A small cavern or hollow place in the side of a hill, or among rocks; especially, a cave used by a wild animal for shelter or concealment.
Synonym of fort (“structure improvised from furniture, etc. for playing games.”)
A comfortable room not used for formal entertaining.
A group of Cub Scouts of the same age who work on projects together.
A squalid or wretched place; a haunt.
To ensconce or hide oneself in (or as in) a den.
A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.
The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
Vitality.
A naive person; a simpleton
Any juice.
A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
To gradually weaken.
To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
To exhaust the vitality of.
To pierce with saps.
To drain, suck or absorb from (tree, etc.).