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Saki

noun

British writer of short stories (1870-1916). Synonyms: H. H. Munro, Hector Hugh Munro, Munro.

Japanese alcoholic beverage made from fermented rice; usually served hot. Synonyms: rice beer, sake.

Small arboreal monkey of tropical South America with long hair and bushy nonprehensile tail.

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... to the person of the Assyrian monarch was the Rab-saki, "the chief of the princes," or vizier. He is called the Rab-shakeh in the Old Testament, by the side of whom stood the Rab-saris, the Assyrian Rab-sa-risi, or "chief of the heads" of departments. ...

— Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs • Rev. A. H. Sayce

... SAKI, a beer of alcoholic quality made in Japan from rice by fermentation. It is drunk hot at meals, and is ...

— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood

... kept in their richly-ornamented lacquered chests. They live chiefly on fish and rice, with various vegetables, vermicelli, eggs, sea-weed, while cakes and sweetmeats vary their diet. Tea, sugar-water, saki, ...

— In the Eastern Seas • W.H.G. Kingston