Sinch (v. t.) To gird with a sinch; to tighten the sinch or girth of (a saddle); as, to sinch up a sadle.
Sincipital (a.) Of or pertaining to the sinciput; being in the region of the sinciput.
Sinciput (n.) The fore part of the head.
Sinciput (n.) The part of the head of a bird between the base of the bill and the vertex.
Sindon (n.) A wrapper.
Sindon (n.) A small rag or pledget introduced into the hole in the cranium made by a trephine.
Sine (n.) The length of a perpendicular drawn from one extremity of an arc of a circle to the diameter drawn through the other extremity.
Sine (n.) The perpendicular itself. See Sine of angle, below.
Sine (prep.) Without.
Sinecural (a.) Of or pertaining to a sinecure; being in the nature of a sinecure.
Sinecure (n.) An ecclesiastical benefice without the care of souls.
Sinecure (n.) Any office or position which requires or involves little or no responsibility, labor, or active service.
Sinecure (v. t.) To put or place in a sinecure.
Sinecurism (n.) The state of having a sinecure.
Sinecurist (n.) One who has a sinecure.
Sinew (n.) A tendon or tendonous tissue. See Tendon.
Sinew (n.) Muscle; nerve.
Sinew (n.) Fig.: That which supplies strength or power.
Sinewed (imp. & p. p.) of Sinew
Sinewing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sinew
Sinew (v. t.) To knit together, or make strong with, or as with, sinews.
Sinewed (a.) Furnished with sinews; as, a strong-sinewed youth.
Sinewed (a.) Fig.: Equipped; strengthened.
Sinewiness (n.) Quality of being sinewy.
Sinewish (a.) Sinewy.
Sinewless (a.) Having no sinews; hence, having no strength or vigor.
Sinewous (a.) Sinewy.
Sinew-shrunk (a.) Having the sinews under the belly shrunk by excessive fatigue.
Sinewy (a.) Pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling, a sinew or sinews.
Sinewy (a.) Well braced with, or as if with, sinews; nervous; vigorous; strong; firm; tough; as, the sinewy Ajax.
Sinful (a.) Tainted with, or full of, sin; wicked; iniquitous; criminal; unholy; as, sinful men; sinful thoughts.
Sung (imp.) of Sing
Sang () of Sing
Sung (p. p.) of Sing
Singing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sing
Sing (v. i.) To utter sounds with musical inflections or melodious modulations of voice, as fancy may dictate, or according to the notes of a song or tune, or of a given part (as alto, tenor, etc.) in a chorus or concerted piece.
Sing (v. i.) To utter sweet melodious sounds, as birds do.
Sing (v. i.) To make a small, shrill sound; as, the air sings in passing through a crevice.
Sing (v. i.) To tell or relate something in numbers or verse; to celebrate something in poetry.
Sing (v. i.) Ti cry out; to complain.
Sing (v. t.) To utter with musical infections or modulations of voice.
Sing (v. t.) To celebrate is song; to give praises to in verse; to relate or rehearse in numbers, verse, or poetry.
Sing (v. t.) To influence by singing; to lull by singing; as, to sing a child to sleep.
Sing (v. t.) To accompany, or attend on, with singing.
Singed (imp. & p. p.) of Singe
Singeing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Singe
Singe (v. t.) To burn slightly or superficially; to burn the surface of; to burn the ends or outside of; as, to singe the hair or the skin.
Singe (v. t.) To remove the nap of (cloth), by passing it rapidly over a red-hot bar, or over a flame, preliminary to dyeing it.
Singe (v. t.) To remove the hair or down from (a plucked chicken or the like) by passing it over a flame.
Singe (n.) A burning of the surface; a slight burn.
Singer (n.) One who, or that which, singes.
Singer (n.) One employed to singe cloth.
Singer (n.) A machine for singeing cloth.
Singer (n.) One who sings; especially, one whose profession is to sing.
Singeress (n.) A songstress.
Singhalese (n. & a.) Same as Cingalese.
Singing () a. & n. from Sing, v.
Singingly (adv.) With sounds like singing; with a kind of tune; in a singing tone.
Single (a.) One only, as distinguished from more than one; consisting of one alone; individual; separate; as, a single star.
Single (a.) Alone; having no companion.
Single (a.) Hence, unmarried; as, a single man or woman.
Single (a.) Not doubled, twisted together, or combined with others; as, a single thread; a single strand of a rope.
Single (a.) Performed by one person, or one on each side; as, a single combat.
Single (a.) Uncompounded; pure; unmixed.
Single (a.) Not deceitful or artful; honest; sincere.
Single (a.) Simple; not wise; weak; silly.
Singled (imp. & p. p.) of Single
Singling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Single
Single (v. t.) To select, as an individual person or thing, from among a number; to choose out from others; to separate.
Single (v. t.) To sequester; to withdraw; to retire.
Single (v. t.) To take alone, or one by one.
Single (v. i.) To take the irrregular gait called single-foot;- said of a horse. See Single-foot.
Single (n.) A unit; one; as, to score a single.
Single (n.) The reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness.
Single (n.) A handful of gleaned grain.
Single (n.) A game with but one player on each side; -- usually in the plural.
Single (n.) A hit by a batter which enables him to reach first base only.
Single-acting (a.) Having simplicity of action; especially (Mach.), acting or exerting force during strokes in one direction only; -- said of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.
Single-breasted (a.) Lapping over the breast only far enough to permit of buttoning, and having buttons on one edge only; as, a single-breasted coast.
Single-foot (n.) An irregular gait of a horse; -- called also single-footed pace. See Single, v. i.
Single-handed (a.) Having but one hand, or one workman; also, alone; unassisted.
Single-hearted (a.) Having an honest heart; free from duplicity.
Single-minded (a.) Having a single purpose; hence, artless; guileless; single-hearted.
Singleness (n.) The quality or state of being single, or separate from all others; the opposite of doubleness, complication, or multiplicity.
Singleness (n.) Freedom from duplicity, or secondary and selfish ends; purity of mind or purpose; simplicity; sincerity; as, singleness of purpose; singleness of heart.
Singles (n. pl.) See Single, n., 2.
Singlestick (n.) In England and Scotland, a cudgel used in fencing or fighting; a backsword.
Singlestick (n.) The game played with singlesticks, in which he who first brings blood from his adversary's head is pronounced victor; backsword; cudgeling.
Singlet (n.) An unlined or undyed waistcoat; a single garment; -- opposed to doublet.
Singleton (n.) In certain games at cards, as whist, a single card of any suit held at the deal by a player; as, to lead a singleton.
Singletree (n.) The pivoted or swinging bar to which the traces of a harnessed horse are fixed; a whiffletree.
Singly (adv.) Individually; particularly; severally; as, to make men singly and personally good.
Singly (adv.) Only; by one's self; alone.
Singly (adv.) Without partners, companions, or associates; single-handed; as, to attack another singly.
Singly (adv.) Honestly; sincerely; simply.
Singly (adv.) Singularly; peculiarly.
Sing-sing (n.) The kob.
Singsong (n.) Bad singing or poetry.
Singsong (n.) A drawling or monotonous tone, as of a badly executed song.
Singsong (a.) Drawling; monotonous.