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The cavity of a nectocalyx.

To search thoroughly; to search every place or part of; as, to ransack a house. To ransack every corner of their . . . hearts. South.

A knapsack. [Obs.] South.

A sack or bag of wool; specifically, the seat of the lord chancellor of England in the House of Lords, being a large, square sack of wool resembling a divan in form.

A sack or matters inflated with air, and used as a bed.

fiber, which is used throughout India for making ropes, cordage, and a coarse canvas and sackcloth; --called also brown Indian hemp.

A small intrenchment or work of palisades, or of sacks of earth.

eathlike paleness. The lip of ashes, and the cheek of flame. Byron. In dust and ashes, In sackcloth and ashes, with humble expression of grief or repentance; -- from the method of mourning in Eastern lands. -- Volcanic ashes, or Volcanic ash, the loose, earthy matter, or small fragments of stone or lava, ejected by vo…

A hetman, or chief of the Cossacks.

A sack or pouch, used for holding anything; as, a bag of meal or of money.

An article of furniture to sleep or take rest in or on; a couch. Specifically: A sack or mattress, filled with some soft material, in distinction from the bedstead on which it is placed (as, a feather bed), or this with the bedclothes added. In a general sense, any thing or place used for sleeping or reclining on or in…

A quick motion; a start. [Obs.] Sackville.

To prepare by steeping and mingling; to concoct. Go, brew me a pottle of sack finely. Shak.

To throw out in bubbles; to bubble. [Obs.] Sackville.

A bag or sack with its contents; hence, a stock or store; an accumulation; as, a budget of inventions.

e sense of stately or beautiful, and of inanimate things that were huge and bulky. "Burly sacks." Drayton. In his latter days, with overliberal diet, [he was] somewhat corpulent and burly. Sir T. More. Burly and big, and studious of his ease. Cowper.

od, belonging to the genus Loligo and related genera. There are many species. They have a sack of inklike fluid which they discharge from the siphon tube, when pursued or alarmed, in order to confuse their enemies. Their shell is a thin horny plate, within the flesh of back, shaped very much like a quill pen. In Americ…

Wine made in the Canary Islands; sack. "A cup of canary." Shak.

A large draught of liguor. [Obs.] "A full carouse of sack." Sir J. Davies. Drink carouses to the next day's fate. Shak.

Sentinel. [Obs.] Sackville.