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 The process has been superseded by electrotypy.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.

The six-shafted bird of paradise. See Paradise bird, under Paradise.

To separate with a sieve, as the fine part of a substance from the coarse; as, to sift meal or flour; to sift powder; to sift sand or lime.

One who, or that which, sifts.

Urine.

Pertaining to Sigault, a French physician. See Symphyseotomy.

Same as

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

Sorrowful; mournful.

One who sighs.

Uttering sighs; grieving; lamenting.

To take aim by a sight.

A hole for looking through; a peephole.

The act of seeing sights; eagerness for novelties or curiosities.

One given to seeing sights or noted things, or eager for novelties or curiosities.

Distance to which the sight can reach or be thrown.

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

Easily or clearly seen; distinctly visible; perspicuous.

The state of being sightful; perspicuity.

a. n. from Sight, v. t.

Lacking sight; without sight; blind.

The state of being sightly; comeliness; conspicuousness.

Pleasing to the sight; comely.

Undiscoverable to sight.

One who reads or performs music readily at first sight.

A seal; a signature.

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

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

Decorated by means of stamps; -- said of pottery.

Fit to seal; belonging to a seal; composed of wax.

A seal.

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

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.

Curved in two directions, like the letter S, or the Greek /.

In a sigmoidal manner.

To be a sign or omen.

A form of language for communicating by use of gestures made by the hands, rather than by speech. It includes alphabets made by hand gestures, as well as proper languages formed from signs. Among the latter is the American Sign Language (ASL), used by the deaf. See also dactylology.

To terminate a communication, especially one conducted by radio waves; to terminate a broadcast over radio or television; as, this is your reporter in Cairo, signing off.

To begin a communication, especially one conducted by radio waves.

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

To communicate by signals; as, to signal orders.

The ratio of the intensity of a signal{2} to the background noise detected by a measuring instrument, especially in a communications channel; the higher the ratio, the more accurately the information contained can be interpreted. The term is applied not only to human communications, but to the detection of information in any system that is being studied to gain knowledge; as, the signal-to-noise ratio of light signals in older optic fibers drops to an unusable level after several miles..

One who makes signals; one who communicates intelligence by means of signals.

The quality or state of being signal or remarkable.

To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish.

In a signal manner; eminently.

A man whose business is to manage or display signals; especially, one employed in setting the signals by which railroad trains are run or warned.

The act of signaling, or of signalizing; hence, description by peculiar, appropriate, or characteristic marks.

Having definite color markings.

Sign given; marking.

A signer; one who signs or subscribes; as, a conference of signatories.

To mark with, or as with, a signature or signatures.

One who holds to the doctrine of signatures impressed upon objects, indicative of character or qualities.

A board, placed on or before a shop, office, etc., on which ssome notice is given, as the name of a firm, of a business, or the like.

One who signs or subscribes his name; as, a memorial with a hundred signers.

A seal; especially, in England, the seal used by the sovereign in sealing private letters and grants that pass by bill under the sign manual; -- called also privy signet.

Stamped or marked with a signet.

Bearing signs.

The quality or state of being significant.

That which has significance; a sign; a token; a symbol.

In a significant manner.

One of several things signified by a common term.

The act of signifying; a making known by signs or other means.

Betokening or representing by an external sign.

One who, or that which, signifies.

Significant. That which is significatory.

Formerly, a writ issuing out of chancery, upon certificate given by the ordinary, of a man's standing excommunicate by the space of forty days, for the laying him up in prison till he submit himself to the authority of the church.

To show by a sign; to communicate by any conventional token, as words, gestures, signals, or the like; to announce; to make known; to declare; to express; as, a signified his desire to be present.

The procedure or process of communicating by use of a sign language.

Sir; Mr. The English form and pronunciation for the Italian Signor and the Spanish Se/or.

To exercise dominion; to seigniorize.

State or position of a signior.

Same as Seigniory.

Madam; Mrs; -- a title of address or respect among the Italians.

Sir; Mr.; -- a title of address or respect among the Italians. Before a noun the form is Signor.

Miss; -- a title of address among the Italians.

A post on which a sign hangs, or on which papers are placed to give public notice of anything.

A sigh.

Such. See Such.

Surely; certainly.

Surely; securely.

The quality or state of being sicker, or certain.

See 2d Sicker, Sickerly, etc.

A religious sect noted for warlike traits, founded in the Punjab at the end of the 15th century.

Short for Ensilage.

A young or small herring.

To compel to silence; to cause to be still; to still; to hush.

One that silences; The muffler of an internal-combustion engine. Any of various devices to silence the humming noise of telegraph wires. A device for silencing the report of a firearm shooting its projectiles singly, as a tubular attachment for the muzzle having circular plates that permit the passage of the projectile but impart a rotary motion to, and thus retard, the exploding gases.

A genus of caryophyllaceous plants, usually covered with a viscid secretion by which insects are caught; catchfly.

That which is silent; a time of silence.

One appointed to keep silence and order in court; also, one sworn not to divulge secrets of state.