Psy·chi·an n. Zool. Any small moth of the genus Psyche and allied genera (family Psychidæ). The larvæ are called basket worms. See Basket worm, under Basket.

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 Sack, n.
 1. A bag for holding and carrying goods of any kind; a receptacle made of some kind of pliable material, as cloth, leather, and the like; a large pouch.
 2. A measure of varying capacity, according to local usage and the substance. The American sack of salt is 215 pounds; the sack of wheat, two bushels.
 3.  Originally, a loosely hanging garment for women, worn like a cloak about the shoulders, and serving as a decorative appendage to the gown; now, an outer garment with sleeves, worn by women; as, a dressing sack. [Written also sacque.]
 4. A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam.
 5. Biol. See 2d Sac, 2.
 Sack bearer Zool.. See Basket worm, under Basket.
 Sack tree Bot., an East Indian tree (Antiaris saccidora) which is cut into lengths, and made into sacks by turning the bark inside out, and leaving a slice of the wood for a bottom.
 To give the sack to or get the sack, to discharge, or be discharged, from employment; to jilt, or be jilted. [Slang]
 To hit the sack, to go to bed. [Slang]


 Bas·ket n.
 1. A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes, splints, or other flexible material, interwoven.  “Rude baskets . . . woven of the flexile willow.”
 2. The contents of a basket; as much as a basket contains; as, a basket of peaches.
 3. Arch. The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital. [Improperly so used.]
 4. The two back seats facing one another on the outside of a stagecoach. [Eng.]
 Basket fish Zool., an ophiuran of the genus Astrophyton, having the arms much branched. See Astrophyton.
 Basket hilt, a hilt with a covering wrought like basketwork to protect the hand. --Hudibras. Hence, Basket-hilted, a.
 Basket work, work consisting of plaited osiers or twigs.
 Basket worm Zool., a lepidopterous insect of the genus Thyridopteryx and allied genera, esp. Thyridopteryx ephemeræformis.  The larva makes and carries about a bag or basket-like case of silk and twigs, which it afterwards hangs up to shelter the pupa and wingless adult females.
 collection basket, a small basket1 mounted on the end of a pole, used in churches to collect donations from those attending a church service; -- the long pole allows the collector to hold the basket in front of those at the end of the pew, while the collector remains in the aisle. waste basket, a basket4 used to hold waste matter, such as discarded paper, commonly shaped like a truncated cone, with the wide end open and at the top.  Vessels of other shapes, such as oblong containers, are also called waste baskets.