sakeryngt

An obsolete form of sacring. saki (sak'i), n. [= F.saki; sakieh (sak'i-e), n. [Also saki ah , sakia ; saqich , a water-wheel; cf. seqiya , an irrigating brook, siqqáya , an aqueduct, isqi , water, irrigate.] A modification of the Persian wheel used in Egypt for raising water for purposes of irrigation. It consists e entially of a vertical wheel to which earthen pots are attached on projecting spokes, a second vertical wheel on the same axis with cogs, and a large horizontal cogged wheel, which gears with the other cogged wheel. The large wheel, being turned by oxen or other draft-animals, puts in motion the other two wheels, the one carrying the pitchers dipping into a well or a deep pit adjoining and supplied with water from a river. The pitchers are thus emptied into a tank at a higher level, whence the water is led off in a network of channels over the neighboring fields. Instead of the pitchers being at tached directly to the wheel when the level of the water is very low, they are attached to an endle rope. The construction of these machines is usually very rude. saklest, a. A Middle English form of sackle . saksaul (sak'sâl), n. [Also saksau, saksaw, sax aul; of E. Ind. origin.] An arborescent shrub, Anabasis ammo dendron of the Chenopod i aceæ. It is a typical growth of the sand-deserts of Asia, furnishes a valuable fuel, and is planted to stay shifting sands. Sakta (sak'tä), n . [Hind. sākta, concerned with (Siva's) çakti, or 'power' or 'energy' in female personification.) A member of one of the great divisions of Hindu sec taries, comprising the worshipers of the female principle according to the ritual of the Tantras. The Saktas are divided into two branches, the followers respectively of the right-hand and left-hand rituals. The latter practise the gro est impurities.