Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 76

Siamese (n. sing. & pl.) The language of the Siamese.

Sib (n.) A blood relation.

Sib (a.) Related by blood; akin.

Sibbens (n.) A contagious disease, endemic in Scotland, resembling the yaws. It is marked by ulceration of the throat and nose and by pustules and soft fungous excrescences upon the surface of the body. In the Orkneys the name is applied to the itch.

Siberian (a.) Of or pertaining to Siberia, a region comprising all northern Asia and belonging to Russia; as, a Siberian winter.

Siberian (n.) A native or inhabitant of Siberia.

Sibilance (n.) Alt. of Sibilancy.

Sibilancy (n.) The quality or state of being sibilant; sibilation.

Sibilant (a.) Making a hissing sound; uttered with a hissing sound; hissing; as, s, z, sh, and zh, are sibilant elementary sounds.

Sibilant (n.) A sibiliant letter.

Sibilate (v. t. & i.) To pronounce with a hissing sound, like that of the letter s; to mark with a character indicating such pronunciation.

Sibilation (n.) Utterance with a hissing sound; also, the sound itself; a hiss.

Sibilatory (a.) Hissing; sibilant.

Sibilous (a.) Having a hissing sound; hissing; sibilant.

Sibling (n.) 兄 弟姊妹;(人類學用)(血統)民族成員;兄弟姊妹,也作兄弟姐妹,又稱手足,指有相同父親和母親的人。較自己年長的男性為兄(口語中稱「哥」),女性為姊 (口語中稱「姐」);比自己小的男性為弟,女性為妹。最年長的稱大哥或大姊,餘下按排行次序稱呼。兩人或全部皆為男性為兄弟,兩人或全部皆為女性為姊妹或 姐妹。年長男性與年幼女性為兄妹,年長女性與年幼男性為姊弟或姐弟。

同父異母或同母異父的兄弟姊妹於英語稱為半兄弟姊妹(Half sibling),中國古代把同父異母的兄弟姊妹稱為異母兄弟姊妹,把同母異父的稱為外兄弟姊妹。父或母再婚,繼父或繼母之前與他人所生的子女稱為繼兄弟姊妹。

A  sibling  is one of two or more individuals having one or both parents in common. A full sibling is a  first-degree relative. A male sibling is a  brother, and a female sibling is a  sister. In most societies throughout the world, siblings often grow up together, thereby facilitating the development of strong  emotional bonds. The emotional bond between siblings is often complicated and is influenced by factors such as parental treatment,  birth order,  personality, and personal experiences outside the family. [1]

Identical twins  share 100% of their  DNA. Full siblings are first-degree  relatives  and, on average, share 50% of their genes out of those that  vary among humans, assuming that the parents share none of those genes. [2]  Half-siblings are genetically second-degree relatives and have, on average, a 25% overlap in their human genetic variation. [3]

Sibyl (n.) (Class. Antiq.) 女巫;女算命師;女預言家 A woman supposed to be endowed with a spirit of prophecy.

Note: The number of the sibyls is variously stated by different authors; but the opinion of Varro, that there were ten, is generally adopted. They dwelt in various parts of Persia, Greece, and Italy.

Sibyl (n.) A female fortune teller; a pythoness; a prophetess. "An old highland sibyl." -- Sir W. Scott.

Sibyl (n.) A woman who tells fortunes

Sibyl (n.) (Ancient Rome) A woman who was regarded as an oracle or prophet.

Sibylist (n.) One who believes in a sibyl or the sibylline prophecies. -- Cudworth.

Sibylline (a.) 女算命師的;女預言家的;神祕性的 Pertaining to the sibyls; uttered, written, or composed by sibyls; like the productions of sibyls.

Sibylline books. (a) (Rom. Antiq.) Books or documents of prophecies in verse concerning the fate of the Roman empire, said to have been purchased by Tarquin the Proud from a sibyl.

Sibylline books. (b) Certain Jewish and early Christian writings purporting to have been prophetic and of sibylline origin. They date from 100 b. c. to a. d. 500.

Sibylline (a.) Resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy; "the high priest's divinatory pronouncement"; "mantic powers"; "a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions" [syn: divinatory, mantic, sibylline, sibyllic, vatic, vatical].

Sibylline (a.) Having a secret or hidden meaning; "cabalistic symbols engraved in stone"; "cryptic writings"; "thoroughly sibylline in most of his pronouncements"- John Gunther [syn: cabalistic, kabbalistic, qabalistic, cryptic, cryptical, sibylline].

Sibylline (a.) 女巫的,預言性的 Of, resembling, or characteristic of a sibyl; prophetic; oracular.

Sibylline (a.) Mysterious; cryptic.

Sic (a.) Such.

Sic (adv.) Thus.

Sicamore (n.) See Sycamore.

Sicca (n.) A seal; a coining die; -- used adjectively to designate the silver currency of the Mogul emperors, or the Indian rupee of 192 grains.

Siccate (v. t.) To dry.

Siccation (n.) The act or process of drying.

Siccative (a.) Drying; causing to dry.

Siccative (n.) That which promotes drying.

Siccific (a.) Causing dryness.

Siccity (n.) Dryness; aridity; destitution of moisture.

Sice (n.) The number six at dice.

Sicer (n.) A strong drink; cider.

Sich (a.) Such.

Sicilian (a.) Of or pertaining to Sicily or its inhabitants.

Sicilian (n.) A native or inhabitant of Sicily.

Siciliano (n.) A Sicilian dance, resembling the pastorale, set to a rather slow and graceful melody in 12-8 or 6-8 measure; also, the music to the dance.

Sicilienne (n.) A kind of rich poplin.

Sick (n.) Sickness. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.

Sick (v. i.) To fall sick; to sicken. [Obs.] -- Shak.

Sick (a.) 病的,有病的;病人的 [R];患……病的 [+with];想嘔吐的,噁心的 [F] Affected with disease of any kind; ill; indisposed; not in health. See the Synonym under Illness.

Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever. -- Mark i. 30.   

Behold them that are sick with famine. -- Jer. xiv. 18.

Sick (a.) Affected with, or attended by, nausea; inclined to vomit; as, sick at the stomach; a sick headache.

Sick (a.) Having a strong dislike; disgusted; surfeited; -- with of; as, to be sick of flattery.

He was not so sick of his master as of his work. -- L'Estrange.

Sick (a.) Corrupted; imperfect; impaired; weakned.

So great is his antipathy against episcopacy, that, if a seraphim himself should be a bishop, he would either find or make some sick feathers in his wings. -- Fuller.

Sick bay (Naut.), An apartment in a vessel, used as the ship's hospital.

Sick bed, The bed upon which a person lies sick.

Sick berth, An apartment for the sick in a ship of war.

Sick headache (Med.), A variety of headache attended with disorder of the stomach and nausea.

Sick list, A list containing the names of the sick.

Sick room, A room in which a person lies sick, or to which he is confined by sickness.

Note: [These terms, sick bed, sick berth, etc., are also written both hyphened and solid.]

Syn: Diseased; ill; disordered; distempered; indisposed; weak; ailing; feeble; morbid.

Sick (a.) Affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function; "ill from the monotony of his suffering" [syn: ill, sick] [ant: well].

Sick (a.) Feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit [syn: nauseated, nauseous, queasy, sick, sickish].

Sick (a.) Affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad" [syn: brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged].

Sick (a.) Having a strong distaste from surfeit; "grew more and more disgusted"; "fed up with their complaints"; "sick of it all"; "sick to death of flattery"; "gossip that makes one sick"; "tired of the noise and smoke" [syn: disgusted, fed up(p), sick(p), sick of(p), tired of(p)].

Sick (a.) (Of light) Lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble; "the pale light of a half moon"; "a pale sun"; "the late afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale oblongs on the street"; "a pallid sky"; "the pale (or wan) stars"; "the wan light of dawn" [syn: pale, pallid, wan, sick].

Sick (a.) Deeply affected by a strong feeling; "sat completely still, sick with envy"; "she was sick with longing".

Sick (a.) Shockingly repellent; inspiring horror; "ghastly wounds"; "the grim aftermath of the bombing"; "the grim task of burying the victims"; "a grisly murder"; "gruesome evidence of human sacrifice"; "macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages"; "macabre tortures conceived by madmen" [syn: ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick].

Sick (n.) People who are sick; "they devote their lives to caring for the sick".

Sick (v.) Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night" [syn: vomit, vomit up, purge, cast, sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate, throw up] [ant: keep down].

Sick-brained (a.) Disordered in the brain.

Sickened (imp. & p. p.) of Sicken.

Sickening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sicken.

Sicken (v. t.) To make sick; to disease.

Sicken (v. t.) To make qualmish; to nauseate; to disgust; as, to sicken the stomach.

Sicken (v. t.) To impair; to weaken.

Sicken (v. i.) To become sick; to fall into disease.

Sicken (v. i.) To be filled to disgust; to be disgusted or nauseated; to be filled with abhorrence or aversion; to be surfeited or satiated.

Sicken (v. i.) To become disgusting or tedious.

Sicken (v. i.) To become weak; to decay; to languish.

Sickening (a.) Causing sickness; specif., causing surfeit or disgust; nauseating.

Sicker (v. i.) To percolate, trickle, or ooze, as water through a crack.

Sicker (a.) Alt. of Siker.

Siker (a.) Sure; certain; trusty.

Sicker (adv.) Alt. of Siker.

Siker (adv.) Surely; certainly.

Sickerly (adv.) Alt. of Sikerly

Sikerly (adv.) Surely; securely.

Sickerness (n.) Alt. of Sikerness

Sikerness (n.) The quality or state of being sicker, or certain.

Sickish (a.) Somewhat sick or diseased.

Sickish (a.) Somewhat sickening; as, a sickish taste.

Sickle (n.) A reaping instrument consisting of a steel blade curved into the form of a hook, and having a handle fitted on a tang. The sickle has one side of the blade notched, so as always to sharpen with a serrated edge. Cf. Reaping hook, under Reap.

Sickle (n.) A group of stars in the constellation Leo. See Illust. of Leo.

Sicklebill (n.) Any one of three species of humming birds of the genus Eutoxeres, native of Central and South America. They have a long and strongly curved bill. Called also the sickle-billed hummer.

Sicklebill (n.) A curlew.

Sicklebill (n.) A bird of the genus Epimachus and allied genera.

Sickled (a.) Furnished with a sickle.

Sicklemen (n. pl. ) of Sickleman.

Sickleman (n.) One who uses a sickle; a reaper.

Sickler (n.) One who uses a sickle; a sickleman; a reaper.

Sickless (a.) Free from sickness.

Sicklewort (n.) A plant of the genus Coronilla (C. scorpioides); -- so named from its curved pods.

Sicklewort (n.) The healall (Brunella vulgaris).

Sicklied (a.) Made sickly. See Sickly, v.

Sickliness (n.) The quality or state of being sickly.

Sickly (adv.)  病態地 In a sick manner or condition; ill.

My people sickly [with ill will] beareth our marriage. -- Chaucer.

Sickly (v. t.) To make sick or sickly; -- with over, and probably only in the past participle. [R.]

Sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought. -- Shak.

Sentiments sicklied over . . . with that cloying heaviness into which unvaried sweetness is too apt to subside. -- Jeffrey.

Sickly (a.) 多病的;不健壯的;因病引起的;病態的;蒼白的;易致病的,有礙健康的;疾病流行的 Somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease; as, a sickly body.

This physic but prolongs thy sickly days. -- Shak.

Sickly (a.) Producing, or tending to, disease; as, a sickly autumn; a sickly climate. -- Cowper.

Sickly (a.) Appearing as if sick; weak; languid; pale.

The moon grows sickly at the sight of day. -- Dryden.

Nor torrid summer's sickly smile. -- Keble.

Sickly (a.) Tending to produce nausea; sickening; as, a sickly smell; sickly sentimentality.

Syn: Diseased; ailing; infirm; weakly; unhealthy; healthless; weak; feeble; languid; faint.

Sickly (a.) Unhealthy looking [syn: sallow, sickly].

Sickly (a.) Somewhat ill or prone to illness; "my poor ailing grandmother"; "feeling a bit indisposed today"; "you look a little peaked"; "feeling poorly"; "a sickly child"; "is unwell and can't come to work" [syn: ailing, indisposed, peaked(p), poorly(p), sickly, unwell, under the weather, seedy].

Sickness (n.) The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; sisease or malady.

Sickness (n.) Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.

Sicle (n.) A shekel.

Sida (n.) A genus of malvaceous plants common in the tropics. All the species are mucilaginous, and some have tough ligneous fibers which are used as a substitute for hemp and flax.

Siddow (a.) Soft; pulpy.

Side (n.) The margin, edge, verge, or border of a surface; especially (when the thing spoken of is somewhat oblong in shape), one of the longer edges as distinguished from the shorter edges, called ends; a bounding line of a geometrical figure; as, the side of a field, of a square or triangle, of a river, of a road, etc.

Side (n.) Any outer portion of a thing considered apart from, and yet in relation to, the rest; as, the upper side of a sphere; also, any part or position viewed as opposite to or contrasted with another; as, this or that side.

Side (n.) One of the halves of the body, of an animals or man, on either side of the mesial plane; or that which pertains to such a half; as, a side of beef; a side of sole leather.

Side (n.) The right or left part of the wall or trunk of the body; as, a pain in the side.

Side (n.) A slope or declivity, as of a hill, considered as opposed to another slope over the ridge.

Side (n.) The position of a person or party regarded as opposed to another person or party, whether as a rival or a foe; a body of advocates or partisans; a party; hence, the interest or cause which one maintains against another; a doctrine or view opposed to another.

Side (n.) A line of descent traced through one parent as distinguished from that traced through another.

Side (n.) Fig.: Aspect or part regarded as contrasted with some other; as, the bright side of poverty.

Side (a.) Of or pertaining to a side, or the sides; being on the side, or toward the side; lateral.

Side (a.) Hence, indirect; oblique; collateral; incidental; as, a side issue; a side view or remark.

Side (n.) Long; large; extensive.

Sided (imp. & p. p.) of Side

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