Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A pouch or pouchlike structure in an organism, sometimes filled with fluid.
- noun A sacrifice fly.
- noun A sacrifice bunt.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A member of a tribe of Algonkin Indians, allied to the Foxes, who lived near the upper Mississippi previous to the Black Hawk war of 1832. The greater part are now on reservations.
- noun In law, the privilege enjoyed by the lord of a manor of holding courts, trying causes, and imposing fines. Also
saccage . - noun In bot., anat., and zoology, a sack, cyst, bag, bursa, pouch, purse, or receptacle of some kind specified by a qualifying word; a saccule; a saccus.
- noun Synonyms Sac, Saccule, Saccus, Sacculus. The first two are English, the last two Latin and only technically used, chiefly in special phrases. There is no such difference in meaning as the form of the words would imply, some of the largest sacs being called
saccules or sacculi, some of the smallest sacs or sacci.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Ethnol.) See
sacs . - noun (O.Eng. Law) The privilege formerly enjoyed by the lord of a manor, of holding courts, trying causes, and imposing fines.
- noun See 2d
sack . - noun (Biol.) A cavity, bag, or receptacle, usually containing fluid, and either closed, or opening into another cavity to the exterior; a sack.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
bag orpouch inside a plant or animal that typically contains afluid . - verb transitive, informal, video games To
sacrifice (a creature).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an enclosed space
- noun a member of the Algonquian people formerly living in Wisconsin in the Fox River valley and on the shores of Green Bay
- noun a structure resembling a bag in an animal
- noun a case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I had been walking home through the wilderness that separated my cul-de-sac from the grocery store, it was a walk I had taken hundreds of times over the past five years, when I tripped.
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I had been walking home through the wilderness that separated my cul-de-sac from the grocery store, it was a walk I had taken hundreds of times over the past five years, when I tripped.
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The excess amniotic fluid was then removed from the recipient twin sac, and antibiotics were placed into the uterine cavity to decrease the risk of infection.
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The sac is filled with foam blocks that arrive all packed tight.
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The sac is filled with foam blocks that arrive all packed tight.
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The right pleural sac is shorter, wider, and reaches higher in the neck than the left.
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[FN#137] The word sac (leg), when used in the oblique case, as it would necessarily be here, makes saki, i.e. cup-bearer.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II Anonymous 1879
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The sac is REALLY comfy, but it doesn’t hold its shape the way the Omni does.
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The sac is REALLY comfy, but it doesn’t hold its shape the way the Omni does.
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An umbilical hernia occurs when a baby's abdominal wall doesn't completely close before birth, causing a small piece of bowel or fat under the skin, often referred to as the sac, to stick out.
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