saphik.html - n. & v.
--n.

1 the vital juice circulating in plants.
2 vigour; vitality.
3 = SAPWOOD.
4 US sl. a bludgeon (orig. one made from a sapling).

--v.

tr. (sapped, sapping)
1 drain or dry (wood) of sap.
2 exhaust the vigour of (my energy had been sapped by disappointment).
3 remove the sapwood from (a log).
4 US sl. hit with a sap.

sap-green n.
1 the pigment made from buckthorn berries.
2 the colour of this.

--adj.

of this colour.

sapful adj. sapless adj. [OE sóp prob. f. Gmc]

saphik.html - n. & v.
--n.

1 a tunnel or trench to conceal assailants' approach to a fortified place; a covered siege-trench.
2 an insidious or slow undermining of a belief, resolution, etc.

--v.

(sapped, sapping)
1 intr. a dig a sap or saps. b approach by a sap.
2 tr. undermine; make insecure by removing the foundations.
3 tr. destroy insidiously. [ult. f. It. zappa spade, spadework, in part through F sappe sap(p)er, prob. of Arab. orig.]

saphik.html - n.
sl. a foolish person. [abbr. of sapskull f. SAP(1) = sapwood + SKULL]

saphik.html - var. of SAPPANWOOD.

saphik.html - n.
1 any of several large W. African hardwood trees of the genus Entandrophragma.
2 the reddish-brown mahogany-like timber of these trees. [W. Afr. name]

saphik.html - adj.
literary 1 having (esp. an agreeable) flavour; savoury; palatable; not insipid.
2 literary (of talk, writing, etc.) not vapid or uninteresting.

sapidity n. [L sapidus f. sapere taste]