Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 77
Siding (p. pr.& vb. n.) of Side.
Side (v. i.) To lean on one side. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Side (v. i.) To embrace the opinions of one party, or engage in its interest, in opposition to another party; to take sides; as, to side with the ministerial party.
All side in parties, and begin the attack. -- Pope.
Side (v. t.) To be or stand at the side of; to be on the side toward. [Obs.]
His blind eye that sided Paridell. -- Spenser.
Side (v. t.) To suit; to pair; to match. [Obs.] -- Clarendon.
Side (v. t.) (Shipbuilding) To work (a timber or rib) to a certain thickness by trimming the sides.
Side (v. t.) To furnish with a siding; as, to side a house.
Side (a.) Located on a side; "side fences"; "the side porch" [ant: bottom(a), top(a)].
Side (n.) A place within a region identified relative to a center or reference location; "they always sat on the right side of the church"; "he never left my side."
Side (n.) One of two or more contesting groups; "the Confederate side was prepared to attack."
Side (n.) Either the left or right half of a body; "he had a pain in his side."
Side (n.) A surface forming part of the outside of an object; "he examined all sides of the crystal"; "dew dripped from the face of the leaf" [syn: side, face].
Side (n.) An extended outer surface of an object; "he turned the box over to examine the bottom side"; "they painted all four sides of the house."
Side (n.) An aspect of something (as contrasted with some other implied aspect); "he was on the heavy side"; "he is on the purchasing side of the business"; "it brought out his better side."
Side (n.) A line segment forming part of the perimeter of a plane figure; "the hypotenuse of a right triangle is always the longest side."
Side (n.) A family line of descent; "he gets his brains from his father's side."
Side (n.) A lengthwise dressed half of an animal's carcass used for food [syn: side, side of meat].
Side (n.) An opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute; "there are two sides to every question" [syn: side, position].
Side (n.) An elevated geological formation; "he climbed the steep slope"; "the house was built on the side of a mountain" [syn: slope, incline, side].
Side (n.) (Sports) The spin given to a ball by striking it on one side or releasing it with a sharp twist [syn: English, side].
Side (v.) Take sides for or against; "Who are you widing with?"; "I"m siding against the current candidate."
Sideboard (n.) A piece of dining-room furniture having compartments and shelves for keeping or displaying articles of table service.
At a stately sideboard, by the wine, That fragrant smell diffused. -- Milton.
Sideboard (n.) A removable board fitted on the side of a wagon to increase its capacity.
Sideboard (n.) A board that forms part of the side of a bed or crib.
Sideboard (n.) A piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room; has shelves and drawers [syn: buffet, counter, sideboard].
Sidebone (n.) (Far.) A morbid growth or deposit of bony matter and at the sides of the coronet and coffin bone of a horse. -- J. H. Walsh.
Sided (a.) Having (such or so many) sides; -- used in composition; as, one-sided; many-sided.
Sidehill (n.) The side or slope of a hill; sloping ground; a descent. [U. S.] Sideline
Sideling (adv.) Sidelong; on the side; laterally; also, obliquely; askew.
A fellow nailed up maps . . . some sideling, and others upside down. -- Swift.
Sideling (a.) Inclining to one side; directed toward one side; sloping; inclined; as, sideling ground.
Sidelong (adv.) Laterally; obliquely; in the direction of the side.
Sidelong (adv.) On the side; as, to lay a thing sidelong.
Note: [See Sideling, adv. ] -- Evelyn.
Sidelong (a.) Lateral; oblique; not being directly in front; as, a sidelong glance.
The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love. -- Goldsmith.
Sidelong (adv.) On the side; "the plow lay sidelong on the ground."
Sidelong (adv.) With the side toward someone or something; "seated sidelong to the window." -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Sidelong (adv.) To, toward or at one side; "darting eyes looking sidelong out of a wizened face" [syn: sidelong, sideways, obliquely].
Sidelong (a.) (Used especially of glances) Directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy; "her eyes with their misted askance look"- Elizabeth Bowen; "sidelong glances" [syn: askance, askant, asquint, squint, squint-eyed, squinty, sidelong].
Sidelong (a.) Situated at or extending to the side; "the lateral branches of a tree"; "shot out sidelong boughs" -- Tennyson [syn: lateral, sidelong].
Sidelong (a.) Inclining or directed to one side; "moved downward in a sidelong way." -- Bram Stoker
Sidepiece (n.) (Joinery) The jamb, or cheek, of an opening in a wall, as of door or window.
Sider (n.) One who takes a side.
Sider (n.) Cider. [Obs.]
Sideral (a.) Relating to the stars.
Sideral (a.) (Astrol.) Affecting unfavorably by the supposed influence of the stars; baleful. "Sideral blast." -- Milton.
Siderated (a.) Planet-struck; blasted.
Sideration (n.) The state of being siderated, or planet-struck; esp., blast in plants; also, a sudden and apparently causeless stroke of disease, as in apoplexy or paralysis.
Sidereal (a.) Relating to the stars; starry; astral; as, sidereal astronomy.
Sidereal (a.) Measuring by the apparent motion of the stars; designated, marked out, or accompanied, by a return to the same position in respect to the stars; as, the sidereal revolution of a planet; a sidereal day.
Siderealize (v. t.) To elevate to the stars, or to the region of the stars; to etherealize.
Sidereous (a.) Sidereal.
Siderite (n.) Carbonate of iron, an important ore of iron occuring generally in cleavable masses, but also in rhombohedral crystals. It is of a light yellowish brown color. Called also sparry iron, spathic iron.
Siderite (n.) A meteorite consisting solely of metallic iron.
Siderite (n.) An indigo-blue variety of quartz.
Siderite (n.) Formerly, magnetic iron ore, or loadstone.
Siderite (n.) Any plant of the genus Sideritis; ironwort.
Siderographic (a.) Alt. of Siderographical.
Siderographical (a.) Of or pertaining to siderography; executed by engraved plates of steel; as, siderographic art; siderographic impressions.
Siderographist (n.) One skilled in siderography.
Siderography (n.) The art or practice of steel engraving; especially, the process, invented by Perkins, of multiplying facsimiles of an engraved steel plate by first rolling over it, when hardened, a soft steel cylinder, and then rolling the cylinder, when hardened, over a soft steel plate, which thus becomes a facsimile of the original. The process has been superseded by electrotypy.
Siderolite (n.) A kind of meteorite. See under Meteorite.
Sideromancy (n.) Divination by burning straws on red-hot iron, and noting the manner of their burning.
Sideroscope (n.) An instrument for detecting small quantities of iron in any substance by means of a very delicate combination of magnetic needles.
Siderosis (n.) A sort of pneumonia occuring in iron workers, produced by the inhalation of particles of iron.
Siderostat (n.) An apparatus consisting essentially of a mirror moved by clockwork so as to throw the rays of the sun or a star in a fixed direction; -- a more general term for heliostat.
Sideroxylon (n.) A genus of tropical sapotaceous trees noted for their very hard wood; ironwood.
Sidesaddle (n.) A saddle for women, in which the rider sits with both feet on one side of the animal mounted.
Sideshow (n.) 餘興，雜耍，附屬活動，枝節問題 A subordinate incident of little importance relative to the main event; "instruction is not an educational sideshow"
Sideshow (n.) A minor show that is part of a larger one (as at the circus).
Sidesmen (n. pl. ) of Sidesman.
Sidesman (n.) A party man; a partisan.
Sidesman (n.) An assistant to the churchwarden; a questman.
Side-taking (n.) A taking sides, as with a party, sect, or faction.
Sidewalk (n.) A walk for foot passengers at the side of a street or road; a foot pavement.
Sideways (adv.) Toward the side; sidewise.
Side-wheel (a.) Having a paddle wheel on each side; -- said of steam vessels; as, a side-wheel steamer.
Sidewinder (n.) See Horned rattler, under Horned.
Sidewinder (n.) A heavy swinging blow from the side, which disables an adversary.
Sidewise (adv.) On or toward one side; laterally; sideways.
Siding (n.) Attaching one's self to a party.
Siding (n.) A side track, as a railroad; a turnout.
Siding (n.) The covering of the outside wall of a frame house, whether made of weatherboards, vertical boarding with cleats, shingles, or the like.
Siding (n.) The thickness of a rib or timber, measured, at right angles with its side, across the curved edge; as, a timber having a siding of ten inches.
Sidled (imp. & p. p.) of Sidle.
Sidling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sidle.
Sidle (v. t.) To go or move with one side foremost; to move sidewise; as, to sidle through a crowd or narrow opening.
Siege (n.) A seat; especially, a royal seat; a throne.
Siege (n.) Hence, place or situation; seat.
Siege (n.) Rank; grade; station; estimation.
Siege (n.) Passage of excrements; stool; fecal matter.
Siege (n.) The sitting of an army around or before a fortified place for the purpose of compelling the garrison to surrender; the surrounding or investing of a place by an army, and approaching it by passages and advanced works, which cover the besiegers from the enemy's fire. See the Note under Blockade.
Siege (n.) Hence, a continued attempt to gain possession.
Siege (n.) The floor of a glass-furnace.
Siege (n.) A workman's bench.
Siege (v. t.) To besiege; to beset.
Siegework (n.) A temporary fort or parallel where siege guns are mounted.
Siemens-Martin process () See Open-hearth process, etc., under Open.
Sienite (n.) See Syenite.
Sienitic (a.) See Syenitic.
Sienna (n.) Clay that is colored red or brown by the oxides of iron or manganese, and used as a pigment. It is used either in the raw state or burnt.
Siennese (a.) Of or pertaining to Sienna, a city of Italy.
Sierra (n.) A ridge of mountain and craggy rocks, with a serrated or irregular outline; as, the Sierra Nevada.
Siesta (n.) A short sleep taken about the middle of the day, or after dinner; a midday nap.
Sieur (n.) Sir; -- a title of respect used by the French.
Sieva (n.) A small variety of the Lima bean (Phaseolus lunatus).
Sieve (n.) A utensil for separating the finer and coarser parts of a pulverized or granulated substance from each other. It consist of a vessel, usually shallow, with the bottom perforated, or made of hair, wire, or the like, woven in meshes.
Sieve (n.) A kind of coarse basket.
Sifac (n.) The white indris of Madagascar. It is regarded by the natives as sacred.
Sifflement (n.) The act of whistling or hissing; a whistling sound; sibilation.
Sifilet (n.) The six-shafted bird of paradise. See Paradise bird, under Paradise.
Sifted (imp. & p. p.) of Sift.
Sifting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sift.
Sift (v. t.) To separate with a sieve, as the fine part of a substance from the coarse; as, to sift meal or flour; to sift powder; to sift sand or lime.
Sift (v. t.) To separate or part as if with a sieve.
Sift (v. t.) To examine critically or minutely; to scrutinize.
Sifter (n.) 篩的人；精查者；家用篩子 One who, or that which, sifts.
Sifter (n.) (Zool.) Any lamellirostral bird, as a duck or goose; -- so called because it sifts or strains its food from the water and mud by means of the lamell of the beak.
Sifter (n.) A household sieve (as for flour).
Sifter (n.) [ C ] （蓋上有小孔的）篩具 A container with many small holes in its lid for sifting substances, usually foods.
// A flour sifter.
// A sugar sifter.
Sig (v. t.) Urine.
Sigaultian (a.) Pertaining to Sigault, a French physician. See Symphyseotomy.
Sigger (v. i.) Same as
Sighed (imp. & p. p.) of Sigh.
Sighing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sigh.
Sigh (v. i.) To inhale a larger quantity of air than usual, and immediately expel it; to make a deep single audible respiration, especially as the result or involuntary expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, or the like.
Sigh (v. i.) Hence, to lament; to grieve.
He sighed deeply in his spirit. -- Mark viii. 12.
Sigh (v. i.) To make a sound like sighing.
And the coming wind did roar more loud, And the sails did sigh like sedge. --Coleridge.
The winter winds are wearily sighing. -- Tennyson.
Note: An extraordinary pronunciation of this word as s[imac]th is still heard in England and among the illiterate in the United States.
Sigh (v. t.) To exhale (the breath) in sighs.
Never man sighed truer breath. -- Shak.