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- English Word Sinus Definition A narrow, elongated cavity, in which pus is collected; an elongated abscess with only a small orifice.
- English Word Sinus Definition A depression between adjoining lobes.
- English Word Sinuses Definition of Sinus
- English Word Sinusoid Definition 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.
- English Word Sinusoidal Definition Of or pertaining to a sinusoid; like a sinusoid.
- English Word Siogoon Definition See Shogun.
- English Word Siogoonate Definition See Shogunate.
- English Word Sioux Definition See Dakotas.
- English Word Sip Definition To drink or imbibe in small quantities; especially, to take in with the lips in small quantities, as a liquid; as, to sip tea.
- English Word Sip Definition To draw into the mouth; to suck up; as, a bee sips nectar from the flowers.
- English Word Sip Definition To taste the liquor of; to drink out of.
- English Word Sip Definition To drink a small quantity; to take a fluid with the lips; to take a sip or sips of something.
- English Word Sip Definition The act of sipping; the taking of a liquid with the lips.
- English Word Sip Definition A small draught taken with the lips; a slight taste.
- English Word Sip Definition See Seep.
- English Word Sipage Definition See Seepage.
- English Word Sipage Definition Water that seeped or oozed through a porous soil.
- English Word Sipe Definition To run or soak through fine pores and interstices; to ooze.
- English Word Siphilis Definition Syphilis.
- English Word Siphoid Definition A siphon bottle. See under Siphon, n.
- English Word Siphon Definition 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.
- English Word Siphon Definition 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 Mya, and Lamellibranchiata.
- English Word Siphon Definition The anterior prolongation of the margin of any gastropod shell for the protection of the soft siphon.
- English Word Siphon Definition 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 Loligo, and Dibranchiata.
- English Word Siphon Definition The siphuncle of a cephalopod shell.
- English Word Siphon Definition The sucking proboscis of certain parasitic insects and crustaceans.
- English Word Siphon Definition A sproutlike prolongation in front of the mouth of many gephyreans.
- English Word Siphon Definition A tubular organ connected both with the esophagus and the intestine of certain sea urchins and annelids.
- English Word Siphon Definition A siphon bottle.
- English Word Siphon Definition To convey, or draw off, by means of a siphon, as a liquid from one vessel to another at a lower level.