Shrub – Silisia

Shrub

SHRUB, noun A low dwarf tree; a woody plant of a size less than a tree; or more strictly, a plant with several permanent woody stems, dividing from the bottom, more slender and lower than trees.

Gooseberries and currants are shrubs; oaks and cherries are trees. Locke.

SHRUB, noun [Latin sorbeo.] A liquor composed of acid and sugar, with spirir to preserve it; usually the acid of lemons.

SHRUB, verb transitive To clear of shrubs.

Shrubbery

SHRUB'BERY, noun

1. Shrubs in general.

2. A plantation of shrubs.

Shrubby

SHRUB'BY, adjective

1. Full of shrubs; as a shrubby plain.

2. Resembling a shrub; as plants shrubby and curled.

3. Consisting of shrubs or brush; as shrubby browze.

4. A shrubby plant is perennial, with several woody stems.

Shruff

SHRUFF, noun Dross; recrement of metals. [Not in use.]

Shrug

SHRUG, verb intransitive To raise or draw up the shoulders, as in expressing horror or dissatisfaction.

They grin, they shrug,

They bow, they snarl, they scratch, they hug. Swift.

SHRUG, noun A drawing up of the shoulders; a motion usually expressing dislike.

The Spaniards talk in dialogues

Of heads and shoulders, nods and shrugs. Hudibras.

Shrugging

SHRUG'GING, participle present tense Drawing up, as the shoulders.

Shrunk

SHRUNK, preterit tense and participle passive of shrink.

Shrunken

SHRUNK'EN, participle passive of shrink. [Nearly obsolete.]

Shudder

SHUD'DER, verb intransitive [This word contains the same elements as the Latin quatio.] To quake; to tremble or shake with fear, horror or aversion; to shiver.

I love-alas! I shudder at the name. Smith.

SHUD'DER, noun A tremor; a shaking with fear or horror.

Shuddering

SHUD'DERING, participle present tense Trembling or shaking with fear or horror; quaking.

Shuffle

SHUF'FLE, verb transitive

1. Properly, to shove one way and the other; to push from one to another; as, to shuffle money from hand to hand.

2. To mix by pushing or shoving; to confuse; to throw into disorder; especially, to change the relatibe positions of cards in the pack.

A man may shuffle cards or rattle dice from noon to midnight, without tracing a new idea in his head. Rambler.

3. To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.

It was contrived by your enemies, and shuffled into the papers that were seized. Dryden.

To shuffle off, to push off; to rid one's self of. When you lay blame to a child, he will attempt to shuffle it off.

To shuffle up, to throw together in haste; to make up or form in confusion or with fraudulent disorder; as, he shuffled up a peace.

SHUF'FLE, verb intransitive

1. To change the relative position of cards in a pack by little shoves; as, to shuffle and cut.

2. To change the position; to shift ground; to prevaricate; to evade fair questions; to pratice shifts to elude detection.

Hiding my honor in my necessity, I am fain to shuffle. Shak.

3. To struggle; to shift.

Your life, good master,

Must shuffle for itself. Shak.

4. To move with an irregular gait; as a shuffling nag.

5. To shove the feet; to scrape the floor in dancing. [Vulgar.]

SHUF'FLE, noun

1. A shoving, pughing or jostling; the act of mixing and throwing into confusion by change of places.

The unguided agitation and rude shuffles of matter. Bentley.

2. An evasion; a trick; an artifice.

Shuffle-Board

SHUF'FLE-BOARD, the old spelling of shovel-board.

Shuffle-Cap

SHUF'FLE-CAP, noun a play performed by shaking money in a hat or cap.

Shuffled

SHUF'FLED, participle passive Moved by little shoves; mixed.

Shuffler

SHUF'FLER, noun One that shuffles or prevaricates; one that plays tricks; one that shuffles cards.

Shuffling

SHUF'FLING, participle present tense

1. Moving by little shoves one way an the other; changing the places of cards; prevaricating; evading; playing tricks.

2. adjective Evasive; as a shuffling excuse.

SHUF'FLING, noun

1. The act of throwing into confusion, or of changing the relative position of things by shoving or motion.

2. Trick; artifice; evasion.

3. An irregular gait.

Shufflingly

SHUF'FLINGLY, adverb With shuffling; with an irregular gait or pace.

Shun

SHUN, verb transitive

1. To avoid; to keep clear of; not to fall on or come in contact with; as, to shun rocks and shoals in navigation. In shunning Scylla, take care to avoid to avoid Charybdis.

2. To avoid; not to mix or associate with; as, to shun evil company.

3. To avoid; not to practice; as, to shun vice.

4. To avoid; to escape; as, to shun a blow.

5. To avoid; to decline; to neglect.

I haved not shunned to declare the whole counsel of God. Acts 20:1.

Shunless

SHUN'LESS, adjective Not to be avoided; inevitable; unavoidable; as shunless destiny. [Little used.]

Shunned

SHUN'NED, participle passive Avoided.

Shunning

SHUN'NING, participle present tense Avoiding; keeping clear from; declining.

Shurk

SHURK. [See Shark.]

Shut

SHUT, verb transitive pretand participle passive shut.

1. To close so as to hinder ingress or egress; as, to shut a door or gate; to shut the eyes or the mouth.

2. To prohibit; to bar; to forbid entrance into; as, to shut the ports of the kingdom by a blockade.

Shall that be shut to man, which to the beast

Is open? Milton.

3. To preclude; to exclude.

But shut from every shore. Dryden.

4. To close, as the fingers; to contract; as, to shut the hand.

To shut in, to inclose; to confine.

2. Spoken of points of land, when by the progress of a ship, one point is brought to cover or intercept the view of another. It is then said, we shut in such a point, we shut in the land; or one point shuts in another.

To shut out, to preclude from entering; to deny admission to; to exclude; as, to shut out rain by a tight roof. An interesting subject occupying the mind, shuts out all other thoughts.

To shut up, to close; to make fast the entrances into; as, to shut up a house.

2. To obstruct.

Dangerous rocks shut up the passage. Raleigh.

3. To confine; to imprison; to lock or fasten in; as, to shut up a prisoner.

4. To confine by legal or moral restraint.

Before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up to the faith, which should afterwards be revealed. Galatians 3:23.

5. To end; to terminate; to conclude.

When the scene of life is shut up, the slave will be above his master, if he has acted better. Collier.

SHUT, verb intransitive To close itself; to be closed. The door shuts of itself; it shuts hard. Certain flowers shut at night and open in the day.

SHUT, participle passive

1. Closed; having the entrance barred.

2. adjective Rid; clear; free.

SHUT, noun

1. Close; the act of closing; as the shut of a door; the shut of evening. [Little used.]

2. A small door or cover; But shutter is more generally used.

Shutter

SHUT'TER, noun

1. A person that shuts or closes.

2. A door; a cover; something that closes a passage; as the shutters of a window.

Shutting

SHUT'TING, participle present tense Closing; prohibiting entrance; confining.

Shuttle

SHUT'TLE, noun [from the root of shoot; Ice. skutul.] An instrument used by weavers for shooting the thread of the woof in weaving from one side of the cloth to the other, between the threads of the warp.

Shuttle-Cock

SHUT'TLE-COCK, noun [shuttle and cock or cork.] A cork stuck with fethers, used to be struck by a battledore in play; also, the play.

Shy

SHY, adjective

1. Fearful of near approach; keeping at a distance through caution or timidity; shunning approach; as a shy bird.

She is represented in a shy retiring posture. Addison.

2. Reserved; not familiar; coy; avoiding freedom of intercourse.

What makes you so shy, my good friend? Arbuthnot.

3. Cautious; wary; careful to avoid committing one's self or adopting measures.

I am very shy of using corrosive liquors in the preparation of medicines.

Boyle.

4. Suspicious; jealous.

Princes are by wisdom of state somewhat shy of their successors. Wotton.

Shyly

SHY'LY, adverb In a shy or timid manner; not familiarity; with reserve.

Shyness

SHY'NESS, noun Fear of near approach or of familiarity; reserve; coyness.

Sialogogue

SIALOGOGUE, noun sial'ogog. [Gr. saliva, and leading.] A medicing that promotes the salivary discharge.

Sib

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

Siberian

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.

Siberite

SIB'ERITE, noun Red tourmalin.

Sibilant

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.

Sibilation

SIBILA'TION, noun A hissing sound.

Sibyl

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.

Sibylline

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

Sicamore

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

Siccate

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

Siccation

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

Siccative

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

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

Siccity

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

Sice

SICE, noun size. The number six at dice.

Sich

SICH, for such. [See Such.]

Sick

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

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.

Sicker

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

SICK'ER, adverb Surely; certainly.

Sickerly

SICK'ERLY, adverb Surely.

Sickerness

SICK'ERNESS, noun Security.

Sickish

SICK'ISH, adjective [from sick]

1. Somewhat sick or diseased.

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

Sickishness

SICK'ISHNESS, noun The quality of exciting disgust.

Sickle

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.

Sickled

SICK'LED, adjective Furnished with a sickle.

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

Sicklewort

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

Sickliness

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.

Sickly

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.

Sickness

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

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.]

Side-Box

SI'DE-BOX, noun A box or inclosed seat on the side of a theater distinct from the seats in the pit.

Side-Fly

SI'DE-FLY, noun An insect.

Side-Saddle

SI'DE-SADDLE, noun A saddle for a woman's seat on horseback.

SIDE-SADDLE FLOWER, noun A species of Sarracenia.

Sideboard

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.

Sideling

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.

Sidelong

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

Sider

SI'DER, noun

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

2. Cider. [Not in use.]

Sideral

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

Siderated

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

Sideration

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.

Sidereal

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.

Siderite

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.

Sidero-Calcite

SIDERO-CAL'CITE, noun Brown spar.

Sidero-Clepte

SIDERO-CLEP'TE, noun A mineral of a yellowish green color, soft and translucid, occurring in reniform or botryoidal masses.

Siderographch

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

Siderographist

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

Siderographocal

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

Siderography

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.

Sidesman

SI'DESMAN, noun

1. An assistant to the church warden.

2. A party man.

Sidetaking

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

Sideways

SI'DEWAYS, SI'DEWISE, adverb

Sidewise

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

Siding

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

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

Sidle

SI'DLE, verb intransitive

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

2. To lie on the side.

Siege

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.]

Sienite

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

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

Sieve

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

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.

Sifted

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

Sifter

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

Sifting

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

Sig

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

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

SIGHER, noun One that sighs.

Sighing

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

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

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

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

Sightless

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

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

Sightly

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

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

Sigil

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

Sigmoidal

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

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.

Sign-Post

SIGN-POST, noun A post on which a sign hangs, or on which papers are placed to give public notice of any thing. By the laws of some of the New England states, a sign-post is to be erected near the center of each town.

Signal

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.

Signality

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

Signalize

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.

Signalized

SIG'NALIZED, participle passive Made eminent

Signalizing

SIG'NALIZING, participle present tense Making remarkable.

Signally

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

Signation

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

Signatory

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

Signature

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.]

Signaturist

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

Signer

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

Signet

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.

Significance

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

Significancy

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.

Significant

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.]

Significantly

SIGNIF'ICANTLY, adverb

1. With meaning.

2. With force of expression.

Signification

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.

Significative

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.

Significatively

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

Significator

SIGNIFICA'TOR, noun That which signifies.

Significatory

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

Signify

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

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

Signorize

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

Signory

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

Sik

SIK, SIKE, adjective Such.

Sike

SIK, SIKE adjective Such.

Siker

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

Sikerness

SIK'ERNESS, noun Sureness safety.

Silcia

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.

Silence

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.

Silent

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.

Silentiary

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

Silently

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.

Silentness

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

Silesian

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

Silex

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.

Silicicalcarious

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

Silicicalce

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.

Siliciferous

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

Silicify

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.

Silicimurite

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

Silicious

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

Silicited

SILIC'ITED, adjective Impregnated with silex.

Silicium

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

Silicle

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.

Siliculous

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

Siling-Dish

SIL'ING-DISH, noun A colander. [Not in use.]

Siliqua

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

Silique

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

Siliquose

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

Siliquous

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

Silisia

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