ared and
paid for at ten cents an acre."--Harold Frederic, _Seth's Brother's
Wife_ (1886).

=Sabrinian Sea= or _Severn Sea_, _i.e._ the Bristol Channel. Both terms
occur not unfrequently in Drayton's _Polyolbion_.

=Sacchini= (_Antonio Maria Gaspare_), called "The Racine of Music,"
contemporary with Gl[:u]ck and Piccini (1735-1786).

=Sacharissa.= So Waller calls the Lady Dorothea Sidney, eldest daughter of
the earl of Leicester, to whose hand he aspired. Sacharissa married the
earl of Sunderland. (Greek, _sakchar_, "sugar.")

=Sackbut=, the landlord of a tavern, in Mrs. Centlivre's comedy, _A Bold
Stroke for a Wife_ (1717).

=Sackingen= (_The Trumpeter of_). Werner, a trumpeter, discourses such
divine music upon his instrument as gains him access to a baronial
castle, the good-will of the baron and the love of Margaret, the baron's
daughter.--Victor Hugo, _The Trumpeter of Sackingen_.

=Sacred Nine= (_The_), the Muses, nine in number.

Fair daughters of the Sun, the Sacred Nine,
Here wake to ecstasy their harps divine.

Falconer, _The Shipwreck_, iii. 3 (1756).

=Sacred War= (_The_), a war undertaken by the Amphictyonic League for the
defence of Delphi, against the Cirrhaeans (B.C. 595-587).

_The Sacred War_, a war undertaken by the Athenians for the purpose of
restoring Delphi to the Phocians (B.C. 448-447).

_The Sacred War_, a war undertaken by Philip of Macedon, as chief of the
Amphictyonic League, for the purpose of wresting Delphi from the
Phocians (B.C. 357).

=Sa'cripant= (_King_), king of Circassia, and a lover of
Angelica.--Bojardo, _Orlando Innamorato_ (1495); Ariosto, _Orlando
Furioso_ (1516).

With the same stratagem, Sacripant had his steed stolen from under
him, by that notorious thief Brunello, at the siege of
Albracca.--Cervantes, _Don Quixote_, I. iii. 9 (1605).

[Asterism] The allusion is to Sancho Panza's ass, which was stolen from
under him by the galley-slave, Gines de Passamonte.

_Sacripant_, a false, noisy, hectoring braggart; a kind of Pistol or
Bobadil.--Tasso, _Secchia Rapita_ (_i.e._ "Rape of the Bucket").

=Sa'dak and Kalasra'de= (4 _syl._), Sadak, general of the forces of
Am'urath, sultan of Turkey, lived with Kalasrad[^e] in retirement, and
their home life was so happy that it aroused the jealousy of the sultan,
who employed emissaries to set fire to their house, carry off
Kalasrad[^e] to the seraglio, and seize the childr