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SI n.
A syllable applied, in solmization, to the note B; more recently, to the seventh tone of any major diatonic scale. It was added to Guido's scale by Le Maire about the end of the 17th century.
SI QUIS n.
A notification by a candidate for orders of his intention to inquire whether any impediment may be alleged against him.
SIAGA n.
The ahu, or jairou.
SIALOGOGUE n.
An agent which promotes the flow of saliva.
SIAMANG n.
A gibbon (Hylobates syndactylus), native of Sumatra. It has the second and third toes partially united by a web.
SIAMESE a. 4 definitions
Of or pertaining to Siam, its native people, or their language.
SIB a. 2 definitions
Related by blood; akin. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Sir W. Scott. Your kindred is but . . . little sib to you. Chaucer. [He] is no fairy birn, ne sib at all To elfs, but sprung of seed terrestrial. Spenser.
SIBBENS n.
on the surface of the body. In the Orkneys the name is applied to the itch. [Written also sivvens.]
SIBERIAN a. 2 definitions
Of or pertaining to Siberia, a region comprising all northern Asia and belonging to Russia; as, a Siberian winter. -- n.
SIBILANCE; SIBILANCY n.
The quality or state of being sibilant; sibilation. Milton would not have avoided them for their sibilancy, he who wrote . . . verses that hiss like Medusa's head in wrath. Lowell.
SIBILANT a. 2 definitions
Making a hissing sound; uttered with a hissing sound; hissing; as, s, z, sh, and zh, are sibilant elementary sounds. -- n.
SIBILATE v.
To pronounce with a hissing sound, like that of the letter s; to mark with a character indicating such pronunciation.
SIBILATION n.
Utterance with a hissing sound; also, the sound itself; a hiss. He, with a long, low sibilation, stared. Tennyson.
SIBILATORY a.
Hissing; sibilant.
SIBILOUS a.
Having a hissing sound; hissing; sibilant. [R.] Pennant.
SIBYL n. 2 definitions
A female fortune teller; a pythoness; a prophetess. "An old highland sibyl." Sir W. Scott.
SIBYLIST n.
One who believes in a sibyl or the sibylline prophecies. Cudworth.
SIBYLLINE a.
Pertaining to the sibyls; uttered, written, or composed by sibyls; like the productions of sibyls. Sibylline books. (a) (Rom. Antiq.) Books or documents of prophecies in verse concerning the fate of the Roman empire, said to have been purchased by Tarquin the Proud from a sibyl. (b) Certain Jewish and early Christian w…
SIC a. 2 definitions
Such. [Scot.]
SICAMORE n.
See Sycamore.
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