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threads of the warp. Like shuttles through the loom, so swiftly glide My feathered hours. Sandys.

e part of a substance from the coarse; as, to sift meal or flour; to sift powder; to sift sand or lime.

Silica, SiO2 as found in nature, constituting quarz, and most sands and sandstones. See Silica, and Silicic.

A small silver coin. [Obs.] A thousand vines at a thousand silverings. Isa. vii. 23.

species of the American coast (Menidia notata) is very abundant. Called also silverside, sand smelt, friar, tailor, and tinker. Brook silversides (Zoöl.), a small fresh-water North American fish (Labadesthes sicculus) related to the marine silversides.

Syria, and neighboring countries, generated by the extreme heat of the parched deserts or sandy plains.

A quicksand. [Obs.]

wship. [Eng. Univ.] -- To sit out. (a) To be without engagement or employment. [Obs.] Bp. Sanderson. (b) To outstay. -- To sit under, to be under the instruction or ministrations of; as, to sit under a preacher; to sit under good preaching. -- To sit up, to rise from, or refrain from, a recumbent posture or from slee…

Time. [Obs.] Chaucer. And humbly thanked him a thousand sithes. Spenser.

moving rapidly on ice. Batavia rushes forth; and as they sweep, On sounding skates, a thousand different ways, In circling poise, swift as the winds, along, The then gay land is maddended all to joy. Thomson. Roller skate. See under Roller.

Display of art; exercise of ability; contrivance; address. [Obs.] Richard . . . by a thousand princely skills, gathering so much corn as if he meant not to return. Fuller.

A bucket for removing mud from a bored hole; a sand pump.

The sand fluke (b). [Prov. Eng.]

Fig.: A gull; a simpleton. [Obs.] eau & Fl. Sand smelt (Zoöl.), the silverside.

separable and held together by latches, so that the flask may be removed from around the sand mold. -- Snap judgment, a judgment formed on the instant without deliberation. -- Snap lock, a lock shutting with a catch or snap. -- Snap riveting, riveting in which the rivets have snapheads formed by a die or swaging to…

il. -- Robin snipe, the knot. -- Sea snipe. See in the Vocabulary. -- Shore snipe, any sandpiper. -- Snipe hawk, the marsh harrier. [Prov. Eng.] -- Stone snipe, the tattler. -- Summer snipe, the dunlin; the green and the common European sandpipers. -- Winter snipe. See Rock snipe, under Rock. -- Woodcock snipe,…

in, or to inhale, forcibly through the nose; to sniff. He snuffs the wind, his heels the sand excite. Dryden.

; compact; -- opposed to fluid and liquid or to plastic, like clay, or to incompact, like sand.

-- Solitary bee (Zoöl.), any species of bee which does not form communities. -- Solitary sandpiper (Zoöl.), an American tattler (Totanus solitarius). -- Solitary snipe (Zoöl.), the great snipe. [Prov. Eng.] -- Solitary thrush (Zoöl.) the starling. [Prov. Eng.]

ee persons; some hour hence. Shak. The number slain on the rebel's part were some two thousand. Bacon.