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Pertaining to, or like, the Sadducees; as, Sadducaic reasonings.

One of a sect among the ancient Jews, who denied the resurrection, a future state, and the existence of angels. -- Sad`du*ce"an, a.

The tenets of the Sadducees.

To adopt the principles of the Sadducees. Atterbury.

The European fifteen-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus spinachia); -- called also bismore.

Rounded stones containing tin ore, lying at the surface of the ground, and indicating a vein. Raymond.

obs. imp. of Shed. Chaucer.

A tree (Citrus decumana) and its fruit, which is a large species of orange; -- called also forbidden fruit, and pompelmous.

A saddle for women, in which the rider sits with both feet on one side of the animal mounted. Sidesaddle flower (Bot.), a plant with hollow leaves and curiously shaped flowers; -- called also huntsman's cup. See Sarracenia.

Hurt; damage. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Ray.

The larva of a bee. [Prov. Eng.]

To betake one's self to flight, as if in a panic; to flee; to run away. [Slang, U. S.]

A little spade. [Obs.]

imp. of Spread. Chaucer.

To leave the staddles, or saplings, of, as a wood when it is cut. [R.] Tusser.

A portable set of steps.

leg on one side and the other on the other side of; to stand or sit astride of; as, to straddle a fence or a horse.

Applied to spokes when they are arranged alternately in two circles in the hub. See Straddle, v. i., and Straddle, v. t., 3. Knight.

To add over and above; to add to what has been added; to annex, as something extrinsic. The strength of any living creature, in those external motion, is something distinct from, and superadded unto, its natural gravity. Bp. Wilkins. The peacock laid it extremely to heart that he had not the nightingale's voice superad…

The act of adding something in excess or something extraneous; also, something which is added in excess or extraneously. This superaddition is nothing but fat. Arbuthnot.