SISACHTHIA, in Attic antiquity; r. A law inftituted by SOLON, for the remittance of all debts: 2. a folemn sacrifice instituted in commemoration of that law. See ATTICA, $8. SISAL, a town of Mexico, in Yucatan; 24 miles E. of Cape Condecedo. SISCAR, a town of Spain, in Arragon. SISCO, a town of Corfica; 2 m. Ñ. of Bastia. SISE. #. f. [contracted from assize.]— You faid, if I returned next fize in lent, I should be in remitter of your grace. Donne. SISERA, a general of the Canaanites, under K. Jabia II. who was defeated by the Ifraelites under DEBORAH and BARAK, with great flaughter of his troops, and obliged to fly for refuge to Jael the wife of Heber, the Kenite, who was at peace with Jabin, but who treacherously murdered him, while fleeping in the confidence of her protection. It is impoffible to vindicate this action of Jael's, unless upon the general principle, that it is lawful to rid the world of oppreffors by any means. Deborah, indeed, praifes and pronounces a bleffing upon her for it, in the popular fong fhe compofed after the victory, (Jud. v. 24.) but though the was undoubtedly an infpired prophetefs, we are not certain, if in this compofition fhe was infpired by any thing but her patriotic zeal for her countrymen, now reftored to their liberty, after 2 tedious oppreffion of 20 years. That this act of Jael's, whereby the victory of the Ifraelites over their oppreffors was completed, was ordained, by the Almighty, is evident from the context (Ch. iv. 9.) where it was foretold by Deborah; but this does not justify the action, any more than the treachery of Judas, which was alfo foretold many centuries before it happened, but is no-where vindicated on that account. SISGOW, a territory of Switzerland in Balle. SISSAC is the capital. SISIBOU, a town of Nova Scotia, on the W. coaft: 25 miles SSW. of Annapolis. 16; SISIGAMBIS or SYSIGAMBIs, the mother of Darius III. K. of Perfia. See MACEDON, and ORATORY, § 267. SISINILLA, a town in the island of Cuba; 12 miles ENE. of Trinidad. SISIMITHRÆ, a fortified town of Perfia, in Bactriana; 15 ftadia high, and 80 in circumference where Alexander married Roxana. Strabo, 11. SISINNIUS, Pope of Rome, was a native of Syria, who rofe through various gradations in the clerical line, till at lift, on the death of John VII. in 708, he was elected pope, but did not enjoy the triple crown 3 weeks, dying the 20th day after his election. (1.) * SISKIN. n. f. [chloris, Lat.] A bird; a green finch. (2.) SISKIN. See FRINGILLA, No 12. SISNOVIA, a town in Iftria: 3 miles SE. of Pedena. SISON, BASTARD STONE PARSLEY, in botany: A genus of plants belonging to the clafs of pentandria, and to the order of digynia: and in the natural fyftem arranged under the 45th order, umbellate. The fruit is egg-shaped and ftreaked; the involucra are fubtetraphyllous. There are 7 species; 1. SISON AMMI. 2. SISON AMOMUM, common baftard parfley, or field flone-wort, is a biennial plant about three feet high, growing wild in many places of Britain. Its feeds are fmall, ftriated, of an oval figure and brown colour. Their tafte is warm and aromatic. Their whole flavour is extracted by fpirit of wine, which elevates very little of it in diftillation; and hence the fpirituous extract has the flavour in great perfection, while the watery extract has very little. A tincture drawn with pure fpirit is of a green colour. The feeds have been efteemed aperient, diuretic, and carminative; but are now little regarded. 3. SISON CANADENSE, the Canada baftard parftey, is common in Canada. 4. SISON FALSUM, the false bastard parsley. 5. SISON INUNDATUM, leaf water parsley. The ftem is about 8 or 10 inches high, branched, and creeping: the leaves, below the water, are capillary; above it are pinnated: the umbels are bifid. It grows wild in our ditches and ponds. 6. SISON SEGETUM, corn parsley or honeywort. The ftems are numerous, flender, ftriated, branched, and leaning; the leaves are pinnated; the pinnæ are oval, pointed and ferrated, fix or eight pair, and one at the end; the umbels fmall and drooping; the flowers minute and white. It grows in our corn-fields and hedges. 7. SISON VERTICILLATUM, verticillate fifon, has fmall leaves in whirls, and capillary; the ftem is two feet, with few leaves; the common umbel is compofed of 8 or 10 rays, the partial of 18 or 20; both involucra are compofed of five or fix oval acute foliola; the flowers are all hermaphrodite, and the petals white. It grows wild in Britain. SISSA, a town of Parma; 11 miles NW. of Parma. SISSAC, or a town of Switzerland in Basle, SISSACH, capital of Sisgow; 13 miles SE. of Bafle. SISSAN, a town in Istria: 3 miles ENE. of Tola. SISSEG, a town of Croatia, on the Save; 42 miles E. of Carlstadt, and 28 of Zagravia. Lon. 16. 17. E. Lat. 46. 6. N. SISSONNE, a town of France, in the dep. of Aifne: 10 miles E. of Laon, and 20 N. of Rhimes. SISSOPOLI, or SIZEBOLI, a town of European Turkey, in Romania; with a Greek archbishop's fee on a peninfula of the Black Sea; 25 miles S. of Mefembria, 75 NE. of Adrianople, and 97 or 105 NW. of Conftantinople. Lon. 28. 9. E. Lat. 42. 31. N. (1.) SISTER. n. f. [ftheofter, Saxon; zufler, Dutch.] . A woman born of the fame parents; correlative to brother. Her fifter began to fcold. Shak. The women who would rather wreft the laws, Than let à sister-plaintiff lose the caufe. Dryden. There grew two olives, closest of the grove, With fifter-fruits: one fertile, one was wild. Pope. (2.) SISTER IN LAW. n. A husband or wife's fifter.-Thy fifter in law is gone back unto her people: return thou after thy fifter in law. Ruth. i. 15. * SISTERHOOD. n. f. [from fifler.] 1. The of fice or duty of a fifter. She left to do the part Daniel. 2. A fet of fifters. 3. A number of women of the fame order. Wishing a more strict restraint Upon the fifterhood. Shakespeare. -A woman who flourishes in her innocence, amidft that fpite and rancour which prevails among her exasperated fifterhood, appears more ami. able. Addifon. * SISTERLY. adj. [from fifter.] Like a fifter; becoming a fifter.— My fifterly remorfe confutes mine honour, And I did yield to him. Shakespeare. SISTERON, a town of France, in the dep. of the Lower Alps, and ci-devant prov. of Provence; feated on the right bank of the Durance, at the foot of a high rock, on which it has a citadel, which was for fome time the prifon of Cafimir V. king of Poland. It is 30 miles NE. of Apt, 35 SW. of Embrun, and 45 NE. of Aix. Lon. 6. 1. E. Lat. 44. 12. N. SISTERSDORF. See ZISTERSDORF. SISTON, a manufacturing village of England, in Gloucestershire, 7 miles from Bristol; feated in a pleasant vale, on a rivulet that runs into the Avon. It has manufactures of brass and saltpe. tre; and tin ore is found near it. SISTRUM, or CISTRUM, an ancient mufical inftrument used by the priests of Ifis and Ofiris. It is defcribed by Spon as of an oval form, in manner of a racket, with three ticks traverfing it breadth wife; which playing freely by the agitation of the whole inftrument, yielded a kind of found which to them seemed melodious. Mr Malcolm takes it to be no better than a kind of rattle. Oifelius obferves, that the fiftrum is found represented on several medals, and on talif mans. SISY, or SISY SUR OUR CO, a town of France, in the dep. of the Seine and Marne: 7 miles NE. of Meaux, and 14 E. of Damartin, feated on the Ourcq. SYSIGAMBIS. See MACEDON, 16; and ORATORY, 267. SISYMBRIUM, WATER CRESSES, in botany: a genus of plants belonging to the clafs of tetradynamia, and to the order of filiquofa; and in the natural fyftem ranged under the 39th order. Siliquofa. The filiqua, or pod, opens with valves fomewhat ftraight. The calyx and corolla are expanded. There are 29 fpecies, of which 8 are natives of Britain; viz. 1. SISYMBRIUM AMPHIBIUM, water radish. The ftem is firm, erect, and two or three feet high; the leaves are pinnatifid, and ferrated; the flowers are yellow, and in fpikes; the pods are fomewhat oval, and fhort. It grows in water. 2. SISYMBRIUM Ir10, broad leaved rocket or bedge mustard; the ftem is smooth, and about a feet high; the leaves are broad, naked, pinnated, and halberd fhaped at the end; the flowers are yellow, and the pods erect. It grows on waste ground. 3. SISYMBRIUM MONENSE, yellow rocket. The ftem is smooth, and about 6 or 8 inches high; the leaves are pinnatifid; the pinnæ remote, generally 7 pair; the flower is yellow; the petals entire; the calyx is clofed. It grows in the file of Man. 4. SISYMBRIUM MURALE, or wall rocket. The stems are rough, and about eight inches high; the leaves grow on foot-ftalks, tance shaped, fmooth, finuated, and serrated; the flowers are yellow; the pods a little compreffed, and flightly carinated. It grows on fandy ground in the North, Anglefea, &c. 5. SISYMBRIUM NASTURIUM, Common water cress, grows on the brinks of rivulets and water ditches. The leaves have from 6 to 8 pair of fimooth fucculent and feffile pinne; the flowers are fmall and white, and grow in thort fpikes or tufts. The leaves have a moderately pungent tafte, emit a quick penetrating smell, like that of muftard feed, but much weaker. Their purgent matter is taken up both by watery and spirituous menftrua, and accompanies the aqueous juice, which iffues copiously upon expreffion. It is very volatile, fo as to arife in great part in diftillation with rectified spirit, as well as with water, and almoft totally to exhale in drying the leaves, or infpiffating by the gentleft heat to the confiftence of an extract, either the expreffed juice, or the watery or fpirituous tinctures. Both the infpiffsted juice, and the watery extract, discover to the taste a faline impregnation, and in keeping throw up cryftalline efflorefcences to the furface. On diftilling confiderable quantities of the herb with water, a small proportion of a fubtile volatile very pungent oil is obtained. Water creffes obtain a place in the Materia Medica for their antifcorbutic qualities, which have been long very generally acknowledged by phyficians. They are alfo fupposed to purify the blood and humours, and to open vifceral obftructions. They are nearly allied to fcurvy grafs, but are more mild and pleasant, and for this reafon are frequently eaten as falad. In the pharmacopoeias the juice of this plant is directed with that of fcurvy-grafs and Seville oranges: and Dr Cullen has remarked, that the addition of acids renders the juices of the plantæ filiquofæ more certainly effectual, by determining them more powerfully to an acescent fermentation. 6. SISYMBRIUM SILVESTRE, water-rocket. The ftem is weak, branched, and above a foot high. The leaves are pinnated; the pinnæ lance-flaped, and ferrated; the flowers small, and yellow; and grow frequently in shallow water. 7. SISYMBRIUM SOPHIA, FLIXWEED. The fem is firm, branched, and two or three feet high; the leaves are multifid; the fegments are narrow; the flowers are yellow; the petals much lefs than the calyx; the pods are long, ftiff, curved, without style, and erect; the feeds are minute, and yellow. It grows on walls, waste ground, &c. 8. Sis 8. SISYMBRIUM TERRESTRE, land rocket, or Annual water radifh. The leaves are pinnatifid; the pods are filled with feed; the root is annual, and white; the item is angular, red-green, and fmooth. SISYPHUS, in fabulous hiftory, the son of Æolus and Enarete, and brother of ATHAMAS and SALMONEUS. He married Merope one of the Pleiades, who bore him Glaucus. He built Ephyra in Peloponnefus, called afterwards CORINTH, and was a very crafty man. Others fay, that he was a Trojan fecretary, who was punished for difcovering fecrets of ftate; and others again, that he was a notorious robber, killed by Thefeus. He de. bauched his niece TYRO, who killed the two fons fhe had by him. All the poets agree that he was punithed in Tartarus for his crimes, by rolling a great ftone to the top of a hill, which conftantly recoiled, and, rolling down inceffantly, renewed his labour, without end. SISYRINCHIUM, in botany, a genus of plants belonging to the clafs of gynandria, and order of triandria: and in the natural fyftem ranged under the 6th order, Ensate. The fpatha is diphyllous; there are 6 plane petals. The capfule is trilocular and inferior. There are two fpecies; 1. SISYRINCHIUM BERMUDIANA, a native of Bermuda: and 2. SISTRINCHIUM PALMIFOLIUM, with leaves refembling thofe of the palm tree. (1.) • 70 SIT. v. n. preterite, I sat. Gothick; sittan, Saxon; setten, Dutch.] relt upon the buttocks. [sitan, 1. To Their wives do sit befide them carding wool. May's Virgil. Aloft in awful state, The godlike hero sat. 2. To perch. Dryden. What fhould I do but sif cock on the hoop Bourd. 3. To be in a ftate of reft, or idleness.Shall ye it here? Numbers. Why sit we here each other viewing idly? wind. Thofe Milton. 3. To reft as a weight or burthen.~◄ Your brother's death sits at your heart. Shak. -The calamity sits heavy on us. Taylor.-To tofs and fling, and to be reftiefs, only makes the burden that is upon it sit more uneafy. Tillotson. The egg laid hath only a quickening heat when the fitteth. Bacon. She mistakes a piece of chall for an egg, and fits upon it. Addison. 8. To be adjusted; to be with respect to fitness or unfitneft, decorum or indecorum. This new and gorgeous garment, majefty, Sits not so easy on me as you think. Shak How troublesome it sate upon my head. Shak. -Your preferring that to all other confiderations does fit well upon you. Locke. 9. To be placed in order to be painted.-One is under no more obliga tion to extol every thing he finds in the author he translates, than a painter is to make every face that fits to him handsome. Garth. 10. To be in any fituation or condition. As a farmer cannot husband his ground fo well, if he fit at a great rent; fo the merchant cannot drive his trade fo well, if he fit at a great ufury. Bacon.-Would the tenants fit ealier in their rents_than_now? Swift. 11. To be fettled, as an affembly of a public or authoritative kind; to hold a feffion as, the parliament fits: the last general council fate at Trent. 12. To be placed at the table.-Whether is greater he that fitteth at meat, or he that ferveth? Luke, xxii. 27. 13. To exercife autho rity.-The judgment shall fit, and take away his dominion. Dan.-Affes are ye that fit in judg. ment. Judges, V. 10.— The Perfian in Ecbatan sate. Milton. -One council fits upon life and death, the other is for taxes. Addison. Affert, ye fair ones, who in judgment fit, Your ancient empire over love and wit. Rowe, 14. To be in any folemn affembly as a member.-Three hundred and twenty men sat in council daily. 1 Mac. 15. To SIT down. Down is little more than emphatical.-Go and fit down to meat. Luke, xvii. 7.-Wefit down to our meal. Decay of Piety. 16. To SIT down. To begin a fiege.Nor would the enemy have sate down before it, till they have done their bufinefs. Clarendon. 19. To Sir down. To reft; to ceafe as fatisfied.Here we cannot fit down. Rogers. 18. To SIT down. To fettle: to fix abode-From befide Tanais, the Goths, Huns, and Getes sat down. Spenser. 19. To SIT out. To be without engagement or employment.-They are glad rather than fit out,. to play very small game. Sanderson. To SIT up. To rife from lying to fitting.-He that was dead, sat up. Luke, vii. 21. To SIT up. To watch; not to go to bed. 20. Entertain, and feast, fit up, and revel. Some fit up late at winter fires. May. -Moft children thorten that time by fitting up with the company at night. Locke. * (2.) To SIT. . a. 1. To keep the feat upon. Hardly the muse can fit the head-strong horse. Milton. Horrour heavy sat on every mind. Dryden. Prior 2. [When the reciprocal pronoun follows fit, it feems to be an active verb.] To place on a feat.The happieft youth viewing his progrefs thro', Would shut the book, and fit him down and die. Shake He came to visit us, and calling for a chair, sat him down. Bacon. They sat them down to weep. down Milton. 30. To 3. To be fettled to do bufinefs.-The court was sat before Sir Roger came. Addison, (1.) * SITE. n, s.[fitus, Lat.] 1. Situation; local pofition.— Three fides by fite it well defenced has. Fairf. -Manifold ftreams of goodly navigable rivers environed the fame fite and temple. Bacon.-'Tis only the fire and posture of their feveral parts that give it the form and functions of a heart. Bentley. Before my view appear'd a structure fair, Its fite uncertain if on earth or air. Pope. 2. It is taken by Thomson for pofture, or fituation of a thing with respect to itself; but improperly. And leaves the femblance of a lover fix'd In melancholy fite, with head declin'd. Thoms. (2.) SITE denotes fometimes the ground plot or ipot of earth a house stands on. * (1) SITFAST. n. s. [ fit and fast.] A hard knob growing under the faddie. Farrier's Dict. (2.) SITFAST. See FARRIERY, Part IV. Sect. IX. *SITH. odv. [fithe, Sax.] Since; feeing that. Obfolete.-What ceremony of odours ufed about the bodies of the dead! after which cuflom not. withstanding, fith it was their custom, our Lord was contented that his own most precious body fhould be intombed. Hooker. I'll love no friend, fith love breeds fuch of fence. Shakespeare. (1.) * SITHE. n. s. [fithe, Saxon. This word is variously written by authors: I have chofen the orthography which is at once moft fimple and molt agreeable to etymology.] The inftrument of mowing; a crocked blade joined at right angles to a long pole. This prefent breath may buy That honour which fhall 'bate his scythe's keen edge: And make us heirs of all eternity. Shak. -Time is commonly drawn an old man, bald, winged, with a fithe and an hour-glafs. Peacham. There, as mafter of this murd'ring brood, Swinging a huge scithe, ftands impartial death. Crafbaru. The mower whets his scithe. Milton. Ufelefs lances into scythes fhall bend. Pope. Grav'd o'er their feats the form of Time was found, His scythe revers'd. Pope Swift. Time fits with his sythe to mow Where erit fat Cupid with his bow. (2.) SITHE. n. s. Time. Obfolete.The foolish man thereat woxe wond'rous blith, And humbly thanked him a thousand fith. Spenser. * SITHENCE. adv. [Now contracted to fince. See SINCE.] Since; in latter times.-This was the beginning of all the other evils which fithence have afflicted that land. Spenser. * SITHNESS. adv. Since. Spenser. SITIPHA. See SETERS (5) SITONES, an ancient people of Germany, or as others fay of Norway. Tacit. de Germ. 45, SITOPHYLAX, [Erga, Gr. from res, corn, and augs, keeper, in antiquity, an Athenian magiftrate, who had the superintendance of the corn, and was to take care that nobody bought more than was neceflary for the provifion of his family. By the Attic laws, particular perfons were prohibited from buying more than 50 measures of wheat a man ; and that fuch perfons might not purchase more, the fitophylax was appointed to fee the laws properly executed. It was a capital crime to prevaricate in it. There were 15 of these fitophylaces, ten for the city, and five for the Pireaus. SITTA, the NUTHATCH, in ornithology, a genus belonging to the clafs of aves, and order of pica. It is thus characterized by Dr Latham. The bill is for the most part ftraight; on the lower mandible there is a small angle; noftrils small, covered with briftles reflected over them; tongue fhort, horny at the end, and jagged; toes placed three forward and one backward: the middle toe joined clofely at the bafe to both the outmoft; back toe as large as the middle one.-There are 11 fpecies: viz. 1. SITTA CAFRA; 2. CANADENSIS; 3. CAROLINENSIS; 4. CHLORIS; 5. EUROPAA; 6. JAMAICENSIS; 7. LONGIROSTRA; 8. Major; 9. NEVIA; 10. PUSILLA; II. SURINAMENSIS. Of thefe the following are the most remarkable : 1. SITTA EUROPEA, the European Nuthatch, is in length near 5 inches, in breadth 9; the bill is ftrong and ftraight, about three 4ths of an inch long; the upper mandible black, the lower white: the irides are hazel; the crown of the head, back, and coverts of wings, of a fine bluish grey; a black ftroke paffes over the eye from the mouth : the cheeks and chin are white; the breast and belly of a dull orange-colour; the quill-feathers dufky; the wings underneath are marked with two spots, one white at the root of the exterior quills, the other black at the joint of the baftard wing; the tail confifts of 12 feathers; the two middle are grey, the two exterior feathers tipt with grey; then fucceeds a tranfverfe white spot; beneath that the reft is black: the legs are of a pale yellow; the back toe very ftrong, and the claws large. The female is like the male, but lefs in fize, and weighs commonly 5, or at moft 6 drams. The eggs are 6 or 7, of a dirty white, dotted with rufous; these are depofited in fome hole of a tree, frequently one which has been deferted by a woodpecker, on the rotten wood mixed with a little mofs, &c. If the entrance be too large, the bird nicely ftops up part of it with clay, leaving only a fmall hole for itself to pafs in and out by. While the hen is fitting, if any one puts a bit of ftick into the hole, the hiffes like a fnake, and is fo attached to her eggs, that he will fooner fuffer any one to pluck off her feathers than fly away. During the time of incubation, the male fupplies her with fuftenance, with all the tenderness of an affectionate mate. These birds run up and down the bodies of trees, like the woodpecker tribe; and feed not only on infects, but nuts, of which they lay up a confiderable provifion in the hollows of trees. "It is a pretty fight, fays Mr Willoughby, to see her fetch a nut out of her hoard, place it faft in a chink, and then, ftanding above it with its head downwards, ftriking it with all its force, break the fhell, and catch up the kernel. It is fuppofed not to fleep perched on a twig like other birds; for when confined in a cage, it prefers fleeping in a hole or corner. When at reft it keeps keeps the head down. In autumn it begins to make a chattering noise, being filent for the greateft part of the year." Dr Plott tells us, that this bird, by putting its bill into a crack in the bough of a tree, can make fuch a violent found as if it was rending asunder, fo that the noise may be heard at least 240 yards. 2. SITTA LONGIROSTRA, the great book-billed natbatch, is the largest of the known nuthatches: its bill, though pretty straight, is inflated at the middle, and a little hooked at the end; the noftrils are round; the quills of the tail and of the wings edged with orange on a brown ground; the throat white; the head and back grey; the under fide of the body whitifh. It was obferved by Sloane in Jamaica. Its total length is about 7 inches; the bill is 8 lines and one third; the upper mandible a little protuberant near the middle; the mid toe 8 lines and one 3d; the alar extent 11 inches; the tail about 23 lines. 3. SITTA SURINAMENSIS, the spotted or Surinam muthatch, is another American nuthatch, with a hooked bill; but differs from the preceding in fize, plumage, and climate it inhabits Dutch Guiana. See Pl. CCXXXVII. The upper fide of the head and of the body is of a dull afh-colour; the fuperior coverts of the wings of the fame colour, but terminated with white; the throat white; the breast and all the under fide of the body cinereous, and more dilute than the upper fide, with white ftreaks fcattered on the breaft and fides, which forms a fort of speckling; the bill and legs brown. Total length, about fix inches; the bill, an inch; the tarfus, 7 lines; the mid toe, 8 or 9 lines, and longer than the hind toe, whofe nail is the ftrongeft; the tail, about 18 lines; confifting of 12 nearly equal quills, and exceeds the wings 13 or 14 lines. Buffon. Elizabeth. It has feveral good inns, at one of which called the Red Lion, K. Henry V, and all his retinue were entertained on their return from France, by a gentleman, named Norwood, at the expense of only 9s. 9d.; wine being then 20. a quart, and every thing elfe in proportion. (Brookes.) It is 11 miles SE. of Rochefter, 16 W. of Canter bury, and 40 E. by S. of London. Lon. o. 48. E. Lat. 1. 19. N. (2.) SITTER, in geography, a river of Switzerland, which rifes in the canton of Appen zell, and falls into the Tbur, 9 miles W. of St Gall. 1 ་་་་་ *SITUATE. part. adj. [from fitus, Lat.]* 1. Placed with respect to any thing else.--Bretagne being fo great and opulent a duchy, and fituate fo opportunely to annoy England. Bacon Full fairly fituate on a haven's fide. Dryden. The eye is fo artificially compofed, and commodiously situate, as nothing can be contrived better for ufe, ornament, or fecurity. Ray. 2. Pla ced; confifting.Pleafure fituate in hill and dale. Milton. *SITUATION. n. f. [from fituate; fituation, Fr.] Local refpe&t; pofition. Prince Cefarini has a palace in a pleafant fituation. Addifon. Condition ; ftate.-This is a fituation of the greateft eafe and tranquillity in human life. Rogers. 3. Temporary ftate; circumstances. Used of perfons in a dramatic scene. 2. SITUS, in algebra and geometry, denotes the fituation of lines, furfaces, &c. Wolfius delivers fome things in geometry which are not deduced from the common analyfis, particularly matters depending on the fitus of lines and figures. Leibnitz has even founded a particular kind of analy fis upon it, called calculus fitus. SITZENBERG, a town of Germany, in the empire of Auftria, 10 miles WSW of Tulln SITZKOI, a town of Ruffia, in Olonetz. SIVA, or SHEEVAH, a name given by the Hindoos to the Supreme Being, confidered as the SITTACE, a town of Affyria, Plin. vi. c. 27. avenger or deftroyer. Sir William Jones has fhown (1.)* SITTER. n. f. [from fit.] 1. One that that in feveral respects the character of Jupiter fits. The Turks are great fitters. Bacon. 2. A and Siva are the fame. As Jupiter overthrew the bird that broods.-The oldeft hens are reckoned Titans and giants, fo did Siva overthrow the Daithe beft fitters. Mortimer. tyas or children of Diti, who frequently rebelled against Heaven; and as during the conteft the god of Olympus was furnished with lightning and thunderbolts by an eagle, fo Brahma, who is fometimes reprefented riding on the Garuda, or eagle, prefented the god of deftruction with fiery thafts. Siva alfo correfponds with Pluto; for, in a Perfian tranflation of the Bhagavat, the fovereign of Pátála, or the infernal regions, is the king of ferpents, named SESHANAGA, who is exhibited in painting and feulpture, with a diadem and fcepire, in the fame manner as Pluto. There is yet another attribute of Siva or Mahádéva, by which he is vifibly diftinguished in the drawings and temples of Bengal. To deftroy, according to the Vedantis of India, the Sufis of Perfia, and many philofophers of our European fchools, is only to generate and reproduce in another form. Hence the god of deftruction is holden in this country to prefide over generation, as a symbol of which he rides on white bull. See EUROPA. *SITTING. n. f. [from fit.] 1. The pofture of fitting on a feat. 2. The act of refting on a feat.-Thou knoweft my down-fitting. Pfal. 3.A time at which one exhibits himself to a painter. Few good pictures have been finified at one fit ting. Dryden. 4. A meeting of an affembly.-The which fhall point you forth at every fitting, What you must say. Shak. -I wish it may be at that fitting concluded. Bacon. 5. A course of study unintermitted.-I read it all through at one fitting. Locke. 6. A time for which one fits, as at play, or work, or a vifit. One short fitting many hundred drains. Dryd. 7. Incubation. The male bird takes his ftand upon a neighbouring bough, and amufes her with bis fongs during the whole time of her fitting. Addifon. SITTING BURN, a town of England, in Kent, on the road to Canterbury, incorporated by Q. SIVAN, in Jewish chronology, the 3d month of the Jewish facred year, and 9th of their civil; answering to part of our May and June. On the 6th was the feaft of Pentecoft; and on the 15th Ca and |