3. Keeping at a distance; unwilling to approach. 4. A shy fellow was the duke; and, I believe, I know the cause of his withdrawing. Shakspeare. She is represented in such a shy retiring posture, and covers her bosom with one of her hands. Addison. But when we come to seize th' inviting prey, Like a shy ghost, it vanishes away. Norris. Suspicious; jealous; unwilling to suffer near acquaintance. The bruise imposthumated, and turned to a stinking ulcer, which made every body shy to come near her. Arbuthnot. The horses of the army, having been daily led before me, were no longer shy, but would come up to my very feet without starting. Swift. Princes are, by wisdom of state, somewhat sby of their successors; and there may be supposed in queens regnant a little proportion of tenderness that way more than in kings. Wotton. SIBILANT. adj. [sibilans, Lat.] Hissing. It were easy to add a nasal letter to each of the other pair of lisping and sibilant letters. Holder. SIBILA'TION.n.s. [from sibilo, Lat.] A hissing sound. Metals, quenched in water, give a sibilation or hissing sound. Bacon. A pipe, a little moistened on the inside, maketh a more solemn sound than if the pipe were dry; but yet with a sweet degree of sibilation or purling. Bacon. SI'CAMORE. n. s. [sicamorus, Lat.] A The reason some attempt to make out from the siccity and driness of its flesh. Brorun. In application of medicaments, consider what degree of heat and siccity is proper. Wiseman. SICE. n. s. [six, Fr.) The number six at dice. My study was to cog the dice, And dext'rously to throw the lucky sice; To shan ames-ace, that swept my stakes away. Dryden. SICH. adi. Such. See SUCH. I thought the soul would have made me rich; But now I wote it is nothing sich; For either the shepherds been idle and still, And led of their sheep what they will. Spenser. SICK. adj. [reoc, Sax. sieck, Dutch.] 1. Afflicted with disease: with of before the disease. 'T is meet we all go forth, To view the sick and feeble parts of France. Shakspeare. In poison there is physick; and this news, That would, had I been well, have made me sick, Being sick, hath in some measure made me well. Shakspeare. Cassius, I am sick of many griefs. Sbakspeare. I do not, as an enemy to peace, He was not so sick of his master as of his work. Why will you break the sabbath of my days, Now sick alike of envy and of praise? Pope. Το SICK. v. n. [from the noun.] To sicken; to take a disease. Not in use. A little time before Το SICKEN. v. a. [from sick.] Shakspeare. Why should one earth, one clime, one stream, one breath, Raise this to strength, and sicken that to death? Prior. 2. To weaken; to impair. Kinsmen of mine have By this so sitken'd their estates, that never Shakspeare. TO SICKEN.υ.η. I know the more one sickens, the worse he is. The judges that sat upon the jail, and those that attended, sickened upon it and died. Bacon. Merely to drive away the time, he sicken'd, Fainted, and died; nor would with ale be quickMilton. en'd. 2. To be satiated; to be filled to disgust. Shakspeare. 3. To be disgusted, or disordered, with abhorrence. The ghosts repine at violated night, And curse th' invading sun, and sicken at the sight. Dryden. 4. To grow weak; to decay; to languish. Ply'd thick and close, as when the fight begun, Their huge unwieldy navy wastes away: So sicken waining moons too near the sun, And blunt their crescents on the edge of day. Dryden. Abstract what others feel, what others think; All pleasures sicken, and all glories sink. Pope. SICKER. adj. [sicer, Welsh; seker, Dut.] sure; certain; firm. Obsolete. We wear our health but sickly in his life, Which in his death were perfect. SICKLY.adj. [from siek.] Shakspeare. I. Not healthy not sound; not well; somewhat disordered. I 'm fall'n out with more headier will, To take the indispos'd and sickly fit Shakspeare. Bring me word, boy, if thy lord looks well; For he went sickly forth. Stakspeare. Apleasing cordial, Buckingham, Is this thy vow anto my sickly heart. Sbaksp. Time seems not now beneath his years to stoop, Nor do his wings with sickly feathers droop. Dryden. Would we know what health and ease are Trust not too much your now resistless charms; Those age or sickness soon or late disarms. Pope. 3. Disorder in the organs of digestion. SIDE. n. s. [ride, Sax. sijde, Dutch.] 1. The part of animals fortified by the ribs. When two boars with rankling malice meet, Their gory sides fresh bleeding fiercely fret. Fairy Queen. Ere the soft fearful people to the flood Thomson. 2. Any part of any body opposed to any other part. The tables were written on both their sides, on the one side and on the other. Exodus. The force of these outward streams might well enough serve for the turning of the screw, if it were so that both its sides would equiponderate. 3. The right or left. The lovely Thaïs by his side Sat, like a blooming eastern bride, Wilkins. In flow'r of youth, and beauty's pride. Dryden. 4. Margin; edge; verge. Or where Hydaspes' wealthy side Had brought the body nearer to the side. Dryd. The temple of Diana chaste, A sylvan scene with various greens was drawn, Shades on the sides, and in the midst a lawn. Dry. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits, with garlands upon their heads, lying down by the sides of fountains. worth, let us ask one that is sickly, or in pain, 5. Any kind of local respect. and we have the price. Grev. There affectation, with a sickly mien, When on my sickly couch I lay, Impatient both of night and day, Then Stella ran to my relief. Swift. Your bodies are not only poor and perishing, like your clothes; but like infected clothes, till you with all diseases and distempers, which oppress the soul with sickly appetites, and vain cravings. 3. Faint; weak; languid. Law. The moon grows sickly at the sight of day, And early cocks have summon'd me away. To animate the doubtful fight, Namur in vain expects that ray; Dryden. In vain France hopes the sickly light Let not our James, though foil'd in arms, de- Whilst on his side he reckons half the fair. Tickel. Pope. He from the taste obscene reclaims our youth, And sets the passions on the side of truth; Forms the soft bosom with the gentlest art, And pours each human virtue in the heart. Pope. 7. Any part placed in contradistinction or opposition to another. It is used of persons, or propositions, respecting each other. There began a sharp and cruel fight, many being slain and wounded on both sides. Knolles. The plague is not easily received by such as continually are about them that have it; on the other side, the plague taketh soonest hold of those that come out of a fresh air. Bacon. I am too well satisfied of my own weakness to be pleased with any thing I have written; but, on the other side, my reason tells me, that what I have long considered may be as just as what an ordinary judge will condemn. Dryden. My secret wishes would my choice decide; But open justice bends to neither side. Dryden. It is granted, on both sides, that the fear of a Deity doth universally possess the minds of men. Tillotson. As soon as discontents drove men into sidings, as ill humours fall to the disaffected part, which *causes inflammations, so did all who affected novelties adhere to that side. King Charles. Terms rightly conceived, and notions duly fitted to them, require a brain free from all inclination to siding, or affection to opinions for the authors sakes, before they be well underDigby. stood. Not yet so dully desperate To side against ourselves with fate; As criminals, condemn'd to suffer, Are blinded first, and then turn'd over. Hudibras. The princes differ and divide; Some follow law, and some with beauty side. Granville. It is pleasant to see a verse of an old poet revolting from its orignal sense, and siding with a modern subject. Addison. All side in parties, and begin th' attack. Pope. Those who pretended to be in with the principles upon which her majesty proceeded, either absented themselves where the whole cause depended, or sided with the enemy. Swift. The equitable part of those who now side against the court, will probably be more temSwift. perate. SIDEBOARD.n.s. [side and board.] The side table on which conveniencies are placed for those that eat at the other table. Milton. No sideboards then with gilded plate were Two nations still pursu'd Peculiar ends, on each sido resolute To fly conjunction. At a stately sideboard by the wine Philips. That fragrant smell diffus'd. 8. It is used to note consanguinity: as, be is cousin by his mother or father's side. Yet here and there we grant a gentle bride, Whose temper betters by the father's side; Unlike the rest that double human care, dress'd, No sweating slaves with massive dishes press'd. Fond to relieve, or resolute to share. Parnel. SIDE. adj. [from the noun.] People are sooner reclaimed by the side wind of a surprize, than by downright admonition. L'Estrange. One mighty squadron with a side wind sped. Dryden. The parts of water, being easily separable from each other, will, by a side motion, be easily removed, and give way to the approach of two pieces of marble. Locke. What natural agent could turn them aside, could impel them so strongly with a transverse side blow against that tremendous weight and rapidity, when whole worlds are a-fa ag? Dr Dryden. The snow-white damask ensigns are display'd, And glitt'ring salvers on the sideboard laid. King. The shining sideboard, and the burnish'd plate, Let other ministers, great Anne, require. Prior. Africanus brought from Carthage to Rome, in silver vessels, to the value of 11,9667. 155. 9d. a quantity exceeded afterwards by the sideboards of many private tables. Arbuthnot. SI'DEBOX.n.s. [side and box.] Seat for the ladies on the side of the theatre. Why round our coaches crowd the whiteglov'd beaux? Why bows the sidebox from its inmost rows? Pope. SI'DEFLY. n.s. An insect. From a rough whitish maggot, in the intestinum rectum of horses, the sidefty proceeds. The deadly wound is in thy soul: When thou a tempting harlot dost behold, And when she casts on thee a sidelorg glance, Then try thy heart, and tell me if it dance. Dryd. The reason of the planets motions in curve lines is the attraction of the sun, and an oblique or sidelong impulse. Locke. The kiss snatch'd hasty from the sidelang maid. Thomson. SI'DELONG. adv. 1. Laterally; obliquely; not in pursuit; not in opposition. As if on earth Winds underground, or waters, forcing way, Sidelong had push'd a mountain from his seat, Half sunk with all his pines. Milton. As a lion, bounding in his way, With force augmented bears away his prey, Sidelong to seize. 2. On the side. Dryden. If it prove too wet, lay your pots sidelong; but shade those which blow from the afternoon sun. Evelyn, SI'DER. n. 5. See CIDER. SI'DERAL. adj. [from sidus, Lat.] Starry; astral. These changes in the heav'ns, though slow, Like change on sea and land; sideral blast, The musk gives Milton. Sure hopes of racy wine, and in its youth, Philips. Parts cauterized, gangrenated, siderated, and mortified, become black; the radical moisture, or vital sulphur, suffering an extinction. Brown. SIDERATION.n.s. [sideration, Fr. sideratio, Lat.] A sudden mortification, or, as the common people call it, a blast; or a sudden deprivation of sense, as in an apoplexy. The contagious vapour of the very eggs produces a mortification or sideration in the parts of plants on which they are laid. Ray. SI'DESADDLE. n. s. [side and saddle.] A woman's seat on horseback. SIDESMAN.n.s. [side and man.] An assistant to the church-warden. A gift of such goods, made by them with the consent of the sidesman or vestry, is void. Ayliffe. SIDEWAYS.) adv. [from side and away, or wise.] Laterally; on one side. The fair blossom hangs the head If the image of the sun should be drawn out Milton. into an oblong form, either by a dilatation of every ray, or by any other casual inequality of the refractions, the same oblong image would, by a second refraction made sideways, be drawn out as much in breadth by the like dilatation of the rays, or other casual inequality of the refraction sideways. SEGE.n.s. [siege, French.] Newton. 1. The act of besetting a fortified place; a leaguer. Did not together pluck such envy from him, 5. [siege, French.] Stool. Shakspeare. It entereth not the veins, but taketh leave of the permeant parts, as the mouths of the meseraicks, and accompanieth the inconvertible portion unto the siege. Brorun. To SIEGE. v. a. [sieger, Fr.] To besiege. Not in use. Him he had long opprest with tort, And fast imprisoned in sieged tort. Fairy Queen. SIEVE. n. 5. [from sift.) Hair or lawn strained upon a hoop, by which flower is separated from bran, or fine powder from coarse; a boulter; a searce. Thy counsel In a sieve I'll thither sail, And, like a rat without a tail, I'll do I'll do-I 'll do. Sbakspeare. Sbakspeare. L'Estrange. An innocent found a sieve, and presently fell to stopping the holes. If life sunk through you like a leaky sieve, Accuse yourself you liv'd not while you might. Dryden. To SIFT. v. a. [riftan, Sax. siften, Dut.] 1. To separate by a sieve. In the sifting of such favour, all that came out could not be expected to be pure meal, but must have a mixture of padar and bran. 2. To separate; to part. Wotton. When yellow sands are sifted from below, The glitt'ring billows give a golden show. Dryd. 3. To examine; to try. We have sifted your objections against those pre-eminences royal. Hooker. All which the wit of Calvin could from thence draw, by sifting the very utmost sentence and syllable, is no more than that certain speeches seem to intimate, that all christian churches ought to have their elderships. Hooker. I fear me, if thy thoughts were sifted, The king thy sovereign is not quite exempt From envious malice of thy swelling heart. Sbak. As near as I could sift him on that argument. Shakspeare. plac'd, And, chasing, sigh to think themselves are chas'd. Dryden. The nymph too longs to be alone; Leaves all the swains, and sighs for one. Prior. Το SIGH. v. a. To lament; to mourn. Not in use. Ages to come, and men unborn, Shall bless her name, and sigh her fate. Prior. SIGH. n. s. [from the verb.] A violent and audible emission of the breath which has been long retained, as in sadness. Full often has my heart swoln with keeping my sighs imprisoned; full often have the tears I drove back from mine eyes turned back to drown my heart. Sidney. Love is a smoke rais'd with the fume of sighs; Being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Shakspeare. What a sigh is there! The heart is sorely charg'd. Shakspeare. Laughing, if loud, ends in a deep sigh; and all pleasures have a sting in the tail, though they carry beauty on the face. Taylor. In Venus' temple, on the sides were seen Issuing sighs, that smok'd along the wall. Dryd. SIGHT. n. s. [zeride, Saxon; sicht, gesicht, Dutch.] 1. Perception by the eye; the sense of seeing. If bees go forth right to a place, they must needs have sight. Bacon. Milton. O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, decrepit age! Milton. Things invisible to mortal sight. 'Tis still the same, although their airy shape All but a quick poetick sight escape. Denbam. My eyes are somewhat dimish grown; For nature, always in the right, To your decays adapts my sight. Swift. 2. Open view; a situation in which no thing obstructs the eye. Danid. Æneas cast his wond'ring eyes around, And all the Tyrrhene army had in sight, Stretch'd on the spacious plain from leit to right. Dryden. I met Brutidius in a mortal fright; He's dipe for certain, and plays least in sight. Dryden. 3. Act of seeing or beholding; view. Nine things to sight required are; The pow'r to see, the light, the visible thing, Being not too small, too thin, too nigh, too far, Clear space, and time, the form distinct to bring. Davies. Mine eye pursu'd him still, but under shade Lost sight of him. Milton. What form of death could him affright, Who unconcern'd, with stedfast sight, Could view the surges mounting steep, And monsters rolling in the deep? Dryden. Having little knowledge of the circumstances of those St. Paul writ to, it is not strange that many things lie concealed to us, which they who were concerned in the letter understood at first sight. 4. Notice; knowledge. Locke. It was writ as a private letter to a person of piety, upon an assurance that it should never come to any one's sight but her own. 5. Eye; instrument of seeing. Wake. From the depth of hell they lift their sight, And at a distance see superior light. Dryden. 6. Aperture pervious to the eye, or other point fixed to guide the eye: as, the sights of a quadrant. Their armed staves in charge, their beavers down, steel. Their eyes of fire sparkling through sights of Sbakspeare. 7. Spectacle; show; thing to be seen. Thus are my eyes still captive to one sight; Thus all my thoughts are slaves to one thought Sidney. Them seem'd they never saw a sight so fair Of fowls so lovely, that they sure did deem Them heavenly born. Spenser. still. Not an eye But is a-weary of thy common sight, Save mine, which hath desir'd to see thee more. Shakspeare. Moses said, I will turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt. Exodus. I took a felucca at Naples to carry me to Rome, that I might not run over the same sights a second time. Addison. Not proud Olympus yields a nobler sight, Though gods assembled grace his tow'ring height, Than what more humble mountains offer here, Where, in their blessings, all those gods appear. Pope. Before you pass th' imaginary sights Of lords, and earls, and dukes, and garter'd knights, While the spread fan o'ershades your closing eyes, Then give one flirt, and all the vision flies. Pope. SI'GHTED. adj. [from sight.] Seeing in a particular manner. It is used only in composition, as quicksighted, shortsighted. As they might, to avoid the weather, pull the joints of the coach up close, so they might put each end down, and remain as discovered and open sighted as on horseback. |