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 crystal...
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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 crystal...
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 ...
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, re...
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...
SIP
SIP, verb transitive1. 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 her...
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 ...
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 im...
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 he...
SIRE
SIRE, noun [supra.]1. A father; used in poetry. And raise his issue like a loving sire2. The male parent of a beast; particularly used of horses; as, the horse had a good sire b...
SIRED
SI'RED, participle passive Begotten.
SIREN
SIR'EN, noun1. 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 fem...
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.