A turning off to a side or short track, that the principal track may be left free.

A winding so arranged as to divide the armature current and lead a portion of it around the field-magnet coils; -- opposed to series winding.

A person employed to shunt cars from one track to another.

Switching; as, shunting engine, yard, etc. Arbitrage conducted between certain local markets without the necessity of the exchange involved in foreign arbitrage.

The act or time of shutting; close; as, the shut of a door.

Same as Chute, or Shoot.

One who shuts or closes.

Furnished with shutters.

To move backwards and forwards, like a shuttle.

To send or toss to and fro; to bandy; as, to shuttlecock words.

See Shuttlecock.

Back and forth, like the movement of a shuttle.

See Schwan-pan.

A sudden start aside, as by a horse.

In a shy or timid manner; not familiarly; with reserve.

The quality or state of being shy.

A trickish knave; one who carries on any business, especially legal business, in a mean and dishonest way.

The ahu, or jairou.

An agent which promotes the flow of saliva.

A gibbon (Hylobates syndactylus), native of Sumatra. It has the second and third toes partially united by a web.

A native or inhabitant of Siam; pl., the people of Siam.

Related by blood; akin.

A contagious disease, endemic in Scotland, resembling the yaws. It is marked by ulceration of the throat and nose and by pustules and soft fungous excrescences upon the surface of the body. In the Orkneys the name is applied to the itch.

Of or pertaining to Siberia, a region comprising all northern Asia and belonging to Russia; as, a Siberian winter. A native or inhabitant of Siberia.

The quality or state of being sibilant; sibilation.

Making a hissing sound; uttered with a hissing sound; hissing; as, s, z, sh, and zh, are sibilant elementary sounds. A sibiliant letter.

To pronounce with a hissing sound, like that of the letter s; to mark with a character indicating such pronunciation.

Utterance with a hissing sound; also, the sound itself; a hiss.

Hissing; sibilant.

Having a hissing sound; hissing; sibilant.

of or pertaining to a sibling, n.; as, sibling rivalry: the common rivalry between siblings.

A woman supposed to be endowed with a spirit of prophecy.

One who believes in a sibyl or the sibylline prophecies.

Pertaining to the sibyls; uttered, written, or composed by sibyls; like the productions of sibyls.

Thus.

See Sycamore.

A seal; a coining die; -- used adjectively to designate the silver currency of the Mogul emperors, or the Indian rupee of 192 grains.

To dry.

The act or process of drying.

Drying; causing to dry. That which promotes drying.

Causing dryness.

Dryness; aridity; destitution of moisture.

The number six at dice.

A strong drink; cider.

Such.

A native or inhabitant of Sicily.

A Sicilian dance, resembling the pastorale, set to a rather slow and graceful melody in 12-8 or 6-8 measure; also, the music to the dance.

A kind of rich poplin.

To fall sick; to sicken.

Disordered in the brain.

To become sick; to fall into disease.

Causing sickness; specif., causing surfeit or disgust; nauseating.

To percolate, trickle, or ooze, as water through a crack.

Somewhat sick or diseased.

A reaping instrument consisting of a steel blade curved into the form of a hook, and having a handle fitted on a tang. The sickle has one side of the blade notched, so as always to sharpen with a serrated edge. Cf. Reaping hook, under Reap.

Any one of three species of humming birds of the genus Eutoxeres, native of Central and South America. They have a long and strongly curved bill. Called also the sickle-billed hummer. A curlew. A bird of the genus Epimachus and allied genera.

Furnished with a sickle.

One who uses a sickle; a reaper.

One who uses a sickle; a sickleman; a reaper.

Free from sickness.

Made sickly. See Sickly, v.

The quality or state of being sickly.

To make sick or sickly; -- with over, and probably only in the past participle.

The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; sisease or malady.

A shekel.

A genus of malvaceous plants common in the tropics. All the species are mucilaginous, and some have tough ligneous fibers which are used as a substitute for hemp and flax.

Soft; pulpy.

To be or stand at the side of; to be on the side toward.

A line pertaining or attached to the side of a thing. Specif., a line for hobbling an animal by connecting the fore and the hind feet of the same side.

See Skid, below.

A taking sides, as with a party, sect, or faction.

Having a paddle wheel on each side; -- said of steam vessels; as, a side-wheel steamer.

A piece of dining-room furniture having compartments and shelves for keeping or displaying articles of table service.

A morbid growth or deposit of bony matter and at the sides of the coronet and coffin bone of a horse.

Having (such or so many) sides; -- used in composition; as, one-sided; many-sided.

A disruptive discharge between a conductor traversed by an oscillatory current of high frequency (as lightning) and neighboring masses of metal, or between different parts of the same conductor.

The side or slope of a hill; sloping ground; a descent.

To render unable to participate in an activity, such as a sporting event; as, the pitcher was sidelined by a groin injury.

Inclining to one side; directed toward one side; sloping; inclined; as, sideling ground.

Lateral; oblique; not being directly in front; as, a sidelong glance.

The jamb, or cheek, of an opening in a wall, as of door or window.

Cider.

Relating to the stars.

Planet-struck; blasted.

The state of being siderated, or planet-struck; esp., blast in plants; also, a sudden and apparently causeless stroke of disease, as in apoplexy or paralysis.

Relating to the stars; starry; astral; as, sidereal astronomy.

To elevate to the stars, or to the region of the stars; to etherealize.

Sidereal.

Carbonate of iron, an important ore of iron occuring generally in cleavable masses, but also in rhombohedral crystals. It is of a light yellowish brown color. Called also sparry iron, spathic iron. A meteorite consisting solely of metallic iron. An indigo-blue variety of quartz. Formerly, magnetic iron ore, or loadstone.

Of or pertaining to siderography; executed by engraved plates of steel; as, siderographic art; siderographic impressions.

One skilled in siderography.

The art or practice of steel engraving; especially, the process, invented by Perkins, of multiplying facsimiles of an engraved steel plate by first rolling over it, when hardened, a soft steel cylinder, and then rolling the cylinder, when hardened, over a soft steel plate, which thus becomes a facsimile of the original. The process has been superseded by electrotypy.

A kind of meteorite. See under Meteorite.

Divination by burning straws on red-hot iron, and noting the manner of their burning.

An instrument for detecting small quantities of iron in any substance by means of a very delicate combination of magnetic needles.

A sort of pneumonia occuring in iron workers, produced by the inhalation of particles of iron.

An apparatus consisting essentially of a mirror moved by clockwork so as to throw the rays of the sun or a star in a fixed direction; -- a more general term for heliostat.

A genus of tropical sapotaceous trees noted for their very hard wood; ironwood.

A saddle for women, in which the rider sits with both feet on one side of the animal mounted.

A party man; a partisan.

To transfer to a siding from a main line of track.

A walk for foot passengers at the side of a street or road; a foot pavement.

Toward the side; sidewise.

See Horned rattler, under Horned.

A heavy swinging blow from the side, which disables an adversary. On or toward one side; laterally; sideways.

Attaching one's self to a party.

To go or move with one side foremost; to move sidewise; as, to sidle through a crowd or narrow opening.

To besiege; to beset.

A temporary fort or parallel where siege guns are mounted.

See Syenite.

See Syenitic.

Clay that is colored red or brown by the oxides of iron or manganese, and used as a pigment. It is used either in the raw state or burnt.

Of or pertaining to Sienna, a city of Italy.

A ridge of mountain and craggy rocks, with a serrated or irregular outline; as, the Sierra Nevada.

A short sleep taken about the middle of the day, or after dinner; a midday nap.

Sir; -- a title of respect used by the French.

A small variety of the Lima bean (Phaseolus lunatus).

A utensil for separating the finer and coarser parts of a pulverized or granulated substance from each other. It consist of a vessel, usually shallow, with the bottom perforated, or made of hair, wire, or the like, woven in meshes.

The white indris of Madagascar. It is regarded by the natives as sacred.

The act of whistling or hissing; a whistling sound; sibilation.