A variety of appliqué work for quilts, table covers, etc. Caulfeild & S. (Dict. of Needlework). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. sak, sek, AS. sacc, saecc, 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Biol.) See 2d Sac, 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

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Sack bearer (Zool.). See Basket worm, under Basket. --
Sack tree (Bot.), an East Indian tree (Antiaris saccidora) which is cut into lengths, and made into sacks by turning the bark inside out, and leaving a slice of the wood for a bottom. --
To give the sack to or
get the sack, to discharge, or be discharged, from employment; to jilt, or be jilted. [ Slang ] --
To hit the sack, to go to bed. [ Slang ] [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sack posset, a posset made of sack, and some other ingredients. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To put in a sack; to bag; as, to sack corn. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bolsters sacked in cloth, blue and crimson. L. Wallace. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. sac plunder, pillage, originally, a pack, packet, booty packed up, fr. L. saccus. See Sack a bag. ] The pillage or plunder, as of a town or city; the storm and plunder of a town; devastation; ravage. [ 1913 Webster ]

The town was stormed, and delivered up to sack, -- by which phrase is to be understood the perpetration of all those outrages which the ruthless code of war allowed, in that age, on the persons and property of the defenseless inhabitants, without regard to sex or age. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Sacked p. pr. & vb. n. Sacking. ] [ See Sack pillage. ] To plunder or pillage, as a town or city; to devastate; to ravage. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Romans lay under the apprehensions of seeing their city sacked by a barbarous enemy. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Same as Saddle-backed. [ 1913 Webster ]

Saddleback roof. (Arch.) See Saddle roof, under Saddle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Anything saddle-backed; esp., a hill or ridge having a concave outline at the top. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) (a) The harp seal. (b) The great blackbacked gull (Larus marinus). (c) The larva of a bombycid moth (Empretia stimulea) which has a large, bright green, saddle-shaped patch of color on the back. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Work or things made for sale; hence, work done carelessly or slightingly. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Turk. sanjāg. ] A district or a subvision of a vilayet. [ Turkey ] [ 1913 Webster ]

imp. of Sink. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. serce, syrce, a shirt; akin to Icel. serkr, Sw. särk. ] A shirt. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. (Carp.) To cover with sarking, or thin boards. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Mongolian sarlyk. ] (Zool.) The yak. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) The bark of a West African leguminous tree (Erythrophlaeum Guineense, used by the natives as an ordeal poison, and also medicinally; -- called also mancona bark. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A sawhorse. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. [ Colloq., from the Roman X for ten, like the support of a sawbuck. ] a ten-dollar bill; also,
double sawbuck, a twenty-dollar bill. [ PJC ]

n. (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of marine annelids of the family Polynoidae, and allies, which have two rows of scales, or elytra, along the back. See Illust. under Chaetopoda. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Sheik. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A book used in schools for learning lessons. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A skink. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A slunk calf. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A blank book in which extracts cut from books and papers may be pasted and kept. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A toy which imitates the sound of tearing cloth, -- used by drawing it across the back of unsuspecting persons. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Scratch coat. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Screaked p. pr. & vb. n. Screaking. ] [ Cf. Icel. skraekja to screech. Cf. Creak, v., Screech. ] To utter suddenly a sharp, shrill sound; to screech; to creak, as a door or wheel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A creaking; a screech; a shriek. Bp. Bull. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ . See Skulk, Skulker. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The seashore. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A bank or mole to defend against the sea. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. In a steamship, a cock or valve close to the vessel's side, for closing a pipe which communicates with the sea. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) (a) The black-bellied plover. (b) A gurnard, as the European red gurnard (Trigla pini). [ 1913 Webster ]

(Zool.) Any one of numerous species of ducks which frequent the seacoasts and feed mainly on fishes and mollusks. The scoters, eiders, old squaw, and ruddy duck are examples. They may be distinguished by the lobate hind toe. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Zool.) A jager gull. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Soap prepared for use in milling cloth. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Zool.) (a) The rock pipit (Anthus obscurus). (b) Any one of several small sandpipers and plovers, as the ringed plover, the turnstone, the dunlin, and the sanderling. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Any elevated object on land which serves as a guide to mariners; a beacon; a landmark visible from the sea, as a hill, a tree, a steeple, or the like. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Zool.) See Monk seal, under Monk. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) See Thrift. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Zool.) An American compound ascidian (Amoroecium stellatum) which forms large whitish masses resembling salt pork. [ 1913 Webster ]

Risk of injury, destruction, or loss by the sea, or while at sea. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Affected with seasickness. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Zool.) The bar-tailed godwit. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) See Wrack. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. sec, properly, dry, L. siccus. ] Barren; unprofitable. See Rent seck, under Rent. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Sick. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Sought p. pr. & vb. n. Seeking. ] [ OE. seken, AS. sēcan, sēcean; akin to OS. sōkian, LG. söken, D. zoeken, OHG. suohhan, G. suchen, Icel. saekja, Sw. söka, Dan. söge, Goth. sōkjan, and E. sake. Cf. Beseech, Ransack, Sagacious, Sake, Soc. ] 1. To go in search of; to look for; to search for; to try to find. [ 1913 Webster ]

The man saked him, saying, What seekest thou? And he said, I seek my brethren. Gen. xxxvii. 15, 16. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To inquire for; to ask for; to solicit; to beseech. [ 1913 Webster ]

Others, tempting him, sought of him a sign. Luke xi. 16. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at; as, to seek wealth or fame; to seek one's life. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to. [ 1913 Webster ]

Seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal. Amos v. 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

Since great Ulysses sought the Phrygian plains. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To make search or inquiry; to endeavor to make discovery. [ 1913 Webster ]

Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read. Isa. xxxiv. 16. [ 1913 Webster ]

To seek, needing to seek or search; hence, unprepared. “Unpracticed, unprepared, and still to seek.” Milton. [ Obs. ] --
To seek after, to make pursuit of; to attempt to find or take. --
To seek for, to endeavor to find. --
To seek to, to apply to; to resort to; to court. [ Obs. ] “All the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom.” 1 Kings x. 24. --
To seek upon, to make strict inquiry after; to follow up; to persecute. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To seek
Upon a man and do his soul unrest. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Arch.) Offset, n., 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A backset; a countercurrent; an eddy. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A reversal of progress in an endeavor; a reverse; a backset; a check; a repulse; a relapse. [ Colloq. U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Turk. tshāprāk, whence F. chabraque, G. shabracke. ] (Mil.) The saddlecloth or housing of a cavalry horse. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Prov. E., to shake, to shed. See Shake. ] 1. To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest. [ Prov. Eng. ] Grose. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To feed in stubble, or upon waste corn. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To wander as a vagabond or a tramp. [ Prev.Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Shack, v. i. ] a small simple dwelling, usually having only one room and of flimsy construction; a hut; a shanty; a cabin. [ Colloq. ]

n. [ Cf. Scot. shag refuse of barley or oats. ] 1. The grain left after harvest or gleaning; also, nuts which have fallen to the ground. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Liberty of winter pasturage. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp. [ Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S. ] Forby. [ 1913 Webster ]

All the poor old shacks about the town found a friend in Deacon Marble. H. W. Beecher. [ 1913 Webster ]

These miserable shacks are so low that their occupants cannot stand erect. D. C. Worcester. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Common of shack (Eng.Law), the right of persons occupying lands lying together in the same common field to turn out their cattle to range in it after harvest. Cowell. [ 1913 Webster ]