SING, sing, _v.i._ to utter melodious sounds in musical succession: to make
a small, shrill sound: to relate in verse: to squeal: to ring: to be
capable of being sung.--_v.t._ to utter musically: to chant: to celebrate:
to attend on: to effect by singing: to celebrate or relate in
verse:--_pa.t._ sang or sung; _pa.p._ sung.--_adj._ SING'ABLE.--_ns._
SING'ABLENESS; SING'ER, one who sings: one whose occupation is to sing;
SING'ING, the act or art of singing; SING'ING-BIRD, a bird that sings, a
songster; SING'ING-BOOK, a song-book; SING'ING-GALL'ERY, a gallery occupied
by singers; SING'ING-HINN'Y, a currant cake baked on a girdle.--_adv._
SING'INGLY.--_ns._ SING'ING-MAN (_Shak._), one employed to sing, as in a
cathedral; SING'ING-MAS'TER, a master who teaches singing; SING'ING-SCHOOL,
a place where singing is taught; SING'ING-VOICE, the voice as used in
singing; SING'ING-WOM'AN, a woman employed to sing.--SING ANOTHER SONG, or
TUNE, to change one's tone or attitude, esp. to a humbler manner; SING OUT,
to call out distinctly, to shout; SING SMALL, to assume a humble tone: to
play a minor part. [A.S. _singan_; Ger. _singen_, Goth. _siggwan_.]
SINGE, sinj, _v.t._ to burn on the surface: to scorch:--_pr.p._ singe'ing;
_pa.t._ and _pa.p._ singed.--_n._ a burning of the surface: a slight
burn.--SINGED CAT, a person who is better than he looks. [A.S. _besengan_,
the causative of _singan_, to sing, from the singing noise produced by
scorching.]
SINGHALESE. Same as CINGALESE.
SINGLE, sing'gl, _adj._ consisting of one only: individual, unique:
separate, private: alone: unmarried: not combined with others: unmixed:
having one only on each side: straightforward: sincere: simple, normal:
pure.--_v.t._ to separate: to choose one from others: to select from a
number.--_adjs._ SING'LE-ACT'ING, acting effectively in one direction
only--of any reciprocating machine or implement; SING'LE-BREAST'ED, with a
single row of buttons or loops only, of a coat, corsage, &c.--_n._
SINGLE-EN'TRY, a system of book-keeping in which each entry appears only
once on one side or other of an account.--_adj._ SING'LE-EYED, having but
one eye: devoted, unselfish.--_ns._ SING'LE-FLOW'ER, a flower containing a
single set of petals, as a wild rose; SING'LE-FOOT, a gait of horses, the
amble.--_adjs._ SING'LE-HAND'ED, by one's self: unassisted: having only one
workman; SING'LE-HEART'ED, having a single or sincere heart: without
duplicity.--_adv._ SING'LE-HEART'EDLY.--_adj._ SING'LE-MIND'ED, having a
single or sincere mind: upright.--_ns._ SING'LE-MIND'EDNESS; SING'LENESS,
state of being single or alone: freedom from deceit: sincerity:
simplicity.--_adj._ SING'LE-SOLED, having a single sole, as a shoe:
poor.--_ns._ SING'LE-STICK, a stick or cudgel for one hand: a fight or game
with singlesticks; SING'LET, an undershirt or waistcoat; SING'LETON, in
whist, a hand containing one card only of some suit; SING'LETREE (the same
as SWINGLETREE); SING'LE-WOM'AN, an unmarried woman: (_obs._) a
whore.--_adv._ SING'LY, one by one: particularly: alone: by one's self:
honestly: sincerely. [O. Fr.,--L. _sin-gulus_, one to each, separate, akin
to _sem-el_, once, Gr. _ham-a_.]
SINGSONG, sing'song, _n._ bad singing: drawling: a convivial meeting where
every one must sing.--_adj._ monotonously rhythmical, drawling.--_v.t._ and
_v.i._ to make songs: to chant monotonously.
SINGSPIEL, sing'sp[=e]l, _n._ a semi-dramatic representation in which a
series of incidents are set forth in alternate dialogue and song, now a
kind of opera in which the music is subordinated to the words. [Ger.,
_singen_, to sing, _spiel_, play.]
SINGULAR, sing'g[=u]-lar, _adj._ alone: (_gram._) denoting one person or
thing: single: not complex or compound: standing alone, rare, unusual,
uncommon: of more than common value or importance: unique, extraordinary,
strange, odd: (_B._) particular.--_n._ that which is singular: (_logic_)
that which is not general, that which is here and now, that which is
determinate in every respect.--_n._ SINGULARIS[=A]'TION.--_v.t._
SING'ULARISE, to make singular.--_ns._ SING'ULARIST, one who affects
singularity; SINGULAR'ITY, the state of being singular: peculiarity:
anything curious or remarkable: particular privilege or distinction:
(_math._) an exceptional element or character of a continuum.--_adv._
SING'ULARLY, in a singular manner: peculiarly: strangely: so as to express
one or the singular number. [Fr.,--L. _singularis_.]
SINGULT, sin'gult, _n._ a sigh.--_adjs._ SINGUL'TIENT, SINGUL'TOUS,
affected with hiccup.--_n._ SINGUL'TUS, a hiccup. [L. _singultus_, a sob.]
SINHALESE, sin'ha-l[=e]z, _n._ and _adj._ the same as CINGALESE and
SINGHALESE.
SINIC, sin'ik, _adj._ Chinese.--_adj._ SIN'IAN, a widely spread series of
rocks in China, containing many trilobites and brachiopods.--_ns._
SIN'ICISM, Chinese manners and customs; SIN'ISM, customs of China
generally, esp. its ancient indigenous religion. [L. _Sina_, China, _Sinæ_,
the Chinese, Gr. _Sinai_, the Chinese.]
SINICAL, sin'ik-al, _adj._ pertaining to, employing, or founded upon sines.
SINISTER, sin'is-t[.e]r, _adj._ left: on the left hand: evil: unfair:
dishonest: unlucky: inauspicious, malign.--_adj._ SIN'ISTER-HAND'ED,
left-handed.--_advs._ SIN'ISTERLY; SINIS'TRA (_mus._), with the left hand;
SIN'ISTRAD, towards the left.--_adj._ SIN'ISTRAL, belonging or inclining to
the left: reversed.--_n._ SINISTRAL'ITY.--_adv._ SIN'ISTRALLY.--_n._
SINISTR[=A]'TION, a turning to the left.--_adj._ SIN'ISTROUS, on the left
side: wrong: absurd: perverse.--_adv._ SIN'ISTROUSLY. [L.]
SINISTRORSE, sin'is-trors, _adj._ rising from left to right, as a spiral
line.--Also SINISTRORS'AL. [L. _sinistrorsus_, _sinistroversus_, towards
the left side--sinister, left, _vert[)e]re_, _versum_, to turn.]
SINK, singk, _v.i._ to fall to the bottom: to fall down: to descend lower:
to fall gradually: to fall below the surface: to enter deeply: to be
impressed: to be overwhelmed: to fail in strength.--_v.t._ to cause to
sink: to put under water: to keep out of sight: to suppress: to degrade: to
cause to decline or fall: to plunge into destruction: to make by digging or
delving: to pay absolutely: to lower in value or amount: to
lessen:--_pa.t._ sank, sunk; _pa.p._ sunk, sunk'en.--_n._ a drain to carry
off dirty water: a box or vessel connected with a drain for receiving dirty
water: an abode of degraded persons: a general receptacle: an area in which
a river sinks and disappears: a depression in a stereotype plate: a stage
trap-door for shifting scenery: in mining, an excavation less than a
shaft.--_ns._ SINK'ER, anything which causes a sinking, esp. a weight fixed
to a fishing-line; SINK'-HOLE, a hole for dirty water to run through;
SINK'ING, a subsidence: a depression.--_adj._ causing to sink.--_n._
SINK'ING-FUND, a fund formed by setting aside income every year to
accumulate at interest for the purpose of paying off debt.--_adj._
SINK'ING-RIPE (_Shak._), dead-ripe, about to fall off.--_n._ SINK'ROOM, a
scullery. [A.S. _sincan_; Ger. _sinken_, Dut. _zinken_.]
SINK-A-PACE, singk'-a-p[=a]s, _n._ (_Shak._)=_Cinquepace_.
SINOLOGUE, sin'[=o]-log, _n._ one versed in Chinese.--_adj._ SINOLOG'ICAL
(-loj'-).--_ns._ SINOL'OGIST; SINOL'OGY.
SINOPLE, sin'[=o]-pl, _n._ a ferruginous clay yielding the fine red pigment
SIN[=O]'PIA or SIN[=O]'PIS. [Gr. _sin[=o]pis_, a red earth brought from
_Sinope_.]
SINSYNE, sin-s[=i]n', _adv._ (_Scot._) since, ago.
SINTER, sin't[.e]r, _n._ a name given to rocks precipitated in a
crystalline form from mineral waters. [Ger.]
SINTO, SINTOISM=_Shinto_, _Shintoism_.
SINTOC, sin'tok, _n._ a Malayan tree with aromatic bark.--Also SIN'DOC.
SINUATE, -D, sin'[=u]-[=a]t, -ed, _adj._ curved: (_bot._) with a waved
margin.--_v.t._ to bend in and out.--_ns._ SINU[=A]'TION; SINUOS'ITY,
quality of being sinuous: a bend or series of bends and turns.--_adjs._
SIN'UOUS, SIN'U[=O]SE, bending in and out, winding, undulating: morally
crooked.--_adv._ SIN'UOUSLY. [L. _sinuatus_, _pa.p._ of _sinu[=a]re_, to
bend.]
SINUPALLIATE, sin-[=u]-pal'i-[=a]t, _adj._ having a sinuous pallial margin
on the shell along the line of attachment of the mantle.--Also
SINUPALL'IAL. [L. _sinus_, a fold, pallium, a mantle.]
SINUS, s[=i]'nus, _n._ a bending: a fold: an opening: a bay of the sea: a
recess on the shore: (_anat._) a cavity or hollow of bone or other tissue,
one of the air-cavities contained in the interior of certain bones: a
channel for transmitting venous blood: a narrow opening leading to an
abscess, &c.--_n._ S[=I]'NUSOID, the curve of sines in which the abscisses
are proportional to an angle, and the ordinates to its sine.--_adj._
SINUSOI'DAL.--_adv._ SINUSOI'DALLY. [L. _sinus_, a curve.]
SIOUX, s[=oo], _n._ (_pl._ SIOUX, s[=oo] or s[=oo]z) the principal tribe of
the Dakota family of American Indians in South Dakota and Nebraska--also
_adj._--Also SIOUAN (s[=oo]'an).
SIP, sip, _v.t._ to sup or drink in small quantities: to draw into the
mouth: to taste: to drink out of.--_v.i._ to drink in small quantities: to
drink by the lips:--_pr.p._ sip'ping; _pa.t._ and _pa.p._ sipped.--_n._ the
taking of a liquor with the lips: a small draught.--_n._ SIP'PER. [A.S.
_syppan_ (assumed), _sipian_, to soak. Related to _súpan_, to sup, taste.]
SIPE, s[=i]p, _v.i._ (_prov._) to soak through.--Also SEEP. [A.S. _sipian_,
to soak; Dut. _zijpen_, to drop.]
SIPHILIS. Same as SYPHILIS (q.v.).
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SIPHON, s[=i]'fun, _n._ a bent tube for drawing off liquids from one vessel
into another.--_v.t._ to convey by means of a siphon.--_n._
S[=I]'PHONAGE.--_adjs._ S[=I]'PHONAL, S[=I]'PHONATE, S[=I]PHON'IC,
pertaining to, or resembling, a siphon.--_n._ S[=I]'PHON-BOTT'LE, a glass
bottle for containing aerated liquid, fitted with a glass tube reaching
nearly to the bottom and bent like a siphon at the outlet.--_adjs._
SIPHONIF'EROUS; S[=I]'PHONIFORM; SIPHONOST[=O]'MATOUS, having a siphonate
mouth.--_ns._ S[=I]'PHONOSTOME, a siphonostomatous animal, as a fish-louse;
S[=I]'PHUNCLE, the siphon or funnel of tetrabranchiate cephalopods: a
nectary.--_adjs._ S[=I]'PHUNCLED, SIPHUNC'ULAR, SIPHUNC'ULATE, -D.--_ns._
SIPHUNC'ULUS; SIPUNC'ULUS, a genus of worms belonging to the class
_Gephyrea_. [Fr.,--Gr., _siph[=o]n_--_siphlos_, hollow.]
SIPPET, sip'et, _n._ a small sop: (_pl._) morsels of bread served in broth,
&c.--_v.i._ SIPP'LE, to sup in sips.
SIPYLITE, sip'i-l[=i]t, _n._ a niobite of erbium. [From Gr. _Sipylos_, one
of the children of Niobe.]
SIR, s[.e]r, _n._ a word of respect used in addressing a man: a gentleman:
the title of a knight or baronet, used along with the Christian name and
surname, as 'Sir David Pole:' formerly a common title of address for the
clergy as a translation of L. _dominus_, the term used for a bachelor of
arts, originally in contradistinction from the _magister_, or master of
arts--hence SIR JOHN=a priest.--_v.t._ to address as 'sir.' [O. Fr. _sire_,
through O. Fr. _senre_, from L. _senior_, an elder, comp. of _senex_, old.
Cf. the parallel forms _Sire_, _Senior_, _Seignior_, _Signor_.]
SIRCAR, s[.e]r-kär', _n._ a Hindu clerk.--Also SIRKAR', CIRCAR'. [Hind.
_sark[=a]r_, a superintendent--_sar_, head, _k[=a]r_, Sans. _kara_, work.]
SIRDAR, s[.e]r-där', _n._ a chief or military officer. [Hind.
_sard[=a]r_--_sar_, head, _-d[=a]r_, holding.]
SIRE, s[=i]r, _n._ one in the place of a father, as a sovereign: an elder,
a progenitor: the male parent of a beast, esp. of a horse: (_pl._)
ancestors (_poetry_).--_v.t._ to beget, used of animals. [_Sir_.]
SIREDON, s[=i]-r[=e]'don, _n._ a larval salamander:--_pl._ SIR[=E]'DONES.
SIREN, s[=i]'ren, _n._ (_Gr. myth._) one of certain sea-nymphs who sat on
the shores of an island between Circe's isle and Scylla, near the
south-western coast of Italy, and sang with bewitching sweetness songs that
allured the passing sailor to draw near, only to meet with death: a
fascinating woman, any one insidious and deceptive: an instrument which
produces musical sounds by introducing a regularly recurring discontinuity
into an otherwise steady blast of air: an instrument for demonstrating the
laws of beats and combination tones: an eel-like, amphibious animal, with
only one pair of feet, inhabiting swamps in the southern states of North
America.--_adj._ pertaining to, or like, a siren: fascinating.--_n._
SIR[=E]'NIA, an order of aquatic mammals now represented by the dugong
(_Halicore_) and the manatee (_Manatus_).--_adj._ SIR[=E]'NIAN.--_v.i._
S[=I]'RENISE, to play the siren. [L. _siren_--Gr. _seir[=e]n_, prob.
_seira_, a cord.]
SIRGANG, s[.e]r'gang, _n._ the Asiatic green jackdaw.