Sac*chul"mate (?), n. (Chem.) A salt of sacchulmic acid.
Sac*chul"mic (?), 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.]
Sac*chul"min (?), n. (Chem.) An amorphous huminlike substance
resembling sacchulmic acid, and produced together with it.
Sac*cif"er*ous (?), a. [L. saccus a sack + -ferous.] (Biol.) Bearing a
sac.
Sac"ci*form (?), a. [L. saccus a sack + -form.] (Biol.) Having the
general form of a sac.
||Sac`co*glos"sa (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. L. saccus a sack + Gr. &?; a
||tongue.] (Zoöl.) Same as Pellibranchiata.
Sac"cu*lar (?), a. Like a sac; sacciform.
Sac"cu*la`ted (?), a. Furnished with little sacs.
Sac"cule (?), n. [L. sacculus, dim. of saccus sack.] A little sac;
specifically, the sacculus of the ear.
Sac`cu*lo-coch"le*ar (?), a. (Anat.) Pertaining to the sacculus and
cochlea of the ear.
Sac`cu*lo-u*tric"u*lar (?), a. (Anat.) Pertaining to the sacculus and
utriculus of the ear.
||Sac"cu*lus (?), 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.
||Sac"cus (?), n.; pl. Sacci (#). [L., a sack.] (Biol.) A sac.
Sa*cel"lum (?), 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.
Sac`er*do"tal (?), 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.
The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency
which naturally and properly belongs to intellectual superiority.
Macaulay.
Sac`er*do"tal*ism (?), n. The system, style, spirit, or character, of a
priesthood, or sacerdotal order; devotion to the interests of the
sacerdotal order.
Sac`er*do"tal*ly, adv. In a sacerdotal manner.
Sach"el (sch"l), n. A small bag. See Satchel.
Sa"chem (s&acr";chem), n. A chief of a tribe of the American Indians; a
sagamore. See Sagamore.
Sa"chem*dom (-dm), n. The government or jurisdiction of a sachem. Dr.
T. Dwight.
Sa"chem*ship, n. Office or condition of a sachem.
||Sa`chet" (?), n. [F., dim. of sac. See Sac.] A scent bag, or perfume
||cushion, to be laid among handkerchiefs, garments, etc., to perfume
||them.
Sa*ci"e*ty (?), n. Satiety. [Obs.] Bacon.
Sack (sk), n. [OE. seck, F. sec dry (cf. Sp. seco, It. secco), from L.
siccus dry, harsh; perhaps akin to Gr. 'ischno`s, Skr. sikata sand, Ir.
sesc dry, W. hysp. Cf. Desiccate.] A name formerly given to various dry
Spanish wines. "Sherris sack." Shak.
Sack posset, a posset made of sack, and some other ingredients.
Sack, n. [OE. sak, sek, AS. sacc, sæcc, L. saccus, Gr. sa`kkos from
Heb. sak; cf. F. sac, from the Latin. Cf. Sac, Satchel, Sack to
plunder.] 1. A bag for holding and carrying goods of any kind; a
receptacle made of some kind of pliable material, as cloth, leather,
and the like; a large pouch.
2. A measure of varying capacity, according to local usage and the
substance. The American sack of salt is 215 pounds; the sack of wheat,
two bushels. McElrath.
3. [Perhaps a different word.] Originally, a loosely hanging garment
for women, worn like a cloak about the shoulders, and serving as a
decorative appendage to the gown; now, an outer garment with sleeves,
worn by women; as, a dressing sack. [Written also sacque.]
4. A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to
bottom without a cross seam.