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See Sace.

A kind of fresh-water bass; the crappie. [Southern U.S.]

See Saker.

A sudden, violent check of a horse by drawing or twitching the reins on a sudden and with one pull.

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

A salt of saccharic acid.

Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, saccharine substances; specifically, designating an acid obtained, as a white amorphous gummy mass, by the oxidation of mannite, glucose, sucrose, etc.

Producing sugar; as, sacchariferous canes.

Toconvert into, or to impregnate with, sugar.

A kind of muslin.

An instrument for ascertain the quantity of saccharine matter in any solution, as the juice of a plant, or brewers' and distillers' worts. [Written also saccharometer.]

Of or pertaining to saccharimetry; obtained saccharimetry.

The act, process or method of determining the amount and kind of sugar present in sirup, molasses, and the like, especially by the employment of polarizing apparatus.

A bitter white crystalline substance obtained from the saccharinates and regarded as the lactone of saccharinic acid; -- so called because formerly supposed to be isomeric with cane sugar (saccharose).

A salt of saccharinic acid.

Of or pertaining to sugar; having the qualities of sugar; producing sugar; sweet; as, a saccharine taste; saccharine matter.

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, saccharin; specifically, designating a complex acid not known in the free state but well known in its salts, which are obtained by boiling dextrose and levulose (invert sugar) with milk of lime.

To convert into, or to impregnate with, sugar.

resembling sugar, as in taste, appearance, consistency, or composition; as, saccharoidal limestone.

A saccharimeter.