Webster's Dictionary 1913

5374

Siogoonate

Sio‐goon″ate (?), n. See Shogunate.

5375

Sioux

Sioux (?), n. sing. & pl.(Ethnol.) See Dakotas.

5376

Sioux State

Sioux State. North Dakota; — a nickname.

5377

Sip

Sip (sĭp), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Sipped (sĭpt); p. pr. & vb. n.Sipping.] [OE. sippen; akin to OD. sippen, and AS. sūpan to sip, suck up, drink. See Sup, v. t.] 1. To drink or imbib...

5378

Sip (2)

Sip, v. i. To drink a small quantity; to take a fluid with the lips; to take a sip or sips of something.raised it to her mouth with sober grace;Then, sipping, offered to the nex...

5379

Sip (3)

Sip, n. 1. The act of sipping; the taking of a liquid with the lips.2. A small draught taken with the lips; a slight taste.One sip of thisWill bathe the drooping spirits in deli...

5380

Sipage (2)

Sip″age (?), n. See Seepage.

5381

Sipe (2)

Sipe (sīp), v. i. See Seep.

5382

Siphilis

Siph″i‐lis (?), n.(Med.) Syphilis.

5383

Siphoid

Si″phoid (?), n. [L. sipho a siphon + -oid: cf. F. vase siphoïde.] A siphon bottle. See under Siphon, n.

5384

Siphon

Si″phon (?), n. [F. siphon, L. sipho, -onis, fr. Gr. ��� a siphon, tube, pipe.] 1. A device, consisting of a pipe or tube bent so as to form two branches or legs of unequal leng...

5385

Siphon (2)

Si″phon (?), v. t.(Chem.) To convey, or draw off, by means of a siphon, as a liquid from one vessel to another at a lower level.

5386

Siphonage

Si″phon‐age (?), n. The action of a siphon.

5387

Siphonal

Si″phon‐al (?), a. Of or pertaining to a siphon; resembling a siphon.Siphonal stomach(Zoöl.), a stomach which is tubular and bent back upon itself, like a siphon, as in the salmon.

5388

Siphonarid

Si′pho‐na″rid (?), n.(Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of limpet-shaped pulmonate gastropods of the genus Siphonaria. They cling to rocks between high and low water marks and ...

5389

Siphonata

‖Si′pho‐na″ta (?), n. pl.(Zoöl.) A tribe of bivalve mollusks in which the posterior mantle border is prolonged into two tubes or siphons. Called also Siphoniata. See Siphon, 2 (...

5390

Siphonate

Si″phon‐ate (?), a. 1. Having a siphon or siphons.2. (Zoöl.) Belonging to the Siphonata.

5391

Siphonet

Si″phon‐et (?), n.(Zoöl.) One of the two dorsal tubular organs on the hinder part of the abdomen of aphids. They give exit to the honeydew. See Illust. under Aphis.

5392

Siphonia

‖Si‐pho″ni‐a (?), n.(Bot.) A former name for a euphorbiaceous genus (Hevea) of South American trees, the principal source of caoutchouc.

5393

Siphoniata

‖Si‐pho′ni‐a″ta (?), n. pl.(Zoöl.) Same as Siphonata.

5394

Siphonic

Si‐phon″ic (?), a. Of or pertaining to a siphon.

5395

Siphonifer

Si‐phon″i‐fer (?), n. [NL., fr. L. sipho, -onis, siphon + ferre to bear.] (Zoöl.) Any cephalopod having a siphonate shell.

5396

Siphoniferous

Si″phon‐if″er‐ous (?), a. [Siphon + -ferous.] (Zoöl.) Siphon-bearing, as the shell of the nautilus and other cephalopods.

5397

Siphonium

‖Si‐pho″ni‐um (?), n.; pl.Siphonia (#). [NL., from Gr. ����, dim. of ����. See Siphon.] (Anat.) A bony tube which, in some birds, connects the tympanium with the air chambers of...

5398

Siphonobranchiata

‖Si′pho‐no‐bran′chi‐a″ta (?), n. pl. [NL. See Siphon, and Branchia.] (Zoöl.) A tribe of gastropods having the mantle border, on one or both sides, prolonged in the form of a spo...

5399

Siphonobranchiate

Si′pho‐no‐bran″chi‐ate (?), a.(Zoöl.) Having a siphon, or siphons, to convey water to the gills; belonging or pertaining to the Siphonobranchiata. — n. One of the Siphonobranchi...

5400

Siphonoglyphe

Si′pho‐nog″ly‐phe (?), n. [Siphon + Gr. ��� to engrave.] (Zoöl.) A gonidium.