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SAP . (I) Juice, the circulating fluid of See also: plants (see PLANTS, § Physiology)
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The word appears in Teutonic See also: languages, cf
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Ger
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Saft, and may be connected ultimately with the See also: root seen in See also: Lat. sapere, taste, hence to know, cf. sapientia, wisdom, cf
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Gr. ao;bbs, wise
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On the other See also: hand it may, like Fr. she, Span. saba, have come See also: direct from Lat. sapa, must, new See also: wine, itself also from the same root
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The Gr
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Orbs is represented in Lat. by sucus
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(2) A military See also: term for a See also: trench dug by abesieging force for the purpose of approach to the point 'of attack when within range, hence " to sap," to undermine, dig away the See also: foundations of a See also: wall, &c
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The word is derived through the Old Fr. from the Med
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Lat. sapa, sap pa, a See also: spade, entrenching
tool, Gr. owes-See also: bin, OK6.7rTEW, t0 dig
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