King a men. Let not our James, though foild in arms, de Vex'd are the nobles who have sided spair, In his behalf. Sbakspeare. Whilst on his side he reckons half the fair. Tickel. As soon as discontents drove men into sidings, Sume valuing those of their own side, or mind, as ill humours fall to the disaffected part, which Still make themselves the measure of mankind : causes inflarnmations, so did all who affected noFondly we think we honour merit then, velties adhere to that side. Charles. When we but praise ourselves in other men. Terms rightly conceived, and notions duly Pope. fitted to them, require a brain free from all inHe from the taste obscene reclaims our youth, clination to siding, or affection to opinions for And sets the passions on the side of fruth; the authors sukes, before they be well underForms the scti boom with the gentlest art, stood. Digby. And pours each human virtue in the heart. Pope. Not yet so dully desperate 7. Any part placed in contradistinction or To side against ourselves with fate; opposition to another. It is used of per As criminals, condemnd to suffer, Are blinded first, and then turn'd over. Hudibras. sons, or propositions, respecting each The princes differ and divide; other. Some follow law, and some with beauty side. There began a sharp and cruel fight, many Granville. being slain and wounded on both sides. Knolles. It is pleasant to see a verse of an old poet re The plague is not easily received by such as volting from its orignal sense, and siding with a continually are about them that have it; on the modern subject. Addison. othier side, the plague taketh soonest hold of those All side in parties, and begin th' attack. Pope. that come out of a fresh air. Bacon. Those who pretended to be in with the prinI am too well satisfied of my own weakness to ciples upon which her majesty proceeded, either be pleased with any thing I have written; but, absented themselves where the whole cause deon the other side, my reason tells me, that what pended, or sided with the enemy. Seift. I have long considered may be as just as what an The equitable part of those who now side ordinary judge will condemn. Dryden. against the court, will probably be more temMy secret wishes would my choice decide ; perate. Swift. Bit open justice bends to neither side. Dryden. SI'DE BOARD. n. s. [side and board.] The It is granted, on both sides, that the fear of a side table on which conveniencies are Deity doch universally possess the minds of Tillotson. placed for those that eat at the other Two nations still pursu'd table. Peculiar ends, on each sida resolute At a stately sideboard by the wine Pbilips. Milton. 8. It is used to note consanguinity: as, he No sideboards then with gilded plate were dress'd, is cousin by his mother or father's side. Yet here and there we grant a gentle bride, No sweating slaves with massive dishes press'd. Dryden. Whose temper berters by the father's side; Unlike the rest that double human care, The snow-white damask ensigns are display'd, Fund to relieve, or resolute to share. Parnel. And glitt'ring silvers on the sideboard laid. King. SIDE. adj. (from the noun.] The shining sideboard, and the burnish'd place, Let other ministers, great Anne, require. Prior. I. Lateral. Africanus brought from Carthage to Rome, Take of the blood, and strike it on the two in silver vessels, to the value of !1,90tl. 1.js. 9d. side posts, and on the upper door post of the a quantity exceeded afterwards by the sideboards houses. Exodus. Arbuthnot. 2. Oblique ; indirect. SI'DEBOX. 9. s. (side and box.] Scat for „They presume that the law doth speak with the ladies on the side of the theatre. all indifferency, that the law hath no side respect Why round our coaches crowd the whiteto their persons. Hooker. glov'd beaux ? People are sooner reclaimed by the side wind Why bows the sidebox from its inmost rows ? of a surprize, than by duwnright admonition. Pope. L'Estrange. SI'DEFLY. n. s. An insect. One mighty squadron with a side wind sped. Drvrien. From a rough whitish maggot, in the intestiThe parts of water, being easily separable from num rectum of horses, the sidefly proceeds. Derbam. each other, will, by a side motion, be easily removed, and give way to the approach of two To SI'DLE.7'. n. [from side.] pieces of marble. Locke. 1. To go with the body the narrowest What natural agent could turn them aside, way. could impel them so strongly with a transverse The chaffering with dissenters is but like openside blow against that tremendous weight and ing a few wickets, and leaving them a-jar, by rapidity, when whole worlds arc a-tag? which no more than one can get in at a time, Bentley. apd that not without stooping and sidling, and He not only gives us the full prospects, bút squeezing his body. Swift. several unexpected peculiarities, and side views, I passed very gently and sidling through the unobserved by any painter but Homer. Pope. Swift. My secret' enemies could not forbear some 2. To lie on the side. expressions, which by a side wind reflected on A fellow nailed up maps in a gentleman's Swift. closet, some sidling, and others upside down, the TO SIDE. v. n. (from the noun.] better to adjust them to the pannels. Swift. 1. To lean on one side. SI'DELONG. adj. [side and long.) Lateral; All rising to great piace is by a winding stair; oblique ; not in front; not direct. and if there be factions, it is good to side a mau's She darted from her eyes a sidelong glance, self whilst rising, and balance himself when Just as she spoke, and, like her vords, it dlew; placed. Bacon. Seem'd not to by whi siis then bid. ne do. 2. To take a party; to engage in a faction. Diydeo. me. SESSION. Shakspeare. The deadly wound is in thy soul: Our castle's strength Slakspeare. The reason of the planets motions in curve that the Turks purposed rather by long siege than lines is the attraction of the sun, and an oblique by assault to take the town. Knolles. or sidelong impulse. Locke. The more I see Thomson. Torment within me, as from the hateful siege SI'DELONG. adv. Of contraries. Miltoa. Beat away the busy meddling fiend, That lays strong siege unto this wretch's soul, Sbakspeare. As a lion, bounding in his way, Give me so much of your time, in exchange With force augmented bears away his of it, as to lay an amiable siege to the honesty of Sidelong to seize. Dryden. Ford's wife. Sbakspeare. 2. On the side. Love stood the siege, and would not yield his breast. If it prove too wet, lay your pots sidelong ; but Dryden. shade those which blow from the afternuon sun. 3. [slege, Fr.] Seat ; throne. Obsolite. Evelyn, Drawing to him the eyes of all around, Si'der, n. s. See CIDER. From lofty siege began these words aloud to sound. SI'DERAL. adj. [from sidus, Lat.] Starry; Fairy Queen. astral. 4. Place ; class ; rank. Obsolete. I fe:ch my life and being From men of royal sige. Your sum of parts Like change on sea and land; sideral blast, Did not together pluck such envy from him, Vapour and mist, and exhalation hot, As did that one, and that in my regard Corrupt and pestilent ! Milton. Of the unworthiest siege. Sbakspeare. The musk gives Sure hopes of racy wine, and in its youth, 5. (siege, French.] Siool. Its tender nonage, loads the spreading boughs It entereth not the veins, but taketh leave With large and juicy offspring, that defies of the permeant parts, as the mouths of the The vernal nippings and cold sideral blasts. meseraicks, and accompanieth the inconvertible Philips. portion unto the siege. Brorun. SI'DERATED.adj. [from sideràtus, Latin.] 10 SIEGE. v. a. (sieger, Fr.] To besiege. Not in use. Him he had long opprest with tort, mortified, become black; the radical inoisture, And fast imprisoned in siegid tort. Fairy Queen. or vical sulphur, suffering an extinction. Brown. SIEVE, n. s. [from sifi.] Hair or lawn SIDER A'TION. n.s. (sideration, Fr. sidera strained upon a hoop, by which flower tio, Lat.] A sudden mortification, or, is separated from bran, or fine powder from coarse ; a boulter; a searce. as the common people call it, a blast ; Thy coursel or a sudden deprivation of sense, as in Falls now into my ears as profitless an apoplexy. As water in a sieve. Sbakspeare. The contagious vapour of the very eggs pro- In a sieve I 'll thither sail, duces a mortification or sideration in the parts of And, like a rat without a tail, plants on which they are laid. Ray. I'll do-l'll dowl'll do. Shakspeare: SI'DESADDLE. N. s. (side and saddle.] A An innocent found a sieve, and presently fell woman's seat on horseback. to stopping the holes. L'Estrange. If lite sunk through you like a leaky sieve, Si'd ESMAN. n. s. (side and man.] An as Accuse yourself you liv'd not while you might. sistant to the church-warden. Dryden. A gift of such goods, made by them with the TO SIFT. v. a. [riftan, Sax. siften, Dut.] consent of the sidesman or vestry, is void. Ayliffe. 1. To separate by a sieve. SIDEWAYS. adv. (from side and way, In the sifting of such favour, all that came out SI'DEWISE, S or wise.] Laterally; on could not be expected to be pure meal, but must have a mixture of padar and bran. W otion, 'The fair blossom hangs the head 2. To separaie; to part. Sideways, as on a dying hed; When yellow sands are sifted from below, And those pearls of dew she wears The glitt'ring billows give a golden show. Dryd, Prove to be presaging tears. Milton. 3. To examine ; to try: If the image of the sun should be drawn ont We have sifted your objections against those into an oblong form, either by a dilatation of pre-eminences royal. Hooker. every ray, or by any other casual inequality of All which the wit of Calvin could from thence the refractions, the same oblong image would, draw, by sijiing the very utmost sentence and by a second refraction made sideways, be drawn syllable, is no more than that certain speeches out as much in breadth by the like dilatation of seem to intimate, that all christian churches the rays, or other casual inequality of the re ought to have their elderships. Hooker. fraction sideways. Newton, I fear me, if thy thoughts were sifted, S EGE. n. s. (siege, French.] The king thy sovereign is not quite excmpt 1. The act of besetting a fortified place; From envious malice of thy swelling heari. Shak. a laguer. As near as I could sift tiim on that argument. Sbakspean. one side. 1 a Opportunity I here have had Undaunted Hotspur To try thee, sift thee, and confess have found Brings on his army, eager unto tight, thee And plac'd the same before the king in sight. Proof against all temptation, as a rock Dinide Of adamant. Milton. Æneas cast his wond'ring eyes around, And all the Tyrrhene army had in sight, embraces with vehemence the principles of Stretch'd on the spacious plain from leit to right. either of these parties, had thoroughly sifted Dryden. and examined them, and was secretly convinced I met Brutidius in a mortal fright; of their preference to those he rejects. Addison. He's dipe for certain, and plays least in siglt. Si'FTER. n. s. [from sift.) He who sifts. Dryden. SIG was used by the Saxons for victory; 3. Act of seeing or beholding; view. Sigbert, famous for victory; Sigward, Nine things to sight required are ; victorious preserver ; Sigard, conquer The pow'r to see, the light, the visible thing, Being not too small, tou thin, toonigh, too far, ing temper: and almost in the same Clear space, and time, the form distinct to bring. sense are Nicocles, Nicomyachus, Ni Davies. cander, Victor, Victorinus, Vincentius, Mine eye pursu'd him still, but under shade &c. Gibson. Milton, What form of death could him affright, TO SIGH. v. n. [rican, sicerzan, Saxon ; Who unconcern'd, with stedfast sight, suchten, Dutch.] To emit the breath Could view the surges mounting steep, audibly, as in grief. And monsters rolling in the deep? Dryden. I lov'd the maid I married; never man Having little knowledge of the circumstances Sigb'd truer breath. Sbakspeare. of those St. Paul writ to, it is not strange that 1 'll not be made a soft and dull-ey'd fool, many things lie concealed to us, which they who To shake the head, relent, and sigb, and yield were concerned in the letter understood at first To christian intercessors. Shakspeare. sight. Locke. He sighed deeply in his spirit, and saith, Why 4. Notice; knowledge. doth this generation seek after a sign? Mark. It was writ as a private letter to a person of For the oppression of the poor, for the sigbing piety, upon an assurance that it should never of the needy, will I arise. Psalms come to any one's sight but her own. Wake. Happier he, 5. Eye; instrument of seeing. Who seeks not pleasure through necessity, From the depth of hell they lift their sight, Than such as once on slipp'ry thrones were And at a distance see superior light. Dryden. plac'd, And, chasing, sigh to think themselves are 6. Aperture pervious to the eye, or other chas'd. Dryder. point fixed to guide the eye: as, the The nymph too longs to be alone; sights of a quadrant. Leaves all the swains, and sigbs for one. Prior. Their armed staves in charge, their beavers To SIGH. v. a. To lament; to mourn. down, Not in use. Their eyes of fire sparkling through sights of steel. Ages to come, and men unborn, Sbakspeare. Shall bless her name, and sigh her fate. Prior. 7. Spectacle; show; thing to be seen. Sigh. n.s. n. s. (from the verb.) A violent and Thus are my eyes still captive to one sight; Thus all my thoughts are slaves to one thought audible emission of the breath which has still. Sidney. been long retained, as in sadness. Them seem'd they never saw a sight so fair Full often has my heart swoln with keeping Of fowls so lovely, that they sure did deem my sighs imprisoned; full often have the tears i Them heavenly born. Spenser. drove back from mine eyes turned back to drown my heart. Sidney. But is a-weary of thy comnion sight, Love is a smoke rais'd with the fume of sigos; Save mine, which hath desir'd to see thee more. Being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Shakspeare. Shuéspeare. Moses said, I will turn aside and see this great What a sigh is there! The heart is surely sigbt, why the bush is not burnt. Exodus. charg'd. Shakspeare. I cook' a felucca at Naples to carry me to Laughing, if loud, ends in a deep sigh; and all Rome, that I might not run over the same sights pleasures have a sting in the tail, though they a second time. Addison carry beauty on the face. Taylor. Not proud Olympus yields a nobler sigbı, In Venus' temple, on the sides were seen Though gods assembled grace histow'ring height, Issuing sighs, that smok'd along the wall. Dryd. Than what more humble mountains offer here, SIGHT. n. s. (geside, Saxon ; sicht, L Where, in their blessings, all those gods appear. gesicht, Dutch] Pope 1. Perception by the eye; the sense of Before you pass th' imaginary sights Of lords, and earls, and dukes, and garter'd seeing. knights, If bees go farth right to a place, they must While the spread fan o'ershades your closing needs have sight. B.icon. O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! eyes, Then give one flirt, and all the vision flies. Pope. Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, decrepit agc! Milton. Si'GHTED. adj. [from sight.] Seeing in Things invisible to mortal sight. Milton. a particular manner. It is used only 'Tis still the same, although their airy shape in composition, as quicksighted, shortAll but a quick poetick siglt escape. Denbam, sighted. My eyes are somewhat dirish grown; As they might, to avoid the weather, pull the For nature, always in the right, joints of the coach up close, so they might put To your decays adapts my si ht. Swift. each end down, and remain as discovered and 2. Open view; a situation in which no. open sighted as on horseback. Sidney. thing obstructs the eye. The king was very quick sighted in discerning Not an eye ness, run. ness. difficulties, and raising objections, and very slow There stay until the twelve clestial signs in mastering them. Glarendon. Have brought about their annual reckoning, SIGHTFULNESS. n. s. [from sight and Sharspeare. fill.) Perspicuity ; clearness of sight. Now did the sign reign, and the constellation Not in use. was come, under which Perkin should appear. Bacon. After ev'ry foe subdu'd, the sun Thrice through the signs his annual race shall Dryden. Siuney. Sightless. adj. [from sight.] They made signs to his father. Luke. 7. Mark of distinction; cognizance. 1. Wanting sight; blind. The latent tracts, the giddy heights, explore The ensign of Messiah blaz’d, Aloft by angels borne, his sign in heaven. Milt. 2. Not sightly ; offensive to the eye ; un- The holy symbols or signs are not barely sig. pleasing to look at. nificative; but what they represent is as ferFuil of unpleasing blors and sightless stains, tainly delivered to us as the symbols themselves. Patch'd with foul moles, and eye-offending Bi erewood. marks. Shakspeare. 9. A subscription of one's name : as, a Si'ghtly. adj. [from sight.] Plcasing to sign manual. To SIGN. v. a. [signo, Latin.] 1. Tomuk. Their having tivo eyes and two ears so placed, With meekness and humility, but your heart is more sightly and useful. More. Is cramm'd with arrogancy. Sbakspeare. A great many brave sightly horses were brought out, and only one plain nag that made 2. (signer, Fr.] To ratify by hand or scal. sport L'Estrange. Be pleas'd to sign these papers: they are all Of Of great concern. Dryden. ; all her majesty's subjects; we elected a president 3. To betoken ; to signify ; to represent by his height. Alison. typically. Sigil.n. s. [sigillum, Lat.] Seal ; signa The sacraments and symbols are just such as ture. they seem ; but hecause they are made to be Sorceries to raise th' infernal pow'rs, signs of a secret mystery, they receive the names of what themselves do sign. And sigiis frarn’d in planetary hours. Taylor. Dryden. SIGN. n. s. [signe, Fr. signum, Lat.) SIGNAL. n. s. [signci, Ir. sernole, Span.) 1. A token of any thing ; that by which Notice given by a sign; a sign that gives notice. The weary sun hath made a golden set, And, by the bright track of his tiery car, Gives sigrail of a goodly day to-morrow. Shaks. from any variety of objects of one kind apper Scarce the dawning day began to spring, taining to either sense. Holder, As, at a signal giv'n, the streets with clamours ring To express the passions which are seated in Dryden. the heart by outward signs, is one great precept SI'GNAL. adj. [signal, Fr.] Eminent; meof the painters, and very dificult to perform. morable; remarkable. Dryden. He was esteemed more hy the parliament, for When any one uses any term, he may have the signal acts of cruelty conimitted upon the in his mind a determined idea which he makes Irish, Clarendon. it the sign of, and to which he should keep it The Thaines frozen twice in one year, so as stcadily annexed. Locke. mon to walk on it, is a very signal acadent. 2. A wonder; a miracle; a prodigy. Swift. If they will not hearken to the voice of the SIGNA’LITY. n. s. [from signal.] Quality first sign, they will not believe the latter sign. of something ren arkable or memorable. Exodus. Of the ways whereby they enquired and deCompell’d by signs and judgments dire. Milt. termined its signaliiy, the first was natural, 3. A picture, or token, bung at a door, to arising from physical causes. Broton. give notice what is sold within. It seems a sigmality in providence, in erecting I found my miss, siruck hands, and pray'd him your society in such a juncture of dangerous hutell, Glanville. To hold acquaintance still, where he did dwell; To Si'GNALIZE. v. a. (signaler, Fr.] To He barely nam'd the street, promis'd the wine, make eminent; to make remarkable. But his kind wife ga'e me the very sign. Doone. Many, who have endevoured to signalize Underneath an alehouse' paitry sigu. Sbaksp. themselves by works of this nature, plainly disTrue sorrow's like to wine, cover that they are not acquainted with arts and That which is good does never need a sign. Suckl. sciences. Aldison. Wit and fancy are not employed in any ole Some one eminent spirit, having signalized his article so much as that of contriving signs to valour and fortune in defence of his country, or hang over houses. Swift. by popular arts at home, becomes to have great 4. A moniment; a memorial. influence on the people. Swift. An out sard and visible sign of an inward and ,SIGNALLY. adv. [from signal.] Ernispiritual grace. Common Prayer. The fire devoured two hundred and fifty men, nently ; remarkably ; memorably. Persons signally and eminently obliged, yet and they became a sign. Vumbers. missing of the utmost of their greedy designs in 5. A constellation in the zodiack. swallowing both gifts and giver too, instead of ܪ mours. thanks for received kindnesses, have betook The clearness of conception and expression, themselves to barbarous threatenings. Soutb. the boldness maintained to majesty, the signifiSIGNATION. 1. s. [from signo, Latin.] cancy and sound of words, not strained into bomSign given ; act of betokening: bast, must escape our transient view upon the theatre. Dryden. A horseshoe Baptista Porta hath thought too low a signation, he raised unto a lunary repre As far as this duty will admit of privacy, ont sentation. Brown. Saviour hath enjoined it in terms of particular significancy and force. Atterbury. SIGNATURE. n. s. [signature, Fr. sizna- I have been admiring the wonderful significancy tura, from signo, Latin.] of that word persecution, and what various in1. A sign or mark impressed upon any terpretations it hath acquired. Swift. thing; a stamp; a mark. 3. Importance ; moment; consequence. The brain being well furnished with various How fatal would such a distinction have proved traces, signatures, and images, will have a rich in former reigns, when many a circumstance of treasure always ready to be offered to the soul. less si nificancy has been construed into an overt Wasts. act of high treason. Addison. That natural and ind-lible signature of God, SIGNI'FICANT. adj. [significant, Fr. which human souls, in their first origin, are supposed to be stampt with, we have in need of in significans, Latin.] disputes against atheism. Bentley. 1. Expressive of something beyond the exVulgar parents cannot stamp their race ternal mark. With signatures of such majestick grace. Pope. Since you are tongue-tied, and so loth to speak, 2. A mark opon any matter, particularly In dumb significants proclaim your thoughts. upon plants, by which their nature or Shadspeare. medicinal use is pointed out. 2. Betokening; standing as a sign of someAll bodies work by the communication of thing their nature, or by the impression and signatures It was well said of Plotinus, that the stars were of their motions: the diffusion of species visible significant, but not efficient. Raleigh. seemech to participate more of the former, and the species audible of the latter. Bacon. 3. Expressive or representative in an emi. Some plants bear a very evident signature of nent degree ; forcible to impress the intheir nature and use. More, tended meaning, Seek out for plants and signatures, Whereas it may be objected, that to add to To quack of unisersal cures. Hudibras. religious duties such rites and ceremonies as are Herts are described by marks and signatures, significant, is to institute new.sacraments. Hooker. so far as to distinguish them from one another. Common life is full of this kind of significant Baker. expressions, by knocking, beckoning, frowning, 3. Proof drawn from marks. and pointing; and dumb persons are sagacious in the use of them. Holder. The most despicable pieces of decayed nature are curiously wrought with eminent signatures The Romans joined both devices, to make the of divine wisdom. Glanville. emblem the more significant; as, indeed, they Some rely on certain marks and signatures of could not too much extol the learning and militheir election, and others on their belonging to tary virtues of this emperor. Addison. some particular church or sect. Rogers. 4. Important; momentous. A low word. 4. (Among printers.) Some letter or figure SIGNI'FICANTLY.adv.(from significant.] to distinguish difierent sheets. With force of expression. SIGNATURIST, n. s. [from signature.] Christianity is known in scripture by no name One who holds the doctrine of signa- so significantly as by the simplicity of the gospel. South. tures. Little used. Signaturists seldom omit what the ancients SIGNIFICATION. n. s. [signification, Fr. delivered, drawing unto interence received dis- significatio, Lat. from signify.] tinctions. Brorun. 1. The act of making known by signs. SIGNER. n. s. [from sign.] One that signs. A lye is properly a species of injustice, and a SI'GNET, n. s. [signette, Fr. ] A scal com- violation of the right of that person to whom the monly used for the seal manual of a false speech is directed; for all speaking, or sig. king. nification of one's mind, implies an act or adI've been bold dress of one man to another. Souib. To them to use your signet and your name. Shak. 2. Meaning expressed by a sign or word. Here is the hand and seal of the duke : you An adjective requireth another word to be know the character, I doubt not, and the signet. joined with him, to shew his signification. Shakspeare. Accidence. Give thy signet, bracelets, and staff. Genesis. Brute animals make divers motions to have He delivered liim his private signet. Knelles. several significations, to call, warn, cherish, and Proof of my life my royal signet made. Dryd, threaten. Holder. The impression of a signet ring. Ayliffe. SIGNI'FICATIVE, adj. [significatif, Fr. SIGNI'FICANCE. C n. s. [from signify.] from signify.] 1. Betokening by an external sign. 1. Power of signifying; meaning, The holy symbols or signs are not barely sig. Speaking is a sensible expression of the notions nificative, but what by divine institution they reof the mind by discriminations of utterance of present and testify unto our souls is truly and voice, used as signs, having by consent several certainly delivered unto us. Brerewood. determinate significancies.. Holder. 2. Forcible ; strongly expressive. li ce declares he intends it for the honour of Neither in the degrees of kindred they were another, he takes away by his words the signifi destitute of significative words; for whom we cance of his action. Stilling fleet. call grandfather, they called ealdfader; whom 2. Force; energy; power of impressing we call greatgrandfather, they called thirdatader. the mind. Camden. } |