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quantities; especially, to take in with the lips in small quantities, as a liquid; as, to sip tea. "Every herb that sips the dew." Milton.

See Seepage. [Scot. & U.S.]

See Seep. [Scot. & U.S.]

Syphilis.

A siphon bottle. See under Siphon, n.

anterior prolongation of the margin of any gastropod shell for the protection of the soft siphon.

The action of a siphon.

Of or pertaining to a siphon; resembling a siphon. Siphonal stomach (Zoöl.), a stomach which is tubular and bent back upon itself, like a siphon, as in the salmon.

Any one of numerous species of limpet-shaped pulmonate gastropods of the genus Siphonaria. They cling to rocks between high and low water marks and have both lunglike organs and gills. -- Si`pho*na"rid, a.

e of bivalve mollusks in which the posterior mantle border is prolonged into two tubes or siphons. Called also Siphoniata. See Siphon, 2 (a), and Quahaug.

Having a siphon or siphons.

One of the two dorsal tubular organs on the hinder part of the abdomen of aphids. They give exit to the honeydew. See Illust. under Aphis.

A former name for a euphorbiaceous genus (Hevea) of South American trees, the principal source of caoutchouc.

Same as Siphonata.

Of or pertaining to a siphon.

Any cephalopod having a siphonate shell.

Siphon-bearing, as the shell of the nautilus and other cephalopods.

A bony tube which, in some birds, connects the tympanium with the air chambers of the articular piece of the mandible.

orm of a spout through which water enters the gill cavity. The shell itself is not always siphonostomatous in this group.

Having a siphon, or siphons, to convey water to the gills; belonging or pertaining to the Siphonobranchiata. -- n.