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To search thoroughly; to search every place or part of; as, to ransack a house. To ransack every corner of their . . . hearts. South.

Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Rosaceæ) of which the rose is the type. It includes also the plums and cherries, meadowsweet, brambles, the strawberry, the hawthorn, applies, pears, service tress, and quinces.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid (called also lithic acid) found in certain red precipitates of urine. See Uric. [Obs.]

The act of sacrificing one's self, or one's interest, for others; self-devotion.

Yielding up one's own interest, ffeelings, etc; sacrificing one's self.

A knapsack. [Obs.] South.

A hydrozoan reproductive zooid or gonophore which does not become medusoid in form or structure. See Illust. under Athecata.

A kind of larkspur (Delphinium Staphysagria), and its seeds, which are violently purgative and emetic. They are used as a parasiticide, and in the East for poisoning fish.

Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the sacrum.

Situated over, or on the dorsal side of, the sacrum.

To carry through; to do; perform; to manage; as, to transact commercial business; to transact business by an agent.

That which is done; an affair; as, the transactions on the exchange.

One who transacts, performs, or conducts any business. Derham.

A complex sugar, as raffinose, yielding by hydrolysis three simple sugar molecules.

One who recognizes three sacraments, and no more; -- namely, baptism, the Lord's Supper, and penance. See Sacrament.

Tussock grass.

To deprive of sacramental character or efficacy; as, to unsacrament the rite of baptism. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to both the caudal and sacral parts of the vertebral column; as, the urosacral vertebræ of birds.

A sack or bag of wool; specifically, the seat of the lord chancellor of England in the House of Lords, being a large, square sack of wool resembling a divan in form.

The exercise of priestly jurisdiction in the sacrament of penance, by which Catholics believe the sins of the truly penitent are forgiven.