SANGUINE, OR MURREY

An heraldic term for "blood-color," called, in the arms of princes, "dragon's tail," and, in those of lords, "sardonyx." It is a tincture of very infrequent occurrence, and not recognized by some writers. In engraving, it is denoted by numerous lines In saltlre. Wharton. … [Read more...] about SANGUINE, OR MURREY

In old French. Blood. … [Read more...] about SANG, OR SANC

Blood. These words are nearly obsolete. … [Read more...] about SANG OR SANC

By this is meant that understanding which enables a man to make contracts and his will, and to perform such other acts as are authorized by law; Vide Lunacy; Memory; Non compos mentis. … [Read more...] about SANE MEMORY

Of natural and normal mental condition; healthy in mind Sane memory. Sound mind, memory, and understanding. This is one of the essential elements in the capacity of contracting; and the, absence of it in lunatics and idiots, and its immaturity in infants, is the cause of their respective incapacities or partial incapacities to bind themselves. The hke circumstance is their … [Read more...] about SANE