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n. [ See Sake, Soc. ] (O.Eng. Law) The privilege formerly enjoyed by the lord of a manor, of holding courts, trying causes, and imposing fines. Cowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. L. saccus a sack. See Sack a bag. ] 1. See 2d Sack. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Biol.) A cavity, bag, or receptacle, usually containing fluid, and either closed, or opening into another cavity to the exterior; a sack. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A kind of fresh-water bass; the crappie. [ Southern U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Saker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] (Man.) A sudden, violent check of a horse by drawing or twitching the reins on a sudden and with one pull. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ NL. saccatus, fr. L. saccus a sack, bag. ] 1. (Biol.) Having the form of a sack or pouch; furnished with a sack or pouch, as a petal. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Saccata, a suborder of ctenophores having two pouches into which the long tentacles can be retracted. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) (a) A salt of saccharic acid. (b) In a wider sense, a compound of saccharose, or any similar carbohydrate, with such bases as the oxides of calcium, barium, or lead; a sucrate. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, saccharine substances; specifically, designating an acid obtained, as a white amorphous gummy mass, by the oxidation of mannite, glucose, sucrose, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]