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.

One of the two dorsal tubular organs on the hinder part of the abdomen of aphids. They give exit to the honeydew. See Illust. under Aphis.

A former name for a euphorbiaceous genus (Hevea) of South American trees, the principal source of caoutchouc.

Same as Siphonata.

Of or pertaining to a siphon.

Any cephalopod having a siphonate shell.

Siphon-bearing, as the shell of the nautilus and other cephalopods.

A bony tube which, in some birds, connects the tympanium with the air chambers of the articular piece of the mandible.

A tribe of gastropods having the mantle border, on one or both sides, prolonged in the form of a spout through which water enters the gill cavity. The shell itself is not always siphonostomatous in this group.

A gonidium.

An order of pelagic Hydrozoa including species which form complex free-swimming communities composed of numerous zooids of various kinds, some of which act as floats or as swimming organs, others as feeding or nutritive zooids, and others as reproductive zooids. See Illust. under Physallia, and Porpita.

Belonging to the Siphonophora. One of the Siphonophora.

One of the Siphonophora.

A division of Scaphopoda including those in which the foot terminates in a circular disk.

A tribe of parasitic copepod Crustacea including a large number of species that are parasites of fishes, as the lerneans. They have a mouth adapted to suck blood. An artificial division of gastropods including those that have siphonostomatous shells.

Having the front edge of the aperture of the shell prolonged in the shape of a channel for the protection of the siphon; -- said of certain gastropods. Pertaining to the Siphonostomata.

Any parasitic entomostracan of the tribe Siphonostomata. A siphonostomatous shell.

Having tubular nostrils, as the petrels.

A siphorhinal bird.

The tube which runs through the partitions of chambered cephalopod shells.

Having a siphuncle; siphunculated.

Of or pertaining to the siphuncle.

Having a siphuncle.

Having a taste or flavorl savory; sapid.

One whi sips.

A small sop; a small, thin piece of toasted bread soaked in milk, broth, or the like; a small piece of toasted or fried bread cut into some special shape and used for garnishing.

To sip often.

Sipping often.

A suborder of Gephyrea, including those which have the body unarmed and the intestine opening anteriorly.

Pertaining to the Sipunculoidea. One of the Sipunculoidea.

Same as Gephyrea. In a restricted sense, same as Sipunculacea.

Oozy; -- applied to land under cultivation that is not well drained.

A man of social authority and dignity; a lord; a master; a gentleman; -- in this sense usually spelled sire.

See Seraskier.

See Seraskierate.

See Serbonian.

A Hindoo clerk or accountant.

A native chief in Hindostan; a headman.

To beget; to procreate; -- used of beasts, and especially of stallions.

The larval form of any salamander while it still has external gills; especially, one of those which, like the axolotl (Amblystoma Mexicanum), sometimes lay eggs while in this larval state, but which under more favorable conditions lose their gills and become normal salamanders. See also Axolotl.

Of or pertaining to a siren; bewitching, like a siren; fascinating; alluring; as, a siren song.

See Siren, 6.

An order of large aquatic herbivorous mammals, including the manatee, dugong, rytina, and several fossil genera.

Any species of Sirenia.

Like, or appropriate to, a siren; fascinating; deceptive.

To use the enticements of a siren; to act as a siren; to fascinate.

A sunstroke. The act of exposing to a sun bath. [Obs.] Cf. Insolation.

The Dog Star. See Dog Star.

Any one of several species of Asiatic cuckoos of the genus Taccocua, as the Bengal sirkeer (Taccocua sirkee).

A loin of beef, or a part of a loin.

See Surname.

See Sirocco.

An oppressive, relaxing wind from the Libyan deserts, chiefly experienced in Italy, Malta, and Sicily.

A term of address implying inferiority and used in anger, contempt, reproach, or disrespectful familiarity, addressed to a man or boy, but sometimes to a woman. In sililoquies often preceded by ah. Not used in the plural.

A quicksand.

A peculiar species of poetry, for the most part devoted to moral and religious topics, and commonly satirical, -- often used by the troubadours of the Middle Ages.

Six. See Sise.

A large, fat variety of the namaycush found in Lake Superior; -- called also siskawet, siskiwit.

Six; the highest number on a die; the cast of six in throwing dice.

The suslik.

Cider. See Sicer.

A hard blow.

A small green and yellow European finch (Spinus spinus, or Carduelis spinus); -- called also aberdevine. The American pinefinch (Spinus pinus); -- called also pine siskin. See Pinefinch.

The siscowet.

See Seismograph.

See Seismometer.

A hissing noise.

A leguminous tree (Dalbergia Sissoo) of the northern parts of India; also, the dark brown compact and durable timber obtained from it. It is used in shipbuilding and for gun carriages, railway ties, etc.

A stay or suspension of proceedings; an order for a stay of proceedings.