How it sadded the minister's spirits!
H. Peters.
||Sad"da (?), n. [Per. sad-dar the hundred gates or ways; sad a hundred
||+ dar door, way.] A work in the Persian tongue, being a summary of
||the Zend- Avesta, or sacred books.
Sad"den (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Saddened (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Saddening.] To make sad. Specifically: (a) To render heavy or cohesive.
[Obs.]
Marl is binding, and saddening of land is the great prejudice it
doth to clay lands.
Mortimer.
(b) To make dull- or sad-colored, as cloth. (c) To make grave or
serious; to make melancholy or sorrowful.
Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene.
Pope.
Sad"den, v. i. To become, or be made, sad. Tennyson.
Sad"der (?), n. Same as Sadda.
Sad"dle (?), n. [OE. sadel, AS. sadol; akin to D. zadel, G. sattel,
OHG. satal, satul, Icel. söðull, Dan. & Sw. sadel; cf. Russ. siedlo;
all perh. ultimately from the root of E. sit.] 1. A seat for a rider,
-- usually made of leather, padded to span comfortably a horse's back,
furnished with stirrups for the rider's feet to rest in, and fastened
in place with a girth; also, a seat for the rider on a bicycle or
tricycle.
2. A padded part of a harness which is worn on a horse's back, being
fastened in place with a girth. It serves various purposes, as to keep
the breeching in place, carry guides for the reins, etc.
3. A piece of meat containing a part of the backbone of an animal with
the ribs on each side; as, a saddle of mutton, of venison, etc.
4. (Naut.) A block of wood, usually fastened to some spar, and shaped
to receive the end of another spar.
5. (Mach.) A part, as a flange, which is hollowed out to fit upon a
convex surface and serve as a means of attachment or support.