Sap1. (n.) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
2. (n.) The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
3. (n.) A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop.
4. (v. t.) To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
5. (v. t.) To pierce with saps.
6. (v. t.) To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
7. (v. i.) To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
8. (n.) 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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