<B>sans</B> (1), preposition.<DL COMPACT><DD> without. <BR> <I>Ex. a wallet sans cash, to print a letter sans comment; ... sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything (Shakespeare).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="sans">
<B>sans</B> (2), noun. =sans-serif.</DL>
<A NAME="sans">
<B>Sans.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> Sanskrit. </DL>
<A NAME="sansa">
<B>sansa, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an African musical instrument consisting of a wooden box having at the top tongues of bamboo or iron which the performer vibrates with his thumbs. Also, <B>zanza.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="sanscrit">
<B>Sanscrit, </B>noun, adjective. =Sanskrit.</DL>
<A NAME="sansculotte">
<B>sans-culotte, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a contemptuous term used during the French Revolution for a republican of the poorer classes in Paris, adopted by the revolutionists as a designation of honor. <DD><B> 2. </B>any extreme republican or revolutionary. <BR> <I>Ex. The scientists of today ... are the sans-culottes of a second scientific revolution in which the prime methods of the laboratory are being conquered by a new and more thoroughgoing empiricism (Scientific American).</I> </DL>
<B>sans-culottic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of the sans-culottes or sans-culottism. </DL>
<A NAME="sansculottid">
<B>sans-culottid, </B>noun. =sans-culottide.</DL>
<A NAME="sansculottide">
<B>sans-culottide, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (in the French Revolutionary calendar) one of the 5 (in leap year 6) complementary days resulting from the division of the year into 12 months of 30 days each. They were added as festival days at the end of the month Fructidor. </DL>
<B>sans-culottism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the principles or practices of sans-culottes. </DL>
<A NAME="sansdoute">
<B>sans doute,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) without doubt; beyond question. </DL>
<A NAME="sansei">
<B>Sansei</B> or <B>sansei, </B>noun, pl. <B>-sei</B> or <B>-seis.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a native-born American or Canadian citizen whose grandparents were Japanese immigrants. <BR> <I>Ex. The Nisei and their Sansei children have rapidly adopted American ways of life (Felix M. Keesing).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="sansevieria">
<B>sansevieria, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a group of Asiatic and African herbs of the agave family, various species of which are grown for their mottled, sword-shaped leaves; bowstring hemp. </DL>
<A NAME="sansgene">
<B>sans gene,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) without constraint or embarrassment; without ceremony; free and easy. <BR> <I>Ex. ... a love affair with a beautiful waif who is also decidedly sans gene (Atlantic).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="sansk">
<B>Sansk.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> Sanskrit. </DL>
<A NAME="sanskrit">
<B>Sanskrit, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>the ancient sacred and literary language of India. It is of importance in the study of Indo-European. <BR> <I>Ex. Sanskrit is of great interest to linguists because of the ... stimulus which the introduction of Sanskrit to Western scholarship gave to the development of modern linguistic science (H. A. Gleason, Jr.).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the classical literary form of this language, as distinguished from the earlier Vedic. <DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with Sanskrit; Sanskritic. Also, <B>Sanscrit.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="sanskritic">
<B>Sanskritic, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> having to do with, derived from, or resembling Sanskrit. <BR> <I>Ex. The Sanskritic languages include Hindi, Urdu, and related languages.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> the group of languages derived from Sanskrit. </DL>
<A NAME="sanskritist">
<B>Sanskritist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an expert in Sanskrit language or literature. </DL>
<A NAME="sanskritization">
<B>Sanskritization, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1a. </B>the act or process of Sanskritizing. <DD><B> b. </B>the fact or result of being Sanskritized. <DD><B> 2. </B>the adoption of the customs, attitudes, and status symbols of a Hindu upper caste by a caste below it. <BR> <I>Ex. There is still a hierarchy, but castes can make their way upward within it by ... Sanskritization (London Times).</I> </DL>
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<B>Sanskritize, </B>transitive verb, <B>-ized,</B> <B>-izing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to translate into Sanskrit. <DD><B> 2. </B>to render similar to Sanskrit; modify by Sanskritic influences. </DL>
<B>sans peur et sans reproche,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) without fear and without reproach; fearless and blameless. </DL>
<A NAME="sansserif">
<B>sans-serif, </B>noun, or <B>sans serif,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Printing.) any one of various styles of type without serifs. <BR> <I>Ex. The type was a very readable sans-serif, all upper case (Atlantic).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="sanssouci">
<B>sans souci,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) without care or worry. </DL>
<A NAME="santa">
<B>Santa</B> (1), noun. =Santa Claus.</DL>
<A NAME="santa">
<B>Santa</B> (2), adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> a Spanish or an Italian word meaning <I>holy</I> or <I>saint,</I> used in combinations, as in <BR> <I>Ex. Santa Maria, Santa Lucia.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="santaana">
<B>Santa Ana,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a strong, hot, dry wind occurring in southern California usually in the winter. <BR> <I>Ex. Santa Anas are not strangers to the Los Angeles area (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="santabarbara">
<B>Santa Barbara,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. </B>a variety of English walnut grown along the coastal plains and the valleys of southern California. <DD><B> 2. </B>its edible nut. </DL>
<A NAME="santaclaus">
<B>Santa Claus,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> Saint Nicholas, the saint of Christmas giving. He is pictured as a fat, jolly old man with a white beard, dressed in a fur-trimmed red suit. </DL>
<A NAME="santafean">
<B>Santa Fean,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a native or inhabitant of Santa Fe, New Mexico. </DL>
<A NAME="santagertrudis">
<B>Santa Gertrudis,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a breed of cattle developed in the United States, that is a cross between a shorthorn and a Brahma. It is able to withstand the humid heat of the South and Southwest. </DL>
<A NAME="santal">
<B>santal, </B>noun. =sandalwood.</DL>
<A NAME="santalaceous">
<B>santalaceous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> belonging to a family of dicotyledonous plants typified by the sandalwood. </DL>
<A NAME="santali">
<B>Santali, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a Munda language of central India. </DL>
<A NAME="santalin">
<B>santalin, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Chemistry.) the coloring matter of red sandalwood, that forms minute red crystals. </DL>
<A NAME="santee">
<B>Santee, </B>noun, pl. <B>-tee</B> or <B>-tees.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a member of a North American Indian tribe living chiefly in South Carolina and closely related to the Dakota. <DD><B> 2. </B>the Siouan language of this tribe. <DD><B> 3. </B>a division of the Dakota. </DL>
<A NAME="santeria">
<B>Santeria, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an Afro-Cuban religion that combines Roman Catholic and African tribal ceremonies. Followers of Santeria believe that Catholic saints represent African gods. </DL>
<A NAME="santero">
<B>santero, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a priest or follower of the rituals of Santeria. <BR> <I>Ex. Cuba now has ... a leader who ... resembles a santero, a priest of the Afro-Cuban cults (Manchester Guardian Weekly).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="santir">
<B>santir, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a kind of dulcimer of the Arabs and Persians. Also, <B>santoor,</B> <B>santour,</B> <B>santur.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="santobrite">
<B>Santobrite, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Trademark.) a sodium salt used for the eradication of algae and slime. </DL>
<A NAME="santol">
<B>santol, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an evergreen tree of the mahogany family, having axillary panicles of small sweet-scented flowers, and bearing a fleshy, acid fruit eaten especially in preserves. </DL>
<A NAME="santolina">
<B>santolina, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a fragrant shrub, related to the camomile, that grows in the Mediterranean region. <BR> <I>Ex. A thick hedge of green santolina is on each side of the planting (New York Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="santon">
<B>santon</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a Moslem holy man or ascetic; marabout. <BR> <I>Ex. He was (say the Arabian historians) one of those ... santons, who pass their lives in hermitages, in fasting, meditation, and prayer, until they attain to the purity of saints and the foresight of prophets (Washington Irving).</I> </DL>
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<B>santon</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a clay figurine of a religious nature, usually associated with the nativity scene, made in southern France. <BR> <I>Ex. Pierre ... longed to enter the contest for shaping clay into santons ... but his uncle wouldn't hear of it (Atlantic).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="santonica">
<B>santonica, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a European wormwood. <DD><B> 2. </B>its dried unexpanded flower heads, used as a vermifuge. </DL>
<A NAME="santonin">
<B>santonin</B> or <B>santonine, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a bitter, colorless, crystalline compound, obtained from santonica and used to destroy or expel intestinal worms. </DL>
<A NAME="santoor">
<B>santoor,</B> <B>santour,</B> or <B>santur, </B>noun. =santir.</DL>
<A NAME="saorstateireann">
<B>Saorstat Eireann,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> Irish Free State (so designated in Irish Gaelic). </DL>
<A NAME="sap">
<B>sap</B> (1), noun, verb, <B>sapped,</B> <B>sapping.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1a. </B>the liquid that circulates through a plant, consisting of water and food, as blood does in animals. Rising sap carries water and minerals from the roots; sap going downward carries sugar, gums, and resins. Maple sugar is made from the sap of some maple trees. <BR> <I>Ex. The trees of the Lord also are full of sap (English Book of Common Prayer).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>(Figurative:) <BR> <I>Ex. The world's whole sap is sunk (John Donne).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=sapwood.</B> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Slang.) a silly, stupid person; fool. <BR> <I>Ex. He would talk all the way back from school about what a sap she was (Atlantic).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(Slang.) a short club or blackjack; billy. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to remove sap from (wood or a tree). <DD><B> 2. </B>(Slang.) to strike or knock out with a sap. </DL>
