Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 76
Siamese (n. sing. & pl.) sing. The language of the Siamese.
Compare: Connected
Connected (a.) p. p. of connect. [Narrower terms: abutting, adjacent, adjoining, bordering(prenominal), conterminous, coterminous, contiguous] [Narrower terms: adjunctive] [Narrower terms: affined] [Narrower terms: attached] [Narrower terms: contiguous, in contact] [Narrower terms: coupled, joined, linked] [Narrower terms: cursive, flowing] [Narrower terms: siamese] [Narrower terms: socially connected, well-connected] unconnected
Connected (a.) Being joined in close association.
Syn: affiliated, attached.
Connected (a.) Connected by a conductor so as to allow the flow of electric signals. [Narrower terms: wired (vs. wireless)]
Connected (a.) (Music) legato. staccato
Syn: flowing, smooth.
Connected (a.) Associated with or accompanying.
Syn: associated.
Connected (a.) (Computers) stored in, controlled by, or in direct communication with a central computer. [Narrower terms: on-line (vs. off-line), online, on line(predicate)]
Syn: machine-accessible.
Connected (a.) Switched on. [Narrower terms: on-line (vs. off-line), online, on line(predicate)]
Syn: ready, on.
Connected (a.) Having some relation.
Syn: related.
Siamese (a.) Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand or its people; "Siamese kings"; "different Thai tribes live in the north" [syn: Thai, Tai, Siamese].
Siamese (a.) Of or relating to the languages of the Thai people; "Thai tones" [syn: Thai, Tai, Siamese].
Siamese (a.) Of or relating to Thailand; "the Thai border with Laos" [syn: Thai, Tai, Siamese].
Siamese (n.) A branch of the Tai languages [syn: Thai, Siamese, Central Thai].
Siamese (n.) A native or inhabitant of Thailand [syn: Thai, Tai, Siamese].
Siamese (n.) An inlet with two or more couplings to which a hose can be attached so that fire engines can pump water into the sprinkler system of a building [syn: siamese, siamese connection].
Siamese (n.) A slender short-haired blue-eyed breed of cat having a pale coat with dark ears paws face and tail tip [syn: Siamese cat, Siamese].
Sib (n.) A blood relation.
Sib (a.) Related by blood; akin.
Sibbens (n.) (Med.) 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. [Written also sivvens.]
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.
Milton would not have avoided them for their sibilancy, he who wrote . . . verses that hiss like Medusa's head in wrath. -- Lowell.
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.
Sibilant (a.) Of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then') [syn: fricative, continuant, sibilant, spirant, strident].
Sibilant (n.) A consonant characterized by a hissing sound (like s or sh) [syn: sibilant, sibilant consonant].
Sibilate (v. t. & i.) To pronounce with a hissing sound, like that of the letter s; to mark with a character indicating such pronunciation.
Sibilate (v.) Pronounce with an initial sibilant.
Sibilate (v.) Utter a sibilant.
Sibilate (v.) Express or utter with a hiss [syn: hiss, sizz, siss, sibilate].
Sibilate (v.) Make a sharp hissing sound, as if to show disapproval [syn: hiss, siss, sizz, sibilate].
Sibilation (n.) Utterance with a hissing sound; also, the sound itself; a hiss.
He, with a long, low sibilation, stared. -- Tennyson.
Sibilation (n.) A fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval); "the performers could not be heard over the hissing of the audience" [syn: hiss, hissing, hushing, fizzle, sibilation].
Sibilation (n.) Pronunciation with a sibilant (hissing or whistling) sound [syn: sibilation, assibilation].
Sibilatory (a.) Hissing; sibilant.
Sibilous (a.) Having a hissing sound; hissing; sibilant. [R.] -- Pennant.
Sibling (a.) Of or pertaining to a sibling, n.; as, sibling rivalry: the common rivalry between siblings.
Sibling (n.) A brother or a sister.
Note: Siblings have at least one parent in common. Those related only by a common mother are uterine siblings; those related only by a common father are agnate siblings or consanguine siblings (a legal term). A sibling having both parents in common is a sibling-german or a full brother or full sister.
These modifying terms are more commonly used for the more specific uterine brother, uterine sister, agnate brother, brother-german, etc.
Sibling (n.) A person's brother or sister [syn: sibling, sib].
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. [Scot.]
Sic (adv.) [L.] Thus.
Note: This word is sometimes inserted in a quotation [sic], to call attention to the fact that some remarkable or inaccurate expression, misspelling, or the like, is literally reproduced.
Compare: Carborundum
Carborundum, () Silicon carbide ({SiC"> A beautiful crystalline compound, silicon carbide ({SiC), consisting of carbon and silicon in combination; -- also called carbon silicide. It is made by heating carbon and sand together in an electric furnace. The commercial article is dark-colored and iridescent. It is harder than emery, and is used as an abrasive. carborundum cloth
Sic (adv.) Intentionally so written (used after a printed word or phrase).
Sic (v.) Urge to attack someone; "The owner sicked his dogs on the intruders"; "the shaman sics sorcerers on the evil spirits" [syn: sic, set].
Sicamore (n.) (Bot.) See Sycamore.
Compare: Plane
Plane (n.) (Bot.) Any tree of the genus Platanus.
Note: The Oriental plane ({Platanus orientalis) is a native of Asia. It rises with a straight, smooth, branching stem to a great height, with palmated leaves, and long pendulous peduncles, sustaining several heads of small close-sitting flowers. The seeds are downy, and collected into round, rough, hard balls. The Occidental plane ({Platanus occidentalis), which grows to a great height, is a native of North America, where it is popularly called sycamore, buttonwood, and buttonball, names also applied to the California species ({Platanus racemosa).
Compare: Sycamore
Sycamore (n.) (Bot.) (a) A large tree ({Ficus Sycomorus) allied to the common fig. It is found in Egypt and Syria, and is the sycamore, or sycamine, of Scripture.
Sycamore (n.) (Bot.) (b) The American plane tree, or buttonwood.
Sycamore (n.) (Bot.) (c) A large European species of maple ({Acer Pseudo-Platanus). [Written sometimes sycomore.]
Compare: Buttonwood
Buttonwood (n.) (Bot.) The Platanus occidentalis, or American plane tree, a large tree, producing rough balls, from which it is named; -- called also buttonball tree, and, in some parts of the United States, sycamore. The California buttonwood is Platanus racemosa.
Compare: Sycamore
Sycamore (n.) Variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree [syn: sycamore, lacewood].
Sycamore (n.) Any of several trees of the genus Platanus having thin pale bark that scales off in small plates and lobed leaves and ball-shaped heads of fruits [syn: plane tree, sycamore, platan].
Sycamore (n.) Eurasian maple tree with pale grey bark that peels in flakes like that of a sycamore tree; leaves with five ovate lobes yellow in autumn [syn: sycamore, great maple, Scottish maple, Acer pseudoplatanus].
Sycamore (n.) Thick-branched wide-spreading tree of Africa and adjacent southwestern Asia often buttressed with branches rising from near the ground; produces cluster of edible but inferior figs on short leafless twigs; the biblical sycamore [syn: sycamore, sycamore fig, mulberry fig, Ficus sycomorus].
Sycamore, () More properly sycomore (Heb. shikmoth and shikmim, Gr. sycomoros), a tree which in its general character resembles the fig-tree, while its leaves resemble those of the mulberry; hence it is called the fig-mulberry (Ficus sycomorus). At Jericho, Zacchaeus climbed a sycomore-tree to see Jesus as he passed by (Luke 19:4). This tree was easily destroyed by frost (Ps. 78:47), and therefore it is found mostly in the "vale" (1 Kings 10:27; 2 Chr. 1:15: in both passages the R.V. has properly "lowland"), i.e., the "low country," the shephelah, where the climate is mild. Amos (7:14) refers to its fruit, which is of an inferior character; so also probably Jeremiah (24:2). It is to be distinguished from our sycamore (the Acer pseudo-platanus), which is a species of maple often called a plane-tree.
Sycamore, GA -- U.S. city in Georgia
Population (2000): 496
Housing Units (2000): 209
Land area (2000): 0.997241 sq. miles (2.582841 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.002461 sq. miles (0.006374 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.999702 sq. miles (2.589215 sq. km)
FIPS code: 75104
Located within: Georgia (GA), FIPS 13
Location: 31.670810 N, 83.633871 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 31790
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Sycamore, GA
Sycamore
Sycamore, OH -- U.S. village in Ohio
Population (2000): 914
Housing Units (2000): 401
Land area (2000): 0.587989 sq. miles (1.522884 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.587989 sq. miles (1.522884 sq. km)
FIPS code: 75980
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 40.950402 N, 83.170919 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 44882 45242 45249
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Sycamore, OH
Sycamore
Sycamore, OK -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Oklahoma
Population (2000): 183
Housing Units (2000): 59
Land area (2000): 4.144380 sq. miles (10.733895 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.144380 sq. miles (10.733895 sq. km)
FIPS code: 71965
Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location: 36.401443 N, 94.713463 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Headwords:
Sycamore, OK
Sycamore
Sycamore, OK -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Oklahoma
Population (2000): 150
Housing Units (2000): 79
Land area (2000): 7.053526 sq. miles (18.268547 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 7.053526 sq. miles (18.268547 sq. km)
FIPS code: 71972
Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location: 35.519520 N, 94.941129 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Headwords:
Sycamore, OK
Sycamore
Sycamore, IL -- U.S. city in Illinois
Population (2000): 12020
Housing Units (2000): 4925
Land area (2000): 5.484594 sq. miles (14.205033 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.017968 sq. miles (0.046537 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 5.502562 sq. miles (14.251570 sq. km)
FIPS code: 74223
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 41.983850 N, 88.694091 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 60178
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Sycamore, IL
Sycamore
Sycamore, SC -- U.S. town in South Carolina
Population (2000): 185
Housing Units (2000): 93
Land area (2000): 3.171566 sq. miles (8.214319 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.009319 sq. miles (0.024137 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.180885 sq. miles (8.238456 sq. km)
FIPS code: 70900
Located within: South Carolina (SC), FIPS 45
Location: 33.038490 N, 81.222032 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Headwords:
Sycamore, SC
Sycamore
Sycamore, KY -- U.S. city in Kentucky
Population (2000): 159
Housing Units (2000): 90
Land area (2000): 0.027240 sq. miles (0.070551 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.027240 sq. miles (0.070551 sq. km)
FIPS code: 75190
Located within: Kentucky (KY), FIPS 21
Location: 38.246973 N, 85.560664 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Sycamore, KY
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.
Sicca rupee, An East Indian coin, valued nominally at about two shillings sterling, or fifty cents.
Siccate (v. t.) To dry. [R.]
Siccation (n.) The act or process of drying. [R.] -- Bailey.
Siccative (a.) Drying; causing to dry.
Siccative (n.) That which promotes drying.
Siccative (n.) A substance that promotes drying (e.g., calcium oxide absorbs water and is used to remove moisture) [syn: desiccant, drying agent, drier, siccative].
Siccific (a.) Causing dryness.
Siccity (n.) Dryness; aridity; destitution of moisture. [Obs.]
The siccity and dryness of its flesh. -- Sir T. Browne.
Sice (n.) The number six at dice.
SICE, () Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (org., Japan).
Sicer (n.) A strong drink; cider. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Sich (a.) Such. [Obs. or Colloq.] -- Spenser.
Sicilian (a.) Of or pertaining to Sicily or its inhabitants.
Sicilian vespers, The great massacre of the French in Sicily, in the year 1282, on the evening of Easter Monday, at the hour of vespers.
Sicilian (n.) A native or inhabitant of Sicily.
Sicilian (a.) Of or relating to or characteristic of Sicily or the people of Sicily; "the Sicilian Mafia."
Sicilian (n.) A resident of Sicily.
Siciliano (n.) [It., Sicilian.] 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.
Sicken (v. i.) To become sick; to fall into disease.
The judges that sat upon the jail, and those that attended, sickened upon it and died. -- Bacon.
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.
Mine eyes did sicken at the sight. -- Shak.
Sicken (v. i.) To become disgusting or tedious.
The toiling pleasure sickens into pain. -- Goldsmith.
Sicken (v. i.) To become weak; to decay; to languish.
All pleasures sicken, and all glories sink. -- Pope.
Sickened (imp. & p. p.) of Sicken.
Sickening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sicken.
Sicken (v. t.) To make sick; to disease.
Raise this strength, and sicken that to death. -- Prior.
Sicken (v. t.) To make qualmish; to nauseate; to disgust; as, to sicken the stomach.
Sicken (v. t.) To impair; to weaken. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Sicken (v.) Cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of; "The pornographic pictures sickened us" [syn: disgust, revolt, nauseate, sicken, churn up].
Sicken (v.) Get sick; "She fell sick last Friday, and now she is in the hospital" [syn: sicken, come down].
Sicken (v.) Upset and make nauseated; "The smell of the food turned the pregnant woman's stomach"; "The mold on the food sickened the diners" [syn: sicken, nauseate, turn one's stomach].
Sicken (v.) Make sick or ill; "This kind of food sickens me."
Sickening (a.) Causing sickness; specif., causing surfeit or disgust; nauseating. -- Sick"en*ing*ly, adv.
Sicker (v. i.) (Mining) To percolate, trickle, or ooze, as water through a crack. [Also written sigger, zigger, and zifhyr.] [Prov. Eng.] Sicker
Sicker (a.) Alt. of Siker.
Siker (a.) Sure; certain; trusty. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] -- Burns.
When he is siker of his good name. -- Chaucer. Sicker
Sicker (adv.) Alt. of Siker.
Siker (adv.) Surely; certainly. [Obs.]
Believe this as siker as your creed. -- Chaucer.
Sicker, Willye, thou warnest well. -- Spenser. Sickerly
Sickerly (adv.) Alt. of Sikerly.
Sikerly (adv.) Surely; securely. [Obs.]
But sikerly, withouten any fable. -- Chaucer. Sickerness
Sickerness (n.) Alt. of Sikerness.
Sikerness (n.) The quality or state of being sicker, or certain. [Obs.] -- Chaucer. Spenser.
Sickish (a.) Somewhat sick or diseased.
Sickish (a.) Somewhat sickening; as, a sickish taste. -- Sick"ish*ly, adv. -- Sick"ish*ness, n.
Sickish (a.) Feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit [syn: nauseated, nauseous, queasy, sick, sickish].
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.
When corn has once felt the sickle, it has no more benefit from the sunshine. -- Shak.
Sickle (n.) (Astron.) A group of stars in the constellation Leo. See Illust. of Leo.
Sickle pod (Bot.), A kind of rock cress ({Arabis Canadensis) having very long curved pods.
Sickle (n.) An edge tool for cutting grass or crops; has a curved blade and a short handle [syn: sickle, reaping hook, reap hook].
Sickle, () Of the Egyptians resembled that in modern use. The ears of corn were cut with it near the top of the straw. There was also a sickle used for warlike purposes, more correctly, however, called a pruning-hook (Deut. 16:9; Jer. 50:16, marg., "scythe;" Joel 3:13; Mark 4:29).
Sicklebill (n.) (Zool.) 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.) (Zool.) A curlew.
Sicklebill (n.) (Zool.) 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.
You sunburned sicklemen, of August weary. -- Shak.
Sickler (n.) One who uses a sickle; a sickleman; a reaper.
Sickless (a.) Free from sickness. [R.]
Give me long breath, young beds, and sickless ease. -- Marston.
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.
I do lament the sickness of the king. -- Shak.
Trust not too much your now resistless charms; Those, age or sickness soon or late disarms. -- Pope.
Sickness (n.) Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.
Syn: Illness; disease; malady. See Illness.
Sickness (n.) Impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism [syn: illness, unwellness, malady, sickness] [ant: health, wellness].
Sickness (n.) Defectiveness or unsoundness; "drugs have become a sickness they cannot cure"; "a great sickness of his judgment."
Sickness (n.) The state that precedes vomiting [syn: nausea, sickness].
Sicle (n.) A shekel. [Obs.]
The holy mother brought five sicles and a pair of turtledoves to redeem the Lamb of God. -- Jer. Taylor.
Sida (n.) (Bot.) 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. -- Balfour (Cyc. of India).
Sida (n.) Large genus of tropical subshrubs or herbs some of which yield fibers of mucilaginous substances [syn: Sida, genus Sida].
Siddow (a.) Soft; pulpy. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
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.
Looking round on every side beheld A pathless desert. -- Milton.
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.
One of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side. -- John xix. 34.
Side (n.) A slope or declivity, as of a hill, considered as opposed to another slope over the ridge.
Along the side of yon small hill. -- Milton.
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.
God on our side, doubt not of victory. -- Shak.
We have not always been of the . . . same side in politics. -- Landor.
Sets the passions on the side of truth. -- Pope.
Side (n.) A line of descent traced through one parent as distinguished from that traced through another.
To sit upon thy father David's throne, By mother's side thy father. -- Milton.
Side (n.) Fig.: Aspect or part regarded as contrasted with some other; as, the bright side of poverty.
By the side of, close at hand; near to.
Exterior side. (Fort.) See Exterior, and Illust. of Ravelin.
Interior side (Fort.), The line drawn from the center of one bastion to that of the next, or the line curtain produced to the two oblique radii in front. -- H. L. Scott.
Side by side, Close together and abreast; in company or along with.
To choose sides, To select those who shall compete, as in a game, on either side.
To take sides, To attach one's self to, or give assistance to, one of two opposing sides or parties.
Side (a.) Of or pertaining to a side, or the sides; being on the side, or toward the side; lateral.
One mighty squadron with a side wind sped. -- Dryden.
Side (a.) Hence, indirect; oblique; collateral; incidental; as, a side issue; a side view or remark.
The law hath no side respect to their persons. -- Hooker.
Side (a.) Long; large; extensive. [Obs. or Scot.] -- Shak.
His gown had side sleeves down to mid leg. -- Laneham.
Side action, In breech-loading firearms, a mechanism for operating the breech block, which is moved by a lever that turns sidewise.
Side arms, Weapons worn at the side, as sword, bayonet, pistols, etc.
Side ax, An ax of which the handle is bent to one side.
Side-bar rule (Eng. Law.), A rule authorized by the courts to be granted by their officers as a matter of course, without formal application being made to them in open court; -- so called because anciently moved for by the attorneys at side bar, that is, informally. -- Burril.
Side box, A box or inclosed seat on the side of a theater.
To insure a side-box station at half price. -- Cowper.
Side chain, (a) One of two safety chains connecting a tender with a locomotive, at the sides.
Side chain, (b) (Chem.) A chain of atoms attached to the main structure of a large molecule, especially of a polymer.
Side cut, A canal or road branching out from the main one. [U.S.]
Side dish, One of the dishes subordinate to the main course.
Side glance, A glance or brief look to one side.
Side hook (Carp.), A notched piece of wood for clamping a board to something, as a bench.
Side lever, A working beam of a side-lever engine.
Side-lever engine, A marine steam engine having a working beam of each side of the cylinder, near the bottom of the engine, communicating motion to a crank that is above them.
Side pipe (Steam Engine), A steam or exhaust pipe connecting the upper and lower steam chests of the cylinder of a beam engine.
Side plane, A plane in which the cutting edge of the iron is at the side of the stock.
Side posts (Carp.), Posts in a truss, usually placed in pairs, each post set at the same distance from the middle of the truss, for supporting the principal rafters, hanging the tiebeam, etc.
Side rod. (a) One of the rods which connect the piston-rod crosshead with the side levers, in a side-lever engine.
Side rod. (b) See Parallel rod, under Parallel.
Side screw (Firearms), One of the screws by which the lock is secured to the side of a firearm stock.
Side table, A table placed either against the wall or aside from the principal table.
Side tool (Mach.), A cutting tool, used in a lathe or planer, having the cutting edge at the side instead of at the point.
Side wind, A wind from one side; hence, an indirect attack, or indirect means. -- Wright.
Sided (imp. & p. p.) of Side.