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sack (medicine)


sack


To plunder or pillage, as a town or city; to devastate; to ravage. "The Romans lay under the apprehension of seeing their city sacked by a barbarous enemy." (Addison)

Origin: See Sack pillage.

1. A bag for holding and carrying goods of any kind; a receptacle made of some kind of pliable material, as cloth, leather, and the like; a large pouch.

2. A measure of varying capacity, according to local usage and the substance. The American sack of salt is 215 pounds; the sack of wheat, two bushels.

3. [Perhaps a different word] Originally, a loosely hanging garnment for women, worn like a cloak about the shoulders, and serving as a decorative appendage to the gown; now, an outer garment with sleeves, worn by women; as, a dressing saek.

Alternative forms: sacque.

4. A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam.

5. <biology> See Sac.

<zoology> Sack bearer . See Basket worm, under Basket.

<botany> Sack tree, an East Indian tree (Antiaris saccidora) which is cut into lengths, and made into sacks by turning the bark inside out, and leaving a slice of the wood for a bottom. To give the sack to or get the sack, to discharge, or be discharged, from Employment; to jilt, or be jilted.

Origin: OE. Sak, sek, AS. Sacc, saecc, L. Saccus, Gr. From Heb. Sak; cf. F. Sac from the Latin. Cf. Sac, Satchel, Sack to plunder.

Source: Websters Dictionary


genuflect (iou)



genuflect verb. M17.
[ecclesiastical Latin genuflectere, from genu knee + flectere to bend.]
verb trans. Bend (the knee). Only in M17.
verb intrans. Chiefly in Catholic or Anglo-Catholic ritual: lower one knee (or both knees simultaneously) momentarily to the ground, as an act of worship. (Foll. by before, to.) M19.
b. fig. Display servile obedience or deference to. L19.
Janet Morgan The lower servants genuflected to those in higher authority.
genuflector noun a person who genuflects M19.
genuflectory adjective relating to genuflexion M19.