SIB, a relation, in Saxon, but not in use in English.

SIBE'RIAN, adjective Pertaining to Siberia, a name given to a great and indefinite extent of territory in the north of Asia; as a Siberian winter.

SIB'ERITE, noun Red tourmalin.

SIB'ILANT, adjective [Latin sibilo, to hiss.] Hissing; making a hissing sound. S and z are called sibilant letters.

SIB'ILANT, noun A letter that is uttered with a hissing of the voice; as s and z.

SIBILA'TION, noun A hissing sound.

SIB'YL, noun [from the Latin ] In pagan antiquity, the Sibyls were certain said to be endowed with a prophetic spirit. Their number is variously stated; but the opinion of Varro, who states them to have been ten, is generally adopted. They resided in various parts of Persia, Greece and Italy. It is pretended that they wrote certain prophecies on leaves in verse, which are called Sibylline verses, or Sibylline oracles.

SIB'YLLINE, adjective Pertaining to the Sibyls; uttered, written or composed by the Sibyls.

SIC'AMORE, noun More usually written sycamore, which see.

SIC'CATE, verb transitive To dry. [Not in use.]

SICCA'TION, noun The act or process of drying. [Not in use.]

SIC'CATIVE, adjective [from Latin sicco, to dry.] Drying; causing to dry.

SIC'CATIVE, noun That which promotes the process of drying.

SIC'CITY, noun [Latin siccitas.] Dryness; aridity; destitution of moisture; as the siccity of flesh or af the air.

SICE, noun size. The number six at dice.

SICH, for such. [See Such.]

SICK, adjective [Qu.Gr. squeamish, lothing.]

1. Affected with nausea; inclined to vomit; as, sick at the stomach. [This is probably the primary sense of the word.] Hence,

2. Disgusted; having a strong dislike to; with of; as, to be sick of flattery; to be sick of a country life.

He was not so sick of his master as of his work. L'Estrange.

3. Affected with a disease of any kind; not in health; followed by of; as to be sick of a fever.

4. Corrupted. [Not in use nor proper.]

5. The sick, the person or persons affected with the disease. The sick are healed.

SICK, verb transitive To make sick [Not in use. See Sicken.]

SICK'-BIRTH, noun In a ship of war, an apartment for the sick

SICKEN, verb transitive sik'n.

1. To make sick; to disease.

Raise this to strength, and sicken that to death. Prior.

2. To make squeamish. It sickens the stomach.

3. To disgust. It sickens one to hear the fawning sycophant.

4. to impair. [Not in use.]

SICK'EN, verb intransitive To become sick; to fall into disease.

SICK'ER, adjective [Latin securus; ] Sure; certain; firm.

SICK'ER, adverb Surely; certainly.

SICK'ERLY, adverb Surely.

SICK'ERNESS, noun Security.

SICK'ISH, adjective [from sick]

1. Somewhat sick or diseased.

2. Exciting disgust; nauseating; as a sickish taste.

SICK'ISHNESS, noun The quality of exciting disgust.

SICKLE, noun [Gr. Vaiclh, Vagclon; Latin sicula, from the root of seco, to cut.] A reaping hook; a hooked instrument with teeth; used for cutting grain. Thou shalt not move a sickle to thy neighbor's standing corn. Deuteronomy 23:25.

SICK'LED, adjective Furnished with a sickle.

SICK'LEMAN. SICK'LER, noun One that uses a sickle; a reaper.

SICK'LEWORT, noun A plant of the genus Coronilla.

SICK'LINESS, noun [from sickly.]

1. The state of being sickly; the state of being habitually diseased;

2. The state of producing sickness extensively; as the sickliness of a climate.

SICK'-LIST, noun A list containing the names of the sick.

SICK'LY, adjective

1. Not healthy; somewhat affected with disease; or habitually indisposed; as a sickly person, or a sickly constitution; a sickly plant.

2. Producing disease extensively; marked with sickness; as a sickly time; a sickly autumn.

3. Tending to produce disease; as a sickly climate.

4. Faint; weak; languid. The moon grows sickly at the sight of day.

SICK'LY, verb transitive To make diseased.

SICK'NESS, noun

1. Nausea; squeamishness; as sickness of the stomach.

2. State of being diseased. I do lament the sickness of the king.

3. Disease; malady; a morbid state of the body of an animal or plant, in which the organs do not perfectly perform their natural functions. Trust not too much your now resistless charms; Those age or sickness soon or late disarms. Himself took our infirmities, and bore our sicknesses. Matthew 8:17.

SIDE, noun [Latin latus.]

1. The broad and long part of surface of a thing, as distinguished from the end, which is of less extent and many be a point; as the side of a plank; the side of a chest; the side of a house or of a ship. One side of a lens may be concave, the other convex. side is distinguished from edge; as the side of a knife or sword.

2. Margin; edge; verge; border; the exterior line of any thing, considered in length; as the side of a tract of land or a field, as distinct from the end. Hence we say, the side of a river; the side of a road; the east and west side of the American continent.

3. The part of an animal between the back and the face and belly; the part of which the ribs are situated; as the right side; the left side This is quadrupeds is usually the broadest part.

4. The part between the top and bottom; the slope, declivity or ascent, as of a hill or mountain; as the side of mount Etna.

5. One part of a thing, or its superficies; as the side of a ball or sphere.

6. Any part considered in respect to its direction or point of compass; as to whichever side we direct our view. We see difficulties on every side

7. Party; faction; sect; any man or body of men considered as in opposition to another. One man enlists on the side of the tories; another on the side of the whigs. Some persons change sides for the sake of popularity and office, and sink themselves in public estimation. And sets the passions on the side of truth.

8. Interest; favor. The Lord is on my side Psalms 118:6

9. Any part being in opposition or contradistinction to another; In the battle, the slaughter was great on both sides. Passion invites on one side; reason restrains on the other. Open justice bends on neither side

10. Branch or a family; separate line of descent; as, by the father's side he is descended from a noble family; by the mother's side his birth is respectable.

11. Quarter; region; part; as from one side of heaven to the other. To take sides, to embrace the opinions of attach one's self to the interest of a party when in opposition to another. To choose side to select parties for competition in exercises of any kind.

SIDE, adjective

1. Lateral; as a side post; but perhaps it would be better to consider the word as compound.

2. Being on the side or toward the side; oblique; indirect. The law hath no side respect to their persons. One mighty squadron with a side wind sped. So we say, a side view, a side blow.

3. Long; large; extensive.

SIDE, verb intransitive [Little used.]

1. To lean on one side

2. To embrace the opinions of one party or engage in its interest, when opposed to another party; as, to side with the ministerial party. All side in parties and begin th' attack.

SIDE, verb transitive

1. To stand at the side of. [Not in use.]

2. To suit; to pair. [Not in use.]

SI'DEBOARD, noun A piece of furniture or cabinet work consisting of a table or box with drawers or cells, placed at the side of a room or in a recess, and used to hold dining utensils, _ c.

SI'DELING, adverb

1. Sidewise; with the side foremost; as, to go sideling through a crowd. It may be used as a participle; as, I saw him sideling through the crowd.

2. Sloping.

SI'DELONG, adjective Lateral; oblique; not directly in front; as a sidelong glance.

SI'DELONG, adverb

1. Laterally; obliquely; in the direction of the side.

2. On the side; as, to lay a thing sidelong

SI'DER, noun

1. One that takes a side or joins a party.

2. Cider. [Not in use.]

SID'ERAL, SIDE'REAL, adjective [Latin sideralis, from sidus, a star.]

SID'ERATED, adjective [Latin sideratus.] Blasted; planet-struck.

SIDERA'TION, noun [Latin sideratio; sidero, to blast, from sidus, a star.]

1. A blasting or blast in plants; a sudden deprivation of sense; an apoplexy; a slight erysipelas.

2. A sphacelus, or a species of erysipelas, vulgarly called a blast.

SID'ERAL, SIDE'REAL, adjective [Latin sideralis, from sidus, a star.]

1. Pertaining to a star or stars; astral; as sideral light.

2. Containing stars; starry; as SIDEREAL regions. SIDEREAL year, in astronomy, the period in which the fixed stars apparently complete a revolution and come to the same point in the heavens.

SID'ERITE, noun [Latin sideritis; Gr. id. from sidhroV, iron.]

1. The loadstone; also, iron-wort, a genus of plants; also, the common ground pine

2. In mineralogy, a phosphate of iron.

SIDEROGRAPH'CH, SIDEROGRAPH'OCAL, adjective [See Siderography.] Pertaining to siderography, or performed by engraved plates of steel; as siderographic art; siderographic impressions.

SIDEROG'RAPHIST, noun One who engraves steel plates, or performs work by means of such plates.

SIDEROGRAPH'CH, SIDEROGRAPH'OCAL, adjective [See Siderography.] Pertaining to siderography, or performed by engraved plates of steel; as siderographic art; siderographic impressions.

SIDEROG'RAPHY, noun [Gr. sidhroV, steel or iron, grajw, to engrave.] and The art or practice of engraving on steel, by means of which, impressions may be transferred from a steel plate to a steel cylinder in a rolling press of a particular construction.

SI'DESMAN, noun

1. An assistant to the church warden.

2. A party man.

SI'DETAKING, noun A taking sides, or engaging in a party.

SI'DEWAYS, SI'DEWISE, adverb

SI'DEWAYS, SI'DEWISE, adverb

1. Towards one side; inclining; as, to hold the head sidewise

2. Laterally; on one side; as the refraction of light SIDEWISE

SI'DING, participle present tense Joining one side or party.

SI'DING, noun The attaching of one's self to a party.

SI'DLE, verb intransitive

1. To go or move side foremost; as, to sidle through a crowd.

2. To lie on the side.

SIEGE, noun [Latin sigillum.]

1. The setting of an army around or before a fortified place for the purpose of compelling the garrison to surrender; or 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. A siege differs from a blockade, as in a siege the investing army approaches the fortified place to attach and reduce it by force; but in a blockade, the army secures all the avenues to the place to intercept all supplies, and waits till famine compels the garrison to surrender.

2. Any continued endeavor to gain possession. Love stood the siege and would not yield his breast.

3. Seat; throne.

4. Rank; place; class.

5. Stool. [Not in use.]

SIEGE, verb transitive To besiege. [Not in use.]

SI'ENITE, noun A compound granular rock composed of quartz, hornblend and feldspar, or a grayish color; so called, because there are may ancient monuments consisting of this rock, brought from Syene, in Upper Egypt.

SIEUR, noun A title of respect used by the French.

SIEVE, noun siv. An utensil for separating flour from bran, or the fine part of any pulverized or fine substance from the coarse, by the hand; as a fine sieve; a coarse sieve It consists of a hoop with a hair bottom, and performs in the family the service of a bolter in a mill.

SIFT, verb transitive

1. To separate by a sieve, as the fine part of a substance from the coarse; as, to sift meal; to sift powder; to sift sand or lime.

2. To separate; to part.

3. To examine minutely or critically; to scrutinize. Let the principles of the party be thoroughly sifted. We have sifted your objections.

SIFT'ED, participle passive Separated by a sieve; purified from the coarser parts; critically examined.

SIFT'ER, noun One that sifts; that which sifts; a sieve.

SIFT'ING, participle present tense Separating the finer from the coarser parts; critically examining.

SIG, a Saxon word signifying victory. is used in names, as in Sigbert, bright victory. In answers to the Greek vix in Nicander, and the Latin vic, in Victorinus.

SIGH, verb intransitive To inhale a larger quantity of air than usual and immediately expel it; to suffer a single deep respiration. He sighed deeply in his spirit. Mark 8:12.

SIGH, verb transitive

1. To lament; to mourn. Ages to come and men unborn Shall bless her name and sigh her fate.

2. To express by sighs. The gentle swain-sighs back her grief.

SIGH, noun A single deep respiration; a long breath; the inhaling of larger quantity of air than usual, and the sudden emission of it. This is an effort of nature to dilate the lungs and give vigor to the circulation of the blood, when the action of the heart and arteries is languid from grief, depression of spirits, weakness or want of exercise. Hence sighs are indications of grief of debility.

SIGHER, noun One that sighs.

SIGHING, participle present tense Suffering a deep respiration; taking a long breath.

SIGHING, noun The act of suffering a deep respiration, or taking a long breath.

SIGHT, noun

1. The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view; as, to gain sight of land; to have a sight of a landscape; to lose sight of a ship at sea. A cloud received him out of their sight Acts 1:9.

2. The faculty of vision, or of perceiving objects by the instrumentality of the eyes. It has been doubted whether moles have sight Milton lost his sight The sight usually fails at of before fifty years of age. O loss of sight of thee I most complain.

3. Open view; the state of admitting unobstructed vision; a being within the limits of vision. The harbor is in sight of the town. The shore of Long Island is in sight of New Haven. The White mountain is in plain sight at Portland, in Maine; a mountain is or is not within sight; an engagement at sea is within sight of land.

4. Notice from seeing; knowledge; as a letter intended for the sight of one person only.

5. Eye; the instrument of seeing. From the depth of hell they lift their sight

6. An aperture through which objects are to be seen; or something to direct the vision; as the sight of a quadrant; the sight of a fowling piece or a rifle.

7. That which is beheld; a spectacle; a show; particularly, something wonderful. They never saw a sight so fair. Moses said, I will now turn aside and see the great sight why the bush is not burned. Exodus 3:3. Fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven. To take sight to take aim; to look for purpose of directing a piece of artillery, etc.

SIGHTED, noun In composition only, having sight, or seeing in a particular manner; as long-sighted, seeing at a great distance; short-sighted, able to see only at a small distance; quick-sighted, readily seeing, discerning or understanding; sharp-sighted, having a keen eye or acute discernment.

SIGHTFULNESS, noun Clearness of sight. [Not in use.]

SIGHTLESS, adjective

1. Wanting sight; blind. Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar.

2. Offensive or unpleasing to the eye; as sightless stains. [Not well authorized.]

SIGHTLINESS, noun Comely; having an appearance pleasing to the sight.

SIGHTLY, adjective

1. Pleasing to the eye; striking to the view.

Many brave sightly horses. We have thirty members, the most sightly of all her majesty's subjects.

2. Open to the view; that may be seen from a distance. We say; a house stands in a sightly place.

SIGHTSMAN, noun Among musicians, one who reads music readily at first sight.

SIG'IL, noun [Latin sigillum] A seal; signature.

SIGMOID'AL, adjective [Gr. digma and eidoV.]Curved like the Greek sigma. The sigmoid flexure, in anatomy, is the last curve of the colon, before it terminates in the rectum.

SIGN, noun [Latin signum; Gr. deicnumt.]

1. A token; something by which another thing is shown or represented; any visible thing, any motion, appearance or event which indicates the existence or approach of something else. Thus we speak of signs of fair weather or of a storm, and of external marks which are signs of a good constitution.

2. A motion, action, nod or gesture indicating a wish or command. They made signs to his father, how he would have him called. Luke 1:62.

3. A wonder; a miracle; a prodigy; a remarkable transaction, event or phenomenon. Through mighty signs and wonders. Romans 15:19. Luke 1:621.

4. Some visible transaction, event or appearance intended as proof or evidence of something else; hence; proof; evidence by sight. Show me a sign that thou talkest with me. Judges 6:17.

5. Something hung or set near a house or over a door, to give notice of the tenant's occupation, or what is made or sold within; as a trader's sign; a tailor; s sign; the sign of the eagle.

6. A memorial or monument; something to preserve the memory of a thing. What time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men, and they became a sign Numbers 16:38.

7. Visible mark or representation; as an outward sign of and inward and spiritual grace.

8. A mark of distinction.

9. Typical representation. The holy symbols or signs are not barely significative.

10. In astronomy, the twelfth part of the ecliptic. The signs are reckoned from the point of intersection of the ecliptic and equator at the vernal equinox, and are named respectively, Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorns, Aquarius, Pisces. These names are borrowed from the constellations of the zodiac of the same denomination, which were respectively comprehended within the foregoing equal divisions of the ecliptic of the same name, but are considerably in advance of them. Thus the constellation Aries, is now in that part of the ecliptic called Taurus.

11. In algebra, a character indicating the relation of quantities, or an operation performed by them; as the sign + plus prefixed to a quantity, indicates that the quantity is to be added; the sign - minus, denotes that the quantity to which it is prefixed is to subtracted. The former is prefixed to quantities called affirmative or positive; the latter to quantities called negative.

12. The subscription of one's name; signature; as a sign manual.

13. Among physicians, an appearance or symptom in the human body, which indicate its condition as to health or disease.

14. In music, any character, as a flat, sharp, dot, etc.

SIGN, verb transitive sine.

1. To mark with characters or one's name. To sign a paper, note, deed, etc. is to write one's name at the foot, or underneath the declaration, promise, covenant, grant, etc., by which the person makes it his own act, To sign one's name, is to write or subscribe it on the paper Signing does not now include sealing

2. To signify; to represent typically. [Not in use.]

3. To mark.

SIGN, verb intransitive To be a sign or omen.

SIG'NAL, noun [Latin signum.] A sign that gives or is intended to give notice; or the notice given. Signals are used to communicate notice, information, orders and the like, to persons at a distance, and by any persons and for the purpose. A signal may be a motion of the hand, the raising of a flag, the firing of a gun, or any thing which, being understood by persons at a distance, may communicate notice.

Signals are particularly useful in the navigation of fleets and in naval engagements. There are day-signals, which are usually made by the sails, by flags and pendants, or guns; night-signals, which are lanterns disposed in certain figures, or false fires, rockets, or the firing of guns; fog-signals, which are made by sounds, as firing of guns, beating of drums, ringing of bells, etc. There are signals of evolution, addressed to a whole fleet, to a division or to a squadron; signals of movements to particular ships; and signals of service, general or particular. Signals used in an army are mostly made by a particular beat of the drum, or by the bugle.

SIG'NAL, adjective Eminent; remarkable; memorable; distinguished from what is ordinary; as a signal exploit; a signal service; a signal ace of benevolence. It is generally but not always used in a good sense.

SIGNAL'ITY, noun Quality of being signal or remarkable. [Not in use.]

SIG'NALIZE, verb transitive To make remarkable or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common. The soldier who signalizes himself in battle, merits his country's gratitude. Men may signalize themselves, their valor or their talents.

SIG'NALIZED, participle passive Made eminent

SIG'NALIZING, participle present tense Making remarkable.

SIG'NALLY, adverb Eminently; remarkably; memorably; in a distinguished manner.

SIGNA'TION, noun Sign given; act of betokening. [Not in use.]

SIG'NATORY, adjective Relating to a seal; used in sealing.

SIG'NATURE, noun [Latin signo, to sign.]

1. A sign, stamp or mark impressed. The brain being well furnished with various traces, signatures and images. The natural and indelible signature of God stamped on the human soul.

2. In old medical writers, and external mark or character on a plant, which was supposed to indicate its suitableness to cure particular diseases, or diseases of particular parts. This plants with yellow flowers were supposed to be adapted to the cure of the jaundice, etc. Some plants bear a very evident signature of their nature and use.

3. A mark for proof, or proof from marks.

4. Sign manual; the name of a person written or subscribed by himself.

5. Among printers, a letter or figure at the bottom of the first page of a sheet or half sheet, by which the sheets are distinguished and their order designated, as a direction to the binder. Every successive sheet has a different letter or figure, and if the sheets are more numerous than the letters of the alphabet, the a small letter is added to the capital one; thus Aa, Bb, In large volumes, the signatures are sometimes composed of letters and figures; thus 5A, 5B. But some printer now use figures only for signatures.

6. In physiognomy, an external mark or feature by which some persons pretend to discover the nature and qualities of a thing, particularly the temper and genius of persons.

SIG'NATURE, verb transitive To mark; to distinguish. [Not in use.]

SIG'NATURIST, noun One who holds to the doctrine of signatures impressed upon objects, indicative of character or qualities. [Little used.]

SIGNER, noun One that signs or subscribes his name; as a memorial with a hundred signers.

SIG'NET, noun A seal; particularly in Great Britain, the seal used by the king in sealing his private letters, and grants that pass by bill under his majesty's hand.

SIGNIF'ICANCE, SIGNIF'ICANCY, noun [Latin significans. See Signify.]

SIGNIF'ICANCE, SIGNIF'ICANCY, noun [Latin significans. See Signify.]

1. Meaning; import; that which is intended to be expressed; as the significance of a nod, or of a motion of the hand, or of a word or expression.

2. Force; energy; power of impressing the mind; as a duty enjoined with particular significance.

3. Importance; moment; weight; consequence. Many a circumstance of less SIGNIFICANCY has been construed into an event act of high treason.

SIGNIF'ICANT, adjective [Latin signigicans.]

1. Expressive of something beyond the external mark.

2. Bearing a meaning; expressing or containing signification of sense; as a significant word or sound; a significant look.

3. Betokening something; standing as a sign of something. It was well said of Plotinus, that the stars were significant but not efficient.

4. Expressive or representative of some fact or event, The passover among the Jews was significant of the escape of the Israelites from the destruction which fell on the Egyptians. The bread and wine in the sacrament are significant of the body and blood of Christ.

5. Important; momentous. [Not in use.]

SIGNIF'ICANTLY, adverb

1. With meaning.

2. With force of expression.

SIGNIFICA'TION, noun [Latin significatio. See Signify.]

1. The act of making known, or of communicating ideas to another by signs or by words, by any thing that is understood, particularly by words. All speaking, or signification of one's mind, implies an act or address of one man to another.

2. Meaning; that which is understood to be intended by a sign, character, mark or word; that idea or sense of a sign, mar, word or expression which the person using it intends to convey, or that which men in general who use it, understand it to convey. The signification of words was originally arbitrary, and is dependent on usage. But when custom has annexed a certain sense to a letter or sound, or to a combination of letters or sounds, this sense is always to be considered the signification which the person using the word intends to communicate. So by custom, certain signs or gestures have a determinate signification Such is the fact also with figures, algebraic character, etc.

SIGNIF'ICATIVE, adjective

1. Betokening or representing by an external sign; as the significative symbols of the eucharist.

2. Having signification or meaning; expressive of a certain idea or thing. Neither in the degrees of kindred were they destitute of significative words.

SIGNIF'ICATIVELY, adverb So as represent or express by an external sign.

SIGNIFICA'TOR, noun That which signifies.

SIGNIF'ICATORY, noun That which betokens, signifies or represents.

SIG'NIFY, verb transitive [Latin significo; signum, a sign, and facio, to make.]

1. To make known something, either by signs or words; to express or communicate to another any idea, thought, wish, a hod, wink, gesture, signal or other sign. A man signifies his mind by his voice or by written characters; he may signify his mind by a nod or other motion, provided the person to whom he directs it, understands what is intend by it. A general or an admiral signifies his commands by signals to officers as a distance.

2. To mean; to have or contain a certain sense. The word sabbath signifies rest. Less, in composition, as in faithless, signifies destitution or want. The prefix re, in recommend, seldom signifies any thing.

3. To import; to weigh; to have consequence; used in particular phrases; as, it signifies much or little; it signifies nothing. What does it signify? What signify the splendors of a court? Confession of sin without reformation of life, can signify nothing in the view of God.

4. To make known; to declare. The government should signify to the protestants of Ireland that want of silver is not to be remedied.

SIG'NIFY, verb intransitive To express meaning with force. [Little used.]

SIGNIOR, noun A title of respect among the Italians. [See seignor.]

SIGNORIZE, verb intransitive To exercise dominion; or to have dominion. [Little used.]

SIGNORY, noun A different, but less common spelling of seigniory, which see. It signifies lordship, dominion, and in Shakespeare, seniority.

SIK, SIKE, adjective Such.

SIK, SIKE adjective Such.

SIK'ER, adjective or adverb Sure; surely. [See Sicker.]

SIK'ERNESS, noun Sureness safety.

SI'LEX, SIL'CIA, noun One of the supposed primitive earths m usually found in the state of stone. When pure, it is perfectly white or colorless. The purer sorts are mountain crystal and quartz. Recent experiments prove this to be a compound substance, the base of which is a metal called silicium. Silica then is an oxyd of silicium.

SI'LENCE, noun [Latin silentium, from sileo, to be still.]

1. In a general sense, stillness, or entire absence of sound or noise; as the silence of midnight.

2. In animals, the state of holding the peace; forbearance of speech in man, or of noise in other animals. I was dumb with silence; I held my peace, even from good. Psalms 39:2.

3. Habitual taciturnity; opposed to loquacity.

4. Secrecy. These things were transacted in silence

5. Stillness; calmness; quiet; cessation of rage, agitation or tumult; as the elements reduced to silence

6. Absence of mention; oblivion, Eternal silence be their doom. And what most merits fame, in silence hid.

7. silence in used elliptically for let there be silence an injunction to keep silence

SI'LENCE, verb transitive

1. To oblige to hold the peace; to restrain from noise or speaking.

2. To still; to quiet; to restrain; to appease. This would silence all further opposition. These would have silenced their scruples.

3. To stop; as, to silence complaints or clamor.

4. To still; to cause to cease firing; as, to silence guns or a battery.

5. To restrain from preaching by revoking a license to preach; as, to silence a minister of the gospel. The Rev. Thomas Hooker, of Chelmsford in Essex, was silenced for non-conformity.

6. To put an end to; to cause to cease. The question between agriculture and commerce has received a decision which has silenced the rivalships between them.

SI'LENT, adjective

1. Not speaking; mute. Psalms 22:2.

2. Habitually taciturn; speaking little; not inclined to much talking; not loquacious. Ulysses, he adds was the most eloquent and most silent of men.

3. Still; having not noise; as the silent watches of the night; the silent groves; all was silent

4. Not operative; wanting efficacy.

5. Not mentioning; not proclaiming. This new created world, of which in hell Fame is not silent

6. Calm; as, the winds were silent

7. Not acting; not transacting business in person; as a silent partner in a commercial house.

8. Hot pronounced; having no sound; as, e is silent in fable.

SILEN'TIARY, noun One appointed to keep silence and order in court; one sworn not to divulge secrets of state.

SI'LENTLY, adverb

1. Without speech or words. Each silently demands thy grace, and seems to watch thy eye.

2. without noise; as, to march silently

3. Without mention. He mentioned other difficulties, but this he silently passed over.

SI'LENTNESS, noun State of being silent; stillness; silence.

SILESIAN, adjective sile'zhan Pertaining to Silesia; mad in Silesia; as silesian linen.

SI'LEX, SIL'CIA, noun One of the supposed primitive earths m usually found in the state of stone. When pure, it is perfectly white or colorless. The purer sorts are mountain crystal and quartz. Recent experiments prove this to be a compound substance, the base of which is a metal called silicium. Silica then is an oxyd of silicium.

SILICICALCA'RIOUS, adjective Consisting of silex and calcarious matter.

SILICICAL'CE, noun [Latin silex or silica and calx.] A mineral of the silicious kind, occurring in amorphous masses; its color is gray or brown.

SILICIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin silex and fero, to produce.] Producing silex; or united with a portion of silex.

SIL'ICIFY, verb transitive [Latin silex, flint, and facio, to make.] To convert into silex. The specimens found near Philadelphia are completely silicified.

SIL'ICIFY, verb intransitive To become silex.

SILICIMU'RITE, noun An earth composed of silex and magnesia.

SILI'CIOUS, adjective Pertaining to silex, or partaking of its nature and qualities.

SILIC'ITED, adjective Impregnated with silex.

SILICIUM, noun The undecomposed and perhaps undecomposable base of silex or silica.

SIL'ICE, SIL'ICULE, SIL'ICLE, noun [Latin silicula, a little husk.] In botany, a little pod or bivalvular pericarp, with seeds attached to both sutures.

SILIC'ULOUS, adjective Havin silicles or little pods, or pertaining to them.

SIL'IQUA, noun [Latin] With gold finers, a carat, six of which make a scruple.

SIL'IQUA, SILIQUE noun [Latin siliqua.] A pod; an oblong, membranaceous, bivalvular pericarp, having the seeds fixed to both sutures.

SIL'IQUOSE, SIL'IQUOUS, noun [Latin siliquosus.] Having that species of pericarp called silique; as siliquous plants.

SIL'IQUOSE, SIL'IQUOUS, noun [Latin siliquosus.] Having that species of pericarp called silique; as SILIQUOUS plants.

SILISIA, noun sile'zha. A duchy or country now chiefly belonging to Prussia; hence, a species of linen cloth so called; thin coarse linen.

SILK, noun

1. The fine soft thread produced by the insect called silk-worm or bombyx. That which we ordinarily call silk is a thread composed of several finer threads which the worm draws from its bowels, like the web of a spider, and with which the silk-worm envelopes itself, forming what is called a cocoon.

2. Cloth made of silk In this sense, the word has a plural, silks, denoting different sort and varieties, as black silk white silk colored silks.

3. The filiform style of the female flower of maiz, which resembles real silk in fineness and softness. Virginia silk a plant of the genus Periploca, which climbs and winds about other plants, trees, etc.

SILK, adjective Pertaining to silk; consisting of silk

SILK COTTEN-TREE, noun A tree of the genus Bombax, growing to an immense size; a native of both the Indies.

SILKEN, adjective silk'n.

1. Made of silk; as silken cloth; a silken vail.

2. Like silk; soft to the touch.

3. Soft; delicate; tender; smooth; as mild and silken language.

4. Dressed in silk; as a silken wanton.

SILKEN, verb transitive silk'n. To render soft or smooth.

SILK'INESS, noun

1. The qualities of silk; softness and smoothness to the feel.

2. Softness; effeminacy; pusillanimity.

SILK'MAN, noun A dealer in silks.

SILK'MERCER, noun One whose occupation is to weave silk stuffs.

SILK'WORM, noun The worm which produces silk, of the genus Phalaena. Silk-worms are said to have been first introduced into the Roman empire from China, in the reign of Justinian.

SILK'Y, adjective

1. Made of silk; consisting of silk.

2. Like silk; soft and smooth to the touch.

3. Pliant; yielding;

SILL, noun [Latin solum; allied to solid. The primary sense is probably to lay, set or throw down.]

1. Properly, the basis of foundationof a thing; appropriately, a piece of timber on which a building rests; the lowest timber of any stucture; as the sills of a house, of a bridge, of a loom and the like.

2. The timber or stone at the foot of a door; the threshhold.

3. The timber or stone on which a window frame stands; or the lowest piece in a window frame.

4. The shaft or thill of a carriage. [Local.]

SIL'LABUB, noun A liquor made by mixing wine or cider with milk, and thus forming a soft curd.

SIL'LIMANITE, noun A mineral found at Saybrook in Connecticut, so named in honor of Prof, Silliman of Yale College. It occurs in long, slender, rhombic prisms, engaged in gneiss. Its color is dark gray and hair brown; luster shining upon the external planes, but brilliant and pseudometallic upon those produced by cleavage in a direction parallel with the longer diagonal of the prism. Hardness about the same with quartz. Specific gravity, 3.410.

SIL'LINESS, noun Weakness of understanding; want of sound sense or judgment ; simplicity; harmless folly.

SIL'LY, adjective [Heb. This may be radically the same word, with a prefix. Class Sl. No. 26]

1. Weak in intellect; foolish; witless; destitute of ordinary strength of mind; simple; as a silly man; a silly child.

2. Proceeding from want of understanding or common judgment; characterized by weakness of folly; unwise; as silly thoughts; silly actions; a silly scheme; writings stupid or silly

3. Weak; helpless. After long storms- With which my silly bark was toss'd

SIL'LYHOW, noun The membrane that covers the head of the fetus. [I believe not used.]

SILT, noun Saltness, or salt marsh or mud.

SILU'RE, SILU'RUS, noun The sheat-fish; also a name of the sturgeon.

SILU'RE, SILU'RUS, noun The sheat-fish; also a name of the sturgeon.

SIL'VAN, adjective [Latin silva, a wood or grove, It is also written sylvan]

1. Pertaining to a wood or grove; inhabiting woods.

2. Woody; abounding with woods. Betwixt two rows of rocks, a silvan scene.

SIL'VAN, noun Another name of tellurium.

SIL'VER, noun

1. A metal of a white color and lively brilliancy. It has neither taste nor smell; its specific gravity is 10.552, according to Bergman, but according to Kirwan it is less. A cubic foot weighs about 660 lbs. Its ductility is little inferior to that of gold. It is harder and more elastic that tin of iron. It is found native in thin plates or leaves, or in fine threads, or it is found mieralized by various substances. Great quanitities of the metal are furnished by the mines of South America, and it is found in small quantities in Norway, Germany, Spain, the United State, etc.

2. Money; coin made of silver

3. Any thing of soft splendor. Pallas-piteous of her plaintive cries, In slumber clos'd her silver-streaming eyes.

SIL'VER, adjective

1. Made of silver; as a silver cup.

2. White like silver; as silver hair. Others on silver lakes and rivers bath'd Their downy breast.

3. White, or pale; of a pale luster; as the silver moon.

4. SOft; as a silver voice or sound.

SIL'VER, verb transitive

1. To cover superficially with a coat of silver; as, to silver a pin or a dialplate.

2. To foliate; to cover with tinfoil amalgamated with quicksilver; as, to silver glass.

3. To adorn with mild luster; to make smooth and bright. And smiling calmness silver'd o'er the deep.

4. To make hoary. His head was silver'd o'er with age.

SIL'VERED, participle passive Covered with a thin coat of silver; rendered smooth and lustrous; made white or a hoary.

SIL'VERING, participle present tense Covering the surface with a thin coat of silver; foliating; rendering mildly lustrous; rendering white.

SIL'VERING, noun The art, operation or practice of covering the surface of any thing with silver; as the silvering of copper or brass.

SIL'VERLY, adverb With the appearance of silver.

SIL'VERSMITH, noun One whose occupation is to work'in silver, or in manufactures of which the precious metals form a part.

SIL'VERY, adjective

1. Like silver; having the appearance of silver; white; of a mild luster. Of all the enameled race whose silvery wing Waves to the tepid zephyrs of the spring.

2. Besprinkled or covered with silver.

SIM'AGRE, noun Grimace.

SIM'AR, SIMA'RE, noun A woman's robe. [Not in use.]

SIM'AR, SIMA'RE, noun A woman's robe. [Not in use.]

SIM'ILAR, adjective [Latin similis; Gr. omaloV.] Like; resembling; having a like form or appearance. similar may signify exactly alike, or having a general likeness, a likeness in the principal points. Things perfectly similar in their nature, must be of the same essence, or homogeneous; but we generally understand similar to denote a likeness that is not perfect. Many of the statutes of Connecticut are similar to the statutes of Massachusetts on the same subjects. The manners of the several states of New England are similar the people being derived from common ancestors.

SIMILAR'ITY, noun Likeness; resemblance; as a similarity of features. There is a as a similarity in the features of the Laplanders and Samoiedes, but little similarity between the features of Europeans and the woolly haired Africans.

SIM'ILARLY, adverb In like manner; with resemblance.

SIMILE, noun sim'ily. [Latin] In rhetoric, similitude; a comparison of two thing which, however different in other respects, have some strong point or points of resemblance; by which comparison, the character or qualities of a thing are illustrated or presented in an impressive light. Thus, the eloquence of Demosthenes was like a rapid torrent; that of Cicero, like a large stream that glides smoothly along with majestic tranquility.

SIMIL'ITUDE, noun [Latin similitudo.]

1. Likeness; resemblance; likeness in nature, qualities of appearance; as similitude of substance. Let us make man in our image, man in our similitude Fate some future bard shall join in sad similitude of griefs to mine.

2. Comparison; simile. Tasso, in his similitude never departed from the woods. [See Simile.]

SIMILITU'DINARY, adjective Denoting resemblance or comparison.

SIM'ILOR, noun A name given to an alloy of red copper and zinc, made in the best proportions to imitate silver and gold.

SIMITAR. [See Cimeter.]

SIM'MER, verb intransitive [ Gr. zumhm, zumow, to ferment.] To boil gently, or with a gentle hissing. Simmering is incipient ebullition, when little bubbles are formed on the edge of the liquor, next to the vessel. These are occasioned by the escape of heat and vapor.

SIM'NEL, noun A kind of sweet cake; a bun.

SIMOI'ACALLY, adverb With the guilt or offense of simony.

SIMO'NIAC, noun [See Simony.] One who buys or sells preferment in the church.

SIMONI'ACAL, adjective

1. Guilty of simony.

2. Consisting in simony, or the crime of buying or selling ecclesiastical preferment; as a simoniacal presentation.

SIMO'NIOUS, adjective Partaking of simony; given to simony.

SIM'ONY, noun [from Simon Magus, who wished to purchase the power of conferring the Holy Spirit. Acts 8:1] The crime of buying or selling ecclesiastical preferment; or the corrupt presentation of any one to an ecclesiastical benefice of money or reward. By Stat. 31 Elizabeth, c. 6. severe penalties are enacted against this crime.

SIMOOM', noun A hot suffocating wind, that blows occasionally in Africa and Arabia, generated by the extreme heat of the parched deserts or sandy plains. Its approach is indicated by a redness in the air, and its fatal effects are to be avoided by falling on the face and holding the breath.

SIMOOM', noun A hot and destructive wind that sometimes blows in Arabia.

SI'MOUS, adjective [Latin simo, one with a flat nose, Gr. simoV.]

1. Having a very flat or snub nose, with the end turned up.

2. Concave; as the simous part of the liver.

SIM'PER, verb intransitive To smile in a silly manner.

SIM'PER, noun To smile with an air of silliness.

SIM'PERING, participle present tense Smiling foolishly.

SIM'PERING, noun The act of smiling with an air of silliness.

SIM'PERINGLY, adverb With a silly smile.

SIM'PLE, adjective [Latin simplex; sine, without and plex, plica, doubling, fold; ]

1. Single; consisting of one thing; uncompounded; unmingled; uncombined with any thing else; as a simple substance; a simple idea; a simple sound.

2. Plain; artless; not given to design, stratagem or duplicity; undesigning; sincere; harmless. A simple husbandman in garments gray.

3. Artless; unaffected; unconstrained; inartificial; plain. In simple manners all the secret lies.

4. Unadorned; plain; as a simple style or narration; a simple dress.

5. Not complex or complicated; as a machine of simple construction.

6. Weak in intellect; not wise or sagacious; silly. The simple believeth every word; but the prudent looketh well to his going. Proverbs 14:15.

7. In botany, undivided, as a root, stem or spike; only one on a petiole, as a simple leaf; only one on a peduncle, as a simple flower; having only one set of rays, as an umbel; having only one row of leaflets, as a simple calyx; not plumose or fathered, as a pappus. A simple body, in chemisty, is one that has not been decomposed, or separated into two or more bodies.

SIM'PLE, noun Something not mixed or compounded. in the materia medica, the genral denomination of an herb or plant. as each vegetable is supposed to possess its particular virtue, and therefore to constitute a simple remedy.

SIM'PLE, verb intransitive To gather simples or plants. As simpling on the flowery hills he stray'd.

SIM'PLENESS, noun

1. The state or quality of being simple, single or uncompounded; as the simpleness of the elements.

2. Artlessness; simplicity;

3. Weakness of intellect.

SIM'PLER, noun One that collects simples; as herbalist; asimplist.

SIMPLESS, for simplicity or silliness, is not in use.

SIM'PLETON, noun A silly person; a person of weak intellect; a trifler; a foolish person.

SIMPLI'CAIN, noun An artless, unskilled or undesigning person. [Not in use.]

SIMPLIC'ITY, noun [Latin simplicitas.]

1. Singleness; the state of being unmixed or uncompounded; as the simplicity of metals or of earths.

2. The state of being not complex, or of consisting of few parts; as the simplicity of a machine.

3. Artlessness of mind; freedom from a propensity to cunning or stratagem; freedom from duplicity; sincerity. Marquis Dorset, a man for his harmless simplicity neither misliked nor much regarded.

4. Plainness; freedom from artificial ornament; as the simplicity of a dress, of style, of language, etc. simplicity in writing is the first or excellences.

5. Plainness; freedom from subtilty or abstruseness; as the simplicity of scriptural doctrines or truth.

6. Weakness of intellect; silliness. Godly simplicity in Scriptures, is a fair open profession and practice of evangelical truth, with a single view to obedience and to the glory of God.

SIMPLIFICA'TION, noun [See Simplify.] The act of making simple; the act of reducing to simplicity, or to a state not complex.

SIM'PLIFIED, participle passive Made simple or not complex.

SIM'PLIFY, verb transitive [Latin simplex, simple, and facio, to make.] To make simple; to reduce what is complex to greater simplicity; to make plain or easy. The collection of duties is drawn to a point, and so far simplified. It is important in scientific pursuits, to be cautious in simplifying our deductions. This is the true way to simplify the study of science.

SIM'PLIFYING, participle present tense Making simple; rendering less complex.

SIM'PLIST, noun One skilled in simples or medical plants.

SIMPLOCE, [See Symploce.]

SIM'PLY, adverb

1. Without art; without subtilty; artlessly; plainly. Subverting worldly strong and worldly wise By simply meek.

2. Of itself; without addition; alone. They make that good or evil, which otherwise of itself were not simply the one nor the other.

3. Merely; solely. simply the thing I am Shall make me live.

4. Weakly; foolishly.

SIM'ULACHER, noun [Latin simulacrum.] An image. [Not in use.]

SIM'ULAR, noun [See Simulate.] One who simulates or counterfeits something.

SIM'ULATE, verb transitive [Latin simulo, from similis, like.] To feign; to counterfeits; to assume the mere appearance of something, without the reality. The wicked often simulate the virtuous and good.

SIM'ULATE, adjective [Latin simulato.]Feigned; pretended; assumed artificially.

SIM'ULATING, participle present tense Feigning; pretending; assuming the appearance of what is not real.

SIMULA'TION, noun [Latin simulation ] The act of feigning to be that which is not; the assumption of a deceitful appearance or character. simulation differs from dissimulation. The former denotes the assuming of a false character; the latter denotes the concealment of the true character. Both are comprehended in the word hypocrisy.

SIMULTA'MEOUSLY, adverb At the same time.

SIMULTA'NEOUS, adjective [Latin simul, at the same time.] Existing or happening at the same time; as simultaneous events. The exchange of ramifications may be simultaneous

SIMULTA'NEOUSNESS, noun The state or quality of being or happening at the same time; as the simultaneousness of transactions in two different places.

SIMULTY, noun [Latin simultas.] Private grudge or quarrel. [Not in use.]

SIN, noun

1. The voluntary departure of a moral agent from a known rule of rectitude or duty, prescribed by God; any voluntary transgression of the divine law, or violation of a divine command; a wicked act; iniquity. sin is either a positive act in which a known divine law is violated, or it is the voluntary neglect to obey a positive divine command, or a rule of duty clearly implied in such command. sin comprehends not action only, but neglect of known duty, all evil thoughts purposes, words and desires, whatever is contrary to God's commands or law. rn1 John 3:4. rnMatthew 12:31. James 4:17. Sinner neither enjoy the pleasures of nor the peace of piety. Among divines, sin is original or actual. Actual sin above defined, is the act of a moral agent in violating a known rule of duty. Original sin as generally understood, is native depravity of heart to the divine will, that corruption of nature of deterioration of the moral character of man, which is supposed to be the effect of Adam's apostasy; and which manifests itself in moral agents by positive act of disobedience to the divine will, or by the voluntary neglect to comply with the express commands of God, which require that we should love God with all the heart and soul and strength and mind, and our neighbor as ourselves. This native depravity or alienation of affections from God and his law, is supposed to be what the apostle calls the carnal mind or mindedness, which is enmity against God, and is therefore denominated sin or sinfulness. Unpardonable sin or blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, is supposed to be a malicious and obstinate rejection of Christ and the gospel plan of salvation, or a contemptuous resistance made to the influences and convictions of the Holy Spirit. Matthew 12:31.

2. A sin-offering; an offering made to atone for sin He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin 2 Corinthians 5:21.

3. A man enormously wicked. [Not in use.]

4. sin differs from crime, not in nature, but in application. That which is a crime against society, is sin against God.

SIN, verb intransitive

1. To depart voluntarily from the path of duty prescribed by God man; to violate the divine law in any particular, by actual transgression or by the neglect or non-observance of its injunctions; to violate any known rule of duty. All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Romans 3:9. Against thee, thee only, have I sinned. Psalms 51:2.

2. To offend against right, against men or society; to trespass. I an a man more sinn'd against than sinning. And who but wishes to invert the laws of order, sins against the' eternal cause.

SIN, for since, obsolete or vulgar.

SIN'APISM, noun [Latin sinapis, sinape, mustard.] In Pharmacy, a cataplasm composed of mustard seed pulverized, with some other ingredients, and used as an external application. It is a powerful stimulant.

SINCE, prep or adverb

1. After; from the time that. The proper signification of since is after, and its appropriate sense includes the whole period between an event and the present time. I have not seen my brother since January. The Lord hath blessed thee, since my coming. Genesis 30:30. Holy prophets, who have been since the world began. Luke Latin John 9:32. since then denotes, during the whole time after an event; or at any particular time during that period.

2. Ago; past; before this. 'About two years since an event happened, ' that is, two years having passed.

3. Because that; this being the fact that. since truth and constancy are vain, since neither love nor sese of pain nor force of reason can persuade, then let example be obey'd. since when it precedes a noun, is called a preposition, but when it precedes sentence it is called an adverb. The truth is, the character of the word is the same in both cases. It is probably an obsolete participle, and according to the usual classification of words, may be properly ranked with the prepositions. In strictness, the last clause of the passage above cited is the case absolute. 'The Lord hath blessed the, since my coming, ' that is, my arrival being past. So, since the world began, is strictly past the world began, the beginning of the world being past. In the first case, since considered as a preposition, has coming, a noun, for its object, and in the latter case, the clause of a sentence. So we say, against your arrival, or against you come.

SINCE'RE, adjective [Latin sincerus, which is said to be composed of sine, without, and cera, wax; as if applied originally to pure honey.]

1. Pure; unmixed. As new-born babes, desire the sincere milk of the word. 1 Peter 2:2. A joy which never was sincere till now. There is no sincere acid in any animal juice. I would have all gallicisms avoided, that our tongue may be sincere [This sense is for the most part obsolete. We use the phrases, sincere joy, sincere pleasure; but we mean by them, unfeigned, real joy or pleasure.]

2. Unhurt; uninjured. The' inviolable body stood sincere

3. Being in reality what it appears to be; not feigned; not simulated; not assumed or said for the sake of appearance; real; not hypocritical or pretended. This is the present use of the word. Let your intentions be pure and your declarations sincere Let love and friendship be sincere No prayer can avail with a heart-searching God, unless it is sincere

SINCE'RELY, adverb Honestly; with real purity of heart; without simulation or disguise; to love virtue sincerely

SINCE'RENESS, noun Sincerity.

SINCER'ITY, noun [Latin sinceritas.]

1. Honesty of mind or intention; freedom from simulation or hypocrisy. We may question a man's prudence, when we cannot question his sincerity

2. Freedom from hypocrisy, disguise or false pretense; as the sincerity of a declaration or of love.

SIN'CIPUT, noun [Latin] The fore part of the head from the forehead to the coronal suture.

SIN'DON, noun [Latin fine linen.] A wrapper. [Not in use.]

SINE, noun [Latin sinus.] In geometry, the right sine of an arch or arc, is a line drawn from one end of that arch perpendicular to the radius drawn through the other end, and is always equal to half the chord of double the arch.

SI'NECURE, noun [Latin sine, without, and cura, cure, care.] An office which has revenue without employment; in church affairs, a benefice without cure of souls. [This is the original and proper sense of the word.] Sine die, [Latin without day.] An adjournment sine die is and adjournment without fixing the time of resuming business. When a defendant is suffered to go sine die, he is dismissed the court.

SIN'EPITE, noun [Latin sinage, mustard.] Something resembling mustard seed.

SIN'EW, noun

1. In anatomy, a tendon; that which unites a muscle to a bone.

2. In the plural, strength; or rather that which supplies strength. Money is the sinews of war.

3. Muscle; nerve.

SIN'EW, verb intransitive To knit as by sinews.

SIN'EWED, adjective

1. Furnished with sinews; as a strong-sinewed youth.

2. Strong; firm; vigorous. When he sees ourselves well sinewed to our defense.

SIN'EWLESS, adjective Having no strength or vigor.

SIN'EWY, adjective

1. Consisting of a sinew or nerve. The sinewy thread my brain lets fall.

2. Nervous; strong well braced with sinews; vigorous; firm; as the sinewy Ajax. The northern people are large, fair complexioned, strong, sinewy and courageous.

SIN'FUL, adjective [from sin.]

1. Tainted with sin; wicked; iniquitous; criminal; unholy; as sinful men. Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity! Isaiah 1:4.

2. Containing sin, or consisting in sin; contrary to the laws of God; as sinful actions; sinful thoughts; sinful words.

SIN'FULLY, adverb In a manner which the laws of God do not permit; wickedly; iniquitously; criminally.

SIN'FULNESS, noun

1. The quality of being sinful or contrary to the divine will; wickedness; iniquity; criminality; as the sinfulness of an action; the sinfulness of thoughts or purposes.

2. Wickedness; corruption; depravity; as the sinfulness of men or of the human race.

SING, verb intransitive preterit tense sung, sang; participle passive sung.

1. To utter sounds with various inflections of melodious modulations of voice, as fancy may dictate, or according to the notes of a song or tune The noise of them that sing do I hear Exodus 32:18.

2. To utter sweet or melodious sounds, as birds. It is remarkable that the female of no species of birds ever sings. And singing birds in silver cages hung.

3. To make a small shrill sound; as, the air sings in passing through a crevice. O'er his head the flying spear sung innocent, and spent its force in air.

4. To tell or relate something in numbers of verse. sing of human hope by cross event destroy'd.

SING, verb transitive

1. To utter with musical modulation of voice. And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb. Revelation 15:3.

2. To celebrate in song; to give praises to in verse. The last, the happiest British king, whom thou shalt paint or I shall sing

3. To relate or rehearse in numbers, verse or poetry. Arms and the man I sing While stretch'd at ease you sing your happy loves.

SINGE, verb transitive sinj. To burn slightly or superficially; to burn the surface of a thing as the nap of cloth, or the hair of the skin; as, to singe off the beard. Thus riding on his curls, he seem'd to pass A rolling fire along, and singe the grass.

SINGE, noun A burning of the surface; a slight burn.

SING'ED, participle passive Burnt superficially.

SING'EING, participle present tense Burning the surface.

SING'ER, noun [from sing.]

1. One that sings.

2. One versed in music, or one whose occupation is to sing; as a chorus of singers.

3. A bird that sings.

SING'ING, participle present tense Uttering melodious or musical notes; making a shrill sound; celebrating in song; reciting in verse.

SING'ING, noun The act of uttering sounds with musical inflections; musical articulation; the utterance of melodious notes.

SING'INGLY, adverb With sounds like singing; with a kind of tune.

SIN'GLE, adjective

1. Separate; one; only; individual; consisting of one only; as a single star; a single city; a single act.

2. Particular; individual. No single man is born with a right of controlling the opinions of all the rest.

3. Uncompounded. Simple ideas are opposed to complex, and single to compound.

4. Alone; having no companion or assistant. Who single hast maintain'd against revolted multitudes the cause of truth.

5. Unmarried; as a single man; a single woman.

6. Not double; not complicated; as a single thread; a single strand of a rope.

7. Performed with one person or antagonist on a side, or with one person only opposed to another; as a single fight; a single combat.

8. Pure; simple; incorrupt; unbiased; having clear vision of divine truth. Matthew 6:22.

9. Small; weak; silly

10. In botany, a single flower is when there is only one on a stem, and in common usage, one not double.

SIN'GLE, verb transitive

1. To select, as an individual person or thing from among a number; to choose one from others. --A dog who can single out his master in the dark.

2. To sequester; to withdraw; to retire; as an agent singling itself from comforts.

3. To take alone; as men commendable when singled from society.

4. To separate.

SIN'GLED, participle passive Selected from among a number.

SIN'GLENESS, noun

1. The state of being one only or separate from all others; the opposite of doubleness, complication or multiplicity.

2. Simplicity; sincerity; purity of mind or purpose; freedom from duplicity; as singleness of belief; singleness of heart.

SIN'GLY, adverb

1. Individually; particularly; as, to make men singly and personally good.

2. Only; by himself. Look thee, 'tis so, thou singly honest man.

3. Without partners, companions or associates; as, to attack another singly At ombre singly to decide their doom.

4. Honestly; sincerely.

SIN'GULAR, adjective [Latin singularis, from singulus, single.]

1. Single; not complex or compound. That idea which represents one determinate thing, is called a singular idea, whether simple, complex or compound.

2. In grammar, expressing one person or thing; as the singular number. The singular number stands opposed to dual and plural.

3. Particular; existing by itself; unexampled; as a singular phenomenon. Your case is hard, but not singular

4. Remarkable; eminent; unusual; rare; as a man of singular gravity, or singular attainments.

SIN'GULAR, noun A particular instance. [Unusual.]

SINGULAR'ITY, noun

1. Peculiarity; some character or quality of a thing by which it is distinguished from all, or from most others. Pliny addeth this singularity to that soil, that the second year the very falling of the seeds yieldeth corn.

2. An uncommon character or form; something curious or remarkable. I took notice of this little figure for the singularity of the instrument.

3. Particular privilege, prerogative or distinction. No bishop of Rome ever took upon him this name of singularity (universal bishop.) Catholicism-must be understood in opposition to the legal singularity of the Jewish nation.

4. Character or trait of character different from that of others; peculiarity. The singularity of living according to the strict precepts of the gospel is highly to be commended.

5. Oddity.

6. Celibacy. [Not in use.]

SIN'GULARIZE, verb transitive To make single. [Not in use.]

SIN'GULARLY, adverb

1. Peculiarly; in a manner or degree not common to others. It is no disgrace to be singularly good.

2. Oddly; strangely.

3. So as to express one or the singular number.

SIN'GULT, noun [Latin singullus.] A sigh. [Not in use.]

SIN'ICAL, adjective [from sine.] Pertaining to a sine.

SIN'ISTER, adjective [Latin Probably the primary sense is weak, defective.]

1. Left; on the left hand, or the side of the left hand; opposed to dexter or right; as the sinister cheek; or the sinister side of an escutcheon.

2. Evil; bad; corrupt; perverse; dishonest; as sinister means; sinister purpose. He scorns to undermine another's interest by any sinister or inferior arts.

3. Unlucky; inauspicious.

4. sinister aspect, in astrology, an appearance of two planets happening according to the succession of the signs; as Saturn in Aries, and Mars in the same degree of Gemini.

SIN'ISTERLY, adverb Absurdly; perversely; unfairly.

SINISTROR'SAL, adjective [sinister.] Rising from left to right, as a spiral line or helix.

SIN'ISTROUS, adjective

1. Being on the left side; inclined to the left.

2. Wrong; absurd; perverse. A knave or fool can do no harm, even by the most sinistrous and absurd choice.

SIN'ISTROUSLY, adverb

1. Perversely; wrongly.

2. With a tendency to use the left as the stronger hand.

SINK, verb intransitive preterit tense sunk; participle passive id. The old preterit tense sank is nearly obsolete.

1. To fall by the force of greater gravity, in a medium or substance of less specific gravity; to subside; opposed to swim or float. Some species of wood or timber will sink in water. Oil will not sink in water and many other liquids, for it is specifically lighter. I sink in deep mire. Psalms 69:2.

2. To fall gradually. He sunk down in his chariot, II Kings 9.

3. To enter or penetrate into any body. The stone sunk into his forehead. I Sam. 17.

4. To fall; to become lower; to subside or settle to a level. The Alps and Pyrenees sink before him.

5. To be overwhelmed or depressed. Our country sinks beneath the yoke.

6. To enter deeply; to be impressed. Let these sayings sink down into your ears. Luke 9:44.

7. To become deep; to retire or fall within the surface of any thing; as, the eyes sink into the head.

8. To fall; to decline; to decay; to decrease. A free state gradually sinks into ruin. It is the duty of government to revive a sinking commerce. Let not the fire sink or slacken.

9. To fall into rest or indolence; as, to sink away in pleasing dreams.

10. To be lower; to fall; as, the price of land will sink in time of peace.

SINK, verb transitive

1. To put under water; to immerse in a fluid; as, to sink a ship.

2. To make by digging or delving; as, to sink a pit or a well.

3. To depress; to degrade. His vices sink him in infamy, or in public estimation.

4. To plunge into destruction. If I have a conscience, let it sink me.

5. To cause to fall or to be plunged.

6. To bring low; to reduce in quantity. You sunk the river with repeated draughts.

7. To depress; to overbear; to crush. This would sink the spirit of a hero.

8. To diminish; to lower or lessen; to degrade. I mean not that we should sink our figure out of covetousness.

9. To cause to decline or fail. Thy cruel and unnat'ral lust of power has sunk thy father more than all his years.

10. To suppress; to conceal; to intervert. If sent with ready money to buy any thing, and you happen to be out of pocket, sink the money, and take up the goods on account. [Unusual.]

11. To depress to lower in value or amount. Great importations may sink the price of goods.

12. To reduce; to pay; to diminish or annihilate by payment; as, to sink the nation debt.

13. To waste; to dissipate; as, to sink an estate.

SINK, noun

1. A drain to carry off filthy water; a jakes.

2. A kind of bason of stone or wood to receive filthy water.

SINK'ING, participle present tense Falling; subsiding; depressing; declining. sinking fund, in fiance, a fund created for sinking or paying a public debt, or purchasing the stock for the government.

SIN'LESS, adjective [from sin.]

1. Free from sin; pure; perfect. Christ yielded a sinless obedience.

2. Free from sin; innocent; as a sinless soul.

SIN'LESSNESS, noun Freedom from sin and guilt.

SIN'NER, noun

1. One that has voluntarily violated the divine law; a moral agent who has voluntarily disobeyed any divine precept, or neglected any known duty.

2. It is used in contradistinction to saint, to denote an unregenerate person; one who has not received the pardon of his sins.

3. AN offender; a criminal.

SIN'NER, verb intransitive To act as a sinner; in ludicrous language. Whether the charmer sinner it or saint it.

SIN'OPER, SIN'OPLE, noun [Latin sinopis.] Red ferruginous quartz, of a blood or brownish red color, sometimes with a tinge or yellow. It occurs in small but very perfect crystals, and in masses that resemble some varieties of jasper.

SIN'OPER, SIN'OPLE, noun [Latin sinopis.] Red ferruginous quartz, of a blood or brownish red color, sometimes with a tinge or yellow. It occurs in small but very perfect crystals, and in masses that resemble some varieties of jasper.

SIN'TEENTH, adjective The sixth after the tenth; the ordinal of sixteen.

SIN'TER, noun In mineralogy, calcarious sinter is a variety of carbonate of lime, composed of a series of successive layers, concentric, plane or undulated, and nearly or quite parallel. It appears under various forms. Silicious sinter is white or grayish, light, brittle, porous, , and of a fibrous texture. Opaline silicious sinter somewhat resembles opal. It is whitish, with brownish, blackish or bluish spots, and its fragments present dendritic appearances. Pearl sinter or fiorite occurs in stalactitic, cylindrical, botryoidal, and globular masses, white or grayish.

SIN'UATE, verb transitive [Latin sinuo.] To wind; to turn; to bend in and out.

SIN'UATE, adjective In botany, a sinuate leaf is one that has large curved breaks in the margin, resembling bays, as in the oak.

SINUA'TION, noun A winding or bending in and out.

SINUOS'ITY, noun [Latin sinuosus, sinus.] The quality of bending or curving in and out; or a series of bends and turns in arches or other irregular figures.

SIN'UOUS, adjective [Latin sinus.] Wind; crooked; bending in and out; as a sinuous pipe. Streaking the ground with sinuous trace.

SI'NUS, noun [Latin a bay.]

1. A bay of the sea; a recess in the shore , or an opening in the land.

2. In anatomy, a cavity in a bone or other part, wider at the bottom than at the entrance.

3. In surgery, a little cavity or sack in which pus is collected; an abscess with only a small orifice.

4. An opening; a hollow.

SIP, verb transitive

1. To take a fluid into the mouth in small quantities by the lips; as, to sip wine; to sip tea or coffee.

2. To drink or imbibe in small quantities. Every herb that sips the dew.

3. To draw into the mouth ; to extract; as, a bee sips nectar from the flowers.

4. To drink out of. They skim the floods, and sip the purple flow'rs.

SIP, verb intransitive To drink a small quantity; to take a fluid with the lips.

SIP, noun The taking of a liquor with the lips; or a small draught taken with the lips. One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams.

SIPE, verb intransitive To ooze; to issue slowly; as a fluid.

SIPH'ILIS, noun The venereal disease.

SIPHILIT'IC, adjective Pertaining to the venereal disease, or partaking of its nature.

SI'PHON, noun [Latin sipho, sipo]

1. A bent pipe or tube whose legs are of unequal length, used for drawing liquor out of a vessel by causing it to rise over the rim or top. For this purpose, the shorter leg is inserted in the liquor, and the air is exhausted by being drawn through the longer leg. The liquor then rises by the weight of the atmosphere to supply the vacuum, till it reaches the top of the vessel, and then descends in the longer leg of the siphon

2. The pipe by which the chambers of a shell communicate.

SIPHUN'CULATED, adjective [L, siphunculus, a little siphon.] Having a little siphon or spout, as a valve.

SIP'PED, participle passive Drawn in with the lips; imbibed in small quantities.

SIP'PER, noun One that sips.

SIP'PET, noun A small sop. [Not in use.]

SI QUIS. [Latin if any one.] These words give name to a notification by a candidate for orders of his intention to inquire whether any impediment may be alleged against him.

SIR, noun sur.

1. A word or respect used in addresses to men, as madam is in addresses to women. It signifies properly lord, corresponding to dominus in Latin, in Spanish, and herr in German. It is used in the singular or plural. Speak on, sir But sirs, be sudden in the execution.

2. The title of a knight or baronet; as sir Horace Vere.

3. It is used by Shakespeare for man. In the election of a sir so rare. [Not in use.]

4. In American colleges, the title of a master of arts.

5. It is prefixed to loin, in sirloin; as a sirloin of beef. This practice is said to have originated in the knighting of a loin of beef by one of the English kings in a fit of good humor.

6. Formerly the title or a priest.

SIRE, noun [supra.]

1. A father; used in poetry. And raise his issue like a loving sire

2. The male parent of a beast; particularly used of horses; as, the horse had a good sire but a bad dam.

3. It is used in composition; as in grandsire, for grandfather; great grandsire, great grandfather.

SIRE, verb transitive To beget; to procreate; used of beasts.

SI'RED, participle passive Begotten.

SIR'EN, noun

1. A mermaid. In ancient mythology, a goddess who enticed men into her power by the charms of music, and devoured them. Hence in modern use, an enticing woman; a female rendered dangerous by her enticements. Sing, siren to thyself, and I will dote.

2. A species of lizard in Carolina, constituting a peculiar genus, destitute of posterior extremities and pelvis.

SIR'EN, adjective Pertaining to a siren or to the dangerous enticements of music; bewitching; fascinating; as a siren song.

SIRI'ASIS, noun An inflammation of the brain, proceeding from the excessive heat of the sun; phrensy almost peculiar to children.

SIR'IUS, noun [Latin the sun.]

The large and bright star called the dog star, in the mouth of the constellation Canis major.

SIR'LOIN, noun A particular piece of beef so called. [See Sir.]

SIRNAME, is more correctly written surname.

SIRO, noun A mite.

SIROC'CO, noun A pernicious wind that blows from the south east in Italy, called the Syrian wind. It is said to resemble the steam from the mouth of an oven.

SIR'RAH, noun A word of reproach and contempt; used in addressing vile characters. Go sirrah to my call. [I know not whence we have this word. The common derivation of it from sir, ha, is ridiculous.]

SIRT, noun sert. [Latin syrtis.] A quicksand. [Not in use.]

SIRUP, noun sur'up, [oriental. See Sherbet and Absorb.] The sweet juice of vegetables or fruits, or other juice sweetened; or sugar boiled. with vegetable infusions.

SIR'UPY, adjective Like sirup, or partaking of its qualities.

SISE, for assize. [Not used.]

SIS'KIN, noun A bird, the green finch; another name of the aberdavine. The siskin or aberdavine is the Fringilla spinus; the green finch, the Fr. chloris, a different species.

SISS, verb intransitive To hiss; a legitimate word in universal popular use in New England.

SIS'TER, noun

1. A female born of the same patents; correlative to brother.

2. A woman of the same faith; a female fellow christian. If a brother or sister be naked and destitute of daily food. James 2:15.

3. A female of the same kind.

4. One of the same kind, or of the same condition; as sister-fruits.

5. A female of the same society; as the nuns of a convent.

SIS'TER, verb transitive To resemble closely.

SIS'TER, verb intransitive To be akin; to be near to. [Little used.]

SIS'TERHOOD, noun

1. Sisters collectively, or a society of sisters; or a society of females united in one faith or order.

2. The officer of duty of a sister. [Little used.]

SIS'TERLY, adjective Like a sister; becoming a sister; affectionate; as sisterly kindness.

SIT, verb intransitive preterit tense sat; old participle passive sitten [Latin sedeo.]

1. To rest upon the buttocks, as animals; as, to sit on a sofa or on the ground.

2. To perch; to rest on the feet; as fowls.

3. To occupy a seat or place in an official capacity. The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat. Matthew 23:2.

4. To be in a state of rest or idleness. Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here? Numbers 32:6.

5. To rest, lie or bear on, as a weight or burned; as, grief sits heavy on his heart.

6. To settle; to rest; to abide. Pale horror sat on each Arcadian face.

7. To incubate; to cover and warm eggs for hatching; as a fowl. As the partridge sitteth on eggs and hatcheth them not- Jeremiah 17:1.

8. To be adjusted; to be, with respect to fitness or unfitness; as, a coat sits well or ill. This new and gorgeous garment, majesty, sits not so easy on me as you think.

9. To be placed in order to be painted; as, to sit for one's picture.

10. To be in any situation or condition. Suppose all the church lands to be thrown up to the laity; would the tenants sit easier in their rents than now?

11. To hold a session; to be officially engaged in public business; as judges, legislators or officers of any kind. The house of commons sometimes sits till late at night. The judges or the courts sit in Westminster hall. The commissioners sit every day.

12. To exercise authority; as, to sit in judgment. One council sits upon life and death.

13. To be in any assembly or council as a member; to have a seat.

14. To be in a local position. The wind sits fair. [Unusual]

To sit at meat, to be at table for eating.

To sit down,

1. to place one's self on a chair or other seat; as, to sit down at a meal.

2. To begin a siege. The enemy sat down before the town.

3. To settle; to fix a permanent abode.

4. To rest; to cease as satisfied. Here we cannot sit down, but still proceed in our search.

To sit out, to be without engagement or employment. [Little used.]

To sit up,

1. To rise or be raised from a recumbent posture. He that was dead sat up, and began to speak. Luke 7:1.

2. Not to go to bed; as, to sit up late at night; also, to watch; as, to sit up with a sick person.

SIT, verb transitive

1. To keep the seat upon. He sits a horse well. [This phrase is elliptical.]

2. To sit me down, To sit him down, to sit them down, equivalent to I seated myself, _ c. are familiar phrases used by good writers, though deviation from strict propriety. They sat them down to weep.

3. 'The court was sat, ' an expression of Addison, is a gross impropriety.

SITE, noun [Latin silus.]

1. Situation; local position; as the site of a city or of a house.

2. A seat or ground-plot; as a mill-site. But we usually say, mill-seat, by which we understand the place where a mill stands, or a place convenient for a mill.

3. The posture of a thing with respect of itself. The semblance of a lover fix'd in melancholy site [This is improper.]

SI'TED, adjective Placed; situated. [Not in use.]

SIT'FAST, noun A hard knob growing on a horse's back under the saddle.

SITH, adverb Since; in later times.

SITHE, noun Time.

SITHE, [See Sythe.]

SITH'ENCE, SITH'ES, adverb Since; in later times.

SITH'ENCE, SITH'ES, adverb Since; in later times.

SIT'TER, noun [from sit.]

1. One that sits. The Turks are great sitters.

2. A bird that sits or incubates.

SIT'TING, participle present tense

1. Resting on the buttocks, or on the feet, as fowls; incubating; brooding; being in the actual exercise of authority, or being assembled for that purpose.

2. adjective In botany, sessile.

SIT'TING, noun

1. The posture of being on a seat.

2. The act of placing one's self on a seat; as a sitting down.

3. The act or time of resting in a posture for a painter or take the likeness. For a portrait, six or seven sittings may be required.

4. A session; the actual presence or meeting of any body of men in their seats, clothed with authority to transact business; as a sitting of the judges of the king's bench; a sitting of the house of commons; during the sitting of the supreme court.

5. An uninterrupted application to business or study for a time; course of study unintermitted. For the understanding of any one of Paul's epistles, I read it through at one sitting

6. A time for which one sits, as at play, at work or on a visit.

7. Incubation; a resting on eggs for hatching; as fowls. The male bird amuses the female with his songs, during the whole time of her sitting

SIT'UATE, adjective [Latin situs, sedeo.]

1. Placed, with respect to any other object; as a town situate on a hill or on the sea shore.

2. Placed; consisting. Pleasure situate in hill and dale

[Note. In the United States, this word is less used than situated, but both are well authorized.]

SIT'UATED, adjective [See Situate.]

1. Seated, placed or standing with respect to any other object; as a city situated on a declivity, or in front of a lake; a town well situated for trade or manufactures; an observatory well situated for observation of the stars. New York is situated in the forty first degree of noun latitude.

2. Placed or being in any state or condition with regard to men or things. Observe how the executor is situated with respect to the heirs.

SITUA'TION, noun

1. Position; seat; location in respect to something else. The situation of London is more favorable for foreign commerce than that of Paris. The situation of a stranger among people of habits differing from his own, cannot be pleasant.

2. State; condition. He enjoys a situation of ease and tranquility.

3. Circumstances; temporary state; used of persons in a dramatic scene.

4. Place; office. He has a situation in the war department, or under government.

SIV'AN, noun The third month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, answering to part of our May and part of June.

SIX, adjective [Latin sex; ] Twice three; one more than five.

SIX, noun The number of six or twice three. To be at six and seven, or as more generally used, at sixes and sevens, is to be in disorder.

SIX'FOLD, adjective [six and fold.] Six times repeated; six double; six times as much.

SIX'PENCE, noun [six and pence.]

1. An English silver coin of the value of six pennies; half a shilling.

2. The value of six pennies or half a shilling.

SIX'SCORE, adjective [six and score.] Six times twenty; one hundred and twenty.

SIX'TEEN, adjective Six and ten; noting the sum of six and ten.

SIXTH, adjective The first after the fifth; the ordinal of six.

SIXTH, noun

1. The sixth part.

2. In music, a hexachord, as interval of two kinds; the minor sixth consisting of three tones and two semitones major, and the major sixth composed of four tones and a major semitone.

SIXTH'LY, adverb In the sixth place.

SIXTIETH, adjective The ordinal of sixty.

SIX'TY, adjective Ten times six.

SIX'TY, noun The number of six times ten.

SIZABLE, adjective [from size.]

1. Of considerable bulk.

2. Being of reasonable of suitable size; as sizable timber.

SIZE, noun [either contracted from assize, or from the Latin scissus. I take it to be from the former, and from the sense of setting, as we apply the word to the assize of bread.]

1. Bulk; bigness; magnitude; extent of superficies. size particularly expresses thickness; as the size of a tree or of a mast; the size of a ship or of a rock. A man may be tall, with little size of body.

2. A settled quantity of allowance. [contracted from assize.]

3. Figurative bulk; condition as to rank and character; as men of less size and quality. [Not much used.]

SIZE, verb transitive

1. To adjust or arrange according to size or bulk.

2. To settle; to fix the standard of; as, to size weights and measures. [Now little used.]

3. To cover with size; to prepare with size

4. To swell; to increase the bulk or.

5. Among Cornish miners, to separate the finer firm the coarser parts of a metal by sifting them through a wire sieve.

SI'ZED, participle passive

1. Adjusted according to size; prepared with size.

2. adjective Having a particular magnitude. And as my love is siz'd my fear is so. [Note. This word is used in compounds; as large-sized, common-sized, middle-sized, _ c.]

SIZ'EL, noun In coining, the residue of bars of silver, after pieces are cut out for coins.

SI'ZIER, noun In the university of Cambridge, a student of the rank nest below that of a pensioner.

SI'ZINESS, noun [from sizy.] Glutinousness; viscousness; the quality of size; as the siziness of blood.

SI'ZY, adjective [from size.] Glutinous; thick and viscous; ropy; having the adhesiveness of size; as sizy blood.