a warm woollen stuff, chiefly used in bedding.

*Tossing in a Blanket*, in Latin, *sagatio*, a ludicrous kind of punishment, which Martial describes graphically enough: *Ibis ab excuso, missus ad astra, sago*. Suetonius relates that it was a juvenile diversion of the Emperor Otho to stroll out in the dark, and when he met with a helpless drunken person, to give him the discipline of the blanket. Every body recollects Sancho Panza's misfortune in this way, and the sorrowful sport it proved to the worthy squire of the knight of La Mancha.