A situation of the greatest ease and tranquillity.
Rogers.
3. 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.
4. 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.
||Si"tus (?), n. [L., situation.] (Bot.) The method in which the parts
||of a plant are arranged; also, the position of the parts. Henslow.
Sitz" bath` (?). [G. sitzbad.] A tub in which one bathes in a sitting
posture; also, a bath so taken; a hip bath.
||Si"va (?), n. [Skr. Civa, properly, kind, gracious.] (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.
||Si"van (?), n. [Heb. svn.] The third month of the Jewish
||ecclesiastical year; -- supposed to correspond nearly with our month
||of June.
||Siv`a*the"ri*um (?), n. [NL., from E. Siva + Gr. &?;&?;&?;&?; a
||beast, an animal.] (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.
Siv"er (?), v. i. To simmer. [Obs.] Holland.
Siv"vens (&?;), n. (Med.) See Sibbens.
Si"win (?), n. (Zoöl.) Same as Sewen.
Six (?), a. [AS. six, seox, siex; akin to OFries. sex, D. zes, OS. &
OHG. sehs, G. sechs, Icel., Sw., & Dan. sex, Goth. saíhs, Lith. szeszi,
Russ. sheste, Gael. & Ir. se, W. chwech, L. sex, Gr. &?;&?;, Per.
shesh, Skr. shash. √304. Cf. Hexagon, Hexameter, Samite, Senary,
Sextant, Sice.] 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. 1. The number greater by a unit than five; the sum of three and
three; six units or objects.