sardn.1
/sɑːd/, U.S. /sɑrd/ A variety of cornelian n.1, varying in colour from pale golden yellow to reddish orange.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > rock crystal > [noun] > chalcedony > cornelian > variety of
sard1382
sardius1382
Sardic stone1586
Sardian stone1721
Sardian1741
the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > silicates > tectosilicate > [noun] > quartz > cryptocrystalline quartz > chalcedony > cornelian > variety of
sardoina1272
sard1382
sardine1382
sardius1382
Sardic stone1586
Sardian stone1721
Sardian1741
opaline1861
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Exod. xxxix. 10 And he putte in it foure ordres of gemmes; in the first veers was saarde, topazi, smaragd.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 618 The Indian Sardes or Cornallines are transparent.
1809 J. Kidd Outl. Mineral. I. 227 This variety [of Carnelian] seems to be the sard of the present day.
1815 A. Aikin Man. Mineral. (ed. 2) 180 Sarde.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 570 The sard of the English jewellers..is a stone of the nature of agate.
1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola II. xix. 244 A fine sard, engraved with a subject from Homer.
1901 Q. Rev. Oct. 430 The gem is a golden sard.
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Sardadj.n.2
/sɑːd/, U.S. /sɑrd/ A. adj.
= Sardinian adj.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Italians > [adjective] > Sardinia
Sardinian1748
Sard1823
1823 W. Robinson in J.A. Heraud Voy. & Mem. Midshipm. viii. 142 The Sard costume.
1875 J. H. Bennet Winter & Spring Mediterranean (ed. 5) xiii. 464 Little wiry Sard horses.
B. n.2
1. = Sardinian n. 1.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Italians > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Italy > Sardinia
Sardinian1598
Sard1822
1822 W. Robinson in J. A. Heraud Voy. & Mem. Midshipm. (1837) v. 81 Boats manned by Genoese, French, Sards, and Neapolitans.
a1837 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XXIV. 318/2 The Sards are greatly attached to the pleasures of the table.
1889 C. Edwardes Sardinia vi. 147 The foreman was a Sarde of an advanced type.
1932 G. F.-H. Berkeley & J. Berkeley Italy in Making I. iv. 52 French was permitted for the Savoyards and Valdostani, Genoese for the Ligurians, and Sardinian for the Sards.
1968 Listener 29 Feb. 267/1 No Sard will betray another... There's the unwritten law of omerta, of silence.
2. = Sardinian n. 2.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > postulated Italo-Celtic > Romance > Sardinian
Sardinian1813
Logudoro1849
Sard1885
Logudorese1952
1885 R. Tennant Sardinia v. 63 The rendering of the Lord's prayer in Sarde or Logudoro language, (so called to distinguish the Sarde proper from its northern and southern dialects) will give the best idea of the composite character of the language.
1889 C. Edwardes Sardinia iii. 59 Modern Sarde is what Sardinia's conquerors made it—a language much more nearly kin to Latin than Italian.
1957 Whitaker's Almanack 899/1 Sard, the dialect of Sardinia, is accorded by some authorities the status of a distinct Romance language.
1975 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Apr. 452/4 Gramsci was a humane and intelligent man, but in no sense an ‘authority’ on anything except Mussolini's prisons and Sard.
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† sardv.
Obsolete.
transitive. = jape v. 2.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > loss of chastity > deprive of chastity [verb (transitive)] > seduce
sardc950
jape1382
transvertc1450
seducec1560
debauch1711
betray1766
to do over1823
make1910
to race off1965
c950 Lindisf. Gosp., Matt. v. 27 Ne serð þu oðres mones wif.
c1425 Cast. Persev. 1163 in Macro Plays 112 Þanne mayst þou bultyn in þi boure, & serdyn gay gerlys.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 697/2 I sarde a queene, je fous.
1535 D. Lindsay Satyre (1871) 3028 Freirs, Quhilk will, for purging of their neirs: Sard up the ta raw, and doun the uther.
1659 J. Howell Prov. Eng. Toung 17/2 in Παροιμιογραϕια Go teach your Grandam to sard; a Nottingham Proverb.
Derivatives
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > loss of chastity > [noun] > seduction
misusement1553
sarding1598
attempt1611
seduction1785
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Fottere, to iape, to sard. Fottarie, iapings, sardings.
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