Lewis & Short

sănĭes, em, e, f. [a weakened form of sanguis].

  1. I. Diseased or corrupted blood, bloody matter, sanies (cf.: pus, tabes): ex his (vulneribus ulceribusque) exit sanguis, sanies, pus. Sanguis omnibus notus est: sanies est tenuior hoc, varie crassa et glutinosa et colorata: pus crassissimum albidissimumque, glutinosius et sanguine et sanie, etc., Cels. 5, 26, 20: saxa spargens tabo, sanie et sanguine atro, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 44, 107, and id. ap. Cic. Pis. 19 (Trag. v. 414 Vahl.); Cato, R. R. 157, 3; Pac. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 44, 106 (Trag. Rel. p. 84 Rib.); (with tabo), Verg. A. 8, 487; 3, 618; 3, 625; 3, 632; id. G. 3, 493: saniem conjecto emittite ferro, Ov. M. 7, 338; Tac. A. 4, 49 al.
  2. II. Transf., of similar fluids (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): (Laocoon) Perfusus sanie vittas atroque veneno, venomous slaver of the serpent, Verg. A. 2, 221; cf.: nullā sanie polluta veneni, Luc. 6, 457; so, colubrae saniem vomunt, Ov. M. 4, 493: serpentis, Sil. 6, 276; 6, 678; 12, 10.
    Of Cerberus, Hor. C. 3, 11, 19.
    Of matter flowing from the ear, Plin. 27, 7, 28, § 50.
    Of the humor of spiders, Plin. 29, 6, 39, § 138.
    Of the liquor of the purple-fish, Plin. 9, 38, 62, § 134; 35, 6, 26, § 44.
    Of the watery part of olives, Plin. 15, 3, 3, § 9; cf. amurcae, Col. 1, 6 fin.
    Of pickle, brine, Manil. 5, 671: auri, i. e. chrysocolla, mountain-green, Plin. 33, prooem. 2, § 4.