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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