noun An artist's brush made from the fur of the sable (Wikipedia).noun The fur or pelt of the sable or other species of martens a coat made from this fur.noun The marten, especially Mustela americana.noun A small carnivorous mammal of the Old World that resembles a weasel, Mustela zibellina, from cold regions in Eurasia and the North Pacific islands, valued for its dark brown fur (Wikipedia).transitive verb To render sable or dark to drape darkly or in black.įrom Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.noun (Her.) The tincture black - represented by vertical and horizontal lines crossing each other.noun A mourning garment a funeral robe - generally in the plural.noun (Zoöl.) A carnivorous animal of the Weasel family ( Mustela zibellina) native of the northern latitudes of Europe, Asia, and America, - noted for its fine, soft, and valuable fur.adjective a superior quality of Russia iron - so called because originally stamped with the figure of a sable.The adult male is black the female is dark chestnut above, white beneath. adjective (Zoöl.) a large South African antelope ( Hippotragus niger).adjective Of the color of the sable's fur dark black - used chiefly in poetry.noun A Spanish name of the cutlas-fish.įrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.To make like sable in color darken blacken hence, figuratively, to make sad or dismal sadden.Black, especially as applied to mourning, or as an attribute.Of the color of a sable dark-brown blackish.Made of sable: as, a sable muff or tippet.Botys nigrata is the wavy-barred sable, and B, lingulata is the silver-barred sable.
noun A British collectors' name of certain pyralid moths.noun In heraldry, black one of the tinctures, represented when the colors are not given, as in engraving, by a close network of vertical and horizontal lines.noun A fine paint-brush or pencil made of hair from the tail of the sable.noun A black cloth or covering of any kind mourning-garments in general a suit of black: often in the plural.noun The color black in a general sense, and especially as the color of mourning: so called with reference to the general dark color of the fur of the sable as compared with other furs, or from its being dyed black as sealskin is dyed.noun The dressed pelt or fur of the sable.noun A digitigrade carnivorous quadruped, Mustela zibellina, of the family Mustelidæ and subfamily Mustelinæ, closely related to the martens.adjective Of the color black, as in heraldry or mourning.adjective Of a grayish yellowish brown.noun The color black, especially in heraldry.noun The similar fur of other species of martens.noun A mustelid mammal (Martes zibellina) of northern Eurasia, having soft dark commercially valuable fur.From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
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