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.

Having an honest heart; free from duplicity.

Having a single purpose; concentrating on a single goal; hence, artless; guileless; single-hearted.

The quality of being single-minded.

Having one surface; -- said specif. of aeroplanes or aerocurves that are covered with fabric, etc., on only one side.

The quality or state of being single, or separate from all others; the opposite of doubleness, complication, or multiplicity.

For unmarried persons, or catering especially to unmarried persons; as, a singles bar; a singles party.

In England and Scotland, a cudgel used in fencing or fighting; a backsword. The game played with singlesticks, in which he who first brings blood from his adversary's head is pronounced victor; backsword; cudgeling.

An unlined or undyed waistcoat; a single garment; -- opposed to doublet.

In certain games at cards, as whist, a single card of any suit held at the deal by a player; as, to lead a singleton.

The pivoted or swinging bar to which the traces of a harnessed horse are fixed; a whiffletree.

Individually; particularly; severally; as, to make men singly and personally good.

To write poor poetry.

A dramatic work, partly in dialogue and partly in song, of a kind popular in Germany in the latter part of the 18th century. It was often comic, had modern characters, and patterned its music on folk song with strictly subordinated accompaniment.

A songstress.

An individual instance; a particular.

One who affects singularity.

The quality or state of being singular; some character or quality of a thing by which it is distinguished from all, or from most, others; peculiarity.

To make singular or single; to distinguish.

In a singular manner; in a manner, or to a degree, not common to others; extraordinarily; as, to be singularly exact in one's statements; singularly considerate of others.

A sigh or sobbing; also, a hiccough.

Relating to, or affected with, hiccough.

Hiccough.

Of or pertaining to a sine; employing, or founded upon, sines; as, a sinical quadrant.

Anything peculiar to the Chinese; esp., a Chinese peculiarity in manners or customs.

A glucoside found in the seeds of black mustard (Brassica nigra, formerly Sinapis nigra) It resembles sinalbin, and consists of a potassium salt of myronic acid.

On the left hand, or the side of the left hand; left; -- opposed to dexter, or right.

Left-handed; hence, unlucky.

In a sinister manner.

Toward the left side; sinistrally.

Of or pertaining to the left, inclining to the left; sinistrous; -- opposed to dextral.

The quality or state of being sinistral.

Toward the left; in a sinistral manner.

A mucilaginous carbohydrate, resembling achroodextrin, extracted from squill as a colorless amorphous substance; -- so called because it is levorotatory.

Rising spirally from right to left (of the spectator); sinistrorse.

Turning to the left (of the spectator) in the ascending line; -- the opposite of dextrorse. See Dextrorse.

Being on the left side; inclined to the left; sinistral.

In a sinistrous manner; perversely; wrongly; unluckily.

A drain to carry off filthy water; a jakes.

One who, or that which, sinks. A weight on something, as on a fish line, to sink it. In knitting machines, one of the thin plates, blades, or other devices, that depress the loops upon or between the needles.

a. n. from Sink.

Free from sin.

To act as a sinner.

A woman who sins.

See Sennit.

Relating to the Chinese language, literature or culture.

A student of China and the Chinese; one versed in the Chinese language, literature, history, politics and culture. Same as sinologue.

A student of China and the Chinese; one versed in the Chinese language, literature, history, politics and culture.

That branch of systemized knowledge which treats of the Chinese, their language, literature, etc.

Sinople.

A red pigment made from sinopite.

A brick-red ferruginous clay used by the ancients for red paint.

The tincture vert; green.

See Cinque.

Same as Banxring.

Dross, as of iron; the scale which files from iron when hammered; -- applied as a name to various minerals.

A kind of spice used in the East Indies, consisting of the bark of a species of Cinnamomum.

To bend or curve in and out; to wind; to turn; to be sinuous.

Same as Sinuate.

A winding or bending in and out.

Sinuous.

Quality or state of being sinuous.

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

Having a pallial sinus. See under Sinus.

An opening; a hollow; a bending.

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.

Of or pertaining to a sinusoid; like a sinusoid.

See Shogun.

See Shogunate.

A nation of American Indians; see Dakotas.

The act of sipping; the taking of a liquid with the lips.

See Seepage.

Water that seeped or oozed through a porous soil.

See Seep.

To run or soak through fine pores and interstices; to ooze.

Syphilis.

A siphon bottle. See under Siphon, n.

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

The action of a siphon.

Of or pertaining to a siphon; resembling a siphon.

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.

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.

Having a siphon or siphons.