||Sans (sän; E. snz), prep. [F., from L. sine without.] Without;
||deprived or destitute of. Rarely used as an English word. "Sans
||fail." Chaucer.
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
Shak.
San"scrit (?), n. See Sanskrit.
||Sans`-cu`lotte" (F. &?;; E. &?;), n. [F., without breeches.] 1. A
||fellow without breeches; a ragged fellow; -- a name of reproach given
||in the first French revolution to the extreme republican party, who
||rejected breeches as an emblem peculiar to the upper classes or
||aristocracy, and adopted pantaloons.
2. Hence, an extreme or radical republican; a violent revolutionist; a
Jacobin.
Sans`-cu*lot"tic (?), a. Pertaining to, or involving, sans-culottism;
radical; revolutionary; Jacobinical. Carlyle.
Sans`-cu*lot"tism (?), n. [F. sans- culottisme.] Extreme republican
principles; the principles or practice of the sans-culottes.
San"skrit (?), n. [Skr. Samskta the Sanskrit language, literally, the
perfect, polished, or classical language, fr. samskta prepared,
wrought, made, excellent, perfect; sam together (akin to E. same) + kta
made. See Same, Create.] [Written also Sanscrit.] The ancient language
of the Hindoos, long since obsolete in vernacular use, but preserved to
the present day as the literary and sacred dialect of India. It is
nearly allied to the Persian, and to the principal languages of Europe,
classical and modern, and by its more perfect preservation of the roots
and forms of the primitive language from which they are all descended,
is a most important assistance in determining their history and
relations. Cf. Prakrit, and Veda.
San"skrit, a. Of or pertaining to Sanskrit; written in Sanskrit; as, a
Sanskrit dictionary or inscription.
San*skrit"ic (?), a. Sanskrit.
San"skrit*ist, n. One versed in Sanskrit.
||Sans`-sou`ci" (?), adv. [F.] Without care; free and easy.
San"tal (?), n. [Santalum + piperonal.] (Chem.) A colorless crystalline
substance, isomeric with piperonal, but having weak acid properties. It
is extracted from sandalwood.
San`ta*la"ceous (?), a. (Bot.) Of or pertaining to a natural order of
plants (Santalaceæ), of which the genus Santalum is the type, and which
includes the buffalo nut and a few other North American plants, and
many peculiar plants of the southern hemisphere.
San*tal"ic (?), a. (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or obtained from,
sandalwood (Santalum); -- used specifically to designate an acid
obtained as a resinous or red crystalline dyestuff, which is called
also santalin.
San"ta*lin (?), n. [Cf. F. santaline.] (Chem.) Santalic acid. See
Santalic.
||San"ta*lum (?), n. [NL. See Sandalwood.] (Bot.) A genus of trees with
||entire opposite leaves and small apetalous flowers. There are less
||than a dozen species, occurring from India to Australia and the
||Pacific Islands. See Sandalwood.
San`tees" (?), n. pl.; sing. Santee (&?;). (Ethnol.) One of the seven
confederated tribes of Indians belonging to the Sioux, or Dakotas.
San"ter (?), v. i. See Saunter.
||San"ton (?), n. [Sp. santon, augmented fr. santo holy, L. sanctus.] A
||Turkish saint; a kind of dervish, regarded by the people as a saint:
||also, a hermit.
San"to*nate (?), n. (Chem.) A salt of santonic acid.
San*ton"ic (?), a. (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid
(distinct from santoninic acid) obtained from santonin as a white
crystalline substance.
San"to*nin (?), n. [L. herba santonica, a kind of plant, fr. Santoni a
people of Aquitania; cf. Gr. &?;: cf. F. santonine.] (Chem.) A white
crystalline substance having a bitter taste, extracted from the buds of
levant wormseed and used as an anthelmintic. It occassions a peculiar
temporary color blindness, causing objects to appear as if seen through
a yellow glass.
San"to*nin`ate (?), n. (Chem.) A salt of santoninic acid.
San`to*nin"ic (?), a. (Chem.) Of or pertaining to santonin; -- used
specifically to designate an acid not known in the free state, but
obtained in its salts.
||Sa"o (?), n. (Zoöl.) Any marine annelid of the genus Hyalinæcia,
||especially H. tubicola of Europe, which inhabits a transparent
||movable tube resembling a quill in color and texture.
Sap (?), n. [AS. sæp; akin to OHG. saf, G. saft, Icel. safi; of
uncertain origin; possibly akin to L. sapere to taste, to be wise, sapa
must or new wine boiled thick. Cf. Sapid, Sapient.] 1. The juice of
plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or
circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
The ascending is the crude sap, the assimilation of which takes place
in the leaves, when it becomes the elaborated sap suited to the growth
of the plant.