sari 5345 
((insisting of a long piece of silk or cotton .cloth, others. Also sarmmt. See cuts under Fraga- 
wrapped round the middle of the body, with one ria and sarmentose. 
end falling nearly to the feet, and the other sarn(sarn). n. [<W. xarn, a causeway, paving.] 
thrown over the head. A pavement or stepping-stone. Johnson. [Prov. 
_ Eng.] 
mna and nose-rings. B&ioh (sar'6), M. [K. Ind.] An Indian musical 
J. W. Painter, The New and the Old, p. 349. ingtr ument with three metal strings, which are 
[Anglo-Ind.] sounded by means of a bow. 
saron (sar'on), n. [E. Ind.] A kind of xylo- 
phone, used in the East Indies. 
In the front row, chattering brown ayahs, gay with red 
anet and nose-rings. 
J. W. Palmer, The N 
Hence 2. Any long scarf. 
sariama, n. See cariama, seriema. 
sarigue (sa-reg'), n. [< F. sarigue, < Braz. sari- 
gueya, garigueia, garigueira.] 
can opossum, DiaemkjM /'"* 
sark (sark), . [< ME. sark, serk, serke, < AS. 
syrce, sirce, serce, a shirt, = Icel. serkr = Sw. 
sark = Dan. sserk, a shirt, in mod. use a shift, 
smock, chemise, = North Fries, serk, a shirt. 
Cf . berserk. The E. form is partly due to Scand.] 
A shirt or chemise ; the body-garment, of linen 
or cotton, for either sex. 
She shulde vnsowen hir serke and sette there an heyre 
To affaiten hire flesshe that fierce was to synne. 
Piers Plowman (B), v. 66. 
She neist brocht a sark o' the saftest silk, 
Weel wrought wi' pearls about the band. 
Alison Gross (Child's Ballads, I. 169). 
Her cutty sark o' Paisley harn. 
Burns, Tarn o' Shanter. 
Danced in sable iron sark. 
Longfellow, tr. of Uhland's Black Knight. 
sarkin (sar'kin), n. [< Gr. aapf (aapn-), flesh, 
+ -in 2 .] Same as sarcine. 
sarking (sar'king), . [<sark.n., + -ingl.'] Thin 
boards for lining, etc. ; specifically, the board- 
ing on which slates are laid. [Scotch.] 
sarkinite (sar'ki-nit), , [So called in allusion 
A South Ameri- sarong (sa-rong') , n. [Malay.] 1. A garment 
used in the Indian archipelago, consisting of 
a piece of cloth which envelops the lower part 
of the body : worn by both sexes. 
The natives, Malays, are a fine-looking, copper-coloured 
race, wearing bright-coloured sarongs and turbans. 
Lady Brassey, Voyage of Sunbeam, II. xxiv. 
Hence 2. The cotton cloth generally used for 
this garment, especially the printed cotton im- 
ported from Europe, to which the name has 
been given as a trade designation. 
saros (sa'ros), . [< Gr. aapof, or oapuc, a Chal- 
dean cycle.] 1 . A Babylonian numeral, or unit 
of tale; sixty sixties (3,600). 2. An astro- 
nomical cycle of 6,585 days and 8 hours, during 
which period there are 223 lunations, 242 dra- 
contic months, 239 anomalistic months lacking 
about 5 hours, and 18 Julian years, 10 days, 
and 18 hours. At the end of this time all eclipses are 
repeated nearly as before, except for the difference in the 
sun's apparent place due to the 10} days by which the cy- 
cle differs from a whole number of years. Moreover, the 
solar eclipses will fall upon parts of the earth differing 
by 120 of longitude. This cycle was discovered by Baby- 
lonian astronomers. 
to its blood-red color and greasy luster ; < Gr. Sarothamnus(sar-o-tham'nus), . [NL. (Wim- 
aapnivof, fleshy (< adpt, (aapK-), flesh), + -fe2.] A mer >, 1844 )i < Gr. anpov, a broom (see sarothrum), 
+ ffdfivoc, a bush.] A former genus of plants, 
now making a section under Cytistin. It 
hydrous arseniate of manganese, occurring in 
cleavable massive forms, less often in mono- 
clinic crystals, of a blood-red color: found at 
Paisberg in Sweden. Also called polyarsenite. 
sarklet, v. t. See sarcle. 
sarlak, sarlyk (sar'lak, -lik), n. [Also sarlac, 
sarlik ; < Mongol sarlyk.] The yak, Poephagus 
grunniens. 
Sarmatian (sar-ma'shian), a. and n. [< L. 
Sarmatia (see def.), < Sarmata (Gr. Sap^dr^f), 
pi. Sarmatse, Sauromatse, a Sarmatian.] I. a. ^ 
Of or pertaining to Sarmatia, an ancient region sarpeleret, 
extending from the Volga vaguely westward, Balliwell. 
identified poetically with Poland; pertaining sarplart, sarplert (sar'plar, -pier), . [Also 
to the inhabitants of this region. sarplier, sarpliar; < ME. sarplar, ttarpelere, 

eludes the common European broom, 
under Cytisns. 
sarothrum (sa-ro 'thrum), n. ; pi. sarotlirn 
(-thra). [NL., < Gr. oaparpov, a broom, < aa- 
povv, sweep with a broom, < oapov, a broom, < 
aaipeiv, sweep.] In entom., a brush of stiff hairs 
on the leg of a bee, used for collecting pollen. 
Also called scopa, pollen-brush, and corbiculmn. 
See scapula. 
An obsolete variant of sarplar. 
i region 
II. n. A member of one of the ancient tribes, 
probably of Median affinities, which wandered 
in southern Russia, Hungary, and elsewhere. 
The Sarmatians became merged in other peo- 
ples. 
Sarmatic (sar-mat'ik), a. [< L. Sarmaticus, < 
Sarmata, a Sarmatian : see Sarmatian."] Same 
as Sarmatian Sarmatic polecat, the sarmatier. 
sarmatier (F. pron. sar-ma-ti-a'), n. [< F. 
sarmatier, < 8ar matte, Sarmatia.] The Sarmatic 
or spotted polecat, Putorius sarmaticns, inhab- 
iting Poland and Russia, black, on the upper 
parts brown spotted with yellow, the ears and 
a frontal band white. 
sarmentt (sar'ment), n. [< OF. serment, F. fer- 
ment = Pr. serment = Cat. Garment = Sp. sar- 
mietito = Pg. It. sarmento, < L. sarmentum, 
twigs, light branches, brushwood, < sarpere, 
trim, cut, prune.] 1. A scion or cutting. 
Writhe not the hede of the garment 
Whenne it is sette. 
Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 85. 
2. Same as sarmentum. 
sarmenta, n. Plural of sarmentum. 
sarmentaceous (sar-men-ta'shius), .. [< sar- 
mentum + -actons.] In l>ot., same as sarmen- 
tose. 
sarmentose, sarmentous (sar-men'tos, -tus), 
a. [< sarmentum + -ose, -CMS.] In hot., having 
Sarmentose Stem of /', 
pulere, < OF. sarpillere, serpilliere, serpeiUere, 
serpeliere, F. serpilliere, dial, charpiliere, cher- 
piliere, coarse cloth or canvas used in packing, 
a canvas apron, = Pr. sarpelheira = Cat. sarpal- 
lera, xarpallera, arpillera = Sp. arpillera = Pg. 
sarapilheira (ML. sarplerium, serpleria, sarpil- 
leria, serpilheria, serpelleria, etc., after Rom.), 
coarse cloth, sacking ; with suffix -ere, etc. (ML. 
-cria, prop, -aria), < ML. serapellinus, seropelli- 
nits, xerapellinus, etc., serapellina, seropellina, 
xerapellina, applied as adj. or noun, usually n. 
pi., serapellina or serampellinte vestes (OF. sera- 
pellines), to old clothes, or old or worthless 
skins, < L. xerampelinse (sc. vestes), dark-red 
or dark-colored clothes, < Gr. ^npafmi'kivo^, of 
the color of dry vine-leaves, < Zvpof, dry, + afi- 
veAivof, of the vine (fyvUji a/nrtfava, vine-leaves), 
< a^7T?if, a vine : see xerasia and Ampelis. The 
derivation from OF. serge vieille is erroneous.] 
1 . Sacking or packing-cloth ; coarse pack-sheet 
made of hemp. 
They ben ententyf aboute garpuleris or sachels [var. 
sachelles] unprofitable for to taken. 
Chaucer, Boethius, i. prose 3. 
It was upbraided to Demosthenes, by an envious, surly 
knave, that his Orations did smell like the sarpler, or 
wrapper of a foul and filthy oil vessel. 
Urquhart, tr. of Rabelais, I. 99. 
2. A large sack or bale of wool, containing 80 
tods, each of 2 stone. 
The prowde Dewke of Burgoyne 
Came to-fore Calys with flemyngis nat A fewe, 
Wliiche gave the sakkis & sarpelers of that towne 
Of thy wolles hyghte [he] hem pocessione. 
PoUlical Poems, etc. (ed. Furnlvall), p. 18. 
In his four and twentieth Year, he commanded a Sub- 
sidy to be levied upon all Sarplars of Wool going out of 
England. Baker, Chronicles, p. 100. 
sarpo (sar'po), H. [Cf. sapo?.] Same as sapo 2 . 
Sarracenia (sar-a-se'ni-a), . [NL. (Tourne- 
fort, 1700), named after Dr. Sarrazin of Quebec, 
who first sent specimens and a description to Eu- 
sarmenta or runners; having the form or char- 
acter of a runner. 
sarmentum (siir-men' turn), (,; pi. sarmenta r P e -] A genus of polypetalous plants, known 
(-ta). [L. : see mmnent.'] In lot., a runner; as sidesaddh-flmcer and piteter-ptmt, type of 
a running stem giving off leaves or roots at in- * ne order iSV-)vy///r/rr,v. It is characterized by flow- 
tervals as that of the strawberry ; also, a twin- ^fJSSS^Sr7Sr^^S 
em which supports itself by means of and five-celled ovary with its distinct style dilated at the 
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top into a peltate umbrella-like and petaloid membrane, 
which is stigmatic near the end of a nerve extending to 
each of its five angles. The S species are all natives of 
North America, and occur chiefly in the southern I'nited 
States, with one also in the northern. They are remark- 
able plants, inhabiting peat-bogs, with their leaves trans- 
formed into pitchers, and produced at the top into a more 
or less arching hood, which closes the pitcher when young. 
The pitchers are usually partly filled with rain-water and 
with masses of decomposing insects, and in some species 
special glands secrete a digestive fluid which aids in their 
assimilation. The flowers are large, solitary, and nodding 
upon a long leafless scape, usually of a deep brownish red, 
globular in the bud, flattened on expansion, and with pet- 
als which are strongly contracted in the middle. 5. pur- 
purea, the original species, which extends north to Great 
Bear Lake, is known as pitcher-plant, also as huntsman's- 
cup and sidesaddle-Jloicer. S. Jlava and other southern 
species are known as trumpetteaf and huntsman's-horn. 
Sarraceniaceae (sar-a-se-ni-a'se-e), n.pl. [NL. 
(Endlicher, 1836), < "Sarracenia + -acea.] An 
order of polypetalous plants of the cohort Pa- 
rietales in the series Thalamiftoree. it is charac- 
terized by a minute embryo near the base of the seed in 
fleshy albumen, and flowers with five sepals and five petals, 
numerous stamens, and a five- or three-celled ovary "*ith 
the placenta! fixed to the inner angle. They are readily 
distinguished by their peculiar habit, being bog-herbs 
with conspicuous flowers nodding upon naked scapes, sur- 
rounded at the base by a circle of radical leaves, which are 
inflated into pitchers, and project in front into a thin 
lamina, and at the top into a hood. The 10 species are all 
American, and belong mainly to the type genus, Sarracf- 
nia the others, Darlingtonia and Hfliamphora, being 
monotypic. See cuts under Darlingtonia and pitcher- 
plant. 
sarrancolin (sa-rang'ko-liu), n. [F., < Sarran- 
colin (see def.).] A kind of ornamental mar- 
ble quarried near Sarraucolin, in the valley of 
Aure, department of the Hautes Pyre'nSes, 
France. It is more or less brecciated in structure, and 
of varied color, gray, red, and yellow predominating. 
This is one of the most highly prized of French marbles, 
and was used in the interior decoration of the Grand 
Opera House in Paris. 
sarrasin, sarrasine (sar'a-sin), . [< F. surra- 
sine, a portcullis, fern, of sarrasin, Saracen : see 
Saracen.'] A portcullis: a term probably dat- 
ing from the Crusades, and retained in use in 
French, from which English writers have taken 
it. Also spelled sarasin. 
sarrazin (sar'a-ziri), n. [F. ble sarrasiit, buck- 
wheat, lit. 'Saracen wheat': see Saracen.] 
Buckwheat. 
The Russian peasant will not always sell his wheat and 
live on mrrazin and rye. Nineteenth Century, XXIV. 836. 
sarret, . [OF.] A long cannon, smaller than a 
bombard. Farrow, Mil. Encyc. 
sarrusophone (sa-rus'o-fon), . [< Sarrus (see 
def.) + Gr. <j>uvft, a sound, tone.] A musical 
instrument, properly of the oboe class, but with 
a tube of metal, invented in 1863 by a French 
band-master, Sarrus. Eight different sizes or varie- 
ties are made, so as to form a complete series, as of the 
saxophone, and are named either from their fundamental 
key or from their relative compass. Compare saxophone. 
sarsat (sar'sa), . [Also sarza ; the first part of 
sarsaparilla, taken in sense of the full word.] 
Sarsaparilla. 
You may take sarza to open the liver. 
Bacon, Friendship (ed. 1887). 
sarsaparilla (sar"sa-pa-rira), n. [= D. sarsa- 
parilla = G. Dan. sarsaparilla = Sw. sarsa- 
parill = F. salsepareille = It. salsapariglia, < 
Sp. zarzaparilla, now zarzaparrilla = Pg. sal- 
saparrilha, sarsaparilla, orig. Smilax aspera; 
usually explained as < Sp. zarza, a bramble 
(supposed to be < Basque sartzia, a bramble), 
+ *parilla, *par- 
rilla, supposed 
to be a dim. of 
parra, a train- 
ed vine (others 
suggest Parillo, 
name of a physi- 
cian said to have 
first employed 
it).] 1. The rhi- 
zome of several 
plants of the 
genus Smilax, 
chiefly, it is be- 
lieved, of S. medl- 
ca, S. officinalis. 
and S. papyra- 
cea, all of tropi- 
cal America. 2. 
Any plant of the B ' a " ch of Ss f 
order Smilacex. 
3. A medicinal preparation of sarsaparilla- 
root. The reputation of sarsaparilla as a medicine has 
sometimes suffered from worthless substitutes, or from 
the root being too long kept, but it now has an estab- 
lished character as an alterative, most usefully employed 
in syphilis, but also valuable In chronic rheumatism 
and other affections. Compare china-root. Australian 
