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Fig.: Bitter; sharp; pungent. I have a salt and sorry rheum offends me. Shak.

, and worn by persons who had been examined by the Inquisition and were brought forth for punishment at the auto-da-fé.

ates. They are very troublesome on account of their biting habits. Called also no-see-um, punky, and midge. -- Sand gall (Geol.) See Sand pipe, below. -- Sand grass (Bot.), any species of grass which grows in sand; especially, a tufted grass (Triplasis purpurea) with numerous bearded joints, and acid awl-shaped leave…

llied woodpecker (S. varius) of the Eastern United States. They are so named because they puncture the bark of trees and feed upon the sap. The name is loosely applied to other woodpeckers. -- Sap tube (Bot.), a vessel that conveys sap.

An ancient mode of punishing criminals among the Persians, by confining the victim in a trough, with his head and limbs smeared with honey or the like, and exposed to the sun and to insects until he died.

A silk yarn or fabric made out of carded spun silk.

A lash; a strap or cord; especially, a lash used to inflict pain or punishment; an instrument of punishment or discipline; a whip. Up to coach then goes The observed maid, takes both the scourge and reins. Chapman.

One who scourges or punishes; one who afflicts severely. The West must own the scourger of the world. Byron.

A large blackfish seaweed (Agarum Turneri), the frond of which is punctured with many little holes.

serve as renal organs, and often, also, as oviducts and sperm ducts. See Illust. under Sipunculacea. -- Segmental tubes (Anat.), the tubes which primarily open into the segmental duct, some of which become the urinary tubules of the adult.

The punctuation mark [;] indicating a separation between parts or members of a sentence more distinct than that marked by a comma.

To pass or pronounce judgment upon; to doom; to condemn to punishment; to prescribe the punishment of. Nature herself is sentenced in your doom. Dryden.

r succeeds as an effect; sequel; consequence; result. The inevitable sequences of sin and punishment. Bp. Hall.

To pass or spend, as time, esp. time of punishment; as, to serve a term in prison.

The materials used for serving a rope, etc., as spun yarn, small lines, etc.

A kind of punch used for bending, indenting, or giving shape to, metal; as, a saw set. (e) (Pile Driving)

A kind of chisel or punch, variously shaped, with a broad flat end, used for stripping off rivet heads, etc.

line, or government; harsh; not mild or indulgent; rigorous; as, severe criticism; severe punishment. "Custody severe." Milton. Come! you are too severe a moraler. Shak. Let your zeal, if it must be expressed in anger, be always more severe against thyself than against others. Jer. Taylor.

Harshness; cruel treatment; sharpness of punishment; as, severity practiced on prisoners of war.

ting the sense as if pointed or cutting, keen, penetrating, acute: to the taste or smell, pungent, acid, sour, as ammonia has a sharp taste and odor; to the hearing, piercing, shrill, as a sharp sound or voice; to the eye, instantaneously brilliant, dazzling, as a sharp flash.