.) A white or yellowish crystalline substance, C6H4.(SO2.CO).NH, produced artificially by the oxidation of a sulphamic derivative of toluene. It is the sweetest substance known, having over two hundred times the sweetening power of sugar, and is known in commerce under the name of saccharine. It has acid properties and forms salts (which are inaccurately called saccharinates). -- I. Remsen.
Saccharine (a.) Overly sweet [syn: cloying, saccharine, syrupy, treacly].
Saccharinic (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.
Saccharized (imp. & p. p.) of Saccharize.
Saccharizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Saccharize.
Saccharize (v. t.) To convert into, or to impregnate with, sugar. Saccharoid
Saccharoid (a.) Alt. of Saccharoidal.