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stone. Oriental amethyst, the violet-blue variety of transparent crystallized corundum or sapphire.

n defense or justification of what appears to others wrong, or of what may be liable to disapprobation; justification; as, Tertullian's Apology for Christianity. It is not my intention to make an apology for my poem; some will think it needs no excuse, and others will receive none. Dryden.

An imposing series of things. Their long array of sapphire and of gold. Byron.

Radiated, with diverging rays; as, asteriated sapphire.

ptical property of some crystals which exhibit a star- shaped by reflected light, as star sapphire, or by transmitted light, as some mica.

, to an extreme point. I. Taylor. We may reject and reject till we attenuate history into sapless meagerness. Sir F. Palgrave.

d of all plants in which photosynthetic activity takes place, as opposed to parasitism or saprophytism.

a bag of coffee. Bag and baggage, all that belongs to one. -- To give one the bag, to disappoint him. [Obs.] Bunyan.

A West Indian sapotaceous tree (Bumelia retusa).

A hindrance or disappointment; a check. A balk to the confidence of the bold undertaker. South.

A perennial herbaceous plant of almost treelike size (Musa sapientum); also, its edible fruit. See Musa.

Weary; tired; fatigued; exhausted. [Colloq.] Quite beat, and very much vexed and disappointed. Dickens.

ure) by witchcraft or sorcery. See how I am bewitched; behold, mine arm Is like a blasted sapling withered up. Shak.

To frustrate or disappoint; to deceive or defraud, by nonfulfillment of engagement; to leave in the lurch; to give the slip to; as, to bilk a creditor. Thackeray.

. -- Birch partridge. (Zoöl.) See Ruffed grouse. -- Birch wine, wine made of the spring sap of the birch. -- Oil of birch. (a) An oil obtained from the bark of the common European birch (Betula alba), and used in the preparation of genuine ( and sometimes of the imitation) Russia leather, to which it gives its pecul…

To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; to reproach. We have none to blame but ourselves. Tillotson.

The part of a tree which lies immediately under the bark; the alburnum or sapwood.

To lose sap, gum, or juice; as, a tree or a vine bleeds when tapped or wounded.

Emitting, or appearing to emit, blood or sap, etc.; also, expressing anguish or compassion.

That which twinkles or glances, as a dim star, which appears and disappears. Hakewill.