Silk – Sirt

Silk

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

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.

Silkiness

SILK'INESS, noun

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

2. Softness; effeminacy; pusillanimity.

Silkman

SILK'MAN, noun A dealer in silks.

Silkmercer

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

Silkworm

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.

Silky

SILK'Y, adjective

1. Made of silk; consisting of silk.

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

3. Pliant; yielding;

Sill

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.]

Sillabub

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

Sillimanite

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.

Silliness

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

Silly

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

Sillyhow

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

Silt

SILT, noun Saltness, or salt marsh or mud.

Silure

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

Silurus

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

Silvan

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.

Silver

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.

Silver-Beater

SIL'VER-BEATER, noun One that foliates silver, or forms it into a leaf.

Silver-Bush

SIL'VER-BUSH, noun A plant, a species of Anthyllis.

Silver-Fir

SIL'VER-FIR, noun A species of fir.

Silver-Fish

SIL'VER-FISH, noun A fish of the size of a small carp, having a white color, striped with silvery lines.

Silver-Thistle

SIL'VER-THISTLE, noun A plant.

Silver-Tree

SIL'VER-TREE, noun A plant of the genus Protea.

Silver-Weed

SIL'VER-WEED, noun A plant of the genus Potentilla.

Silvered

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

Silvering

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.

Silverly

SIL'VERLY, adverb With the appearance of silver.

Silversmith

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

Silvery

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.

Simagre

SIM'AGRE, noun Grimace.

Simar

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

Simare

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

Similar

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.

Similarity

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.

Similarly

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

Simile

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.

Similitude

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.]

Similitudinary

SIMILITU'DINARY, adjective Denoting resemblance or comparison.

Similor

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

SIMITAR. [See Cimeter.]

Simmer

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.

Simnel

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

Simoiacally

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

Simoniac

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

Simoniacal

SIMONI'ACAL, adjective

1. Guilty of simony.

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

Simonious

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

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

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

Simous

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.

Simper

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

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

Simpering

SIM'PERING, participle present tense Smiling foolishly.

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

Simperingly

SIM'PERINGLY, adverb With a silly smile.

Simple

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.

Simple-Minded

SIMPLE-MINDED, adjective Artless; undesigning; unsuspecting.

Simpleness

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.

Simpler

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

Simpless

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

Simpleton

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.]

Simplicity

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.

Simplification

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

Simplified

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

Simplify

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.

Simplifying

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

Simplist

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

Simploce

SIMPLOCE, [See Symploce.]

Simply

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.

Simulacher

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

Simular

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

Simulate

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.

Simulating

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

Simulation

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.

Simultameously

SIMULTA'MEOUSLY, adverb At the same time.

Simultaneous

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

Simultaneousness

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

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

Sin

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-Offering

SIN'-OFFERING, noun [sin and offering.] A sacrifice for sin; something offered as an expiation for sin. Exodus 29:1.

Sinapism

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

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.

Sincere

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

Sincerely

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

Sincereness

SINCE'RENESS, noun Sincerity.

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.

Sinciput

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

Sindon

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

Sine

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.

Sinecure

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.

Sinepite

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

Sinew

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.

Sinew-Shrunk

SIN'EW-SHRUNK, adjective Gaunt-bellied; having the sinews under belly shrunk by excess of fatigue, as a horse.

Sinewed

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.

Sinewless

SIN'EWLESS, adjective Having no strength or vigor.

Sinewy

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.

Sinful

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.

Sinfully

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

Sinfulness

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

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

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.

Singed

SING'ED, participle passive Burnt superficially.

Singeing

SING'EING, participle present tense Burning the surface.

Singer

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.

Singing

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.

Singing-Book

SING'ING-BOOK, noun A music book, as it ought to be called; a book containing tunes.

Singing-Man

SING'ING-MAN, noun A man who sings, or is employed to sing; as in cathedrals.

Singing-Master

SING'ING-M'ASTER, noun A music master; one that teaches vocal music

Singing-Woman

SING'ING-WOMAN, noun A woman employed to sing.

Singingly

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

Single

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.

Singled

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

Singleness

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.

Singly

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.

Singular

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.]

Singularity

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.]

Singularize

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

Singularly

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.

Singult

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

Sinical

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

Sinister

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.

Sinister-Handed

SIN'ISTER-HANDED, adjective Left-handed. [Not in use.]

Sinisterly

SIN'ISTERLY, adverb Absurdly; perversely; unfairly.

Sinistrorsal

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

Sinistrous

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.

Sinistrously

SIN'ISTROUSLY, adverb

1. Perversely; wrongly.

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

Sink

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.

Sinking

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.

Sinless

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.

Sinlessness

SIN'LESSNESS, noun Freedom from sin and guilt.

Sinner

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.

Sinoper

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.

Sinople

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.

Sinteenth

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

Sinter

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.

Sinuate

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.

Sinuation

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

Sinuosity

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.

Sinuous

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

Sinus

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

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

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

Siphilis

SIPH'ILIS, noun The venereal disease.

Siphilitic

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

Siphon

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.

Siphunculated

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

Sipped

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

Sipper

SIP'PER, noun One that sips.

Sippet

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

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

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.

Sired

SI'RED, participle passive Begotten.

Siren

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.

Siriasis

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

Sirius

SIR'IUS, noun [Latin the sun.]

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

Sirloin

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

Sirname

SIRNAME, is more correctly written surname.

Siro

SIRO, noun A mite.

Sirocco

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.

Sirrah

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

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