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  • English Word Sidereal Definition Relating to the stars; starry; astral; as, sidereal astronomy.
  • English Word Sidereal Definition Measuring by the apparent motion of the stars; designated, marked out, or accompanied, by a return to the same position in respect to the stars; as, the sidereal revolution of a planet; a sidereal day.
  • English Word Siderealize Definition To elevate to the stars, or to the region of the stars; to etherealize.
  • English Word Sidereous Definition Sidereal.
  • English Word Siderite Definition Carbonate of iron, an important ore of iron occuring generally in cleavable masses, but also in rhombohedral crystals. It is of a light yellowish brown color. Called also sparry iron, spathic iron.
  • English Word Siderite Definition A meteorite consisting solely of metallic iron.
  • English Word Siderite Definition An indigo-blue variety of quartz.
  • English Word Siderite Definition Formerly, magnetic iron ore, or loadstone.
  • English Word Siderite Definition Any plant of the genus Sideritis; ironwort.
  • English Word Siderographic Definition Alt. of Siderographical
  • English Word Siderographical Definition Of or pertaining to siderography; executed by engraved plates of steel; as, siderographic art; siderographic impressions.
  • English Word Siderographist Definition One skilled in siderography.
  • English Word Siderography Definition The art or practice of steel engraving; especially, the process, invented by Perkins, of multiplying facsimiles of an engraved steel plate by first rolling over it, when hardened, a soft steel cylinder, and then rolling the cylinder, when hardened, over a soft steel plate, which thus becomes a facsimile of the original. The process has been superseded by electrotypy.
  • English Word Siderolite Definition A kind of meteorite. See under Meteorite.
  • English Word Sideromancy Definition Divination by burning straws on red-hot iron, and noting the manner of their burning.
  • English Word Sideroscope Definition An instrument for detecting small quantities of iron in any substance by means of a very delicate combination of magnetic needles.
  • English Word Siderosis Definition A sort of pneumonia occuring in iron workers, produced by the inhalation of particles of iron.
  • English Word Siderostat Definition An apparatus consisting essentially of a mirror moved by clockwork so as to throw the rays of the sun or a star in a fixed direction; -- a more general term for heliostat.
  • English Word Sideroxylon Definition A genus of tropical sapotaceous trees noted for their very hard wood; ironwood.
  • English Word Sidesaddle Definition A saddle for women, in which the rider sits with both feet on one side of the animal mounted.
  • English Word Sidesman Definition A party man; a partisan.
  • English Word Sidesman Definition An assistant to the churchwarden; a questman.
  • English Word Sidesmen Definition of Sidesman
  • English Word Sidewalk Definition A walk for foot passengers at the side of a street or road; a foot pavement.
  • English Word Sideways Definition Toward the side; sidewise.
  • English Word Sidewinder Definition See Horned rattler, under Horned.
  • English Word Sidewinder Definition A heavy swinging blow from the side, which disables an adversary.
  • English Word Sidewise Definition On or toward one side; laterally; sideways.
  • English Word Siding Definition of Side
  • English Word Siding Definition Attaching one's self to a party.