Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 85

Sinuosities (pl. ) of Sinuosity

Sinuosity (n.) Quality or state of being sinuous.

Sinuosity (n.) A bend, or a series of bends and turns; a winding, or a series of windings; a wave line; a curve.

Sinuous (a.) Bending in and out; of a serpentine or undulating form; winding; crooked.

Sinupalliate (a.) Having a pallial sinus. See under Sinus.

Sinus (pl. ) of Sinus

Sinuses (pl. ) of Sinus

Sinus (n.) An opening; a hollow; a bending.

Sinus (n.) A bay of the sea; a recess in the shore.

Sinus (n.) A cavity; a depression.

Sinus (n.) A cavity in a bone or other part, either closed or with a narrow opening.

Sinus (n.) A dilated vessel or canal.

Sinus (n.) A narrow, elongated cavity, in which pus is collected; an elongated abscess with only a small orifice.

Sinus (n.) A depression between adjoining lobes.

Sinusoid (n.) The curve whose ordinates are proportional to the sines of the abscissas, the equation of the curve being y = a sin x. It is also called the curve of sines.

Sinusoidal (a.) Of or pertaining to a sinusoid; like a sinusoid.

Siogoon (n.) See Shogun.

Siogoonate (n.) See Shogunate.

Sioux (n. sing. & pl.) See Dakotas.

Sipped (imp. & p. p.) of Sip

Sipping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sip

Sip (v. t.) To drink or imbibe in small quantities; especially, to take in with the lips in small quantities, as a liquid; as, to sip tea.

Sip (v. t.) To draw into the mouth; to suck up; as, a bee sips nectar from the flowers.

Sip (v. t.) To taste the liquor of; to drink out of.

Sip (v. i.) To drink a small quantity; to take a fluid with the lips; to take a sip or sips of something.

Sip (n.) The act of sipping; the taking of a liquid with the lips.

Sip (n.) A small draught taken with the lips; a slight taste.

Sipage (n.) See Seepage.

Sip (v. i.) See Seep.

Siphilis (n.) Syphilis.

Siphoid (n.) A siphon bottle. See under Siphon, n.

Siphon (n.) A device, consisting of a pipe or tube bent so as to form two branches or legs of unequal length, by which a liquid can be transferred to a lower level, as from one vessel to another, over an intermediate elevation, by the action of the pressure of the atmosphere in forcing the liquid up the shorter branch of the pipe immersed in it, while the continued excess of weight of the liquid in the longer branch (when once filled) causes a continuous flow. The flow takes place only when the discharging extremity of the pipe ia lower than the higher liquid surface, and when no part of the pipe is higher above the surface than the same liquid will rise by atmospheric pressure; that is, about 33 feet for water, and 30 inches for mercury, near the sea level.

Siphon (n.) One of the tubes or folds of the mantle border of a bivalve or gastropod mollusk by which water is conducted into the gill cavity. See Illust. under Mya, and Lamellibranchiata.

Siphon (n.) The anterior prolongation of the margin of any gastropod shell for the protection of the soft siphon.

Siphon (n.) The tubular organ through which water is ejected from the gill cavity of a cephaloid. It serves as a locomotive organ, by guiding and confining the jet of water. Called also siphuncle. See Illust. under Loligo, and Dibranchiata.

Siphon (n.) The siphuncle of a cephalopod shell.

Siphon (n.) The sucking proboscis of certain parasitic insects and crustaceans.

Siphon (n.) A sproutlike prolongation in front of the mouth of many gephyreans.

Siphon (n.) A tubular organ connected both with the esophagus and the intestine of certain sea urchins and annelids.

Siphon (n.) A siphon bottle.

Siphon (v. t.) To convey, or draw off, by means of a siphon, as a liquid from one vessel to another at a lower level.

Siphonage (n.) The action of a siphon.

Siphonal (a.) Of or pertaining to a siphon; resembling a siphon.

Siphonarid (n.) Any one of numerous species of limpet-shaped pulmonate gastropods of the genus Siphonaria. They cling to rocks between high and low water marks and have both lunglike organs and gills.

Siphonata (n. pl.) A tribe of bivalve mollusks in which the posterior mantle border is prolonged into two tubes or siphons. Called also Siphoniata. See Siphon, 2 (a), and Quahaug.

Siphonate (a.) Having a siphon or siphons.

Siphonate (a.) Belonging to the Siphonata.

Siphonet (n.) One of the two dorsal tubular organs on the hinder part of the abdomen of aphids. They give exit to the honeydew. See Illust. under Aphis.

Siphonia (n.) A former name for a euphorbiaceous genus (Hevea) of South American trees, the principal source of caoutchouc.

Siphoniata (n. pl.) Same as Siphonata.

Siphonic (a.) Of or pertaining to a siphon.

Siphonifer (n.) Any cephalopod having a siphonate shell.

Siphoniferous (a.) Siphon-bearing, as the shell of the nautilus and other cephalopods.

Siphonia (pl. ) of Siphonium

Siphonium (n.) A bony tube which, in some birds, connects the tympanium with the air chambers of the articular piece of the mandible.

Siphonobranchiata (n. pl.) A tribe of gastropods having the mantle border, on one or both sides, prolonged in the form of a spout through which water enters the gill cavity. The shell itself is not always siphonostomatous in this group.

Siphonobranchiate (a.) Having a siphon, or siphons, to convey water to the gills; belonging or pertaining to the Siphonobranchiata.

Siphonobranchiate (n.) One of the Siphonobranchiata.

Siphonoglyphe (n.) A gonidium.

Siphonophora (n. pl.) An order of pelagic Hydrozoa including species which form complex free-swimming communities composed of numerous zooids of various kinds, some of which act as floats or as swimming organs, others as feeding or nutritive zooids, and others as reproductive zooids. See Illust. under Physallia, and Porpita.

Siphonophoran (a.) Belonging to the Siphonophora.

Siphonophoran (n.) One of the Siphonophora.

Siphonophore (n.) One of the Siphonophora.

Siphonopoda (n. pl.) A division of Scaphopoda including those in which the foot terminates in a circular disk.

Siphonostomata (n. pl.) A tribe of parasitic copepod Crustacea including a large number of species that are parasites of fishes, as the lerneans. They have a mouth adapted to suck blood.

Siphonostomata (n. pl.) An artificial division of gastropods including those that have siphonostomatous shells.

Siphonostomatous (a.) Having the front edge of the aperture of the shell prolonged in the shape of a channel for the protection of the siphon; -- said of certain gastropods.

Siphonostomatous (a.) Pertaining to the Siphonostomata.

Siphonostome (n.) Any parasitic entomostracan of the tribe Siphonostomata.

Siphonostome (n.) A siphonostomatous shell.

Siphorhinal (a.) Having tubular nostrils, as the petrels.

Siphorhinian (n.) A siphorhinal bird.

Siphuncle (n.) The tube which runs through the partitions of chambered cephalopod shells.

Siphuncled (a.) Having a siphuncle; siphunculated.

Siphuncular (a.) Of or pertaining to the siphuncle.

Siphunculated (a.) Having a siphuncle.

Sipid (a.) Having a taste or flavorl savory; sapid.

Sipper (n.) One whi sips.

Sippet (n.) A small sop; a small, thin piece of toasted bread soaked in milk, broth, or the like; a small piece of toasted or fried bread cut into some special shape and used for garnishing.

Sipple (v. i.) To sip often.

Sippling (a.) Sipping often.

Sipunculacea (n. pl.) A suborder of Gephyrea, including those which have the body unarmed and the intestine opening anteriorly.

Sipunculoid (a.) Pertaining to the Sipunculoidea.

Sipunculoid (n.) One of the Sipunculoidea.

Sipunculoidea (n. pl.) Same as Gephyrea.

Sipunculoidea (n. pl.) In a restricted sense, same as Sipunculacea.

Si quis () A notification by a candidate for orders of his intention to inquire whether any impediment may be alleged against him.

Sir (n.) A man of social authority and dignity; a lord; a master; a gentleman; -- in this sense usually spelled sire.

Sir (n.) A title prefixed to the Christian name of a knight or a baronet.

Sir (n.) An English rendering of the LAtin Dominus, the academical title of a bachelor of arts; -- formerly colloquially, and sometimes contemptuously, applied to the clergy.

Sir (n.) A respectful title, used in addressing a man, without being prefixed to his name; -- used especially in speaking to elders or superiors; sometimes, also, used in the way of emphatic formality.

Siraskier (n.) See Seraskier.

Siraskierate (n.) See Seraskierate.

Sirbonian (a.) See Serbonian.

Sircar (n.) A Hindoo clerk or accountant.

Sircar (n.) A district or province; a circar.

Sircar (n.) The government; the supreme authority of the state.

Sirdar (n.) A native chief in Hindostan; a headman.

Sire (n.) A lord, master, or other person in authority. See Sir.

Sire (n.) A tittle of respect formerly used in speaking to elders and superiors, but now only in addressing a sovereign.

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