Webster's Dictionary 1828

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SIGNIFICATORY

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

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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 id...

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SIGNIOR

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

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SIGNORIZE

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

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SIGNORY

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

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SIK

SIK, SIKE, adjective Such.

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SIKE

SIK, SIKE adjective Such.

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SIKER

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

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SIKERNESS

SIK'ERNESS, noun Sureness safety.

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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 cry...

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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 st...

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SILENT

SI'LENT, adjective1. Not speaking; mute. Psalms 22:2.2. Habitually taciturn; speaking little; not inclined to much talking; not loquacious. Ulysses, he adds was the most eloquen...

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SILENTIARY

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

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SILENTLY

SI'LENTLY, adverb1. Without speech or words. Each silently demands thy grace, and seems to watch thy eye.2. without noise; as, to march silently3. Without mention. He mentioned ...

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SILENTNESS

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

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SILESIAN

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

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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 cry...

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SILICICALCARIOUS

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

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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.

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SILICIFEROUS

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

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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 intra...

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SILICIMURITE

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

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SILICIOUS

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

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SILICITED

SILIC'ITED, adjective Impregnated with silex.

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SILICIUM

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

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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.

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SILICULOUS

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