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SACHEVEREL . The iron door, or blower, to the mouth of a stove: from a divine of that name, who made himself famous for blowing the coals of dissension in the latter end of the reign of queen Ann.
SACK . A pocket. To buy the sack: to get drunk. To dive into the sack; to pick a pocket. To break a bottle in an empty sack; a bubble bet, a sack with a bottle in it not being an empty sack.
SAD DOG . A wicked debauched fellow; one of the ancient family of the sad dogs. Swift translates it into Latin by the words TRISTIS CANIS.
SADDLE . To saddle the spit; to give a dinner or supper. To saddle one's nose; to wear spectacles. To saddle a place or pension; to oblige the holder to pay a certain portion of his income to some one nominated by the donor. Saddle sick: galled with riding, having lost leather.
SAINT . A piece of spoilt timber in a coach-maker's shop, like a saint, devoted to the flames.
SAINT GEOFFREY'S DAY . Never, there being no saint of that name: tomorrow-come-never, when two Sundays come together.
SAINT LUKE'S BIRD . An ox; that Evangelist being always represented with an ox.
SAINT MONDAY . A holiday most religiously observed by journeymen shoemakers, and other inferior mechanics. A profanation of that day, by working, is punishable by a fine, particularly among the gentle craft. An Irishman observed, that this saint's anniversary happened every week.
SAL . An abbreviation of SALIVATION. In a high sal; in the pickling tub, or under a salivation.
SALESMAN'S DOG . A barker. Vide BARKER.
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