Chapter Sack Race to Saga of S by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

Sacring Bell The little bell rung to give notice that the “Host” is approaching. Now called sanctus bell, from the words “Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus, dominus, Deus Sabaoth, pronounced by the priest. (French, sacrer; Latin, sacer.)

“He heard a little sacring bell ring to the elevation of a to-morrow mass.”- Reginald Scott: Discovery of Witchcraft (1584).

“The sacring of the kings of France.”- Temple.

Sacripant A braggart, a noisy hectorer. He is introduced by Alexander Passoni, in a mock-heroic poem called The Rape of the Bucket.
   Sacripant (in Orlando Furioso). King of Circassia, and a Saracen.

Sad Bread (Latin, pavis gravis). Heavy bread, ill-made bread. Shakespeare calls it “distressful bread”- not the bread of distress, but the panis gravis or ill-made bread eaten by the poor.

Sad Dog (He's a). Un triste sujet. A playful way of saying a man is a debauchee.

Sadah The sixteenth night of the month Bayaman. (Persian mythology.)

Sadda One of the sacred books of the Guebres or Parsis containing a summary of the Zend-Avesta.

Sadder and a Wiser Man (A).

“A sadder and a wiser man
He rose the morrow morn.”
Coleridge: The Ancient Mariner.

Saddle Set the saddle on the right horse. Lay the blame on those who deserve it.
   Lose the horse and win the saddle. (See Lose.)

Saddletree (Mr. Bartoline). The learned saddler. (Sir Walter Scott: The Heart of Midlothian.)

Sadducees A Jewish party which denied the existence of spirits and angels, and, of course, disbelieved in the resurrection of the dead; so called from Sadoc (righteous man), thought to be the name of a priest or rabbi some three centuries before the birth of Christ. As they did not believe in future punishments, they punished offences with the utmost severity.

Sadi or Saadi. A Persian poet styled the “nightingale of thousand songs,” and “one of the four monarchs of eloquence.” His poems are the Gulistan or Garden of Roses, the Bostan or Garden of Fruits, and the Pend-Nameh, a moral poem. He is admired for his sententious march. (1184-1263.)

Sadler's Wells (London). There was a well at this place called Holy Well, once noted for “its extraordinary cures.” The priests of Clerkenwell Priory used to boast of its virtues. At the Reformation it was stopped up, and was wholly forgotten till 1683, when a Mr. Sadler, in digging gravel for his garden, accidentally discovered it again. Hence the name. In 1765 Mr. Rosoman converted Sadler's garden into a theatre.

Sadlerian Lectures Lectures on Algebra delivered in the University of Cambridge, and founded in 1710 by Lady Sadler.

Saehrimnir [Sza-rim'-ner]. The boar served to the gods in Valhalla every evening; by next morning the part eaten was miraculously restored. (Scandinavian mythology)

Safa, in Arabia, according to Arabian legend, is the hill on which Adam and Eve came together, after having been parted for two hundred years, during which time they wandered homeless over the face of the earth.

Safety Matches In 1847 Schrötter, an Austrian chemist, discovered that red phosphorus gives off no fumes, and is virtually inert; but being mixed with chlorate of potash under slight pressure it explodes