a a 3. [sinistre, Fr.] Unlucky; inauspicious. Then down the precipice of time it goes, The accent is here on the second sylla And sinks in minutes which in ages rose. Dryd. ble. This republick has been much more powerful Tempt it again; that is thy act, or none: than it is at present, as it is still likelier to sink What all the several ills that visit earth, than increase in its dominions. Addison Brought forth by night with a sinister birth, Let not the fire sink or slacken, but increase. Mortimer. Plagues, famine, fire, could not reach unto, The sword, nor surfeits, let thy fury do. 9. To fall into rest or indolence. Ben Jonson. Wouldst thou have me sink away SI'NISTROUS. adj. (sinister, Lat.) Ab In pleasing dreams, and lose myself in love, surd; perverse ; When every moment Cato's life's at stake? wrong-headed : in Addison. French, gauche. 10. To fall into any state worse than the A knave or fool can do no harm, even by the former. most sinistrous and absurd choice. Bentley. SI'NISTROUSLY. adv. (from sinistrous.] Nor urg'd the labours of my lord in vain, A sinking empire longer to sustain. Dryden. 1. With a tendency to the left. TO SINK, V. a. Many in their infancy are sinistrously disposed, and divers continue all their life left-handed, 1. To put under water ; to disable from and have but weak and imperfect use of the swimming or floating. right. Brown. A small feet of English made an hostile in2. Perversely; absurdly. vasion or incursion upon their havens and roads, and fired, surk, and carried away ten thousand To SINK. v. n. pret. I sunk, anciently ton of their great shipping. Bacon. sank; part. sunk or sunken. (rencan, 2. To delve ; to make by delving. Saxon ; senken, German.] At Saga in Germany they dig up iron in the 1. To fall down through any medium ; fields by sinking ditches two feet deep, and in not to swim ; to go to the bottom. the space of ten years the ditches are digged As rich with prize, again for iron since produced. Boyle. As is the cozy bottom of the sea Near Geneva are quarries of freestone, that run under the lake: when the water is at With sunken wreck and sunless treasuries. Sbakspeare. lowest, they make within the borders of it a lite In with the river sunh, and with it rose tle square, inclosed within four walls: in this Satan, involv'd in rising mist; then sought square they sink a pit, and dig for freestone. Addison. Where to lie hid. Milton. 3. To depress; to degrade. Milton. A mighty king I am, an earthly god; I raise or sink, imprison or set free; And life or death depends on my decree. Prior. Supposing several in a tempest will rather pe Triling painters or sculptors bestow infinite rish than work, would it not be madness in the pains upon the most insignificant parts of a figure, rest to chuse to sink together, rather than do till they sink the grandeur of the wiole. Pope. more than their share? Addison. 4: To plunge into destruction. 2. To fall gradually. Heav'n bear witness, The arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk And, if I have a conscience, let it sink me, down in his chariot. 9 Kings. Ev'n as the ax falls, if I be not faithful. Sbaksp. 3. To enter or penetrate into any body. s. To make to fall. David took a stone and slang it, and smote the These are so far from raising mountains, that Philistine, that the stone sunk into his forehead. they overturn and fing down some before stand 1 Samuel. ing, and undermine others, sinking them into 4. To lose height ; to fall to a level. the abyss. Woodward. In vain has nature form'd 6. To bring low; to diminish in quantity. Mountains and oceans to oppose his passage; When on the banks of an unlock'd-for stream, He bounds o'er all, victorious in his march; You sund the river with repeated draughts, The Alps and Pyreneans sink before him. Addis. Who was the last in all your host that thirsted? 5. To lose or want prominence. Addison, What were his marks! -A lean cheek, a 7. To crush; to overbcar; to depress. blue eye and sunken. Sbakspeare. That Hector was in certainty of death, and Deep dinted wrinkles on her cheeks she draws; depressed with the conscience of an ill cause: if Sunk are her eyes, and toothless are her jaws. you will not grant the first of these will sind the Horgden. spirit of a hero, you 'll at least allow the second 6. To be overwhelmed or depressed. may. Pope. Our country sinks beneath the yoke; 8. To diminish ; to degrade. It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash They catch at all opportunities of ruining our Is added to her wounds. Sbakspeare. trade, and sinking the figure which we make. They arraign'd shall sink Addison. Beneath thy sentence. Milton. I mean not that we should sink our figure out But if you this ambitious pray'r deny, of covetousness; and deny ourselves the proper Then let me sink beneath proud Arcite's arms; conveniences of our station, only that we may And, I once dead, let him possess her charms. lay up a superfluous treasure. Rogers. Dryden. 9. To make to decline. 7. To be received ; to be impressed. Thy cruel and unnatural lust of power Has sunk thy father more than all his years, And made him wither in a green old age. Rowe. Truth never sinks into those men's minds, nor To labour for a sunk corrupted state. Lyttletor. gives any tincture to them. Locker 10. To suppress; to conceal; to inter8. To decline; to decrease ; to decay, Vert. If sent with ready money to buy any thing, Thither, where sinners may have rest, I go, and you happen to be out of pocket, sink the Where flames refind in breasts seraphick glow. money, and take up the goods on account. Swift. Pepe. Whether the charmer sinner it or saint it, SINK. n. s. (rinc, Saxon.] If folly grows romantick, I must paint it. Pape. 1. A drain ; a jakes. SINO'FFERING, n. s. (sin and offering ] An expiation or sacrifice for sin. The flesh of the builock shalt thou burn withkennels flow to one sink, so in short time their out the camp; it is a sinoffering: Exoduse numbers increased. Hayward. SI'NOPER, or Sinople. n. s. [terra pontica, Gather more tilth than any sink in town. Latin.] A species of earth ; ruddle. Granville, Ainsworth. Returning home at night, you'll find the sink TO SINUATE. v. a. (sinuo, Latin.] To Strike your offended sense with double stink. bend in and out. Swift. Another was very perfect, somewhat less with 2. Any place where corruption is gathered. the margins, and more sinuated. Woodward. What sink of monsters, wretches of lost minds, SINU AʼTION. 1. s. [from sinuate.] A Mad after change, and desperate in their states, Wearied and gailid with their necessities, bending in and out. Durst have thought it? Ben Jonson. The human brain is, in proportion to the boOur soul, whose country's heav'n, and God dy, much larger than the brains of brutes, in her ther, proportion to their bodies, and fuller of anfracInto this world, corruption's sink, is sent; tus, or sinuations. Hule. Yet so much in her travail she doth gather, SINUO'SITY. n. s. [from sinuous.] The That she returns home wiser than she went. quality of being sinuous. Donne. Si's vous. adj. [sinueux, French ; from SI'NLESS. adj. [from sin.] Exempt from sinus, Latin.] Bending in and out. sin. Try with what disadvantage the voice will be Led on, yet sinless, with desire to know carried in an horn, which is a line arched; or in What nearer might concern him. Milton. a trumpet, which is a line retorted; or in some At that tasted fruit pipe that were sinua!!s. Bacon, The sun, as from Thyestean banquet, turn'd These, as a line, their long dimension drew, His course intended; else how had the world Streaking the ground with sinous trace. Milt. Inhabited, though siniess, more than now In the dissections of horses, in the concave or Avoided pinching cold, and scorching heat? Milt. sinuous part of the liver, whereat the gall is usu Infernal ghosts and hellish furies round ally scated in quadrupeds, I discover an honow, Environ'd thee; some howl’d, some yell'd, some long, membranous substance. Brown. shriek'd, SINUS. n. S. (Latin.] Some bent at thee their fiery darts, while thou 1. A bay of the sea; an opening of the Satt'st unappall’d in calm and sinless peace. Milt. land. No thoughts like mine his sinless soul profane, Observant of the right. Plato supposeth his Atlantis to have sunk all Dryden. into the sea: whether that be true or no, I do Did God, indeed, insist on a sinless and unerring observance of all this multiplicity of duties; not think it impossible that some arms of the had the christian dispensation provided no re sea, or sinuses, might have had such an originals Burnei. medy for our lapses, we might cry out with Ba. laam, Alas! who should live, if God did this? 2. Any fold or opening. Regers. To SIP. v. a. (ripan, Saxon ; sippen, SI'N LESSNESS.n.s. [from sinless.] Exemp Dutch.] 1. To drink by small draughts; to take, at tion from sin. We may the less admire at his gracious con one apposition of the cup to the mouth, descensions to those, the sinlessness of whose con- no more than the mouth will contain. dition will keep them from turning his vouch- Soft yielding minds to water glide away, Sitements into any thing but occasions of joy and And sip with nymphs their elemental tea. Paper gratitude. Boyle. 2. To drink in small quantities. SI'NNER. n. s. [from sin.] Find out the peaceful hermitage; The hairy gown and mossy ceil, 1. One at enmity with God; one not truly Where I may sit and rightly spell or religiously good. Of ev'ry star that heav'n deth shew, Let the boldest sinner take this one considera- And every herb that sips the dew. Milion. tion along with him, when he is going to sin, 3. To drink out of. that whether the sin he is about to act ever The winged nation o'er the forest fies: emes to be pardoned or no, yet, as soon as it is Then stooping on the meads and leafy bow'rs, acted, it quite turns the balance, puts his salva They ski the floods, and sip the purple flow'rs. tion upon the venture, and makes it ten to one Dryden. odds against hin. South. Never consider yourselves as persons that are To SIP. v. n. To drink a small quantity. She rais'd it to her mouth with sober grace; to be seen, admired, and courted by men; but as poor sinners, that are to save yourselves from Then sipping, offer'd to the next. Dryden. the vanities and follies of a niiserable world, by Sip. n. s. [from the verb.] A small humility, devotion, and self-denial. Law. draught; as much as the mouth will 2. An offender ; a criminal. hold. Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner, Her face o fire honest water, which ne'er left man i'th' mire. With labour, and the thing she took to quench it Sbakspeare. She would to each one sip: Sbakspeare. Over the guilty then the fury shakes One sip of this Milicn. Si'phon. n. s. [aior; sipho, Lat. siphon, Si'ren. n. s. [Latin.) A goddess who French.] A pipe through which liquors enticed men by singing, and devoured are conveyed. them; any mischievous alluring woman. Beneath th' incessant weeping of these drains Oh train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy I see the rocky siphons stretch'a immense, note, The mighty reservoirs of harden'd chalk, To drown me in thy sister's flood of tears: Of stift compacted clay. Thomson. Sing, siren, to thyself, and I will dote; SI'PPER. n. s. [from sip.] One that sips. Spread o'er tit silver waves thy golden hair, And as a bed I ll take thee, and there lie. Sboks. Si'ppet. n. s. [sop, sip, sippet.] A small SIRI'ASIS. n. s. [orpinot;.] An inflammasop. tion of the brain and its membrane, SIR. n. s. (sire, French; seignior, Italian ; through an excessive heat of the sun. senor, Spanish ; senior, Latin.] Dict. 1. The word of respect in compellation. Speak on, sir, SI'RIUS. n. s. (Latin.] The dogstar. I dare your worst objections: if I blush, Siko'cco. n. s. [Italian; syrus ventus, Forth rush the levant and the ponent winds, Mlilton. compellation of reproach and insult. men to deliver every one of them some sentence Go, sirrah, to my cell ; or parable, that he might report to his king, Take with you your companions: as you look which they did: only one was silent, which the To have my pardon, vim it handsomely. Shaks. ambassador perceiving, said to him, Sir, let Sirrah, there's no rocm for faith, troth, or it not displease you; why do not you say some honesty, in this bosom of thine. Sbakspeare. what that I may report?' He answered, Report It runs in the blood of your whole race, sir. to your lord, that there are that can hold their rab, to hate our family. L'Estrange. peace.. Bacon. Guess how the goddess greets her son, 2. The title of a knight or baronet. This Come hither, sirrab; no, begone. Prior. word was anciently so much held essen- Siku.(s. carabick.] The juice of tial, that the Jews in their addresses ex SIRUP. vegetables boiled with sugar. pressed it in Hebrew characters. Shaill,whose ears her mournful words did scize, Sir Horace Vere, his brother, was the princi- Her words in syrup laid of sweetest breath, pal in the active part. bacon. Relent. Sidney. The court forsakes him, and sir Balaam hangs. Not poppy, nor mandragora, Pope. Nor all the drousy sirrips of the world, 3. It is sometimes used for man. Shall ever med'cine thee to that sweet sleep, Which thou owed'st yesterday. Sbakspeare. That flames and dances in his crystal bounds, In the election of a sir so rare, Sbakspeare. With spirits of balm, and fragrant sy ops mixt. Milton, 4. A title given to the loin of beef, which Those expressed juices contain the true essenone of our kings knighted in a fit of tial salt of the plant; for it they be boiled into good humour, the consistence of a sirup, and set in a cool He lost his roast-beef stomach, not being able place, the essential sait of the plant will shout to touch a sir-loin which was served up. Addis. upon the sides of the vessels. Arbutt not. SI'R U PED. cdj. [from sirup.] Sweet, like Tbomson. sirup; bedewed with sweets. It would be ridiculous indeed, if a spit, which Yet when there haps a honey fall, We'll lick the syrupt leaves : is strong enough to turn a sir-loin of beef,' should And tell the bees that theirs is gall. not be able to turn a lark. Swift. Dington. Si'RUPY. adj. [from sirup.] Resembling SIRE. nos. (sire, French ; senior, Latin.] sirup: 1. A father. Used in poetry: Apples are of a sirupy tenacious nature. He, but a duke, would have his son a king, Mortimer. And raise his issue like a loving sire. Sbakspeare. SISE. n. s. [contracted from assis.c.) a virgin is his mother, but his sire The pow'r of the most High. Milton. You said, if I return'd next size in Lent, And now I leave the true and just supports I should be in remitter of your grace. Denne. SI'SKIN. n. so (chloris, Latin] A bird ; SI'STER. n. s. (rpeorter, Saxon ; zuster, Dutch.) 1. A woman born of the same parents; Or meets bis spouse's fonder eye. correlative to brother. 2. It is used in common speech of beasts : Her sister began to scold. Sbakspeare, as, the horse had a good sire, but a bad I have said to corruption, thou art my father: to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister. dam. 3. It is used in composition: as, grandsire, 2. Woman of the same faith; a christian; Job. great grandsire. one of the same nature; human being. TO SIRF, v. a. To heget ; to produce. If a brother or sister be naked and destitute of Cowards father cowards, and base things sire food, and you say unto them, Depart in peace, the base. Skakspcarc. be you warmed and filled; notwithstanding, you Pope. a the give them not those things which are needful to our sores, and makes the burden that is upon the body, what doch it profit? James. us sit more uneasy. Tillotson. 3. A female of the same kind. Fear, the last of ills, remain'd behind, And horrour heavy sat on every mind. Dryd. And bade them speak to him. Shakspeare. Our whole endeavours are intent to get rid of 6. One of the same kind ; one of the same present evil, as the first necessary condition condition. to our happiness. Nothing, as we passionately The women, who would rather wrest the laws think, can equal the uneasiness that sits so Than let a sister-plaintiff lose the cause, heavy upon us. Locke. As judges on the bench more gracious are, 6. To settle; to abide. And more attent to brothers of the bar, That this new comer, shame, Cried, one and all, the suppliant should have right; There sit not and reproach us. Milton. And to the grandame hag adjudg'd the knight. When Thetis blush'd in purple nog her own, Dryden. And from her face the breathing winds were There grew two olives, closest of the grove, blown; With roots intwin'd, and branches interwove; A sudden silence sate upon the sea, Alike their leaves, but not alike they smild And sweeping oars with struggling urg'd their With sister-fruits: one fertile, one was wild. Pope. way. Dryden. SI'STER in Law. n. s. A husband or He to the void advanc'd his pace; Pale horrour sat oneach Arcadian face. Dryden. wife's sister. 7. To brood; to incubate. Thy sister in law is gone back unto her people: return thou after thy sister in law. Ruth. As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not, so he that getteth riches not by right, SI'STERHOOD. n. s. [from sister.] shall leave them in the midst of his days. Ferem. 1. The office or duty of a sister. The egg laid, and severed from the body of the She abhorr'd hen, hath no more nourishment from the hen; Her proper blood, and left to do the part but only a quickening heat when she sitteth. Of sisteriood, to do that of a wife. Daniel, Bacon. 2. A set of sisters. She mistakes a piece of chalk for an egg, and sits upon it in the same manner. Addison. 3. A number of women of the same order. I speak, 8. To be adjusted; to be with respect to Wishing a more strict restraint fitnest or unfitness, decorum or indeUpon the sisterbood, the votarists of Saint Clare. corum. Sbakspeare. This new and gorgeous garment, majesty, A woman who flourishes in her innocence, Sits not so easy on me as you think. Sbakspeare, amidst that spite and rancour which prevails Heav'n knows among her exasperated sisterbood, appears more By what by-paths and indirect crook'd ways amiable. Addison. I met this crown; and I myself know well, SI'STERLY. adj. [from sister.] Like a How troublesoine it sate upon my head; sister; becoming a sister. To thee it shall descend with better quiet. After much debatement, Sbakspeare. My sisterly remorse confutes mine honour, Your preferring that to all other consideraAnd I did yield to him. Sbakspeare. tions does, in the eyes of all men, sit well upon you. Locke. Too Sit. v. n. preterit I sat. (sitan, Goth- 9: To be placed in order to be painted. ick; rittan, Saxon; setten, Dutch.] One is under no more obligation to extol 1 To rest upon the buttocks. every thing he finds in the author he translates, Their wives do sit beside them, carding wool. than a painter is to make every face that sits to May's Virgil. him handsome. Garth, Aloft, in awful state, 10. To be in any situation or condition. The godlike hero sat As a farmer cannot husband his ground so On his imperial throne. Dryden. well, if he sit at a great rent ; so a merchant I. To perch. cannot drive his trade so well, if he sit at great All new fashions be pleasant to me, usury Bacon. I will have them whether I thrive or thee; Suppose all the church-lands were thrown up Now I am a frisker, alí men on me look, to the laity; would the tenants sit easier in their What should I do but sit cock on the hoop? rents than now! Swift. What do I care if all the world me fail, 11. To be convened, as an assembly of a I will have a garment reach to my tail. Bourd. publick or authoritative kind; to hold a 3. To be in a state of rest, or idleness. session: as, the parliament sits ; the last Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here? Numbers. general council sat at Trent. Why sit we here each other viewing idly? Milt. 12. 'To be placed at the table. Whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or 4. To be in any local position. he that serveth? Luke. I should be still Plucking the grass, to know where sits the wind: 13. To exercise authority. Peering in maps for ports. Sbakspeare. The judgment shall sit, and take away his Those dominion. Daniel. Appointed to sit there had left their charge. Asses are ye that sit in judgment. Fudges. Milton. Down to the golden Chersonese, or where The Persian in Ecbatan sate. Miltox, The ships are ready, and the wind sits fair. A. Philips. One council sits upon life and death, the other is for taxes, and a third for the distribus. To rest as a weight or burden. tions of justice. Addisor, Your brother's death sits at your heart. Sbaks. When God lets loose upon us a sickness, if we Assert, ye fair ones, who in judgment sit, Your ancient empire over love and wit. Rowe, fear to die, then the calamity sits heavy on us. Taylor. 14. To be in any solemn assembly as a To toss and fling, and to be restless, only galls member. Three hundred and twenty men sat in council Before my view appear'd a structure fair; daily. 1 Maccatees. Its site uncertain, if on earth or air. Pope. 15. To Sit down. Down is little more 2. It is taken by Thomson for posture or than emphatical. situation of a thing, with respect to itGo and sit down to meat. Luke. scli; but improperly. And leares the semblance of a lover fix'd suspect the intrusion of armed uninvited guests. In melancholy site, with head decim'd, Spring: 16. TO SIT down. To begin a siege. Si'r FAST. n. s. (sit and fast.] bard Nor would the enemy have sate down before knob growing under the saddle. F. Dict. it, till they had done their business in all other places. Clarendon. SITH. adv. [ride, Sax.] Since; seeing 17. To Sit down. To rest ; to cease as that. Obsolete. satisfied. What ceremony of odours used about the bo dies of the dead! after which custom, notwithHere we cannot sit down, but still proceed in our search, and look higher for a support. Rogers. standing, sith it was their custom, our Lord was contented that his own most precious blood 18. To Sit down. To settle; to fix should be intombed. Hooker. abode. I thank you for this profit, and from hence Sbakspeare. 19. TO SIT out. To be without engage. SITHE, r. s. (ride, Sax. This word is meni or employment. They are glad, rather than sit out, to play very variously written by authors: I very small game, and to make use of arguments, have chosen the orthography which is such as will not prove a bare inexpediency: at once most simple and most agreeable Bp. Sanderson. to etymology.] The instrument of 20. TO Sit up. To rise from lying to mowing; a crooked blade joined at sitting, right angles to a long polc. He that was dead, sat up, and began to speak. Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives, Luke, Live register'd upon our brazen tombs; 21. To Sit up. To watch; not to go to A:d then grace us in the disgrace of death: bed. W’hun, spite of cormorant devouring time, Be courtly, Th' endeavour of this present brcath may buy And entertain, and feast, sit up, and revel; That honour, which shall ’bato his sezibe's keen edge, Call all the great, the fair, and spirited dames And make us heirs of all eternity. Skakspeare. Of Rome about thee, and begin a fashion Of freedom. Ben Jonson. Time is cominonly drawn upon tomlıs, in garSome sit up late at winter-fires, and fit dens, and other places, an old man, bald, kinged, with a sitbe and an hour class. Pacb::. Their sharp-edg’d tools. May. Most children shorten that time by sitting up Thereruduimpetuous rage does storm and fret, with the company at night. Locke, And there, as master of this murd'ring brood, Swinging a huge sciibe, stands impartial death, To Sit. v. a. With endless business almost out of breath. . 1. To keep the seat upon. Crasbaw. Hardly the muse can sit the head-strong horse, While the milk-maid singeth blythe, Nor would she, if she could, check his impe And the mower whets his scitbe. Mil!on. tuous force. Prior. The brazen trumpets kindle rage no niore; 2. (When the reciprocal pronoun follows But useless lances into seyibes shall bend, And the broad faichion in a ploughshare end.Pope. sit, it seems to be an active verb.] To Gray'd o'er their seats the form of time was place on a seat. found, The happiest youth viewing his progress thro', His setbe revers’d, and both his pinions bound. What, perils past, what crosses to ensue, l'ope. Would shut the book, and sit him down and die. But, Stella, say, what evil tongue Sbakspcare. Reports you are no longer young? He came to visit us, and, calling for a chair, That time sits with hisscytte to mow sai bim down, and we sat down with him. Bacon. Where erst sat Cupid with his bow ? Swij?. Thus fenc'd, SITHE. n. 5. Time. Obsolete. But not at rest or ease of mind, The foolish man thereat woxe wond'rous blith, They sat them down to weep. Milton. And humbly thanked him a thousand siib. 3. To be settled to do business. This is Spenser. rather neuter. The court was sat before sir Roger came, but Si'rHENCE. adv. [now contracted to the justices made room for the old knight at the since. See SINCE.] Since; in latter head of them, Addison. times. SITE. n. s. [situs, Lat.] ver-running and wasting of the realm was the beginning of all the other evils which 1. Situation ; local position. siibence have afflicted that land. Sponser. The city self he strongly fortifies, SITHNESS. adv. Since. Three sides by site it well defenced has. Fairfax. Sirter. n. s. [from sit.] Spenser. Ma vifold streams of goodly navigable rivers, as so many chains, environed the same site and 1. One that sits. temple. Bucur. The Turks are great sitters, and seldom walk; it we consider the heart in its constituent parts, whereby they sweat less, and need bathing we shall find nothing singular, but what is in any Bacon. muscle. 'Tis only the site and posture of their 2. A bird that broods. several parts that give it the form and functions The cldest hens are reckoned the best sitters ; of a heart, Bentley. and the youngest the best layers. Mortimer. This over more. |