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SACHSA, a small town of Prussian Saxony, in Thu¬ 
ringia ; 26 miles east-by-north of Gottingen. Population 
1150. 
SACHSENHAUSEN. See Frankfort-on-the-Maine. 
SACHSENHEIM th e name of three villages of the west 
of Germany, in Baden. Great Sachsenheim has 900 inhabi¬ 
tants, little Sachsenheim 700, and Upper Sachsenheim 600. 
They are about 8 miles north-by-west of Heidelberg, and 10 
east of Manheim. 
SACHSENHEIM, Great, a smalltown in the west of 
Germany, in W irtemberg. Population 1100; 3 miles north 
of Mark Groningen.—Little Sachsenheim is a village in the 
neighbourhood, with 900 inhabitants. 
SACILE, a small but populous town of Austrian Italy, in 
the delegation of Udina, Its environs are very pleasant, and 
the wine produced in them is in high repute; 10 miles east 
of Ceneda, and 31 west of Udina. 
SACK, s. [sakk, Goth, pace. Sax. sac, Fr. a-aKKot;, Gr. 
saccus, Lat. sacco, Ital. and Span.]—A bag; a pouch; 
commonly a large bag.—Vastius caused the authors of that 
mutiny to be thrust into sac/cs, and in the sight of the fleet 
cast into the sea. Knolles. 
SACK OF COALS contains three bushels, or one-twelfth 
part of a chaldron. 
To SACK, v. a. To put in bags. 
Now the great work is done, the corn is ground, 
The grist is sack'd, and every sack well bound. Betterton. 
[From the Spanish saco.~] To take by storm; to pillage; 
to plunder. 
I'll make thee stoop and bend thy knee. 
Or sac/c this country with a mutiny. Shakspeare\ 
SACK, s. Storm of a town ; pillage; plunder. 
If Saturn’s son bestows 
The sack of Troy, which he by promise owes, 
Then shall the conquering Greeks thy loss restore. Dry den. 
A kind of white wine, now brought chiefly from the 
Canaries, of uncertain etymology. The sack of Shak‘ 
speare is believed to be what is now called Sherry. Johnson. 
In Minsheu’s Eng. and Span. Diet. 1599, “ sac/ie" is called 
“ a wine that commeth out of Spaine,” and is rendered 
merely “ vino bianco,” white wine. This Spanish wiue, 
however, according to a citation made by Mr. Douce from a 
late publication of Travels, is said to owe its name to “ goat¬ 
skin sacks in which it is carried:— a practice so common in 
Spain, as to give the name of sack toaspecies of white wine 
once highly prized in Great Britain.” Todd. 
SACK RIVER, a river of north America, which falls into 
the Mississippi. It is about 200 yards wide at its mouth, and 
bears from the Mississippi about south-west. 
SA’CKBUT, s. [ sacaluche , Spanish ; old Fr. sacque - 
butte.'] —It is usually eight feet long, without reckoning two 
circles in the middle of the instrument, and without being 
drawn out:—it serves as a bass in concerts of wind musick. 
Mus. Diet. 
The trumpets, sackbuts, psalteries and fife, 
Make the sun dance. Shakspeare. 
SA'CKCLOTH, s. Cloth of which sacks are made; 
coarse cloth sometimes worn in mortification.—Coarse stuff 
made of goats’ hair, of a dark colour, worn by soldiers and 
mariners; and used as a habit among the Hebrews in 
times of mourning.—Called sackcloth, either because sacks 
were made of this sort of stuff, or because haircloths were 
straight and close like a sack. Calmet. 
To augment her painful penance more. 
Thrice every week in ashes she did sit. 
And next her wrinkled skin rough sackcloth wore. Spenser. 
Thus with sackcloth I invest my woe. 
And dust upon my clouded forehead throw. Sandys. 
SA'CKCLOTHED, adj. Wearing sackcloth. Unused. 
—To be jovial, when God calls to mourning; to glut our 
maw, when he calls to fasting; to glitter, when he would 
have us sackcloth'd and squalid; he hates it to the death. 
Bp. Hall. 
SA'CKER, s. One that takes a town. Barret. 
SACKET’S HARBOUR, a post village and port of entry 
of the United States, in Jefferson county, New York, situated 
at the mouth of Black river, on Hungary bay, at the east end 
of Lake Ontario. It is one of the best harbours in the state, 
though small, and has sufficient water for large ships, being 
well sheltered from every wind, and nearly surrounded by 
high lands. A low point of land runs out from north-west, 
upon which is the dock-yard, with large store-houses, and 
all the requisite buildings belonging to such an establish¬ 
ment. Upon this point there is a very powerful work called 
Fort Tomkins, having within it a strong block-house, two 
stories high; on the’land side it is covered by a strong picket¬ 
ing, in which there are embrasures ; twenty guns are mounted 
besides two or three mortars, with a furnace for heating shot. 
At the bottom of the harbour is the village that contains from 
60 to 70 houses, and to the southward of it a barrack capable 
of accommodating 2000 men, and generally used for the 
marines belonging to the fleet. On a point eastward of the 
harbour stands Fort Pike, armed with 20 guns. About 100 
yards from the village is a barrack strongly built of logs 
capable of containing 2500 men, and making a powerful 
resistance. A little farther westward there is another large 
fort, mounting 28 guns. By the side of the wood that leads 
from the village to Henderson’s harbour, stands Fort Virginia 
armed with 16 guns. Fort Chauncey, is a small circular 
tower, intended for musketry. In addition to these works of 
strength, there are several biock-houses in different situations 
that altogether render the place very secure, and capable of 
resisting a powerful attack ; indeed, from recent events, the 
Americans have attached much importance to it, and, with 
their accustomed celerity, have spared no exertion to render it 
formidable. This place is rapidly increasing in population 
and importance. A weekly newspaper is published here; 
176 miles north-west of Albany. 
SA'CKFUL, s. A full bag.—Wood goes about with sack¬ 
fuls of dross, odiously misrepresenting his prince’s coun¬ 
tenance. Swift- 
SA'CKAGE, s. Act of storming and plundering a place. 
—With as small a matter Psammeticus saved the saccage of 
of a city. Feltham. 
SA'CKING, s. Act of plundering a town. Barret .— 
[paeccmjr, Sax.] Coarse cloth, fastened to a bedstead, and sup¬ 
porting the bed; cloth, of which sacks are made. 
SACKINGEN, a small town of the west of Germany, in 
Baden, on the Rhine. Population 950.—It was one of the 
four forest towns of Suabia; 17 miles east of Bale. 
SA'CKLESS, adj. [pacleap, Saxon, blameless, inoffen¬ 
sive, quiet.] A common word in the north of England for 
innocent; and sometimes for weak, simple. 
SACICPO'SSET, s. A posset made of milk, sack, and 
some other ingredients.—Snuff the candles at supper on the 
table, because the burning snuff may fall into a dish of soup 
or saekposset. Swift. 
SACKVILLE (Thomas), Lord Buckhurst and Earl of 
Dorset, an accomplished nobleman, one of the earliest cul¬ 
tivators of English poetry, was the son of Sir Richard Sack- 
ville, of Buckhurst, in the parish of Withiam, Sussex. 
According to his age stated by Dr. Abbot in his funeral 
sermon,, he was born in 1536; but Mr. Warton affirms this 
date to be evidently inaccurate, and says that his birth should 
be placed at least six years earlier. He appears to have had 
a domestic education till his being entered (as is conjectured) 
at Hart-Hall, Oxford; whence he removed to Cambridge, at 
which University he took the degree of M.A. He distin¬ 
guished himself at bolh these seminaries for his performances 
in Latin and English poetry, nor did he desert the muses 
when he removed to the Inner Temple. He studied the law 
so far as to be called to the bar, but without any intention of 
practising it, for he was born to the expectation of an ample 
patrimony. He was a representative in parliament for West¬ 
moreland, 
