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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Sap \Sap\, n. [AS. saep; akin to OHG. saf, G. saft, Icel. safi; of uncertain origin; possibly akin to L. sapere to taste, to be wise, sapa must or new wine boiled thick. Cf. {Sapid}, {Sapient}.] 1. The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition. [1913 Webster] Note: The ascending is the crude sap, the assimilation of which takes place in the leaves, when it becomes the elaborated sap suited to the growth of the plant. [1913 Webster] 2. The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree. [1913 Webster] 3. A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop. [Slang] [1913 Webster] {Sap ball} (Bot.), any large fungus of the genus Polyporus. See {Polyporus}. {Sap green}, 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. {Sap rot}, the dry rot. See under {Dry}. {Sap sucker} (Zool.), any one of several species of small American woodpeckers of the genus {Sphyrapicus}, especially the yellow-bellied woodpecker ({Sphyrapicus 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. {Sap tube} (Bot.), a vessel that conveys sap. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Sap \Sap\, v. i. To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps. --W. P. Craighill. [1913 Webster] Both assaults are carried on by sapping. --Tatler. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Sap \Sap\, n. (Mil.) 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. [1913 Webster] {Sap fagot} (Mil.), a fascine about three feet long, used in sapping, to close the crevices between the gabions before the parapet is made. {Sap roller} (Mil.), 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. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Sap \Sap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sapped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sapping}.] [F. saper (cf. Sp. zapar, It. zapare), fr. sape a sort of scythe, LL. sappa a sort of mattock.] 1. To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of. [1913 Webster] Nor safe their dwellings were, for sapped by floods, Their houses fell upon their household gods. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 2. (Mil.) To pierce with saps. [1913 Webster] 3. To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken. [1913 Webster] Ring out the grief that saps the mind. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: sap n 1: a watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant 2: a person who lacks good judgment [syn: {fool}, {sap}, {saphead}, {muggins}, {tomfool}] 3: a piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle; used for hitting people [syn: {blackjack}, {cosh}, {sap}] v 1: deplete; "exhaust one's savings"; "We quickly played out our strength" [syn: {run down}, {exhaust}, {play out}, {sap}, {tire}] 2: excavate the earth beneath From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2013) [vera]: SAP Service Advertising Protocol (Novell, Netware, IPX) From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2013) [vera]: SAP Service Access Point (OSI) From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2013) [vera]: SAP Session Announcement Protocol (Internet, RFC 2974) From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2013) [vera]: SAP Symbolic Assembler Program (IBM, IBM 704) From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2013) [vera]: SAP SystemAnalyse und Programmentwicklung (manufacturer, predecessor) From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2013) [vera]: SAP Systems, Applications and Products [in data processing] [ag] (manufacturer) From Dutch-English Freedict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 [fd-nld-eng]: sap /sɑp/ juice; sap