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A saccharimeter.

The sin or crime of violating or profaning sacred things; the alienating to laymen, or to common purposes, what has been appropriated or consecrated to religious persons or uses. And the hid treasures in her sacred tomb With sacrilege to dig. Spenser. Families raised upon the ruins of churches, and enriched with the sp…

; freedom from hazard, danger, harm, or loss; safety; security; as the safeness of an experiment, of a journey, or of a possession.

or the sake, for his sake, for man's sake, for mercy's sake, and the like; as, to commit crime for the sake of gain; to go abroad for the sake of one's health. Moved with wrath and shame and ladies; sake. Spenser. I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake. Gen. viii. 21. Will he draw out, For anger's sa…

tify; to confirm; to approve. Would have counseled, or even sanctioned, such perilous experiments. De Quincey.

ring one day, but afterward during seven days, as a period of unrestrained license and merriment for all classes, extending even to the slaves.

deity or demigod, represented as part man and part goat, and characterized by riotous merriment and lasciviousness. Rough Satyrs danced; and Fauns, with cloven heel, From the glad sound would not be absent long. Milton.

The state of being savage; savageness; savagism. A like work of primeval savagery. C. Kingsley.

Disgraceful to reputation; bringing shame or infamy; opprobrious; as, a scandalous crime or vice.

One who has narrowly escaped the gallows for his crimes. [Colloq.] Dickens.

as, a primary school; a common school; a grammar school. As he sat in the school at his primer. Chaucer.

, perhaps, insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad; and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array. Brougham.

employed in exact science and consisting of: (a) Careful and abundant observation and experiment.

en forward by something. The first nautilus that scudded upon the glassy surface of warm primeval oceans. I. Taylor. The wind was high; the vast white clouds scudded over the blue heaven. Beaconsfield.

Hence, the foul remains of anything adherent. The scurf is worn away of each committed crime. Dryden.

time; proper conjuncture; as, the season for planting; the season for rest. The season, prime for sweetest scents and airs. Milton.

In the duodecimal system of mensuration, the twelfth part of an inch or prime; a line. See Inch, and Prime, n., 8.

to unlawful sexual intercourse, by enticements which overcome her scruples; the wrong or crime of persuading a woman to surrender her chastity.

The crime of buying or selling ecclesiastical preferment; the corrupt presentation of any one to an ecclesiastical benefice for money or reward. Piers Plowman.

pass over lightly or with little notice. With periods, points, and tropes, he slurs his crimes. Dryden.