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See Shogun.

See Shogunate.

See Dakotas.

North Dakota; -- a nickname.

quantities; especially, to take in with the lips in small quantities, as a liquid; as, to sip tea. "Every herb that sips the dew." Milton.

See Seepage. [Scot. & U.S.]

See Seep. [Scot. & U.S.]

Syphilis.

A siphon bottle. See under Siphon, n.

A device, consisting of a pipe or tube bent so as to form two branches or legs of unequal length, by which a liquid can be transferred to a lower level, as from one vessel to another, over an intermediate elevation, by the action of the pressure of the atmosphere in forcing the liquid up the shorter branch of the pipe…

The action of a siphon.

Of or pertaining to a siphon; resembling a siphon. Siphonal stomach (Zoöl.), a stomach which is tubular and bent back upon itself, like a siphon, as in the salmon.

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. -- Si`pho*na"rid, a.

e 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.