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's faith to for marriage, or solemnly promise (one's self or another) in marriage. To me, sad maid, he was affianced. Spenser.

A saddlebag. [Sp. Amer.]

A small intrenchment or work of palisades, or of sacks of earth.

udinally in one direction and transversely in the opposite direction, as the surface of a saddle.

A kind of pack saddle used in the American military service and among the Spanish Americans. It is made of leather stuffed with hay, moss, or the like.

o come into close contact or familiar intercourse. -- To work at arm's length, to work disadvantageously.

Any seizure by power, physical or moral. The sad stories of fire from heaven, the burning of his sheep, etc., . . . were sad arrests to his troubled spirit. Jer. Taylor.

k; with the legs stretched wide apart; astraddle. Placed astride upon the bars of the palisade. Sir W. Scott. Glasses with horn bows sat astride on his nose. Longfellow.

tion; as, at war; at peace; at ease; at your service; at fault; at liberty; at risk; at disadvantage.

A pointed instrument for piercing small holes, as in leather or wood; used by shoemakers, saddlers, cabinetmakers, etc. The blade is differently shaped and pointed for different uses, as in the brad awl, saddler's awl, shoemaker's awl, etc.

A line of palisades serving as an exterior defense. [Written also bayle.] [Obs.]

Full of grief or sorrow; woeful; sad. [Archaic]

On the bare back of a horse, without using a saddle; as, to ride bareback.

nother. To bargain away, to dispose of in a bargain; -- usually with a sense of loss or disadvantage; as, to bargain away one's birthright. "The heir . . . had somehow bargained away the estate." G. Eliot.

A fortification, made in haste, of trees, earth, palisades, wagons, or anything that will obstruct the progress or attack of an enemy. It is usually an obstruction formed in streets to block an enemy's access.

A band that passes under the belly of a horse and holds the saddle or harness in place; a girth.

A light vehicle having two wheels one behind the other. It has a saddle seat and is propelled by the rider's feet acting on cranks or levers.

Mournful; sad; distressing; painful; pitiable. The Egyptians . . . made their lives bitter with hard bondage. Ex. i. 14. Bitter apple, Bitter cucumber, Bitter gourd. (Bot.) See Colocynth. -- Bitter cress (Bot.), a plant of the genus Cardamine, esp. C. amara. -- Bitter earth (Min.), tale earth; calcined magnesia. --…

Gray; bluish gray. [Obs.] Our bloncket liveries been all too sad. Spenser.

A cushioned or a piece part of a saddle.