sass (sas)

[A dial. form of sauce, n.] 1. Same as sauce.-2. Vegetables, particularly those used in making sauces: as, garden sa .-3. Insolence; impudence. [Vulgar, U. S., in all uses.] sa (sas), v. [A dial. form of sauce, v.] Ι. in trans. To talk or reply saucily; be insolent in replying. [Vulgar, U. S.] Its [Mr. Thayer's book's) very pugnacity will no doubt tempt so many of the a ailed to sa back that we shall in the end find ourselves by so much the richer in contributions to the annals of the times. Harper's Mag., LXXIX. 649. II. trans. To sauce; be saucy to. [Vulgar, U. S.] sa aby (sas'a-bi), n.; pl. sa abies (-biz). [S. African; also sa abye , sa aybe , sa abi .] The bastard hartbeest, Damalis or Alcelaphus lunatus, of South Africa. The sa aby resembles the hartbeest, A. caama , but stands somewhat higher at the Sa aby (Alcelaphus lunatus). withers, and its horns are gently curved rather than abruptly bent. It is one of the group of large bubaline antelopes of which the blesbok is another, but the sa aby lacks the white blaze on the face. (Compare cut of bles bok.) The horns are about a foot long. The animal is much hunted both for its hide and for its flesh, and has been thinned out in countries where it formerly abounded. It inhabits by preference open places, sometimes in herds of several hundreds.