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Enormous. This intolerable deal of sack. Shak. -- In*tol"er*a*ble*ness, n. -- In*tol"er*a*bly, adv.

iness of disposition, of treatment, or of words. In kind a father, but not in kindliness. Sackville.

A pack sack to be swung on either side of a packsaddle. [Western U. S.]

ve dozen; of leather, twenty dickers; of pitch and tar, fourteen barrels; of wool, twelve sacks; of flax or feathers, 1,700 lbs.

Plunder; booty; especially, the boot taken in a conquered or sacked city.

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

assage of the bill to its third reading was delayed. "The passage of the Stamp Act." D. Hosack. The final question was then put upon its passage. Cushing. In passage, in passing; cursorily. "These . . . have been studied but in passage." Bacon. -- Middle passage, Northeast passage, Northwest passage. See under Middle,…

A woman's loose dressing sack; hence, a loose morning gown or wrapper.

Anything used to support the head of a person when reposing; especially, a sack or case filled with feathers, down, hair, or other soft material. [Resty sloth] finds the down pillow hard. Shak.

To take the goods of by force, or without right; to pillage; to spoil; to sack; to strip; to rob; as, to plunder travelers. Nebuchadnezzar plunders the temple of God. South.

A large bag or sack used in packing various articles, as ginger, hops, cowries, etc.

A bag; a sack; a pocket. "He drew a dial from his poke." Shak. They wallowed as pigs in a poke. Chaucer.

A kind of coarse bagging, -- used for coal sacks. Weale.

A pot or tankard. Shak. A dry pottle of sack before him. Sir W. Scott.

To search through; to scour; to ransack. The statesman rakes the town to find a plot. Swift.

To search or ransack; to rummage. [Prov. Eng.]

Same as Rundlet. "A stoup of sack, or a runlet of canary." Sir W. Scott.

in allusion to its hissing sound. It has two principal sounds; one a more hissing, as in sack, this; the other a vocal hissing (the same as that of z), as in is, wise. Besides these it sometimes has the sounds of sh and zh, as in sure, measure. It generally has its hissing sound at the beginning of words, but in the m…

See 2d Sack.

Having the form of a sack or pouch; furnished with a sack or pouch, as a petal.