Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Sable \Sa"ble\, a.
   Of the color of the sable's fur; dark; black; -- used chiefly
   in poetry.

         Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless
         majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden scepter o'er a
         slumbering world.                        --Young.

   {Sable antelope} (Zo["o]l.), a large South African antelope
      ({Hippotragus niger}). Both sexes have long, sharp horns.
      The adult male is black; the female is dark chestnut
      above, white beneath.

   {Sable iron}, a superior quality of Russia iron; -- so called
      because originally stamped with the figure of a sable.

   {Sable mouse} (Zo["o]l.), the lemming.