Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 83

Sinch (v. t.) To gird with a sinch; to tighten the sinch or girth of (a saddle); as, to sinch up a sadle. [Western U.S.]

Sincipital (a.) (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the sinciput; being in the region of the sinciput.

Sinciput (n.) (Anat.) The fore part of the head.

Sinciput (n.) (Zool.) The part of the head of a bird between the base of the bill and the vertex.

Sinciput (n.) The front part of the head or skull (including the forehead).

Sindon (n.) A wrapper. [Obs.] "Wrapped in sindons of linen." -- Bacon.

Sindon (n.) (Surg.) A small rag or pledget introduced into the hole in the cranium made by a trephine. -- Dunglison.

Sine (n.) (Trig.) The length of a perpendicular drawn from one extremity of an arc of a circle to the diameter drawn through the other extremity.

Sine (n.) (Trig.) The perpendicular itself. See Sine of angle, below.

Artificial sines, Logarithms of the natural sines, or   logarithmic sines.

Curve of sines. See Sinusoid.

Natural sines, The decimals expressing the values of the sines, the radius being unity.

Sine of an angle, In a circle whose radius is unity, the sine of the arc that measures the angle; in a right-angled triangle, the side opposite the given angle divided by the hypotenuse. See Trigonometrical function, under Function.

Versed sine, That part of the diameter between the sine and the arc.

Sine (prep.) [L.] Without.

Sine (n.) Ratio of the length of the side opposite the given angle to the length of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle [syn: sine, sin].

Sinecural (a.) Of or pertaining to a sinecure; being in the nature of a sinecure.

Sinecure (n.) An ecclesiastical benefice without the care of souls. -- Ayliffe.

Sinecure (n.) Any office or position which requires or involves little or no responsibility, labor, or active service.

A lucrative sinecure in the Excise. -- Macaulay.

Sinecure (v. t.) To put or place in a sinecure.

Sinecure (n.) A benefice to which no spiritual or pastoral duties are attached.

Sinecure (n.) An office that involves minimal duties.

Sinecure () In the ecclesiastical law, this term is used to signify that an ecclesiastical officer is without a charge or cure.

Sinecure () In common parlance it means the receipt of a salary for an office when there are no duties to be performed.

Sinecurism (n.) The state of having a sinecure.

Sinecurist (n.) One who has a sinecure.

Sine die (adv.) Without a date fixed (as of an adjournment).

Sine die. () Without day. A judgment for a defendant in many cases is quod eat sine die, that he may go without day. While the cause is pending and undetermined, it may be continued from term to term by dies datus. (q.v.) See Huxley's Judgments & Rastal's Entries, passim; Co. Litt. 362b & 363a. When the court or other body rise at the end of a session or term they adjourn sine die.

Sine die (adv.) Without any future date being designated (as for resumption) :  Indefinitely <the meeting adjourned sine die> .

Origin and Etymology of sine die : Latin, without day, First Known Use: 1607.

Sinew (n.) (Anat.) A tendon or tendonous tissue. See Tendon.

Sinew (n.) Muscle; nerve. [R.] -- Sir J. Davies.

Sinew (n.) Fig.: That which supplies strength or power.

The portion and sinew of her fortune, her marriage dowry. -- Shak.

The bodies of men, munition, and money, may justly be called the sinews of war. -- Sir W. Raleigh.

Note: Money alone is often called the sinews of war.

Sinewed (imp. & p. p.) of Sinew.

Sinewing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sinew.

Sinew (v. t.) To knit together, or make strong with, or as with, sinews.  -- Shak.

Wretches, now stuck up for long tortures . . . might, if properly treated, serve to sinew the state in time of danger. -- Goldsmith.

Sinew (n.) A cord or band of inelastic tissue connecting a muscle with its bony attachment [syn: tendon, sinew].

Sinew (n.) Possessing muscular strength [syn: brawn, brawniness, muscle, muscularity, sinew, heftiness].

Sinewed (a.) Furnished with sinews; as, a strong-sinewed youth.

Sinewed (a.) Fig.: Equipped; strengthened.

When he sees Ourselves well sinewed to our defense. -- Shak.

Sinewiness (n.) Quality of being sinewy.

Sinewish (a.) Sinewy. [Obs.] -- Holinshed.

Sinewless (a.) Having no sinews; hence, having no strength or vigor.

Sinewous (a.) Sinewy. [Obs.] -- Holinshed.

Sinew-shrunk (a.) (Far.) Having the sinews under the belly shrunk by excessive fatigue.

Sinewy (a.) Pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling, a sinew or sinews.

The sinewy thread my brain lets fall. -- Donne.

Sinewy (a.) Well braced with, or as if with, sinews; nervous; vigorous; strong; firm; tough; as, the sinewy Ajax.

A man whose words . . . were so close and sinewy. -- Hare.

Sinewy (a.) (Of meat) Full of sinews; especially impossible to chew [syn: fibrous, sinewy, stringy, unchewable].

Sinewy (a.) Consisting of tendons or resembling a tendon [syn: tendinous, sinewy].

Sinewy (a.) (Of a person) Possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful; "a hefty athlete"; "a muscular boxer"; "powerful arms" [syn: brawny, hefty, muscular, powerful, sinewy].

Sinful (a.) Tainted with, or full of, sin; wicked; iniquitous; criminal; unholy; as, sinful men; sinful thoughts.

Sung (imp.) of Sing.

Sang () of Sing.

Sung (p. p.) of Sing.

Singing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sing.

Sing (v. i.) To utter sounds with musical inflections or melodious modulations of voice, as fancy may dictate, or according to the notes of a song or tune, or of a given part (as alto, tenor, etc.) in a chorus or concerted piece.

The noise of them that sing do I hear. -- Ex. xxxii. 18.

Sing (v. i.) To utter sweet melodious sounds, as birds do.

On every bough the briddes heard I sing. -- Chaucer.

Singing birds, in silver cages hung. -- Dryden.

Sing (v. i.) To make a small, shrill sound; as, the air sings in passing through a crevice.

O'er his head the flying spear Sang innocent, and spent its force in air. -- Pope.

Sing (v. i.) To tell or relate something in numbers or verse; to celebrate something in poetry. -- Milton.

Bid her . . . sing Of human hope by cross event destroyed. -- Prior.

Sing (v. i.) Ti cry out; to complain. [Obs.]

They should sing if thet they were bent. -- Chaucer.

Sing (v. t.) To utter with musical infections or modulations of voice.

And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb. -- Rev. xv. 3.

And in the darkness sing your carol of high praise. -- Keble.

Sing (v. t.) To celebrate is song; to give praises to in verse; to relate or rehearse in numbers, verse, or poetry. -- Milton.

Arms and the man I sing. -- Dryden.

The last, the happiest British king, Whom thou shalt paint or I shall sing. -- Addison.

Sing (v. t.) To influence by singing; to lull by singing; as, to sing a child to sleep.

Sing (v. t.) To accompany, or attend on, with singing.

I heard them singing home the bride. -- Longfellow.

Sing (v.) Deliver by singing; "Sing Christmas carols."

Sing (v.) Produce tones with the voice; "She was singing while she was cooking"; "My brother sings very well."

Sing (v.) To make melodious sounds; "The nightingale was singing."

Sing (v.) Make a whining, ringing, or whistling sound; "the kettle was singing"; "the bullet sang past his ear" [syn: whistle, sing].

Sing (v.) Divulge confidential information or secrets; "Be careful--his secretary talks" [syn: spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag, talk, tattle, blab, peach, babble, sing, babble out, blab out] [ant: keep one's mouth shut, keep quiet, shut one's mouth].

Singapore (n.) (proper noun) 新加坡 A country in SE Asia that consists of the island of Singapore (linked by a causeway to the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula) and about 54 smaller islands; population 5,600,000 (estimated 2015); capital, Singapore City; official languages, Malay, Chinese, Tamil, and English.

Established as a trading post under the East India Company in 1819, Singapore came under British colonial rule in 1867 as part of the Straits Settlements with Penang and Malacca. Singapore rapidly grew to become the most important commercial centre and naval base in SE Asia. After the Second World War it became first a British Crown Colony in 1946 and then a self-governing state within the Commonwealth in 1959. Federated with Malaysia in 1963, it declared full independence two years later.

Singed (imp. & p. p.) of Singe.

Singeing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Singe.

Singe (v. t.) To burn slightly or superficially; to burn the surface of; to burn the ends or outside of; as, to singe the hair or the skin.

You sulphurous and thought-executing fires, . . . Singe my white head! -- Shak.

I singed the toes of an ape through a burning glass. -- L'Estrange.

Singe (v. t.) To remove the nap of (cloth), by passing it rapidly over a red-hot bar, or over a flame, preliminary to dyeing it.

Singe (v. t.) To remove the hair or down from (a plucked chicken or the like) by passing it over a flame.

Singe (n.) A burning of the surface; a slight burn.

Singe (n.) A surface burn [syn: scorch, singe].

Singe (v.) Burn superficially or lightly; "I singed my eyebrows" [syn: singe, swinge].

Singe (v.) Become superficially burned; "my eyebrows singed when I bent over the flames" [syn: scorch, sear, singe].

Singer (n.) One who, or that which, singes. Specifically:

Singer (n.) One employed to singe cloth.

Singer (n.) A machine for singeing cloth.

Singer (n.) One who sings; especially, one whose profession is to sing.

Singer (n.) A person who sings [syn: singer, vocalist, vocalizer, vocaliser].

Singer (n.) United States inventor of an improved chain-stitch sewing machine (1811-1875) [syn: Singer, Isaac M. Singer, Isaac Merrit Singer].

Singer (n.) United States writer (born in Poland) of Yiddish stories and novels (1904-1991) [syn: Singer, Isaac Bashevis Singer].

Singeress (n.) A songstress. [Obs.] -- Wyclif.

Singhalese (n. & a.)  (Ethnol.) Same as Cingalese.

Compare: Cingalese

Cingalese (n. sing. & pl.) [Cf. F. Cingalais.] A native or natives of Ceylon descended from its primitive inhabitants; also (sing.), the language of the Cingalese. -- a. Of or pertaining to the Cingalese. [Written also Singhalese.]

Note: Ceylonese is applied to the inhabitants of the island in general.

Singhalese (a.) Of or relating to the Sinhalese languages; "the Sinhalese versions of the Ramayana" [syn: Sinhala, Singhalese, Sinhalese].

Singhalese (a.) Of or relating to the Sinhalese people; "Sinhalese rebels fighting the Tamils" [syn: Singhalese, Sinhalese].

Singhalese (n.) A native or inhabitant of Sri Lanka [syn: Sinhalese, Singhalese].

Singhalese (n.) The Indic language spoken by the people of Sri Lanka [syn: Sinhalese, Singhalese, Sinhala].

Singing () a. & n. from Sing, v.

Singingly (adv.) With sounds like singing; with a kind of tune; in a singing tone. -- G. North (1575).

Single (a.) One only, as distinguished from more than one; consisting of one alone; individual; separate; as, a single star.

No single man is born with a right of controlling the opinions of all the rest. -- Pope.

Single (a.) Alone; having no companion.

Who single hast maintained, Against revolted multitudes, the cause Of truth. -- Milton.

Single (a.) Hence, unmarried; as, a single man or woman.

Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness. -- Shak.

Single chose to live, and shunned to wed. -- Dryden.

Single (a.) Not doubled, twisted together, or combined with others; as, a single thread; a single strand of a rope.

Single (a.) Performed by one person, or one on each side; as, a single combat.

These shifts refuted, answer thy appellant, . . . Who now defles thee thrice ti single fight. -- Milton.

Single (a.) Uncompounded; pure; unmixed.

Simple ideas are opposed to complex, and single to compound. -- I. Watts.

Single (a.) Not deceitful or artful; honest; sincere.

I speak it with a single heart. -- Shak.

Single (a.) Simple; not wise; weak; silly. [Obs.]

He utters such single matter in so infantly a voice. -- Beau. & Fl.

Single ale, Single beer, or Single drink, small ale, etc., as contrasted with double ale, etc., which is stronger. [Obs.] -- Nares.

Single bill (Law), A written engagement, generally under seal, for the payment of money, without a penalty. -- Burril.

Single court (Lawn Tennis), A court laid out for only two players.

Single-cut file. See the Note under 4th File.

Single entry. See under Bookkeeping.

Single file. See under 1st File.

Single flower (Bot.), A flower with but one set of petals, as a wild rose.

Single knot. See Illust. under Knot.

Single whip (Naut.), A single rope running through a fixed block.

Single (n.) A unit; one; as, to score a single.

Single (n.) pl. The reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness.

Single (n.) A handful of gleaned grain. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

Single (n.) (Law Tennis) A game with but one player on each side; -- usually in the plural.

Single (n.) (Baseball) A hit by a batter which enables him to reach first base only.

Singled (imp. & p. p.) of Single.

Singling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Single.

Single (v. t.) To select, as an individual person or thing, from among a number; to choose out from others; to separate.

Dogs who hereby can single out their master in the dark. -- Bacon.

His blood! she faintly screamed her mind Still singling one from all mankind. -- More.

Single (v. t.) To sequester; to withdraw; to retire. [Obs.]

An agent singling itself from consorts. -- Hooker.

Single (v. t.) To take alone, or one by one.

Men . . . commendable when they are singled. -- Hooker.

Single (v. i.) To take the irrregular gait called single-foot;- said of a horse. See Single-foot.

Many very fleet horses, when overdriven, adopt a disagreeable gait, which seems to be a cross between a pace and a trot, in which the two legs of one side are raised almost but not quite, simultaneously. Such horses are said to single, or to be single-footed. -- W. S. Clark.

Single (a.) Being or characteristic of a single thing or person; "individual drops of rain"; "please mark the individual

pages"; "they went their individual ways" [syn: individual, single] [ant: common].

Single (a.) Used of flowers having usually only one row or whorl of petals; "single chrysanthemums resemble daisies and may have more than one row of petals" [ant: double].

Single (a.) Existing alone or consisting of one entity or part or aspect or individual; "upon the hill stood a single tower"; "had but a single thought which was to escape"; "a single survivor"; "a single serving"; "a single lens"; "a single thickness" [ant: multiple].

Single (a.) Not married or related to the unmarried state; "unmarried men and women"; "unmarried life"; "sex and the single girl"; "single parenthood"; "are you married or single?" [syn: unmarried, single] [ant: married].

Single (a.) Characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing; "an individual serving"; "single occupancy"; "a single bed" [syn: individual, single(a)].

Single (a.) Having uniform application; "a single legal code for all."

Single (a.) Not divided among or brought to bear on more than one object or objective; "judging a contest with a single eye"; "a single devotion to duty"; "undivided affection"; "gained their exclusive attention" [syn: single(a), undivided, exclusive].

Single (n.) A base hit on which the batter stops safely at first base [syn: single, bingle].

Single (n.) The smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number; "he has the one but will need a two and three to go with it"; "they had lunch at one" [syn: one, 1, I, ace, single, unity].

Single (v.) Hit a single; "the batter singled to left field."

Single-acting (a.) Having simplicity of action; especially (Mach.), acting or exerting force during strokes in one direction only; -- said of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.

Single-breasted (a.) Lapping over the breast only far enough to permit of buttoning, and having buttons on one edge only; as, a single-breasted coast.

Single-breasted (a.) (Of clothing) Closing with a narrow overlap and fastened with a single row of buttons; "a single-breasted jacket" [ant: double-breasted].

Single-foot (n.) An irregular gait of a horse; -- called also single-footed pace. See Single, v. i.

Single-foot is an irregular pace, rather rare, distinguished by the posterior extremities moving in the order of a fast walk, and the anterior extremities in that of a slow trot. -- Stillman (The Horse in Motion.)

Single-foot (v. i.) To proceed by means of the single-foot, as a horse or other quadruped. -- Sin"gle-foot`er, n.

Single-foot (n.) A rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately [syn: rack, single-foot].

Single-foot (v.) Go at a rack; "the horses single-footed" [syn: single-foot, rack].

Single-handed (a.) Having but one hand, or one workman; also, alone; unassisted.

Single-handed (adv.) Without assistance; "I built this house single-handedly" [syn: single-handed, single-handedly].

Single-handed (a.) Unsupported by other people [syn: single-handed, unassisted, unbacked].

Single-handed (a.) Without help from others; "a single-handed accomplishment."

Single-hearted (a.) Having an honest heart; free from duplicity. -- Sin"gle-heart"ed*ly, adv.

Single-minded (a.) Having a single purpose; concentrating on a single goal; hence, artless; guileless; single-hearted.

Single-minded (a.) Determined; "she was firmly resolved to be a doctor"; "single-minded in his determination to stop smoking" [syn: single-minded, resolved].

Singleness (n.) The quality or state of being single, or separate from all others; the opposite of doubleness, complication, or multiplicity.

Singleness (n.) Freedom from duplicity, or secondary and selfish ends; purity of mind or purpose; simplicity; sincerity; as, singleness of purpose; singleness of heart.

Singleness (n.) Without hypocrisy; "the singleness of his motives could not be questioned" [syn: singleness, straightforwardness].

Singleness (n.) The quality of concentrating on one central objective; "his singleness of purpose."

Singles (n. pl.) See Single, n., 2.

Singles (a.) For unmarried persons, or catering especially to unmarried persons; as, a singles bar; a singles party.

Singles (n.) Badminton played with one person on each side.

Singles (n.) Tennis played with one person on each side.

Single sb/ sth out (-phrasal verb with single) (v.) [ I ] (爲給予批評、表揚等)單獨挑出 To choose one person or thing from a group for special attention, especially criticism or praise.

// It's not fair the way my sister is always singled out for special treatment.

// Jamie was thrilled when the teacher singled out his poem and asked him to read it aloud.

Singlestick (n.) In England and Scotland, a cudgel used in fencing or fighting; a backsword.

Singlestick (n.) The game played with singlesticks, in which he who first brings blood from his adversary's head is pronounced victor; backsword; cudgeling.

Singlestick (n.) A stick used instead of a sword for fencing [syn: singlestick, fencing stick, backsword].

Singlet (n.) An unlined or undyed waistcoat; a single garment; -- opposed to doublet. [Prov. Eng.]

Singlet (n.) A collarless men's undergarment for the upper part of the body [syn: singlet, vest, undershirt].

Singleton (n.) In certain games at cards, as whist, a single card of any suit held at the deal by a player; as, to lead a singleton.

Singleton (n.) A single object (as distinguished from a pair).

Singleton (n.) A set containing a single member.

Singleton (n.) The playing card that is the only card in a suit held in a bridge hand as initially dealt.

Singletree (n.) The pivoted or swinging bar to which the traces of a harnessed horse are fixed; a whiffletree.

Note: When two horses draw abreast, a singletree is fixed at each end of another crosspiece, called the doubletree.

Singly (adv.) Individually; particularly; severally; as, to make men singly and personally good.

Singly (adv.) Only; by one's self; alone.

Look thee, 't is so! Thou singly honest man. --Shak.

Singly (adv.) Without partners, companions, or associates; single-handed; as, to attack another singly.

At omber singly to decide their doom. -- Pope.

Singly (adv.) Honestly; sincerely; simply. [R.] -- Johnson.

Singly (adv.) Singularly; peculiarly. [Obs.] -- Milton.

Singly (adv.) One by one; one at a time; "they were arranged singly" [ant: multiply].

Singly (adv.) Apart from others; "taken individually, the rooms were, in fact, square"; "the fine points are treated singly" [syn: individually, separately, singly, severally, one by one, on an individual basis].

Sing-sing (n.) (Zool.) The kob.

Singsong (n.) Bad singing or poetry.

Singsong (n.) A drawling or monotonous tone, as of a badly executed song.

Singsong (a.) Drawling; monotonous; having a monotonous cadence.

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