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6,487 words match “SIN”

SINGLY adv. 5 definitions
Individually; particularly; severally; as, to make men singly and personally good.
SINGSONG n. 4 definitions
Bad singing or poetry.
SINGSPIEL n.
A dramatic work, partly in dialogue and partly in song, of a kind popular in Germany in the latter part of the 18th century. It was often comic, had modern characters, and patterned its music on folk song with strictly subordinated accompaniment.
SINGSTER n.
A songstress. [Obs.] Wyclif.
SINGULAR a. 11 definitions
Separate or apart from others; single; distinct. [Obs.] Bacon. And God forbid that all a company Should rue a singular man's folly. Chaucer.
SINGULARIST n.
One who affects singularity. [Obs.] A clownish singularist, or nonconformist to ordinary usage. Borrow.
SINGULARITY n. 4 definitions
The quality or state of being singular; some character or quality of a thing by which it is distinguished from all, or from most, others; peculiarity. Pliny addeth this singularity to that soil, that the second year the very falling down of the seeds yieldeth corn. Sir. W. Raleigh. I took notice of this little figure f…
SINGULARIZE v.
To make singular or single; to distinguish. [R.]
SINGULARLY adv. 3 definitions
In a singular manner; in a manner, or to a degree, not common to others; extraordinarily; as, to be singularly exact in one's statements; singularly considerate of others. "Singularly handsome." Milman.
SINGULT n.
A sigh or sobbing; also, a hiccough. [Obs.] Spenser. W. Browne.
SINGULTOUS a.
Relating to, or affected with, hiccough. Dunglison.
SINGULTUS n.
Hiccough.
SINIC a.
Of or pertaining to the Chinese and allied races; Chinese.
SINICAL a.
Of or pertaining to a sine; employing, or founded upon, sines; as, a sinical quadrant.
SINICISM n.
Anything peculiar to the Chinese; esp., a Chinese peculiarity in manners or customs.
SINIGRIN n.
A glucoside found in the seeds of black mustard (Brassica nigra, formerly Sinapis nigra) It resembles sinalbin, and consists of a potassium salt of myronic acid.
SINISTER a. 4 definitions
ft hand, or the side of the left hand; left; -- opposed to dexter, or right. "Here on his sinister cheek." Shak. My mother's blood Runs on the dexter cheek, and this sinister Bounds in my father's Shak.
SINISTER-HANDED a.
Left-handed; hence, unlucky. [Obs.] Lovelace.
SINISTERLY adv.
In a sinister manner. Wood.
SINISTRAD adv.
Toward the left side; sinistrally.
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