Si quis
Si• quis" [L., if any one (the first words of the notice in Latin).] (Ch. of Eng.) A notification by a candidate for orders of his intention to inquire whether any impediment may be alleged against him.

Siaga
Si•a´ga, n. (Zoöl.) The ahu, or jairou.

Sialogogue
Si•al´o•gogue, n. [Gr. si•alon saliva + leading, from to lead: cf. F. sialagogue.] (Med.) An agent which promotes the flow of saliva.

Siamang
Si´a•mang, n. [Malay siamang.] (Zool.) A gibbon ( Hylobates syndactylus), native of Sumatra. It has the second and third toes partially united by a web.

Siamese
Si•a•mese´, a. Of or pertaining to Siam, its native people, or their language.

Siamese
Si•a•mese, n. sing. & pl.
1. A native or inhabitant of Siam; pl. , the people of Siam.
2. sing. The language of the Siamese.

Sib, n. [AS. sibb alliance, gesib a relative. rad.289. See Gossip.] A blood relation. [Obs.] Nash.

Sib, a. Related by blood; akin. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Sir W. Scott.
"Your kindred is but … little sib to you." Chaucer.
"[He] is no fairy birn, ne sib at all To elfs, but sprung of seed terrestrial." Spenser.

Sibbens
Sib´bens, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Med.) A contagious disease, endemic in Scotland, resembling the yaws. It is marked by ulceration of the throat and nose and by pustules and soft fungous excrescences upon the surface of the body. In the Orkneys the name is applied to the itch. [Written also sivvens.]

Siberian
Si•be´ri•an, a. [From Siberia, Russ. Sibire.] Of or pertaining to Siberia, a region comprising all northern Asia and belonging to Russia; as a Siberian winter. — n. A native or inhabitant of Siberia. Siberian crab (Bot.), the Siberian crab apple. See Crab apple, under Crab. — Siberian dog (Zoöl.), one of a large breed of dogs having erect ears and the hair of the body and tail very long. It is distinguished for endurance of fatigue when used for the purpose of draught. — Siberian pea tree (Bot.), a small leguminous tree ( Cragana arborescens) with yellow flowers. It is a native of Siberia. { Sib´i•lance, Sib´i•lan•cy } n. The quality or state of being sibilant; sibilation.
"Milton would not have avoided them for their sibilancy, he who wrote … verses that hiss like Medusa’s head in wrath." Lowell.

Sibilate
Sib´i•late, v. t. & i. To pronounce with a hissing sound, like that of the letter s; to mark with a character indicating such pronunciation.

Sibilation
Sib•i•la´tion, n. [L. sibilatio.] Utterance with a hissing sound; also the sound itself; a hiss.
"He, with a long, low sibilation, stared." Tennyson.

Sibilatory
Sib´i•la•to•ry, a. Hissing; sibilant.

Sibilous
Sib´i•lous, a. [L. sibilus.] Having a hissing sound; hissing; sibilant. [R.] Pennant.

Sibyl
Sib´yl, n. [L. sibylla, Gr. .]
1. (Class. Antiq.) A woman supposed to be endowed with a spirit of prophecy. The number of the sibyls is variously stated by different authors; but the opinion of Varro, that there were ten, is generally adopted. They dwelt in various parts of Persia, Greece, and Italy.
2. A female fortune teller; a pythoness; a prophetess. "An old highland sibyl." Sir W. Scott.

Sibylist
Sib´yl•ist, n. One who believes in a sibyl or the sibylline prophecies. Cudworth.

Sibylline
Sib´yl•line, a. [L. sibyllinus.] Pertaining to the sibyls; uttered, written, or composed by sibyls; like the productions of sibyls. Sibylline books. (a) (Rom. Antiq.) Books or documents of prophecies in verse concerning the fate of the Roman empire, said to have been purchased by Tarquin the Proud from a sibyl. (b) Certain Jewish and early Christian writings purporting to have been prophetic and of sibylline origin. They date from 100 b. c. to a. d. 500.

Sicamore
Sic´a•more, n. (Bot.) See Sycamore.

Siccate
Sic´cate, v. t. [L. siccatus, p. p. of siccare to dry, fr. siecus dry.] To dry. [R.]

Siccation
Sic•ca´tion, n. [L. siccatio.] The act or process of drying. [R.] Bailey.

Siccative
Sic´ca•tive, a. [L. siccativus.] Drying; causing to dry. — n. That which promotes drying.

Siccific
Sic•cif´ic, a. [L. siccificus; siccus dry + facere to make. See -fy.] Causing dryness.

Sice, n. [F. six, fr. L. sex six. See Six.] The number six at dice.

Sicilian
Si•cil´i•an, a. Of or pertaining to Sicily or its inhabitants. Sicilian vespers, the great massacre of the French in Sicily, in the year 1282, on the evening of Easter Monday, at the hour of vespers.

Sicilian
Si•cil´i•an, n. A native or inhabitant of Sicily. [It., Sicilian.] NR (nrapallo) Nick Rapallo

Siciliano
Si•ci•li•a´no, n. [It., Sicilian.] A Sicilian dance, resembling the pastorale, set to a rather slow and graceful melody in 12-8 or 6-8 measure; also the music to the dance.

Sicilienne
Si•ci•lienne´, n. [F., fem. of sicilien Sicilian.] A kind of rich poplin.

Sick, a. [ Compar. Sicker superl. Sickest.] [OE. sek, sik, ill, AS. seóc; akin to OS. siok, seoc, OFries. siak, D. ziek, G. siech, OHG. sioh, Icel. sjkr, Sw. sjuk, Dan. syg, Goth. siuks ill, siukan to be ill.]
1. Affected with disease of any kind; ill; indisposed; not in health. See the Synonym under Illness.
"Simon’s wife’s mother lay sick of a fever." Mark i. 30.
"Behold them that are sick with famine." Jer. xiv. 18.
2. Affected with, or attended by, nausea; inclined to vomit; as sick at the stomach; a sick headache.
3. Having a strong dislike; disgusted; surfeited; — with of; as to be sick of flattery.
"He was not so sick of his master as of his work." L’Estrange.
4. Corrupted; imperfect; impaired; weakned.
"So great is his antipathy against episcopacy, that, if a seraphim himself should be a bishop, he would either find or make some sick feathers in his wings." Fuller. Sick bay (Naut.), an apartment in a vessel, used as the ship’s hospital. — Sick bed, the bed upon which a person lies sick. — Sick berth, an apartment for the sick in a ship of war. — Sick headache (Med.), a variety of headache attended with disorder of the stomach and nausea. — Sick list, a list containing the names of the sick. — Sick room, a room in which a person lies sick, or to which he is confined by sickness. [These terms, sick bed, sick berth, etc., are also written both hyphened and solid.]
Syn. — Diseased; ill; disordered; distempered; indisposed; weak; ailing; feeble; morbid.

Sick, n. Sickness. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Sick, v. i. To fall sick; to sicken. [Obs.] Shak.

Sick-brained
Sick´-brained, a. Disordered in the brain.

Sicken
Sick´en, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Sickened p. pr. & vb. n. Sickening.]
1. To make sick; to disease.
"Raise this strength, and sicken that to death." Prior.
2. To make qualmish; to nauseate; to disgust; as to sicken the stomach.
3. To impair; to weaken. [Obs.] Shak.

Sicken
Sick´en, v. i.
1. To become sick; to fall into disease.
"The judges that sat upon the jail, and those that attended, sickened upon it and died." Bacon.
2. To be filled to disgust; to be disgusted or nauseated; to be filled with abhorrence or aversion; to be surfeited or satiated.
"Mine eyes did sicken at the sight." Shak.
3. To become disgusting or tedious.
"The toiling pleasure sickens into pain." Goldsmith.
4. To become weak; to decay; to languish.
"All pleasures sicken, and all glories sink." Pope.

Sickening
Sick´en•ing, a. Causing sickness; specif., causing surfeit or disgust; nauseating. — Sick´en•ing•ly, adv.

Sicker
Sick´er, v. i. [AS. sicerian.] (Mining) To percolate, trickle, or ooze, as water through a crack. [Also written sigger, zigger, and zifhyr.] [Prov. Eng.] { Sick´er, Sik´er }, a. [OE. siker; cf. OS. sikur, LG. seker, D. zeker, Dan. sikker, OHG. sihhur, G. sicher; all fr. L. securus. See Secure, Sure.] Sure; certain; trusty. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Burns.
"When he is siker of his good name." Chaucer. { Sick´er, Sik´er }, adv. Surely; certainly. [Obs.]
"Believe this as siker as your creed." Chaucer.
"Sicker, Willye, thou warnest well." Spenser. { Sick´er•ly, Sik´er•ly }, adv. Surely; securely. [Obs.]
"But sikerly, withouten any fable." Chaucer. { Sick´er•ness, Sik´er•ness }, n. The quality or state of being sicker, or certain. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.

Sickle
Sic´kle, n. [OE. sikel, AS. sicol; akin to D. sikkel, G. sichel, OHG. sihhila, Dan. segel, segl, L. secula, fr. secare to cut; or perhaps from L. secula. See Saw a cutting instrument.]
1. A reaping instrument consisting of a steel blade curved into the form of a hook, and having a handle fitted on a tang. The sickle has one side of the blade notched, so as always to sharpen with a serrated edge. Cf. Reaping hook, under Reap.
"When corn has once felt the sickle, it has no more benefit from the sunshine." Shak.
2. (Astron.) A group of stars in the constellation Leo. See Illust. of Leo. Sickle pod (Bot.), a kind of rock cress ( Arabis Canadensis) having very long curved pods.

Sickled
Sic´kled, a. Furnished with a sickle.

Sickleman
Sic´kle•man, n. ; pl. Sicklemen . One who uses a sickle; a reaper.
"You sunburned sicklemen, of August weary." Shak.

Sickler
Sic´kler, n. One who uses a sickle; a sickleman; a reaper.

Sickless
Sick´less, a. Free from sickness. [R.]
"Give me long breath, young beds, and sickless ease." Marston.

Sicklewort
Sic´kle•wort, n. [AS. sicolwyrt.] (Bot.) (a) A plant of the genus Coronilla ( C. scorpioides); — so named from its curved pods. (b) The healall ( Brunella vulgaris).

Sicklied
Sick´lied, a. Made sickly. See Sickly, v.

Sickly
Sick´ly, a. [ Compar. Sicklier superl. Sickliest.]
1. Somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease; as a sickly body.
"This physic but prolongs thy sickly days." Shak.
2. Producing, or tending to, disease; as a sickly autumn; a sickly climate. Cowper.
3. Appearing as if sick; weak; languid; pale.
"The moon grows sickly at the sight of day." Dryden.
"Nor torrid summer’s sickly smile." Keble.
4. Tending to produce nausea; sickening; as a sickly smell; sickly sentimentality.
Syn. — Diseased; ailing; infirm; weakly; unhealthy; healthless; weak; feeble; languid; faint.

Sickly
Sick´ly, adv. In a sick manner or condition; ill.
"My people sickly [with ill will] beareth our marriage." Chaucer.

Sickly
Sick´ly, v. t. To make sick or sickly; — with over, and probably only in the past participle. [R.]
"Sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought." Shak.
"Sentiments sicklied over … with that cloying heaviness into which unvaried sweetness is too apt to subside." Jeffrey.

Sickness
Sick´ness, n. [AS. seócness.]
1. The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; sisease or malady.
"I do lament the sickness of the king." Shak.
"Trust not too much your now resistless charms; Those, age or sickness soon or late disarms." Pope.
2. Nausea; qualmishness; as sickness of stomach.
Syn. — Illness; disease; malady. See Illness.

Siddow
Sid´dow, a. Soft; pulpy. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

Side, n. [AS. side; akin to D. zijde, G. seite, OHG. sita, Icel. sia, Dan. side, Sw. sida; cf. AS. sid large, spacious, Icel. sir long, hanging.]
1. The margin, edge, verge, or border of a surface; especially (when the thing spoken of is somewhat oblong in shape), one of the longer edges as distinguished from the shorter edges, called ends; a bounding line of a geometrical figure; as the side of a field, of a square or triangle, of a river, of a road, etc.
3. Any outer portion of a thing considered apart from, and yet in relation to, the rest; as the upper side of a sphere; also any part or position viewed as opposite to or contrasted with another; as this or that side.
"Looking round on every side beheld A pathless desert." Milton.
4. (a) One of the halves of the body, of an animals or man, on either side of the mesial plane; or that which pertains to such a half; as a side of beef; a side of sole leather. (b) The right or left part of the wall or trunk of the body; as a pain in the side.
"One of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side." John xix. 34.
5. A slope or declivity, as of a hill, considered as opposed to another slope over the ridge.
"Along the side of yon small hill." Milton.
6. The position of a person or party regarded as opposed to another person or party, whether as a rival or a foe; a body of advocates or partisans; a party; hence, the interest or cause which one maintains against another; a doctrine or view opposed to another.
"God on our side, doubt not of victory." Shak.
"We have not always been of the … same side in politics." Landor.
"Sets the passions on the side of truth." Pope.
7. A line of descent traced through one parent as distinguished from that traced through another.
"To sit upon thy father David’s throne, By mother’s side thy father." Milton.
8. Fig.: Aspect or part regarded as contrasted with some other; as the bright side of poverty. By the side of, close at hand; near to. — Exterior side. (Fort.) See Exterior, and Illust. of Ravelin. — Interior side (Fort.), the line drawn from the center of one bastion to that of the next, or the line curtain produced to the two oblique radii in front. H. L. Scott. — Side by side, close together and abreast; in company or along with. — To choose sides, to select those who shall compete, as in a game, on either side. — To take sides, to attach one’s self to, or give assistance to, one of two opposing sides or parties.

Side, a.
1. Of or pertaining to a side, or the sides; being on the side, or toward the side; lateral.
"One mighty squadron with a side wind sped." Dryden.
2. Hence, indirect; oblique; collateral; incidental; as a side issue; a side view or remark.
"The law hath no side respect to their persons." Hooker.
3. [AS. sid. Cf Side, n. ] Long; large; extensive. [Obs. or Scot.] Shak.
"His gown had side sleeves down to mid leg." Laneham. Side action, in breech-loading firearms, a mechanism for operating the breech block, which is moved by a lever that turns sidewise. — Side arms, weapons worn at the side, as sword, bayonet, pistols, etc. — Side ax, an ax of which the handle is bent to one side. — Side-bar rule (Eng. Law.), a rule authorized by the courts to be granted by their officers as a matter of course, without formal application being made to them in open court; — so called because anciently moved for by the attorneys at side bar, that is, informally. Burril. — Side box, a box or inclosed seat on the side of a theater.
"To insure a side-box station at half price." Cowper. — Side chain, one of two safety chains connecting a tender with a locomotive, at the sides. — Side cut, a canal or road branching out from the main one. [U.S.] — Side dish, one of the dishes subordinate to the main course. — Side glance, a glance or brief look to one side. — Side hook (Carp.), a notched piece of wood for clamping a board to something, as a bench. — Side lever, a working beam of a side-lever engine. — Side-lever engine, a marine steam engine having a working beam of each side of the cylinder, near the bottom of the engine, communicating motion to a crank that is above them. — Side pipe (Steam Engine), a steam or exhaust pipe connecting the upper and lower steam chests of the cylinder of a beam engine. — Side plane, a plane in which the cutting edge of the iron is at the side of the stock. — Side posts (Carp.), posts in a truss, usually placed in pairs, each post set at the same distance from the middle of the truss, for supporting the principal rafters, hanging the tiebeam, etc. — Side rod. (a) One of the rods which connect the piston-rod crosshead with the side levers, in a side-lever engine. (b) See Parallel rod, under Parallel. — Side screw (Firearms), one of the screws by which the lock is secured to the side of a firearm stock. — Side table, a table placed either against the wall or aside from the principal table. — Side tool (Mach.), a cutting tool, used in a lathe or planer, having the cutting edge at the side instead of at the point. — Side wind, a wind from one side; hence, an indirect attack, or indirect means. Wright.

Side, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Sided; p. pr.& vb. n. Siding.]
1. To lean on one side. [Obs.] Bacon.
2. To embrace the opinions of one party, or engage in its interest, in opposition to another party; to take sides; as to side with the ministerial party.
"All side in parties, and begin the attack." Pope.

Side, v. t.
1. To be or stand at the side of; to be on the side toward. [Obs.]
"His blind eye that sided Paridell." Spenser.
2. To suit; to pair; to match. [Obs.] Clarendon.
3. (Shipbuilding) To work (a timber or rib) to a certain thickness by trimming the sides.
4. To furnish with a siding; as to side a house.

Side line.
1. (a) A line pert. or attached to the side of a thing. (b) Specif., a line for hobbling an animal by connecting the fore and the hind feet of the same side.
2. (a) A line of goods sold in addition to one’s principal articles of trade; a course of business pursued aside from one’s regular occupation. (b) A secondary road; esp., a byroad at right angles to a main road. [Canada]

Side slip. See Skid, below.

Sidebone
Side´bone, n. (Far.) A morbid growth or deposit of bony matter and at the sides of the coronet and coffin bone of a horse. J. H. Walsh.

Side-chain theory
Side"-chain• the•o•ry. (Physiol. Chem.) A theory proposed by Ehrlich as a chemical explanation of immunity phenomena. In brief outline it is as follows: Animal cells and bacteria are complex aggregations of molecules, which are themselves complex. Complex molecules react with one another through certain of their side chains, but only when these side chains have a definite correspondence in structure (this account for the specific action of antitoxins).

Sided
Sid´ed, a. Having (such or so many) sides; — used in composition; as one- sided; many- sided.

Sideflash
Side´flash, n. (Elec.) A disruptive discharge between a conductor traversed by an oscillatory current of high frequency (as lightning) and neighboring masses of metal, or between different parts of the same conductor.

Sidehill
Side´hill, n. The side or slope of a hill; sloping ground; a descent. [U. S.]

Sideling
Side´ling, adv. [OE. sideling, fr. side side. See Side, and cf. Sidelong, Headlong.] Sidelong; on the side; laterally; also obliquely; askew.
"A fellow nailed up maps … some sideling, and others upside down." Swift.

Sideling
Side´ling, a. Inclining to one side; directed toward one side; sloping; inclined; as sideling ground.

Sidelong
Side´long, adv. [See Sideling, adv. ]
1. Laterally; obliquely; in the direction of the side.
2. On the side; as to lay a thing sidelong. [See Sideling, adv. ] Evelyn.

Sidelong
Side´long, a. Lateral; oblique; not being directly in front; as a sidelong glance.
"The bashful virgin’s sidelong looks of love." Goldsmith.

Sidepiece
Side´piece, n. (Joinery) The jamb, or cheek, of an opening in a wall, as of door or window.

Sider
Sid´er, n. One who takes a side.

Sider
Si´der, n. Cider. [Obs.]

Sideral
Sid´er•al, a. [L. sideralis. See Sidereal.]
1. Relating to the stars.
2. (Astrol.) Affecting unfavorably by the supposed influence of the stars; baleful. "Sideral blast." Milton.

Sideration
Sid•er•a´tion, n. [L. sideratio.] The state of being siderated, or planet-struck; esp., blast in plants; also a sudden and apparently causeless stroke of disease, as in apoplexy or paralysis. [Obs.] Ray.

Sidereal
Si•de´re•al, a. [L. sidereus, from sidus, sideris, a constellation, a star. Cf. Sideral, Consider, Desire.]
1. Relating to the stars; starry; astral; as sidereal astronomy.
2. (Astron.) Measuring by the apparent motion of the stars; designated, marked out, or accompanied, by a return to the same position in respect to the stars; as the sidereal revolution of a planet; a sidereal day. Sidereal clock, day, month, year. See under Clock, Day, etc. — Sideral time, time as reckoned by sideral days, or, taking the sidereal day as the unit, the time elapsed since a transit of the vernal equinox, reckoned in parts of a sidereal day. This is, strictly, apparent sidereal time, mean sidereal time being reckoned from the transit, not of the true, but of the mean, equinoctial point.

Sidereous
Si•de´re•ous, a. [L. sidereus.] Sidereal. [Obs.]

Siderite
Sid´er•ite, n. [L. sideritis loadstone, Gr.,, of iron, from iron.]
1. (Min.) (a) Carbonate of iron, an important ore of iron occuring generally in cleavable masses, but also in rhombohedral crystals. It is of a light yellowish brown color. Called also sparry iron, spathic iron. (b) A meteorite consisting solely of metallic iron. (c) An indigo-blue variety of quartz. (d) Formerly, magnetic iron ore, or loadstone.
2. (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Sideritis; ironwort. { Sid•er•o•graph´ic, Sid•er•o•graph´ic•al } a. Of or pertaining to siderography; executed by engraved plates of steel; as siderographic art; siderographic impressions.

Siderographist
Sid•er•og´ra•phist, n. One skilled in siderography.

Siderography
Sid•er•og´ra•phy, n. [Gr. iron + -graphy.] The art or practice of steel engraving; especially, the process, invented by Perkins, of multiplying facsimiles of an engraved steel plate by first rolling over it, when hardened, a soft steel cylinder, and then rolling the cylinder, when hardened, over a soft steel plate, which thus becomes a facsimile of the original. The process has been superseded by electrotypy.

Siderolite
Sid´er•o•lite, n. [Gr. iron + -lite.] A kind of meteorite. See under Meteorite.

Sideroscope
Sid´er•o•scope, n. [Gr. iron + -scope.] An instrument for detecting small quantities of iron in any substance by means of a very delicate combination of magnetic needles.

Siderosis
Sid•e•ro´sis, n. [NL., fr. Gr. iron.] (Med.) A sort of pneumonia occuring in iron workers, produced by the inhalation of particles of iron.

Siderostat
Sid´er•o•stat, n. [L. sidus, sideris, a star + Gr. standing, fixed, fr. to place.] (Astron.) An apparatus consisting essentially of a mirror moved by clockwork so as to throw the rays of the sun or a star in a fixed direction; — a more general term for heliostat.

Sideroxylon
Sid•e•rox´y•lon, n. [NL., fr. Gr. iron + wood.] (Bot.) A genus of tropical sapotaceous trees noted for their very hard wood; ironwood.

Sidesaddle
Side´sad•dle, n. A saddle for women, in which the rider sits with both feet on one side of the animal mounted. Sidesaddle flower (Bot.), a plant with hollow leaves and curiously shaped flowers; — called also huntsman’s cup. See Sarracenia.

Side-taking
Side´-tak•ing, n. A taking sides, as with a party, sect, or faction. Bp. Hall.

Sidetrack
Side´track, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Sidetracked p. pr. & vb. n. Sidetracking.]
1. (Railroads) To transfer to a siding from a main line of track.
2. Hence, fig., to divert or reduce to a position or condition that is relatively secondary or subordinate in activity, importance, effectiveness, or the like; to switch off; to turn aside, as from a purpose. [Colloq.]
"Such a project was in fact, sidetracked in favor of the census of school children." Pop. Sci. Monthly.

Sideways
Side´ways, adv. Toward the side; sidewise.
"A second refraction made sideways." Sir I. Newton.
"His beard, a good palm’s length, at least, … Shot sideways, like a swallow’s wings." Longfellow.

Side-wheel
Side´-wheel, a. Having a paddle wheel on each side; — said of steam vessels; as a side-wheel steamer.

Sidewinder
Side´wind•er, n.
1. (Zoöl.) See Horned rattler, under Horned.
2. A heavy swinging blow from the side, which disables an adversary. [Slang.] Side´wise, adv. On or toward one side; laterally; sideways.
"I saw them mask their awful glance Sidewise meek in gossamer lids." Emerson.

Sidle
Si´dle, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Sidled p. pr. & vb. n. Sidling ] [From Side.] To go or move with one side foremost; to move sidewise; as to sidle through a crowd or narrow opening. Swift.
"He … then sidled close to the astonished girl." Sir W. Scott.

Siegework
Siege´work, n. A temporary fort or parallel where siege guns are mounted.

Siemens-Martin process
Sie"mens-Mar•tin proc"ess See Open-hearth process, etc., under Open.

Siennese
Si•en•nese´, a. Of or pertaining to Sienna, a city of Italy.

Sierra
Si•er´ra, n. [Sp., properly, a saw, fr. L. serra a saw. See Serrate.] A ridge of mountain and craggy rocks, with a serrated or irregular outline; as the Sierra Nevada.
"The wild sierra overhead." Whitter.

Sieve, n. [OE. sive, AS. sife; akin to D. zeef, zift, OHG. sib, G. sieb. rad.151 a. Cf. Sift.]
1. A utensil for separating the finer and coarser parts of a pulverized or granulated substance from each other. It consist of a vessel, usually shallow, with the bottom perforated, or made of hair, wire, or the like, woven in meshes. "In a sieve thrown and sifted." Chaucer.
2. A kind of coarse basket. Simmonds. Sieve cells (Bot.), cribriform cells. See under Cribriform.

Sifflement
Sif´fle•ment, n. [F., a whistling or hissing.] The act of whistling or hissing; a whistling sound; sibilation. [Obs.] A. Brewer.

Sifilet
Sif´i•let, n. [Cf. F. siflet.] (Zoöl.) The six-shafted bird of paradise. See Paradise bird, under Paradise.

Sig, n. [Akin to AS. sigan to fall. rad.151 a. See Sink, v. t.] Urine. [Prov. Eng.]

Sigher
Sigh´er, n. One who sighs.

Sighing
Sigh´ing, a. Uttering sighs; grieving; lamenting. "Sighing millions." Cowper. - - Sigh´ing•ly, adv.

Sight, n. [OE. sight, sit, siht, AS. siht, ge siht, ge sih, ge sieh, ge syh; akin to D. ge zicht, G. sicht, ge sicht, Dan. sigte, Sw. sigt, from the root of E. see. See See, v. t.]
1. The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view; as to gain sight of land.
"A cloud received him out of their sight." Acts. i. 9.
2. The power of seeing; the faculty of vision, or of perceiving objects by the instrumentality of the eyes.
"Thy sight is young, And thou shalt read when mine begin to dazzle." Shak.
"O loss of sight, of thee I most complain!" Milton.
3. The state of admitting unobstructed vision; visibility; open view; region which the eye at one time surveys; space through which the power of vision extends; as an object within sight.
4. A spectacle; a view; a show; something worth seeing.
"Moses said, I will now turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt." Ex. iii. 3.
"They never saw a sight so fair." Spenser.
5. The instrument of seeing; the eye.
"Why cloud they not their sights?" Shak.
6. Inspection; examination; as a letter intended for the sight of only one person.
7. Mental view; opinion; judgment; as in their sight it was harmless. Wake.
"That which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God." Luke xvi. 15.
8. A small aperture through which objects are to be seen, and by which their direction is settled or ascertained; as the sight of a quadrant.
"Thier eyes of fire sparking through sights of steel." Shak.
9. A small piece of metal, fixed or movable, on the breech, muzzle, center, or trunnion of a gun, or on the breech and the muzzle of a rifle, pistol, etc., by means of which the eye is guided in aiming. Farrow.
10. In a drawing, picture, etc., that part of the surface, as of paper or canvas which is within the frame or the border or margin. In a frame or the like, the open space, the opening.
11. A great number, quantity, or sum; as a sight of money. [Now colloquial] Sight in this last sense was formerly employed in the best usage. "A sight of lawyers." Latimer.
"A wonder sight of flowers." Gower. At sight, as soon as seen, or presented to sight; as a draft payable at sight: to read Greek at sight; to shoot a person at sight. — Front sight (Firearms), the sioht nearost the ouzzle. — Open sight. (Firearms) (a) A front sight through which the objects aimed at may be seen, in distinction from one that hides the object. (b) A rear sight having an open notch instead of an aperture. — Peep sight, Rear sight. See under Peep, and Rear. — Sight draft, an order, or bill of exchange, directing the payment of money at sight. — To take sight, to take aim; to look for the purpose of directing a piece of artillery, or the like.
Syn. — Vision; view; show; spectacle; representation; exhibition.

Sight, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Sighted; p. pr. & vb. n. Sighting.]
1. To get sight of; to see; as to sight land; to sight a wreck. Kane.
2. To look at through a sight; to see accurately; as to sight an object, as a star.
3. To apply sights to; to adjust the sights of; also to give the proper elevation and direction to by means of a sight; as to sight a rifle or a cannon.

Sight, v. i. (Mil.) To take aim by a sight.

Sighted
Sight´ed, a. Having sight, or seeing, in a particular manner; — used in composition; as long- sighted, short- sighted, quick- sighted, sharp- sighted, and the like.

Sightful
Sight´ful, a. Easily or clearly seen; distinctly visible; perspicuous. [Obs.] Testament of Love.

Sightfulness
Sight´ful•ness, n. The state of being sightful; perspicuity. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

Sight-hole
Sight´-hole, n. A hole for looking through; a peephole. "Stop all sight-holes." Shak.

Sighting
Sight´ing, a. & n. from Sight, v. t.Sighting shot, a shot made to ascertain whether the sights of a firearm are properly adjusted; a trial shot.

Sightliness
Sight´li•ness, n. The state of being sightly; comeliness; conspicuousness.

Sightly
Sight´ly, a.
1. Pleasing to the sight; comely. "Many brave, sightly horses." L’Estrange.
2. Open to sight; conspicuous; as a house stands in a sightly place.

Sightproof
Sight´proof, a. Undiscoverable to sight.
"Hidden in their own sightproof bush." Lowell.

Sight-seeing
Sight´-see•ing, a. Engaged in, or given to, seeing sights; eager for novelties or curiosities.

Sight-seeing
Sight´-see•ing, n. The act of seeing sights; eagerness for novelties or curiosities.

Sight-seer
Sight´-se•er, n. One given to seeing sights or noted things, or eager for novelties or curiosities.

Sight-shot
Sight´-shot, n. Distance to which the sight can reach or be thrown. [R.] Cowley.

Sightsman
Sights´man, n. ; pl. Sightsmen . (Mus.) One who reads or performs music readily at first sight. [R.] Busby.

Sigil
Sig´il, n. [L. sigillum. See Seal a stamp.] A seal; a signature. Dryden.
"Of talismans and sigils knew the power." Pope.

Sigillarid
Sig•il•la´rid, n. (Paleon.) One of an extinct family of cryptagamous trees, including the genus Sigillaria and its allies.

Sigillated
Sig´il•la•ted, a. [L. sigillatus adorned with little images.] Decorated by means of stamps; — said of pottery.

Sigillative
Sig´il•la•tive, a. [L. sigillum a seal: cf. OF. sigillatif.] Fit to seal; belonging to a seal; composed of wax. [R.]

Sigillum
Si•gil´lum, n. ; pl. Sigilla (#). [L.] (Rom. & Old Eng. Law) A seal.

Sigla
Sig´la, n. pl. [L.] The signs, abbreviations, letters, or characters standing for words, shorthand, etc., in ancient manuscripts, or on coins, medals, etc. W. Savage.

Sigma
Sig´ma, n. ; pl. Sigmas (#). [L., from Gr., .] The Greek letter Σ, σ, or &sigmat; (English S, or s). It originally had the form of the English C.

Sigmodont
Sig´mo•dont, n. [Gr. sigma +,, a tooth.] (Zoöl.) Any one of a tribe ( Sigmodontes) of rodents which includes all the indigenous rats and mice of America. So called from the form of the ridges of enamel on the crowns of the worn molars. Also used adjectively. { Sig´moid, Sig•moid´al } a. [Gr. ; sigma + form, likeness: cf. F. sigmoïde.] Curved in two directions, like the letter S, or the Greek &sigmat;. Sigmoid flexure (Anat.), the last curve of the colon before it terminates in the rectum. See Illust. under Digestive. — Sigmoid valves. (Anat.) See Semilunar valves, under Semilunar.

Sign, n. [F. signe, L. signum; cf. AS. segen, segn, a sign, standard, banner, also fr. L. signum. Cf. Ensign, Resign, Seal a stamp, Signal, Signet.] That by which anything is made known or represented; that which furnishes evidence; a mark; a token; an indication; a proof. Specifically: (a) A remarkable event, considered by the ancients as indicating the will of some deity; a prodigy; an omen. (b) An event considered by the Jews as indicating the divine will, or as manifesting an interposition of the divine power for some special end; a miracle; a wonder.
"Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God." Rom. xv. 19.
"It shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign." Ex. iv. 8. (c) Something serving to indicate the existence, or preserve the memory, of a thing; a token; a memorial; a monument.
"What time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men, and they became a sign." Num. xxvi. 10. (d) Any symbol or emblem which prefigures, typifles, or represents, an idea; a type; hence, sometimes, a picture.
"The holy symbols, or signs, are not barely significative; but what they represent is as certainly delivered to us as the symbols themselves." Brerewood.
"Saint George of Merry England, the sign of victory." Spenser. (e) A word or a character regarded as the outward manifestation of thought; as words are the sign of ideas. (f) A motion, an action, or a gesture by which a thought is expressed, or a command or a wish made known.
"They made signs to his father, how he would have him called." Luke i. 62. (g) Hence, one of the gestures of pantomime, or of a language of a signs such as those used by the North American Indians, or those used by the deaf and dumb. Educaters of the deaf distinguish between natural signs, which serve for communicating ideas and methodical, or systematic, signs, adapted for the dictation, or the rendering, of written language, word by word; and thus the signs are to be distinguished from the manual alphabet, by which words are spelled on the fingers. (h) A military emblem carried on a banner or a standard. Milton. (i) A lettered board, or other conspicuous notice, placed upon or before a building, room, shop, or office to advertise the business there transacted, or the name of the person or firm carrying it on; a publicly displayed token or notice.
"The shops were, therefore, distinguished by painted signs, which gave a gay and grotesque aspect to the streets." Macaulay. (j) (Astron.) The twelfth part of the ecliptic or zodiac. The signs are reckoned from the point of intersection of the ecliptic and equator at the vernal equinox, and are named, respectively, Aries (&Aries;), Taurus (&Taurus;), Gemini (II), Cancer (&Cancer;), Leo (&Leo;), Virgo (&Virgo;), Libra (&Libra;), Scorpio (&Scorpio;), Sagittarius (&Sagittarius;), Capricornus (&Capricorn;), Aquarius (&Aquarius;), Pisces (&Pisces;). These names were originally the names of the constellations occupying severally the divisions of the zodiac, by which they are still retained; but, in consequence of the procession of the equinoxes, the signs have, in process of time, become separated about 30 degrees from these constellations, and each of the latter now lies in the sign next in advance, or to the east of the one which bears its name, as the constellation Aries in the sign Taurus, etc. (k) (Alg.) A character indicating the relation of quantities, or an operation performed upon them; as the sign + (plus); the sign — (minus); the sign of division ÷, and the like. (l) (Med.) An objective evidence of disease; that is, one appreciable by some one other than the patient. The terms symptom and and sign are often used synonymously; but they may be discriminated. A sign differs from a symptom in that the latter is perceived only by the patient himself. The term sign is often further restricted to the purely local evidences of disease afforded by direct examination of the organs involved, as distinguished from those evidence of general disturbance afforded by observation of the temperature, pulse, etc. In this sense it is often called physical sign. (m) (Mus.) Any character, as a flat, sharp, dot, etc. (n) (Theol.) That which, being external, stands for, or signifies, something internal or spiritual; — a term used in the Church of England in speaking of an ordinance considered with reference to that which it represents.
"An outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace." Bk. of Common Prayer. See the Table of Arbitrary Signs, p. 1924. Sign manual. (a) (Eng. Law) The royal signature superscribed at the top of bills of grants and letter patent, which are then sealed with the privy signet or great seal, as the case may be, to complete their validity. (b) The signature of one’s name in one’s own handwriting. Craig. Tomlins. Wharton.
Syn. — Token; mark; note; symptom; indication; signal; symbol; type; omen; prognostic; presage; manifestation. See Emblem.

Sign, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Signed p. pr. & vb. n. Signing.] [OE. seinen to bless, originally, to make the sign of the cross over; in this sense fr. ASS. segnian (from segn, n.), or OF. seignier, F. signer, to mark, to sign (in sense 3), fr. L. signare to mark, set a mark upon, from signum. See Sign, n. ]
1. To represent by a sign; to make known in a typical or emblematic manner, in distinction from speech; to signify.
"I signed to Browne to make his retreat." Sir W. Scott.
2. To make a sign upon; to mark with a sign.
"We receive this child into the congregation of Christ’s flock, and do sign him with the sign of the cross." Bk. of Com Prayer.
3. To affix a signature to; to ratify by hand or seal; to subscribe in one’s own handwriting.
"Inquire the Jew’s house out, give him this deed, And let him sign it." Shak.
4. To assign or convey formally; — used with away.
5. To mark; to make distinguishable. Shak.

Sign, v. i.
1. To be a sign or omen. [Obs.] Shak.
2. To make a sign or signal; to communicate directions or intelligence by signs.
3. To write one’s name, esp. as a token of assent, responsibility, or obligation.

Signable
Sign´a•ble, a. Suitable to be signed; requiring signature; as a legal document signable by a particular person.

Signal
Sig´nal, n. [F., fr. LL. signale, fr. L. signum. See Sign, n. ]
1. A sign made for the purpose of giving notice to a person of some occurence, command, or danger; also a sign, event, or watchword, which has been agreed upon as the occasion of concerted action.
"All obeyed The wonted signal and superior voice Of this great potentate." Milton.
2. A token; an indication; a foreshadowing; a sign.
"The weary sun … Gives signal of a goodly day to-morrow." Shak.
"There was not the least signal of the calamity to be seen." De Foc.

Signal
Sig´nal, a. [From signal, n.: cf. F. signale.]
1. Noticeable; distinguished from what is ordinary; eminent; remarkable; memorable; as a signal exploit; a signal service; a signal act of benevolence.
"As signal now in low, dejected state As erst in highest, behold him where he lies." Milton.
2. Of or pertaining to signals, or the use of signals in conveying information; as a signal flag or officer. The signal service, a bureau of the government (in the United States connected with the War Department) organized to collect from the whole country simultaneous raports of local meteorological conditions, upon comparison of which at the central office, predictions concerning the weather are telegraphed to various sections, where they are made known by signals publicly displayed. — Signal station, the place where a signal is displayed; specifically, an observation office of the signal service.
Syn. — Eminent; remarkable; memorable; extraordinary; notable; conspicuous.

Signal
Sig´nal, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Signaled or Signalled; p. pr. & vb. n. Signaling or Signalling.]
1. To communicate by signals; as to signal orders.
2. To notify by a signals; to make a signal or signals to; as to signal a fleet to anchor. M. Arnold.

Signality
Sig•nal´i•ty, n. The quality or state of being signal or remarkable. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Signalize
Sig´nal•ize, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Signalized p. pr. & vb. n. Signalizing ] [From Signal, a. ]
1. To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish.
"It is this passion which drives men to all the ways we see in use of signalizing themselves." Burke.
2. To communicate with by means of a signal; as a ship signalizes its consort.
3. To indicate the existence, presence, or fact of, by a signal; as to signalize the arrival of a steamer.

Signalman
Sig´nal•man, n. ; pl. -men. A man whose business is to manage or display signals; especially, one employed in setting the signals by which railroad trains are run or warned.

Signalment
Sig´nal•ment, n. The act of signaling, or of signalizing; hence, description by peculiar, appropriate, or characteristic marks. Mrs. Browning.

Signate
Sig´nate, a. [L. signatus, p. p. See Sign, v. t.] (Zoöl.) Having definite color markings.

Signature
Sig´na•ture, n. [F. (cf. It. signatura, segnatura, Sp. & LL. signatura), from L. signare, signatum. See Sign, v. t.]
1. A sign, stamp, or mark impressed, as by a seal.
"The brain, being well furnished with various traces, signatures, and images." I. Watts.
"The natural and indelible signature of God, which human souls … are supposed to be stamped with." Bentley.
2. Especially, the name of any person, written with his own hand, employed to signify that the writing which precedes accords with his wishes or intentions; a sign manual; an autograph.
3. (Physiol.) An outward mark by which internal characteristics were supposed to be indicated.
"Some plants bear a very evident signature of their nature and use." Dr. H. More.
4. (Old Med.) A resemblance between the external characters of a disease and those of some physical agent, for instance, that existing between the red skin of scarlet fever and a red cloth; — supposed to indicate this agent in the treatment of the disease.
5. (Mus.) The designation of the key (when not C major, or its relative, A minor) by means of one or more sharps or flats at the beginning of the staff, immediately after the clef, affecting all notes of the same letter throughout the piece or movement. Each minor key has the same signature as its relative major.
6. (Print.) (a) A letter or figure placed at the bottom of the first page of each sheet of a book or pamphlet, as a direction to the binder in arranging and folding the sheets. (b) The printed sheet so marked, or the form from which it is printed; as to reprint one or more signatures. Star signatures (as A•, 1•) are the same characters, with the addition of asterisks, used on the first pages of offcuts, as in 12mo sheets.
7. (Pharm.) That part of a prescription which contains the directions to the patient. It is usually prefaced by S or Sig. (an abbreviation for the Latin signa, imperative of signare to sign or mark).

Signature
Sig´na•ture, v. t. To mark with, or as with, a signature or signatures.

Signaturist
Sig´na•tur•ist, n. One who holds to the doctrine of signatures impressed upon objects, indicative of character or qualities. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Signboard
Sign´board, n. A board, placed on or before a shop, office, etc., on which ssome notice is given, as the name of a firm, of a business, or the like.

Signer
Sign´er, n. One who signs or subscribes his name; as a memorial with a hundred signers.

Signet
Sig´net, n. [OF. signet a signet, F., a bookmark, dim. of signe. See Sign, n. , and cf. Sennet.] A seal; especially, in England, the seal used by the sovereign in sealing private letters and grants that pass by bill under the sign manual; — called also privy signet.
"I had my father’s signet in my purse." Shak. Signet ring, a ring containing a signet or private seal. — Writer to the signet (Scots Law), a judicial officer who prepares warrants, writs, etc.; originally, a clerk in the office of the secretary of state.

Signifer
Sig´ni•fer, a. [L., from signum sign + ferre to bear.] Bearing signs. [Obs.] "The signifer sphere, or zodiac." Holland. { Sig•nif´i•cance, Sig•nif´i•can•cy }, n. [L. significantia.]
1. The quality or state of being significant.
2. That which is signified; meaning; import; as the significance of a nod, of a motion of the hand, or of a word or expression.
3. Importance; moment; weight; consequence.
"With this brain I must work, in order to give significancy and value to the few facts which I possess." De Quincey.

Significant
Sig•nif´i•cant, a. [L. significans, -antis, p. pr. of significare. See Signify.]
1. Fitted or designed to signify or make known somethingl having a meaning; standing as a sign or token; expressive or suggestive; as a significant word or sound; a significant look.
"It was well said of Plotinus, that the stars were significant, but not efficient." Sir W. Raleigh.
2. Deserving to be considered; important; momentous; as a significant event. Significant figures (Arith.), the figures which remain to any number, or decimal fraction, after the ciphers at the right or left are canceled. Thus, the significant figures of 25,000, or of .0025, are 25.

Significant
Sig•nif´i•cant, n. That which has significance; a sign; a token; a symbol. Wordsworth.
"In dumb significants proclaim your thoughts." Shak.

Significantly
Sig•nif´i•cant•ly, adv. In a significant manner.

Significate
Sig•nif´i•cate, n. [L. significatus, p. p. of significare. See Signify.] (Logic) One of several things signified by a common term. Whately.

Significative
Sig•nif´i•ca•tive, a. [L. significativus: cf. F. significatif.]
1. Betokening or representing by an external sign.
"The holy symbols or signs are not barely significative." Brerewood.
2. Having signification or meaning; expressive of a meaning or purpose; significant.
"Neither in the degrees of kindred they were destitute of significative words." Camden. — Sig•nif´i•ca•tive•ly, adv. — Sig•nif´i•ca•tive•ness, n.

Significator
Sig´ni•fi•ca•tor, n. [Cf. F. significateur.] One who, or that which, signifies.
"In this diagram there was one significator which pressed remarkably upon our astrologer’s attention." Sir W. Scott.

Significatory
Sig•nif´i•ca•to•ry, a. [L. significatorius.] Significant. — n. That which is significatory.

Significavit
Sig•ni•fi•ca´vit, n. [L., (he) has signified, perf. ind. of significare to signify.] (Eng. Eccl. Law) Formerly, a writ issuing out of chancery, upon certificate given by the ordinary, of a man’s standing excommunicate by the space of forty days, for the laying him up in prison till he submit himself to the authority of the church. Crabb.

Signify
Sig´ni•fy, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Signified p. pr. & vb. n. Signifying ] [F. signifier, L. significare; signum a sign + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See Sign, n. , and -fy.]
1. To show by a sign; to communicate by any conventional token, as words, gestures, signals, or the like; to announce; to make known; to declare; to express; as a signified his desire to be present.
"I ’ll to the king; and signify to him That thus I have resign’d my charge to you." Shak.
"The government should signify to the Protestants of Ireland that want of silver is not to be remedied." Swift.
2. To mean; to import; to denote; to betoken.
"He bade her tell him what it signified." Chaucer.
"A tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing." Shak. Signify is often used impersonally; as it signifies nothing, it does not signify, that is, it is of no importance.
Syn. — To express; manifest; declare; utter; intimate; betoken; denote; imply; mean.

Signiorize
Sign´ior•ize, v. t. [See Seigniorize.] To exercise dominion over; to lord it over. [Obs.] Shelton.

Signiorize
Sign´ior•ize (sen"yer•iz), v. i. To exercise dominion; to seigniorize. [Obs.] Hewyt.

Signiorship
Sign´ior•ship, n. State or position of a signior.

Signiory
Sign´ior•y (-y), n. Same as Seigniory. { Si•gnor´, Si•gno´re }, n. [It. See Seignior.] Sir; Mr.; — a title of address or respect among the Italians. Before a noun the form is Signor.

Signorina
Si•gno•ri´na, n. [It.] Miss; — a title of address among the Italians.

Signpost
Sign´post, n. A post on which a sign hangs, or on which papers are placed to give public notice of anything. { Sik, Sike } a. Such. See Such. [Obs.] "Sike fancies weren foolerie." Spenser.

Silage
Si´lage, n. & v. Short for Ensilage.

Silene
Si•le´ne, n. [NL., fr. L. Silenus, the attendant of Bacchus.] (Bot.) A genus of caryophyllaceous plants, usually covered with a viscid secretion by which insects are caught; catchfly. Bon Silène. See Silène, in the Vocabulary.

Silentiary
Si•len´ti•a•ry (si•len"shi•a•ry), n. [L. silentiarius: cf. F. silenciaire. See Silence.] One appointed to keep silence and order in court; also one sworn not to divulge secrets of state.

Silently
Si´lent•ly, adv. In a silent manner.

Silentness
Si´lent•ness, n. State of being silent; silence.

Silenus
Si•le´nus, n. [L. Silenus the tutor and attendant of Bacchus.] (Zoöl.) See Wanderoo.

Silesian
Si•le´si•an, a. Of or pertaining to Silesia. — n. A native or inhabitant of Silesia.

Silex
Si´lex, n. [L., a finit, a pebblestone.] (Min.) Silica, SiO₂ as found in nature, constituting quarz, and most sands and sandstones. See Silica, and Silicic.

Silica
Sil´i•ca, n. [NL., from L. silex, silics, a flint.] (Chem.) Silicon dioxide, SiO. It constitutes ordinary quartz (also opal and tridymite), and is artifically prepared as a very fine, white, tasteless, inodorous powder.

Silicate
Sil´i•cate, n. [Cf. F. silicate.] (Chem.) A salt of silicic acid. In mineralogical chemistry the silicates include; the unisilicates or orthosilicates, salts of orthosilicic acid; the bisilicates or metasilicates, salts of metasilicic acid; the polysilicates or acid silicates, salts of the polysilicic acids; the basic silicates or subsilicates, in which the equivalent of base is greater than would be required to neutralize the acid; and the hydrous silicates, including the zeolites and many hydrated decomposition products.

Silicated
Sil´i•ca•ted, a. (Chem.) Combined or impregnated with silicon or silica; as silicated hydrogen; silicated rocks. Silicated soap, a hard soap containing silicate of soda.

Silicatization
Sil•i•ca•ti•za´tion, n. Silicification.

Silicea
Si•lic´e•a, n. pl. [NL.] (Zoöl.) Same as Silicoidea.

Silicic
Si•lic´ic, a. [L. silex, silicis, a flint: cf. F. silicique.] (Chem.) Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, silica; specifically, designating compounds of silicon; as silicic acid. Silicic acid (Chem.), an amorphous gelatinous substance, Si(HO)₄, very unstable and easily dried to silica, but forming many stable salts; — called also orthosilicic, or normal silicic, acid.

Silicicalcareous
Si•lic•i•cal•ca´re•ous, a. Consisting of silica and calcareous matter.

Silicide
Sil´i•cide, n. (Chem.) A binary compound of silicon, or one regarded as binary. [R.] Hydrogen silicide (Chem.), a colorless, spontaneously inflammable gas SiH₄, produced artifically from silicon, and analogous to methane; — called also silico-methane, silicon hydride, and formerly siliciureted hydrogen.

Siliciferous
Sil•i•cif´er•ous, a. [L. silex, silicis, a flint + -ferous.] Producing silica; united with silica.

Silicification
Si•lic•i•fi•ca´tion, n. [See Silicify.] (Chem.) Thae act or process of combining or impregnating with silicon or silica; the state of being so combined or impregnated; as the silicification of wood.

Silicify
Si•lic´i•fy, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Silicified p. pr. & vb. n. Silicifying ] [L. silex, silicis, a flint + -fy: cf. F. silicifier.] (Chem.) To convert into, or to impregnate with, silica, or with the compounds of silicon.
"The specimens found … are completely silicified." Say. The silica may take the form of agate, chalcedony, flint, hornstone, or crystalline quartz.

Silicify
Si•lic´i•fy, v. i. To become converted into silica, or to be impregnated with silica.

Silicioidea
Sil•i•ci•oi´de•a, n. pl. (Zoöl.) Same as Silicoidea.

Silicium
Si•lic´i•um, n. See Silicon.

Silicle
Sil´i•cle, n. [L. silicula, dim. of siliqua a pod or husk: cf. F. silicule.] (Bot.) A seed vessel resembling a silique, but about as broad as it is long. See Silique.

Silicofluoric
Sil•i•co•flu•or´ic, a. (Chem.) Containing, or composed of, silicon and fluorine; especially, denoting the compounds called silicofluorides. Silicofluoric acid (Chem.), a compound of hydrofluoric acid and silicon fluoride, known only in watery solution. It is produced by the action of silicon fluoride on water, and is regarded as an acid, H₂SiF₆, and the type and origin of the silicofluorides.

Silicofluoride
Sil•i•co•flu´or•ide, n. (Chem.) A fluosilicate; a salt of silicofluoric acid.

Silicoidea
Sil•i•coi´de•a, n. pl. [NL. See Silex, and -oid.] (Zoöl.) An extensive order of Porifera, which includes those that have the skeleton composed mainly of siliceous fibers or spicules.

Silicula
Si•lic´u•la, n. [L.] (Bot.) A silicle.

Silicule
Sil´i•cule, n. (Bot.) A silicle.

Siliculose
Si•lic´u•lose, a. [NL. siliculosus, fr. L. silicula: cf. F. siliculeux. See Silicle.]
1. (Bot.) Bearing silicles; pertaining to, or resembling, silicles.
2. Full of, or consisting of, husks; husky. [Obs.]

Siling
Sil´ing, a. & n. from Sile to strain. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Siling dish, a colander. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

Siliquiform
Sil´i•qui•form, a. [ Silique + -form: cf. F. siliquiforme.] (Bot.) Having the form of a silique.

Siliquosa
Sil•i•quo´sa, n. pl. [NL. See Siliquose.] (Bot.) A Linnaean order of plants including those which bear siliques. { Sil´i•quose•, Sil´i•quous } a. [NL. siliquosus: cf. F. siliqueux.] (Bot.) Bearing siliques; as siliquose plants; pertaining to, or resembling, siliques; as siliquose capsules.

Silkiness
Silk´i•ness, n.
1. The quality or state of being silky or silken; softness and smoothness.
2. Fig.: Effeminacy; weakness. [R.] B. Jonson.

Silkman
Silk´man, n. ; pl. Silkmen . A dealer in silks; a silk mercer. Shak.

Silkness
Silk´ness, n. Silkiness. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Silk-stocking
Silk´-stock•ing, a. Wearing silk stockings (which among men were formerly worn chiefly by the luxurious or aristocratic); hence, elegantly dressed; aristocratic; luxurious; - - chiefly applied to men, often by way of reproach.
"[They] will find their levees crowded with silk- stocking gentry, but no yeomanry; an army of officers without soldiers." Jefferson.

Silkweed
Silk´weed, n. (Bot.) Any plant of the genera Asclepias and Acerates whose seed vessels contain a long, silky down; milkweed.

Silkworm
Silk´worm, n. [AS. seolcwyrm.] (Zoöl.) The larva of any one of numerous species of bombycid moths, which spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon before changing to a pupa. The common species ( Bombyx mori) feeds on the leaves of the white mulberry tree. It is native of China, but has long been introduced into other countries of Asia and Europe, and is reared on a large scale. In America it is reared only to small extent. The Ailanthus silkworm ( Philosamia cynthia) is a much larger species, of considerable importance, which has been introduced into Europe and America from China. The most useful American species is the Polyphemus. See Polyphemus. Pernyi silkworm, the larva of the Pernyi moth. See Pernyi moth. — Silkworm gut, a substance prepared from the contents of the silk glands of silkworms and used in making lines for angling. See Gut. - - Silkworm rot, a disease of silkworms; muscardine.

Siller
Sil´ler, n. Silver. [Scot.]

Sillily
Sil´li•ly, adv. [From Silly.] In a silly manner; foolishly. Dryden.

Sillock
Sil´lock, n. (Zoöl.) The pollock, or coalfish.

Sillon
Sil´lon, n. [F., a furrow.] (Fort.) A work raised in the middle of a wide ditch, to defend it. Crabb.

Silly
Sil´ly, a. [ Compar. Sillier superl. Silliest.] [OE. seely, sely, AS. slig, ge slig, happy, good, fr. sl, sl, good, happy, sl good fortune, happines; akin to OS. salig, a, good, happy, D. zalig blessed, G. selig, OHG. salig, Icel. sl, Sw. säll, Dan. salig, Goth. sls good, kind, and perh. also to L. sollus whole, entire, Gr., Skr. sarva. Cf. Seel, n. ]
1. Happy; fortunate; blessed. [Obs.] Chaucer.
2. Harmless; innocent; inoffensive. [Obs.] "This silly, innocent Custance." Chaucer.
"The silly virgin strove him to withstand." Spenser.
"A silly, innocent hare murdered of a dog." Robynson (More’s Utopia).
3. Weak; helpless; frail. [Obs.]
"After long storms … With which my silly bark was tossed sore." Spenser.
"The silly buckets on the deck." Coleridge.
4. Rustic; plain; simple; humble. [Obs.]
"A fourth man, in a sillyhabit." Shak.
"All that did their silly thoughts so busy keep." Milton.
5. Weak in intellect; destitute of ordinary strength of mind; foolish; witless; simple; as a silly woman.
6. Proceeding from want of understanding or common judgment; characterized by weakness or folly; unwise; absurd; stupid; as silly conduct; a silly question.
Syn. — Simple; brainless; witless; shallow; foolish; unwise; indiscreet. See Simple.

Silty
Silt´y, a. Full of silt; resembling silt.

Silundum
Si•lun´dum, n. [Trade name] A form of silicon carbide, produced in the electric furnace, possessing great hardness, and high electrical resistance, and not subject to oxidation below 2880° F., or 1600° C.

Silure
Si•lure´, n. [L. silurus a sort of river fish, Gr. : cf. F. silure.] (Zoöl.) A fish of the genus Silurus, as the sheatfish; a siluroid.

Silurian
Si•lu´ri•an, a. [From L. Silures, a people who anciently inhabited a part of England and Wales.] (Geol.) Of or pertaining to the country of the ancient Silures; — a term applied to the earliest of the Paleozoic eras and also to the strata of the era, because most plainly developed in that country. The Silurian formation, so named by Murchison, is divided into the Upper Silurian and Lower Silurian. The lower part of the Lower Silurian, with some underlying beds, is now separated under the name Cambrian, first given by Sedwick. Recently the term Ordovician has been proposed for the Lower Silurian, leawing the original word to apply only to the Upper Silurian.

Silurian
Si•lu´ri•an, n. The Silurian age.

Siluridan
Si•lu´ri•dan, n. (Zoöl.) Any fish of the family Siluridae or of the order Siluroidei.

Siluroid
Si•lu´roid, n. [ Silurus + -oid.] (Zoöl.) Belonging to the Siluroidei, or Nematognathi, an order of fishes including numerous species, among which are the American catfishes and numerous allied fresh-water species of the Old World, as the sheatfish ( Silurus glanis) of Europe. — n. A siluroid fish.

Siluroidei
Sil•u•roi´de•i, n. pl. [NL.] (zoöl.) An order of fishes, the Nematognathi.

Silurus
Si•lu´rus, n. [L. See Silure.] (Zoöl.) A genus of large malacopterygious fishes of the order Siluroidei. They inhabit the inland waters of Europe and Asia.

Silvan
Sil´van, a. [L. silva, less correctly sylva, a wood or grove, perh. akin to Gr. "y•lh; cf. L. Silvanus Silvanus the god of woods: cf. F. sylvain silvan. Cf. Savage.] Of or pertaining to woods; composed of woods or groves; woody. [Written also sylvan.]
"Betwixt two rows of rocks, a silvan scene Appears above, and groves forever green." Dryden.

Silvan
Sil´van, n. (Old Chem.) See Sylvanium. [Obs.]

Silver certificate
Sil"ver cer•tif"i•cate. A certificate issued by a government that there has been deposited with it silver to a specified amount, payable to the bearer on demand. In the United States and its possessions, it is issued against the deposit of silver coin, and is not legal tender, but is receivable for customs, taxes, and all public dues.

Silver State. Nevada; — a nickname alluding to its silver mines.

Silverback
Sil´ver•back, n. (Zoöl.) The knot.

Silverberry
Sil´ver•ber•ry, n. (Bot.) A tree or shrub ( Elaeagnus argentea) with silvery foliage and fruit. Gray.

Silverbill
Sil´ver•bill, n. (Zoöl.) An Old World finch of the genus Minia, as the M. Malabarica of India, and M. cantans of Africa.

Silverboom
Sil´ver•boom, n. [D. zilver silver + boom tree.] (Bot.) See Leucadendron.

Silverfish
Sil´ver•fish, n. (Zoöl.) (a) The tarpum. (b) A white variety of the goldfish.

Silver-gray
Sil´ver-gray, a. Having a gray color with a silvery luster; as silver-gray hair.

Silveriness
Sil´ver•i•ness, n. The state of being silvery.

Silvering
Sil´ver•ing, n. (Metal.) The art or process of covering metals, wood, paper, glass, etc., with a thin film of metallic silver, or a substance resembling silver; also the firm do laid on; as the silvering of a glass speculum.

Silverite
Sil´ver•ite, n. One who favors the use or establishment of silver as a monetary standard; — so called by those who favor the gold standard. [Colloq. or Cant]

Silverize
Sil´ver•ize, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Silverized p. pr. & vb. n. Silverizing.] To cover with silver.

Silverling
Sil´ver•ling, n. A small silver coin. [Obs.]
"A thousand vines at a thousand silverings." Isa. vii. 23.

Silverly
Sil´ver•ly, adv. Like silver in appearance or in sound.
"Let me wipe off this honorable dew, That silverly doth progress on thy cheeks." Shak.

Silvern
Sil´vern, a. [AS. seolfern, sylfren.] Made of silver. [Archaic.] Wyclif (Acts xix. 24).
"Speech is silvern; silence is golden." Old Proverb.

Silversides
Sil´ver•sides, n. (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of small fishes of the family Atherinidae, having a silvery stripe along each side of the body. The common species of the American coast ( Menidia notata) is very abundant. Called also silverside, sand smelt, friar, tailor, and tinker. Brook silversides (Zoöl.), a small fresh-water North American fish ( Labadesthes sicculus) related to the marine silversides.

Silversmith
Sil´ver•smith, n. One whose occupation is to manufacture utensils, ornaments, etc., of silver; a worker in silver.

Silverspot
Sil´ver•spot, n. (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of butterflies of the genus Argynnis and allied genera, having silvery spots on the under side of the wings. See Illust. under Aphrodite.

Silverweed
Sil´ver•weed, n. (Bot.) A perennial rosaceous herb ( Potentilla Anserina) having the leaves silvery white beneath.

Silvery
Sil´ver•y, a.
1. Resembling, or having the luster of, silver; grayish white and lustrous; of a mild luster; bright.
"All the enameled race, whose silvery wing Waves to the tepid zephyrs of the spring." Pope.
2. Besprinkled or covered with silver.
3. Having the clear, musical tone of silver; soft and clear in sound; as silvery voices; a silvery laugh. Silvery iron (Metal.), a peculiar light-gray fine-grained cast iron, usually obtained from clay iron ore.

Silvics
Sil´vics, n.
1. The science treating of the life of trees in the forest.
2. Habit or behavior of a forest tree.

Silviculture
Sil´vi•cul•ture, n. [Cf. F. silviculture.] See Sylviculture.

Simagre
Sim´a•gre, n. [F. simagree.] A grimace. [Obs.] Dryden.

Simar
Si•mar´, n. [F. simarre. See Chimere.] A woman’s long dress or robe; also light covering; a scarf. [Written also cimar, cymar, samare, simare.]

Simia
Sim´i•a, n. [L., an ape; cf. simus flatnosed, snub-nosed, Gr. .] (Zoöl.) A Linnaean genus of Quadrumana which included the types of numerous modern genera. By modern writers it is usually restricted to the genus which includes the orang- outang.

Simial
Sim´i•al, a. (Zoöl.) Simian; apelike.

Simian
Sim´i•an, a. [L. simia an ape.] (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the family Simiadae, which, in its widest sense, includes all the Old World apes and monkeys; also apelike. — n. Any Old World monkey or ape.

Similar
Sim´i•lar, a. [F. similaire, fr. L. similis like, similar. See Same, a. , and cf. Simulate.]
1. Exactly corresponding; resembling in all respects; precisely like.
2. Nearly corresponding; resembling in many respects; somewhat like; having a general likeness.
3. Homogenous; uniform. [R.] Boyle. Similar figures (Geom.), figures which differ from each other only in magnitude, being made up of the same number of like parts similarly situated. — Similar rectilineal figures, such as have their several angles respectively equal, each to each, and their sides about the equal angles proportional. — Similar solids, such as are contained by the same number of similar planes, similarly situated, and having like inclination to one another.

Similar
Sim´i•lar, n. That which is similar to, or resembles, something else, as in quality, form, etc.

Similarity
Sim•i•lar´i•ty, n. ; pl. -ties (#). [Cf. F. similarite.] The quality or state of being similar; likeness; resemblance; as a similarity of features.
"Hardly is there a similarity detected between two or three facts, than men hasten to extend it to all." Sir W. Hamilton.

Similarly
Sim´i•lar•ly, adv. In a similar manner.

Similary
Sim´i•lar•y, a. Similar. [Obs.]
"Rhyming cadences of similarly words." South.

Similative
Sim´i•la•tive, a. Implying or indicating likeness or resemblance. [R.]
"In similative or instrumental relation to a pa. pple. [past participle], as almond-leaved, -scented, etc." New English Dict.

Simile
Sim´i•le, n. ; pl. Similes (#). [L., from similis. See Similar.] (Rhet.) A word or phrase by which anything is likened, in one or more of its aspects, to something else; a similitude; a poetical or imaginative comparison.
"A good swift simile, but something currish." Shak.

Similitude
Si•mil´i•tude, n. [F. similitude, L. similitudo, from similis similar. See Similar.]
1. The quality or state of being similar or like; resemblance; likeness; similarity; as similitude of substance. Chaucer.
"Let us make now man in our image, man In our similitude." Milton.
"If fate some future bard shall join In sad similitude of griefs to mine." Pope.
2. The act of likening, or that which likens, one thing to another; fanciful or imaginative comparison; a simile.
"Tasso, in his similitudes, never departed from the woods; that is, all his comparisons were taken from the country." Dryden.
3. That which is like or similar; a representation, semblance, or copy; a facsimile.
"Man should wed his similitude." Chaucer.

Similize
Sim´i•lize, v. t. To liken; to compare; as to similize a person, thing, or act. Lowell.

Similor
Sim´i•lor, n. [F., fr. L. similus similar + F. or gold, L. aurum. Cf. Semilor.] An alloy of copper and zinc, resembling brass, but of a golden color. Ure.

Simitar
Sim´i•tar, n. See Scimiter.

Simnel
Sim´nel, n. [OF. simenel cake or bread of wheat flour, LL. simenellus wheat bread, fr. L. simila the finest wheat flour. Cf. Semolina.]
1. A kind of cake made of fine flour; a cracknel. [Obs.]
"Not common bread, but vastel bread, or simnels." Fuller.
2. A kind of rich plum cake, eaten especially on Mid-Lent Sunday. [Eng.] Herrick.

Simonial
Si•mo´ni•al, a. Simoniacal. [Obs.]

Simonian
Si•mo´ni•an, n. [See Simony.] One of the followers of Simon Magus; also an adherent of certain heretical sects in the early Christian church.

Simonist
Sim´o•nist, n. One who practices simony.

Simon-pure
Si´mon-pure´, a. Genuine; true; real; authentic; — a term alluding to the comedy character Simon Pure, who is impersonated by another and is obliged to prove himself to be the "real Simon Pure."

Simony
Sim´o•ny, n. [F. simonie, LL. simonia, fr. Simon Magus, who wished to purchase the power of conferring the Holy Spirit. Acts viii.] The crime of buying or selling ecclesiastical preferment; the corrupt presentation of any one to an ecclesiastical benefice for money or reward. Piers Plowman. { Si•moom´, Si•moon´ } n. [Ar. samm, fr. samma to poison. Cf. Samiel.] A hot, dry, suffocating, dust-laden wind, that blows occasionally in Arabia, Syria, and neighboring countries, generated by the extreme heat of the parched deserts or sandy plains.

Simpai
Sim´pai, n. [Malay simpei.] (Zoöl.) A long-tailed monkey ( Semnopitchecus melalophus) native of Sumatra. It has a crest of black hair. The forehead and cheeks are fawn color, the upper parts tawny and red, the under parts white. Called also black-crested monkey, and sinpae.

Simper
Sim´per, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Simpered p. pr. & vb. n. Simpering.] [Cf. Norw. semper fine, smart, dial. Dan. semper, simper, affected, coy, prudish, OSw. semper one who affectedly refrains from eating, Sw. sipp finical, prim, LG. sipp.]
1. To smile in a silly, affected, or conceited manner.
"Behold yond simpering dame." Shak.
"With a made countenance about her mouth, between simpering and smiling." ir. P. Sidney.
2. To glimmer; to twinkle. [Obs.]
"Yet can I mark how stars above Simper and shine." Herbert.

Simper
Sim´per, n. A constrained, self- conscious smile; an affected, silly smile; a smirk.
"The conscious simper, and the jealous leer." Pope.

Simperer
Sim´per•er, n. One who simpers. Sir W. Scott.
"A simperer that a court affords." T. Nevile.

Simpering
Sim´per•ing, a. &. n. from Simper, v.

Simple
Sim´ple, a. [ Compar. Simpler superl. Simplest.] [F., fr. L. simplus, or simplex, gen. simplicis. The first part of the Latin words is probably akin to E. same, and the sense, one, one and the same; cf. L. semel once, singuli one to each, single. Cg. Single, a. , Same, a. , and for the last part of the word cf. Double, Complex.]
1. Single; not complex; not infolded or entangled; uncombined; not compounded; not blended with something else; not complicated; as a simple substance; a simple idea; a simple sound; a simple machine; a simple problem; simple tasks.
2. Plain; unadorned; as simple dress. "Simple truth." Spenser. "His simple story." Burns.
3. Mere; not other than; being only.
"A medicine … whose simple touch Is powerful to araise King Pepin." Shak.
4. Not given to artifice, stratagem, or duplicity; undesigning; sincere; true.
"Full many fine men go upon my score, as simple as I stand here, and I trust them." Marston.
"Must thou trust Tradition’s simple tongue?" Byron.
"To be simple is to be great." Emerson.
5. Artless in manner; unaffected; unconstrained; natural; inartificial;; straightforward.
"In simple manners all the secret lies." Young.
6. Direct; clear; intelligible; not abstruse or enigmatical; as a simple statement; simple language.
7. Weak in intellect; not wise or sagacious; of but moderate understanding or attainments; hence, foolish; silly. "You have simple wits." Shak.
"The simple believeth every word; but the prudent man looketh well to his going." Prov. xiv. 15.
8. Not luxurious; without much variety; plain; as a simple diet; a simple way of living.
"Thy simple fare and all thy plain delights." Cowper.
9. Humble; lowly; undistinguished.
"A simple husbandman in garments gray." Spenser.
"Clergy and laity, male and female, gentle and simple made the fuel of the same fire." Fuller.
10. (BOt.) Without subdivisions; entire; as a simple stem; a simple leaf.
11. (Chem.) Not capable of being decomposed into anything more simple or ultimate by any means at present known; elementary; thus, atoms are regarded as simple bodies. Cf. Ultimate, a. A simple body is one that has not as yet been decomposed. There are indications that many of our simple elements are still compound bodies, though their actual decomposition into anything simpler may never be accomplished.
12. (Min.) Homogenous.
13. (Zoöl.) Consisting of a single individual or zooid; as a simple ascidian; — opposed to compound. Simple contract (Law), any contract, whether verbal or written, which is not of record or under seal. J. W. Smith. Chitty. — Simple equation (Alg.), an equation containing but one unknown quantity, and that quantity only in the first degree. — Simple eye (Zoöl.), an eye having a single lens; — opposed to compound eye. — Simple interest. See under Interest. — Simple larceny. (Law) See under Larceny. — Simple obligation (Rom. Law), an obligation which does not depend for its execution upon any event provided for by the parties, or is not to become void on the happening of any such event. Burrill.
Syn. — Single; uncompounded; unmingled; unmixed; mere; uncombined; elementary; plain; artless; sincere; harmless; undesigning; frank; open; unaffected; inartificial; unadorned; credulous; silly; foolish; shallow; unwise. — Simple, Silly. One who is simple is sincere, unaffected, and inexperienced in duplicity, — hence liable to be duped. A silly person is one who is ignorant or weak and also self- confident; hence, one who shows in speech and act a lack of good sense. Simplicity is incompatible with duplicity, artfulness, or vanity, while silliness is consistent with all three. Simplicity denotes lack of knowledge or of guile; silliness denotes want of judgment or right purpose, a defect of character as well as of education.
"I am a simple woman, much too weak To oppose your cunning." Shak.
"He is the companion of the silliest people in their most silly pleasure; he is ready for every impertinent entertainment and diversion." Law.

Simple
Sim´ple, n. [F. See Simple, a. ]
1. Something not mixed or compounded. "Compounded of many simples." Shak.
2. (Med.) A medicinal plant; — so called because each vegetable was supposed to possess its particular virtue, and therefore to constitute a simple remedy.
"What virtue is in this remedy lies in the naked simple itself as it comes over from the Indies." Sir W. Temple.
3. (Weaving) (a) A drawloom. (b) A part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom.
4. (R. C. Ch.) A feast which is not a double or a semidouble.

Simple
Sim´ple, v. i. To gather simples, or medicinal plants.
"As simpling on the flowery hills she [Circe] strayed." Garth.

Simple-hearted
Sim´ple-heart•ed, a. Sincere; inguenuous; guileless. Sir W. Scott.

Simple-minded
Sim´ple-mind•ed, a. Artless; guileless; simple-hearted; undesigning; unsuspecting; devoid of duplicity. Blackstone. — Sim´ple-mind•ed•ness, n.

Simpleness
Sim´ple•ness, n. The quality or state of being simple; simplicity. Shak.

Simpler
Sim´pler, n. One who collects simples, or medicinal plants; a herbalist; a simplist. Simpler’s joy. (Bot.) Vervain.

Simpless
Sim´pless, n. [F. simplesse.] Simplicity; silliness. [Obs.] Spenser.

Simpleton
Sim´ple•ton, n. [Cf. F. simplet, It. semplicione.] A person of weak intellect; a silly person.

Simplician
Sim•pli´cian, n. [Cf. OF. simplicien.] One who is simple. [Obs.] Arnway.

Simplicity
Sim•plic´i•ty, n. [F. simplicite, L. simplicitas. See Simple.]
1. The quality or state of being simple, unmixed, or uncompounded; as the simplicity of metals or of earths.
2. The quality or state of being not complex, or of consisting of few parts; as the simplicity of a machine.
3. Artlessness of mind; freedom from cunning or duplicity; lack of acuteness and sagacity.
"Marquis Dorset, a man, for his harmless simplicity neither misliked nor much regarded." Hayward.
"In wit a man; simplicity a child." Pope.
4. Freedom from artificial ornament, pretentious style, or luxury; plainness; as simplicity of dress, of style, or of language; simplicity of diet; simplicity of life.
5. Freedom from subtlety or abstruseness; clearness; as the simplicity of a doctrine; the simplicity of an explanation or a demonstration.
6. Weakness of intellect; silliness; folly.
"How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning?" Prov. i. 22.

Simplify
Sim´pli•fy, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Simplified p. pr. & vb. n. Simplifying ] [Cf. F. simplifier, LL. simplificare. See Simple, and -fy.] To make simple; to make less complex; to make clear by giving the explanation for; to show an easier or shorter process for doing or making.
"The collection of duties is drawn to a point, and so far simplified." A. Hamilton.
"It is important, in scientific pursuits, to be caitious in simplifying our deductions." W. Nicholson.

Simplistic
Sim•plis´tic, a. Of or pertaining to simples, or a simplist. [R.] Wilkinson.

Simplity
Sim´pli•ty, n. Simplicity. [Obs.]

Simploce
Sim´plo•ce, n. (Gram.) See Symploce.

Simulate
Sim´u•late, a. [L. simulatus, p. p. of simulare to simulate; akin to simul at the same time, together, similis like. See Similar, and cf. Dissemble, Semblance.] Feigned; pretended. Bale.

Simulate
Sim´u•late, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Simulated p. pr. & vb. n. Simulating.] To assume the mere appearance of, without the reality; to assume the signs or indications of, falsely; to counterfeit; to feign.
"The Puritans, even in the depths of the dungeons to which she had sent them, prayed, and with no simulated fervor, that she might be kept from the dagger of the assassin." Macaulay.

Simulator
Sim´u•la•tor, n. [L.] One who simulates, or feigns. De Quincey.

Simulatory
Sim´u•la•to•ry, a. Simulated, or capable of being simulated. Bp. Hall.

Simultaneity
Si•mul•ta•ne´i•ty, n. The quality or state of being simultaneous; simultaneousness.

Simultaneous
Si•mul•ta´ne•ous, a. [LL. simultim at the same time, fr. L. simul. See Simulate.] Existing, happening, or done, at the same time; as simultaneous events. — Si•mul•ta´ne•ous•ly, adv. — Si•mul•ta´ne•ous•ness, n. Simultaneous equations (Alg.), two or more equations in which the values of the unknown quantities entering them are the same at the same time in both or in all.

Sin, adv., prep., & conj. Old form of Since. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
"Sin that his lord was twenty year of age." Chaucer.

Sin, n. [OE. sinne, AS. synn, syn; akin to D. zonde, OS. sundia, OHG. sunta, G. sünde, Icel., Dan. & Sw. synd, L. sons, sontis, guilty, perhaps originally from the p. pr. of the verb signifying, to be, and meaning, the one who it is. Cf. Authentic, Sooth.]
1. Transgression of the law of God; disobedience of the divine command; any violation of God’s will, either in purpose or conduct; moral deficiency in the character; iniquity; as sins of omission and sins of commission.
"Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin." John viii. 34.
"Sin is the transgression of the law." 1 John iii. 4.
"I think ’t no sin. To cozen him that would unjustly win." Shak.
"Enthralled By sin to foul, exorbitant desires." Milton.
2. An offense, in general; a violation of propriety; a misdemeanor; as a sin against good manners.
"I grant that poetry’s a crying sin." Pope.
3. A sin offering; a sacrifice for sin.
"He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin." 2 Cor. v. 21.
4. An embodiment of sin; a very wicked person. [R.]
"Thy ambition, Thou scarlet sin, robbed this bewailing land Of noble Buckingham." Shak. Sin is used in the formation of some compound words of obvious signification; as sin-born; sin-bred, sin-oppressed, sin-polluted, and the like. Actual sin, Canonical sins, Original sin, Venial sin. See under Actual, Canonical, etc. — Deadly, or Mortal, sins (R. C. Ch.), willful and deliberate transgressions, which take away divine grace; — in distinction from vental sins. The seven deadly sins are pride, covetousness, lust, wrath, gluttony, envy, and sloth. — Sin eater, a man who (according to a former practice in England) for a small gratuity ate a piece of bread laid on the chest of a dead person, whereby he was supposed to have taken the sins of the dead person upon himself. — Sin offering, a sacrifice for sin; something offered as an expiation for sin.
Syn. — Iniquity; wickedness; wrong. See Crime.

Sin, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Sinned p. pr. & vb. n. Sinning.] [OE. sinnen, singen, sinegen, AS. syngian. See Sin, n. ]
1. To depart voluntarily from the path of duty prescribed by God to man; to violate the divine law in any particular, by actual transgression or by the neglect or nonobservance of its injunctions; to violate any known rule of duty; — often followed by against.
"Against thee, thee only, have I sinned." Ps. li. 4.
"All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God." Rom. iii. 23.
2. To violate human rights, law, or propriety; to commit an offense; to trespass; to transgress.
"I am a man More sinned against than sinning." Shak.
"Who but wishes to invert the laws Of order, sins against the eternal cause." Pope. { Si•na´ic, Si•na•it´ic } a. [From Mount Sinai.] Of or pertaining to Mount Sinai; given or made at Mount Sinai; as the Sinaitic law. Sinaitic manuscript, a fourth century Greek manuscript of the part Bible, discovered at Mount Sinai (the greater part of it in 1859) by Tisschendorf, a German Biblical critic; — called also Codex Sinaiticus.

Sinamine
Sin•am´ine, n. [ Sinapis + mel amine.] (Chem.) A bitter white crystalline nitrogenous substance, obtained indirectly from oil of mustard and ammonia; — called also allyl melamine.

Sinapate
Sin´a•pate, n. (Chem.) A salt of sinapic acid.

Sinapic
Sin´a•pic, a. (Chem.) Of or pertaining to sinapine; specifically, designating an acid (C₁₁H₁₂O₅) related to gallic acid, and obtained by the decomposition of sinapine, as a white crystalline substance.

Sinapine
Sin´a•pine, n. [L. sinapi, sinapis, mustard, Gr. : cf. F. sinapine.] (Chem.) An alkaloid occuring in the seeds of mustard. It is extracted, in combination with sulphocyanic acid, as a white crystalline substance, having a hot, bitter taste. When sinapine is isolated it is unstable and undergoes decomposition.

Sinapis
Si•na´pis, n. [L.] (Bot.) A disused generic name for mustard; — now called Brassica.

Sinapisin
Sin´a•pis•in, n. (Chem.) A substance extracted from mustard seed and probably identical with sinalbin. [Obs.]

Sinapism
Sin´a•pism, n. [L. sinapismus, Gr., the use of a mustard blister, fr. to apply a mustard blister, fr. mustard.] (Med.) A plaster or poultice composed principally of powdered mustard seed, or containing the volatile oil of mustard seed. It is a powerful irritant.

Sinapoleic
Sin•a•po•le´ic, a. [ Sinapis + oleic.] (Chem.) Of or pertaining to mustard oil; specifically, designating an acid of the oleic acid series said to occur in mistard oil.

Sinapoline
Si•nap´o•line, n. [ Sinapis + L. oleum oil.] (Chem.) A nitrogenous base, CO.(NH.C₃H₅)₂, related to urea, extracted from mustard oil, and also produced artifically, as a white crystalline substance; — called also diallyl urea.

Sincaline
Sin´ca•line, n. [So called because obtained by the action of al kalies on sinapine.] (Chem.) Choline. [Written also sinkaline.]

Since (sins), adv. [For sins, contr. fr. OE. sithens, sithenes, formed by an adverbial ending (cf. Besides) from OE. sithen, also shortened into sithe, sin, AS. siððan, syððan, seoððan, afterward, then, since, after; properly, after that; fr. sið after, later, adv. and prep. (originally a comparative adv., akin to OS. sið afterward, since, OHG. sid, G. seit since, Goth. seiþus late, ni þana seiþs no longer) + ðon instrumental of the demonstrative and article. See That.]
1. From a definite past time until now; as he went a month ago, and I have not seen him since. [1913 Webster]
"We since become the slaves to one man’s lust." B. Jonson.
2. In the time past, counting backward from the present; before this or now; ago.
"How many ages since has Virgil writ?" Roscommon.
"About two years since, it so fell out, that he was brought to a great lady’s house." Sir P. Sidney.
3. When or that. [Obs.]
"Do you remember since we lay all night in the windmill in St. George’s field?" Shak.

Since, prep. From the time of; in or during the time subsequent to; subsequently to; after; — usually with a past event or time for the object.
"The Lord hath blessed thee, since my coming." Gen. xxx. 30.
"I have a model by which he build a nobler poem than any extant since the ancients." Dryden.

Since, conj. Seeing that; because; considering; — formerly followed by that.
"Since that my penitence comes after all, Imploring pardon." Shak.
"Since truth and constancy are vain, Since neither love, nor sense of pain, Nor force of reason, can persuade, Then let example be obeyed." Granville.
Syn. — Because; for; as; inasmuch as; considering. See Because.

Sincereness
Sin•cere´ness, n. Same as Sincerity. Beau. & Fl.

Sinch, n. [See Cinch.] A saddle girth made of leather, canvas woven horsehair, or woven grass. [Western U.S.]

Sinch, v. t. To gird with a sinch; to tighten the sinch or girth of (a saddle); as to sinch up a sadle. [Western U.S.]

Sincipital
Sin•cip´i•tal, a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the sinciput; being in the region of the sinciput.

Sinciput
Sin´ci•put, n. [L., half a head; semihalf + caput the head.]
1. (Anat.) The fore part of the head.
2. (Zoöl.) The part of the head of a bird between the base of the bill and the vertex.

Sindi
Sind´i, n. [Ar. Sindi, fr. Sind Indian, Skr. sindhu river, sea, the river Indus, the country along the Indus. Cf. Indian, Hindoo.] (Ethnol.) A native of Sind, India, esp. one of the native Hindoo stock.

Sine, n. [LL. sinus a sine, L. sinus bosom, used in translating the Ar. jaib, properly, bosom, but probably read by mistake (the consonants being the same) for an original jiba sine, from Skr. jiva bowstring, chord of an arc, sine.] (Trig.) (a) The length of a perpendicular drawn from one extremity of an arc of a circle to the diameter drawn through the other extremity. (b) The perpendicular itself. See Sine of angle, below. Artificial sines, logarithms of the natural sines, or logarithmic sines. — Curve of sines. See Sinusoid. — Natural sines, the decimals expressing the values of the sines, the radius being unity. — Sine of an angle, in a circle whose radius is unity, the sine of the arc that measures the angle; in a right-angled triangle, the side opposite the given angle divided by the hypotenuse. See Trigonometrical function, under Function. — Versed sine, that part of the diameter between the sine and the arc.

Sine
Si´ne, prep. [L.] Without.

Sinecural
Si´ne•cu•ral, a. Of or pertaining to a sinecure; being in the nature of a sinecure.

Sinecure
Si•ne•cure, n. [L. sine without + cura care, LL., a cure. See Cure.]
1. An ecclesiastical benefice without the care of souls. Ayliffe.
2. Any office or position which requires or involves little or no responsibility, labor, or active service.
"A lucrative sinecure in the Excise." Macaulay.

Sinecure
Si´ne•cure, v. t. To put or place in a sinecure.

Sinecurism
Si´ne•cu•rism, n. The state of having a sinecure.

Sinecurist
Si´ne•cu•rist, n. One who has a sinecure.

Sinew
Sin´ew, n. [OE. sinewe, senewe, AS. sinu, seonu; akin to D. zenuw, OHG. senawa, G. sehne, Icel. sin, Sw. sena, Dan. sene; cf. Skr. snava. rad.290.]
1. (Anat.) A tendon or tendonous tissue. See Tendon.
2. Muscle; nerve. [R.] Sir J. Davies.
3. Fig.: That which supplies strength or power.
"The portion and sinew of her fortune, her marriage dowry." Shak.
"The bodies of men, munition, and money, may justly be called the sinews of war." Sir W. Raleigh. Money alone is often called the sinews of war.

Sinew
Sin´ew, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Sinewed p. pr. & vb. n. Sinewing.] To knit together, or make strong with, or as with, sinews. Shak.
"Wretches, now stuck up for long tortures … might, if properly treated, serve to sinew the state in time of danger." Goldsmith.

Sinewiness
Sin´ew•i•ness, n. Quality of being sinewy.

Sinewish
Sin´ew•ish, a. Sinewy. [Obs.] Holinshed.

Sinewless
Sin´ew•less, a. Having no sinews; hence, having no strength or vigor.

Sinewous
Sin´ew•ous, a. Sinewy. [Obs.] Holinshed.

Sinew-shrunk
Sin´ew-shrunk, a. (Far.) Having the sinews under the belly shrunk by excessive fatigue.

Sinewy
Sin´ew•y, a.
1. Pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling, a sinew or sinews.
"The sinewy thread my brain lets fall." Donne.
2. Well braced with, or as if with, sinews; nervous; vigorous; strong; firm; tough; as the sinewy Ajax.
"A man whose words … were so close and sinewy." Hare.

Sinful
Sin´ful, a. [AAS. synfull.] Tainted with, or full of, sin; wicked; iniquitous; criminal; unholy; as sinful men; sinful thoughts. Piers Plowman.
"Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity." Isa. i. 4. — Sin´ful•ly, adv. — Sin´ful•ness, n.

Sing, v. i. [ imp. Sung or Sang ; p. p. Sung; p. pr. & vb. n. Singing.] [AS. singan; akin to D. zingen, OS. & OHG. singan, G. singen, Icel. syngja, Sw. sjunga, Dan. synge, Goth. siggwan, and perhaps to E. say, v.t., or cf. Gr. voice. Cf. Singe, Song.]
1. To utter sounds with musical inflections or melodious modulations of voice, as fancy may dictate, or according to the notes of a song or tune, or of a given part (as alto, tenor, etc.) in a chorus or concerted piece.
"The noise of them that sing do I hear." Ex. xxxii. 18.
2. To utter sweet melodious sounds, as birds do.
"On every bough the briddes heard I sing." Chaucer.
"Singing birds, in silver cages hung." Dryden.
3. To make a small, shrill sound; as the air sing. in passing through a crevice.
"O’er his head the flying spear Sang innocent, and spent its force in air." Pope.
4. To tell or relate something in numbers or verse; to celebrate something in poetry. Milton.
"Bid her … sing Of human hope by cross event destroyed." Prior.
5. To cry out; to complain. [Obs.]
"They should sing if thet they were bent." Chaucer.

Sing, v. t.
1. To utter with musical inflections or modulations of voice.
"And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb." Rev. xv. 3.
"And in the darkness sing your carol of high praise." Keble.
2. To celebrate is song; to give praises to in verse; to relate or rehearse in numbers, verse, or poetry. Milton.
"Arms and the man I sing." Dryden.
"The last, the happiest British king, Whom thou shalt paint or I shall sing." Addison.
3. To influence by singing; to lull by singing; as to sing a child to sleep.
4. To accompany, or attend on, with singing.
"I heard them singing home the bride." Longfellow.

Singe (sinj), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Singed (sinjd); p. pr. & vb. n. Singeing (sinj"ing).] [OE. sengen, AS. sengan in be sengan (akin to D. zengen, G. sengen), originally, to cause to sing, fr. AS. singan to sing, in allusion to the singing or hissing sound often produced when a substance is singed, or slightly burned. See Sing.]
1. To burn slightly or superficially; to burn the surface of; to burn the ends or outside of; as to sing. the hair or the skin.
"You sulphurous and thought-executing fires, … Singe my white head!" Shak.
"I singed the toes of an ape through a burning glass." L’Estrange.
2. (a) To remove the nap of (cloth), by passing it rapidly over a red-hot bar, or over a flame, preliminary to dyeing it. (b) To remove the hair or down from (a plucked chicken or the like) by passing it over a flame.

Singe, n. A burning of the surface; a slight burn.

Singer
Sin´ger (sin"jer), n. [From Singe.] One who, or that which, singes. Specifically: (a) One employed to singe cloth. (b) A machine for singeing cloth.

Singer
Sing´er, n. [From Sing.] One who sings; especially, one whose profession is to sing.

Singhalese
Sin•gha•lese´, n. & a. [Skr. Si&mtil;hala Ceylon.] (Ethnol.) Same as Cingalese.

Single
Sin´gle, a. [L. singulus, a dim. from the root in simplex simple; cf. OE. & OF. sengle, fr. L. singulus. See Simple, and cf. Singular.]
1. One only, as distinguished from more than one; consisting of one alone; individual; separate; as a single star.
"No single man is born with a right of controlling the opinions of all the rest." Pope.
2. Alone; having no companion.
"Who single hast maintained, Against revolted multitudes, the cause Of truth." Milton.
3. Hence, unmarried; as a single man or woman.
"Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness." Shak.
"Single chose to live, and shunned to wed." Dryden.
4. Not doubled, twisted together, or combined with others; as a single thread; a single strand of a rope.
5. Performed by one person, or one on each side; as a single combat.
"These shifts refuted, answer thy appellant, … Who now defles thee thrice ti single fight." Milton.
6. Uncompounded; pure; unmixed.
"Simple ideas are opposed to complex, and single to compound." I. Watts.
7. Not deceitful or artful; honest; sincere.
"I speak it with a single heart." Shak.
8. Simple; not wise; weak; silly. [Obs.]
"He utters such single matter in so infantly a voice." Beau. & Fl.Single ale, beer, or drink, small ale, etc., as contrasted with double ale, etc., which is stronger. [Obs.] Nares. — Single bill (Law), a written engagement, generally under seal, for the payment of money, without a penalty. Burril. — Single court (Lawn Tennis), a court laid out for only two players. — Single-cut file. See the Note under 4th File. — Single entry. See under Bookkeeping. — Single file. See under 1st File. — Single flower (Bot.), a flower with but one set of petals, as a wild rose. — Single knot. See Illust. under Knot. — Single whip (Naut.), a single rope running through a fixed block.

Single
Sin´gle, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Singled p. pr. & vb. n. Singling ]
1. To select, as an individual person or thing, from among a number; to choose out from others; to separate.
"Dogs who hereby can single out their master in the dark." Bacon.
"His blood! she faintly screamed her mind Still singling one from all mankind." More.
2. To sequester; to withdraw; to retire. [Obs.]
"An agent singling itself from consorts." Hooker.
3. To take alone, or one by one.
"Men … commendable when they are singled." Hooker.

Single
Sin´gle, v. i. To take the irrregular gait called single-foot;- said of a horse. See Single- foot.
"Many very fleet horses, when overdriven, adopt a disagreeable gait, which seems to be a cross between a pace and a trot, in which the two legs of one side are raised almost but not quite, simultaneously. Such horses are said to single, or to be single-footed." W. S. Clark.

Single
Sin´gle, n.
1. A unit; one; as to score a single.
2. pl. The reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness.
3. A handful of gleaned grain. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
4. (Law Tennis) A game with but one player on each side; — usually in the plural.
5. (Baseball) A hit by a batter which enables him to reach first base only.

Single tax
Sin"gle tax. (Pol. Econ.) A tax levied upon land alone, irrespective of improvements, — advocated by certain economists as the sole source of public revenue.
"Whatever may be thought of Henry George’s single- tax theory as a whole, there can be little question that a relatively higher assessment of ground rent, with corresponding relief for those who have made improvements, is a much-needed reform." A. T. Hadley.

Single-acting
Sin´gle-act•ing, a. Having simplicity of action; especially (Mach.), acting or exerting force during strokes in one direction only; — said of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.

Single-breasted
Sin´gle-breast•ed, a. Lapping over the breast only far enough to permit of buttoning, and having buttons on one edge only; as a single-breasted coast.

Single-foot
Sin´gle-foot, n. An irregular gait of a horse; — called also single-footed pace. See Single, v. i.
"Single-foot is an irregular pace, rather rare, distinguished by the posterior extremities moving in the order of a fast walk, and the anterior extremities in that of a slow trot." Stillman (The Horse in Motion.)

Single-foot
Sin´gle-foot, v. i. To proceed by means of the single-foot, as a horse or other quadruped. — Sin´gle-foot•er, n.

Single-handed
Sin´gle-hand´ed, a. Having but one hand, or one workman; also alone; unassisted.

Single-hearted
Sin´gle-heart´ed, a. Having an honest heart; free from duplicity. — Sin"gle- heart"ed•ly, adv.

Single-minded
Sin´gle-mind´ed, a. Having a single purpose; hence, artless; guileless; single-hearted.

Singleness
Sin´gle•ness, n.
1. The quality or state of being single, or separate from all others; the opposite of doubleness, complication, or multiplicity.
2. Freedom from duplicity, or secondary and selfish ends; purity of mind or purpose; simplicity; sincerity; as singleness of purpose; singleness of heart.

Singles
Sin´gles, n. pl. See Single, n. , 2.

Single-surfaced
Sin´gle-sur´faced, a. Having one surface; — said specif. of aëroplanes or aërocurves that are covered with fabric, etc., on only one side.

Singlet
Sin´glet, n. An unlined or undyed waistcoat; a single garment; — opposed to doublet. [Prov. Eng.]

Singleton
Sin´gle•ton, n. In certain games at cards, as whist, a single card of any suit held at the deal by a player; as to lead a singleton.

Singletree
Sin´gle•tree, n. [Cf. Swingletree.] The pivoted or swinging bar to which the traces of a harnessed horse are fixed; a whiffletree. When two horses draw abreast, a singletree is fixed at each end of another crosspiece, called the doubletree.

Sing-sing
Sing´-sing, n. (Zoöl.) The kob.

Singsong
Sing´song, n.
1. Bad singing or poetry.
2. A drawling or monotonous tone, as of a badly executed song.

Singsong
Sing´song, a. Drawling; monotonous.

Singsong
Sing´song, v. i. To write poor poetry. [R.] Tennyson.

Singspiel
Sing´spiel, n. [G.; singen to sing + spiel to play.] (Music) A dramatic work, partly in dialogue and partly in song, of a kind popular in Germany in the latter part of the 18th century. It was often comic, had modern characters, and patterned its music on folk song with strictly subordinated accompaniment.

Singster
Sing´ster, n. A songstress. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Singular
Sin´gu•lar (sin"gu•ler), a. [OE. singuler, F. singulier, fr. L. singularius, singularis, fr. singulus single. See Single, a. ]
1. Separate or apart from others; single; distinct. [Obs.] Bacon.
"And God forbid that all a company Should rue a singular man’s folly." Chaucer.
2. Engaged in by only one on a side; single. [Obs.]
"To try the matter thus together in a singular combat." Holinshed.
3. (Logic) Existing by itself; single; individual.
"The idea which represents one … determinate thing, is called a singular idea, whether simple, complex, or compound." I. Watts.
4. (Law) Each; individual; as to convey several parcels of land, all and singular.
5. (Gram.) Denoting one person or thing; as the singular number; — opposed to dual and plural.
6. Standing by itself; out of the ordinary course; unusual; uncommon; strange; as a singular phenomenon.
"So singular a sadness Must have a cause as strange as the effect." Denham.
7. Distinguished as existing in a very high degree; rarely equaled; eminent; extraordinary; exceptional; as a man of singular gravity or attainments.
8. Departing from general usage or expectations; odd; whimsical; — often implying disapproval or censure.
"His zeal None seconded, as out of season judged, Or singular and rash." Milton.
"To be singular in anything that is wise and worthy, is not a disparagement, but a praise." Tillotson.
9. Being alone; belonging to, or being, that of which there is but one; unique.
"These busts of the emperors and empresses are all very scarce, and some of them almost singular in their kind." Addison. Singular point in a curve (Math.), a point at which the curve possesses some peculiar properties not possessed by other points of the curve, as a cusp point, or a multiple point. — Singular proposition (Logic), a proposition having as its subject a singular term, or a common term limited to an individual by means of a singular sign. Whately. — Singular succession (Civil Law), division among individual successors, as distinguished from universal succession, by which an estate descended in intestacy to the heirs in mass. — Singular term (Logic), a term which represents or stands for a single individual.
Syn. — Unexampled; unprecedented; eminent; extraordinary; remarkable; uncommon; rare; unusual; peculiar; strange; odd; eccentric; fantastic.

Singular
Sin´gu•lar, n.
1. An individual instance; a particular. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.
2. (Gram) The singular number, or the number denoting one person or thing; a word in the singular number.

Singularist
Sin´gu•lar•ist (sin"gu•ler•ist), n. One who affects singularity. [Obs.]
"A clownish singularist, or nonconformist to ordinary usage." Borrow.

Singularity
Sin•gu•lar´i•ty (-lar"i•ty), n. ; pl. Singularities (- tiz). [L. singularitas: cf. F. singularite.]
1. The quality or state of being singular; some character or quality of a thing by which it is distinguished from all, or from most, others; peculiarity.
"Pliny addeth this singularity to that soil, that the second year the very falling down of the seeds yieldeth corn." Sir. W. Raleigh.
"I took notice of this little figure for the singularity of the instrument." Addison.
2. Anything singular, rare, or curious.
"Your gallery Have we passed through, not without much content In many singularities." Shak.
3. Possession of a particular or exclusive privilege, prerogative, or distinction.
"No bishop of Rome ever took upon him this name of singularity [universal bishop]." Hooker.
"Catholicism … must be understood in opposition to the legal singularity of the Jewish nation." Bp. Pearson.
4. Celibacy. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

Singularize
Sin´gu•lar•ize (sin"gu•ler•iz), v. t. To make singular or single; to distinguish. [R.]

Singularly
Sin´gu•lar•ly, adv.
1. In a singular manner; in a manner, or to a degree, not common to others; extraordinarily; as to be singularly exact in one’s statements; singularly considerate of others. "Singularly handsome." Milman.
2. Strangely; oddly; as to behave singularly.
3. So as to express one, or the singular number.

Singult
Sin´gult, n. [L. singultus.] A sigh or sobbing; also a hiccough. [Obs.] Spenser. W. Browne.

Singultous
Sin•gul´tous, a. (Med.) Relating to, or affected with, hiccough. Dunglison.

Singultus
Sin•gul´tus, n. [L.] (Med.) Hiccough.

Sinic
Sin´ic, a. [See Sinologue.] (Ethnol.) Of or pertaining to the Chinese and allied races; Chinese.

Sinigrin
Sin´i•grin, n. [From NL. Sinapis nigra.] (Chem.) A glucoside found in the seeds of black mustard ( Brassica nigra, formerly Sinapis nigra) It resembles sinalbin, and consists of a potassium salt of myronic acid.

Sinister
Sin´is•ter (sin"is•ter; 277), a. [Accented on the middle syllable by the older poets, as Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden.] [L. sinister: cf. F. sinistre.]
1. On the left hand, or the side of the left hand; left; — opposed to dexter, or right. "Here on his sinister cheek." Shak.
"My mother’s blood Runs on the dexter cheek, and this sinister Bounds in my father’s" Shak. In heraldy the sinister side of an escutcheon is the side which would be on the left of the bearer of the shield, and opposite the right hand of the beholder.
2. Unlucky; inauspicious; disastrous; injurious; evil; — the left being usually regarded as the unlucky side; as sinister influences.
"All the several ills that visit earth, Brought forth by night, with a sinister birth." B. Jonson.
3. Wrong, as springing from indirection or obliquity; perverse; dishonest; corrupt; as sinister aims.
"Nimble and sinister tricks and shifts." Bacon.
"He scorns to undermine another’s interest by any sinister or inferior arts." South.
"He read in their looks … sinister intentions directed particularly toward himself." Sir W. Scott.
4. Indicative of lurking evil or harm; boding covert danger; as a sinister countenance. Bar sinister. (Her.) See under Bar, n. — Sinister aspect (Astrol.), an appearance of two planets happening according to the succession of the signs, as Saturn in Aries, and Mars in the same degree of Gemini. — Sinister base, Sinister chief. See under Escutcheon.

Sinisterly
Sin´is•ter•ly, adv. In a sinister manner. Wood.

Sinistrad
Sin´is•trad, adv. [L. sinistra the left hand + a. to.] (Anat. & Zoöl.) Toward the left side; sinistrally.

Sinistral
Sin´is•tral, a.
1. Of or pertaining to the left, inclining to the left; sinistrous; — opposed to dextral.
2. (Zoöl.) Having the whorls of the spire revolving or rising to the left; reversed; — said of certain spiral shells.

Sinistrality
Sin•is•tral´i•ty, n. The quality or state of being sinistral.

Sinistrally
Sin´is•tral•ly, adv. Toward the left; in a sinistral manner. J. Le Conte.

Sinistrin
Sin´is•trin (sin"is•trin), n. [L. sinister left.] (Chem.) A mucilaginous carbohydrate, resembling achroödextrin, extracted from squill as a colorless amorphous substance; — so called because it is levorotatory.

Sinistrorsal
Sin•is•tror´sal, a. [L. sinistrorsus, sinistroversus, turned toward the left side; sinister left + vertere, vortere, versum, vorsum, to turn.] Rising spirally from right to left (of the spectator); sinistrorse.

Sinistrorse
Sin´is•trorse, a. [See Sinistrolsal.] Turning to the left (of the spectator) in the ascending line; — the opposite of dextrorse. See Dextrorse.

Sink (sink), v. i. [ imp. Sunk (sunk), or (Sank (sank)); p. p. Sunk (obs. Sunken, — now used as adj. ); p. pr. & vb. n. Sinking.] [OE. sinken, AS. sincan; akin to D. zinken, OS. sincan, G. sinken, Icel. sökkva, Dan. synke, Sw. sjunka, Goth. siggan, and probably to E. silt. Cf. Silt.]
1. To fall by, or as by, the force of gravity; to descend lower and lower; to decline gradually; to subside; as a stone sinks in water; waves rise and sink; the sun sinks in the west.
"I sink in deep mire." Ps. lxix. 2.
2. To enter deeply; to fall or retire beneath or below the surface; to penetrate.
"The stone sunk into his forehead." 1 San. xvii. 49.
3. Hence, to enter so as to make an abiding impression; to enter completely.
"Let these sayings sink down into your ears." Luke ix. 44.
4. To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fall slowly, as so the ground, from weakness or from an overburden; to fail in strength; to decline; to decay; to decrease.
"I think our country sinks beneath the yoke." Shak.
"He sunk down in his chariot." 2 Kings ix. 24.
"Let not the fire sink or slacken." Mortimer.
5. To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
"The Alps and Pyreneans sink before him." Addison.
Syn. — To fall; subside; drop; droop; lower; decline; decay; decrease; lessen.

Sink, v. t.
1. To cause to sink; to put under water; to immerse or submerge in a fluid; as to sink a ship.
"[The Athenians] fell upon the wings and sank a single ship." Jowett (Thucyd.).
2. Figuratively: To cause to decline; to depress; to degrade; hence, to ruin irretrievably; to destroy, as by drowping; as to sink one’s reputation.
"I raise of sink, imprison or set free." Prior.
"If I have a conscience, let it sink me." Shak.
"Thy cruel and unnatural lust of power Has sunk thy father more than all his years." Rowe.
3. To make (a depression) by digging, delving, or cutting, etc.; as to sink a pit or a well; to sink a die.
4. To bring low; to reduce in quantity; to waste.
"You sunk the river repeated draughts." Addison.
5. To conseal and appropriate. [Slang]
"If sent with ready money to buy anything, and you happen to be out of pocket, sink the money, and take up the goods on account." Swift.
6. To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.
"A courtly willingness to sink obnoxious truths." Robertson.
7. To reduce or extinguish by payment; as to sink the national debt.

Sink, n.
1. A drain to carry off filthy water; a jakes.
2. A shallow box or vessel of wood, stone, iron, or other material, connected with a drain, and used for receiving filthy water, etc., as in a kitchen.
3. A hole or low place in land or rock, where waters sink and are lost; — called also sink hole. [U. S.] Sink hole. (a) The opening to a sink drain. (b) A cesspool. (c) Same as Sink, n. , 3.

Sink (sink), n. The lowest part of a natural hollow or closed basin whence the water of one or more streams escapes by evaporation; as the sink of the Humboldt River. [Western U. S.]

Sinker
Sink´er, n. One who, or that which, sinks. Specifically: (a) A weight on something, as on a fish line, to sink it. (b) In knitting machines, one of the thin plates, blades, or other devices, that depress the loops upon or between the needles. Dividing sinker, in knitting machines, a sinker between two jack sinkers and acting alternately with them. — Jack sinker. See under Jack, n. — Sinker bar. (a) In knitting machines, a bar to which one set of the sinkers is attached. (b) In deep well boring, a heavy bar forming a connection between the lifting rope and the boring tools, above the jars.

Sinner
Sin´ner, n. One who has sinned; especially, one who has sinned without repenting; hence, a persistent and incorrigible transgressor; one condemned by the law of God.

Sinner
Sin´ner, v. i. To act as a sinner. [Humorous]
"Whether the charmer sinner it or saint it." Pope.

Sinneress
Sin´ner•ess, n. A woman who sins. [Obs.]

Sinnet
Sin´net, n. See Sennit .