Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 78

Sigh (v. t.) To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.

Sigh (v. t.) To express by sighs; to utter in or with sighs.

Sigh (v. i.) A deep and prolonged audible inspiration or respiration of air, as when fatigued or grieved; the act of sighing.

Sigh (v. i.) Figuratively, a manifestation of grief; a lan/ent.

Sigh-born (a.) Sorrowful; mournful.

Sigher (n.) One who sighs.

Sighing (a.) Uttering sighs; grieving; lamenting.

Sight (v. t.) The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view; as, to gain sight of land.

Sight (v. t.) The power of seeing; the faculty of vision, or of perceiving objects by the instrumentality of the eyes.

Sight (v. t.) The state of admitting unobstructed vision; visibility; open view; region which the eye at one time surveys; space through which the power of vision extends; as, an object within sight.

Sight (v. t.) A spectacle; a view; a show; something worth seeing.

Sight (v. t.) The instrument of seeing; the eye.

Sight (v. t.) Inspection; examination; as, a letter intended for the sight of only one person.

Sight (v. t.) Mental view; opinion; judgment; as, in their sight it was harmless.

Sight (v. t.) A small aperture through which objects are to be seen, and by which their direction is settled or ascertained; as, the sight of a quadrant.

Sight (v. t.) A small piece of metal, fixed or movable, on the breech, muzzle, center, or trunnion of a gun, or on the breech and the muzzle of a rifle, pistol, etc., by means of which the eye is guided in aiming.

Sight (v. t.) In a drawing, picture, etc., that part of the surface, as of paper or canvas, which is within the frame or the border or margin. In a frame or the like, the open space, the opening.

Sight (v. t.) A great number, quantity, or sum; as, a sight of money.

Sighted (imp. & p. p.) of Sight

Sighting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sight

Sight (v. t.) To get sight of; to see; as, to sight land; to sight a wreck.

Sight (v. t.) To look at through a sight; to see accurately; as, to sight an object, as a star.

Sight (v. t.) To apply sights to; to adjust the sights of; also, to give the proper elevation and direction to by means of a sight; as, to sight a rifle or a cannon.

Sight (v. i.) To take aim by a sight.

Sighted (a.) Having sight, or seeing, in a particular manner; -- used in composition; as, long-sighted, short-sighted, quick-sighted, sharp-sighted, and the like.

Sightful (a.) Easily or clearly seen; distinctly visible; perspicuous.

Sightfulness (n.) The state of being sightful; perspicuity.

Sight-hole (n.) A hole for looking through; a peephole.

Sighting () a. & n. from Sight, v. t.

Sightless (a.) Wanting sight; without sight; blind.

Sightless (a.) That can not be seen; invisible.

Sightless (a.) Offensive or unpleasing to the eye; unsightly; as, sightless stains.

Sightliness (n.) The state of being sightly; comeliness; conspicuousness.

Sightly (a.) Pleasing to the sight; comely.

Sightly (a.) Open to sight; conspicuous; as, a house stands in a sightly place.

Sightproof (a.) Undiscoverable to sight.

Sight-seeing (a.) Engaged in, or given to, seeing sights; eager for novelties or curiosities.

Sight-seeing (n.) The act of seeing sights; eagerness for novelties or curiosities.

Sight-seer (n.) One given to seeing sights or noted things, or eager for novelties or curiosities.

Sight-shot (n.) Distance to which the sight can reach or be thrown.

Sightsmen (pl. ) of Sightsman

Sightsman (n.) One who reads or performs music readily at first sight.

Sigil (n.) A seal; a signature.

Sigillaria (n. pl.) Little images or figures of earthenware exposed for sale, or given as presents, on the last two days of the Saturnalia; hence, the last two, or the sixth and seventh, days of the Saturnalia.

Sigillaria (n.) A genus of fossil trees principally found in the coal formation; -- so named from the seallike leaf scars in vertical rows on the surface.

Sigillarid (n.) One of an extinct family of cryptagamous trees, including the genus Sigillaria and its allies.

Sigillated (a.) Decorated by means of stamps; -- said of pottery.

Sigillative (a.) Fit to seal; belonging to a seal; composed of wax.

Sigilla (pl. ) of Sigillum

Sigillum (n.) A seal.

Sigla (n. pl.) The signs, abbreviations, letters, or characters standing for words, shorthand, etc., in ancient manuscripts, or on coins, medals, etc.

Sigmas (pl. ) of Sigma

Sigma (n.) The Greek letter /, /, or / (English S, or s). It originally had the form of the English C.

Sigmodont (n.) Any one of a tribe (Sigmodontes) of rodents which includes all the indigenous rats and mice of America. So called from the form of the ridges of enamel on the crowns of the worn molars. Also used adjectively.

Sigmoid (a.) Alt. of Sigmoidal

Sigmoidal (a.) Curved in two directions, like the letter S, or the Greek /.

Sigmoidally (adv.) In a sigmoidal manner.

Sign (n.) That by which anything is made known or represented; that which furnishes evidence; a mark; a token; an indication; a proof.

Sign (n.) A remarkable event, considered by the ancients as indicating the will of some deity; a prodigy; an omen.

Sign (n.) An event considered by the Jews as indicating the divine will, or as manifesting an interposition of the divine power for some special end; a miracle; a wonder.

Sign (n.) Something serving to indicate the existence, or preserve the memory, of a thing; a token; a memorial; a monument.

Sign (n.) Any symbol or emblem which prefigures, typifles, or represents, an idea; a type; hence, sometimes, a picture.

Sign (n.) A word or a character regarded as the outward manifestation of thought; as, words are the sign of ideas.

Sign (n.) A motion, an action, or a gesture by which a thought is expressed, or a command or a wish made known.

Sign (n.) Hence, one of the gestures of pantomime, or of a language of a signs such as those used by the North American Indians, or those used by the deaf and dumb.

Sign (n.) A military emblem carried on a banner or a standard.

Sign (n.) A lettered board, or other conspicuous notice, placed upon or before a building, room, shop, or office to advertise the business there transacted, or the name of the person or firm carrying it on; a publicly displayed token or notice.

Sign (n.) The twelfth part of the ecliptic or zodiac.

Sign (n.) A character indicating the relation of quantities, or an operation performed upon them; as, the sign + (plus); the sign -- (minus); the sign of division Ö, and the like.

Sign (n.) An objective evidence of disease; that is, one appreciable by some one other than the patient.

Sign (n.) Any character, as a flat, sharp, dot, etc.

Sign (n.) That which, being external, stands for, or signifies, something internal or spiritual; -- a term used in the Church of England in speaking of an ordinance considered with reference to that which it represents.

Signed (imp. & p. p.) of Sign

Signing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sign

Sign (n.) To represent by a sign; to make known in a typical or emblematic manner, in distinction from speech; to signify.

Sign (n.) To make a sign upon; to mark with a sign.

Sign (n.) To affix a signature to; to ratify by hand or seal; to subscribe in one's own handwriting.

Sign (n.) To assign or convey formally; -- used with away.

Sign (n.) To mark; to make distinguishable.

Sign (v. i.) To be a sign or omen.

Sign (v. i.) To make a sign or signal; to communicate directions or intelligence by signs.

Sign (v. i.) To write one's name, esp. as a token of assent, responsibility, or obligation.

Signable (a.) Suitable to be signed; requiring signature; as, a legal document signable by a particular person.

Signal (n.) A sign made for the purpose of giving notice to a person of some occurence, command, or danger; also, a sign, event, or watchword, which has been agreed upon as the occasion of concerted action.

Signal (n.) A token; an indication; a foreshadowing; a sign.

Signal (a.) Noticeable; distinguished from what is ordinary; eminent; remarkable; memorable; as, a signal exploit; a signal service; a signal act of benevolence.

Signal (a.) Of or pertaining to signals, or the use of signals in conveying information; as, a signal flag or officer.

Signaled (/) or Signalled (imp. & p. p.) of Signal

Signaling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Signal

Signalling () of Signal

Signal (v. t.) To communicate by signals; as, to signal orders.

Signal (v. t.) To notify by a signals; to make a signal or signals to; as, to signal a fleet to anchor.

Signalist (n.) One who makes signals; one who communicates intelligence by means of signals.

Signality (n.) The quality or state of being signal or remarkable.

Signalized (imp. & p. p.) of Signalize

Signalizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Signalize

Signalize (a.) To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish.

Signalize (a.) To communicate with by means of a signal; as, a ship signalizes its consort.

Signalize (a.) To indicate the existence, presence, or fact of, by a signal; as, to signalize the arrival of a steamer.

Signally (adv.) In a signal manner; eminently.

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