Sap \Sap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sapped; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Sapping.] [F. saper (cf. Sp. zapar, It. zapare), fr. sape a
   sort of scythe, LL. sappa a sort of mattock.]
   1. To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to
      undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
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            Nor safe their dwellings were, for sapped by floods,
            Their houses fell upon their household gods.
                                                  --Dryden.
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   2. (Mil.) To pierce with saps.
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   3. To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
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            Ring out the grief that saps the mind. --Tennyson.
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	Sap \Sap\, n. [AS. saep; akin to OHG. saf, G. saft, Icel. safi;
   of uncertain origin; possibly akin to L. sapere to taste, to
   be wise, sapa must or new wine boiled thick. Cf. Sapid,
   Sapient.]
   1. The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending
      and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to
      nutrition.
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   Note: The ascending is the crude sap, the assimilation of
         which takes place in the leaves, when it becomes the
         elaborated sap suited to the growth of the plant.
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   2. The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
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   3. A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop. [Slang]
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   Sap ball (Bot.), any large fungus of the genus Polyporus.
      See Polyporus.

   Sap green, a dull light green pigment prepared from the
      juice of the ripe berries of the Rhamnus catharticus, or
      buckthorn. It is used especially by water-color artists.
      

   Sap rot, the dry rot. See under Dry.

   Sap sucker (Zool.), any one of several species of small
      American woodpeckers of the genus Sphyrapicus,
      especially the yellow-bellied woodpecker (Sphyrapicus
      varius) of the Eastern United States. They are so named
      because they puncture the bark of trees and feed upon the
      sap. The name is loosely applied to other woodpeckers.

   Sap tube (Bot.), a vessel that conveys sap.
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	Sap \Sap\, v. i.
   To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute
   saps. --W. P. Craighill.
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         Both assaults are carried on by sapping. --Tatler.
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	Sap \Sap\, n. (Mil.)
   A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel
   toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by
   digging under cover of gabions, etc.
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   Sap fagot (Mil.), a fascine about three feet long, used in
      sapping, to close the crevices between the gabions before
      the parapet is made.

   Sap roller (Mil.), a large gabion, six or seven feet long,
      filled with fascines, which the sapper sometimes rolls
      along before him for protection from the fire of an enemy.
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	sap
     n 1: a watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that
          circulates through the vascular system of a plant
     2: a person who lacks good judgment [syn: fool, saphead, muggins,
         tomfool]
     3: a piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle;
        used for hitting people [syn: blackjack, cosh]
     v 1: deplete; "exhaust one's savings"; "We quickly played out our
          strength" [syn: run down, exhaust, play out, tire]
     2: excavate the earth beneath
     [also: sapping, sapped]

	

	205 Moby Thesaurus words for "sap":
   abate, abri, approach trench, asshole, attenuate, axiom, babe,
   beverage, blood, blunt, boob, booby, bore, bunker, burrow, center,
   chump, cinch, communication trench, core, countermine, coupure,
   cramp, credulous person, cripple, cull, damp, dampen, deaden,
   debilitate, delve, dematerialize, deplete, destroy, devitalize,
   dig, dig out, dike, ding-a-ling, dingbat, dingdong, disable,
   disembody, distillate, distillation, ditch, double sap, drain,
   dredge, drill, drink, drive, dugout, dull, dupe, easy mark,
   easy pickings, elixir, enervate, enfeeble, entrenchment, essence,
   essential, etherealize, eviscerate, excavate, exhaust, extenuate,
   fabric, fall guy, fire trench, fish, flower, fluid, fluid extract,
   fluid mechanics, flying sap, focus, fool, fortified tunnel, fosse,
   foxhole, fundamental, furrow, gallery, galoot, gist, gobe-mouches,
   goof, gouge, gouge out, gravamen, greener, greenhorn, greeny,
   groove, grub, gruel, gudgeon, gull, heart, honeycomb, hydraulics,
   hydrogeology, hypostasis, inner essence, innocent, jerk, jerk-off,
   juice, kernel, klutz, knock out, latex, lay low, leadpipe cinch,
   liquid, liquid extract, liquor, lower, mark, marrow, material,
   matter, meat, medium, milk, mine, mitigate, moat, monkey, mutt,
   nub, nucleus, nuts and bolts, overset, overthrow, overturn,
   parallel, patsy, pigeon, pith, plaything, postulate, principle,
   prize sap, pushover, quarry, quid, quiddity, quintessence, rarefy,
   rattle, reduce, ruin, sabotage, sap the foundations, saphead,
   sawney, schlemiel, scoop, scoop out, scrabble, scrape, scratch,
   semiliquid, shake, shake up, shovel, sink, sitting duck,
   slit trench, soften up, soul, spade, spirit, spiritualize, stooge,
   stuff, substance, subtilize, subvert, sucker, sum and substance,
   the nitty-gritty, throw down, throw over, toy, trench, trough,
   trusting soul, tunnel, unbrace, undermine, unman, unnerve,
   unstrengthen, unstring, upend, upset, victim, water, weaken, whey,
   wreck

	

	SAP
     Service Access Point (OSI)

	

	SAP
     Service Advertising Protocol (Novell, Netware, IPX)

	

	SAP
     Session Announcement Protocol (Internet, RFC 2974)

	

	SAP
     Symbolic Assembler Program (IBM, IBM 704)

	

	SAP
     SystemAnalyse und Programmentwicklung (manufacturer, predecessor)

	

	SAP
     Systems, Applications and Products [in data processing] [ag]
     (manufacturer)

	

	SAP
     
        1.  SAP AG (Systems, Applications and Products in
        Data Processing).
     
        2.  Service Advertising Protocol.
     
        3.  Service Access Point.
     
        4.  Symbolic Assembler Program.
     
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