noun. A leather-covered bludgeon with a short, flexible shaft or strap, used as a hand weapon.

transitive verb. To hit or knock out with a sap.

noun. A covered trench or tunnel dug to a point near or within an enemy position.

intransitive verb. To undermine the foundations of (a fortification).

intransitive verb. To dig a sap.

noun. undefined

noun. The watery fluid that circulates through a plant, carrying food and other substances to the various tissues.

noun. undefined

noun. Health and energy; vitality.

noun. A foolish or gullible person.

transitive verb. To drain (a tree, for example) of sap.

transitive verb. To deplete or weaken gradually: synonym: deplete.

noun. Same as saphead.

To act like a sap; play the part of a ninny or a soft fellow.

noun. A tool for digging; a mattock.

noun. [⟨ sap, verb] Milit., a narrow ditch or trench by which approach is made to a fortress or besieged place when within range of fire.

To undermine; render unstable by digging into or eating away the foundations, or, figuratively, by some analogous insidious or invisible process; impair the stability of, by insidious means: as, to sap a wall; to sap a person's constitution, or the morals of a community.

Milit., to approach or pierce with saps or trenches.

To dig or use saps or trenches; hence, to impair stability by insidious means.

noun. The juice or fluid which circulates in all plants, being as indispensable to vegetable life as is the blood to animal life.

noun. Hence The juice or fluid the presence of which in anything is characteristic of a healthy, fresh, or vigorous condition; blood.

noun. The alburnum of a tree; the exterior part of the wood, next to the bark; sap-wood.

noun. In archery, the light-colored portion of a bowstaff composed of the sap-wood. This portion forms the back of a self-bow.

noun. A quarryman's name for rock which is partially decayed and which exhibits this quality by iron stains and other discolorations. It is usually thrown away.

intransitive verb. To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.

transitive verb. To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.

transitive verb. To pierce with saps.

transitive verb. To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.

noun. The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.

noun. The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.

noun. A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop.

noun. any large fungus of the genus Polyporus. See Polyporus.

noun. a dull light green pigment prepared from the juice of the ripe berries of the Rhamnus catharticus, or buckthorn. It is used especially by water-color artists.

noun. the dry rot. See under Dry.

noun. any one of several species of small American woodpeckers of the genus Sphyrapicus, especially the yellow-bellied woodpecker (S. varius) of the Eastern United States. They are so named because they puncture the bark of trees and feed upon the sap. The name is loosely applied to other woodpeckers.

noun. a vessel that conveys sap.

noun. A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.

noun. a fascine about three feet long, used in sapping, to close the crevices between the gabions before the parapet is made.

noun. a large gabion, six or seven feet long, filled with fascines, which the sapper sometimes rolls along before him for protection from the fire of an enemy.

noun. The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.

noun. The sap-wood, or alburnum, of a tree.

noun. A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop; a naive person.

noun. A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.

verb. To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).

noun. A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.

verb. To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.

verb. To pierce with saps.

verb. To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.

verb. To gradually weaken.

verb. To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps — 12

"A little in this way -- but these similes are very imperfect, and will not bear close application -- the sap rises in a tree, stealing up branch by branch; and it is then called _ascending sap_."

flying sap  nuclear sap  

sap fagot  sap roller  sapper  

bludgeon  cave  consume  deplete  eat  

App  Capp  Jap  Lapp  Papp  

Herb  Marks  Powers  berry  bud  

abate  abri  approach trench  asshole  attenuate  

sapped  sapping  

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