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A variety of carnelian, of a rich reddish yellow or brownish red color. See the Note under Chalcedony.

A variety of agate containing sard.

A sardine. [Obs.]

A precious stone. See Sardius.

which are commonly preserved in olive oil for food, especially the pilchard, or European sardine (Clupea pichardus). The California sardine (Clupea sagax) is similar. The American sardines of the Atlantic coast are mostly the young of the common herring and of the menhaden.

Of or pertaining to the island, kingdom, or people of Sardinia. -- n.

A precious stone, probably a carnelian, one of which was set in Aaron's breastplate. Ex. xxviii. 17.

Sard; carnelian.

Sardonic. [Obs.] "With Sardonian smile." Spenser.

c; -- applied only to a laugh, smile, or some facial semblance of gayety. Where strained, sardonic smiles are glozing still, And grief is forced to laugh against her will. Sir H. Wotton. The scornful, ferocious, sardonic grin of a bloody ruffian. Burke. Sardonic grin or laugh, an old medical term for a spasmodic affect…

A variety of onyx consisting of sard and white chalcedony in alternate layers.

One of the French Protestant insurgents who rebelled against Louis XIV, after the revocation of the edict of Nates; -- so called from the peasant's smock (camise) which they wore.

See Dizzard. [Obs.] Burton.

An official report of proceedings in the British Parliament; -- so called from the name of the publishers.

Hazard. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A hipped curb roof; that is, a roof having on all sides two slopes, the lower one being steeper than the upper one.

A dreamer; an absent-minded person. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

To take the vizard or mask from; to unmask. [Written also unvizard.] [Obs.] Milton.

A mask. See Visor.

See Wizard.