Index of English words, starting with "sa"

(1) - Sachet (n.) A scent bag, or perfume cushion, to be laid among handkerchiefs, garments, etc., to perfume them.

(1) - Sack (v. t.) To plunder or pillage, as a town or city; to devastate; to ravage.
(2) - Sack (n.) The pillage or plunder, as of a town or city; the storm and plunder of a town; devastation; ravage.
(3) - Sack (v. t.) To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.
(4) - Sack (v. t.) To put in a sack; to bag; as, to sack corn.
(5) - Sack (n.) Bed.
(6) - Sack (n.) See 2d Sac, 2.
(7) - Sack (n.) A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam.
(8) - Sack (n.) Originally, a loosely hanging garment for women, worn like a cloak about the shoulders, and serving as a decorative appendage to the gown; now, an outer garment with sleeves, worn by women; as, a dressing sack.
(9) - Sack (n.) A measure of varying capacity, according to local usage and the substance. The American sack of salt is 215 pounds; the sack of wheat, two bushels.
(10) - Sack (n.) A bag for holding and carrying goods of any kind; a receptacle made of some kind of pliable material, as cloth, leather, and the like; a large pouch.
(11) - Sack (n.) A name formerly given to various dry Spanish wines.

(1) - Sackbut (n.) 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.

(1) - Sackcloth (n.) Linen or cotton cloth such as sacks are made of; coarse cloth; anciently, a cloth or garment worn in mourning, distress, mortification, or penitence.

(1) - Sacker (n.) One who sacks; one who takes part in the storm and pillage of a town.