Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S

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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. [Obs.]

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. [Obs.] -- Ray.

Sidereal (a.) Relating to the stars; starry; astral; as, sidereal astronomy.

Sidereal (a.) (Astron.) 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.

Sidereal clock, Day, month, year. See under Clock, Day, etc.

Sideral time, Time as reckoned by sideral days, or, taking the sidereal day as the unit, the time elapsed since a transit of the vernal equinox, reckoned in parts of a sidereal day. This is, strictly, apparent sidereal time, mean sidereal time being reckoned from the transit, not of the true, but of the mean, equinoctial point.

Compare: Month

Month (n.) One of the twelve portions into which the year is divided; the twelfth part of a year, corresponding nearly to the length of a synodic revolution of the moon, -- whence the name. In popular use, a period of four weeks is often called a month.

Note: In the common law, a month is a lunar month, or twenty-eight days, unless otherwise expressed. -- Blackstone. In the United States the rule of the common law is generally changed, and a month is declared to mean a calendar month. -- Cooley's Blackstone.

A month mind. (a) A strong or abnormal desire. [Obs.] -- Shak.

A month mind. (b) A celebration made in remembrance of a deceased person a month after death. -- Strype.

Calendar months, The months as adjusted in the common or Gregorian calendar; April, June, September, and November, containing 30 days, and the rest 31, except February, which, in common years, has 28, and in leap years 29.

Lunar month, The period of one revolution of the moon, particularly a synodical revolution; but several kinds are distinguished, as the synodical month, or period from one new moon to the next, in mean length 29 d. 12 h. 44 m. 2.87 s.; the nodical month, or time of revolution from one node to the same again, in length 27 d. 5 h. 5 m. 36 s.; the sidereal, or time of revolution from a star to the same again, equal to 27 d. 7 h. 43 m. 11.5 s.; the anomalistic, or time of revolution from perigee to perigee again, in length 27 d. 13 h. 18 m. 37.4 s.; and the tropical, or time of passing from any point of the ecliptic to the same again, equal to 27 d. 7 h. 43 m. 4.7 s.

Solar month, The time in which the sun passes through one sign of the zodiac, in mean length 30 d. 10 h. 29 m. 4.1 s.

Sidereal (a.) Of or relating to the stars or constellations; "sidereal bodies"; "the sidereal system."

Sidereal (a.) (Of divisions of time) Determined by daily motion of the stars; "sidereal time" [ant: civil].

Siderealize (v. t.) To elevate to the stars, or to the region of the stars; to etherealize.

German literature transformed, siderealized, as we see it in Goethe, reckons Winckelmann among its initiators. -- W. Pater.

Sidereous (a.) Sidereal. [Obs.]

Siderite (n.) (Min.) 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.) (Min.) A meteorite consisting solely of metallic iron.

Siderite (n.) (Min.) An indigo-blue variety of quartz.

Siderite (n.) (Min.) Formerly, magnetic iron ore, or loadstone.

Siderite (n.) (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Sideritis; ironwort. Siderographic

Siderite (n.) Iron ore in the form of ferrous carbonate [syn: siderite, chalybite].

Siderite (n.) A meteorite consisting principally of nickel and iron.

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. -- Craig.

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.) (Med.) A sort of pneumonia occuring in iron workers, produced by the inhalation of particles of iron.

Siderosis (n.) Fibrosis of the lung caused by iron dust; occurs among welders and other metal workers.

Siderostat (n.) (Astron.) 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.) (Bot.) A genus of tropical sapotaceous trees noted for their very hard wood; ironwood.

Compare: Ironwood

Ironwood (n.) (Bot.) A tree unusually hard, strong, or heavy wood.

Note: In the United States, the hornbeam and the hop hornbeam are so called; also the Olneya Tesota, a small tree of Arizona; in the West Indies, the Erythroxylon areolatum, and several other unrelated trees; in China, the Metrosideros vera; in India, the Mesua ferrea, and two species of Inga; in Australia, the Eucalyptus Sideroxylon, and in many countries, species of Sideroxylon and Diospyros, and many other trees.

Ironwood (n.) Handsome East Indian evergreen tree often planted as an ornamental for its fragrant white flowers that yield a perfume; source of very heavy hardwood used for railroad ties [syn: rose chestnut, ironwood, ironwood tree, Mesua ferrea].

Ironwood (n.) Exceptionally tough or hard wood of any of a number of ironwood trees.

Ironwood (n.) A small slow-growing deciduous tree of northern Iran having a low domed shape [syn: iron tree, iron-tree, ironwood, ironwood tree].

Ironwood (n.) Medium-sized hop hornbeam of eastern North America [syn: Eastern hop hornbeam, ironwood, ironwood tree, Ostrya virginiana].

Ironwood, MI -- U.S. city in Michigan

Population (2000): 6293

Housing Units (2000): 3349

Land area (2000): 6.553472 sq. miles (16.973415 sq. km)

Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)

Total area (2000): 6.553472 sq. miles (16.973415 sq. km)

FIPS code: 41060

Located within: Michigan (MI), FIPS 26

Location: 46.455931 N, 90.159378 W

ZIP Codes (1990): 49938

Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.

Headwords:

Ironwood, MI

Ironwood

Sidesaddle (n.) A saddle for women, in which the rider sits with both feet on one side of the animal mounted.

Sidesaddle flower (Bot.), A plant with hollow leaves and curiously shaped flowers; -- called also huntsman's cup.

See Sarracenia.

Sidesaddle (adv.) On or as if on a sidesaddle; "she rode sidesaddle."

Sidesaddle (n.) A saddle for a woman; rider sits with both feet on the same side of the horse.

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. -- Milton.

Sidesman (n.) An assistant to the churchwarden; a questman.

Sidesman (n.) (Church of England) an assistant to the churchwarden; collects offerings of money in the church.

Side-taking (n.) A taking sides, as with a party, sect, or faction. -- Bp. Hall.

Sidewalk (n.) A walk for foot passengers at the side of a street or road; a foot pavement. [U.S.]

Sidewalk (n.) Walk consisting of a paved area for pedestrians; usually beside a street or roadway [syn: sidewalk, pavement].

Sideways (adv.) Toward the side; sidewise.

A second refraction made sideways. -- Sir I. Newton.

His beard, a good palm's length, at least, . . . Shot sideways, like a swallow's wings. -- Longfellow.

Sideways (adv.) With one side forward or to the front; "turned sideways to show the profile"; "crabs seeming to walk sidewise" [syn: sideways, sideway, sidewise].

Sideways (adv.) From the side; obliquely; "a picture lit sideways"; "scenes viewed sidewise" [syn: sideway, sideways, sidewise].

Sideways (adv.) Toward one side; "the car slipped sideways into the ditch"; "leaning sideways"; "a figure moving sidewise in the shadows" [syn: sideways, sideway, sidewise].

Sideways (adv.) To, toward or at one side; "darting eyes looking sidelong out of a wizened face" [syn: sidelong, sideways, obliquely].

Sideways (a.) (Of movement) at an angle [syn: crabwise, sideways].

Side-wheel (a.) Having a paddle wheel on each side; -- said of steam vessels; as, a side-wheel steamer.

Sidewinder (n.) (Zool.) See Horned rattler, under Horned.

Sidewinder (n.) A heavy swinging blow from the side, which disables an adversary. [Slang.]

Compare: Horned

Horned (a.) Furnished with a horn or horns; furnished with a hornlike process or appendage; as, horned cattle; having some part shaped like a horn.

The horned moon with one bright star Within the nether tip. -- Coleridge.

Horned bee (Zool.), A British wild bee ({Osmia bicornis"> Horned bee (Zool.), a British wild bee ({Osmia bicornis),

having two little horns on the head.

Horned dace (Zool.), An American cyprinoid fish ({Semotilus corporialis) common in brooks and ponds; the common chub.

See Illust. of Chub.

Horned frog (Zool.), A very large Brazilian frog ({Ceratophrys cornuta), having a pair of triangular horns arising from the eyelids.

Horned grebe (Zool.), A species of grebe ({Colymbus auritus), of Arctic Europe and America, having two dense tufts of feathers on the head.

Horned horse (Zool.), The gnu.

Horned lark (Zool.), The shore lark.

Horned lizard (Zool.), The horned toad.

Horned owl (Zool.), A large North American owl ({Bubo Virginianus), having a pair of elongated tufts of feathers on the head. Several distinct varieties are known; as, the Arctic, Western, dusky, and striped horned owls, differing in color, and inhabiting different regions; -- called also great horned owl, horn owl, eagle owl, and cat owl. Sometimes also applied to the long-eared owl. See Eared owl, under Eared.

Horned poppy. (Bot.) See Horn poppy, under Horn.

Horned pout (Zool.), An American fresh-water siluroid fish; the bullpout.

Horned rattler (Zool.), A species of rattlesnake ({Crotalus cerastes), inhabiting the dry, sandy plains, from California to Mexico. It has a pair of triangular horns between the eyes; -- called also sidewinder.

Horned ray (Zool.), The sea devil.

Horned screamer (Zool.), The kamichi.

Horned snake (Zool.), The cerastes.

Horned toad (Zool.), Any lizard of the genus Phrynosoma, of which nine or ten species are known. These lizards have several hornlike spines on the head, and a broad, flat body, covered with spiny scales. They inhabit the dry, sandy plains from California to Mexico and Texas. Called also horned lizard.

Horned viper. (Zool.) See Cerastes.

Sidewinder (n.) Small pale-colored desert rattlesnake of southwestern United States; body moves in an s-shaped curve [syn: sidewinder, horned rattlesnake, Crotalus cerastes].

Sidewinder (n.) Air-to-air missile with infrared homing device.

Sidewise (adv.) On or toward one side; laterally; sideways.

I saw them mask their awful glance Sidewise meek in gossamer lids. -- Emerson.

Sidewise (adv.) Toward one side; "the car slipped sideways into the ditch"; "leaning sideways"; "a figure moving sidewise in the shadows" [syn: sideways, sideway, sidewise].

Sidewise (adv.) With one side forward or to the front; "turned sideways to show the profile"; "crabs seeming to walk sidewise" [syn: sideways, sideway, sidewise].

Sidewise (adv.) From the side; obliquely; "a picture lit sideways"; "scenes viewed sidewise" [syn: sideway, sideways, sidewise].

Siding (n.) Attaching one's self to a party.

Siding (n.) A side track, as a railroad; a turnout.

Siding (n.) (Carp.) The covering of the outside wall of a frame house, whether made of weatherboards, vertical boarding with cleats, shingles, or the like.

Siding (n.) (Shipbuilding) 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.

Siding (n.) A short stretch of railroad track used to store rolling stock or enable trains on the same line to pass [syn: siding, railroad siding, turnout, sidetrack].

Siding (n.) Material applied to the outside of a building to make it weatherproof.

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. -- Swift.

He . . . then sidled close to the astonished girl. -- Sir W. Scott.

Sidle (v.) Move unobtrusively or furtively; "The young man began to sidle near the pretty girl sitting on the log."

Sidle (v.) Move sideways [syn: sidle, sashay].

Siege (n.) A seat; especially, a royal seat; a throne. [Obs.] "Upon the very siege of justice." -- Shak.

A stately siege of sovereign majesty, And thereon sat a woman gorgeous gay. -- Spenser.

In our great hall there stood a vacant chair . . . And Merlin called it "The siege perilous." -- Tennyson.

Siege (n.) Hence, place or situation; seat. [Obs.]

Ah! traitorous eyes, come out of your shameless siege forever. -- Painter (Palace of Pleasure).

Siege (n.) Rank; grade; station; estimation. [Obs.]

I fetch my life and being From men of royal siege. -- Shak.

Siege (n.) Passage of excrements; stool; fecal matter. [Obs.]

The siege of this mooncalf. -- Shak.

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.

Love stood the siege, and would not yield his breast. -- Dryden.

Siege (n.) The floor of a glass-furnace.

Siege (n.) A workman's bench. -- Knught.

Siege gun, A heavy gun for siege operations.

Siege train, Artillery adapted for attacking fortified places.

Siege (v. t.) To besiege; to beset. [R.]

Through all the dangers that can siege The life of man. -- Buron.

Siege (n.) The action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack [syn: siege, besieging, beleaguering, military blockade].

Siegework (n.) A temporary fort or parallel where siege guns are mounted.

Siemens-Martin process () See Open-hearth process, etc., under Open.

Compare: Open

Open (a.) Free of access; not shut up; not closed; affording unobstructed ingress or egress; not impeding or preventing passage; not locked up or covered over; -- applied to passageways; as, an open door, window, road, etc.; also, to inclosed structures or objects; as, open houses, boxes, baskets, bottles, etc.; also, to means of communication or approach by water or land; as, an open harbor or roadstead.

Through the gate, Wide open and unguarded, Satan passed. -- Milton

Note: Also, figuratively, used of the ways of communication of the mind, as by the senses; ready to hear, see, etc.; as, to keep one's eyes and ears open.

His ears are open unto their cry. -- Ps. xxxiv. 15.

Open (a.) Free to be used, enjoyed, visited, or the like; not private; public; unrestricted in use; as, an open library, museum, court, or other assembly; liable to the approach, trespass, or attack of any one; unprotected; exposed.

If Demetrius . . . have a matter against any man, the law is open and there are deputies. -- Acts xix. 33.

The service that I truly did his life, Hath left me open to all injuries. -- Shak.

Open (a.) Free or cleared of obstruction to progress or to view; accessible; as, an open tract; the open sea.

Open (a.) Not drawn together, closed, or contracted; extended; expanded; as, an open hand; open arms; an open flower; an open prospect.

Each, with open arms, embraced her chosen knight. -- Dryden.

Open (a.) Hence: (a) Without reserve or false pretense; sincere; characterized by sincerity; unfeigned; frank; also, generous; liberal; bounteous; -- applied to personal appearance, or character, and to the expression of thought and feeling, etc.

With aspect open, shall erect his head. -- Pope.

The Moor is of a free and open nature. -- Shak.

The French are always open, familiar, and talkative. -- Addison.

Open (a.) Hence: (b) Not concealed or secret; not hidden or disguised; exposed to view or to knowledge; revealed; apparent; as, open schemes or plans; open shame or guilt; open source code.

His thefts are too open. -- Shak.

That I may find him, and with secret gaze Or open admiration him behold. -- Milton.

Open (a.) Not of a quality to prevent communication, as by closing water ways, blocking roads, etc.; hence, not frosty or inclement; mild; -- used of the weather or the climate; as, an open season; an open winter. -- Bacon.

Open (a.) Not settled or adjusted; not decided or determined; not closed or withdrawn from consideration; as, an open account; an open question; to keep an offer or opportunity open.

Open (a.) Free; disengaged; unappropriated; as, to keep a day open for any purpose; to be open for an engagement.

Open (a.) (Phon.) (a) Uttered with a relatively wide opening of the articulating organs; -- said of vowels; as, the [aum]n f[aum]r is open as compared with the [=a] in s[=a]y.

Open (a.) (Phon.) (b) Uttered, as a consonant, with the oral passage simply narrowed without closure, as in uttering s.

Open (a.) (Mus.) (a) Not closed or stopped with the finger; -- said of the string of an instrument, as of a violin, when it is allowed to vibrate throughout its whole length.

Open (a.) (Mus.) (b) Produced by an open string; as, an open tone.

The open air, the air out of doors.

Open chain. (Chem.) See Closed chain, under Chain.

Open circuit (Elec.), A conducting circuit which is incomplete, or interrupted at some point; -- opposed to an uninterrupted, or closed circuit.

Open communion, Communion in the Lord's supper not restricted to persons who have been baptized by immersion.

Cf. Close communion, under Close, a.

Open diapason (Mus.), A certain stop in an organ, in which the pipes or tubes are formed like the mouthpiece of a flageolet at the end where the wind enters, and are open at the other end.

Open flank (Fort.), The part of the flank covered by the orillon.

Open-front furnace (Metal.), A blast furnace having a forehearth.

Open harmony (Mus.), Harmony the tones of which are widely dispersed, or separated by wide intervals.

Open hawse (Naut.), A hawse in which the cables are parallel or slightly divergent. Cf. Foul hawse, under Hawse.

Open hearth (Metal.), The shallow hearth of a reverberatory furnace.

Open-hearth furnace, A reverberatory furnace; esp., a kind of reverberatory furnace in which the fuel is gas, used in manufacturing steel.

Open-hearth process (Steel Manuf.), A process by which melted cast iron is converted into steel by the addition of wrought iron, or iron ore and manganese, and by exposure to heat in an open-hearth furnace; -- also called the Siemens-Martin process, from the inventors.

Open-hearth steel, Steel made by an open-hearth process; -- also called Siemens-Martin steel.

Open newel. (Arch.) See Hollow newel, under Hollow.

Open pipe (Mus.), A pipe open at the top. It has a pitch about an octave higher than a closed pipe of the same length.

Open-timber roof (Arch.), A roof of which the constructional parts, together with the under side of the covering, or its lining, are treated ornamentally, and left to form the ceiling of an apartment below, as in a church, a public hall, and the like.

Open vowel or Open consonant. See Open, a., 9.

Note: Open is used in many compounds, most of which are self-explaining; as, open-breasted, open-minded.

Syn: Unclosed; uncovered; unprotected; exposed; plain; apparent; obvious; evident; public; unreserved; frank; sincere; undissembling; artless. See Candid, and Ingenuous.

Sienite (n.) (Min.) See Syenite.

Sienitic (a.) See Syenitic.

Sienna (n.) (Chem.) 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.

Burnt sienna, Sienna made of a much redder color by the action of fire.

Raw sienna, Sienna in its natural state, of a transparent yellowish brown color.

Sienna (n.) An earth color containing ferric oxides; used as a pigment.

Siennese (a.) Of or pertaining to Sienna, a city of Italy.

Sierra (n.) 【地】鋸齒山脊 [P1]；【魚】馬鮫 [C] A ridge of mountain and craggy rocks, with a serrated or irregular outline; as, the Sierra Nevada.

The wild sierra overhead. -- Whitter.

Sierra (n.) A range of mountains (usually with jagged peaks and irregular outline).

Sierra (n.) A Spanish mackerel of western North America [syn: sierra, Scomberomorus sierra].

Sierra, () (Or "Sierra On-Line") A computer game developer founded in the early 1980s by Ken and Roberta Willams in the small mountain town of Oakhurst California. Sierra was named after the local mountian range, 15 miles from the famous Yosemite National Park.

In 1997 Sierra was purchased by CUC and its main office is now in Seattle, WA, USA.

Products include Kings Quest, Space Quest, Police Quest, Quest for Glory, Robin Hood, Phantasmagoria, Leisure Suit Larry, Eco Quest and many more.

(1997-11-23)

Sierra -- U.S. County in California

Population (2000): 3555

Housing Units (2000): 2202

Land area (2000): 953.381960 sq. miles (2469.247836 sq. km)

Water area (2000): 8.592233 sq. miles (22.253781 sq. km)

Total area (2000): 961.974193 sq. miles (2491.501617 sq. km)

Located within: California (CA), FIPS 06

Location: 39.582063 N, 120.534038 W

Headwords:

Sierra

Sierra, CA

Sierra County

Sierra County, CA

Sierra -- U.S. County in New Mexico

Population (2000): 13270

Housing Units (2000): 8727

Land area (2000): 4180.232226 sq. miles (10826.751302 sq. km)

Water area (2000): 56.070649 sq. miles (145.222307 sq. km)

Total area (2000): 4236.302875 sq. miles (10971.973609 sq. km)

Located within: New Mexico (NM), FIPS 35

Location: 33.095349 N, 107.291198 W
Headwords:

Sierra

Sierra, NM

Sierra County

Sierra County, NM

Sierra (n.) [C] （尤指南北美洲和西班牙的）鋸齒狀山嶺 A range of steep mountains, especially in North and South America and Spain.

Siesta (n.) A short sleep taken about the middle of the day, or after dinner; a midday nap.

Siesta (n.) A nap in the early afternoon (especially in hot countries).

Sieur (n.) Sir; -- a title of respect used by the French.

Sieva (n.) (Bot.) 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. "In a sieve thrown and sifted." -- Chaucer.

Sieve (n.) A kind of coarse basket. -- Simmonds.

Sieve cells (Bot.), Cribriform cells. See under Cribriform.

Sieve (n.) A strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles [syn: sieve, screen].

Sieve (v.) Examine in order to test suitability; "screen these samples"; "screen the job applicants" [syn: screen, screen out, sieve, sort].

Sieve (v.) Check and sort carefully; "sift the information" [syn: sieve, sift].

Sieve (v.) Separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements; "sift the flour" [syn: sift, sieve, strain].

Sieve (v.) Distinguish and separate out; "sift through the job candidates" [syn: sieve, sift].

Sifac (n.) (Zool.) 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. [Obs.] -- A. Brewer.

Sifilet (n.) (Zool.) 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.

When yellow sands are sifted from below, The glittering billows give a golden show. -- Dryden.

Sift (v. t.) To examine critically or minutely; to scrutinize.

Sifting the very utmost sentence and syllable. -- Hooker.

Opportunity I here have had To try thee, sift thee. -- Milton.

Let him but narrowly sift his ideas. -- I. Taylor.

To sift out, To search out with care, as if by sifting.

Sift (v.) Move as if through a sieve; "The soldiers sifted through the woods."

Sift (v.) Separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements; "sift the flour" [syn: sift, sieve, strain].

Sift (v.) Check and sort carefully; "sift the information" [syn: sieve, sift].

Sift (v.) Distinguish and separate out; "sift through the job candidates" [syn: sieve, sift].

SIFT, () Software Implemented Fault Tolerance (HIFT).

SIFT, () SHARE Internal Fortran Translator. Translation utility designed for converting Fortran II to Fortran IV. The word "sift" was often used as a verb to describe converting code from one language to another. Sammet 1969, p.153.

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 (n.) Urine. [Prov. Eng.]

SIG, () Special Interest Group.

SIG (n.) (Also common as a prefix in combining forms) A Special Interest Group, in one of several technical areas, sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery; well-known ones include SIGPLAN (the Special Interest Group on Programming Languages), SIGARCH (the Special Interest Group for Computer Architecture) and SIGGRAPH (the Special Interest Group for Computer Graphics). Hackers, not surprisingly, like to overextend this naming convention to less formal associations like SIGBEER (at ACM conferences) and SIGFOOD (at University of Illinois).

Sig, () Signal Processing, Analysis, and Display program. An environment with an associated programming language by Jan Carter of Argonne National Lab. Telephone +1 (312) 972 7250.

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Signature

Sig, () A set of function symbols with arities.

Signature

Sig, () (Or sig) A few lines of information about the sender of an electronic mail message or news posting.

Most Unix mail and news software will automagically append a signature from a file called .signature in the user's home directory to outgoing mail and news.

A signature should give your real name and your e-mail address since, though these appear in the headers of your messages, they may be munged by intervening software. It is currently (1994) hip to include the URL of your home page on the web in your sig.

The composition of one's sig can be quite an art form, including an ASCII logo or one's choice of witty sayings (see sig quote, fool file). However, large sigs are a waste of bandwidth, and it has been observed that the size of one's sig block is usually inversely proportional to one's prestige on the net.