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A anme formerly given to various dry Spanish wines. "Sherris sack." Shak. Sack posset, a posset made of sack, and some other ingredients.

Having a peculiar pouch developed near the front edge of the wing; -- said of certain bats of the genus Saccopteryx.

The act of taking by storm and pillaging; sack. [R.] H. Roscoe.

A brass wind instrument, like a bass trumpet, so contrived that it can be lengthened or shortened according to the tone required; -- said to be the same as the trombone. [Written also sagbut.] Moore (Encyc. of Music).

Linen or cotton cloth such a sacks are made of; coarse cloth; anciently, a cloth or garment worn in mourning, distress, mortification, or penitence. Gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. 2 Sam. iii. 31. Thus with sackcloth I invest my woe. Sandys.

Clothed in sackcloth.

One who sacks; one who takes part in the storm and pillage of a town.

As much as a sack will hold.

Stout, coarse cloth of which sacks, bags, etc., are made.

Quiet; peaceable; harmless; innocent. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

Any one of the spaces in the Milky Way which are very black, owing to the nearly complete absence of stars; esp., the large space near the Southern Cross sometimes called the Black Magellanic Cloud.

One of a warlike, pastoral people, skillful as horsemen, inhabiting different parts of the Russian empire and furnishing valuable contingents of irregular cavalry to its armies, those of Little Russia and those of the Don forming the principal divisions.

An outpost consisting of four men, forming one of a single line of posts substituted for the more formal line of sentinels and line of pickets.

To refuse to acknowledge; to deny; to disown. [Obs.] South.

The Scotch bagpipe. [Prov. Eng.]

A traveler's handbag. [Colloq.]

A term of reproach, implying that one is fit to be hanged. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

cloth, in which a soldier carries his rations when on a march; -- distinguished from knapsack.

Same as Cossack.

a soldier's necessaries, or the clothing, etc., of a traveler. And each one fills his knapsack or his scrip With some rare thing that on the field is found. Drayton.