Shak.
Sincerity is a duty no less plain than important.
Knox.
Sinch (?), n. [See Cinch.] A saddle girth made of leather, canvas,
woven horsehair, or woven grass. [Western U.S.]
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.]
Sin*cip"i*tal (?), a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the sinciput; being
in the region of the sinciput.
Sin"ci*put (?), n. [L., half a head; semihalf + caput the head.] 1.
(Anat.) The fore part of the head.
2. (Zoöl.) The part of the head of a bird between the base of the bill
and the vertex.
Sin"don (?), n. [L., a kind of fine Indian cotton stuff, Gr.
&?;&?;&?;.] 1. A wrapper. [Obs.] "Wrapped in sindons of linen." Bacon.
2. (Surg.) A small rag or pledget introduced into the hole in the
cranium made by a trephine. Dunglison.
Sine (?), n. [LL. sinus a sine, L. sinus bosom, used in translating the
Ar. jaib, properly, bosom, but probably read by mistake (the consonants
being the same) for an original jba sine, from Skr. jva bowstring,
chord of an arc, sine.] (Trig.) (a) The length of a perpendicular drawn
from one extremity of an arc of a circle to the diameter drawn through
the other extremity. (b) 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.
||Si"ne (?), prep. [L.] Without.
Si"ne*cu`ral (?), a. Of or pertaining to a sinecure; being in the
nature of a sinecure.
Si`ne*cure (?), n. [L. sine without + cura care, LL., a cure. See
Cure.] 1. An ecclesiastical benefice without the care of souls.
Ayliffe.
2. Any office or position which requires or involves little or no
responsibility, labor, or active service.
A lucrative sinecure in the Excise.
Macaulay.
Si"ne*cure, v. t. To put or place in a sinecure.
Si"ne*cu*rism (?), n. The state of having a sinecure.
Si"ne*cu*rist (?), n. One who has a sinecure.
Sin"ew (?), n. [OE. sinewe, senewe, AS. sinu, seonu; akin to D. zenuw,
OHG. senawa, G. sehne, Icel. sin, Sw. sena, Dan. sene; cf. Skr. snva.
√290.]