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To make sober. [Obs.] Sad accidents to ensober his spirits. Jer. Taylor.

; a minister accredited to a foreign government. An envoy's rank is below that of an ambassador.

Saddle-shaped; occupying an ephippium. Dana.

A saddle-shaped cavity to contain the winter eggs, situated on the back of Cladocera.

To grieve; to feel sad. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A title of honor given to certain high dignitaries, esp. to viceroys, ministers, and ambassadors, to English colonial governors, etc. It was formerly sometimes given to kings and princes.

eventing admission; a debarring; rejection; prohibition; the state of being excluded. His sad exclusion from the doors of bliss. Milton. The exclusion of the duke from the crown of England and Ireland. Hume.

, an exotic plant; an exotic term or word. Nothing was so splendid and exotic as the ambassador. Evelyn.

Experience. [Obs.] Adam, by sad experiment I know How little weight my words with thee can find. Milton.

Employed or sent upon an unusual or special service; as, an ambassador extraordinary.

Heaving (such or so many) eyes; -- used in composition; as sharp-eyed; dull-eyed; sad-eyed; ox-eyed Juno; myriad-eyed.

The loins of a horse, beginning at the place where the hinder part of the saddle rests. Arris fillet. See under Arris.

A lock of wool or hair. I prythee, Tom, beat Cut's saddle, put a few flocks in the point [pommel]. Shak.

The stirrup of a woman's saddle.

gainst. those in favor and those opposed; the pros and the cons; the advantages and the disadvantages. Jane Austen.

is farthest forward. -- Fore piece, a front piece, as the flap in the fore part of a sidesaddle, to guard the rider's dress. -- Fore plane, a carpenter's plane, in size and use between a jack plane and a smoothing plane. Knight. -- Fore reading, previous perusal. [Obs.] Hales. -- Fore rent, in Scotland, rent payabl…

lace, occupied only by troops, surrounded with a ditch, rampart, and parapet, or with palisades, stockades, or other means of defense; a fortification. Detached works, depending solely on their own strength, belong to the class of works termed forts. Farrow.

An outwork. [Obs.] Palisadoes, frontiers, parapets. Shak.

; the effect or consequence of any action; advantageous or desirable product or result; disadvantageous or evil consequence or effect; as, the fruits of labor, of self-denial, of intemperance. The fruit of rashness. Shak. What I obtained was the fruit of no bargain. Burke. They shall eat the fruit of their doings. Is.…

aining to burial; solemn. Hence: Dark; dismal; mournful. Jer. Taylor. What seem to us but sad funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps. Longfellow. -- Fu*ne"re*al*ly, adv.