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A red pigment made from sinopite.

A brickred ferruginous clay used by the ancients for red paint.

Ferruginous quartz, of a blood-red or brownish red color, sometimes with a tinge of yellow.

See Cinque. [Obs.] Beau & Fl.

Same as Banxring.

which files from iron when hammered; -- applied as a name to various minerals. Calcareous sinter, a loose banded variety of calcite formed by deposition from lime-bearing waters; calcareous tufa; travertine. -- Ceraunian sinter, fulgurite. -- Siliceous sinter, a light cellular or fibrous opal; especially, geyserite (…

See Shinto, etc.

used in the East Indies, consisting of the bark of a species of Cinnamomum. [Written also sindoc.]

e margin alternately curved inward and outward; having rounded lobes separated by rounded sinuses; sinuous; wavy.

Same as Sinuate.

A winding or bending in and out.

Sinuous. Loudon.

Quality or state of being sinuous.

Bending in and out; of a serpentine or undulating form; winding; crooked. -- Sin"u*ous*ly, adv. Streaking the ground with sinuous trace. Milton. Gardens bright with sinuous rills. Coleridge.

Having a pallial sinus. See under Sinus.

An opening; a hollow; a bending.

The curve whose ordinates are proportional to the sines of the abscissas, the equation of the curve being y = a sin x. It is also called the curve of sines.

Of or pertaining to a sinusoid; like a sinusoid.

A combination of absinthic acid with a base or positive radical.

The plant absinthium or common wormwood.