Ring out the grief that saps the mind.
Tennyson.
Sap (?), v. i. To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to
execute saps. W. P. Craighill.
Both assaults are carried on by sapping.
Tatler.
Sap, n. (Mil.) A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel
toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under
cover of gabions, etc.
Sap fagot (Mil.), a fascine about three feet long, used in sapping, to
close the crevices between the gabions before the parapet is made. --
Sap roller (Mil.), a large gabion, six or seven feet long, filled with
fascines, which the sapper sometimes rolls along before him for
protection from the fire of an enemy.
Sap`a*dil"lo (?), n. See Sapodila.
Sap"a*jo (?), n. (Zoöl.) The sapajou.
Sap"a*jou (?), n. [F. sapajou, sajou, Braz. sajuassu.] (Zoöl.) Any one
of several species of South American monkeys of the genus Cebus, having
long and prehensile tails. Some of the species are called also
capuchins. The bonnet sapajou (C. subcristatus), the golden-handed
sapajou (C. chrysopus), and the white-throated sapajou (C. hypoleucus)
are well known species. See Capuchin.
Sa*pan" wood (?). [Malay sapang.] (Bot.) A dyewood yielded by
Cæsalpinia Sappan, a thorny leguminous tree of Southern Asia and the
neighboring islands. It is the original Brazil wood. [Written also
sappan wood.]
Sap"ful (?), a. Abounding in sap; sappy.