saccus 
cut under Elasmobranchii. Saccus vitelltnus, the vi- 
telline sac, that part of the yolk-sac which hangs out 
of the body of an embryo anil forms the navel-sac, or um- 
bilical vesicle. =Syn. See sac*. 
sacellum (sil-sel'um), .; pi. sacella (-a). 
L. taeeUum,' dim. of sacrum, a holy thing or 
5291 
This letter, written on paper of vellum-like appearance, 
was put in an envelope and sealed with the armorial bear- 
ings of the Sultan, and the whole enclosed in a crimson 
cloth sachet or bag, somewhat resembling a lady's small 
reticule, richly embroidered in gold. 
Quoted in First Year of a Silken Reign, p. 242. 
S"^,^n"Beoted;-'dedteated: sachet-powder ( sa-sha' P ou"der), ,, Powdered that is, a sort 
' 
sack 
My wife this day put on first her r?rench gown called a 
sac, which becomes ner very well. 
Pepys, Diary, March 2, 1668. 
Madame I'Ambassadrice de Venue in a green sack with 
a straw hat. Walpole, Letters, II. 115. 
An old-fashioned gowu.which Ithink ladies call a 
, 
see sacrei, sacred.'] In Bom. antiq., a small in- perfume for use in sachets. 
eroseTspa'c^thoutaro"of,conseCTatedtosome sacheverel (sa-chev'e-rel), . [After Dr. Sa- 
deitv, containing an altar, and sometimes also chererel.] An iron door or blower tor the moutn 
a statue of the god. 
sacerdocyt (sas'er-do-si), M. 
f a stove. Salliwell. 
gathered into broad plaits upor 
which fall down to the ground, and terminate in a species 
of train. Scott, Tapestried Chamber. 
(&t) The loose straight back itself. The term 
seems to have been used in this sense in the 
[< F. sacerdoce, < sack 1 (sak), n. [< ME. sak, sac, sek, seek, sech, eighteentn century. 5. [Also spelled sacque.] 
CVUCl UUV/J T \. o< * Oi-viVf-D*./) rft \ -fj _L - 
L. sacerdotiiim, the priesthood, < sacerdos (sa- sack, < AS. sax, sxcc,sacc = D. zak = 
eerdot-) a priest: see sacerdotal] Sacerdotal sak, LG. sak, sack = OHG. MHG. sac, G. sack 
svstem , priestly character or order. = *-* * f |p = Pg .Ta/ot Ft .^ 
= Olr. Gael, sac = W. sach, sack, = Bulg. Serv. 
rionem. roi. saK = rvuss. #/, a uag-ucL, = 
Hung, szdk = Albanian sak (OBulg. dim. sakulu 
= Lith. sakvele = NGr. atuutobM), < L. saccus 
system; priestly 
The temporal Sceptre (as we have shown) departing from 
Judah, he being both Priest and Sacriflcer too, their sacer- 
docy and sacrifice were brought to an end. 
Evelyn, True Eeligion, II. 56. 
sacerdotal (sas-er-do'tal), a. [< OF. (and F.) 
sacerdotal = Pr. Sp. Pg. sacerdotal = It. sacer- = Goth, sakkus, < Gr. aavtoc., a bag, sack, also 
dotale, < L. sacerdotalis, of or pertaining to a sackcloth, a garment of sackcloth ; < Heb. saq, 
priest, < sacerdos (sacerdol-) (> AS. sacerd), a Chald. sak, a sack for corn, stuff made of hair- 
priest, lit. 'presenter of offerings or sacred cloth, sackcloth; prob. of Egyptian origin ; cf. 
gifts,' < sacer, sacred, + dare, give (> dos (dot-), Coptic sok = Ethiopian sak, sackcloth. The 
a dowry: see dot 2 , dower"*): see socrc 1 and wide diffusion of the word is prob. due to the 
date 1 .] Of or pertaining to priests or the priest- incident in the story of Joseph in which the 
hood; priestly: as, sacerdotal dignity; sacerdo- cu p W as hidden in the sack of corn (see Gen. 
till functions or garments ; sacerdotal character, xliv.).] 1. A bag; especially, a large bag, 
A kind of jacket or short coat, cut round at the 
bottom, fitting the body more or less closely, 
worn at the present day by both men and wo- 
men: as, a sealskin sack; a sacfc-coat. 
As for his dress, it was of the simplest kind : a summer 
Bohem. Pol. sak = Buss, saku, a bag-net, = k , h J ordinary material; thin checkered pan- 
TT fi n ; ~..7. //~vr..i~ !:... .,/.,,',, * *r__ _. - t .1,. .:...,..* i, ,...;.! 
.. . 
was designed by his father to a usually made of coarse hempen or linen cloth. 
(See sackcloth.) Sacks are used to contain 
Duke Valentine . . 
sacerdotal profession. 
Bacon, Advancement of Learning, 11. 333. 
The countries where sacerdotal instruction alone is per- 
mitted remain in ignorance. 
Goldsmith, Citizen of the World, Ixxv. 
Cut off by sacerdotal ire 
From every sympathy that Man bestowed I 
Wordsworth, Eccles. Sonnets, L t. 
sacerdotalism (sas-er-do'tal-izm), n. [< sacer- 
dotal + -ism.] The sacerdotal system or spirit ; 
the methods or spirit of the priesthood ; devo- 
tion to the interests or system of the priest- 
hood ; in a bad sense, priestcraft. 
It is to be hoped that those Nonconformists who are so 
fond of pleading for grace to the Establishment on grounds 
of expediency, because of the good work it is doing, or be- 
cause of the comprehensiveness of its policy, or, strangest 
of all, because of the bulwark against sacerdotalism which 
it maintains, will lay these pregnant words to heart. 
British Quarterly Rev., LXXXIII. 109. 
sacerdotalist (sas-er-do'tal-ist), n. [< sacerdo- 
taloons, and a straw hat, by no means of the finest braid. 
Hawthorne, Seven Gables, iii. 
A large-boned woman, dressed in a homespun stuff pet- 
ticoat with a short, loose sack of the same material, ap- 
peared at the door. H. B. Stowe, Oldtown, p. 206. 
6. In anat. and zool., a sac or saccule TO get 
the sack, to be dismissed from employment, or rejected 
as a suitor. [Slang.] 
I say I wonder what old Fogg 'ud say, if he knew it. I 
should get the sack, I s'pose eh? Dickens, Pickwick, zz. 
He is no longer an officer of this gaol ; he has got the 
sack and orders to quit into the bargain. 
C. Reade, Never too Late, xxvi. 
To give one the Back, to dismiss one from employment, 
I lOtJC B(*Wvl/iVW I k_it*v;iXQ cv\j uw** irw v. * j. v &I.T*> wuv w*v wvu, - -- 
grain, flour, salt, etc., potatoes and other vege- especially to dismiss one summarily ; discharge or re 
tables, and coal. 
One of the peasants untied closely [secretly] a sack of 
walnuttes. Coryat, Crudities, I. 21. 
Tho' you wud gie me as much red gold 
As I could hand in a sack. 
Lambert Linkin (Child's Ballads, III. 104). 
2. A unit of dry measure. English statutes pre- sack 1 (sak), v. t. 
vious to American Independence fixed the sack of flour 
and meal at 5 bushels or 280 pounds, that of salt at 5 
bushels, that of coal at 3 bushels (the sacks to mea- 
sure 50 by 26 inches), and that of wool at 3} hundred- 
weight or 364 pounds. Since 1870 the British sack has 
been 4 imperial bushels. Locally, sacks of 2, 3, 3J, and 
4 bushels were used as measures in England. The sack 
has been a widely diffused unit, varying in different coun- 
tries, from 2 to 4 Winchester bushels. Thus, it was equal 
to 2 such bushels at Florence, Leghorn, Leyden, Middel- 
burg, Tournon, etc.; to 2J at Zealand and Beaumont; to 
2J at Haarlem, Goes, Geneva, Bayonne ; to 2| at Amster- 
dam- to 2i at Agen, Utrecht, etc.; to 2J at Dort and 
Montauban ; to 2j at Granada and Emden ; to 2J at Ghent ; 
Whenever you please, you can give him the sack! 
Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, II. 249. 
The short way would have been ... to have requested 
him immediately to quit the house : or, as Mr. Gann said, 
"to give him the sack at once." 
Thackeray, Shabby Genteel Story, v. 
[< ME. sacken (= MD. sacken, 
' j j. T MOIlvH.ll Dilll W) 3 HI uliilliiUit ami -Eiiiiucii , iv *.g t*v WBHVW . 
tal + -int.'] A supporter of sacerdotalism ; one to 3 at strasburg, Kotterdam, The Hague, and in Flanders 
who believes in the priestly character of the 
(the common sack) ; to 8J at Brussels ; and to 3J at Basel. 
The sack of Hamburg was nearly 6 bushels, that of Tou- 
lon still greater, while the sack of Paris, used for plaster, 
was under a bushel. 
Last Week 6 Sacks of Cocoa Nuts were seiz'd by a Cus- 
tom House Officer, being brought up to Town for so many 
sacks of Beans. London Post, April 14, 1704. 
3f. Sackcloth; sacking. 
For forty days in sack and ashes fast. 
Greene and Lodge, Looking Glass for Lend, and Eng. 
Wearing nothing about him but a shirt of sacke, a paire 
of shooes, and a haire cappe onely. 
Hakluyt's Voyages, I. 20. 
The son of Nvn then . . . 
Before the Ark In prostrate wise appeares. 
Sack on his back, dust on his head, his eyes 
Even great with teares. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas'a Weeks, ii., The Captaines. 
4. [Also spelled sacque.] (a) A gown of a 
clergy. 
sacerdotalize (sas-er-do'tal-Iz), v. t. ; pret. 
and pp. sacerdotalized, ppr. sacerdotalizing. [< 
sacerdotal + -ize.] To render sacerdotal. 
Some system of actual observance, some system of cus- 
tom or usage, must lie behind them [the sacred laws of the 
Hindus] ; and it is a very plausible conjecture that it was 
not unlike the existing very imperfectly sacerdotalized 
customary law of the Hindus in the Punjab. 
Maine, Early Law and Custom, p. 26. 
sacerdotally (sas-er-do'tal-i), adv. In a sacer- 
dotal manner. 
sacerdotism (sas'er-do-tizm), n. [< L. sacerdos 
(sacerdot-), a priest, '+ -ism.] Same as sacer- 
dotalism. 
sachelt, An obsolete form of satchel. 
sachem (sa'ehem), . [Massachusetts Ind. Cf . 
sagamore.] 1. A chief among some tribes of 
American Indians ; a sagamore. 
The Massachusets call . . . their Kings Sachemes. 
Capt. John Smith, Works (ed. Arber), p. 939. 
They [the Indians] . . . made way for y coming of 
their great Sachem, called Massasoyt. 
Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc., 4th ser., III. 94. 
But their sachem, the brave Wattawamat, 
Fled not; he was dead. Longfellow, Miles Standish, vii. 
2. One of a body of high officials in the Tam- 
many Society of New York city. The sachems 
proper number twelve, and the head of the so- 
ciety is styled grand sachem. 
sachemdom (sa'chem-dum), n. [< sachem + 
-dom.] The government or jurisdiction of a 
sachem. 
sachemic (sa'chem-ik), a. [< sachem + -ic.] 
Of or pertaining to a sachem. Stand. Nat. 
Hint., VI. 163. [Rare.] 
sachemship (s&'ohem-ship), n. [< sachem + 
-ship.] The office or position of a sachem. 
sachet (sa-sha'), n. [< F. sachet (= Pr. saquet 
= Sp. Pt>. xiiqttete = It. sacchetto), dim. of .<, 
a bag: see sack 1 . Cf. sachel, satchel.] A small 
bag, usually embroidered or otherwise orna- 
mented, containing a perfume in the form of seven teenth century, and continued to be fash- 
powder, or some perfumed substance; also, a i orja i}i e throughout the greater part of the eigh- 
D. zakken = G. sacken = Icel. sekka) ; < sacfc 1 , 
.] 1. To put into sacks or bags, for preser- 
vation or transportation: as, to sacfc grain or 
salt. 
The mele is sakked and ybounde. 
Chaucer, Eeeve's Tale, 1. 150. 
2. To inclose as in a bag; cover or incase as 
with a sack. 
And also sack it in your glove. 
The Elfin Knight (Child's Ballads, I. 130). 
At the corners they placed pillows and bolsters lacked 
in cloth blue and crimson. L. Wallace, Ben-Hur, p. 253. 
3. To heap or pile as by sackfuls. [Rare.] 
I fly from tyrant he, whose heart more hard than flint 
Hath sack'd on me such hugy heaps of ceaseless sorrows 
That sure it is intolerable the torments that I bear. 
Peele, Sir Clyomon and Sir Clamydes. 
4. To give the sack or bag to; discharge or 
dismiss from office, employment, etc. ; also, to 
reject the suit of: as, to sacfc a lover. [Slang.] 
Ah ! she 's a good kind creetur' ; there 's no pride in her 
whatsumever and she never sacks her servants. 
Mayhew, London Labour and London Poor, II. 533. 
sack 2 (sak), n. [< F. sac = Sp. saco = Pg. saco, 
sacco, saque = It. sacco, sack, plunder, pillage ; 
ult. < L. saccus, a bag, sack (see sacfc 1 ), but the 
precise connection is uncertain. In one view, 
it is through a particular use of the verb repre- 
small cushion or some similar object, the stuffing 
of which is strongly perfumed, placed among 
articles of dress, etc. 
_. t -,. , ... sentedbyE. sacfc 1 , 'put into a bag,' and hence, 
peculiar form which was first introduced from j{ mav \, e supposed, 'conceal and take away' 
France into England toward the close of the / c f bag 1 , and pocket, in similar uses); but no 
such use of the OF. and ML. verb appears, the 
Rom. verbs meaning ' sack' being secondary 
forms, depending on the noun (see sacfc 1 , r., sac- 
cage,v.); besides, the town or people 'sacked' 
is not ' put into a bag.' The origin is partly in 
the OF. "a sac, a sac, the word whereby a 
commander authorizeth his souldiers to sack 
a place or people" (Cotgrave), = It. a sacco, 
" asaceo, asaccomano, to the spoile, to the sacke, 
ransakt" (Florio) the exhortation a sac, It. 
a sacco, 'to plunder,' prob. meaning orig. 'to 
bag! ' i. e. fill your pouches (OF. sac = It. sacco, 
a bag, pouch, wallet, sack: see sacfc 1 , .); and 
partly in the Sp. sacomano, a plunderer, also 
sack, plunder, pillage, = It. saeeomano, a plun- 
derer, freebooter, scout, soldier's servant, also 
plunder; < ML. saccomannus, a plunderer, sac- 
eomannum, plunder, < MHG. sackman, a sol- 
dier's servant, camp-servant (sackman machen, 
plunder), lit. 'sack-man,' one who carries a 
sack, < sacfc, = E. sacfc, + man = E. man.] 1. 
The plundering of a city or town after storm- 
ing and capture ; plunder; pillage: as, the ./, 
of Magdeburg. 
The people of God were moved, . . . having beheld the 
tack and combustion of his sanctuary in most lamentable 
manner flaming before their eyes. 
Hooker, Eccles. Polity, vii. 7. 
Woman wearing a Sack (middle of the igth century). 
teenth century. It had a loose back, not held by a 
girdle or shaped into the waist, but hanging in straight 
plaits from the neck-band. See Watteau. 
