Dishes, vases, ornaments, and utensils of various sorts, made of silver.

A perennial rosaceous herb (Potentilla Anserina) having the leaves silvery white beneath.

Resembling, or having the luster of, silver; grayish white and lustrous; of a mild luster; bright.

The science treating of the life of trees in the forest.

See Sylviculture.

A cyma.

A grimace.

A woman's long dress or robe; also light covering; a scarf.

The harness of a drawloom.

A Linnaean genus of Quadrumana which included the types of numerous modern genera. By modern writers it is usually restricted to the genus which includes the orang-outang.

Simian; apelike.

Of or pertaining to the family Simiadae, which, in its widest sense, includes all the Old World apes and monkeys; also, apelike. Any Old World monkey or ape.

That which is similar to, or resembles, something else, as in quality, form, etc.

The quality or state of being similar; likeness; resemblance; as, a similarity of features.

In a similar manner.

Similar.

Implying or indicating likeness or resemblance.

A word or phrase by which anything is likened, in one or more of its aspects, to something else; a similitude; a poetical or imaginative comparison.

The technical name of the form by which either party, in pleading, accepts the issue tendered by his opponent; -- called sometimes a joinder in issue.

The quality or state of being similar or like; resemblance; likeness; similarity; as, similitude of substance.

Involving or expressing similitude.

To liken; to compare; as, to similize a person, thing, or act.

An alloy of copper and zinc, resembling brass, but of a golden color.

Of or pertaining to the Simi/; monkeylike.

See Scimiter.

To cause to boil gently; to cook in liquid heated almost or just to the boiling point.

A kind of cake made of fine flour; a cracknel.

Genuine; true; real; authentic; -- a term alluding to the comedy character Simon Pure, who is impersonated by another and is obliged to prove himself to be the /real Simon Pure./

One who practices simony, or who buys or sells preferment in the church.

Of or pertaining to simony; guilty of simony; consisting of simony.

Simoniacal.

One of the followers of Simon Magus; also, an adherent of certain heretical sects in the early Christian church.

Simoniacal.

One who practices simony.

The crime of buying or selling ecclesiastical preferment; the corrupt presentation of any one to an ecclesiastical benefice for money or reward.

A hot, dry, suffocating, dust-laden wind, that blows occasionally in Arabia, Syria, and neighboring countries, generated by the extreme heat of the parched deserts or sandy plains.

Having a very flat or snub nose, with the end turned up.

A long-tailed monkey (Semnopitchecus melalophus) native of Sumatra. It has a crest of black hair. The forehead and cheeks are fawn color, the upper parts tawny and red, the under parts white. Called also black-crested monkey, and sinpae.

A constrained, self-conscious smile; an affected, silly smile; a smirk.

One who simpers.

a. n. from Simper, v.

In a simpering manner.

To gather simples, or medicinal plants.

Sincere; inguenuous; guileless.

Artless; guileless; simple-hearted; undesigning; unsuspecting; devoid of duplicity.

The quality or state of being simple; simplicity.

One who collects simples, or medicinal plants; a herbalist; a simplist.

Simplicity; silliness.

a trade name for a fat substitute prepared as microparticles of protein from whey. It has little fat, but has a consistency and taste resembling fat, and is thus used to prepare foods low in fat for dietetic purposes.

A person of weak intellect; a silly person.

One who is simple.

The quality or state of being simple, unmixed, or uncompounded; as, the simplicity of metals or of earths.

The act of simplifying.

To make simple; to make less complex; to make clear by giving the explanation for; to show an easier or shorter process for doing or making.

One skilled in simples, or medicinal plants; a simpler.

Of or pertaining to simples, or a simplist.

Simplicity.

See Symploce.

In a simple manner or state; considered in or by itself; without addition; along; merely; solely; barely.

See Simulacrum.

False; specious; counterfeit.

To assume the mere appearance of, without the reality; to assume the signs or indications of, falsely; to counterfeit; to feign.

The act of simulating, or assuming an appearance which is feigned, or not true; -- distinguished from dissimulation, which disguises or conceals what is true.

One who simulates, or feigns.

Simulated, or capable of being simulated.

The quality or state of being simultaneous; simultaneousness.

Existing, happening, or done, at the same time; as, simultaneous events.

Private grudge or quarrel; as, domestic simulties.

a chemical substance (C25H38O5) having inhibitory activity on the enzyme HMG-CoA reductase, and used in medicine to reduce cholesterol levels in blood.

To depart voluntarily from the path of duty prescribed by God to man; to violate the divine law in any particular, by actual transgression or by the neglect or nonobservance of its injunctions; to violate any known rule of duty; -- often followed by against.

Of or pertaining to Mount Sinai; given or made at Mount Sinai; as, the Sinaitic law.

A glucoside found in the seeds of white mustard (Brassica alba, formerly Sinapis alba), and extracted as a white crystalline substance.

A bitter white crystalline nitrogenous substance, obtained indirectly from oil of mustard and ammonia; -- called also allyl melamine.

A salt of sinapic acid.

Of or pertaining to sinapine; specifically, designating an acid (C11H12O5) related to gallic acid, and obtained by the decomposition of sinapine, as a white crystalline substance.

An alkaloid occuring in the seeds of mustard. It is extracted, in combination with sulphocyanic acid, as a white crystalline substance, having a hot, bitter taste. When sinapine is isolated it is unstable and undergoes decomposition.

A disused generic name for mustard; -- now called Brassica.

A substance extracted from mustard seed and probably identical with sinalbin.

A plaster or poultice composed principally of powdered mustard seed, or containing the volatile oil of mustard seed. It is a powerful irritant.

Of or pertaining to mustard oil; specifically, designating an acid of the oleic acid series said to occur in mistard oil.

A nitrogenous base, CO.(NH.C3H5)2, related to urea, extracted from mustard oil, and also produced artifically, as a white crystalline substance; -- called also diallyl urea.

Choline.

Seeing that; because; considering; -- formerly followed by that.

Pure; unmixed; unadulterated.

In a sincere manner. Purely; without alloy. Honestly; unfeignedly; without dissimulation; as, to speak one's mind sincerely; to love virtue sincerely.

Same as Sincerity.

The quality or state of being sincere; honesty of mind or intention; freedom from simulation, hypocrisy, disguise, or false pretense; sincereness.

To gird with a sinch; to tighten the sinch or girth of (a saddle); as, to sinch up a sadle.

Of or pertaining to the sinciput; being in the region of the sinciput.

The fore part of the head.

A native of Sind, India, esp. one of the native Hindoo stock.

A wrapper.

Without.

Of or pertaining to a sinecure; being in the nature of a sinecure.

To put or place in a sinecure.

The state of having a sinecure.

One who has a sinecure.

To knit together, or make strong with, or as with, sinews.

Having the sinews under the belly shrunk by excessive fatigue.

Furnished with sinews; as, a strong-sinewed youth.

Quality of being sinewy.

Sinewy.

Having no sinews; hence, having no strength or vigor.

Sinewy.

Pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling, a sinew or sinews.

Tainted with, or full of, sin; wicked; iniquitous; criminal; unholy; as, sinful men; sinful thoughts.

To utter with musical inflections or modulations of voice.

The kob.

A burning of the surface; a slight burn.

One who sings; especially, one whose profession is to sing.

A songstress.

Same as Cingalese.

a. n. from Sing, v.

With sounds like singing; with a kind of tune; in a singing tone.

A unit; one; as, to score a single.

Having simplicity of action; especially (Mach.), acting or exerting force during strokes in one direction only; -- said of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.

Lapping over the breast only far enough to permit of buttoning, and having buttons on one edge only; as, a single-breasted coast.

To proceed by means of the single-foot, as a horse or other quadruped.

Having but one hand, or one workman; also, alone; unassisted.

By oneself; alone; unassisted.