sarse, searce, searse

[Fr. sas (Old Fr. saas) = a sieve, from Low Lat.setaceum =something made of bristles, from Lat. seta =a bristle; Sp.se daza.] A fine sieve. *sarse, v . t . [Fr. sa er .] [SARSE, 8.] To sift through a sarse. sar-sen, sarş-den, ses-san, ses-sen, subst . [Etym. uncertain; Aubrey ( Nat . Hist . Wilt ., p. 44) derives it from Sarsden , a village three miles from And over; Saracen ( Notes and Queries , 1st series, xi. 494); A S. sel stan (=great stone); Lat. sazum (Prof. Phillips); A. S. sar =grievous, troublesome, and stan a stone, because their removal "must have been a very long and troublesome work" ( Geol . Mag ., 1873, p. 199); and A. S. sesan, sesan= rocks ( Geol . Mag . , 1874, p. 96), have been suggested.] Archæol. & Geol . (pl.): Blocks of sandstone strewed over the Wilts hire downs and southeast England. They are derived by denudation from the Lower London Tertiaries and the Bagshot Sands. Known also as Greywethers, or Druid Stones, or Druid Sandstones. They were used in the construction of Stone henge and Abury. ( T. R. Jones, F. R. S. ) [GREY-WETHER.] "The toughne and close-grained structure of the most compact sarsen."-Geol: Mag ., 1873, 200. sarsen-stone, s. A sarsen (q.v.). sarse'-nět, s . [SARCENET.] sar-si-a, s . [Named after a naturalist Sars.] Zool .: The typical genus of Sarside (q. v.). Sar sia tubulosa , a species about the size of a child's thimble, is said to devour small Crustacea.