n. [ Sp. cebadilla. ] (Bot.) A Mexican liliaceous plant (Schoenocaulon officinale); also, its seeds, which contain the alkaloid veratrine. It was formerly used in medicine as an emetic and purgative. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. Same as Sabian. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Sabianism. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. See Sabianism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A genus of palm trees including the palmetto of the Southern United States. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. [ Heb. tsebā'ōth, pl. of tsābā', an army or host, fr. tsābā', to go forth to war. ] 1. Armies; hosts. [ Used twice in the English Bible, in the phrase “The Lord of Sabaoth.” ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Incorrectly, the Sabbath. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Sabbath. ] In mediaeval demonology, the nocturnal assembly in which demons and sorcerers were thought to celebrate their orgies. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. Sabbatarius: cf. F. sabbataire. See Sabbath. ] 1. One who regards and keeps the seventh day of the week as holy, agreeably to the letter of the fourth commandment in the Decalogue. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ There were Christians in the early church who held this opinion, and certain Christians, esp. the Seventh-day Baptists, hold it now. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A strict observer of the Sabbath. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the Sabbath, or the tenets of Sabbatarians. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The tenets of Sabbatarians. Bp. Ward (1673). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. sabat, sabbat, F. sabbat, L. sabbatum, Gr. sa`bbaton, fr. Heb. shabbāth, fr. shābath to rest from labor. Cf. Sabbat. ] 1. A season or day of rest; one day in seven appointed for rest or worship, the observance of which was enjoined upon the Jews in the Decalogue, and has been continued by the Christian church with a transference of the day observed from the last to the first day of the week, which is called also Lord's Day. [ 1913 Webster ]

Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Ex. xx. 8. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The seventh year, observed among the Israelites as one of rest and festival. Lev. xxv. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Fig.: A time of rest or repose; intermission of pain, effort, sorrow, or the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

Peaceful sleep out the sabbath of the tomb. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sabbath breaker, one who violates the law of the Sabbath. --
Sabbath breaking, the violation of the law of the Sabbath. --
Sabbath-day's journey, a distance of about a mile, which, under Rabbinical law, the Jews were allowed to travel on the Sabbath. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Sabbath, Sunday. Sabbath is not strictly synonymous with Sunday. Sabbath denotes the institution; Sunday is the name of the first day of the week. The Sabbath of the Jews is on Saturday, and the Sabbath of most Christians on Sunday. In New England, the first day of the week has been called “the Sabbath, ” to mark it as holy time; Sunday is the word more commonly used, at present, in all parts of the United States, as it is in England. “So if we will be the children of our heavenly Father, we must be careful to keep the Christian Sabbath day, which is the Sunday.” Homilies. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without Sabbath, or intermission of labor; hence, without respite or rest. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Gr. &unr_;: cf. F. sabbatique. ] Of or pertaining to the Sabbath; resembling the Sabbath; enjoying or bringing an intermission of labor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sabbatical year (Jewish Antiq.), every seventh year, in which the Israelites were commanded to suffer their fields and vineyards to rest, or lie without tillage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. sabbatismus, Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to keep the Sabbath: cf. F. sabbatisme. See Sabbath. ] Intermission of labor, as upon the Sabbath; rest. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Sp. zapaton, a large shoe, F. sabot a wooden shoe. ] A round-toed, armed covering for the feet, worn during a part of the sixteenth century in both military and civil dress. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. Same as Sabian. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Sabianism. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. L. sabulum gravel. ] (Zool.) A genus of tubicolous annelids having a circle of plumose gills around the head. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to the doctrines or tenets of Sabellius. See Sabellian, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eccl. Hist.) A follower of Sabellius, a presbyter of Ptolemais in the third century, who maintained that there is but one person in the Godhead, and that the Son and Holy Spirit are only different powers, operations, or offices of the one God the Father. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eccl.) The doctrines or tenets of Sabellius. See Sabellian, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Sabella + -oid. ] (Zool.) Like, or related to, the genus Sabella. -- Sa*bel"loid, n. [1913 Webster]

a. [ L. Sabaeus. ] [ Written also Sabean, and Sabaean. ] 1. Of or pertaining to Saba in Arabia, celebrated for producing aromatic plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Relating to the religion of Saba, or to the worship of the heavenly bodies. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An adherent of the Sabian religion; a worshiper of the heavenly bodies. [ Written also Sabaean, and Sabean. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The doctrine of the Sabians; the Sabian religion; that species of idolatry which consists in worshiping the sun, moon, and stars; heliolatry. [ Written also Sabaeanism. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. The very hard wood of a leguminous West Indian tree (Lysiloma Sabicu), valued for shipbuilding. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. Sabinus. ] Of or pertaining to the ancient Sabines, a people of Italy. -- n. One of the Sabine people. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. L. Sabina herba, fr. Sabini the Sabines. Cf. Savin. ] (Bot.) See Savin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. sable, F. zibeline sable (in sense 4), LL. sabellum; cf. D. sabel, Dan. sabel, zobel, Sw. sabel, sobel, G. zobel; all fr. Russ. sóbole. ] 1. (Zool.) A carnivorous animal of the Weasel family (Mustela zibellina) native of the northern latitudes of Europe, Asia, and America, -- noted for its fine, soft, and valuable fur. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The sable resembles the marten, but has a longer head and ears. Its fur consists of a soft under wool, with a dense coat of hair, overtopped by another still longer. It varies greatly in color and quality according to the locality and the season of the year. The darkest and most valuable furs are taken in autumn and winter in the colder parts of Siberia, Russia, and British North America. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The American sable, or marten, was formerly considered a distinct species (Mustela Americana), but it differs very little from the Asiatic sable, and is now considered only a geographical variety. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The fur of the sable. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A mourning garment; a funeral robe; -- generally in the plural. “Sables wove by destiny.” Young. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Her.) The tincture black; -- represented by vertical and horizontal lines crossing each other. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of the color of the sable's fur; dark; black; -- used chiefly in poetry. [ 1913 Webster ]

Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne,
In rayless majesty, now stretches forth
Her leaden scepter o'er a slumbering world. Young. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sable antelope (Zool.), a large South African antelope (Hippotragus niger). Both sexes have long, sharp horns. The adult male is black; the female is dark chestnut above, white beneath. --
Sable iron, a superior quality of Russia iron; -- so called because originally stamped with the figure of a sable. --
Sable mouse (Zool.), the lemming. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Sabled p. pr. & vb. n. Sabling ] To render sable or dark; to drape darkly or in black. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sabled all in black the shady sky. G. Fletcher. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] 1. A kind of wooden shoe worn by the peasantry in France, Belgium, Sweden, and some other European countries. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mil.) A thick, circular disk of wood, to which the cartridge bag and projectile are attached, in fixed ammunition for cannon; also, a piece of soft metal attached to a projectile to take the groove of the rifling. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] 1. (a) Scamped work. (b) Malicious waste or destruction of an employer's property or injury to his interests by workmen during labor troubles.

2. any surreptitious destruction of property or obstruction of activity by persons not known to be hostile; -- in war, such actions carried out behind enemy lines by agents or local sympathisers of the hostile power. [ PJC ]

‖n. [ F. ] A kind of freezer for ices. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ F. sabre, G. säbel; of uncertain origin; cf. Hung. száblya, Pol. szabla, Russ. sabla, and L. Gr. zabo`s crooked, curved. ] A sword with a broad and heavy blade, thick at the back, and usually more or less curved like a scimiter; a cavalry sword. [ 1913 Webster ]

Saber fish, or
Sabre fish (Zool.), the cutlass fish. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ }, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Sabered r Sabred p. pr. & vb. n. Sabering or Sabring ] [ Cf. F. sabrer. ] To strike, cut, or kill with a saber; to cut down, as with a saber. [ 1913 Webster ]

You send troops to saber and bayonet us into submission. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. & v. See Saber. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ }, n. (Zool.) The curlew. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. sabretache, G. säbeltasche; säbel saber + tasche a pocket. ] (Mil.) A leather case or pocket worn by cavalry at the left side, suspended from the sword belt. Campbell (Dict. Mil. Sci.). [ 1913 Webster ]

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

a. [ L. sabulosus, from sabulum, sabulo, sand. ] (Bot.) Growing in sandy places. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being sabulous; sandiness; grittiness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. sabulosus. ] Sandy; gritty. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. saquebute, OF. saqueboute a sackbut, earlier, a sort of hook attached to the end of a lance used by foot soldiers to unhorse cavalrymen; prop. meaning, pull and push; fr. saquier, sachier, to pull, draw (perhaps originally, to put into a bag or take out from a bag; see Sack a bag) + bouter to push (see Butt to thrust). The name was given to the musical instrument from its being lengthened and shortened. ] (Mus.) A brass wind instrument, like a bass trumpet, so contrived that it can be lengthened or shortened according to the tone required; -- said to be the same as the trombone. [ Written also sagbut. ] Moore (Encyc. of Music). [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The sackbut of the Scriptures is supposed to have been a stringed instrument. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being offered in sacrifice. [ R. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the sacrum and that part of the vertebral column immediately anterior to it; as, the sacrovertebral angle. [ 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 ]

a. 1. Having the outline of the upper part concave like the seat of a saddle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having a low back and high neck, as a horse. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. Bags, usually of leather, united by straps or a band, formerly much used by horseback riders to carry small articles, one bag hanging on each side. [ 1913 Webster ]