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▪ I. sard, n.1|sɑːd|
Also 4 saarde.
[In mod. use prob. a. F. sarde, ad. L. sarda, a synonym of sardius: see sardius.
In quot. 1382 ad. L. sardius; in quot. 1601 ad. L. sarda.]
A variety of cornelian1, varying in colour from pale golden yellow to reddish orange.
1382Wyclif Exod. xxxix. 10 And he putte in it foure ordres of gemmes; in the first veers was saarde, topazi, smaragd. 1601Holland Pliny II. 618 The Indian Sardes or Cornallines are transparent. 1809Kidd Outl. Min. I. 227 This variety [of Carnelian] seems to be the sard of the present day. 1815Aikin Man. Min. (ed. 2) 180 Sarde. 1839Ure Dict. Arts 570 The sard of the English jewellers..is a stone of the nature of agate. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola xxxix, A fine sard, engraved with a subject from Homer. 1901Q. Rev. Oct. 430 The gem is a golden sard.
attrib.1881Palgrave Vis. Eng. 70 Sardstones ruddy as wine.
▪ II. † sard, v. Obs.
Also 5 serd.
[In OE. only once (Northumb.) in imp. serð, app. a. ON. serða (str. vb.) = MLG. serden, MHG., early mod.G. serten. OE. may have had the normal *seordan.]
trans. = jape v. 2. Hence † ˈsarding vbl. n.
c950Lindisf. Gosp., Matt. v. 27 Ne serð þu oðres mones wif. c1425Cast. Persev. 1163 in Macro Plays 112 Þanne mayst þou bultyn in þi boure, & serdyn gay gerlys. 1530Palsgr. 697/2, I sarde a queene, je fous. 1535Lyndesay Satyre (ed. Laing) 3028 Freirs, Quhilk will, for purging of their neirs: Sard up the ta raw, and doun the uther. 1598Florio, Fottere, to iape, to sard. Fottarie, iapings, sardings. 1659Howell Eng. Prov. 17 Go teach your Grandam to sard; a Nottingham Proverb. |