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The condition or quality of being sane; soundness of health of body or mind, especially of the mind; saneness.

Not mad or insane; not wild, visionary, or heated with passion; exercising cool, dispassionate reason; self-controlled; self- possessed. There was not a sober person to be had; all was tempestuous and blustering. Druden. No sober man would put himself into danger for the applause of escaping without breaking his neck.…

ton. It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce; It's fitter being sane than mad. R. Browning.

To affect with insanity, especially in a slight degree; to make partially insane; -- rarely used except in the past participle. She feared his head was a little touched. Ld. Lytton.

An insane desire for intoxicating or poisonous drugs, as alcohol or opium. B. W. Richardson.

An insane or greatly exaggerated dread of poisons.

The drumhead of a capstan; especially, the drumhead of the lower of two capstans on the sane axis.

of so as to make dull; to blunt. -- To turn the head or brain of, to make giddy, wild, insane, or the like; to infatuate; to overthrow the reason or judgment of; as, a little success turned his head. -- To turn the scale or balance, to change the preponderance; to decide or determine something doubtful. -- To turn t…

Mad; insane; possessed; rabid; furious; frantic. [Obs.] [Written also wode.] Our hoste gan to swear as [if] he were wood. Chaucer.