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tileie tuid by Unverdorben, and resin beta 

 by Berzelius. 



SIMAROC'BA. The name of a genus of 

 plants. Decandria'Monogynia. The S. 

 officinalis, or mountain damson, is the tree 

 which yields the Simarouba bark. It is 

 a native of Carolina, South America, and 

 the West Indies. Its bitter principle is 

 named Quassine. 



SIM'IA. The Ape : a genus of quadru- 

 mana, comprising the monkeys, properly 

 so called ; the ourangs (Simia, Erxl. 

 Pithecus, Geoff.) ; the gibbons (Hylobates, 

 Illig.) ; the patras (Cercopithecus, Erxl.); 

 the kah-an (Semnopitliecus, F. Cuv.) ; the 

 macaques (Macacus) ; the dog-headed 

 monkeys (Cynocephalus, Cuv.) ; the man- 

 drills, the howling monkeys, sapajous, 

 and the sajous (Lagothrix, Geoff.); the 

 saimiri, the yarkes, fox- tailed monkeys, 

 the sagouins, and the douroucouli. 



SIMI'LITEB (Lat.). In like manner. In 

 law, the form by which either party, in 

 pleading, accepts the issue tendered by 

 nis opponent. 



SIMI'LITUDE. In geometry, the relation 

 of figures similar to each other. 



SIM'ILOR. A golden-coloured variety 

 of brass. 



SI'MONT. In law, the illegal buying 

 or selling ecclesiastical preferment, de- 

 nounced' in Stat. 31 Elizabeth, c. vi., 

 where it is called a crime. 



SIMO'OM. A hot suffocating wind, which 

 occasionally blows in Arabia and Africa ; 

 generated by the extreme heat of the 

 sandy deserts and parched plains. 



SIM'PLE, Lat. simplex. 1. In botany, ap- 

 plied to roots, leaves, &c., when undi- 

 vided. 2. In chemistry, applied to unde- 



composed substances, of which there are 

 55, called elementary substances or elements. 

 Of these the metals are examples. 



SIMPLI'CIA. The name of an order of 

 Acalephous zoophytes 

 that float and swim in 

 the ocean by the alter- 

 nate contractions and di- 

 latations of their body, 

 which is gelatinous and 

 without apparent nbres. 

 The medusa is an ex- 

 ample of the simple acalepha. 



SIN'APINE. A substance extracted from 

 the seeds of the Sinapis alba and nigra, 

 (white and black mustard) ; at first called 

 sulphosinapisin. It is white, bulky, and 

 light ; has a bitter taste, and dissolves 

 with a yellow colour in water and alcohol. 

 SINA'PIS. Mustard. The name of a genus 

 of plants, mostly herbaceous. Tetradyna- 

 miaSiliquosa. So called from trim UTCK, 

 it hnrts the eyes. There are 27 species, all 

 hardy plants, except the shrubby mustard 

 of Madeira. The white and black mustard 

 plants are natives of Britain, where they 

 Mb much cultivated. 



APISM. A mustard poultice : tina- 

 pis, mustard. 



IN'CIPUT (Latin). The part of the 

 head from the forehead to the coronal 

 suture. 



SI'NE, Lat. sinus. In trigonometry, the 

 ight sine of an arc is a line, ts, drawn 

 from one end of the arc t A, perpendicu- 

 lar to the ra- 

 dius CA, drawn 

 through the 

 other end, being 

 always equal to 

 half the chord of 

 double the arc. 

 The versed-sine is 

 the line s A ; the 

 cosine is the sine 

 of the complement of the arc, and the 

 cover 'sed- sine is the cosine of that com- 

 plement. 



SI'NE DI'E (Latin). Without day. An 

 adjournment sine die is an adjournment 

 without fixing the time for resuming the 

 business. When a defendant is suffered to 

 go sine die, he is dismissed the court. 



SI'NE PA'RI (Latin). Without fellow. 

 Applied to muscles, veins, &c., which are 

 without a fellow. 



SINGLE. Among builders, a term of fre- 

 quent use ; e.g. single frame and naked, is 

 applied to a floor which has /only one 

 tier of joists ; a single joist floor is one 

 that has no binding-joists single-hung: 

 when only one sash of a window is 

 moveable in the same vertical plane, the 

 sashes are said to be single-hung. Single- 

 joists are such joists as are employed singly 

 in a floor : single measure, a door which is 

 square on both sides ; if it be moulded on 

 both sides it is dmMe measure, and if 

 moulded on one side and square on the 

 other, it is said to be measure and half. 



SIN'GLES. In the silk manufactures. See 

 SILK-THROWER. 



SIN'ISTER (Latin). Left : on the left 

 hand : opposed to dexter, applied in he- 

 raldry. A sinister aspect, in astrology, IB the 

 appearance of two planets happening ac- 

 cording to the succession of the signs ; as 

 Saturn in Aries, and Mars in the same 

 degree of Gemini. 



SINK/IN G FUND, lu finance, a term ap- 

 propriately applied to a portion of the 

 public revenue, set apart to be applied to 

 the reduction of the national debt. 



SIN'NKT. In nautical language, yarn 

 bound round ropes to prevent them from 

 galling. 



SIN'OPEB, ) Lat. sinopis, Or. ffivcrrif- A 



SIN'OPLE. | ferruginous quartz, which 

 occurs crystallised and in masses that re- 

 semble some varieties of jasper. 



SIN'TER. A German name for the scale 

 which flies from iron when hammered : 

 applied in mineralogy, Calcareous sinter i 

 a variety of carbonate of lime, comiH/e4 



