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One who reads or performs music readily at first sight. [R.] Busby.

A seal; a signature. Dryden. Of talismans and sigils knew the power. Pope.

Little images or figures of earthenware exposed for sale, or given as presents, on the last two days of the Saturnalia; hence, the last two, or the sixth and seventh, days of the Saturnalia.

One of an extinct family of cryptagamous trees, including the genus Sigillaria and its allies.

Decorated by means of stamps; -- said of pottery.

Fit to seal; belonging to a seal; composed of wax. [R.]

A seal.

The signs, abbreviations, letters, or characters standing for words, shorthand, etc., in ancient manuscripts, or on coins, medals, etc. W. Savage.

The Greek letter S, or s). It originally had the form of the English C.

Any one of a tribe (Sigmodontes) of rodents which includes all the indigenous rats and mice of America. So called from the form of the ridges of enamel on the crowns of the worn molars. Also used adjectively.

Curved in two directions, like the letter S, or the Greek s. Sigmoid flexure (Anat.), the last curve of the colon before it terminates in the rectum. See Illust. under Digestive. -- Sigmoid valves. (Anat.) See Semilunar valves, under Semilunar.

In a sigmoidal manner.

terposition of the divine power for some special end; a miracle; a wonder. Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God. Rom. xv. 19. It shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign. Ex. iv.…

Suitable to be signed; requiring signature; as, a legal document signable by a particular person.

A sign made for the purpose of giving notice to a person of some occurence, command, or danger; also, a sign, event, or watchword, which has been agreed upon as the occasion of concerted action. All obeyed The wonted signal and superior voice Of this great potentate. Milton.

One who makes signals; one who communicates intelligence by means of signals.

The quality or state of being signal or remarkable. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish. It is this passion which drives men to all the ways we see in use of signalizing themselves. Burke.

In a signal manner; eminently.

A man whose business is to manage or display signals; especially, one employed in setting the signals by which railroad trains are run or warned.