Siaxas II
Emperor of Cenei, infamous for butchering the inhabitants of Kyudea and razing the city to the ground following a 2458 rebellion.

Sibawûl
"Sibawûl te Nurwul" Believer-Prince of Nymbrica, leader of the Cepaloran contingent in the Great Ordeal.

Sibawûl te Nurwul
Believer-Prince of Nymbrica, leader of the Cepaloran contingent in the Great Ordeal.

Sibban
"Hahkti ab Sibban" Hahkti ab Sibban was a famed poet and the successor of Tatokar I as Padirajah of Kian . He was responsible for the towering eyes that adorn the outer walls of Shimeh . Asked for an explanation, he reportedly said that they were intended to remind idolaters that the Solitary God does not blink.

Hahkti ab Sibban

Title(s): Padirajah of Kian
Lived: ? - ?
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Ketyai
Nationality: Indara-Kishauri
Gender: Male
Occupation: Poet Padirajah of Kian
Books: mentioned only

Hahkti ab Sibban

Title(s): Padirajah of Kian
Lived: ? - ?
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Ketyai
Nationality: Indara-Kishauri
Gender: Male
Occupation: Poet Padirajah of Kian
Books: mentioned only

Sibbul
"Ars Sibbul" Author of Six Ontonomies.

Siege
"Thousand Year Siege" The Thousand Year Siege or One-Thousand-Year Siege was a legendary conflict that erupted between Siöl and Nihrimsul , two of the High Mansions of the Nonmen , in the millennia preceding Arkfall . Siöl had long claimed pre-eminence among the High Mansions, proclaiming itself the "House Primordial", the wellspring from which Nonmen civilisation spread across Eärwa under the rule of the House of Tsonos . However, this claim was disputed by Nihrimsul, which claimed to be the true "House Primordial" and that Tsonos has been banished from Nihrimsul for the murder of his father Imimorûl , the progenitor of the Nonman species (according to the Isûphiryas ). Although denying such a claim, Siöl did agree that Nihrimsul stood apart from the other Mansions (which shared the blood of Tsonos) and used this as a justification for repeated conflict and war. Nihrimsul endured the Thousand Year Siege intact, the conflict apparently ending with Siöl abandoning the siege. The true length of the siege and when precisely it happened - given the lack of a dating methodology relatable to men in the Isûphiryas - remain wholly conjectural.

Sign
"Sign of Gierra" Sign of Gierra are the twin serpents that Sumni harlots must have tattooed on the back of their left hand, apparently in imitation of the Priestesses of Gierra .

Sign of Gierra
Sign of Gierra are the twin serpents that Sumni harlots must have tattooed on the back of their left hand, apparently in imitation of the Priestesses of Gierra .

Siklar
"Gaes Siklar" Ordealman, Lord of Agansanor and cousin to King Hoga Hogrim.

Sil
Sil was the Inchoroi King after the Arkfall and the original bearer of the Heron Spear . The dragon Wutteät the Black served as his mount. He was also known by the title King After-the-Fall. Little is known about Sil's background; he was not a king before the Arkfall and only rose to leadership of his people and taught them to wage war after their landing in Eärwa . Sil was slain by the Nonman King, Cû’jara-Cinmoi , at the Battle of Pir Pahal which began the Cûno-Inchoroi Wars .

Sil

Title(s): King of the Inchoroi
Aliases: King After-the-Fall
Lived: ? - ?
Race: Inchoroi
Gender: Male
Occupation: King of the Inchoroi
Books: Mentioned only

Sil

Title(s): King of the Inchoroi
Aliases: King After-the-Fall
Lived: ? - ?
Race: Inchoroi
Gender: Male
Occupation: King of the Inchoroi
Books: Mentioned only

Silhanna
Daughter of Drusas Achamian’s Galeoth slaves, Idrusus Geraus and Tisthanna.

Simas
"Polchias Simas" Polchias Simas is Drusas Achamian 's old teacher and a member of the Quorum, the ruling council of the School of Mandate .

Appearance

Simas has white hair and a snow-white beard.

Story

With his mild personality, Simas is described as "water to Nautzera's fire." During the Quorum meeting at which Achamian is sent on his mission to discover the target of Maithanet's Holy War, Simas reveals that he has told the Quorum about Achamian's former student Paro Inrau , which Achamian feels is a great betrayal. After the Quorum meeting, Simas meets with Nautzera and discusses how they already know that the Fanim will be the true targets the Holy War. They lied to Achamian because they feel that he is weak and needed the motivation. During a private conversation, Nautzera expresses doubts about the strategy, but Simas assures him that it was necessary. Nautzera becomes annoyed by Simas's mild personalty, believing that it is an act. At some unknown point, Simas is killed and replaced by a skin-spy . Its identity is exposed by Maithanet during a visit to Atyersus . The skin-spy who impersonates him is the only skin-spy ever known to be capable of sorcery .

Polchias Simas

Lived: 4052 - ?
Race: Men
Gender: Male
Occupation: Mandate sorcerer
Books: The Darkness That Comes Before The Thousandfold Thought

Polchias Simas

Lived: 4052 - ?
Race: Men
Gender: Male
Occupation: Mandate sorcerer
Books: The Darkness That Comes Before The Thousandfold Thought

Sin
"Virtue of Sin" The Virtue of Sin is a work by Merotokas .

Excerpts

"This one thing every tyrant will tell you: nothing saves more lives than murder."

Sin'niroiha
Sin’niroiha (“First Among Peoples” in Ihrimsû), was the High King of the Nonman Mansion of Nihrimsul . For millennia, Nihrimsul and Siöl feuded over their respective claims to be the House Primordial of the Nonmen. Nihrimsul endured the Thousand Year Siege and other conflicts, and survived each time. Some time before Arkfall Sin’niroiha inherited the rule of the mansion and defied Cû’jara-Cinmoi 's power. In the wake of Arkfall, Siöl conquered Viri and was able to seize Nihrimsul and Cil-Aujas by force of arms. A defeated Sin’niroiha was forced to wash the sword of the High King of Siöl as an act of supplication. After the Battle of Pir Pahal , emboldened by Siöl’s distraction, Nihrimsul and Cil-Aujas revolted under Sin’niroiha's leadership. After years of hard campaigning, Cû’jara-Cinmoi finally brought the Ishroi of Cil-Aujas to heel, but King Sin’niroiha and the Ishroi of Nihrimsul continued to resist him. The Isûphiryas chronicles dozens of bloody yet indecisive confrontations between the two Kings: the Battle of Ciphara, the Battle of Hilcyri and the Siege of Asargoi. Proud beyond reason, Cû’jara-Cinmoi refused to relent, and put to death every embassy Sin’niroiha sent to him. Nihrimsul's hopes in the conflict were few; although well-defended, the Mansion had long irked the other mansions (all descended from the House of Tsonos ) and without allies it could not endure against the combined might of Siöl, Viri and Cil-Aujas. However, Sin’niroiha won a tremendous boon when Emilidis gifted him with a gift beyond compare: the fabled Day Lantern . With this boon, Sin’niroiha won the alliance of Ishoriöl and the hand of Tsinirû in marriage. Thus did Sin’niroiha become High King of Ishoriöl and Nihrimsul together, and removed his court to Ishoriöl. Perhaps wary of their combined strength (Ishoriöl was mighty in power), the King of Siöl conceded to peace. “A King of Three Mansions,” he is said to have declared, “may be Brother to a King of Two.” In the following years, Sin’niroiha and Tsinirû had a son, Nil'giccas . Sin’niroiha grew older, like Cû’jara-Cinmoi, and his mortality approached. However, where Cû’jara-Cinmoi accepted the Inchoroi treatment against death - the Inoculation - Sin’niroiha refused it, but did not bar his followers or his family from accepting it. When the Womb Plague struck down all of the Nonmen women (presumably including Tsinirû), Sin’niroiha made common cause and alliance with Cû’jara-Cinmoi and marched to the Battle of Pir Minginnial . He saw how Nin’janjin struck down Cû’jara-Cinmoi, how the Copper Tree of Siöl fell into pitching masses of Sranc , and the Cûnuroi were dismayed. Sin’niroiha, the High King of Nihrimsul and Ishoriöl, fought his way to Cû’jara-Cinmoi’s position, but found only his headless body. Realizing their plight, Sin’niroiha rallied his people and began fighting his way into the Ring Mountains . A greater part of the surviving Cûnuroi followed him. Once clear of their foe, the glorious Ishroi of Eärwa fled, gripped by a mad fear. Sin’niroiha became the effective leader of the Nonmen in their wars against the Inchoroi, but found his lack of Tsonos blood occasioned disrespect from the other Mansions, despite their mutual peril. Ishoriöl's proximity to the Ark resulted in frequent battles, with Ishoriöl besieged on no less than five occasions with spans exceeding ten years. Some years after the Battle of Pir Minginnial, during the Siege of the Second Delve , Sin’niroiha died of old age and his son Nil'giccas succeeded him, eventually leading the Nonmen to victory at the Battle of Isal’imial and the cleansing of the Ark. Some believe that Nil'giccas succeeded because his Tsonos blood gave him greater legitimacy and respect in the eyes of the other Mansions. In some traditions, Sin’niroiha was the last Nonman to die of age.

Sin’niroiha

Title(s): King
Lived: ? - ?
Race: Cûnuroi
Nationality: Nihrimsûl
Gender: Male
Occupation: King of Nihrimsûl King of Ishoriöl (by marriage)
Relatives: Tsinirû (wife) Nil'giccas (son) Unnamed daughter-in-law Several unnamed grandsons Several unnamed granddaughters
Books: The Thousandfold Thought (mentioned) The Unholy Consult (mentioned)

Sin’niroiha

Sinerses
Sinerses is a Shield-Captain of the Javreh and favorite of Hanamanu Eleäzaras .

Sinerses

Title(s): Shield-Captain
Lived: 4076 -
Race: Men
Gender: Male
Occupation: Javreh Shield-Captain
Books: The Warrior-Prophet

Sinerses

Title(s): Shield-Captain
Lived: 4076 -
Race: Men
Gender: Male
Occupation: Javreh Shield-Captain
Books: The Warrior-Prophet

Sinyatwa
The Sinyatwa is the primary scripture of the Cult of Yatwer . Yatwerians tend to rely for their liturgical rites and ceremonies on Sinyatwa rather than on Higarata .

Excerpts

“From seed to womb, from seed to furrow. The right hand cannot give to the left …”

Sin’niroiha
Sin’niroiha (“First Among Peoples” in Ihrimsû), was the High King of the Nonman Mansion of Nihrimsul . For millennia, Nihrimsul and Siöl feuded over their respective claims to be the House Primordial of the Nonmen. Nihrimsul endured the Thousand Year Siege and other conflicts, and survived each time. Some time before Arkfall Sin’niroiha inherited the rule of the mansion and defied Cû’jara-Cinmoi 's power. In the wake of Arkfall, Siöl conquered Viri and was able to seize Nihrimsul and Cil-Aujas by force of arms. A defeated Sin’niroiha was forced to wash the sword of the High King of Siöl as an act of supplication. After the Battle of Pir Pahal , emboldened by Siöl’s distraction, Nihrimsul and Cil-Aujas revolted under Sin’niroiha's leadership. After years of hard campaigning, Cû’jara-Cinmoi finally brought the Ishroi of Cil-Aujas to heel, but King Sin’niroiha and the Ishroi of Nihrimsul continued to resist him. The Isûphiryas chronicles dozens of bloody yet indecisive confrontations between the two Kings: the Battle of Ciphara, the Battle of Hilcyri and the Siege of Asargoi. Proud beyond reason, Cû’jara-Cinmoi refused to relent, and put to death every embassy Sin’niroiha sent to him. Nihrimsul's hopes in the conflict were few; although well-defended, the Mansion had long irked the other mansions (all descended from the House of Tsonos ) and without allies it could not endure against the combined might of Siöl, Viri and Cil-Aujas. However, Sin’niroiha won a tremendous boon when Emilidis gifted him with a gift beyond compare: the fabled Day Lantern . With this boon, Sin’niroiha won the alliance of Ishoriöl and the hand of Tsinirû in marriage. Thus did Sin’niroiha become High King of Ishoriöl and Nihrimsul together, and removed his court to Ishoriöl. Perhaps wary of their combined strength (Ishoriöl was mighty in power), the King of Siöl conceded to peace. “A King of Three Mansions,” he is said to have declared, “may be Brother to a King of Two.” In the following years, Sin’niroiha and Tsinirû had a son, Nil'giccas . Sin’niroiha grew older, like Cû’jara-Cinmoi, and his mortality approached. However, where Cû’jara-Cinmoi accepted the Inchoroi treatment against death - the Inoculation - Sin’niroiha refused it, but did not bar his followers or his family from accepting it. When the Womb Plague struck down all of the Nonmen women (presumably including Tsinirû), Sin’niroiha made common cause and alliance with Cû’jara-Cinmoi and marched to the Battle of Pir Minginnial . He saw how Nin’janjin struck down Cû’jara-Cinmoi, how the Copper Tree of Siöl fell into pitching masses of Sranc , and the Cûnuroi were dismayed. Sin’niroiha, the High King of Nihrimsul and Ishoriöl, fought his way to Cû’jara-Cinmoi’s position, but found only his headless body. Realizing their plight, Sin’niroiha rallied his people and began fighting his way into the Ring Mountains . A greater part of the surviving Cûnuroi followed him. Once clear of their foe, the glorious Ishroi of Eärwa fled, gripped by a mad fear. Sin’niroiha became the effective leader of the Nonmen in their wars against the Inchoroi, but found his lack of Tsonos blood occasioned disrespect from the other Mansions, despite their mutual peril. Ishoriöl's proximity to the Ark resulted in frequent battles, with Ishoriöl besieged on no less than five occasions with spans exceeding ten years. Some years after the Battle of Pir Minginnial, during the Siege of the Second Delve , Sin’niroiha died of old age and his son Nil'giccas succeeded him, eventually leading the Nonmen to victory at the Battle of Isal’imial and the cleansing of the Ark. Some believe that Nil'giccas succeeded because his Tsonos blood gave him greater legitimacy and respect in the eyes of the other Mansions. In some traditions, Sin’niroiha was the last Nonman to die of age.

Sin’niroiha

Siol
Siöl was once the largest, most populous and most powerful of the Nonman Mansion . It was located in the Great Kayarsus Mountains, north of the Sea of Cerish , from where its Reach extended across much of north-eastern Eärwa . Several thousand years before the Breaking of the Gates , its king was Cû’jara-Cinmoi , the greatest of the Nonman Kings. Siöl was already mighty when the Incû-Holoinas fell from the skies into the south-western peaks of the Yimaleti Mountains , devastating the lands controlled by Nin’janjin , the King of Viri . Nin'janjin pleaded for aid, but Cû’jara-Cinmoi instead invaded and occupied his lands. Faced with famine and starvation, Nin'janjin surrendered without offering battle; Viri became a bloodless tributary of Siöl. Cû’jara-Cinmoi then conquered the mansions of Nihrimsul - where her King, Sin’niroiha (“First Among Peoples” in Ihrimsû), was forced to wash the sword of Cû’jara-Cinmoi - and Cil-Aujas . This extended the Reach of Siöl as far west as the Yimaleti and Demua Mountains and south to the shores of the Meaneanor Sea , creating one of the largest land empires in the history of Eärwa. Cû’jara-Cinmoi proudly styled himself the "King of Four Mansions"; after the successful rebellion of Nihrimsul he reluctantly adjusted this to "King of Three Mansions". During the Cûno-Inchoroi Wars , Siöl suffered serious losses in battle, as well as the loss of its entire female population. The Mansion survived the wars - although the records are confusing - but it was then destroyed in the Cûno-Halaroi Wars that followed the Breaking of the Gates. Indeed, some hold that the Gates and Siöl are one and the same, and the destruction of Siöl heralded the arrival of Men in Eärwa. Siöl claimed to be the First Mansion, the ancestral home of all Nonmen, founded directly by the progenitors of the Nonmen race in a time so ancient as to defy reckoning. For this reason Siöl took the title "House Primordial", a term used to refer to both the Mansion and its ruling family. Extant records support this, tracing a line of founding from Siöl to first Ishoriöl , Viri , Illisserû , and Cil-Aujas . Those Mansions in turn later founded Curunq , Incissal , and Cil-Aumûl . Nihrimsul was founded separately and outside of this line of descent, although its claim to have originally founded Siöl (and thus being the true House Primordial) was hotly denied by Siöl.

Siqu
Generally, Siqû are Nonmen who find themselves in the service of Men , usually as mercenaries or in some advisory capacity. Specifically, those Nonmen who participated in the so-called Nonman Tutelage from 555 to 825.

Siqû
Generally, Siqû are Nonmen who find themselves in the service of Men , usually as mercenaries or in some advisory capacity. Specifically, those Nonmen who participated in the so-called Nonman Tutelage from 555 to 825.

Sirassas
"Sirassas Kumeleus" Sirassas Kumeleus is a staunch supporter of House Ikurei, and Exalt-General of the Nansurium prior to Ikurei Conphas .

Sirassas Kumeleus

Title(s): Exalt-General
Lived: 4045 -
Race: Men
Nationality: Nansur
Gender: Male
Occupation: Exalt-General of Nansur

Sirassas Kumeleus

Title(s): Exalt-General
Lived: 4045 -
Race: Men
Nationality: Nansur
Gender: Male
Occupation: Exalt-General of Nansur

Sirassas Kumeleus
Sirassas Kumeleus is a staunch supporter of House Ikurei, and Exalt-General of the Nansurium prior to Ikurei Conphas .

Sirassas Kumeleus

Title(s): Exalt-General
Lived: 4045 -
Race: Men
Nationality: Nansur
Gender: Male
Occupation: Exalt-General of Nansur

Sirassas Kumeleus

Title(s): Exalt-General
Lived: 4045 -
Race: Men
Nationality: Nansur
Gender: Male
Occupation: Exalt-General of Nansur

Sirol
"Sirol ab Kascamandri" Sirol ab Kascamandri is the youngest daughter of Kascamandri ab Tepherokar .

The Warrior-Prophet

Sirol is present at the Battle of Caraskand . When the Padirajah's camp is overrun and her father killed, she is taken away to safety by Fanayal ab Kascamandri .

Sirol ab Kascamandri

Lived: 4004 -
Race: Men
Nationality: Kianene
Gender: Female
Relatives: Kascamandri ab Tepherokar (father) Fanayal ab Kascamandri (brother)
Books: The Warrior-Prophet

Sirol ab Kascamandri

Lived: 4004 -
Race: Men
Nationality: Kianene
Gender: Female
Relatives: Kascamandri ab Tepherokar (father) Fanayal ab Kascamandri (brother)
Books: The Warrior-Prophet

Sirol ab Kascamandri
Sirol ab Kascamandri is the youngest daughter of Kascamandri ab Tepherokar .

The Warrior-Prophet

Sirol is present at the Battle of Caraskand . When the Padirajah's camp is overrun and her father killed, she is taken away to safety by Fanayal ab Kascamandri .

Sirol ab Kascamandri

Lived: 4004 -
Race: Men
Nationality: Kianene
Gender: Female
Relatives: Kascamandri ab Tepherokar (father) Fanayal ab Kascamandri (brother)
Books: The Warrior-Prophet

Sirol ab Kascamandri

Lived: 4004 -
Race: Men
Nationality: Kianene
Gender: Female
Relatives: Kascamandri ab Tepherokar (father) Fanayal ab Kascamandri (brother)
Books: The Warrior-Prophet

Siroyon
"Halas Siroyon" Prince of Erras, General of the Famiri in the Great Ordeal.

Sirpal
"Sirpal Uranyanka" Sirpal Uranyanka is the Palatine-Governor of the Ainoni city of Moserothu .

The Thousandfold Thought

As the Holy War marches on Shimeh , Anasûrimbor Kellhus has Uranyanka flogged for ordering his archers to massacre an enclave of lepers near the town of Sabotha .

Sirpal Uranyanka

Title(s): Palatine-Governor of Moserothu
Lived: 4062 -
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Ketyai
Nationality: Ainoni
Gender: Male
Occupation: Palatine-Governor of Moserothu
Books: The Warrior-Prophet The Thousandfold Thought

Sirpal Uranyanka

Sirpal Onyarapû
Ordealman, Lord Palatine of Moserothu.

Sirpal Uranyanka
Sirpal Uranyanka is the Palatine-Governor of the Ainoni city of Moserothu .

The Thousandfold Thought

As the Holy War marches on Shimeh , Anasûrimbor Kellhus has Uranyanka flogged for ordering his archers to massacre an enclave of lepers near the town of Sabotha .

Sirpal Uranyanka

Sirro
Female Seleukaran poet, naturalist and philosopher, famed author of The Holy Crone.

Sirwitta
Sirwitta is a criminal mentioned in the Isûphiryas . Sirwitta seduced the wife of a high-ranking Ishroi and conceived by her a daughter named Cimoira . It was the first recorded instance of interbreeding between Men and Nonmen . The truth of Cimoira was suppressed, and despite her mannish blood she was accepted as Cûnuroi. Sirwitta himself was banished to the Second Watch, which stood guard over the Incû-Holoinas . Somehow (the Isûphiryas does not go into detail) Sirwitta managed to enter the Incû-Holoinas. A month passed, and all thought him lost. Then he reappeared, deranged, screeching claims so alarming that Oirinas and Oirûnas brought him directly to Cû’jara-Cinmoi . What was said between Sirwitta and the High King of Siöl is not recorded. The chroniclers say only that Cû’jara-Cinmoi, after hearing Sirwitta speak, ordered him put to death. A later entry, however, describes Sirwitta as "tongueless and imprisoned". It appears the High King, for some unknown reason, had rescinded his warrant.

Sirwitta

Lived: ? - ?
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Emwama
Gender: Male
Occupation: Member of the Second Watch
Relatives: Cimoira (daughter)
Books: mentioned only

Sirwitta

Lived: ? - ?
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Emwama
Gender: Male
Occupation: Member of the Second Watch
Relatives: Cimoira (daughter)
Books: mentioned only

Siöl
Siöl was once the largest, most populous and most powerful of the Nonman Mansion . It was located in the Great Kayarsus Mountains, north of the Sea of Cerish , from where its Reach extended across much of north-eastern Eärwa . Several thousand years before the Breaking of the Gates , its king was Cû’jara-Cinmoi , the greatest of the Nonman Kings. Siöl was already mighty when the Incû-Holoinas fell from the skies into the south-western peaks of the Yimaleti Mountains , devastating the lands controlled by Nin’janjin , the King of Viri . Nin'janjin pleaded for aid, but Cû’jara-Cinmoi instead invaded and occupied his lands. Faced with famine and starvation, Nin'janjin surrendered without offering battle; Viri became a bloodless tributary of Siöl. Cû’jara-Cinmoi then conquered the mansions of Nihrimsul - where her King, Sin’niroiha (“First Among Peoples” in Ihrimsû), was forced to wash the sword of Cû’jara-Cinmoi - and Cil-Aujas . This extended the Reach of Siöl as far west as the Yimaleti and Demua Mountains and south to the shores of the Meaneanor Sea , creating one of the largest land empires in the history of Eärwa. Cû’jara-Cinmoi proudly styled himself the "King of Four Mansions"; after the successful rebellion of Nihrimsul he reluctantly adjusted this to "King of Three Mansions". During the Cûno-Inchoroi Wars , Siöl suffered serious losses in battle, as well as the loss of its entire female population. The Mansion survived the wars - although the records are confusing - but it was then destroyed in the Cûno-Halaroi Wars that followed the Breaking of the Gates. Indeed, some hold that the Gates and Siöl are one and the same, and the destruction of Siöl heralded the arrival of Men in Eärwa. Siöl claimed to be the First Mansion, the ancestral home of all Nonmen, founded directly by the progenitors of the Nonmen race in a time so ancient as to defy reckoning. For this reason Siöl took the title "House Primordial", a term used to refer to both the Mansion and its ruling family. Extant records support this, tracing a line of founding from Siöl to first Ishoriöl , Viri , Illisserû , and Cil-Aujas . Those Mansions in turn later founded Curunq , Incissal , and Cil-Aumûl . Nihrimsul was founded separately and outside of this line of descent, although its claim to have originally founded Siöl (and thus being the true House Primordial) was hotly denied by Siöl.

si
-a syllable applied, in solmization, to the note b; more recently, to the seventh tone of any major diatonic scale. it was added to guido's scale by le maire about the end of the 17th century.

si quis
-a notification by a candidate for orders of his intention to inquire whether any impediment may be alleged against him.

siaga
-the ahu, or jairou.

sialogogue
-an agent which promotes the flow of saliva.

siamang
-a gibbon (hylobates syndactylus), native of sumatra. it has the second and third toes partially united by a web.

siamese
-of or pertaining to siam, its native people, or their language.
-a native or inhabitant of siam; pl., the people of siam.
-the language of the siamese.

sib
-a blood relation.
-related by blood; akin.

sibbens
-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.

siberian
-of or pertaining to siberia, a region comprising all northern asia and belonging to russia; as, a siberian winter.
-a native or inhabitant of siberia.

sibilance
-alt. of sibilancy

sibilancy
-the quality or state of being sibilant; sibilation.

sibilant
-making a hissing sound; uttered with a hissing sound; hissing; as, s, z, sh, and zh, are sibilant elementary sounds.
-a sibiliant letter.

sibilate
-to pronounce with a hissing sound, like that of the letter s; to mark with a character indicating such pronunciation.

sibilation
-utterance with a hissing sound; also, the sound itself; a hiss.

sibilatory
-hissing; sibilant.

sibilous
-having a hissing sound; hissing; sibilant.

sibyl
-a woman supposed to be endowed with a spirit of prophecy.
-a female fortune teller; a pythoness; a prophetess.

sibylist
-one who believes in a sibyl or the sibylline prophecies.

sibylline
-pertaining to the sibyls; uttered, written, or composed by sibyls; like the productions of sibyls.

sic
-such.
-thus.

sicamore
-see sycamore.

sicca
-a seal; a coining die;
-- used adjectively to designate the silver currency of the mogul emperors, or the indian rupee of 192 grains.

siccate
-to dry.

siccation
-the act or process of drying.

siccative
-drying; causing to dry.
-that which promotes drying.

siccific
-causing dryness.

siccity
-dryness; aridity; destitution of moisture.

sice
-the number six at dice.

sicer
-a strong drink; cider.

sich
-such.

sicilian
-of or pertaining to sicily or its inhabitants.
-a native or inhabitant of sicily.

siciliano
-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
-a kind of rich poplin.

sick
-affected with disease of any kind; ill; indisposed; not in health. see the synonym under illness.
-affected with, or attended by, nausea; inclined to vomit; as, sick at the stomach; a sick headache.
-having a strong dislike; disgusted; surfeited;
-- with of; as, to be sick of flattery.
-corrupted; imperfect; impaired; weakned.
-sickness.
-to fall sick; to sicken.

sick
-brained
-disordered in the brain.

sicken
-to make sick; to disease.
-to make qualmish; to nauseate; to disgust; as, to sicken the stomach.
-to impair; to weaken.
-to become sick; to fall into disease.
-to be filled to disgust; to be disgusted or nauseated; to be filled with abhorrence or aversion; to be surfeited or satiated.
-to become disgusting or tedious.
-to become weak; to decay; to languish.

sickened
-of sicken

sickening
-of sicken
-causing sickness; specif., causing surfeit or disgust; nauseating.

sicker
-to percolate, trickle, or ooze, as water through a crack.
-alt. of siker
-alt. of siker

sickerly
-alt. of sikerly

sickerness
-alt. of sikerness

sickish
-somewhat sick or diseased.
-somewhat sickening; as, a sickish taste.

sickle
-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.
-a group of stars in the constellation leo. see illust. of leo.

sicklebill
-any one of three species of humming birds of the genus eutoxeres, native of central and south america. they have a long and strongly curved bill. called also the sickle
-billed hummer.
-a curlew.
-a bird of the genus epimachus and allied genera.

sickled
-furnished with a sickle.

sickleman
-one who uses a sickle; a reaper.

sicklemen
-of sickleman

sickler
-one who uses a sickle; a sickleman; a reaper.

sickless
-free from sickness.

sicklewort
-a plant of the genus coronilla (c. scorpioides);
-- so named from its curved pods.
-the healall (brunella vulgaris).

sicklied
-made sickly. see sickly, v.

sickliness
-the quality or state of being sickly.

sickly
-somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease; as, a sickly body.
-producing, or tending to, disease; as, a sickly autumn; a sickly climate.
-appearing as if sick; weak; languid; pale.
-tending to produce nausea; sickening; as, a sickly smell; sickly sentimentality.
-in a sick manner or condition; ill.
-to make sick or sickly;
-- with over, and probably only in the past participle.

sickness
-the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; sisease or malady.
-nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.

sicle
-a shekel.

sida
-a genus of malvaceous plants common in the tropics. all the species are mucilaginous, and some have tough ligneous fibers which are used as a substitute for hemp and flax.

siddow
-soft; pulpy.

side
-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.
-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.
-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.
-the right or left part of the wall or trunk of the body; as, a pain in the side.
-a slope or declivity, as of a hill, considered as opposed to another slope over the ridge.
-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.
-a line of descent traced through one parent as distinguished from that traced through another.
-fig.: aspect or part regarded as contrasted with some other; as, the bright side of poverty.
-of or pertaining to a side, or the sides; being on the side, or toward the side; lateral.
-hence, indirect; oblique; collateral; incidental; as, a side issue; a side view or remark.
-long; large; extensive.
-to lean on one side.
-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.
-to be or stand at the side of; to be on the side toward.
-to suit; to pair; to match.
-to work (a timber or rib) to a certain thickness by trimming the sides.
-to furnish with a siding; as, to side a house.

side
-taking
-a taking sides, as with a party, sect, or faction.

side
-wheel
-having a paddle wheel on each side;
-- said of steam vessels; as, a side
-wheel steamer.

sideboard
-a piece of dining
-room furniture having compartments and shelves for keeping or displaying articles of table service.

sidebone
-a morbid growth or deposit of bony matter and at the sides of the coronet and coffin bone of a horse.

sided
-of side
-having (such or so many) sides;
-- used in composition; as, one
-sided; many
-sided.

sidehill
-the side or slope of a hill; sloping ground; a descent.

sideling
-sidelong; on the side; laterally; also, obliquely; askew.
-inclining to one side; directed toward one side; sloping; inclined; as, sideling ground.

sidelong
-laterally; obliquely; in the direction of the side.
-on the side; as, to lay a thing sidelong.
-lateral; oblique; not being directly in front; as, a sidelong glance.

sidepiece
-the jamb, or cheek, of an opening in a wall, as of door or window.

sider
-one who takes a side.
-cider.

sideral
-relating to the stars.
-affecting unfavorably by the supposed influence of the stars; baleful.

siderated
-planet
-struck; blasted.

sideration
-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.

sidereal
-relating to the stars; starry; astral; as, sidereal astronomy.
-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.

siderealize
-to elevate to the stars, or to the region of the stars; to etherealize.

sidereous
-sidereal.

siderite
-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.
-a meteorite consisting solely of metallic iron.
-an indigo
-blue variety of quartz.
-formerly, magnetic iron ore, or loadstone.
-any plant of the genus sideritis; ironwort.

siderographic
-alt. of siderographical

siderographical
-of or pertaining to siderography; executed by engraved plates of steel; as, siderographic art; siderographic impressions.

siderographist
-one skilled in siderography.

siderography
-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
-a kind of meteorite. see under meteorite.

sideromancy
-divination by burning straws on red
-hot iron, and noting the manner of their burning.

sideroscope
-an instrument for detecting small quantities of iron in any substance by means of a very delicate combination of magnetic needles.

siderosis
-a sort of pneumonia occuring in iron workers, produced by the inhalation of particles of iron.

siderostat
-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
-a genus of tropical sapotaceous trees noted for their very hard wood; ironwood.

sidesaddle
-a saddle for women, in which the rider sits with both feet on one side of the animal mounted.

sidesman
-a party man; a partisan.
-an assistant to the churchwarden; a questman.

sidesmen
-of sidesman

sidewalk
-a walk for foot passengers at the side of a street or road; a foot pavement.

sideways
-toward the side; sidewise.

sidewinder
-see horned rattler, under horned.
-a heavy swinging blow from the side, which disables an adversary.

sidewise
-on or toward one side; laterally; sideways.

siding
-of side
-attaching one's self to a party.
-a side track, as a railroad; a turnout.
-the covering of the outside wall of a frame house, whether made of weatherboards, vertical boarding with cleats, shingles, or the like.
-the thickness of a rib or timber, measured, at right angles with its side, across the curved edge; as, a timber having a siding of ten inches.

sidle
-to go or move with one side foremost; to move sidewise; as, to sidle through a crowd or narrow opening.

sidled
-of sidle

sidling
-of sidle

siege
-a seat; especially, a royal seat; a throne.
-hence, place or situation; seat.
-rank; grade; station; estimation.
-passage of excrements; stool; fecal matter.
-the sitting of an army around or before a fortified place for the purpose of compelling the garrison to surrender; the surrounding or investing of a place by an army, and approaching it by passages and advanced works, which cover the besiegers from the enemy's fire. see the note under blockade.
-hence, a continued attempt to gain possession.
-the floor of a glass
-furnace.
-a workman's bench.
-to besiege; to beset.

siegework
-a temporary fort or parallel where siege guns are mounted.

siemens
-martin process
-see open
-hearth process, etc., under open.

sienite
-see syenite.

sienitic
-see syenitic.

sienna
-clay that is colored red or brown by the oxides of iron or manganese, and used as a pigment. it is used either in the raw state or burnt.

siennese
-of or pertaining to sienna, a city of italy.

sierra
-a ridge of mountain and craggy rocks, with a serrated or irregular outline; as, the sierra nevada.

siesta
-a short sleep taken about the middle of the day, or after dinner; a midday nap.

sieur
-sir;
-- a title of respect used by the french.

sieva
-a small variety of the lima bean (phaseolus lunatus).

sieve
-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.
-a kind of coarse basket.

sifac
-the white indris of madagascar. it is regarded by the natives as sacred.

sifflement
-the act of whistling or hissing; a whistling sound; sibilation.

sifilet
-the six
-shafted bird of paradise. see paradise bird, under paradise.

sift
-to separate with a sieve, as the fine part of a substance from the coarse; as, to sift meal or flour; to sift powder; to sift sand or lime.
-to separate or part as if with a sieve.
-to examine critically or minutely; to scrutinize.

sifted
-of sift

sifter
-one who, or that which, sifts.
-any lamellirostral bird, as a duck or goose;
-- so called because it sifts or strains its food from the water and mud by means of the lamell/ of the beak.

sifting
-of sift

sig
-urine.

sigaultian
-pertaining to sigault, a french physician. see symphyseotomy.

sigger
-same as

sigh
-to inhale a larger quantity of air than usual, and immediately expel it; to make a deep single audible respiration, especially as the result or involuntary expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, or the like.
-hence, to lament; to grieve.
-to make a sound like sighing.
-to exhale (the breath) in sighs.
-to utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.
-to express by sighs; to utter in or with sighs.
-a deep and prolonged audible inspiration or respiration of air, as when fatigued or grieved; the act of sighing.
-figuratively, a manifestation of grief; a lan/ent.

sigh
-born
-sorrowful; mournful.

sighed
-of sigh

sigher
-one who sighs.

sighing
-of sigh
-uttering sighs; grieving; lamenting.

sight
-the act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view; as, to gain sight of land.
-the power of seeing; the faculty of vision, or of perceiving objects by the instrumentality of the eyes.
-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.
-a spectacle; a view; a show; something worth seeing.
-the instrument of seeing; the eye.
-inspection; examination; as, a letter intended for the sight of only one person.
-mental view; opinion; judgment; as, in their sight it was harmless.
-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.
-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.
-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.
-a great number, quantity, or sum; as, a sight of money.
-to get sight of; to see; as, to sight land; to sight a wreck.
-to look at through a sight; to see accurately; as, to sight an object, as a star.
-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.
-to take aim by a sight.

sight
-hole
-a hole for looking through; a peephole.

sight
-seeing
-engaged in, or given to, seeing sights; eager for novelties or curiosities.
-the act of seeing sights; eagerness for novelties or curiosities.

sight
-seer
-one given to seeing sights or noted things, or eager for novelties or curiosities.

sight
-shot
-distance to which the sight can reach or be thrown.

sighted
-of sight
-having sight, or seeing, in a particular manner;
-- used in composition; as, long
-sighted, short
-sighted, quick
-sighted, sharp
-sighted, and the like.

sightful
-easily or clearly seen; distinctly visible; perspicuous.

sightfulness
-the state of being sightful; perspicuity.

sighting
-of sight
-a. & n. from sight, v. t.

sightless
-wanting sight; without sight; blind.
-that can not be seen; invisible.
-offensive or unpleasing to the eye; unsightly; as, sightless stains.

sightliness
-the state of being sightly; comeliness; conspicuousness.

sightly
-pleasing to the sight; comely.
-open to sight; conspicuous; as, a house stands in a sightly place.

sightproof
-undiscoverable to sight.

sightsman
-one who reads or performs music readily at first sight.

sightsmen
-of sightsman

sigil
-a seal; a signature.

sigilla
-of sigillum

sigillaria
-little images or figures of earthenware exposed for sale, or given as presents, on the last two days of the saturnalia; hence, the last two, or the sixth and seventh, days of the saturnalia.
-a genus of fossil trees principally found in the coal formation;
-- so named from the seallike leaf scars in vertical rows on the surface.

sigillarid
-one of an extinct family of cryptagamous trees, including the genus sigillaria and its allies.

sigillated
-decorated by means of stamps;
-- said of pottery.

sigillative
-fit to seal; belonging to a seal; composed of wax.

sigillum
-a seal.

sigla
-the signs, abbreviations, letters, or characters standing for words, shorthand, etc., in ancient manuscripts, or on coins, medals, etc.

sigma
-the greek letter /, /, or / (english s, or s). it originally had the form of the english c.

sigmas
-of sigma

sigmodont
-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.

sigmoid
-alt. of sigmoidal

sigmoidal
-curved in two directions, like the letter s, or the greek /.

sigmoidally
-in a sigmoidal manner.

sign
-that by which anything is made known or represented; that which furnishes evidence; a mark; a token; an indication; a proof.
-a remarkable event, considered by the ancients as indicating the will of some deity; a prodigy; an omen.
-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.
-something serving to indicate the existence, or preserve the memory, of a thing; a token; a memorial; a monument.
-any symbol or emblem which prefigures, typifles, or represents, an idea; a type; hence, sometimes, a picture.
-a word or a character regarded as the outward manifestation of thought; as, words are the sign of ideas.
-a motion, an action, or a gesture by which a thought is expressed, or a command or a wish made known.
-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.
-a military emblem carried on a banner or a standard.
-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 twelfth part of the ecliptic or zodiac.
-a character indicating the relation of quantities, or an operation performed upon them; as, the sign + (plus); the sign
-- (minus); the sign of division ö, and the like.
-an objective evidence of disease; that is, one appreciable by some one other than the patient.
-any character, as a flat, sharp, dot, etc.
-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.
-to represent by a sign; to make known in a typical or emblematic manner, in distinction from speech; to signify.
-to make a sign upon; to mark with a sign.
-to affix a signature to; to ratify by hand or seal; to subscribe in one's own handwriting.
-to assign or convey formally;
-- used with away.
-to mark; to make distinguishable.
-to be a sign or omen.
-to make a sign or signal; to communicate directions or intelligence by signs.
-to write one's name, esp. as a token of assent, responsibility, or obligation.

signable
-suitable to be signed; requiring signature; as, a legal document signable by a particular person.

signal
-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.
-a token; an indication; a foreshadowing; a sign.
-noticeable; distinguished from what is ordinary; eminent; remarkable; memorable; as, a signal exploit; a signal service; a signal act of benevolence.
-of or pertaining to signals, or the use of signals in conveying information; as, a signal flag or officer.
-to communicate by signals; as, to signal orders.
-to notify by a signals; to make a signal or signals to; as, to signal a fleet to anchor.

signaled (/) or signalled
-of signal

signaling
-of signal

signalist
-one who makes signals; one who communicates intelligence by means of signals.

signality
-the quality or state of being signal or remarkable.

signalize
-to make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish.
-to communicate with by means of a signal; as, a ship signalizes its consort.
-to indicate the existence, presence, or fact of, by a signal; as, to signalize the arrival of a steamer.

signalized
-of signalize

signalizing
-of signalize

signalling
-of signal

signally
-in a signal manner; eminently.

signalman
-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
-the act of signaling, or of signalizing; hence, description by peculiar, appropriate, or characteristic marks.

signate
-having definite color markings.

signation
-sign given; marking.

signatory
-relating to a seal; used in sealing.
-signing; joining or sharing in a signature; as, signatory powers.
-a signer; one who signs or subscribes; as, a conference of signatories.

signature
-a sign, stamp, or mark impressed, as by a seal.
-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.
-an outward mark by which internal characteristics were supposed to be indicated.
-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.
-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.
-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.
-the printed sheet so marked, or the form from which it is printed; as, to reprint one or more signatures.
-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).
-to mark with, or as with, a signature or signatures.

signaturist
-one who holds to the doctrine of signatures impressed upon objects, indicative of character or qualities.

signboard
-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.

signed
-of sign

signer
-one who signs or subscribes his name; as, a memorial with a hundred signers.

signet
-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.

signeted
-stamped or marked with a signet.

signifer
-bearing signs.

significance
-alt. of significancy

significancy
-the quality or state of being significant.
-that which is signified; meaning; import; as, the significance of a nod, of a motion of the hand, or of a word or expression.
-importance; moment; weight; consequence.

significant
-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.
-deserving to be considered; important; momentous; as, a significant event.
-that which has significance; a sign; a token; a symbol.

significantly
-in a significant manner.

significate
-one of several things signified by a common term.

signification
-the act of signifying; a making known by signs or other means.
-that which is signified or made known; that meaning which a sign, character, or token is intended to convey; as, the signification of words.

significative
-betokening or representing by an external sign.
-having signification or meaning; expressive of a meaning or purpose; significant.

significator
-one who, or that which, signifies.

significatory
-significant.
-that which is significatory.

significavit
-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.

signified
-of signify

signify
-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.
-to mean; to import; to denote; to betoken.

signifying
-of signify

signing
-of sign

signior
-sir; mr. the english form and pronunciation for the italian signor and the spanish seor.

signiorize
-to exercise dominion over; to lord it over.
-to exercise dominion; to seigniorize.

signiorship
-state or position of a signior.

signiory
-same as seigniory.

signor
-alt. of signore

signora
-madam; mrs;
-- a title of address or respect among the italians.

signore
-sir; mr.;
-- a title of address or respect among the italians. before a noun the form is signor.

signorina
-miss;
-- a title of address among the italians.

signpost
-a post on which a sign hangs, or on which papers are placed to give public notice of anything.

sik
-alt. of sike

sike
-such. see such.
-a gutter; a stream, such as is usually dry in summer.
-a sick person.
-to sigh.
-a sigh.

siker
-sure; certain; trusty.
-surely; certainly.
-alt. of sikerness

sikerly
-surely; securely.
-alt. of sikerness

sikerness
-the quality or state of being sicker, or certain.
-see 2d sicker, sickerly, etc.

sikhs
-a religious sect noted for warlike traits, founded in the punjab at the end of the 15th century.

silage
-short for ensilage.

sile
-to strain, as fresh milk.
-to drop; to flow; to fall.
-a sieve with fine meshes.
-filth; sediment.
-a young or small herring.

silence
-the state of being silent; entire absence of sound or noise; absolute stillness.
-forbearance from, or absence of, speech; taciturnity; muteness.
-secrecy; as, these things were transacted in silence.
-the cessation of rage, agitation, or tumilt; calmness; quiest; as, the elements were reduced to silence.
-absence of mention; oblivion.
-be silent;
-- used elliptically for let there be silence, or keep silence.
-to compel to silence; to cause to be still; to still; to hush.
-to put to rest; to quiet.
-to restrain from the exercise of any function, privilege of instruction, or the like, especially from the act of preaching; as, to silence a minister of the gospel.
-to cause to cease firing, as by a vigorous cannonade; as, to silence the batteries of an enemy.

silenced
-of silence

silencing
-of silence

silene
-a genus of caryophyllaceous plants, usually covered with a viscid secretion by which insects are caught; catchfly.

silent
-free from sound or noise; absolutely still; perfectly quiet.
-not speaking; indisposed to talk; speechless; mute; taciturn; not loquacious; not talkative.
-keeping at rest; inactive; calm; undisturbed; as, the wind is silent.
-not pronounced; having no sound; quiescent; as, e is silent in "fable."
-having no effect; not operating; inefficient.
-that which is silent; a time of silence.

silentiary
-one appointed to keep silence and order in court; also, one sworn not to divulge secrets of state.

silentious
-habitually silent; taciturn; reticent.

silently
-in a silent manner.

silentness
-state of being silent; silence.

silenus
-see wanderoo.

silesia
-a kind of linen cloth, originally made in silesia, a province of prussia.
-a twilled cotton fabric, used for dress linings.

silesian
-of or pertaining to silesia.
-a native or inhabitant of silesia.

silex
-silica, sio2 as found in nature, constituting quarz, and most sands and sandstones. see silica, and silicic.

silhouette
-a representation of the outlines of an object filled in with a black color; a profile portrait in black, such as a shadow appears to be.
-to represent by a silhouette; to project upon a background, so as to be like a silhouette.

silica
-silicon dioxide, sio/. it constitutes ordinary quartz (also opal and tridymite), and is artifically prepared as a very fine, white, tasteless, inodorous powder.

silicate
-a salt of silicic acid.

silicated
-combined or impregnated with silicon or silica; as, silicated hydrogen; silicated rocks.

silicatization
-silicification.

silicea
-same as silicoidea.

siliceous
-of or pertaining to silica; containing silica, or partaking of its nature.

silicic
-pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, silica; specifically, designating compounds of silicon; as, silicic acid.

silicicalcareous
-consisting of silica and calcareous matter.

silicide
-a binary compound of silicon, or one regarded as binary.

siliciferous
-producing silica; united with silica.

silicification
-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.

silicified
-combined or impregnated with silicon or silica, especially the latter; as, silicified wood.
-of silicify

silicify
-to convert into, or to impregnate with, silica, or with the compounds of silicon.
-to become converted into silica, or to be impregnated with silica.

silicifying
-of silicify

silicioidea
-same as silicoidea.

silicious
-see siliceous.

silicispongiae
-same as silicoidea.

silicited
-silicified.

silicium
-see silicon.

siliciureted
-combined or impregnated with silicon.

silicle
-a seed vessel resembling a silique, but about as broad as it is long. see silique.

silico
-
-a combining form (also used adjectively) denoting the presence of silicon or its compounds; as, silicobenzoic, silicofluoride, etc.

silicofluoric
-containing, or composed of, silicon and fluorine; especially, denoting the compounds called silicofluorides.

silicofluoride
-a fluosilicate; a salt of silicofluoric acid.

silicoidea
-an extensive order of porifera, which includes those that have the skeleton composed mainly of siliceous fibers or spicules.

silicon
-a nonmetalic element analogous to carbon. it always occurs combined in nature, and is artificially obtained in the free state, usually as a dark brown amorphous powder, or as a dark crystalline substance with a meetallic luster. its oxide is silica, or common quartz, and in this form, or as silicates, it is, next to oxygen, the most abundant element of the earth's crust. silicon is characteristically the element of the mineral kingdom, as carbon is of the organic world. symbol si. atomic weight 28. called also silicium.

silicotungstic
-of, pertaining to, or designating, any one of a series of double acids of silicon and tungsten, known in the free state, and also in their salts (called silicotungstates).

silicula
-a silicle.

silicule
-a silicle.

siliculose
-bearing silicles; pertaining to, or resembling, silicles.
-full of, or consisting of, husks; husky.

siliginose
-made of fine wheat.

siling
-a. & n. from sile to strain.

siliqua
-same as silique.
-a weight of four grains; a carat;
-- a term used by jewelers, and refiners of gold.

siliquae
-of siliqua

silique
-an oblong or elongated seed vessel, consisting of two valves with a dissepiment between, and opening by sutures at either margin. the seeds are attached to both edges of the dissepiment, alternately upon each side of it.

siliquosa
-a linnaean order of plants including those which bear siliques.

siliquose
-alt. of siliquous

siliquous
-bearing siliques; as, siliquose plants; pertaining to, or resembling, siliques; as, siliquose capsules.

siliqyiform
-having the form of a silique.

silk
-the fine, soft thread produced by various species of caterpillars in forming the cocoons within which the worm is inclosed during the pupa state, especially that produced by the larvae of bombyx mori.
-hence, thread spun, or cloth woven, from the above
-named material.
-that which resembles silk, as the filiform styles of the female flower of maize.

silken
-of or pertaining to silk; made of, or resembling, silk; as, silken cloth; a silken veil.
-fig.: soft; delicate; tender; smooth; as, silken language.
-dressed in silk.
-to render silken or silklike.

silkensides
-same as slickensides.

silkiness
-the quality or state of being silky or silken; softness and smoothness.
-fig.: effeminacy; weakness.

silkman
-a dealer in silks; a silk mercer.

silkmen
-of silkman

silkness
-silkiness.

silkweed
-any plant of the genera asclepias and acerates whose seed vessels contain a long, silky down; milkweed.

silkworm
-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.

silky
-of or pertaining to silk; made of, or resembling, silk; silken; silklike; as, a silky luster.
-hence, soft and smooth; as, silky wine.
-covered with soft hairs pressed close to the surface, as a leaf; sericeous.

sill
-the basis or foundation of a thing; especially, a horizontal piece, as a timber, which forms the lower member of a frame, or supports a structure; as, the sills of a house, of a bridge, of a loom, and the like.
-the timber or stone at the foot of a door; the threshold.
-the timber or stone on which a window frame stands; or, the lowest piece in a window frame.
-the floor of a gallery or passage in a mine.
-a piece of timber across the bottom of a canal lock for the gates to shut against.
-the shaft or thill of a carriage.
-a young herring.

sillabub
-a dish made by mixing wine or cider with milk, and thus forming a soft curd; also, sweetened cream, flavored with wine and beaten to a stiff froth.

siller
-silver.

sillily
-in a silly manner; foolishly.

sillimanite
-same as fibrolite.

silliness
-the quality or state of being silly.

sillock
-the pollock, or coalfish.

sillon
-a work raised in the middle of a wide ditch, to defend it.

silly
-happy; fortunate; blessed.
-harmless; innocent; inoffensive.
-weak; helpless; frail.
-rustic; plain; simple; humble.
-weak in intellect; destitute of ordinary strength of mind; foolish; witless; simple; as, a silly woman.
-proceeding from want of understanding or common judgment; characterized by weakness or folly; unwise; absurd; stupid; as, silly conduct; a silly question.

sillyhow
-a caul. see caul, n., 3.

silo
-a pit or vat for packing away green fodder for winter use so as to exclude air and outside moisture. see ensilage.

silt
-mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.
-to choke, fill, or obstruct with silt or mud.
-to flow through crevices; to percolate.

silted
-of silt

silting
-of silt

silty
-full of silt; resembling silt.

silure
-a fish of the genus silurus, as the sheatfish; a siluroid.

silurian
-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 age.

siluridan
-any fish of the family siluridae or of the order siluroidei.

siluroid
-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.
-a siluroid fish.

siluroidei
-an order of fishes, the nematognathi.

silurus
-a genus of large malacopterygious fishes of the order siluroidei. they inhabit the inland waters of europe and asia.

silva
-the forest trees of a region or country, considered collectively.
-a description or history of the forest trees of a country.

silvae
-of silva

silvan
-of or pertaining to woods; composed of woods or groves; woody.
-see sylvanium.

silvanite
-see sylvanite.

silvas
-of silva
-alt. of selvas

silvate
-same as sylvate.

silver
-a soft white metallic element, sonorous, ductile, very malleable, and capable of a high degree of polish. it is found native, and also combined with sulphur, arsenic, antimony, chlorine, etc., in the minerals argentite, proustite, pyrargyrite, ceragyrite, etc. silver is one of the "noble" metals, so
-called, not being easily oxidized, and is used for coin, jewelry, plate, and a great variety of articles. symbol ag (argentum). atomic weight 107.7. specific gravity 10.5.
-coin made of silver; silver money.
-anything having the luster or appearance of silver.
-the color of silver.
-of or pertaining to silver; made of silver; as, silver leaf; a silver cup.
-resembling silver.
-bright; resplendent; white.
-precious; costly.
-giving a clear, ringing sound soft and clear.
-sweet; gentle; peaceful.
-to cover with silver; to give a silvery appearance to by applying a metal of a silvery color; as, to silver a pin; to silver a glass mirror plate with an amalgam of tin and mercury.
-to polish like silver; to impart a brightness to, like that of silver.
-to make hoary, or white, like silver.
-to acquire a silvery color.

silver
-gray
-having a gray color with a silvery luster; as, silver
-gray hair.

silverback
-the knot.

silverberry
-a tree or shrub (elaeagnus argentea) with silvery foliage and fruit.

silverbill
-an old world finch of the genus minia, as the m. malabarica of india, and m. cantans of africa.

silverboom
-see leucadendron.

silvered
-of silver

silverfin
-a small north american fresh
-water cyprinoid fish (notropis whipplei).

silverfish
-the tarpum.
-a white variety of the goldfish.

silveriness
-the state of being silvery.

silvering
-of silver
-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.

silverize
-to cover with silver.

silverized
-of silverize

silverizing
-of silverize

silverless
-having no silcver; hence, without money; impecunious.

silverling
-a small silver coin.

silverly
-like silver in appearance or in sound.

silvern
-made of silver.

silversides
-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.

silversmith
-one whose occupation is to manufacture utensils, ornaments, etc., of silver; a worker in silver.

silverspot
-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.

silverware
-dishes, vases, ornaments, and utensils of various sorts, made of silver.

silverweed
-a perennial rosaceous herb (potentilla anserina) having the leaves silvery white beneath.

silvery
-resembling, or having the luster of, silver; grayish white and lustrous; of a mild luster; bright.
-besprinkled or covered with silver.
-having the clear, musical tone of silver; soft and clear in sound; as, silvery voices; a silvery laugh.

silviculture
-see sylviculture.

sima
-a cyma.

simagre
-a grimace.

simar
-a woman's long dress or robe; also light covering; a scarf.

simarre
-see simar.

simblot
-the harness of a drawloom.

simia
-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
-simian; apelike.

simian
-of or pertaining to the family simiadae, which, in its widest sense, includes all the old world apes and monkeys; also, apelike.
-any old world monkey or ape.

similarly
-in a similar manner.

similary
-similar.

similative
-implying or indicating likeness or resemblance.

simile
-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.

similes
-of simile

similiter
-the technical name of the form by which either party, in pleading, accepts the issue tendered by his opponent;
-- called sometimes a joinder in issue.

similitude
-the quality or state of being similar or like; resemblance; likeness; similarity; as, similitude of substance.
-the act of likening, or that which likens, one thing to another; fanciful or imaginative comparison; a simile.
-that which is like or similar; a representation, semblance, or copy; a facsimile.

similitudinary
-involving or expressing similitude.

similize
-to liken; to compare; as, to similize a person, thing, or act.

similor
-an alloy of copper and zinc, resembling brass, but of a golden color.

simitar
-see scimiter.

simmer
-to boil gently, or with a gentle hissing; to begin to boil.
-to cause to boil gently; to cook in liquid heated almost or just to the boiling point.

simmered
-of simmer

simmering
-of simmer

simnel
-a kind of cake made of fine flour; a cracknel.
-a kind of rich plum cake, eaten especially on mid
-lent sunday.

simoniac
-one who practices simony, or who buys or sells preferment in the church.

simoniacal
-of or pertaining to simony; guilty of simony; consisting of simony.

simonial
-simoniacal.

simonian
-one of the followers of simon magus; also, an adherent of certain heretical sects in the early christian church.

simonious
-simoniacal.

simonist
-one who practices simony.

simony
-the crime of buying or selling ecclesiastical preferment; the corrupt presentation of any one to an ecclesiastical benefice for money or reward.

simoom
-alt. of simoon

simoon
-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.

simous
-having a very flat or snub nose, with the end turned up.

simpai
-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
-to smile in a silly, affected, or conceited manner.
-to glimmer; to twinkle.
-a constrained, self
-conscious smile; an affected, silly smile; a smirk.

simpered
-of simper

simperer
-one who simpers.

simpering
-of simper
-a. &. n. from simper, v.

simperingly
-in a simpering manner.

simple
-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.
-plain; unadorned; as, simple dress.
-mere; not other than; being only.
-not given to artifice, stratagem, or duplicity; undesigning; sincere; true.
-artless in manner; unaffected; unconstrained; natural; inartificial;; straightforward.
-direct; clear; intelligible; not abstruse or enigmatical; as, a simple statement; simple language.
-weak in intellect; not wise or sagacious; of but moderate understanding or attainments; hence, foolish; silly.
-not luxurious; without much variety; plain; as, a simple diet; a simple way of living.
-humble; lowly; undistinguished.
-without subdivisions; entire; as, a simple stem; a simple leaf.
-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.
-homogenous.
-consisting of a single individual or zooid; as, a simple ascidian;
-- opposed to compound.
-something not mixed or compounded.
-a medicinal plant;
-- so called because each vegetable was supposed to possess its particular virtue, and therefore to constitute a simple remedy.
-a drawloom.
-a part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom.
-a feast which is not a double or a semidouble.
-to gather simples, or medicinal plants.

simple
-hearted
-sincere; inguenuous; guileless.

simple
-minded
-artless; guileless; simple
-hearted; undesigning; unsuspecting; devoid of duplicity.

simpleness
-the quality or state of being simple; simplicity.

simpler
-one who collects simples, or medicinal plants; a herbalist; a simplist.

simpless
-simplicity; silliness.

simpleton
-a person of weak intellect; a silly person.

simplician
-one who is simple.

simplicity
-the quality or state of being simple, unmixed, or uncompounded; as, the simplicity of metals or of earths.
-the quality or state of being not complex, or of consisting of few parts; as, the simplicity of a machine.
-artlessness of mind; freedom from cunning or duplicity; lack of acuteness and sagacity.
-freedom from artificial ornament, pretentious style, or luxury; plainness; as, simplicity of dress, of style, or of language; simplicity of diet; simplicity of life.
-freedom from subtlety or abstruseness; clearness; as, the simplicity of a doctrine; the simplicity of an explanation or a demonstration.
-weakness of intellect; silliness; folly.

simplification
-the act of simplifying.

simplified
-of simplify

simplify
-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.

simplifying
-of simplify

simplist
-one skilled in simples, or medicinal plants; a simpler.

simplistic
-of or pertaining to simples, or a simplist.

simplity
-simplicity.

simploce
-see symploce.

simply
-in a simple manner or state; considered in or by itself; without addition; along; merely; solely; barely.
-plainly; without art or subtlety.
-weakly; foolishly.

simulacher
-alt. of simulachre

simulachre
-see simulacrum.

simulacra
-of simulacrum

simulacrum
-a likeness; a semblance; a mock appearance; a sham;
-- now usually in a derogatory sense.

simular
-one who pretends to be what he is not; one who, or that which, simulates or counterfeits something; a pretender.
-false; specious; counterfeit.

simulate
-feigned; pretended.
-to assume the mere appearance of, without the reality; to assume the signs or indications of, falsely; to counterfeit; to feign.

simulated
-of simulate

simulating
-of simulate

simulation
-the act of simulating, or assuming an appearance which is feigned, or not true;
-- distinguished from dissimulation, which disguises or conceals what is true.

simulator
-one who simulates, or feigns.

simulatory
-simulated, or capable of being simulated.

simultaneity
-the quality or state of being simultaneous; simultaneousness.

simultaneous
-existing, happening, or done, at the same time; as, simultaneous events.

simulty
-private grudge or quarrel; as, domestic simulties.

sin
-old form of since.
-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.
-an offense, in general; a violation of propriety; a misdemeanor; as, a sin against good manners.
-a sin offering; a sacrifice for sin.
-an embodiment of sin; a very wicked person.
-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.
-to violate human rights, law, or propriety; to commit an offense; to trespass; to transgress.

sinaic
-alt. of sinaitic

sinaitic
-of or pertaining to mount sinai; given or made at mount sinai; as, the sinaitic law.

sinalbin
-a glucoside found in the seeds of white mustard (brassica alba, formerly sinapis alba), and extracted as a white crystalline substance.

sinamine
-a bitter white crystalline nitrogenous substance, obtained indirectly from oil of mustard and ammonia;
-- called also allyl melamine.

sinapate
-a salt of sinapic acid.

sinapic
-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
-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
-a disused generic name for mustard;
-- now called brassica.

sinapisin
-a substance extracted from mustard seed and probably identical with sinalbin.

sinapism
-a plaster or poultice composed principally of powdered mustard seed, or containing the volatile oil of mustard seed. it is a powerful irritant.

sinapoleic
-of or pertaining to mustard oil; specifically, designating an acid of the oleic acid series said to occur in mistard oil.

sinapoline
-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
-choline.

since
-from a definite past time until now; as, he went a month ago, and i have not seen him since.
-in the time past, counting backward from the present; before this or now; ago.
-when or that.
-from the time of; in or during the time subsequent to; subsequently to; after;
-- usually with a past event or time for the object.
-seeing that; because; considering;
-- formerly followed by that.

sincere
-pure; unmixed; unadulterated.
-whole; perfect; unhurt; uninjured.
-being in reality what it appears to be; having a character which corresponds with the appearance; not falsely assumed; genuine; true; real; as, a sincere desire for knowledge; a sincere contempt for meanness.
-honest; free from hypocrisy or dissimulation; as, a sincere friend; a sincere person.

sincerely
-in a sincere manner.
-purely; without alloy.
-honestly; unfeignedly; without dissimulation; as, to speak one's mind sincerely; to love virtue sincerely.

sincereness
-same as sincerity.

sincerity
-the quality or state of being sincere; honesty of mind or intention; freedom from simulation, hypocrisy, disguise, or false pretense; sincereness.

sinch
-a saddle girth made of leather, canvas, woven horsehair, or woven grass.
-to gird with a sinch; to tighten the sinch or girth of (a saddle); as, to sinch up a sadle.

sincipital
-of or pertaining to the sinciput; being in the region of the sinciput.

sinciput
-the fore part of the head.
-the part of the head of a bird between the base of the bill and the vertex.

sindon
-a wrapper.
-a small rag or pledget introduced into the hole in the cranium made by a trephine.

sine
-the length of a perpendicular drawn from one extremity of an arc of a circle to the diameter drawn through the other extremity.
-the perpendicular itself. see sine of angle, below.
-without.

sinecural
-of or pertaining to a sinecure; being in the nature of a sinecure.

sinecure
-an ecclesiastical benefice without the care of souls.
-any office or position which requires or involves little or no responsibility, labor, or active service.
-to put or place in a sinecure.

sinecurism
-the state of having a sinecure.

sinecurist
-one who has a sinecure.

sinew
-a tendon or tendonous tissue. see tendon.
-muscle; nerve.
-fig.: that which supplies strength or power.
-to knit together, or make strong with, or as with, sinews.

sinew
-shrunk
-having the sinews under the belly shrunk by excessive fatigue.

sinewed
-of sinew
-furnished with sinews; as, a strong
-sinewed youth.
-fig.: equipped; strengthened.

sinewiness
-quality of being sinewy.

sinewing
-of sinew

sinewish
-sinewy.

sinewless
-having no sinews; hence, having no strength or vigor.

sinewous
-sinewy.

sinewy
-pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling, a sinew or sinews.
-well braced with, or as if with, sinews; nervous; vigorous; strong; firm; tough; as, the sinewy ajax.

sinful
-tainted with, or full of, sin; wicked; iniquitous; criminal; unholy; as, sinful men; sinful thoughts.

sing
-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.
-to utter sweet melodious sounds, as birds do.
-to make a small, shrill sound; as, the air sings in passing through a crevice.
-to tell or relate something in numbers or verse; to celebrate something in poetry.
-ti cry out; to complain.
-to utter with musical infections or modulations of voice.
-to celebrate is song; to give praises to in verse; to relate or rehearse in numbers, verse, or poetry.
-to influence by singing; to lull by singing; as, to sing a child to sleep.
-to accompany, or attend on, with singing.

sing
-sing
-the kob.

singe
-to burn slightly or superficially; to burn the surface of; to burn the ends or outside of; as, to singe the hair or the skin.
-to remove the nap of (cloth), by passing it rapidly over a red
-hot bar, or over a flame, preliminary to dyeing it.
-to remove the hair or down from (a plucked chicken or the like) by passing it over a flame.
-a burning of the surface; a slight burn.

singed
-of singe

singeing
-of singe

singer
-one who, or that which, singes.
-one employed to singe cloth.
-a machine for singeing cloth.
-one who sings; especially, one whose profession is to sing.

singeress
-a songstress.

singhalese
-same as cingalese.

singing
-of sing
-a. & n. from sing, v.

singingly
-with sounds like singing; with a kind of tune; in a singing tone.

single
-one only, as distinguished from more than one; consisting of one alone; individual; separate; as, a single star.
-alone; having no companion.
-hence, unmarried; as, a single man or woman.
-not doubled, twisted together, or combined with others; as, a single thread; a single strand of a rope.
-performed by one person, or one on each side; as, a single combat.
-uncompounded; pure; unmixed.
-not deceitful or artful; honest; sincere.
-simple; not wise; weak; silly.
-to select, as an individual person or thing, from among a number; to choose out from others; to separate.
-to sequester; to withdraw; to retire.
-to take alone, or one by one.
-to take the irrregular gait called single
-foot;
- said of a horse. see single
-foot.
-a unit; one; as, to score a single.
-the reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness.
-a handful of gleaned grain.
-a game with but one player on each side;
-- usually in the plural.
-a hit by a batter which enables him to reach first base only.

single
-acting
-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
-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
-an irregular gait of a horse;
-- called also single
-footed pace. see single, v. i.

single
-handed
-having but one hand, or one workman; also, alone; unassisted.

single
-hearted
-having an honest heart; free from duplicity.

single
-minded
-having a single purpose; hence, artless; guileless; single
-hearted.

singled
-of single

singleness
-the quality or state of being single, or separate from all others; the opposite of doubleness, complication, or multiplicity.
-freedom from duplicity, or secondary and selfish ends; purity of mind or purpose; simplicity; sincerity; as, singleness of purpose; singleness of heart.

singles
-see single, n., 2.

singlestick
-in england and scotland, a cudgel used in fencing or fighting; a backsword.
-the game played with singlesticks, in which he who first brings blood from his adversary's head is pronounced victor; backsword; cudgeling.

singlet
-an unlined or undyed waistcoat; a single garment;
-- opposed to doublet.

singleton
-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
-the pivoted or swinging bar to which the traces of a harnessed horse are fixed; a whiffletree.

singling
-of single

singly
-individually; particularly; severally; as, to make men singly and personally good.
-only; by one's self; alone.
-without partners, companions, or associates; single
-handed; as, to attack another singly.
-honestly; sincerely; simply.
-singularly; peculiarly.

singsong
-bad singing or poetry.
-a drawling or monotonous tone, as of a badly executed song.
-drawling; monotonous.
-to write poor poetry.

singster
-a songstress.

singular
-separate or apart from others; single; distinct.
-engaged in by only one on a side; single.
-existing by itself; single; individual.
-each; individual; as, to convey several parcels of land, all and singular.
-denoting one person or thing; as, the singular number;
-- opposed to dual and plural.
-standing by itself; out of the ordinary course; unusual; uncommon; strange; as, a singular phenomenon.
-distinguished as existing in a very high degree; rarely equaled; eminent; extraordinary; exceptional; as, a man of singular gravity or attainments.
-departing from general usage or expectations; odd; whimsical;
-- often implying disapproval or consure.
-being alone; belonging to, or being, that of which there is but one; unique.
-an individual instance; a particular.
-the singular number, or the number denoting one person or thing; a word in the singular number.

singularist
-one who affects singularity.

singularities
-of singularity

singularity
-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.
-anything singular, rare, or curious.
-possession of a particular or exclusive privilege, prerogative, or distinction.
-celibacy.

singularize
-to make singular or single; to distinguish.

singularly
-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.
-strangely; oddly; as, to behave singularly.
-so as to express one, or the singular number.

singult
-a sigh or sobbing; also, a hiccough.

singultous
-relating to, or affected with, hiccough.

singultus
-hiccough.

siniate
-having the margin alternately curved inward and outward; having rounded lobes separated by rounded sinuses; sinuous; wavy.

sinical
-of or pertaining to a sine; employing, or founded upon, sines; as, a sinical quadrant.

sinigrin
-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
-on the left hand, or the side of the left hand; left;
-- opposed to dexter, or right.
-unlucky; inauspicious; disastrous; injurious; evil;
-- the left being usually regarded as the unlucky side; as, sinister influences.
-wrong, as springing from indirection or obliquity; perverse; dishonest; corrupt; as, sinister aims.
-indicative of lurking evil or harm; boding covert danger; as, a sinister countenance.

sinister
-handed
-left
-handed; hence, unlucky.

sinisterly
-in a sinister manner.

sinistrad
-toward the left side; sinistrally.

sinistral
-of or pertaining to the left, inclining to the left; sinistrous;
-- opposed to dextral.
-having the whorls of the spire revolving or rising to the left; reversed;
-- said of certain spiral shells.

sinistrality
-the quality or state of being sinistral.

sinistrally
-toward the left; in a sinistral manner.

sinistrin
-a mucilaginous carbohydrate, resembling achroodextrin, extracted from squill as a colorless amorphous substance;
-- so called because it is levorotatory.

sinistrorsal
-rising spirally from right to left (of the spectator); sinistrorse.

sinistrorse
-turning to the left (of the spectator) in the ascending line;
-- the opposite of dextrorse. see dextrorse.

sinistrous
-being on the left side; inclined to the left; sinistral.
-wrong; absurd; perverse.

sinistrously
-in a sinistrous manner; perversely; wrongly; unluckily.
-with a tendency to use the left hand.

sink
-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.
-to enter deeply; to fall or retire beneath or below the surface; to penetrate.
-hence, to enter so as to make an abiding impression; to enter completely.
-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.
-to decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
-to cause to sink; to put under water; to immerse or submerge in a fluid; as, to sink a ship.
-figuratively: to cause to decline; to depress; to degrade; hence, to ruin irretrievably; to destroy, as by drowping; as, to sink one's reputation.
-to make (a depression) by digging, delving, or cutting, etc.; as, to sink a pit or a well; to sink a die.
-to bring low; to reduce in quantity; to waste.
-to conseal and appropriate.
-to keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.
-to reduce or extinguish by payment; as, to sink the national debt.
-a drain to carry off filthy water; a jakes.
-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.
-a hole or low place in land or rock, where waters sink and are lost;
-- called also sink hole.

sinker
-one who, or that which, sinks.
-a weight on something, as on a fish line, to sink it.
-in knitting machines, one of the thin plates, blades, or other devices, that depress the loops upon or between the needles.

sinking
-of sink
-a. & n. from sink.

sinless
-free from sin.

sinned
-of sin

sinner
-one who has sinned; especially, one who has sinned without repenting; hence, a persistent and incorrigible transgressor; one condemned by the law of god.
-to act as a sinner.

sinneress
-a woman who sins.

sinnet
-see sennit .

sinning
-of sin

sinological
-relating to the chinese language or literature.

sinologist
-a sinologue.

sinologue
-a student of chinese; one versed in the chinese language, literature, and history.

sinology
-that branch of systemized knowledge which treats of the chinese, their language, literature, etc.

sinoper
-sinople.

sinopia
-alt. of sinopis

sinopis
-a red pigment made from sinopite.

sinopite
-a brickred ferruginous clay used by the ancients for red paint.

sinople
-ferruginous quartz, of a blood
-red or brownish red color, sometimes with a tinge of yellow.
-the tincture vert; green.

sinque
-see cinque.

sinsring
-same as banxring.

sinter
-dross, as of iron; the scale which files from iron when hammered;
-- applied as a name to various minerals.

sinto
-alt. of sintoist

sintoc
-a kind of spice used in the east indies, consisting of the bark of a species of cinnamomum.

sintoism
-alt. of sintoist

sintoist
-see shinto, etc.

sintu
-alt. of sintoist

sinuate
-to bend or curve in and out; to wind; to turn; to be sinusous.

sinuated
-of sinuate
-same as sinuate.

sinuating
-of sinuate

sinuation
-a winding or bending in and out.

sinuose
-sinuous.

sinuosities
-of sinuosity

sinuosity
-quality or state of being sinuous.
-a bend, or a series of bends and turns; a winding, or a series of windings; a wave line; a curve.

sinuous
-bending in and out; of a serpentine or undulating form; winding; crooked.

sinupalliate
-having a pallial sinus. see under sinus.

sinus
-of sinus
-an opening; a hollow; a bending.
-a bay of the sea; a recess in the shore.
-a cavity; a depression.
-a cavity in a bone or other part, either closed or with a narrow opening.
-a dilated vessel or canal.
-a narrow, elongated cavity, in which pus is collected; an elongated abscess with only a small orifice.
-a depression between adjoining lobes.

sinuses
-of sinus

sinusoid
-the curve whose ordinates are proportional to the sines of the abscissas, the equation of the curve being y = a sin x. it is also called the curve of sines.

sinusoidal
-of or pertaining to a sinusoid; like a sinusoid.

siogoon
-see shogun.

siogoonate
-see shogunate.

sioux
-see dakotas.

sip
-to drink or imbibe in small quantities; especially, to take in with the lips in small quantities, as a liquid; as, to sip tea.
-to draw into the mouth; to suck up; as, a bee sips nectar from the flowers.
-to taste the liquor of; to drink out of.
-to drink a small quantity; to take a fluid with the lips; to take a sip or sips of something.
-the act of sipping; the taking of a liquid with the lips.
-a small draught taken with the lips; a slight taste.
-see seep.

sipage
-water that seeped or oozed through a porous soil.
-see seepage.

sipe
-to run or soak through fine pores and interstices; to ooze.

siphilis
-syphilis.

siphoid
-a siphon bottle. see under siphon, n.

siphon
-a device, consisting of a pipe or tube bent so as to form two branches or legs of unequal length, by which a liquid can be transferred to a lower level, as from one vessel to another, over an intermediate elevation, by the action of the pressure of the atmosphere in forcing the liquid up the shorter branch of the pipe immersed in it, while the continued excess of weight of the liquid in the longer branch (when once filled) causes a continuous flow. the flow takes place only when the discharging extremity of the pipe ia lower than the higher liquid surface, and when no part of the pipe is higher above the surface than the same liquid will rise by atmospheric pressure; that is, about 33 feet for water, and 30 inches for mercury, near the sea level.
-one of the tubes or folds of the mantle border of a bivalve or gastropod mollusk by which water is conducted into the gill cavity. see illust. under mya, and lamellibranchiata.
-the anterior prolongation of the margin of any gastropod shell for the protection of the soft siphon.
-the tubular organ through which water is ejected from the gill cavity of a cephaloid. it serves as a locomotive organ, by guiding and confining the jet of water. called also siphuncle. see illust. under loligo, and dibranchiata.
-the siphuncle of a cephalopod shell.
-the sucking proboscis of certain parasitic insects and crustaceans.
-a sproutlike prolongation in front of the mouth of many gephyreans.
-a tubular organ connected both with the esophagus and the intestine of certain sea urchins and annelids.
-a siphon bottle.
-to convey, or draw off, by means of a siphon, as a liquid from one vessel to another at a lower level.

siphonage
-the action of a siphon.

siphonal
-of or pertaining to a siphon; resembling a siphon.

siphonarid
-any one of numerous species of limpet
-shaped pulmonate gastropods of the genus siphonaria. they cling to rocks between high and low water marks and have both lunglike organs and gills.

siphonata
-a tribe of bivalve mollusks in which the posterior mantle border is prolonged into two tubes or siphons. called also siphoniata. see siphon, 2 (a), and quahaug.

siphonate
-having a siphon or siphons.
-belonging to the siphonata.

siphonet
-one of the two dorsal tubular organs on the hinder part of the abdomen of aphids. they give exit to the honeydew. see illust. under aphis.

siphonia
-a former name for a euphorbiaceous genus (hevea) of south american trees, the principal source of caoutchouc.
-of siphonium

siphoniata
-same as siphonata.

siphonic
-of or pertaining to a siphon.

siphonifer
-any cephalopod having a siphonate shell.

siphoniferous
-siphon
-bearing, as the shell of the nautilus and other cephalopods.

siphonium
-a bony tube which, in some birds, connects the tympanium with the air chambers of the articular piece of the mandible.

siphonobranchiata
-a tribe of gastropods having the mantle border, on one or both sides, prolonged in the form of a spout through which water enters the gill cavity. the shell itself is not always siphonostomatous in this group.

siphonobranchiate
-having a siphon, or siphons, to convey water to the gills; belonging or pertaining to the siphonobranchiata.
-one of the siphonobranchiata.

siphonoglyphe
-a gonidium.

siphonophora
-an order of pelagic hydrozoa including species which form complex free
-swimming communities composed of numerous zooids of various kinds, some of which act as floats or as swimming organs, others as feeding or nutritive zooids, and others as reproductive zooids. see illust. under physallia, and porpita.

siphonophoran
-belonging to the siphonophora.
-one of the siphonophora.

siphonophore
-one of the siphonophora.

siphonopoda
-a division of scaphopoda including those in which the foot terminates in a circular disk.

siphonostomata
-a tribe of parasitic copepod crustacea including a large number of species that are parasites of fishes, as the lerneans. they have a mouth adapted to suck blood.
-an artificial division of gastropods including those that have siphonostomatous shells.

siphonostomatous
-having the front edge of the aperture of the shell prolonged in the shape of a channel for the protection of the siphon;
-- said of certain gastropods.
-pertaining to the siphonostomata.

siphonostome
-any parasitic entomostracan of the tribe siphonostomata.
-a siphonostomatous shell.

siphorhinal
-having tubular nostrils, as the petrels.

siphorhinian
-a siphorhinal bird.

siphuncle
-the tube which runs through the partitions of chambered cephalopod shells.

siphuncled
-having a siphuncle; siphunculated.

siphuncular
-of or pertaining to the siphuncle.

siphunculated
-having a siphuncle.

sipid
-having a taste or flavorl savory; sapid.

sipped
-of sip

sipper
-one whi sips.

sippet
-a small sop; a small, thin piece of toasted bread soaked in milk, broth, or the like; a small piece of toasted or fried bread cut into some special shape and used for garnishing.

sipping
-of sip

sipple
-to sip often.

sippling
-sipping often.

sipunculacea
-a suborder of gephyrea, including those which have the body unarmed and the intestine opening anteriorly.

sipunculoid
-pertaining to the sipunculoidea.
-one of the sipunculoidea.

sipunculoidea
-same as gephyrea.
-in a restricted sense, same as sipunculacea.

sipy
-oozy;
-- applied to land under cultivation that is not well drained.

sir
-a man of social authority and dignity; a lord; a master; a gentleman;
-- in this sense usually spelled sire.
-a title prefixed to the christian name of a knight or a baronet.
-an english rendering of the latin dominus, the academical title of a bachelor of arts;
-- formerly colloquially, and sometimes contemptuously, applied to the clergy.
-a respectful title, used in addressing a man, without being prefixed to his name;
-- used especially in speaking to elders or superiors; sometimes, also, used in the way of emphatic formality.

siraskier
-see seraskier.

siraskierate
-see seraskierate.

sirbonian
-see serbonian.

sircar
-a hindoo clerk or accountant.
-a district or province; a circar.
-the government; the supreme authority of the state.

sirdar
-a native chief in hindostan; a headman.

sire
-a lord, master, or other person in authority. see sir.
-a tittle of respect formerly used in speaking to elders and superiors, but now only in addressing a sovereign.
-a father; the head of a family; the husband.
-a creator; a maker; an author; an originator.
-the male parent of a beast;
-- applied especially to horses; as, the horse had a good sire.
-to beget; to procreate;
-- used of beasts, and especially of stallions.

sired
-of sire

siredon
-the larval form of any salamander while it still has external gills; especially, one of those which, like the axolotl (amblystoma mexicanum), sometimes lay eggs while in this larval state, but which under more favorable conditions lose their gills and become normal salamanders. see also axolotl.

siren
-one of three sea nymphs,
-- or, according to some writers, of two,
-- said to frequent an island near the coast of italy, and to sing with such sweetness that they lured mariners to destruction.
-an enticing, dangerous woman.
-something which is insidious or deceptive.
-a mermaid.
-any long, slender amphibian of the genus siren or family sirenidae, destitute of hind legs and pelvis, and having permanent external gills as well as lungs. they inhabit the swamps, lagoons, and ditches of the southern united states. the more common species (siren lacertina) is dull lead
-gray in color, and becames two feet long.
-an instrument for producing musical tones and for ascertaining the number of sound waves or vibrations per second which produce a note of a given pitch. the sounds are produced by a perforated rotating disk or disks. a form with two disks operated by steam or highly compressed air is used sounding an alarm to vessels in fog.
-of or pertaining to a siren; bewitching, like a siren; fascinating; alluring; as, a siren song.

sirene
-see siren, 6.

sirenia
-an order of large aquatic herbivorous mammals, including the manatee, dugong, rytina, and several fossil genera.

sirenian
-any species of sirenia.

sirenical
-like, or appropriate to, a siren; fascinating; deceptive.

sirenize
-to use the enticements of a siren; to act as a siren; to fascinate.

siriasis
-a sunstroke.
-the act of exposing to a sun bath. [obs.] cf. insolation.

siring
-of sire

sirius
-the dog star. see dog star.

sirkeer
-any one of several species of asiatic cuckoos of the genus taccocua, as the bengal sirkeer (t. sirkee).

sirloin
-a loin of beef, or a part of a loin.

sirname
-see surname.

siroc
-see sirocco.

sirocco
-an oppressive, relaxing wind from the libyan deserts, chiefly experienced in italy, malta, and sicily.

siroccos
-of sirocco

sirrah
-a term of address implying inferiority and used in anger, contempt, reproach, or disrespectful familiarity, addressed to a man or boy, but sometimes to a woman. in sililoquies often preceded by ah. not used in the plural.

sirt
-a quicksand.

sirup
-alt. of syrup

siruped
-alt. of syruped

sirupy
-alt. of syrupy

sirvente
-a peculiar species of poetry, for the most part devoted to moral and religious topics, and commonly satirical,
-- often used by the troubadours of the middle ages.

sis
-a colloquial abbreviation of sister.
-six. see sise.

sisal grass
-alt. of sisal hemp

sisal hemp
-the prepared fiber of the agave americana, or american aloe, used for cordage;
-- so called from sisal, a port in yucatan. see sisal hemp, under hemp.

siscowet
-a large, fat variety of the namaycush found in lake superior;
-- called also siskawet, siskiwit.

sise
-an assize.
-six; the highest number on a die; the cast of six in throwing dice.

sisel
-the suslik.

siser
-cider. see sicer.

siserara
-alt. of siserary

siserary
-a hard blow.

siskin
-a small green and yellow european finch (spinus spinus, or carduelis spinus);
-- called also aberdevine.
-the american pinefinch (s. pinus);
-- called also pine siskin. see pinefinch.

siskiwit
-the siscowet.

sismograph
-see seismograph.

sismometer
-see seismometer.

siss
-to make a hissing sound; as, a flatiron hot enough to siss when touched with a wet finger.
-a hissing noise.

sissoo
-a leguminous tree (dalbergia sissoo) of the northern parts of india; also, the dark brown compact and durable timber obtained from it. it is used in shipbuilding and for gun carriages, railway ties, etc.

sist
-to stay, as judicial proceedings; to delay or suspend; to stop.
-to cause to take a place, as at the bar of a court; hence, to cite; to summon; to bring into court.
-a stay or suspension of proceedings; an order for a stay of proceedings.

sister
-a female who has the same parents with another person, or who has one of them only. in the latter case, she is more definitely called a half sister. the correlative of brother.
-a woman who is closely allied to, or assocciated with, another person, as in the sdame faith, society, order, or community.
-one of the same kind, or of the same condition;
-- generally used adjectively; as, sister fruits.
-to be sister to; to resemble closely.

sister
-in
-law
-the sister of one's husband or wife; also, the wife of one's brother; sometimes, the wife of one's husband's or wife's brother.

sisterhood
-the state or relation of being a sister; the office or duty of a sister.
-a society of sisters; a society of women united in one faith or order; sisters, collectively.

sistering
-contiguous.

sisterly
-like a sister; becoming a sister, affectionate; as, sisterly kindness; sisterly remorse.

sisters
-in
-law
-of sister
-in
-law

sistine
-of or pertaining to pope sixtus.

sistren
-sisters.

sistrum
-an instrument consisting of a thin metal frame, through which passed a number of metal rods, and furnished with a handle by which it was shaken and made to rattle. it was peculiarly egyptian, and used especially in the worship of isis. it is still used in nubia.

sisyphean
-relating to sisyphus; incessantly recurring; as, sisyphean labors.

sisyphus
-a king of corinth, son of aeolus, famed for his cunning. he was killed by theseus, and in the lower world was condemned by pluto to roll to the top of a hill a huge stone, which constantly rolled back again, making his task incessant.

sit
-obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of sit, for sitteth.
-to rest upon the haunches, or the lower extremity of the trunk of the body;
-- said of human beings, and sometimes of other animals; as, to sit on a sofa, on a chair, or on the ground.
-to perch; to rest with the feet drawn up, as birds do on a branch, pole, etc.
-to remain in a state of repose; to rest; to abide; to rest in any position or condition.
-to lie, rest, or bear; to press or weigh;
-- with on; as, a weight or burden sits lightly upon him.
-to be adjusted; to fit; as, a coat sts well or ill.
-to suit one well or ill, as an act; to become; to befit;
-- used impersonally.
-to cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate.
-to have position, as at the point blown from; to hold a relative position; to have direction.
-to occupy a place or seat as a member of an official body; as, to sit in congress.
-to hold a session; to be in session for official business;
-- said of legislative assemblies, courts, etc.; as, the court sits in january; the aldermen sit to
-night.
-to take a position for the purpose of having some artistic representation of one's self made, as a picture or a bust; as, to sit to a painter.
-to sit upon; to keep one's seat upon; as, he sits a horse well.
-to cause to be seated or in a sitting posture; to furnish a seat to;
-- used reflexively.
-to suit (well / ill); to become.

site
-the place where anything is fixed; situation; local position; as, the site of a city or of a house.
-a place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation; as, a site for a church.
-the posture or position of a thing.

sited
-having a site; situated.

sitfast
-fixed; stationary; immovable.
-a callosity with inflamed edges, on the back of a horse, under the saddle.

sith
-since; afterwards; seeing that.
-alt. of sithe

sithe
-time.
-to sigh.
-a scythe.
-to cut with a scythe; to scythe.

sithed
-scythed.

sitheman
-a mower.

sithen
-since; afterwards. see 1st sith.

sithence
-alt. of sithens

sithens
-since. see sith, and sithen.

siththen
-see sithen.

sitology
-a treatise on the regulation of the diet; dietetics.

sitophobia
-a version to food; refusal to take nourishment.

sitten
-of sit
-p. p. of sit, for sat.

sitter
-one who sits; esp., one who sits for a portrait or a bust.
-a bird that sits or incubates.

sittine
-of or pertaining to the family sittidae, or nuthatches.

sitting
-of sit
-being in the state, or the position, of one who, or that which, sits.
-the state or act of one who sits; the posture of one who occupies a seat.
-a seat, or the space occupied by or allotted for a person, in a church, theater, etc.; as, the hall has 800 sittings.
-the act or time of sitting, as to a portrait painter, photographer, etc.
-the actual presence or meeting of any body of men in their seats, clothed with authority to transact business; a session; as, a sitting of the judges of the king's bench, or of a commission.
-the time during which one sits while doing something, as reading a book, playing a game, etc.
-a brooding over eggs for hatching, as by fowls.

situate
-alt. of situated
-to place.

situated
-having a site, situation, or location; being in a relative position; permanently fixed; placed; located; as, a town situated, or situate, on a hill or on the seashore.
-placed; residing.

situation
-manner in which an object is placed; location, esp. as related to something else; position; locality site; as, a house in a pleasant situation.
-position, as regards the conditions and circumstances of the case.
-relative position; circumstances; temporary state or relation at a moment of action which excites interest, as of persons in a dramatic scene.
-permanent position or employment; place; office; as, a situation in a store; a situation under government.

situs
-the method in which the parts of a plant are arranged; also, the position of the parts.

sitz bath
-a tub in which one bathes in a sitting posture; also, a bath so taken; a hip bath.

siva
-one of the triad of hindoo gods. he is the avenger or destroyer, and in modern worship symbolizes the reproductive power of nature.

sivan
-the third month of the jewish ecclesiastical year;
-- supposed to correspond nearly with our month of june.

sivatherium
-a genus of very large extinct ruminants found in the tertiary formation of india. the snout was prolonged in the form of a proboscis. the male had four horns, the posterior pair being large and branched. it was allied to the antelopes, but very much larger than any exsisting species.

siver
-to simmer.

sivvens
-see sibbens.

siwin
-same as sewen.

six
-one more than five; twice three; as, six yards.
-the number greater by a unit than five; the sum of three and three; six units or objects.
-a symbol representing six units, as 6, vi., or vi.

six
-footer
-one who is six feet tall.

six
-shooter
-a pistol or other firearm which can be fired six times without reloading especially, a six
-chambered revolver.

sixfold
-six times repeated; six times as much or as many.

sixpence
-an english silver coin of the value of six pennies; half a shilling, or about twelve cents.

sixpences
-of sixpence

sixpenny
-of the value of, or costing, sixpence; as, a sixpenny loaf.

sixscore
-six times twenty; one hundred and twenty.

sixteen
-six and ten; consisting of six and ten; fifteen and one more.
-the number greater by a unit than fifteen; the sum of ten and six; sixteen units or objects.
-a symbol representing sixteen units, as 16, or xvi.

sixteenmo
-see sextodecimo.

sixteenmos
-of sixteenmo

sixteenth
-sixth after the tenth; next in order after the fifteenth.
-constituting or being one of sixteen equal parts into which anything is divided.
-the quotient of a unit divided by sixteen; one of sixteen equal parts of one whole.
-the next in order after the fifteenth; the sixth after the tenth.
-an interval comprising two octaves and a second.

sixth
-first after the fifth; next in order after the fifth.
-constituting or being one of six equal parts into which anything is divided.
-the quotient of a unit divided by six; one of six equal parts which form a whole.
-the next in order after the fifth.
-the interval embracing six diatonic degrees of the scale.

sixthly
-in the sixth place.

sixties
-of sixty

sixtieth
-next in order after the fifty
-ninth.
-constituting or being one one of sixty equal parts into which anything is divided.
-the quotient of a unit divided by sixty; one of sixty equal parts forming a whole.
-the next in order after the fifty
-ninth; the tenth after the fiftieth.

sixty
-six times ten; fifty
-nine and one more; threescore.
-the sum of six times ten; sixty units or objects.
-a symbol representing sixty units, as 60, lx., or lx.

sixty
-fourth
-constituting or being one of sixty
-four equal parts into which a thing is divided.

sizable
-of considerable size or bulk.
-being of reasonable or suitable size; as, sizable timber; sizable bulk.

sizar
-one of a body of students in the universities of cambridge (eng.) and dublin, who, having passed a certain examination, are exempted from paying college fees and charges. a sizar corresponded to a servitor at oxford.

sizarship
-the position or standing of a sizar.

size
-six.
-a thin, weak glue used in various trades, as in painting, bookbinding, paper making, etc.
-any viscous substance, as gilder's varnish.
-to cover with size; to prepare with size.
-a settled quantity or allowance. see assize.
-an allowance of food and drink from the buttery, aside from the regular dinner at commons;
-- corresponding to battel at oxford.
-extent of superficies or volume; bulk; bigness; magnitude; as, the size of a tree or of a mast; the size of a ship or of a rock.
-figurative bulk; condition as to rank, ability, character, etc.; as, the office demands a man of larger size.
-a conventional relative measure of dimension, as for shoes, gloves, and other articles made up for sale.
-an instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges fastened together at one end by a rivet,
-- used for ascertaining the size of pearls.
-to fix the standard of.
-to adjust or arrange according to size or bulk.
-to take the height of men, in order to place them in the ranks according to their stature.
-to sift, as pieces of ore or metal, in order to separate the finer from the coarser parts.
-to swell; to increase the bulk of.
-to bring or adjust anything exactly to a required dimension, as by cutting.
-to take greater size; to increase in size.
-to order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book.

sized
-of size
-adjusted according to size.
-having a particular size or magnitude;
-- chiefly used in compounds; as, large
-sized; common
-sized.

sizel
-same as scissel, 2.

sizer
-see sizar.
-an instrument or contrivance to size articles, or to determine their size by a standard, or to separate and distribute them according to size.
-an instrument or tool for bringing anything to an exact size.

siziness
-the quality or state of being sizy; viscousness.

sizing
-of size
-act of covering or treating with size.
-a weak glue used in various trades; size.
-the act of sorting with respect to size.
-the act of bringing anything to a certain size.
-food and drink ordered from the buttery by a student.

sizy
-sizelike; viscous; glutinous; as, sizy blood.

sizzle
-to make a hissing sound; to fry, or to dry and shrivel up, with a hissing sound.
-a hissing sound, as of something frying over a fire.

sizzled
-of sizzle

sizzling
-of sizzle
-a. & n. from sizzle.