sackcoat (sakkot)

See coat2, 2. to make a sort of punch. The name sweet sack given to wines of similar strength and color, but requiring le artificial sweetening. In the seventeenth century the name seems to have been given alike to all strong white wines from the south, as distinguished from Rhenish on the one hand and red wines on the other. Will 't please your lordship drink a cup of sack ? Shak., T. of the S., Ind., ii. 3. For claret and sack they did not lack, So drank themselves good friends. Quoted in Child's Ballads, V. 211. He and I immediately to set out, having drunk a draught of mulled sacke. Burnt sack, mulled sack. pipe. Scott. n., same as doodle sack.] To play on the bag sacked (sakt), a. [ So bene Augustyns and Cordylers, And Carmes and eke sacked freers, And alle freres shodde and bare. Rom, of the Rose, 1. 7460. IMG:content-2669.png:[blocks in formation]