noun.
A digitigrade carnivorous quadruped, Mustela zibellina, of the family Mustelidæ and subfamily Mustelinæ, closely related to the martens.
noun.
The dressed pelt or fur of the sable.
noun.
The color black in a general sense, and especially as the color of mourning: so called with reference to the general dark color of the fur of the sable as compared with other furs, or from its being dyed black as sealskin is dyed.
noun.
A black cloth or covering of any kind; mourning-garments in general; a suit of black: often in the plural.
noun.
A fine paint-brush or pencil made of hair from the tail of the sable.
noun.
In heraldry, black; one of the tinctures, represented when the colors are not given, as in engraving, by a close network of vertical and horizontal lines. Abbreviated S., sa. See also cut under pall.
noun.
A British collectors' name of certain pyralid moths. Botys nigrata is the wavy-barred sable, and B, lingulata is the silver-barred sable.
Made of sable: as, a sable muff or tippet.
Of the color of a sable; dark-brown; blackish.
Black, especially as applied to mourning, or as an attribute.
noun.
A Spanish name of the cutlas-fish.
To make like sable in color; darken; blacken; hence, figuratively, to make sad or dismal; sadden.