Sack
(Sack), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sacked ; p. pr. & vb. n. Sacking.] [See Sack pillage.] To plunder
or pillage, as a town or city; to devastate; to ravage.
The Romans lay under the apprehensions of seeing their city sacked by a barbarous enemy.
Addison. Sackage
(Sack"age) n. The act of taking by storm and pillaging; sack. [R.] H. Roscoe.
Sackbut
(Sack"but) n. [F. saquebute, OF. saqueboute a sackbut, earlier, a sort of hook attached to the
end of a lance used by foot soldiers to unhorse cavalrymen; prop. meaning, pull and push; fr. saquier,
sachier, to pull, draw (perhaps originally, to put into a bag or take out from a bag; see Sack a bag) +
bouter to push (see Butt to thrust). The name was given to the musical instrument from its being lengthened
and shortened.] (Mus.) 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).
The sackbut of the Scriptures is supposed to have been a stringed instrument.
Sackcloth
(Sack"cloth`) 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.
Gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner.
2 Sam. iii. 31.
Thus with sackcloth I invest my woe.
Sandys. Sackclothed
(Sack"clothed`) a. Clothed in sackcloth.
Sacker
(Sack"er) n. One who sacks; one who takes part in the storm and pillage of a town.
Sackful
(Sack"ful) n.; pl. Sackfuls As much as a sack will hold.
Sackful
(Sack"ful), a. Bent on plunder. [Obs.] Chapman.
Sacking
(Sack"ing), n. [AS. sæccing, from sæcc sack, bag.] Stout, coarse cloth of which sacks, bags,
etc., are made.
Sackless
(Sack"less), a. [AS. sacleás; sacu contention + leás loose, free from.] Quiet; peaceable; harmless; innocent.
[Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Sack-winged
(Sack"-winged`) a. (Zoöl.) Having a peculiar pouch developed near the front edge of the
wing; — said of certain bats of the genus Saccopteryx.
Sacque
(Sacque) n. [Formed after the analogy of the French. See 2d Sack.] Same as 2d Sack, 3.
Sacral
(Sa"cral) a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the sacrum; in the region of the sacrum.
Sacrament
(Sac"ra*ment) n. [L. sacramentum an oath, a sacred thing, a mystery, a sacrament, fr. sacrare
to declare as sacred, sacer sacred: cf. F. sacrement. See Sacred.]
1. The oath of allegiance taken by Roman soldiers; hence, a sacred ceremony used to impress an obligation; a
solemn oath-taking; an oath. [Obs.]
I'll take the sacrament on't.
Shak. 2. The pledge or token of an oath or solemn covenant; a sacred thing; a mystery. [Obs.]
God sometimes sent a light of fire, and pillar of a cloud . . . and the sacrament of a rainbow, to guide
his people through their portion of sorrows.
Jer. Taylor.
