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Antiaris saccidora Sack bearer (Zo["o]l.). See Basket worm, under Basket.
Sack tree (Bot.), an East Indian tree (Antiaris
saccidora) which is cut into lengths, and made into sacks
by turning the bark inside out, and leaving a slice of the
wood for a bottom.
To give the sack to or get the sack, to discharge, or be
discharged, from employment; to jilt, or be jilted.
[Slang]
Antiaris toxicaria Upas U"pas, n. [Malay p?hn-?pas; p?hn a tree + ?pas poison.]
1. (Bot.) A tree (Antiaris toxicaria) of the Breadfruit
family, common in the forests of Java and the neighboring
islands. Its secretions are poisonous, and it has been
fabulously reported that the atmosphere about it is
deleterious. Called also bohun upas.
Antiaris toxicaria 2. A virulent poison used in Java and the adjacent islands
for poisoning arrows. One kind, upas antiar, is, derived
from upas tree (Antiaris toxicaria). Upas tieute is
prepared from a climbing plant (Strychnos Tieute).
Antiaris toxicaria Antiar An"ti*ar, n. [Jav. antjar.]
A Virulent poison prepared in Java from the gum resin of one
species of the upas tree (Antiaris toxicaria).
