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 w...
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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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, adjective1. 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...
SINGLED
SIN'GLED, participle passive Selected from among a number.
SINGLENESS
SIN'GLENESS, noun1. 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...
SINGLY
SIN'GLY, adverb1. 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, com...
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, w...
SINGULARITY
SINGULAR'ITY, noun1. 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, th...
SINGULARIZE
SIN'GULARIZE, verb transitive To make single. [Not in use.]
SINGULARLY
SIN'GULARLY, adverb1. 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...
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 c...
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, adjective1. 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, adverb1. Perversely; wrongly.2. With a tendency to use the left as the stronger hand.
SINK
SINK, verb intransitivepreterit 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 subs...
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 stoc...
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, noun1. 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 co...