Sap
[sæp]
Definition
(noun.) a watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant.
(verb.) excavate the earth beneath.
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Definition
(n.) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
(n.) The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
(n.) A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop.
(v. t.) To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
(v. t.) To pierce with saps.
(v. t.) To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
(v. i.) To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
(n.) A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Juice (of a plant).
v. a. Mine, undermine.
Typist: Stacey
Definition
n. the vital juice of plants: (bot.) the part of the wood next to the bark: the blood: a simpleton: a plodding student.—v.i. to play the part of a ninny: to be studious.—ns. Sap′-bee′tle a beetle which feeds on sap; Sap′-col′our a vegetable juice inspissated by slow evaporation for the use of painters.—adj. Sap′ful full of sap.—ns. Sap′-green a green colouring matter from the juice of buckthorn berries; Sap′head a silly fellow.—adj. Sap′less wanting sap: not juicy.—ns. Sap′ling a young tree so called from being full of sap: a young greyhound during the year of his birth until the end of the coursing season which commences in that year; Sap′ling-cup an open tankard for drinking new ale; Sap′piness.—adj. Sap′py abounding with sap: juicy: silly.—ns. Sap′-tube a vessel that conveys sap; Sap′-wood the outer part of the trunk of a tree next the bark in which the sap flows most freely: albumen.—Crude sap the ascending sap.
v.t. to destroy by digging underneath: to undermine: to impair the constitution.—v.i. to proceed by undermining:—pr.p. sap′ping; pa.t. and pa.p. sapped.—n. a narrow ditch or trench by which approach is made from the foremost parallel towards the glacis or covert-way of a besieged place.—n. Sap′per one who saps.
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Examples
- Resolved, as your discriminating good sense perceives, that if you was to have a sap--pur--IZE, it should be a complete one! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It was then dipped in the sap, or the latter was poured over it, which gave it a thin coating. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- When once I had pressed the frail shoulder, something new--a fresh sap and sense--stole into my frame. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Turpentine, for example, is made by distilling the sap of pine trees. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- He smelled the odor of the pine boughs under him, the piney smell of the crushed needles and the sharper odor of the resinous sap from the cut limbs. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I wanted to give you a delightful sap--pur--IZE! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- After having established themselves in camp the natives take up their monotonous round, which is followed day after day as long as the rubber trees continue to yield their valuable sap. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- An arch of the bridge in the park has been sapped and sopped away. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- They have banished the tender grace of life and left only the sapped and skinny mockery. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It is this life-sapping quality of our politics that should be fought--its wanton waste of the initiatives we have--its stupid indifference. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He saw the need for versatility--for more simplicity in operation--for getting away from arbitrary rules--for release from the sapping mental tax. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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