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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 201 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SAP . (I) Juice, the circulating fluid of See also:

plants (see PLANTS, § See also:Physiology). The word appears in See also:Teutonic See also:languages, cf. Ger. Saft, and may be connected ultimately with the See also:root seen in See also:Lat. sapere, See also:taste, hence to know, cf. sapientia, See also:wisdom, cf. Gr. ao;bbs, See also:wise. 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. The Gr. Orbs is represented in Lat. by sucus. (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. The word is derived through the Old Fr. from the Med. Lat. sapa, sap pa, a See also:spade, entrenching See also:tool, Gr. owes-See also:bin, OK6.7rTEW, t0 dig.

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