Saperda 
Saperda (sa-per'dji), . [XL. (Fabricius, 1775), 
< Gr. aairtpdrK, a kind of fish.] A notable genus 
of long-horn beetles of the family Cerambyoidx, 
having moderately short antennas which are -, 
finely pubescent and mounted upon well-sepa- S^pno, . bee sappho. 
sapid (sap'id), a. [= F. sapide, OF. satlc = Sp. 
- < L. sapidus, having a taste, savory, ' 
:,:t:ts 
artery, an anomalous artery, rarely met with, formed by 
the enlargement of the median sujicrfii-ial sural artery- 
II. ii. A sapheuous vein ornerve; a saphena: 
as, the long saphenous; the short an/ili 
sapere, have a taste, taste of, etc.; of persons, 
have taste or discernment, be wise : see na/iini I. 
Cf. sap 1 . Hence the negative insipid.] Hav- 
ing the power of affecting the organs of taste ; 
possessing savor or relish ; tasteful ; savory. 
Thus camels, to make the water sapid, do raise the mud 
with their feet. 
Very many bodies have no taste whatever; and the 
" ties of " 
sapi-outan 
-al.} Containing, exhibiting, or affording wis- 
dom; characterized by wisdom. 
God will work on man by moral moans. . . . and his 
work of grace is sapiential, magnifying the contrivance and 
conduct of his wisdom, as well as his power. 
Baxter, Divine Life, i. 11. 
Sapiential Books (of the liihle and Apocrypha) Prov- 
erbs, Ecclesiastes, Wisdom (The Wisdom of Solomon), and 
Ecclcsiasticus (The Wisdom of Jesus, the Son of Sirach). 
Open your bibles, where you will, in all the sapiential 
or prophetical books. Up. Hall, Remains, p. 66. 
sapientiallyt (sa-pi-en'slml-i), ntlr. In a sapien- 
tial or wise manner, liiu'li i\ 
Round-headed Apple-tree Borer 
(Saperda Candida), a, larva, full- 
irrown ; *, pupa ; c, beetle. (Hair- 
lines at a and b indicate natural 
sizes.) 
Sapidity (sa-pid'i-ti), ii. [< F. sapidite = Pr. 
siipiditat; as sapid + -itij.] Sapid character or 
property; the property of stimulating or pleas- 
ing the palate ; tastefulness; savor; relish. 
As for their taste, if their nutriment be air, neither can 
it be an instrument thereof ; for the body of that element 
is ingustible, void of all sapiditv. 
Sir T. Brmme, Vulg. Err., Hi. 21. (Jlichardson.) 
sapid + -less.] 
tare 
rathe! stout a,',domf "?" (^P'id-les), a. [< sapid + -to 
what swollen tt f T Without taste, savor, or relish ; insipid. [Ka 
W u edThl'ghouUh norft and "roneously formed.] 
temperate zone. The larva; 
are mainly wood-borers. That 
of S. Candida of the United 
States is known as the round- 
I am impatient and querulous under culinary disap- 
pointments, as to come home at the dinner hour, for in- 
stance, expecting some savoury mess, and to find one quite 
tasteless and sapidlest. Lamb, Grace before Meat 
- * , . 
headed apple-tree borer, and often damages orchards to a qar ,iHnf>SB Csan'iH npsl Sanirlitv 
serious extent by boring the cambium layer under the bark. S( 3S) ' "'. S 
Milit., a fascine 
sap-fagot 
When the Israelites fancied the tapidness and relish of 
Sir T. Browne, Vulg. HIT. sapiently (sa'pi-ent-li), adv. *In a sapient man- 
ner; wisely; sagaciously; sagely. 
Sapindaceae (sap-in-da'se-e), n.pl. [NL. (Jus- 
sieu, 1811), < Sapindus + -acese.] An order of 
trees and shrubs of the cohort Sapindales, char- 
acterized by usually compound leaves, a single 
style, and ovary-cells with the ovules one or 
two in number and ascending, or numerous 
and horizontal. The flowers have usually four or five 
imbricated and unequal sepals, three, four, or nve imbri- 
cated petals, eight stamens inserted within the disk, and 
a three-celled ovary, becoming in fruit capsular or inde- 
hiscent, a drupe, berry, or nut, or composed of two or 
three wing-fruits. As recently revised by Radlkofer, the 
order includes about 950 species, and is most abundant 
in the tropics, with only a few genera in temperate re- 
gions. The 122 genera are included in 14 tribes. The 
species are usually tall trees, with a watery juice, and 
in the tropics bear evergreen alternate abruptly pinnate 
leaves, generally with small flowers without odor and 
with inconspicuous colors. For prominent genera, see 
Sapindvs (the type), Paullinia, Koslreuteria, and Xephe- 
lium. The well-known genera Acer, JEsculvx, and Sta- 
lever employed for moving the sap-roller for- 
to the fire of field-guns. 
sapful (sap'fiit), a. [< sap 1 + -ful.] Full of 
sap; containing sap; sappy. Coleridge. (Imp. 
Diet.) 
sap-green (sap'gren), n. A green coloring 
matter extracted from the juice of buckthorn- 
berries. The ripe berries are submitted to pressure, 
when a purple-red juice is obtained, which becomes green 
on the addition of an alkali. The liquid is then concen- 
trated and filled into bladders, where it becomes hard 
and brittle. It is sometimes used as a water-color, but is 
not durable. It is also used by paper-stainers and leather- 
dyers. Sometimes called bladder-green and iris green. Sec 
sapharensian (saf-a-ren'si-an), a. [< Ar. ta- 
rich al-sefar, perhaps from "sifr, zero.] Of or 
pertaining to the Spanish era, dates expressed 
in which are to be reduced to the Christian era 
by subtracting 38 from them. This era was 
prevalent in Spain from the fifth to the twelfth 
century. 
saphead (sap'hed), . [So called in allusion to 
his freshness and greenness; < sap 1 + head. 
Cf. sap'' 1 , sappy.] A silly fellow; a ninny. Also 
sap. [Colloq.] 
sap-headed (sap'hed'ed), a. [< sap 1 + head + 
-ed%.] Silly; foolish. [Colloq.] 
saphena (sa-fe'na), . ; pi. saphense (-ne). [= 
OF. saphena, sap'hene, F. saphene = Sp. safena 
= Pg. saphena = It. safena, < NL. saphena, sc. 
vena, a prominent vein, < Gr. aaijuti'/K, plain, vis- 
ible, < <ro-, an intensive prefix, + tyaivm>, show, 
QaiveaQai, appear. The Ar. safin or sdfin, the 
name of two veins in the leg, supposed to be the 
source^of the NL. and Rom. word, is from the 
same Gr. source.] A saphenous vein or nerve, 
saphenal (sa-fe'nal), a. and n. [< saphena + 
-al.] I. a. Same as saphenous. 
II. n. The saphenous vein, 
saphenous (sa-fe'nus), a. and n. [< saphena + 
-oils.] I. a. 1. Prominent, as a vein of the 
leg. 2. Of or pertaining to a saphenous nerve 
or vein External saphenous nerve, a branch of the sapient (sa'pi-ent), a. [< L. sapien(t-)s, know- 
ing, discerning, wise, discreet, ppr. of sapere, 
sapien(t-)s, wise, discerning: see sapient.] 1. 
The character of being sapient ; wisdom; sage- 
ness ; profound knowledge ; also, practical wis- 
dom; common prudence: often used ironically. 
[In early writers the meaning is influenced by the sixth 
book of Aristotle's "Nicomachcean Ethics," where this word 
was used to translate aofyia., defined by Aristotle as the 
union of science, or demonstrative knowledge, with nous, 
or cognition of principles. Aristotle also applies it to the 
knowledge of a master of any art. But in scholastic writ- 
ings it usually means knowledge of the most difficult sub- 
jects, metaphysics, theology, thus again translating ao- 
That thou hata in thy hert holy connyng 
Of sapytnce thi sawle ful sothes to schawe. 
Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), ii. 1626. 
Ther goth he 
That is the man of so grete sapience, 
And held us lovers leest in reverence. 
Chaucer, Troilus, i. 515. 
Sapience and love 
Immense, and all his Father in him shone. 
Milton, P. L., vii. 195. 
A thousand names are toss'd into the crowd, 
Some whisper'd softly, and some twang'd aloud, 
Just as the sapience of an author's brain 
Suggests it safe or dangerous to be plain. 
Camper, Charity, 1. 519. 
2. The reasonable soul; the intellective facul- 
ty ; that which distinguishes men from brutes; 
reason. 
Ryght as a man has sapiences three, 
Memorie, engyn, and intellect also. 
Chaucer, Second Nun's Tale, 1. 338. 
Many a wretch in Bedlam . . . 
Still has gratitude and sapience 
To spare the folks that give him ha'pence. 
Swift. (Johnson.) 
3. The sense of taste, or intelligence compared 
to taste. 
Eve, now I see thon art exact of taste, 
And elegant, of sapience no small part, 
Since to each meaning savour we apply, 
And palate call judicious. Milton, P. L., foe. 1018. 
4f. The apocryphal Book of Wisdom. 
Ich wrot hure a byble, 
And sette hure to Sapience and to the sauter glosed. 
Piers Plounnan (C), xii. 117. 
J >inlia ceiE ; of the nature of Sapindaetx. 
terized by stamens inserted on a disk, ovules 
commonly one or two in a cell, ascending and 
with a ventral raphe, or solitary and pendulous 
from an ascending funiculus. The leaves are usu- 
ally compound, and the flowers polygamously dioecious. 
According to the latest revisions, it includes 7 orders 
the Acemcete, Hippocastanaceje, Melianthace, and Sta- 
phyleacete, formerly regarded as suborders of the Sapin- 
dace it, being now erected into independent orders. 
Sapindeae (sa-pin'de-e), n. pi. [NL. (Hum- 
boldt, Bonpland, and Kunth, 1821), < Sapindus 
+ -ese.] A tribe of polypetalous trees and 
shrubs, of the order Sapindaccse. characterized 
by alternate leaves, seeds without albumen, 
and stamens inserted in a circle or unilaterally 
within the disk at the base of the ovary. It in- 
cludes 7 genera, of which Sapindus is the type. 
Sapindus (sa-pin'dus), n. [NL., so called with 
ret', to the saponaceous fruit, < ii.sap(o)Ind(ic)- 
us, Indian soap : see soap and Indie.] A genus of 
polypetalous trees, type of the order Sapinda- 
ceae and of the tribe Sapixdese. It is characterized 
by regular and polygamous flowers with four or flve sepals 
and as many petals, twice as many stamens, filaments 
bearded or hairy, versatile anthers, a complete and regu- 
internal popliteal supplying the skin on the outer side of 
the foot. Also called short saphenous nerve. Great sa- 
phenous artery, in man, an occasional branch of the 
femoral artery arising either above or below the origin of 
the prof unda. The vessel is normal in the rabbit and othei 
mammals. Internal saphenous nerve, the largest cu- 
taneous branch of the anterior crural. It passes down on 
the inner side of the knee, leg, and foot, as far as the great 
toe. Also called long saphenous nerve. Saphenous 
opening, the aperture in the fascia lata through which 
the saphenous vein passes to join the femoral vein ; the 
largest opening in the cribriform fascia (which see, under 
fascia). It is also the place of exit of femoral hernia. 
Saphenous veins, two superficial veins of the leg, the 
internal or long and the external or short. The former 
takes its origin from the dorsum of the foot, and passes 
up along the inner side of the limb to empty into the 
femoral vein about an inch and a half below Poupart's 
of things, taste, smell of, etc. ; of persons, have 
taste or discernment, etc. Cf. sapid, and see 
sap 1 . From the same source are ult. insipient, 
insipid, sage 1 , etc.] Wise; sage; discerning: 
now generally used ironically. 
Now tell me, dignified and sapient sir, 
My man of morals, nurtured in the shades 
Of Academus, is this false or true? 
Cotrper, Task, ii. 531. 
Temples served by sapient priests, and choirs 
Of virgins crowned with roses. 
Wordsworth, Prelude, xi. 
Another way my sapient guide conducts me. 
Lony/elloit.', tr. of Dante's Inferno, iv. 149. 
irgitiatus. 
lar disk, solitary ovules, and a fruit of one or two oblong 
or globose nutlets, each containing a single globos. 
without an aril. There are about 40 species, natives of 
the tropics of both hemispheres, mostly trees, sometimes 
climbing shrubs. They bear alternate leaves, which are 
undivided, or are abruptly pinnate with several entire 
leaflets, or are reduced to a single leaflet. The flowers 
form terminal or axillary racemes or panicles. All the 
femoral vein about an inch and a half below Poupart's ... , species, and several specifically, are known as soapberry. 
ligament. The latter arises from the outer side of the Sapiential (sa-pl-en shall, a. [< LL. sapiru- See soapberry; also trild china-tree, under china-tree. 
foot, and terminates in the popliteal. Small saphenous tialitt, < L. wpientia, wisdom (see sapience), + sapi-outan, n. See 
