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of toasted or fried bread cut into some special shape and used for garnishing. Your sweet sippets in widows' houses. Milton.

To sip often. [Obs. or Scot.]

Sipping often. [Obs.] "Taken after a sippling sort." Holland.

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

Pertaining to the Sipunculoidea. -- n.

In a restricted sense, same as Sipunculacea.

al authority and dignity; a lord; a master; a gentleman; -- in this sense usually spelled sire. [Obs.] He was crowned lord and sire. Gower. In the election of a sir so rare. Shak.

See Seraskier.

See Seraskierate.

See Serbonian.

A Hindoo clerk or accountant. [India]

A native chief in Hindostan; a headman. Malcom.

A lord, master, or other person in authority. See Sir. [Obs.] Pain and distress, sickness and ire, And melancholy that angry sire, Be of her palace senators. Rom. of R.

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.

ng to some writers, of two, -- said to frequent an island near the coast of Italy, and to sing with such sweetness that they lured mariners to destruction. Next where the sirens dwell you plow the seas; Their song is death, and makes destruction please. Pope.

See Siren, 6.

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. Here's couple of sirenical rascals shall enchant ye. Marton.

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