saraband, saraband a, sarabande

[Fr. sarabande, from Sp. zarabanda a dance, prob. from Pers. sarband =a fillet for fastening a lady's head-dre ; Ital. & Port. sarabande.] A Spanish dance of Moorish origin, for a single performer. who accompanies himself with the castanets. The tune is in time, but slow and stately, and with a strong accent on the second beat in the bar. "No more for Moorish sarabands they call." Harte: Vision of Death. săr-a-ca, s . [Burmese.] Bot.: A synonym of Jones i a (q. v.). Săr-a-çen, *Sar-e-zyn, s. [Lat. saracenus , lit. =one of the eastern people, from Arab. shark i = oriental, eastern; shark = the east.] *sar'-çil-is, *sar-zil, s . [Low Lat. sarciatus .] A coarse woolen cloth worn by the lowest cla of persons and those who subsisted on charity, mentioned during the thirteenth century. ( Strutt .) sar-çi-na, s. [ Gr.sarkinos =of or like flesh.] Botany : A plant of doubtful affinity, probably a fungus, consisting of minute quadrilateral bodies in fours, or some multiple of four. Sarcina ventri culi was first observed by Goodsir in human vomit.