SABLE
\sˈe͡ɪbə͡l], \sˈeɪbəl], \s_ˈeɪ_b_əl]\
Definitions of SABLE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a very dark black
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a scarf (or trimming) made of sable
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the expensive dark brown fur of the marten
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marten of northern Asian forests having luxuriant dark brown fur
By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The fur of the sable.
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To render sable or dark; to drape darkly or in black.
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A carnivorous animal of the Weasel family (Mustela zibellina) native of the northern latitudes of Europe, Asia, and America, - noted for its fine, soft, and valuable fur.
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A mourning garment; a funeral robe; - generally in the plural.
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The tincture black; - represented by vertical and horizontal lines crossing each other.
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Of the color of the sable's fur; dark; black; - used chiefly in poetry.
By Oddity Software
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The fur of the sable.
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To render sable or dark; to drape darkly or in black.
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A carnivorous animal of the Weasel family (Mustela zibellina) native of the northern latitudes of Europe, Asia, and America, - noted for its fine, soft, and valuable fur.
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A mourning garment; a funeral robe; - generally in the plural.
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The tincture black; - represented by vertical and horizontal lines crossing each other.
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Of the color of the sable's fur; dark; black; - used chiefly in poetry.
By Noah Webster.
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A kind of weasel valued for its handsome, dark, glossy fur; the fur of this animal; in heraldry or coats of arms, black.
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Dark-colored; black.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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An animal of the weasel kind found in N. Europe and N. Asia, valuable for its glossy black fur: its fur.
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Of the color of the sable's fur: black: dark: made of the fur of the sable.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Black or dark-brown.
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A Siberian carnivore related to the marten; also, its black fur.
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The color black; hence, mourning.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Black; dark.
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A small carnivorous quadruped of the weasel family, whose fur is highly valued; its fur.
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To make sable.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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An animal of the weasel kind, found in the northern parts of Asia, chiefly hunted for its black glossy fur; the fur of the animal.
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Black; very dark.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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Having the appearance as if strewed with sand. The terms sable and piquete are sometimes applied to the brain, when a slice of it exhibits red points as if it had been strewed with red sand. Such is the case in cerebral hyperaemia.
By Robley Dunglison
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n. [Dutch] A carnivorous animal of the weasel family, found in the northern latitudes of Europe and Asia;—the fur of the sable, consisting of a downy under-wool, with a dense coat of hair;-in heraldry, the tincture or color black— represented by vertical and horizontal lines crossing each other.
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