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[Ital. sas so-a stone, a rock, from Lat.saxum.] The Rock-pigeon (q. v.). săs'-sỹ, s. [Sierra Leone name.] (See etym. and compound.) sa y-bark, subst . The poisonous bark of Ery throphlœum guineense , a cæsalpineous plant, sometimes called the Ordeal-tree (q.v.). This, with the red juice obtained from incisions in the tree, is given by many West African tribes as an ordeal. If the suspected person die on swallowing the bark or the juice, he is a umed to have been guilty; if he survive, he is adjudged to be innocent.