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See Syenite.

See Syenitic.

n or manganese, and used as a pigment. It is used either in the raw state or burnt. Burnt sienna, sienna made of a much redder color by the action of fire. -- Raw sienna, sienna in its natural state, of a transparent yellowish brown color.

Of or pertaining to Sienna, a city of Italy.

A ridge of mountain and craggy rocks, with a serrated or irregular outline; as, the Sierra Nevada. The wild sierra overhead. Whitter.

A short sleep taken about the middle of the day, or after dinner; a midday nap.

Sir; -- a title of respect used by the French.

A small variety of the Lima bean (Phaseolus lunatus).

A utensil for separating the finer and coarser parts of a pulverized or granulated substance from each other. It consist of a vessel, usually shallow, with the bottom perforated, or made of hair, wire, or the like, woven in meshes. "In a sieve thrown and sifted." Chaucer.

The white indris of Madagascar. It is regarded by the natives as sacred.

The act of whistling or hissing; a whistling sound; sibilation. [Obs.] A. Brewer.

The six-shafted bird of paradise. See Paradise bird, under Paradise.

To separate with a sieve, as the fine part of a substance from the coarse; as, to sift meal or flour; to sift powder; to sift sand or lime.

One who, or that which, sifts.

Urine. [Prov. Eng.]

Pertaining to Sigault, a French physician. See Symphyseotomy.

Same as Sicker. [Prov. Eng.]

To inhale a larger quantity of air than usual, and immediately expel it; to make a deep single audible respiration, especially as the result or involuntary expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, or the like.

Sorrowful; mournful. [R.] "Sigh-born thoughts." De Quincey.

One who sighs.