sable

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A mustelid mammal (Martes zibellina) of northern Eurasia, having soft dark commercially valuable fur.
• noun The pelt or fur of this animal.
• noun The similar fur of other species of martens.
• noun The color black, especially in heraldry.
• noun Black garments worn in mourning.
• noun A grayish yellowish brown.
• noun A sablefish.
• adjective Of a grayish yellowish brown.
• adjective Of the color black, as in heraldry or mourning.
• adjective Dark; somber.
• adjective Of the fur of the sable.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A digitigrade carnivorous quadruped, Mustela zibellina, of the family Mustelidæ and subfamily Mustelinæ, closely related to the martens.
• noun The dressed pelt or fur of the sable.
• noun The color black in a general sense, and especially as the color of mourning: so called with reference to the general dark color of the fur of the sable as compared with other furs, or from its being dyed black as sealskin is dyed.
• noun A black cloth or covering of any kind; mourning-garments in general; a suit of black: often in the plural.
• noun A fine paint-brush or pencil made of hair from the tail of the sable.
• noun In heraldry, black; one of the tinctures, represented when the colors are not given, as in engraving, by a close network of vertical and horizontal lines. Abbreviated S., sa. See also cut under pall.
• noun A British collectors' name of certain pyralid moths. Botys nigrata is the wavy-barred sable, and B, lingulata is the silver-barred sable.
• Made of sable: as, a sable muff or tippet.
• Of the color of a sable; dark-brown; blackish.
• Black, especially as applied to mourning, or as an attribute.
• noun A Spanish name of the cutlas-fish.
• To make like sable in color; darken; blacken; hence, figuratively, to make sad or dismal; sadden.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• adjective Of the color of the sable's fur; dark; black; -- used chiefly in poetry.
• adjective (Zoöl.) a large South African antelope (Hippotragus niger). Both sexes have long, sharp horns. The adult male is black; the female is dark chestnut above, white beneath.
• adjective a superior quality of Russia iron; -- so called because originally stamped with the figure of a sable.
• adjective (Zoöl.) the lemming.
• noun (Zoöl.) A carnivorous animal of the Weasel family (Mustela zibellina) native of the northern latitudes of Europe, Asia, and America, -- noted for its fine, soft, and valuable fur.
• noun The fur of the sable.
• noun A mourning garment; a funeral robe; -- generally in the plural.
• noun (Her.) The tincture black; -- represented by vertical and horizontal lines crossing each other.
• transitive verb To render sable or dark; to drape darkly or in black.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A small carnivorous mammal of the Old World that resembles a weasel, Mustela zibellina, from cold regions in Eurasia and the North Pacific islands, valued for its dark brown fur (Wikipedia).
• noun The marten, especially Mustela americana.
• noun The fur or pelt of the sable or other species of martens; a coat made from this fur.
• noun An artist's brush made from the fur of the sable (Wikipedia).
• noun heraldry : A black colour on a coat of arms.
• noun A black colour, resembling the fur of some sables.
• noun in the plural Black garments worn in mourning.
• adjective Of the black colour sable.
• adjective heraldry : In blazon, of the colour black.
• adjective Made of sable fur.
• adjective Dark, somber.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun the expensive dark brown fur of the marten
• noun marten of northern Asian forests having luxuriant dark brown fur
• noun a very dark black
• noun an artist's brush made of sable hairs
• noun a scarf (or trimming) made of sable