![]() ĭETROIT (AP) - Federal safety regulators are investigating some older-model Ford Taurus and Mercury Sable sedans because the throttles can stick. In this image taken on Monday, Nov 5, 2012, chocolate black pepper sable cookies are shown in Concord, N.H. įeds Probe Taurus, Sable For Stuck Throttles. Įlizabeth Dubben, who runs the Amrose Sable Gallery at 306 Hudson Ave in Albany, recently sent an e-mail telling patrons the arts space will be closing on May 24. Northern Michigan's Mason Tract of the Au Sable River Protected. Sierra Club and Anglers of Au Sable win nine-year battle to protect the Mason Tract of the Au Sable River from oil and gas drilling threat. To make like sable in color darken blacken hence, figuratively, to make sad or dismal sadden. ![]() Of the color of a sable dark-brown blackish.īlack, especially as applied to mourning, or as an attribute. Made of sable: as, a sable muff or tippet. Botys nigrata is the wavy-barred sable, and B, lingulata is the silver-barred sable. See also cut under pall.Ī British collectors' name of certain pyralid moths. In heraldry, black one of the tinctures, represented when the colors are not given, as in engraving, by a close network of vertical and horizontal lines. The color black in a general sense, and especially as the color of mourning: so called with reference to the general dark color of the fur of the sable as compared with other furs, or from its being dyed black as sealskin is dyed.Ī black cloth or covering of any kind mourning-garments in general a suit of black: often in the plural.Ī fine paint-brush or pencil made of hair from the tail of the sable. Its fur is very valuable, though usually not so dark as that of the Siberian sable. americana, is a sable hardly distinguishable from that of Siberia, except in some technical dental characters. Some other martens, resembling the true sable, receive the same name. None are dead-black, nor is the animal ever uniformly dark-colored, the head being quite gray or even whitish, and there is usually a large tawny space on the throat, which color may be found also in blotches over much of the under surface. The pursuit of the sable forms an important industry in Siberia. There are three kinds of hairs in the pelage-a short soft dense under-fur, a second set of longer hairs, kinky like the first but coming to the surface, and fewer longer glistening hairs, bristly to the very roots. The nose is sharp, and the ears are pricked. The animal is about 18 inches long, with a full bushy tail nearly a foot long the limbs are short and stout, with small paws. It inhabits arctic and subarctic regions of the Old World, especially Russia and Siberia, having a copious lustrous pelage, of a dark-brown or blackish color, yielding one of the most highly prized of pelts. A digitigrade carnivorous quadruped, Mustela zibellina, of the family Mustelidæ and subfamily Mustelinæ, closely related to the martens.
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