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A sudden, violent check of a horse by drawing or twitching the reins on a sudden and with one pull.

Hence, not to be profaned or violated; inviolable. Secrets of marriage still are sacred held. Dryden.

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…

Violating sacred things; polluted with sacrilege; involving sacrilege; profane; impious. Above the reach of sacrilegious hands. pope. -- Sac`ri*le"gious*ly, adv. -- Sac`ri*le"gious*ness, n.

Sacred; inviolable. [R.] Dr. H. More.

a bent funnel tube with bulbs for adding those reagents which produce unpleasant fumes or violent effervescence. -- Safety valve, a valve which is held shut by a spring or weight and opens automatically to permit the escape of steam, or confined gas, water, etc., from a boiler, or other vessel, when the pressure becom…

uted in 1776 by Col. St. Leger. -- Saint Martin's herb (Bot.), a small tropical American violaceous plant (Sauvagesia erecta). It is very mucilaginous and is used in medicine.

To impart or impute sacredness, venerableness, inviolability, title to reverence and respect, or the like, to; to secure from violation; to give sanction to. The holy man, amazed at what he saw, Made haste to sanctify the bliss by law. Dryden. Truth guards the poet, sanctifies the line. Pope.

Sacredness; solemnity; inviolability; religious binding force; as, the sanctity of an oath.

A sacred place; a consecrated spot; a holy and inviolable site. Hence, specifically:

Hence, an extreme or radical republican; a violent revolutionist; a Jacobin.

To expose to a boiling or violent heat over a fire, or in hot water or other liquor; as, to scald milk or meat.

A peduncle rising from the ground or from a subterranean stem, as in the stemless violets, the bloodroot, and the like.

To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or like instrument.

One who plays awkwardly on a violin.

n Colleges] To screw out, to press out; to extort. -- To screw up, to force; to bring by violent pressure. Howell. -- To screw in, to force in by turning or twisting.

The state or quality of being seaworthy, or able to resist the ordinary violence of wind and weather. Kent.

Disposed to arouse, or take part in, violent opposition to lawful authority; turbulent; factious; guilty of sedition; as, seditious citizens. -- Se*di"tious*ly, adv. -- Se*di"tious*ness, n.

nd. Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day. Shak. Gold death, with a violent fate, his sable eyes did seel. Chapman.

To be a state of ebullition or violent commotion; to be hot; to boil. 1 Sam. ii. 13. A long Pointe, round which the Mississippi used to whirl, and seethe, and foam. G. W. Cable.