in Medicine, usually denotes any collection of half putrid indigested matter in the stomach and intestines, by which the operation of digestion is impeded.

**SABURÆ**, gritts, in Natural History; a kind of stone, found in minute masses. They are of various colours, as flaky and sparry grits, of a bright or greyish white colour; red flaky grits; green flaky grits; yellow grits; blackish grits.

**SACÆA**, a feast which the ancient Babylonians and other orientals held annually in honour of the deity Anaitis. The Sacæa were in the East what the Saturnalia were at Rome, viz. a feast for the slaves. One of the ceremonies was to choose a prisoner condemned to death, and allow him all the pleasures and gratifications he would wish, before he were carried to execution.