a musical instrument of percussion, a tambourine. Sans′-appel′, a person from whose decision there is no appeal.- Sans nombre ( her.), repeated often, and covering the field Sans souci, without care: free and easy. the husband of a squaw: a brave.-Also Sann′op. one of the six great systems of orthodox Hindu philosophy. an administrative subdivision of a Turkish vilayet or eyalet.-Also San′jakāte. state of being sane: soundness of mind or body. San′itary-ware, coarse-glazed earthenware for sewer-pipes Sanitā′tion, the science of sanitary conditions and of preserving health, synonymous with Hygiene-usually restricted, however, to the methods and apparatus for making and maintaining houses healthy Sanitō′rium (incorrectly, Sanitā′rium), a health station, particularly for troops.- Sanitary science, such science as conduces to the preservation of health. Sanitā′rian, a promoter of sanitary reforms.- adv. pertaining to, tending, or designed to promote health.- n. a thin discharge from wounds or sores.- adj. a plant of the genus Sanicula, the common wood-sanicle long supposed to have healing power. the name of that portion of the Vedas which contains the Mantras or hymns. the supreme ecclesiastical and judicial tribunal of the Jews down to 425 A.D.: any similar assembly, a parliament. Sanhedrim, Sanhedrin, san′hē-drim, -drin, n. Sanguisū′gent, Sanguisū′gous, blood-sucking Sanguiv′olent, bloodthirsty Sanguiv′orous, feeding on blood, as a vampire-also Sanguiniv′orous. Sanguisorbā′ceæ, Sanguisor′beæ, a sub-order of Rosaceæ, containing about 150 species Sanguisū′ga, a genus of leeches.- adjs. Sanguin′olent, tinged with blood: sanguine.- ns. Sanguin′ity, sanguineness Sanguin′olence, Sanguin′olency.- adj. Sanguin′eous, sanguine: resembling or constituting blood.- ns. San′guineness, sanguine character, ardour: ruddiness: plethora.- adj. San′guinary, bloody: attended with much blood-shed: bloodthirsty.- n. Sanguinā′ria, a genus of the poppy family, one species, the Blood-root or Puccoon of North America, much used by the Indians for staining.- adv. Sanguic′olous, living in the blood, as a parasite Sanguif′erous, receiving and conveying blood, circulatory.- ns. Sang′sue, a leech-also Sang′uisuge.- adjs. abounding with blood, bloody: bloodthirsty: ruddy, red: ardent, hopeful, confident: characterised by a fullness of habit.- n. one who lets blood-from the leech in Gil Blas. in medieval legends, the holy cup supposed to have been used at the Last Supper.-Also Sang′real. a West Indian beverage, of wine, sugar or syrup, water, and nutmeg, drunk cold.- v.t. a stone breastwork: a low wall of loose stones, used as cover for soldiers. Sang-de-bœuf, a deep-red colour peculiar to Chinese porcelain. sound in mind or body: healthy: not disordered in intellect.- adv. Sand′wich-man, a man who perambulates the streets between two advertising boards. to lay or place between two layers, to fit tight between two objects.- n. two slices of bread with ham, &c., between, said to be named from the fourth Earl of Sandwich (1718-92), who had such brought to him at the gaming-table that he might play on without stopping.- v.t. the saline scum which forms on glass during its first fusion: glass-gall: product of glass-furnaces.-Also San′dever. a follower of Robert Sandeman (1718-71), a Glassite (q.v.). San′darac-tree, a native of the mountains of Morocco. a friable, dry, almost transparent, tasteless, yellowish-white resin, imported from Mogador, Morocco: red sulphuret of arsenic-also San′darach.- n. a compact and fine-grained tropical wood, remarkable for its fragrance. a long narrow boat used on the Barbary coast. San′dalled, wearing sandals: fastened with such. a kind of shoe consisting of a sole bound to the foot by straps: a loose slipper: a half-boot of white kid: a strap for fastening a slipper: an india-rubber shoe.- adj. Fāte, fär mē, hėr mīne mōte mūte mōōn then.
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