Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 87
Sitfast (n.) (Far.) A callosity with inflamed edges, on the back of a horse, under the saddle.
Sith (prep., adv., & conj.) Since; afterwards; seeing that. [Obs.]
We need not fear them, sith Christ is with us. -- Latimer.
Sith thou art rightful judge. -- Chaucer. Sith
Sith (n.) Alt. of Sithe.
Sithe (n.) Time. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
And humbly thanked him a thousand sithes. -- Spenser.
Scythe (v. t.) To cut with a scythe; to cut off as with a scythe; to mow. [Obs.]
Time had not scythed all that youth begun. -- Shak.
Scythe (n.) [Written also sithe and sythe.] An instrument for mowing grass, grain, or the like, by hand, composed of a long, curving blade, with a sharp edge, made fast to a long handle, called a snath, which is bent into a form convenient for use.
The sharp-edged scythe shears up the spiring grass. -- Drayton.
Whatever thing The scythe of Time mows down. -- Milton.
Scythe (n.) (Antiq.) A scythe-shaped blade attached to ancient war chariots.
Scythe (n.) An edge tool for cutting grass; has a long handle that must be held with both hands and a curved blade that moves parallel to the ground.
Scythe (v.) Cut with a scythe; "scythe grass or grain".
Sithe (v. i.) To sigh.
Note: [A spelling of a corrupt and provincial pronunciation.]
Sithe (n.) A scythe. [Obs.] -- Milton.
Sithe (v. t.) To cut with a scythe; to scythe. [Obs.]
Sithed (a.) Scythed. [Obs.] -- T. Warton.
Sitheman (n.) A mower. [Obs.] -- Marston.
Sithen (adv. & conj.) Since; afterwards. See 1st Sith. [Obs.]
Fortune was first friend and sithen foe. -- Chaucer. Sithence
Sithence (adv. & conj.) Alt. of Sithens.
Sithens (adv. & conj.) Since. See Sith, and Sithen. [Obs.] -- Piers Plowman.
Siththen (adv. & conj.) See Sithen. [Obs.]
Siththen that the world began. -- Chaucer.
Sitology (n.) A treatise on the regulation of the diet; dietetics. [Written also sitiology.]
Sitophobia (n.) (Med.) A version to food; refusal to take nourishment. [Written also sitiophobia.]
Sitten () p. p. of Sit, for sat.
Sitter (n.) One who sits; esp., one who sits for a portrait or a bust.
Sitter (n.) A bird that sits or incubates.
Sitter (n.) Dutch astronomer who calculated the size of the universe and suggested that it is expanding (1872-1934) [syn: Sitter, Willem de Sitter].
Sitter (n.) An organism (person or animal) that sits [ant: stander].
Sitter (n.) A person engaged to care for children when the parents are not home [syn: babysitter, baby-sitter, sitter].
Sitter (n.) A person who poses for a painter or sculptor [syn: artist's model, sitter].
Sitter (n.) A domestic hen ready to brood [syn: brood hen, broody, broody hen, setting hen, sitter].
Sittine (a.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the family Sittidae, or nuthatches.
Sitting (a.) Being in the state, or the position, of one who, or that which, sits.
Sitting (n.) The state or act of one who sits; the posture of one who occupies a seat.
Sitting (n.) A seat, or the space occupied by or allotted for a person, in a church, theater, etc.; as, the hall has 800 sittings.
Sitting (n.) The act or time of sitting, as to a portrait painter, photographer, etc.
Sitting (n.) The actual presence or meeting of any body of men in their seats, clothed with authority to transact business; a session; as, a sitting of the judges of the King's Bench, or of a commission.
The sitting closed in great agitation. -- Macaulay.
Sitting (n.) The time during which one sits while doing something, as reading a book, playing a game, etc.
For the understanding of any one of St. Paul's Epistles I read it all through at one sitting. -- Locke.
Sitting (n.) A brooding over eggs for hatching, as by fowls.
The male bird . . . amuses her [the female] with his songs during the whole time of her sitting. -- Addison.
Sitting room, An apartment where the members of a family usually sit, as distinguished from a drawing-room, parlor, chamber, or kitchen. Situate
Sitting (a.) (Of persons) Having the torso erect and legs bent with the body supported on the buttocks; "the seated Madonna"; "the audience remained seated" [syn: seated, sitting] [ant: standing].
Sitting (a.) Not moving and therefore easy to attack; "a sitting target".
Sitting (n.) (Photography) The act of assuming a certain position (as for a photograph or portrait); "he wanted his portrait painted but couldn't spare time for the sitting" [syn: sitting, posing].
Sitting (n.) The act of assuming or maintaining a seated position; "he read the mystery at one sitting".
Sitting (n.) A meeting of spiritualists; "the seance was held in the medium's parlor" [syn: seance, sitting, session].
Sitting (n.) A session as of a legislature or court.
Sitting, () The attitude generally assumed in Palestine by those who were engaged in any kind of work. "The carpenter saws, planes, and hews with his hand-adze, sitting on the ground or upon the plank he is planning. The washerwoman sits by the tub; and, in a word, no one stands when it is possible to sit. Shopkeepers always sit, and Levi sitting at the receipt of custom (Matt. 9:9) is the exact way to state the case.", Thomson, Land and Book.
Situate (a.) Alt. of Situated.
Situated (a.) Having a site, situation, or location; being in a relative position; permanently fixed; placed; located; as, a town situated, or situate, on a hill or on the seashore.
Situated (a.) Placed; residing.
Pleasure situate in hill and dale. -- Milton.
Note: Situate is now less used than situated, but both are well authorized.
Situate (v. t.) To place. [R.] -- Landor.
Situate (v.) Determine or indicate the place, site, or limits of, as if by an instrument or by a survey; "Our sense of sight enables us to locate objects in space"; "Locate the boundaries of the property" [syn: situate, locate].
Situate (v.) Put (something somewhere) firmly; "She posited her hand on his shoulder"; "deposit the suitcase on the bench"; "fix your eyes on this spot" [syn: situate, fix, posit, deposit].
Situation (n.) Manner in which an object is placed; location, esp. as related to something else; position; locality site; as, a house in a pleasant situation.
Situation (n.) Position, as regards the conditions and circumstances of the case.
A situation of the greatest ease and tranquillity. -- Rogers.
Situation (n.) Relative position; circumstances; temporary state or relation at a moment of action which excites interest, as of persons in a dramatic scene.
There's situation for you! there's an heroic group! -- Sheridan.
Situation (n.) Permanent position or employment; place; office; as, a situation in a store; a situation under government.
Syn: State; position; seat; site; station; post; place; office; condition; case; plight. See State.
Situation (n.) The general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time; "the present international situation is dangerous"; "wondered how such a state of affairs had come about"; "eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation"- Franklin D.Roosevelt [syn: situation, state of affairs].
Situation (n.) A condition or position in which you find yourself; "the unpleasant situation (or position) of having to choose between two evils"; "found herself in a very fortunate situation" [syn: situation, position].
Situation (n.) A complex or critical or unusual difficulty; "the dangerous situation developed suddenly"; "that's quite a situation"; "no human situation is simple".
Situation (n.) Physical position in relation to the surroundings; "the sites are determined by highly specific sequences of nucleotides" [syn: site, situation].
Situation (n.) A job in an organization; "he occupied a post in the treasury" [syn: position, post, berth, office, spot, billet, place, situation].
Situation (n.) [ C ] (B1) 處境，情況，形勢 The set of things that are happening and the conditions that exist at a particular time and place.
// The economic/ political situation.
// Her news put me in a difficult situation.
// "Would you get involved in a fight?" "It would depend on the situation."
// I'll worry about it if/ when/ as the situation arises (= if/ when/ as it happens).
Situation (n.) [ C ] (Old use) 工作 A job.
// My sister has a good situation as a teacher in the local school.
Situation (n.) [ C ] (Formal) （尤指城鎮、建築物等的）位置 The position of something, especially a town, building, etc.
// The house's situation in the river valley is perfect.
Situs (n.) (Bot.) The method in which the parts of a plant are arranged; also, the position of the parts. -- Henslow.
Situs. () Situation;, location. 5 Pet. R. 524.
Situs. () Real estate has always a fixed situs, while personal estate has no such fixed situs; the law rei site regulates real but not the personal estate. Story, Confl. of Laws, Sec. 379.
Sitz bath () A tub in which one bathes in a sitting posture; also, a bath so taken; a hip bath.
Sitz bath (n.) A bathtub in which your buttocks and hips are immersed as if you were sitting in a chair and you bathe in a sitting position [syn: sitz bath, hip bath].
Siva (n.) (Hindoo Myth.) One of the triad of Hindoo gods. He is the avenger or destroyer, and in modern worship symbolizes the reproductive power of nature.
Siva (n.) The destroyer; one of the three major divinities in the later Hindu pantheon [syn: Siva, Shiva].
Sivan (n.) The third month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year; -- supposed to correspond nearly with our month of June.
Sivan (n.) The ninth month of the civil year; the third month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar (in May and June) [syn: Sivan, Siwan].
Sivan, () A Persian word (Assyr, sivanu, "bricks"), used after the Captivity as the name of the third month of the Jewish year, extending from the new moon in June to the new moon in July (Esther 8:9).
Sivan, A bush or thorn.
Sivatherium (n.) (Paleon.) A genus of very large extinct ruminants found in the Tertiary formation of India. The snout was prolonged in the form of a proboscis. The male had four horns, the posterior pair being large and branched. It was allied to the antelopes, but very much larger than any exsisting species.
Siver (v. i.) To simmer. [Obs.] -- Holland.
Compare: Sibbens
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.]
Sivvens (n.) (Med.) See Sibbens.
Siwin (n.) (Zool.) Same as Sewen.
Six (a.) One more than five; twice three; as, six yards.
Six Nations (Ethnol.), A confederation of North American Indians formed by the union of the Tuscaroras and the Five Nations.
Six points circle. (Geom.) See Nine points circle, under Nine.
Six (n.) The number greater by a unit than five; the sum of three and three; six units or objects.
Six (n.) A symbol representing six units, as 6, vi., or VI.
To be at six and seven or To be at sixes and sevens, (a) to be in disorder. -- Bacon. -- Shak. -- Swift.
To be at six and seven or To be at sixes and sevens, (b) to be in a dispute or disagreement; -- often used with with.
Six (a.) Denoting a quantity consisting of six items or units [syn: six, 6, vi, half dozen, half-dozen].
Six (n.) The cardinal number that is the sum of five and one [syn: six, 6, VI, sixer, sise, Captain Hicks, half a dozen, sextet, sestet, sextuplet, hexad].
Six (n.) A playing card or domino or die whose upward face shows six pips [syn: six-spot, six].
Sixfold (a.) Six times repeated; six times as much or as many.
Sixfold (adv.) By a factor of six; "the population of this town increased sixfold when gold was found in the surrounding hills" [syn: sixfold, six times].
Sixfold (a.) Having six units or components [syn: sextuple, sixfold, six-fold].
Six-footer (n.) One who is six feet tall. [Colloq. U.S.]
Six-footer (n.) A person who is at least six feet tall.
Sixpences (n. pl. ) of Sixpence.
Sixpence (n.) An English silver coin of the value of six pennies; half a shilling, or about twelve cents.
Sixpence (n.) A small coin of the United Kingdom worth six pennies; not minted since 1970 [syn: sixpence, tanner].
Sixpenny (a.) Of the value of, or costing, sixpence; as, a sixpenny loaf.
Sixpenny (a.) Of trifling worth [syn: sixpenny, threepenny, twopenny, tuppeny, two-a-penny, twopenny-halfpenny].
Sixscore (a. & n.) Six times twenty; one hundred and twenty.
Six-shooter (n.) A pistol or other firearm which can be fired six times without reloading especially, a six-chambered revolver. [Colloq. U.S.]
Six-shooter (n.) A pistol with a revolving cylinder (usually having six chambers for bullets) [syn: revolver, six-gun, six-shooter].
Sixteen (a.) Six and ten; consisting of six and ten; fifteen and one more.
Sixteen (n.) The number greater by a unit than fifteen; the sum of ten and six; sixteen units or objects.
Sixteen (n.) A symbol representing sixteen units, as 16, or xvi.
Sixteen (a.) Being one more than fifteen [syn: sixteen, 16, xvi].
Sixteen (n.) The cardinal number that is the sum of fifteen and one [syn: sixteen, 16, XVI]
Sixteenmos (n. pl. ) of Sixteenmo.
Sixteenmo (n.) See Sextodecimo.
Sixteenth (a.) Sixth after the tenth; next in order after the fifteenth.
Sixteenth (a.) Constituting or being one of sixteen equal parts into which anything is divided.
Sixteenth note (Mus.), The sixteenth part of a whole note; a semiquaver.
Sixteenth (n.) The quotient of a unit divided by sixteen; one of sixteen equal parts of one whole.
Sixteenth (n.) The next in order after the fifteenth; the sixth after the tenth.
Sixteenth (n.) (Mus.) An interval comprising two octaves and a second. -- Moore (Encyc. of Music.)
Sixteenth (a.) Coming next after the fifteenth in position [syn: sixteenth, 16th].
Sixteenth (n.) Position 16 in a countable series of things
Sixteenth (n.) One part in sixteen equal parts [syn: one-sixteenth, sixteenth, sixteenth part].
Sixth (a.) First after the fifth; next in order after the fifth.
Sixth (a.) Constituting or being one of six equal parts into which anything is divided.
Sixth (n.) The quotient of a unit divided by six; one of six equal parts which form a whole.
Sixth (n.) The next in order after the fifth.
Sixth (n.) (Mus.) The interval embracing six diatonic degrees of the scale.
Sixth (a.) Coming next after the fifth and just before the seventh in position [syn: sixth, 6th].
Sixth (n.) Position six in a countable series of things.
Sixth (n.) One part in six equal parts [syn: one-sixth, sixth].
Sixth (n.) The musical interval between one note and another six notes away from it.
Sixthly (adv.) In the sixth place. -- Bacon.
Sixthly (adv.) In the sixth place; "sixthly, we cannot afford a vacation".
Sixtieth (a.) Next in order after the fifty-ninth.
Sixtieth (a.) Constituting or being one one of sixty equal parts into which anything is divided.
Sixtieth (n.) The quotient of a unit divided by sixty; one of sixty equal parts forming a whole.
Sixtieth (n.) The next in order after the fifty-ninth; the tenth after the fiftieth.
Sixtieth (a.) The ordinal number of sixty in counting order [syn: sixtieth, 60th].
Sixtieth (n.) Position 60 in a countable series of things.
Sixtieth (n.) One part in sixty equal parts [syn: one-sixtieth, sixtieth].
Sixty (a.) Six times ten; fifty-nine and one more; threescore.
Sixties (n. pl. ) of Sixty.
Sixty (n.) The sum of six times ten; sixty units or objects.
Sixty (n.) A symbol representing sixty units, as 60, lx., or LX.
Sixty (a.) Being ten more than fifty [syn: sixty, 60, lx, threescore].
Sixty (n.) The cardinal number that is the product of ten and six [syn: sixty, 60, LX].
Sixty-fourth (a.) Constituting or being one of sixty-four equal parts into which a thing is divided.
Sixty-fourth note (Mus.), The sixty-fourth part of a whole note; a hemi-demi-semiquaver.
Sixty-fourth (a.) The ordinal number of sixty-four in counting order [syn: sixty-fourth, 64th].
Sixty-fourth (n.) One part in sixty-four equal parts [syn: one-sixty-fourth, sixty-fourth].
Sizable (a.) Of considerable size or bulk. "A sizable volume." -- Bp. Hurd.
Sizable (a.) Being of reasonable or suitable size; as, sizable timber; sizable bulk. -- Arbuthnot.
Sizable (a.) Fairly large; "a sizable fortune"; "an ample waistline"; "of ample proportions" [syn: ample, sizable, sizeable].
Sizable (a.) Large in amount or extent or degree; "it cost a considerable amount"; "a goodly amount"; "received a hefty bonus"; "a respectable sum"; "a tidy sum of money"; "a sizable fortune" [syn: goodly, goodish, healthy, hefty, respectable, sizable, sizeable, tidy].
Sizar (n.) One of a body of students in the universities of Cambridge (Eng.) and Dublin, who, having passed a certain examination, are exempted from paying college fees and charges. A sizar corresponded to a servitor at Oxford.
The sizar paid nothing for food and tuition, and very little for lodging. -- Macaulay.
Note: They formerly waited on the table at meals; but this is done away with. They were probably so called from being thus employed in distributing the size, or provisions. See 4th Size, 2.
Compare: Batteler
Batteler, Battler (n.) A student at Oxford who is supplied with provisions from the buttery; formerly, one who paid for nothing but what he called for, answering nearly to a sizar at Cambridge. -- Wright.
Compare: Famulist
Famulist (n.) A collegian of inferior rank or position, corresponding to the sizar at Cambridge. [Oxford Univ., Eng.]
Sizarship (n.) The position or standing of a sizar.
Size (n.) Six.
Size (n.) A thin, weak glue used in various trades, as in painting, bookbinding, paper making, etc.
Size (n.) Any viscous substance, as gilder's varnish.
Sized (imp. & p. p.) of Size.
Sizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Size.
Size (v. t.) To cover with size; to prepare with size.
Size (n.) A settled quantity or allowance. See Assize [Obs.] "To scant my sizes." -- Shak.
Size (n.) (Univ. of Cambridge, Eng.) An allowance of food and drink from the buttery, aside from the regular dinner at commons; -- corresponding to battel at Oxford.
Size (n.) Extent of superficies or volume; bulk; bigness; magnitude; as, the size of a tree or of a mast; the size of a ship or of a rock.
Size (n.) Figurative bulk; condition as to rank, ability, character, etc.; as, the office demands a man of larger size.
Men of a less size and quality. -- L'Estrange.
The middling or lower size of people. -- Swift.
Size (n.) A conventional relative measure of dimension, as for shoes, gloves, and other articles made up for sale.
Size (n.) An instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges fastened together at one end by a rivet, -- used for ascertaining the size of pearls. -- Knight.
Size roll, A small piese of parchment added to a roll.
Size stick, A measuring stick used by shoemakers for ascertaining the size of the foot.
Syn: Dimension; bigness; largeness; greatness; magnitude.
Size (v. t.) To fix the standard of. "To size weights and measures". [R.] -- Bacon.
Size (v. t.) To adjust or arrange according to size or bulk. Specifically:
Size (v. t.) (Mil.) To take the height of men, in order to place them in the ranks according to their stature.
Size (v. t.) (Mining) To sift, as pieces of ore or metal, in order to separate the finer from the coarser parts.
Size (v. t.) To swell; to increase the bulk of. -- Beau. & Fl.
Size (v. t.) (Mech.) To bring or adjust anything exactly to a required dimension, as by cutting.
To size up, To estimate or ascertain the character and ability of. See 4th Size, 4. [Slang, U.S.]
We had to size up our fellow legislators. -- The Century.
Size (v. i.) To take greater size; to increase in size.
Our desires give them fashion, and so, As they wax lesser, fall, as they size, grow. -- Donne.