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Such. See Such. [Obs.] "Sike fancies weren foolerie." Spenser.

To sigh. [Obs.] That for his wife weepeth and siketh sore. Chaucer.

See 2d Sicker, Sickerly, etc. [Obs.]

A religious sect noted for warlike traits, founded in the Punjab at the end of the 15th century.

To shriek. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Such. [Obs. or Scot.]

Same as Slickensides.

Like or suiting a snail; as, snail-like progress.

Like a soldier; soldierly.

See Suslik.

Like a spider. Shak.

ng resembling such a nail in shape. He wears on his head the corona radiata . . . ; the spikes that shoot out represent the rays of the sun. Addison.

The hooded merganser.

Furnished or set with spikes, as corn; fastened with spikes; stopped with spikes. A youth, leaping over the spiked pales, . . . was caught by those spikes. Wiseman.

See Sailfish (a)

A small or secondary spike; especially, one of the ultimate parts of the in florescence of grasses. See Illust. of Quaking grass.

ted States it is the Aralia racemosa, often called spignet, and used as a medicine. The spikenard of the ancients is the Nardostachys Jatamansi, a native of the Himalayan region. From its blackish roots a perfume for the hair is still prepared in India.

The pintail duck. [Local, U.S.]

Like a spike; spikelike. These spiky, vivid outbursts of metallic vapors. C. A. Young.

r playing a game, or for counting the score in a game, as in cribbage. In the plural (spilikins), a game played with such pieces; pushpin. [Written also spillikin, spilliken.]