Sinistrously - Siphonobranchiata

2. Wrong; absurd; perverse.
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A knave or fool can do no harm, even by the most sinistrous and absurd choice. Bentley.
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Sinistrously (sĭnĭstrŭsl�), adv. 1. In a sinistrous manner; perversely; wrongly; unluckily.
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2. With a tendency to use the left hand.
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Many, in their infancy, are sinistrously disposed, and divers continue all their life left-handed. Sir T. Browne.
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Sink (sĭṉk), v. i. [imp. Sunk (sŭṉk), or (Sank (săṉk)); p. p. Sunk (obs. Sunken, -- now used as adj.); p. pr. & vb. n. Sinking.] [OE. sinken, AS. sincan; akin to D. zinken, OS. sincan, G. sinken, Icel. sökkva, Dan. synke, Sw. sjunka, Goth. siggan, and probably to E. silt. Cf. .] 1. To fall by, or as by, the force of gravity; to descend lower and lower; to decline gradually; to subside; as, a stone sinks in water; waves rise and sink; the sun sinks in the west.
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I sink in deep mire. Ps. lxix. 2.
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2. To enter deeply; to fall or retire beneath or below the surface; to penetrate.
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The stone sunk into his forehead. 1 San. xvii. 49.
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3. Hence, to enter so as to make an abiding impression; to enter completely.
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Let these sayings sink down into your ears. Luke ix. 44.
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4. To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fall slowly, as so the ground, from weakness or from an overburden; to fail in strength; to decline; to decay; to decrease.
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I think our country sinks beneath the yoke. Shak.
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He sunk down in his chariot. 2 Kings ix. 24.
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Let not the fire sink or slacken. Mortimer.
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5. To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
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The Alps and Pyreneans sink before him. Addison.
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Syn. -- To fall; subside; drop; droop; lower; decline; decay; decrease; lessen.
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Sink (sĭṉk), v. t. 1. To cause to sink; to put under water; to immerse or submerge in a fluid; as, to sink a ship.
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[The Athenians] fell upon the wings and sank a single ship. Jowett (Thucyd.).
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2. Figuratively: To cause to decline; to depress; to degrade; hence, to ruin irretrievably; to destroy, as by drowping; as, to sink one's reputation.
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I raise of sink, imprison or set free. Prior.
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If I have a conscience, let it sink me. Shak.
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Thy cruel and unnatural lust of power
Has sunk thy father more than all his years. Rowe.
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3. To make (a depression) by digging, delving, or cutting, etc.; as, to sink a pit or a well; to sink a die.
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4. To bring low; to reduce in quantity; to waste.
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You sunk the river repeated draughts. Addison.
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5. To conseal and appropriate. [Slang]
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If sent with ready money to buy anything, and you happen to be out of pocket, sink the money, and take up the goods on account. Swift.
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6. To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.
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A courtly willingness to sink obnoxious truths. Robertson.
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7. To reduce or extinguish by payment; as, to sink the national debt.
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Sink (sĭṉk), n. 1. A drain to carry off filthy water; a jakes.
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2. A shallow box or vessel of wood, stone, iron, or other material, connected with a drain, and used for receiving filthy water, etc., as in a kitchen.
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3. A hole or low place in land or rock, where waters sink and are lost; -- called also sink hole. [U. S.]
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4. The lowest part of a natural hollow or closed basin whence the water of one or more streams escapes by evaporation; as, the sink of the Humboldt River. [Western U. S.]
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Coloq. Sink hole . (a) The opening to a sink drain. (b) A cesspool. (c) Same as , n., 3.
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Sinker (?), n. One who, or that which, sinks. Specifically: (a) A weight on something, as on a fish line, to sink it. (b) In knitting machines, one of the thin plates, blades, or other devices, that depress the loops upon or between the needles.
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Coloq. Dividing sinker , in knitting machines, a sinker between two jack sinkers and acting alternately with them. -- Coloq. Jack sinker . See under , n. -- Coloq. Sinker bar . (a) In knitting machines, a bar to which one set of the sinkers is attached. (b) In deep well boring, a heavy bar forming a connection between the lifting rope and the boring tools, above the jars.
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Sinking, a. & n. from .
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Coloq. Sinking fund . See under . -- Coloq. Sinking head (Founding), a riser from which the mold is fed as the casting shrinks. See , n., 4. -- Coloq. Sinking pump , a pump which can be lowered in a well or a mine shaft as the level of the water sinks.
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Sinless (?), a. Free from sin. Piers Plowman.
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-- Sinlessly, adv. -- Sinlessness, n.
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Sinner (?), n. One who has sinned; especially, one who has sinned without repenting; hence, a persistent and incorrigible transgressor; one condemned by the law of God.
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Sinner, v. i. To act as a sinner. [Humorous]
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Whether the charmer sinner it or saint it. Pope.
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Sinneress, n. A woman who sins. [Obs.]
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Sinnet (?), n. See .
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Sinological (?), a. [See .] Relating to the Chinese language, literature or culture.
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Sinologist (?), n. A student of China and the Chinese; one versed in the Chinese language, literature, history, politics and culture. Same as .
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Sinologue (sĭn�lŏg), n. [From L. Sinae, an Oriental people mentioned by Ptolemy, or Ar. Sin China or the Chinese + Gr. logos discourse; formed like theologue: cf. F. sinologue.] A student of China and the Chinese; one versed in the Chinese language, literature, history, politics and culture.
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Sinology (?), n. [Cf. F. sinologie.] That branch of systemized knowledge which treats of the Chinese, their language, literature, etc.
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Sinoper (?), n. (Min.) Sinople.
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{ Sinopia (?), Sinopis (?), } n. A red pigment made from sinopite.
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Sinopite (?), n. [F., fr. L. sinopis (sc. terra), a red earth or ocher found in Sinope, a town in Paphlagoma, on the Black Sea, Gr. ��.] (Min.) A brick-red ferruginous clay used by the ancients for red paint.
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Sinople (?), n. (Min.) Ferruginous quartz, of a blood-red or brownish red color, sometimes with a tinge of yellow.
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Sinople, n. [F., fr. LL. sinopis. See a mineral.] (Her.) The tincture vert; green.
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Sinque (?), n. See . [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.
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Sinsring (?), n. (Zoöl.) Same as .
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Sinter (?), n. [G. Cf. .] (Min.) Dross, as of iron; the scale which files from iron when hammered; -- applied as a name to various minerals.
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Coloq. Calcareous sinter , a loose banded variety of calcite formed by deposition from lime-bearing waters; calcareous tufa; travertine. -- Coloq. Ceraunian sinter , fulgurite. -- Coloq. Siliceous sinter , a light cellular or fibrous opal; especially, geyserite (see ). It has often a pearly luster, and is then called pearl sinter.
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{ Sinto (?), or Sintu (?), Sintoism (?), Sintoist }. See , etc.
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Sintoc (?), n. A kind of spice used in the East Indies, consisting of the bark of a species of Cinnamomum. [Written also sindoc.]
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Sinuate (?), a. [L. sinuatus, p. p. of sinuare to wind, bend, fr. sinus a bend.] Having the margin alternately curved inward and outward; having rounded lobes separated by rounded sinuses; sinuous; wavy.
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Sinuate (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sinuated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Sinuating.] To bend or curve in and out; to wind; to turn; to be sinuous. Woodward.
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Sinuated (�), a. Same as .
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Sinuation (?), n. [L. sinuatio.] A winding or bending in and out.
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Sinuose (?), a. Sinuous. Loudon.
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Sinuosity (?), n.; pl. Sinuosities (#). [Cf. F. sinuosité.] 1. Quality or state of being sinuous.
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2. A bend, or a series of bends and turns; a winding, or a series of windings; a wave line; a curve.
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A line of coast certainly amounting, with its sinuosities, to more than 700 miles. Sydney Smith.
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Sinuous (?), a. [L. sinuosus, fr. sinus a bent surface, a curve: cf. F. sinueux. See .] Bending in and out; of a serpentine or undulating form; winding; crooked. -- Sinuously, adv.
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Streaking the ground with sinuous trace. Milton.
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Gardens bright with sinuous rills. Coleridge.
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Sinupalliate (?), a. (Zoöl.) Having a pallial sinus. See under .
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Sinus (?), n.; pl. L. Sinus, E. Sinuses (#). [L., a bent surface, a curve, the folds or bosom of a garment, etc., a bay. Cf. , n.] 1. An opening; a hollow; a bending.
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2. A bay of the sea; a recess in the shore.
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3. (Anat. & Zoöl.) A cavity; a depression. Specifically: (a) A cavity in a bone or other part, either closed or with a narrow opening. (b) A dilated vessel or canal.
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4. (Med.) A narrow, elongated cavity, in which pus is collected; an elongated abscess with only a small orifice.
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5. (Bot.) A depression between adjoining lobes.
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☞ A sinus may be rounded, as in the leaf of the white oak, or acute, as in that of the red maple.
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Coloq. Pallial sinus . (Zoöl.) See under . -- Coloq. Sinus venosus (?). [L., venous dilatation.] (Anat.) (a) The main part of the cavity of the right auricle of the heart in the higher vertebrates. (b) In the lower vertebrates, a distinct chamber of the heart formed by the union of the large systematic veins and opening into the auricle.
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Sinusoid (?), n. [Sinus + -oid.] (Geom.) 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.
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Sinusoidal (?), a. (Geom.) Of or pertaining to a sinusoid; like a sinusoid.
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Siogoon (?), n. See .
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Siogoonate (?), n. See .
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Sioux (?), prop. n. sing. & pl. (Ethnol.) A nation of American Indians; see .
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Sioux State. North Dakota; -- a nickname.
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Sip (sĭp), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sipped (sĭpt); p. pr. & vb. n. Sipping.] [OE. sippen; akin to OD. sippen, and AS. s�pan to sip, suck up, drink. See , v. t.] 1. To drink or imbibe in small 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.
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2. To draw into the mouth; to suck up; as, a bee sips nectar from the flowers.
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3. To taste the liquor of; to drink out of. [Poetic]
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They skim the floods, and sip the purple flowers. Dryden.
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Sip, v. i. To drink a small quantity; to take a fluid with the lips; to take a sip or sips of something.
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[She] raised it to her mouth with sober grace;
Then, sipping, offered to the next in place. Dryden.
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Sip, n. 1. The act of sipping; the taking of a liquid with the lips.
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2. A small draught taken with the lips; a slight taste.
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One sip of this
Will bathe the drooping spirits in delight
Beyond the bliss of dreams. Milton.
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A sip is all that the public ever care to take from reservoirs of abstract philosophy. De Quincey.
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Sipage (?), n. See . [Scot. & U.S.]
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Sipe (sīp), v. i. See . [Scot. & U.S.]
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Siphilis (?), n. (Med.) Syphilis.
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Siphoid (?), n. [L. sipho a siphon + -oid: cf. F. vase siphoïde.] A siphon bottle. See under , n.
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Siphon (?), n. [F. siphon, L. sipho, -onis, fr. Gr. �� a siphon, tube, pipe.] 1. A device, consisting of a pipe or tube bent so as to form two branches or legs of unequal length, by which a liquid can be transferred to a lower level, as from one vessel to another, over an intermediate elevation, by the action of the pressure of the atmosphere in forcing the liquid up the shorter branch of the pipe immersed in it, while the continued excess of weight of the liquid in the longer branch (when once filled) causes a continuous flow. The flow takes place only when the discharging extremity of the pipe ia lower than the higher liquid surface, and when no part of the pipe is higher above the surface than the same liquid will rise by atmospheric pressure; that is, about 33 feet for water, and 30 inches for mercury, near the sea level.
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2. (Zoöl.) (a) One of the tubes or folds of the mantle border of a bivalve or gastropod mollusk by which water is conducted into the gill cavity. See Illust. under , and . (b) The anterior prolongation of the margin of any gastropod shell for the protection of the soft siphon. (c) The tubular organ through which water is ejected from the gill cavity of a cephaloid. It serves as a locomotive organ, by guiding and confining the jet of water. Called also siphuncle. See Illust. under , and . (d) The siphuncle of a cephalopod shell. (e) The sucking proboscis of certain parasitic insects and crustaceans. (f) A sproutlike prolongation in front of the mouth of many gephyreans. (g) A tubular organ connected both with the esophagus and the intestine of certain sea urchins and annelids.
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3. A siphon bottle.
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Coloq. Inverted siphon , a tube bent like a siphon, but having the branches turned upward; specifically (Hydraulic Engineering), a pipe for conducting water beneath a depressed place, as from one hill to another across an intervening valley, following the depression of the ground. -- Coloq. Siphon barometer . See under . -- Coloq. Siphon bottle , a bottle for holding aërated water, which is driven out through a bent tube in the neck by the gas within the bottle when a valve in the tube is opened; -- called also gazogene, and siphoid. -- Coloq. Siphon condenser , a condenser for a steam engine, in which the vacuum is maintained by the downward flow of water through a vertical pipe of great height. -- Coloq. Siphon cup , a cup with a siphon attached for carrying off any liquid in it; specifically (Mach.), an oil cup in which oil is carried over the edge of a tube in a cotton wick, and so reaches the surface to be lubricated. -- Coloq. Siphon gauge . See under . -- Coloq. Siphon pump , a jet pump. See under , n.
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Siphon (?), v. t. (Chem.) To convey, or draw off, by means of a siphon, as a liquid from one vessel to another at a lower level.
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Siphonage (?), n. The action of a siphon.
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Siphonal (?), a. Of or pertaining to a siphon; resembling a siphon.
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Coloq. Siphonal stomach (Zoöl.), a stomach which is tubular and bent back upon itself, like a siphon, as in the salmon.
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Siphonarid (?), n. (Zoöl.) 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. -- Siphonarid, a.
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Siphonata (?), n. pl. [NL.] (Zoöl.) A tribe of bivalve mollusks in which the posterior mantle border is prolonged into two tubes or siphons. Called also Siphoniata. See , 2 (a), and .
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Siphonate (?), a. 1. Having a siphon or siphons.
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2. (Zoöl.) Belonging to the Siphonata.
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Siphonet (?), n. (Zoöl.) 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 .
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Siphonia (?), n. [NL.] (Bot.) A former name for a euphorbiaceous genus (Hevea) of South American trees, the principal source of caoutchouc.
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Siphoniata (?), n. pl. [NL.] (Zoöl.) Same as .
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Siphonic (?), a. Of or pertaining to a siphon.
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Siphonifer (?), n. [NL., fr. L. sipho, -onis, siphon + ferre to bear.] (Zoöl.) Any cephalopod having a siphonate shell.
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Siphoniferous (?), a. [Siphon + -ferous.] (Zoöl.) Siphon-bearing, as the shell of the nautilus and other cephalopods.
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Siphonium (?), n.; pl. Siphonia (#). [NL., from Gr. ��, dim. of ��. See .] (Anat.) A bony tube which, in some birds, connects the tympanium with the air chambers of the articular piece of the mandible.
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Siphonobranchiata (?), n. pl. [NL. See , and .] (Zoöl.) A tribe of gastropods having the mantle border, on one or both sides, prolonged in the form of a spout through which water enters the gill cavity. The shell itself is not always siphonostomatous in this group.
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