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sasine 
giving legal possession of feudal property (in 
which case it is synonymous with infeftmcnt), or 
(6) the instrument by which tho fact is proved. 
There is a general office for the registering of 
sasines in Edinburgh Cognition and sasine. See 
cognition. Precept of sasine. See precept. Sasine 
OX, a perquisite formerly due to the sheriff when he gave 
infeftmcnt to an hc-ir holding crown lands. It was after- 
ward converted into a payment in money proportioned to 
the value of the estate, and is now done away with. 
sass(sas),s. [A dial. form of sauce, .] 1. Same 
as sauce. 2. Vegetables, particularly those 
used in making sauces: as, garden sas*. 3. 
Insolence; impudence. [Vulgar, U. 8., in all 
uses.] 
sass (sas), v. [A dial, form of sauce, v.~\ I. 
intratts. To talk or reply saucily; be insolent 
in replying. [Vulgar, U. 8.] 
Its [Mr. Thayer's book's] very pugnacity will no doubt 
tempt so many of the assailed to sass back that we shall 
in the end find ourselves by so much the richer in contri- 
butions to the annals of the times. 
Harper's Mag., LXilX. 649. 
II. trans. To sauce ; be saucy to. [Vulgar, 
U.S.] 
sassaby (sas'a-bi), n.; pi. sassabies (-biz). [8. 
African; also sassabye, sassaybe, sassabi."] The 
bastard hartbeest, Damalis or Alcelaphws lu- sassafras (sassafras ojictnaio. 
natus, of South Africa. The sassaby resembles the ' Bra "c>> with fruits. 2. Branch with sterile flowers, a, , c, dif- 
hartbeest, A. caama, but stands somewhat higher at the 
bark used in infusion as a tonic, (c) Of Queensland : a 
smaller related tree, Daphnandra micrantha. Brazilian 
sassafras, the tree Nectandra Puchury, which yields 
the so-called sassafras-nuts or Pichurim beans. Cayenne 
sassafras. See Licania. Chilian sassafras. Same 
as Peruvian nutmeg (which see, under nutmeg). Oil of 
sassafras. See oil and sassafras-oil. Sassafras tea, an 
infusion of sassafras-wood or of the bark of the root 
Swamp-sassafras, Magnolia glauca. See Magnolia. 
sassafras-nut (sas'a-fras-nut), . Same as 
Pichurim bean. 
sassafras-oil (sas'a-fras-oil), n. 1. A volatile 
aromatic oil distilled from the root-wood and 
root-bark of the common sassafras. Also oil of 
sassafras. 2. A volatile oil obtained from the 
bark of the Victorian sassafras, with an odor re- 
sembling sassafras and caraway.- 3. An oil ex- 
tracted from sassafras-nuts or Pichurim beans. 
4. See Ocotea. 
Sassa gum. See gunfi. 
Sassanian (sa-sa'ni-an), a. and . I. a. Per- 
taining to the Sassanids. 
Three short wars with the Sassanian monarehs ol Persia 
were waged. The Academy, Feb. 15, 1890, p. 110. 
, , II. n. Same as Sassanid. 
bok.) The horns are about a foot long. The animal is much Sassanid (sas'a-nid), . [< ML. Sassanidx. < 
hunted both for its hide and for its flesh, and has been Kntunn or SatOM a Pprsiari -ipst <uir>estrn. nf 
thinned out in countries where it formerly abounded.. It S5LSf^L! 22SJ.J* 
Sassaby (Alcflaphus turtattts). 
withers, and its horns are gently curved rather than ab- 
ruptly bent. It is one of the group of large bubaline an- 
telopes of which the blesbok is another, but the sassaby 
lacks the white blaze on the face. (Compare cut of We- 
inhabits by preference open places, sometimes lu herds of 
several hundreds. 
sassafras (sas'a-fras), n. [Formerly also saxa- 
fras; = D. G. Sw. Dan. sassafras = F. sassafras 
= It. sassafras, sassafrasso, sassofrasso = Pg. 
sassafras (NL. sassafras), < Sp. sasafrds, sassa- 
fras; another application of salsafras, salsi- 
frax, salsifragia, OSp. sassifragia, saxifrage, 
saxifrage: see saxifrage.] 1. A tree, the only 
Sassan or sasan, a 
the founder of the dynasty.] A member of a 
dynasty which ruled the Persian empire from 
the downfall of the Parthian power, about A. D. 
226, until the conquest of Persia by the Sara- 
cens, about 642. 
The Arsacid empire, which had lasted for 476 years, was 
replaced by the monarchy of the Sassanids, itself destined 
to endure for a nearly equal period. 
Isaac Taylor, The Alphabet, it 242. 
species~of the genus Sa'ssafras. itiscommoninea'st- sassararat, n. See siserary. 
ern North America, in the south taking possession, along SaSSOt (sas), n. [< F. sas, < D. SOS, a sluice, a 
"" A sluice, canal, or lock on a navi- 
weir with floodgates ; a naviga- 
cially its bark, enters into commerce as a powerful aro- 
matic stimulant, and is much used in flavoring and scent- 
ing, an oil being distilled in large quantities for the latter 
purposes. The bark is officinal, as also the pith, which 
affords a mucilaginous application and a drink. An early 
name in England was ague-tree. 
They have made divers great and navigable sassea and 
sluices, and bridges. 
The Great Level (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 320). 
Sir N. Crisp's project of making a great sasse in the 
King's lands about Deptford, to be a wett-dock to hold 200 
sail of ships. Pepys, Diary, Jan. 25, 1662. 
[They] did helpe vs to dig and carry Saxafras, and doe Sassenach (sas'e-nach), n. [< Gael. Sasunac1i, 
any thing they could, being of a comely proportion and the Saxon- ROP. ftrirnn 1 A Smrrvn an l?Wlia>imDi 
best condition of any Salvages we had yet incountred. axon . see baxon. J A naxon , an Jinglisnman . 
vages we had ye 
Quoted in Copt. John Smith's Works, 1. 107. 
2. [cap.'] [NL. (C. G. Nees, 1836).] A genus 
of apetalous trees of the order Laurinex and 
tribe Litseacex, characterized by an umbel- 
like inflorescence of dioacious flowers in loose 
a general name applied by the Scottish High- 
the British Isles to P ersons of Saxon 
The term Sassenach, or Saxon, is applied by the High- 
landers to their Low-Country neighbors. 
Scott, Glenflnlas, note. 
and short racemes from terminal buds, and sasso i in sas soline (sas'6-lin), n. [< F'. sas- 
produced around the base of the new growth 
of the season. The flowers have a six-lobed perianth 
and nine stamens in three rows, with their anthers in- 
trorsely four-celled, the third row of filaments each with 
a stalked gland at the base. The only species. S. offlci- 
nale, is a native of the United States, especially south- 
ward and principally east of the Mississippi, extending 
also into Canada. It is a small or middle-sized tree, 
with aromatic bark and roots, and remarkable for the 
green color of its flowers, bud-scales, and branches, and 
for its dimorphous leaves, the earlier entire and oval, the 
later three-lobed or irregular. See cut in next column. 
so i ine G . sassoiin, < It Sasso, a town near 
sided laminse belonging to the triclinic sys- 
tem, or as a crust, or in stalactitic forms com- 
posed of small scales. It is white or yellowish, has 
a nacreous luster, and is friable. It occurs as a deposit 
from hot springs and ponds In the lagoons of Tuscany, and 
was first discovered near Sasso (whence the name) in the 
province of Florence. 
-Australian sassafras, (a) of vYctoria(and"Tasman'ia): sassolite (sas'o-lit), n. [< Sasso (see sassoiin) 
Atherosperma moschata of the order Monimiaceee, a lofty + -ite^.J Same as sassoiin. 
other large tree, with very fragrant leaves, and aromatic pigeon, Columba livia. 
satchel 
sassy-bark (sas'i-biirk), n. [W. African sas- 
sy (?) + E. uY<rA' 2 .] The mancona bark (which 
see, under bark 2 ); also, the tree that yields it. 
See Erythrophloeum. 
sastra (siis'tra), n. See shaster. 
sat (sat). Preterit of sit. 
Sat. An abbreviation of Saturday. 
Satan (sa'tan), n. [Formerly or dial, also Sa- 
l/nut ; < ME. Satan, Sathan, also Satanas, Sathan- 
as, < OF. Sathan, Sathanas, F. Satan, Satanas 
(colloq.) = Pr. Sathanas, Sodhanas = Sp. Satan, 
Sataiids = Pg. Satanaz = It. Satan, Satanasso 
= D. G. Dan. Sw. Satan = AS. Satan = Gr. Za- 
rav, 2aravaf, < LL. Satan, Satanas = Goth. Sa- 
tana, Satanas = Ar. Shaitdn (> Turk. Sheytan 
= Pers. Hind. Shaitdn), < Heb. sdtdn, an ene- 
my, Satan, < sdtan, be an enemy, persecute.] 
The chief evil spirit ; the great adversary of 
man; the devil. See devil. 
The gay coroun of golde gered on lolte . . . 
Now is sette for to serue satanas the blake, 
Bifore the bolde Baltazar wj-th host & wyth pryde. 
Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), U. 1449. 
And now hath Sathanas, seith he, a tayl 
Brodder than of a carryk is the sail. 
Chaucer, Prol. to Summoner's Tale, 1. 23. 
And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall 
from heaven. Luke x. 18. 
And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which 
is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years. 
Eev. n. 2. 
Incensed with indignation, Satan stood 
Unterrifled, and like a comet burn'd. 
Milton, P. L., U. 707. 
= Syn. Apollyon. See definition of Belial. 
Satanic (sa-tan'ik), a. [< F. satanique = Sp. 
Pg. It. satanico (cf. D. satansch, satanisch = G. 
satanisch = Dan. Sw. satanisk),^. T-iii.'Satanicvs, 
<. Satan, Satan: see Satan.] Of, pertaining to, 
or characteristic of Satan ; devilish ; extremely 
malicious or wicked ; infernal. 
His weakness shall o'ercome Satanic strength. 
Milton, P. B,, i. 161. 
Satanic school. See school*. 
satanical (sa-tan'i-kal), a. [< sa.ta.nic + -a7.] 
Same as satdnic. 
I deal not 
With magic, to betray you to a faith 
Black and satanical. 
Shirley, Bird in a Cage, ii. 1. 
satanically (sa-tan'i-kal-i), adv. In a satanic 
manner ; with the wicked and malicious spirit 
of Satan ; devilishly. 
Most satanically designed on souls. 
Hammond, Works, IV. 470. 
satanicalness (sa-tan'i-kal-nes), n. Satanic 
character or quality. Bailey. 
Satanism (sa'tan-izm), n. [< Satan + -ism.] 
The evil and malicious disposition of Satan ; 
a diabolical spirit, doctrine, or contrivance. 
Luther first brinced [pledged] to Germany the poisoned 
cup of his heresies, blasphemies, and satanisms. 
Bp. Jewel, Works (Parker Soc.), III. 265. 
satanist (sa'tan-ist), n. [< Satan + -ist.~\ One 
who is, as it were, a disciple or adherent of Sa- 
tan; a very wicked person; also [cop.], one of 
the Euchites. [Rare.] 
There shall be fantastical babblers, and deceitful Satan- 
tots, in these last times, whose words and deeds are all false- 
hood and lies. Granger, On Ecclesiastes (1621), p. 343. 
satanophany (sa-ta-nof 'a-ni), n. [< Gr. 2<mzvac , 
Satan,+ -0ave/a,<0a('veo-ftM, appear.] Anappear- 
ance or incarnation of Satan ; the state of being 
possessed by a devil. [Rare.] Imp. Diet. 
satanophobia (sft'tgn-f-tS'bU), n. [< Gr. 2o- 
ravaf, batan, + -Qofiia, '<. <jx>fald()ai., fear.] Fear 
of the devil. [Rare.] 
Impregnated as he was with Satanophobia, he might 
perhaps have doubted still whether this distressed crea- 
ture, all woman and nature, was not all art and fiend. 
C. Reade, Cloister and Hearth, xcvi. (Daoiet.) 
Satan-shrimp (sa'tan-shrimp), n. A devil- 
shrimp; any member of the Luciferidee. See 
cut under Lucifer. 
satara, n. A ribbed, highly dressed, lustered, 
and hot-pressed woolen cloth. Enct/c. Brit., 
XXIV. 662. 
satchel (sach'el), n. [Formerly also sachel; < 
ME. sachel, < OF. sachel, < L. saccellus, dim. of 
saccus, a sack, bag: see sacki. Cf. It. saccolo 
= G. scickel, < L. sacculus, dim. of saccus, a sack, 
bag: see*nccM?e.] A small sack or bag ; espe- 
cially, a bag in which books (as school-books) 
are carried ; also, any hand-bag. 
Nyle ze here a sachel, nether scrip, nether schoon, and 
greete ze no man by the weye. Wycl\f, Luke x. 4. 
The whining school-boy, with his satchel 
And shining morning face. 
Shak., As you Like it, ii. 7. 145. 
