sarsaparilla 
sarsaparilla. See Hardenberyia. Brazilian sarsa- 
parilla, the product in Brazil of one or more unidentified 
species of Smilax. Bristly sarsaparilla, a. North .Amer- 
ican plant, Aralia hispida, also called wild elder. Com- 
pare wild eamajwriMa. Country sarsaparilla. Same 
as Indian sarsaparilla. German sarsaparilla, the 
roots or rhizomes of Carex arenaria, C. disticha, and C. 
hirta, from their being occasionally used in Germany as 
a substitute for sarsaparilla. Honduras sarsaparilla, 
the sarsaparilla most used in the United States, derived 
perhaps from Smilax meaica. Indian sarsaparilla, an 
East Indian asclepiadaceous plant, Hemidemnus Indicus, 
the roots of which are used as a substitute for sarsaparilla. 
Also nunnari root. Italian sarsaparilla, the product 
of a south European plant, Smilax aspcra. Jamaica sar- 
saparilla, a former name of various kinds of saraaparllla 
which reached Europe by way of Jamaica from Mexico, 
Honduras, United States of Colombia, and even Peru. It 
is now applied to a Costa Kican article, ascribed to Smilax 
officinalis. Also red sarsaparilla. Mexican sarsapa- 
rilla, the product perhaps of Smilax medica. Spuri- 
ous sarsaparilla. See Hardenberyia. Texas sarsa- 
parilla. See menispermum, 2. Wild sarsaparilla, a 
North American plant, Aralia nudicaulii, whose long hori- 
zontal aromatic roots are used as a substitute for sarsapa- 
rilla. Also (in English books) Viryinian sarsaparilla. 
sarset (sars), . and r. See scarce. 
Sarsen (sar'sen), n. [Also Sarsin, Sarccn; a con- 
traction of Saracen, q. v.] It. Same as Saracen 
(formerly used in a vague sense for foreigner). 
2. The name given in southwestern England 
to former inhabitants of the region, and espe- 
cially to former workers of the tin-mines, the 
ancient piles of attle in Cornwall and Devon 
being designated as "Jews' pits," "Jews' leav- 
ings," "attal-Sarsen"or "-Saracen," "remains 
of the Sarcens," etc. 3. [I.e.'] Same as Sara- 
cen's stone (which see, under Saracen). 
How came the stones here? for these sarsens or Druidi- 
cal sandstones are not found in the neighbourhood. 
Emerson, Stonehenge. 
sarsenet, sarcenet (sars'net), . [Also sars- 
net ; = D. sarcenet = G. sarsenet, < OF. sarcenet, 
< ML.saracenoftts, also Saracenicus (sc.pannus), 
sarcenet, lit. ' Saracen cloth,' < LL. Saracenus, 
Saracen : see Saracen.] A fine, thin silk stuff, 
plain or twilled, especially valued for its soft- 
ness. It appears to have come into use in the thirteenth 
century, and to nave been a favorite material during the 
eighteenth century and down to 1820 for garments for 
women, especially as linings. It is now mainly super- 
seded by other materials. Formerly also called itendul or 
cendat. 
The roflys [roofs] garnyshed with tarsnettji* and buddys 
of golde. Arnold's Chronicle, 1502, p. li. 
Loose jerkins of tawny taffety cut and lined with yellow 
sarsenet. QoldweU, quoted in Arbor's Eng. Garner, I. 478. 
His letters of credence brought by bis secretary in a 
scarf e of sarseiu'tt. Evelyn, Diary, Aug. 28, 1607. 
Miss Andrews drank tea with us that evening, and wore 
her puce-coloured sarsenet. 
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, xv. 
Sarsenet ribbon, ribbon of sarsenet material, plain, and 
consisting merely of piece sarsenet in narrow widths. 
Sarsia (sar'si-a), n. [NL. : named from Prof. 
Michael Sars, of Christiania, Norway.] 1. A 
genus of jellyfishes, giving name to the Sarsi- 
idx. S. tabulosa is a small British species. 2. 
[I. e.] A member of this genus. 
Sarsiidae (sar-si'i-de), n. pi. [NL., < Sarsia + 
-<<7e.] A family of acalephs, named from the 
genus Sarsia. Also Sarsidee. 
sarsinisht (sar'si-nish), n. [ME. sarsynysh, < 
OF. sarrasineschc, < sarrazin, Saracen : see 
Saracen, sarsenet.] A fine woven silk of the 
kind called sarsenet. 
Largesse hadde on a robe fresh 
Of riche purpur sarlynysh [read sarsynysh; tr. OF. ear- 
rarinesche]. Bom. of the Rose, 1. 1188. 
Sara's organ. See organ 1 . 
sart (sart), n. [Short for assart: see assart.] 
A piece of woodland turned into arable land. 
Wharton. 
sartage (sar'taj), n. [< sart + -age.'} The 
clearing of woodland for agricultural purposes, 
as by setting fire to the trees. 
sartain (sar'tan), a. An obsolete or dialectal 
form of certain. 
sarticruraeus (sar'ti-kr^-re'us), n. ; pi. sarti- 
crursel (-i). [NL., for "sartoricrureevs, < L. sar- 
tor, a tailor, + NL. crurxus, q. v.] The tailor's 
muscle of the thigh ; the sartorius. Cones and 
Shute, 1887. 
sartor (siir'tor), n. [< L. sartor, a tailor, < sar- 
cire, pp. sarius, patch, mend.] A tailor: as, 
"Sartor Resartus" (the tailor retailored). 
Coats whose memory turns the sartor pale. 
0. W. Holmes, Terpsichore. 
sartorial (sar-to'ri-al), a. [< sartor + -i-al.'] 
1. Of or pertaining to a tailor or tailors. 
A north-country dame, in days of old economy, when the 
tailor worked for women as well as men, delivered one of 
her nether garments to a professor of the sartorial art. 
Southey, The Doctor, interchapter ix. (Davies.) 
5346 
2. In anat., pertaining to the sartorius muscle. 
sartorii, n. Plural of sartorius. 
sartorite (siir'tor-it), n. [After Sartorius von 
Waltershausen (1809-76).] In mineral., a sul- 
phid of arsenic arid lead, occurring sparingly in 
ortborhombic crystals of a lead-gray color in 
the dolomite of the Binnenthal in valais, Swit- 
zerland. Also called scleroclase. 
sartorius (sar-to'ri-us), H. ; pi. sartorii (-1). 
[NL., < L. sartor, a tailor: see sartor.] The 
longest muscle of the human body, crossing the 
thigh obliquely in front. It arises from the anterior 
superior spine of the ilium, and is inserted into the top of 
the inner anteiior surface of the tibia. It has been con- 
sidered to be the chief muscle in producing the position 
of the tailor when at work (whence its name). It is usually 
present in mammals, though with various modifications. 
Also called iliopretibialis, sarticrurxus, and tailor-muscle. 
See cut under musclei. 
Sarum use. See use. 
sarzat (sar'za), n. Same as sarsa. 
sasanqua (sa-sang'kwa), . [Jap.] The plant 
Camellia Sasanqua. See Camellia. 
sasarara (sas-a-ra'ra), n. Same as siserary. 
sash 1 (sash), . [< F. cMssis, sash, or more 
prob. directly from the orig. of chassis, namely 
OF. chasse, F. chdsse, a case, frame, < L. capsa, a 
box, case : see case 2 , cftase 2 , and cash 2 , doublets 
of sash 1 .'] 1. The framed part of a window, in 
which the glass is fixed ; also, a similar part of a 
greenhouse, etc. In windows they either open and 
shut vertically, or are hung upon hinges so as to swing 
open like doors. The former are called sliding sashes, and 
the latter French sashes, or casements. 
I was the other day driving in a hack through Gerrard- 
street, when my eye was immediately catched with the 
prettiest object imaginable the face of a very fair girl 
. . . fixed at the chin to a painted sash, and made part of 
the landscape. Steele, Spectator, No. 510. 
No fire the kitchen's cheerless grate display'd ; 
No cheerful light the long-closed sash convey'd. 
Crabbe, Works, I. 106. 
2. The frame in which a saw is put to prevent 
its bending or buckling when crowded into the 
cut Leaded sash. See leaded. Port-sash. See 
port- 1 . Sash-mortising machine, a machine used to 
form mortises in stiles and rails of doors and sashes, and 
for similar work. E. H. Knight. Sash-planing ma- 
chine, a small form of molding-machine for making rab- 
bets and moldings for the stiles and bars of sashes. E. 
H. Kniyht. Sash-sticking machine, a machine for 
forming the moldings on the edges of bars and rails for 
window-sashes, and for planing up other small stuff. E. 
H. Knight. 
sash 1 (sash), v. t. [< sash 1 , n."] To furnish with 
sash-windows. 
The windows are all sashed with the finest crystalline 
glass. Lady M. W. Montagu. 
The noble old residence of the Beauchamps and Ne- 
villes, and now of Earl Brooke. He has sashed the great 
apartment that 's to be sure. Gray, Letters, I. 256. 
It [Hurstmonceaux] is scarcely furnished with a few 
necessary beds and chairs ; one side has been sashed. 
Walpole, Letters, II. 300. 
sash 2 (sash), n. [Formerly also shash; < Pers. 
shast, sJiest, a girdle, also a thumb-stall worn 
by archers, a plectrum.] A long band or roll 
of silk, fine linen, or gauze, wound round the 
head by Orientals in the manner of a turban ; 
also, in modern times, a band or scarf worn over 
the shoulder or round the waist for ornament. 
Sashes are worn by women and children (less frequently 
by men), and by military officers as badges of distiuction, 
and are a regular part of certain costumes. They are 
usually of silk, variously made and ornamented. 
So much for the silk in Judea, called shesh in Hebrew, 
whence haply that fine linen or silk is called shashes, worn 
at this day about the heads of eastern people. 
fuller, Pisgah Sight, II. xiv. 24. 
On the mens (heads] are Shashes, which is a long thin 
wreath of Cloath, white or coloured. 
S. Clarke, Geog. Description (1671), p. 46. 
A Scarlet Silk net Sash to tye a Nightgown. 
Quoted in Ashton's Social Life in Reign of Queen Anne, 
[1. 150. 
sash 2 (sash), v. t. [< sash 2 , .] To dress or 
ornament with a sash or sashes. 
They are ... so sashed and plumed that . . . they are 
grown infinitely more insolent in their fine clothes even 
than they were in their rags. Burke, A Kegicide Peace, iv. 
sash-bar (sash'bar), n. In carp., one of the 
vertical or transverse pieces within a window- 
frame which hold the panes of glass. 
sash-chisel (sasfa'chiz^el), n. In carp., a chisel 
with a narrow edge and a strong blade, for mak- 
ing the mortises in sash-stiles. 
sash-clamp (sash'klamp), n. A clamp for 
squaring a sash and tightening up the joints. 
E. H. Knight. 
sash-door (sash'dor), n. A door having panes 
of glass to admit light. 
sashery (sash'er-i), n. ; pi. sasheries (-iz). [< 
sosft 2 + -er-y.~] Sashes or scarfs collectively, 
sasine 
considered as parts of official costume, or as 
parts of ornamental apparel. [Rare.] 
Distinguished by their satfheries and insignia. 
Carlyle. (Imp, Diet.) 
sash-fastener (sash'fas'ner), n. A latch or 
screw for fastening the sash of a window. 
sash-frame (sash'fram), n. 1. The frame in 
which the sash of a window is suspended, or 
to which it is hinged. When the sash is suspended 
the frame is made hollow to contain the balancing weights, 
and is said to be cated. 
2. The frame in which a saw is strained. 
sash-gate (sash'gat), n. In lujdraul. eat/in., a 
stop-valve sliding vertically to and from its 
seat. 
sash-line (sash'lin), n. The rope by which a 
sash is suspended in its frame. 
sashoont (sa-shon'), n. [Origin obscure.] A 
kind of stuffing or pad put into the leg of a 
boot, or secured around the calf of the leg, to 
prevent chafing, or to cause the boot to sit 
smoothly. 
1688, June 29, paid Henry Sharpe of Cuckfleld for a pair 
of bootes and sashoons, 13s. Stapley's Diary. 
sash-saw (sash'sa), n. 1. A small saw used 
in cutting the tenons of sashes. Its plate is 
about 11 inches long, and has about thirteen 
teeth to the inch. 2. A mill-saw strained in 
a frame or sash. 
sash-sluice (sash'slos), n. A sluice with verti- 
cally sliding valves. 
sash-tool (sash'tol), n. A small paint-brush of 
a size used in painting window-sashes. 
sash-window (sash'win"dp), n. A glazed win- 
dow in which the glass is set in a sash, and 
not in the wall ; hence, a window that can be 
opened. 
She locked the door, . . . then broke a pane in the sash 
window. Sw^ft, Advice to Servants (Chambermaid). 
Sasia (sa'si-a), n. [NL. (B. E. Hodgson, 1836), 
from a native name.] A notable genus of In- 
dian piculets or pygmy woodpeckers of the sub- 
family Picumninte, with naked orbits and only 
three toes. P. ochracea and P. abnormis are two exam- 
ples. They range from Nepal and Sikhim through Burma 
Into the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, etc. Also 
called Comens, Microcolaptes, Dryaltes, and Picumnoides. 
sasin (sas'in), n. [E. Ind.] The common In- 
dian antelope, Antilofe cenicapra or A. lezoar- 
tica, remarkable for its swiftness and beauty. 
Sasin, or Indian Antelope {Antiloft cervicafra*). 
It is abundant in the open dry plains of India, in flocks 
of from ten to sixty females to a single male. It will 
clear from 25 to 30 feet at a bound, and i ise even 10 or 
11 feet from the earth. It is grayish-brown or black on the 
upper parts of the body, with white abdomen and breast, 
and a white circle round the eyes. It stands about 2 feet 
6 inches high at the shoulder. This is the animal which 
is considered to represent the modern restiicted genus An- 
tttope, from which many more have been successively de- 
tached for other and very numerous Antilt-mnfe of Asia 
and Africa. Its usual specific name is not to be confound- 
ed with the same word used in a generic sense for the very 
different African bohor. The sasin is among several ante- 
lopes loosely called alyazel. It has long been known as a 
source of bezoar, as indicated by one of its specific names. 
The record of the sasin, in its relations to man, goes liack 
to the dawn of history; for it is the animal with the straight 
corkscrew horns so commonly figured on the monu- 
ments of Assyria and Babylonia. In India it is usually 
figured drawing the car of Chandra, the moon-god, and 
furnishes a probable prototype of the animals with which 
the classic huntress Diana is associated. It is there also 
a regular attribute of Siva, or Mahadeva, held by the hind 
legs upright in one of the hands of this god, and connected 
with linga-worship, apparently from its reputed salacity. 
sasine (sa'sin), . 1. An obsolete form of 
seizin, retained archaically in Scots law. Spe- 
cifically 2. In Scots law, either (a) the act of 
