Tennyson, Gardener's Daughter

Distre ing; grievous; disastrous: as, a accident; a sad disappointment. A sadder chance hath given allay Both to the mirth and music of this day. B. Jonson , Sad Shepherd, i. 2. Insulting Age will trace his cruel Way, And leave sad marks of his destructive Sway. Prior, Celia to Damon. 15. Troublesome; trying; bad; wicked: sometimes used jocularly: as, a sad grumbler; a sad rogue. Then does he begin to call himself the saddest fellow, in disappointing so many places as he was invited to elsewhere. Steele , Spectator, No. 448. I have been told as how London is a sad place. H. Mackenzie , Man of Feeling, xiv. 16. Dark; somber; sober; quiet: applied to color: as, a sad brown. With him the Palmer eke in habit sad Him selfe addrest to that adventure hard. Spenser, F. Q., II. xi. 3. My wife is upon hanging the long chamber, where the girl lies, with the sad stuff that was in the best chamber. Pepys , Diary, Aug. 24, 1668. [Bring] the coarsest woollen cloth (so it be not flocks), and of sad colours, and some red. Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 458. =Syn. 11 and 13. Depre ed, cheerle , desponding, disconsolate.-14. Dire, deplorable. sad (sad), v . t .; pret. and pp. sadded , ppr. sad ding. [ME. sadden , sadi an , be sated or tired, gesadian , fill, satisfy, satiate (= OHG. satōn, MHG. saten = Icel. sethja , satisfy), sæd , full, sated: see sad , a . Cf. Goth. ga - sōthjan , fill, satisfy, sæd , sõths , satiety.] 1. To make firm. Anoon the ground is and plauntis or sol is of him ben sadded togidere, and he lippinge stood and wandride. Wyclif, Acts iii. 7. 11. Strongly; stiffly. Sadde cleyed well thai save beth leide to slepe.