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 signs, abbreviations, letters, or characters standing for words, shorthand, etc., in ancient manuscripts, or on coins, medals, etc.

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.

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.

Habitually silent; taciturn; reticent.

In a silent manner.

State of being silent; silence.

See Wanderoo.

A kind of linen cloth, originally made in Silesia, a province of Prussia.

Of or pertaining to Silesia. A native or inhabitant of Silesia.

Silica, SiO2 as found in nature, constituting quarz, and most sands and sandstones. See Silica, and Silicic.

To represent by a silhouette; to project upon a background, so as to be like a silhouette.

Silicon dioxide, SiO/. It constitutes ordinary quartz (also opal and tridymite), and is artifically prepared as a very fine, white, tasteless, inodorous powder.

A salt of silicic acid.

Combined or impregnated with silicon or silica; as, silicated hydrogen; silicated rocks.

Silicification.

Same as Silicoidea.

Of or pertaining to silica; containing silica, or partaking of its nature.

Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, silica; specifically, designating compounds of silicon; as, silicic acid.

Consisting of silica and calcareous matter.

A binary compound of silicon, or one regarded as binary.

Producing silica; united with silica.

Thae act or process of combining or impregnating with silicon or silica; the state of being so combined or impregnated; as, the silicification of wood.

Combined or impregnated with silicon or silica, especially the latter; as, silicified wood.

To become converted into silica, or to be impregnated with silica.

Same as Silicoidea.