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The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and
descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition. |
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The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree. |
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A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop. |
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To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to
undermine; to destroy the foundation of. |
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To pierce with saps. |
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To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken. |
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To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to
execute saps. |
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A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel
toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under
cover of gabions, etc. |
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