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.
SALMON-GUNDY. Apples, onions, veal or chicken, and pickled herrings, minced fine, and eaten with oil and vinegar; some derive the name of this mess from the French words SELON MON GOUST, because the proportions of the different ingredients are regulated by the palate of the maker; others say it bears the name of the inventor, who was a rich Dutch merchant; but the general and most probable opinion is, that it was invented by the countess of Salmagondi, one of the ladies of Mary de Medicis, wife of King Henry IV. of France, and by her brought into France.