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countable and uncountable, plural sards
(mineralogy) A variety of carnelian, of a rich reddish yellow or brownish red color. examples
Any of various brownish red earth pigments formerly used in cosmetics and painting; has more yellow, hardly any blue (see puce), is lighter than russet and darker than traditional carnelian. examples
third-person singular simple present sards, present participle sarding, simple past and past participle sarded
(obsolete) To have sexual intercourse with (a woman). quotations
Quhilk will, for purging of thir neirs: / Sard up the ta raw, and doun the uther.
1540, Sir David Lyndsay, Ane Pleasant Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis, lines 3027–8; republished in The Poetical Works of Sir David Lyndsay, volume 2, 1879, page 152
Foltere. To iape, to sard, to fucke, to swive, to occupye.
1598, John Florio, Worlde of Wordes
[…] and thence ſprouteth that obſcene appellation of Sarding ſandes, with the draffe of the carterly Hoblobs thereabouts, concoct or diſgeaſt for a ſcripture, verity, when the right chriſtendome of it, is Cerdicke ſands, or Cerdick ſhore, […]
1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], pages 8–9
Go, teach your grandam to sard, a Nottingham proverb.
1617, Howell, Letters, page 17