sack 
In deede he wanne it [the towne] and put it to the sacke. 
Puttenltam, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 217. 
From her derived to Helen, and at the sack of Troy un- 
fortunately lost. B. Jonson, Volpone, ii. 1. 
The city was sure to be delivered over to fire, sack, and 
outrage. Motley, Dutch Republic, IT. 70. 
2. The plunder or booty so obtained; spoil; loot. 
Everywhere 
He found the sack and plunder of our house 
All scatter'd thro' the houses of the town. 
Tennyson, Geraint. 
5292 
has been unfortunately used in Dan. iii. to translate sab- 
beta, which seems to have been a stringed instrument. 
Compare sambuke. 
The trumpets, sackbuts, psalteries, and fifes . . . 
Make the Bun dance. Shak., Cor., v. 4. 52. 
The Hoboy, Saybut deepe. Recorder, and the Flute. 
Drayton, Polyolbion, iv. 366. 
Alv. You must not look to have your dinner served in 
with trumpets. 
Car. No, no, sack-buts shall serve us. 
Middleton, Spanish Gypsy, ii. 1. 
ing and taking: as, to sack a house or a town. 
Burghers were fleeced, towns were now and then sacked, 
and Jews were tortured for their money. 
U. Spencer, Social Statics, p. 462. 
On Oct. 12, 1702, Sir George Booke burnt the French and 
Spanish shipping in Vigo, and sacked the town. 
J. Ashtan, Social Life in Reign of Queen Anne, II. 206. 
Chittore was thrice besieged and thrice sacked by the 
Mahomedans. J. Fergusson, Hist. Indian Arch., p. 410. 
sacra 
suit, accusation, + -Jctia, E. -less : see sake and 
-Jess.] 1. Guiltless; innocent; free from fault 
or blame. 
It ware worthy to be schrede and schrynede in golde, 
ffor it es salcles of syne, sa helpe me cure Lorde ! 
Morte Arthlire (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3993. 
"O, is this water deep," he said, 
"As it is wondrous dun? 
Or is it sic as a eaikless maid 
And a leal true knicht may swim ? " 
Sir Roland (Child's Ballads, I. 226). 
How she was abandoned to herself, or whether she was 
sackless o' the sinfu' deed, God in Heaven knows. 
Scott, Heart of Mid-Lothian, v. 
2. Guileless; simple. 
'Gainst slander's blast 
Truth doth the silly sackless soul defend. 
Greene, Isabel's Sonnet. 
sack 3 t (sak), 
[Also rarely geek (cf. MD. 
worn as a sign of grief, humiliation, or peni- 
tence ; hence, the garb of mourning or penance. 
Thrise every weeke in ashes shee did silt, 
And next her wrinkled skin rough sackecloth wore. 
Spenser, F. Q., I. iii. 14. 
Gird you with sackcloth and mourn before Abner. 
2 Sam. Iii. 31. 
He swears 
Never to wash his face, nor cut his hairs ; 
He puts on sackcloth, and to sea. 
5Ao*., Pericles, iv. 4. 
sackwijn); < F. see' dry (vin sec, dry wine), = sackclothed (sak'kldtht), a. [< sackcloth + 
Sp. seco = Pg. secco = It. secco (vino secco, dry -edft.~\ Clothed in sackcloth ; penitent; humili- 
wine), < L. siccus, dry; root uncertain.] On- ated. 
ginally, one of the strong light-colored wines To be jovial when God calls to mourning toglitter ..^"C'lT 1'i.V T" "?l'i,\ 
brought to England from the south, as from when hi would have us 8a ^ c fofA'd and squalid , he hatls sack-moth (sak moth), n. Same as sack-bearer. 
Spain and the Canary Islands, especially those it to the death. Bp. Hall, Remains, p. 69. (Latham.) sack-packer (sak pak"er), . In milling, a ma- 
which were dry and rough. These were often sack-coat (sak'kot), n. See coa&, 2. chine for automatically weighing out a deter- 
sweeteued, and mixed with eggs and other ingredients, sack-doodle (sak'dS'dl), v. i [< "sackdoodle mil ? ed quantity of flour, forcing it into a flour- 
to make a sort of punch. The name sweet sack was then , s ..,.. . flnnrllmafle 1 Trv T>laTr thn 1,0 / sack, and releasing the full sack, 
given to wines of similar strength and color, but requiring "j-f ""2*!" ' bag " Sackpipe (sak'pip), . Same as bagpipe. 
sr^trs^^rastfAss: c&dS3i),. c< *i + -*] wearing "Bp^t'Sfcty*- ***** 
wines from the south, as distinguished from Ehenish on a garment called a sack.- sacked friar a monk ? ack > T / wlthollt mixture of ale : formerly 
who wore a coarse upper garment^!!*! a SSSLL These hl """"" 1 "" *"""""'" "" """** ^ 
And many sacklesse wights and praty barnes run through 
the tender weambs. 
Xashe, Lenten Stuffe (Harl. Misc., VI. 163). 
[Obsolete or dialectal in both senses.] 
Folk-free and sackless. See /oik-free. 
sack-lifter (sak'lifter), n. Any device for lift- 
ing or raising a sack filled with grain, salt, etc. 
It may be a rack and pinion attached to a stationary frame 
or to a hand-truck to raise the sack to a height convenient 
for carrying, or simply a clutch or a rope to seize the 
gathered end of the bag. 
the one hand and red wines on the other. 
Will 't please your lordship drink a cup of sack? 
Shak., T. of the S., Ind., ii. 3. 

friars made their appearance in England about the mid- 
dle of the thirteenth century. 
For claret and sack they did not lack, So bene Augustyns and Cordylers 
So drank themselves good friends. And Cannes and eke sacked freers, 
Quoted in Child's Ballads, V. 211. And alle freres shodde and bare. 
He and I immediately to set out, having drunk a draught Rom - S * ROM, 1. 7460. 
of mulled sacke. p epye , Diary, II. 313. sack-emptier (sak'emp*ti-er), n. A contrivance Sack-pot (sak'pot), n 
Burnt sack, mulled sack. 
Pedro. Let's slip into a tavern for an hour; frame or support for holding the sack, with 
(7& V yl Content; there is one hard by. mechanism for raising and inverting it for the 
A quart of burnt sack will recover us. discharge of its contents. 
Beau, and FL, Coxcomb, i. 3. Backer 1 (sak'er), n. [< sncfcl + -er 1 .] 1. One 
Sherrls-sack, the white wine of the south of Spain, prac- who makes or fills sacks. 2. A machine for 
brewed customarily on a wedding-night. 
I must needs tell you she composes a sack-posset well. 
B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, ii. 1. 
Then my wife and I, it being a great frost, went to Mrs. 
Jem's, in expectation to eat a sack-posset, but, Mr. Edward 
not coming, it was put otf. Pepys, Diary, I. 5. 
A small vessel like a jug 
IUVA KA4AL/VAVX yotvifc wuftu I -^i /,'* ii Wii Ul OliiVC / 1 ., %.!.. In 1, " 
for emptying sacks, consisting essentially of a ? r P ltcher . wlth a globular body, made of yellow- 
ish earthenware, and covered with a white stan- 
niferous glaze. These pots often bear an inscribed 
word, as "sack," "claret," or"whit"(forwhite wine), and 
sometimes are dated, but not later than the seventeenth 
, 
tically the same as sherris or sherry. 
A good sherris-sack hath a two-fold operation in it 
Shak., 2 Hen. IV., iv. 3. 104. 
Sweet sack. See above. 
century. They are rarely more than 8 inches high, and 
were probably used for drawing wine direct from the cask. 
filling sacks Backer and weigher, in milling, a de- sack-race (sak'ras), i. A race in which the legs 
ry v wi n>cvnt:A ctuu w Gi&uci , i n tt*tt/tj/, n UG- 
vice for holding a sack to the spout of an elevator and 
weighing the grain or flour by means of a steelyard as the 
bag is filled. When the required weight is in the bag, 
sackage(sak'aj),. [Also saccage ; <F.saccage the steelyard cuts off the supply automatically. 
(ML. saccagium), pillaging, < sac, pillage: see Backer' 2 (sak'er), n. [< sack% + -crl.j 
sofifc 2 .] The act of taking by storm and with w ^ sacks or plunders a house or a town. 
One 
king by storm 
pillage; sack; plundering. 
sacker 8 , 
See saker 2 . 
by th 
turned to 
of Pope Innocent had not diuerted tliei'r purpose. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 405. 
sackaget, v. t. [MD. snckageren, < F. saccager 
(= It. saccheggiare, ML. saccagere), 
saccage, pillaging: see sackage, .] 
pillage. 
Those songs of the dolorous discomfits in battaile, and 
other desolations in warre, or of townes saccayed and sub- 
uerted, were song by the remnant of the army ouer- 
throwen, with great skdkings and outcries. 
Putlenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie (ed. Arberfc p. 63. 
. 
pillage, < 
To sack; 
of the contestants are incased in sacks gathered 
at the top and tied around the body, 
lack-tree (sak'tre), n. An East Indian tree, 
Antiaris toxicaria, specifically identical with 
the upas-tree, though formerly separated and 
known as A. iniioxia, A. saccidora, etc. Lengths 
of its bark after soaking and beating are turned inside out 
without splitting, and used as a sack, a section of wood 
being left as a bottom. 
sack-Winged (sak'wingd), . Noting the bats 
Bent of the genus Saccoptcryx (which see). 
on sacking or plundering; pillaging; ravaging, saclesst, a. See sackless. 
Now will I sing the iacltfuU troopes Pelasgian Argos held. SacodeS (sa-ko'dez), . [NL. (Le Conte, 1853), 
< Gr. a&Kof, a shield, + eliof, form.] A genus 
of beetles of the family 
As much 
sackfu! 2 t (sak'ful), . 
sackalever, . Seesaccokva. 
sack-barrow (sak'bar"6), n. A kind of bar- 
row much used for moving sacks in granaries 
or on barn-floors from one point to another, salt, of the like, "consisting of a "standarcTsupI 
and for loading goods m ships. See cut under porting a ring with a serrated edge. 
WCA". cant-in ! fao'\r f \-nf\ IV o,7.1 J_ .fagl 1 A 
Chapman, Iliad, ii. 601. 
sack-hoist (sak'hoist), n. An adaptation of 
the wheel and axle to form a continuous hoist 
for raising sacks and bales in warehouses. The 
wheel is turned by an endless chain, while the hoisting- 
gear is passed over the axle, either raising the weight at 
one side and descending simultaneously for a new load 
at the other, or being simply wound on a drum. 
sack-holder (sak'hol'der), ?i. One who or that 
which holds a sack; specifically, a device for 
holding a sack open for the reception of grain, 
sacking 
sack-bearer (sak'baV'er), . Any bombycid coarse fabric of he'mp or flax, of which sacks, 
m p, iW * he * amll y f3E** <to ' wh ? se la Pa car- bags, etc., are made : also used for other pur- 
ries for protection a silken case to which bits poses where strength ' ' 
fir crvnoa I o a \rfic- f\i* 4-in^t^a n-n<-> J-4- nn 'U n J - _ T " 
i^ V'V,,n rAi / j. ., , 
(sak but), n. [Also sacbut, sagbut; < 
l.saquebute, OF. saqueboute, sacheboute, a sack- 
Getting upon the sacking of the bedstead, I looked over 
the head-board minutely at the second casement 
Poe, Murders in the Rue Morgue. 
Cyphonidae, erected by Le- 
conte for three North 
American forms having the 
last joint of the maxillary 
palpi acute, antennas sub- 
serrate, body regularly el- 
liptical, moderately con- 
vex, and the thorax semi- 
circular, produced over the 
head, and strongly reflexed 
at the margin, as S. thoru- 
cica. The group is now in- 
cluded in the larger genus 
Helodes. 
are re ' Sacoglossa (sak-o-glos'a), 
n. pi. Same as Sacoglossx. 
" a/ ' ashle 
rsak-o fflos'fi'l n nl TNT, < Or 
,K-O gios e), n.pl. LL,., <. btr. 
to " ue- 
but OF. sacheboute, ML. sacabuta, a kind of sacking2 (sak'ing), n. [Verbal n. of sack* r ] ^ nba . u f, s fy stenl . f classification, a division 
pike) = Sp. sacab tt che (naut.), also sackbut, The act of plundering ol ; pillaging, after stoi- t opisthobranchiate gastropods represented 
trombone, a tube or pipe serving for a pump ing and taking as a house orlcity by such genera as Elysta, Lwapovtia, and Pla- 
= Pg. sacabuxa, saquebuxo, a sackbut; origin sackinc-bottomed (sak'ini? bofumdVo Hav cobranchus: an inexact synonym of Abrancfoata 
doubtful; perhaps orig. a derisive nam'e, -tLt ^fhSf^ ffi sJlSed^n^e ^T^fS^^S^g& 
,teacl, to torm a or 8a ft-water minnow, Fmidiili/s tteteroclitus. 
[Florida.] 
uvuwuui| pernaps orig. a 
which exhausts the chest or 
draw out, extract, empty (= UF. sacquer, 
out hastily), + buche, the maw, crop, stomach; 
perhaps < OHG. bull, MHG. buch, G. baucli, belly, 
= OLG. buc = AS. buc, belly: see ftowA'l, bulk*.} 
mg 
rails, 
support for the mattress. 
New sacking-bottom' d Bedsteads at 11. a piece. 
Quoted in Ashton's Social Life in Keign of Queen Anne, B - v " 
[I. 75. 
< 
[A pseudo-F. spelling of F. 
__ ra _ im ___ sac, a bag: see sack 1 .] See sack?, 4 and 5. 
A medieval musical instrument of the trumpet sackless (sak'les), a. [Also (Sc.) saikless" < sacral. Plural of sacraw. 
family, having a long bent tube with a movable ME. saklcs, sacless, sacks, innocent, < AS. sac- 8ac , ra ( , sa , k T rft) ' "' ; P J" sacr f (- kre) " ^ < so - 
slide so that the vibrating column of air could leds (= Icel. saklauss = Sw. saklos = Dan sages- < "' ter " t )' < J* sacre <> fem - of saccr > sacred: see 
be varied in length and the pitch of the tone Ids), without contention, quiet, peaceable, < * acrl ""-~) A sacral artery Sacra media the inid- 
changed, as m the modern trombone. Theword sacu, strife, contention, A alsoLause, law- SWSTa^!B{3SaS2S?jE 
