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er. (a) The paschal supper partaken of by Jesus the night before his crucifixion. (b) The sacrament of the eucharist; the holy communion. -- The Lord's Table. (a) The altar or table from which the sacrament is dispensed. (b) The sacrament itself.

and sisters. Of all the dearest bonds we prove Thou countest sons' and mothers' love Most sacred, most Thine own. Keble.

A grotto on the Palatine Hill sacred to Lupercus, the Lycean Pan.

Strong; lusty. [Obs.] " Lustful health." Sackville.

A sacrifice, or ceremony, by which cities, fields, armies, or people, defiled by crimes, pestilence, or other cause of uncleanness, were purified.

The act of killing a victim for sacrifice. [Obs.]

with tranquility and firmness, to disdain injustice, meanness and revenge, and to act and sacrifice for noble objects.

Formerly, among Teutonic nations, a meeting of the notables of a state for the transaction of public business, such meeting being a modification of the ancient popular assembly. Hence:

or other grain, steeped in water and dried in a kiln, thus forcing germination until the saccharine principle has been evolved. It is used in brewing and in the distillation of whisky.

so, becoming behavior; well- bred carriage and address. Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. Emerson.

eet white efflorescence from dried fronds of kelp, especially from those of the Laminaria saccharina, or devil's apron.

d from, mannite. Mannitic acid (Chem.), a white amorphous substance, intermediate between saccharic acid and mannite, and obtained by the partial oxidation of the latter.

A tree of the genus Acer, including about fifty species. A. saccharinum is the rock maple, or sugar maple, from the sap of which sugar is made, in the United States, in great quantities, by evaporation; the red or swamp maple is A. rubrum; the silver maple, A. dasycarpum, having fruit wooly when young; the striped mapl…

A sacred inclosure or temple; -- so called by the islanders of the Pacific Ocean.

Hence, one who sacrifices his life, his station, or what is of great value to him, for the sake of principle, or to sustain a cause. Then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr ! Shak.

The sacrifice in the sacrament of the Eucharist, or the consecration and oblation of the host.

sage; to be intricate. Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran. Coleridge.

The saccharine substance dulcite; -- so called because found in the leaves of cowwheat (Melampyrum). See Dulcite.

o, or designating, an acid obtained from molasses or glucose, and probably identical with saccharic acid. See Saccharic.

Containing saccharine matter; marked by saccharine secretions; as, mellitic diabetes.