Siberian 
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siccation 
dant red and yellow fruit, which is highly ornamental and Slboma (Sl-bo'ina), !. 
also excellent for jelly, sweet pickles, etc. Siberian dog. a ma ,ii. word.] A ^ 
uoid fishes related to 
[NL. (C. Girard, 1856), sibylline (sib'i-lin or -lin), a. [= OF. sibyllin, 
us of American cypri- sibiliii, F.xiliylliii = Sp. gibilino = Pg. MMUfNO, 
, variously lim- sibyllino = It. siltilliiui, < L. aibyUinug, of a sibyl 
.^,..... ..,= - r ^ _- ---- r ,,,, uajl ^, .:. taming to the sibyls or their productions, 
frozen snow.- Siberian oat. sec oat, l^a) - 1 iberian _ ibred , (s ib'red), n. K ME. sibredc, sibredrii, uttered, written, or composed by sibyls; like 
oilseed, oea-tree. nine, see the mmns.-Siberian red- "k.kV _.,^..__.V:^ / .-,.' the productions of sibyls: as, sibylline leaves; 
fibylliiie oracles; sibylline verses. 
Some wild prophecies we have, as the Haramel in the 
elder Kdda; of a rapt, earnest, sibylline sort. Carlyle. 
2. Prophetical ; especially, obscurely or enig- 
matically oracular ; occult; cabalistic. 
used for the purpose of draft. In many northern countries 
Siberian dogs are employed for drawing sledges over the 
frozen snow. Siberian oat. see oat, l (a). Siberian 
oilseed, pea-tree, pine, see the nouns. Siberian red- 
wood. Same as xih'riun buckthorn. - Siberian rhodo- 
dendron see rhiiilmitiulriiii . 2. Siberian sable, topaz, 
etc. See the nouns. Siberian stone-pine. See stone- 
pine (c), under piitei. Siberian subregion, in znngeog., a 
subdivision of the Palearctic region, of which Siberia is 
the greatest section, approximately represented by Asia 
north of the Himalayas. 
II. n. An inhabitant of Siberia. 
siberite ( si-be 'rit), n. [< F. siberite; as Si- 
bma + -ite 3 .] Rubellite (red tourmalin) from 
Siberia. . -- ,, ,_ 
Sibiconjugate (sib-i-k on' jo-gat), a. and n. [< L. A kind of ground-squirrel which occurs in the 
sibi, dat. sing, and pi. (gen. sui, ace. se), them- southern provinces of Morocco. Encyc. Brit., 
selves (see se), + conjugatus, conjugate.] I. XVI. 833. 
o. Having parts conjugate to other parts; self- Sibthorpia (sib-thor'pi-a), n. [NL. (Linnffius, 
1737), named after John Sibthorp, an English 
botanist (1758-96).] A genus of gamopota- 
lous plants of the order Scroplndariiiese and 
tribe Digitalese, type of the subtribe Sibthor- 
piese. The flowers have a bell-shaped calyx, a corolla 
with very short tube and five to eight nearly equal spread- 
ing lobes, and four to seven stamens with sagittate an- 
ited, by some restricted to X. ' crasxicauda, of (xi'lujlliiti libri <>r verstu, the sibylline books or 
California. The species are sometimes called verses), < titytta, a sibyl: see sibyl.] ^ L^rer- 
i and iinilli'/. 
sybredyne, < AS! sibrseden, relationship, < sib, 
relationship, + rxueii, condition : see -red, and 
cf. kindred, gossipred.] Relationship; kindred. 
Ffor the sybredyne of me, fore-sake noghte this offyce 
That thow ne wyrk my wylle, thow whatte watte it menes. 
ifarte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 691. 
For every man it schulde drede, 
And nameliche in his sibrede. 
Qower, Conf. Amant., viii. 
sibsib (sib'sib), n. [Imitative; cf. sicsac, .etc.] 
The sibylline minstrel lay dying in the City of Flowers. 
Stedman, Viet. Poets, p. 149. 
selves (see se), + conjugatus, conjugate.] I. 
. Having parts 
conjugate Sibiconjugate triangle, atriangle which 
with reference to a given conic has each side the polar of 
the opposite angle. The modern theory of conies rests 
' y " JUg 
II. n. A value self-conjugate, or conjugate to 
itself. Thus, the sibiconjugates of the involution (o, b; 
c, d) are the two values of a: for which 
1, 2z, 
1, a + b, ab 
sibylline prophe . . 
one of the early Christians who gave forth or 
accepted the oracular utterances which were 
collected in so-called sibylline books. 
Celsus charges the Christians with being sibyllisls. 
S. Sharpe, Hist. Egypt from Earliest Times, xv. 55. 
To show among some of the Sikylliits a very close ac- 
quaintance with the Teaching of the Apostles. 
Amer. Jour. Phttol., VI. 401. 
cd 
=0. 
1, c + d, 
sibilance (sib'i-lans), . [< sibilan(t) + -ce.] 
The character or quality of being sibilant; 
also, a hissing sound. 
sibilancy (sib'i-lan-si), n. [As sibilance (see 
-cy).] Same as sibilance. 
There are 6 species, natives of western Europe, Africa, 
and mountains in Nepal and South America. They are 
prostrate, rough-hairy herbs, often rooting at the joints, 
bearing alternate or clustered roundish scalloped or cleft 
leaves, and red or yellowish axillary flowers. S. Europsea, 
from its round leaves, is known as pennywort, penny-pies, 
and Cornish moneywort. 
sibyl (sib'il), n. [Formerly also sibylt ; often 
{! r s ik\ a 
(sik)> 
. Scotch form of such. 
[L. sic, OL. seie, sice, so, thus, 
< *si, locative form of pron. stem sa, that, +-ee, 
a demonstrative suffix.] So; thus: a word of- 
ten inserted within brackets in quoted matter 
after an erroneous word or date, an astonishing 
statement, or the like, as an assurance that 
the citation is an exact reproduction of the 
original : as, "It was easily [sic] to see that he 
Certainly Milton would not have avoided them for their misspelled sybil, sybill ; also used as L., Sibylla ; was angry." Sic passim, so generally or through- 
sOrilaney, tie who wrote . . . verses that hisslike Medusa's 
head in wrath. Lowell, Among my Books, II. 280. 
Sibilant (sib'i-lant), a. and n. [= F. sibilant 
= Sp. Pg. It. sibilante, < L. sibilan(t-)s, ppr. of 
sibilare, hiss : see sibilate."] I. a. Hissing; mak- 
ing or having a hissing sound : as, s and s are 
sibilant letters. 
If a noun ends in a hissing or sibilant sound, . . . the 
added sign of the plural makes another syllable. 
Whitney, Essentials of Eng. Grammar, 123. 
Sibilant rale. See dry rale, under rAle. 
= D. sibille = G. sibylle = Sw. Sibylla = Dan. 
out ; the same everywhere (in the book or writing men- 
or to sheep. 
Zeus (A/oV, gen. of Zeuf, Zeus, Jove ; 
will); or 'the will of God,' < fedf (Doric ai6f), 
god, + fiovX?i, will ; but such explanation is un- 
tenable. The root is appar. aifi-, which is per- 
^ _ [Also Sigam- 
briaii; <~L. Sicambri, Syyambri, Stigambri (Gr. 
^ii-yau/^poi, Zoirya/ifipoi, Zo'vKa/ippot), a German 
tribe (see def.).] A member of a powerful Ger- 
manic tribe in ancient times.af terward merged 
. . -, - 
haps = L sib- in per-sibus, acute, wise, and re- in the confederation of the t ranks. 
II. n. An alphabetic sound that is uttered i a t e d to Gr. a<xf>6f, wise (see sophist), and L. 
with hissing, as s and r, and sli and :li (in azure, sa p er e, be wise, perceive: see sapient, sage*.] 
etc.), also ch (tsli) and j (dzli). 1. In anc. myth., one of certain women reputed 
Captive epithets, like huge Sicambrians, thrust their 
broad shoulders between us and the thought whose pomp 
they decorate. Lowell, Among my Books, 1st ser., p. 184. 
The' identification of the iriwtote is the most difficult t o possess "speciaTpowers of prophecy o/divi- sicamoret, An obsolete form of sycamore. 
problem connected with the transmission of the Phceni- na tj on an( j intercession with the gods in behalf I'cucham. 
clan alphabet to the Greeks. AlDhabet 93 of those who resorted to them. Different writers Sicanian (si-ka'ni-an), a. and n. [< L. Sicanuts, 
laylor, ic mention from one to twelve sibyls, but the number com- Sicanian, < Stcamis, a., Sicam (Gr. Zuavoi, > 2(- 
monly reckoned is ten, enumerated as the Persian or Baby- 
lonian, Libyan, Delphian, Cimmerian, Erythraean, Samian, 
Sibilate (sib'i-lat), . t. ; pret. and pp. sibilated, 
pr. sibilutinq. [< L. sibilatus, pp. of sibilare, 
* S T-. ^1 _ 7 .-J..-7..^ /\ T4. 
_,. also sifilare, hiss, whistle, < sibilus (> It. 
Pg. sibilo = Sp. silbido), a hissing or whistling; 
with formative -ilus, < / sib, prob. imitative of 
a whistling sound. Cf. OBulg. osipnati, Russ. 
sipnuti, become hoarse, Bohem. sipeti, hiss, 
'. , . . -,* ii_j__ 
Russ. sij 
and E. sip, sup, 
Cumaian, Hellespontine or Trojan, Phrygian, and Tibur- 
tine. Of these the most celebrated was the Cumsean 
sibyl (of Cumse in Italy), who, according to the story, ap- 
peared before Tarquin the Proud and offered him nine 
books for sale. He refused to buy them, whereupon she 
Russ. sipofka, a pipe, sipli, a cockchafer, etc., 
regarded 
ult. imitative. 
Hence (from L? through F.) E. siffle, q. v.] To 
pronounce with a hissing sound, like that of the 
letter s or s; also, to mark with a character in- 
dicating such a pronunciation, 
sibilation (sib-i-la'shon), n. [= F. sibilation, < 
L. sibilare, pp. sibilatus, hiss : see sibilate.] The 
act of sibilating or hissing; the utterance or 
emission of sibilant sounds; also, a hissing 
sound; in style, predominance or prominence 
of the sound of s. 
All metalls quenched in water give a sibilation or hissing 
sound. Bacon, Nat. Hist., 176. 
If sibilation is a defect in Greek odes, where the soften- 
ing effect of the vowel sounds is so potent, it is much 
more so in English poetry, where the consonants domi- 
nate. Encyc. Brit., XIX. 273. 
sibilatory (sib'i-la-to-ri), a. [< sibilate + -ory.] 
Producing a hissing or sibilant effect. [Rare.] 
sibilous (sib'i-lus), a. [< L. sibilus, hissing, 
whistling, < sibilus, a hissing: see sibilate.] 
Hissing; sibilant. [Rare.] 
The grasshopper-lark began his sibilous note in my 
fields last Saturday. G. White, Nat. Hist, of Selborne, i. 16. 
Sibilus (sib'i-lus), n. [NL., < L. sibilus, a hiss- 
ing: seexibilate.] 1. A small flute or flageo- 
let used to teach singing birds. 2. A sibilant -jvii- 
rale ; the presence of sibilant rales. 
sibnesst (sib'nes), n. [< ME. sibnesse, 
burned three, and offered the remaining six at the original '. "JJ",^^ ?', ;:/ ^ r 
price. On being again refused, she destroyed three more, SICariUS (si-ka ri-us), n., pi. Sicaru(-l). 
and offered the remaining three at the price she had asked LGr. Smdpioi, the Jewish Sicaril), < sica, a 
Kavia (L. .Sicania), timviKuf), the Sicanians (see 
def.).] I. a. Of or pertaining to the Sicani- 
ans. 
II. n. One of the primitive inhabitants of 
Sicily, found there on the arrival of the Sicu- 
lians, or Sicilians proper. 
[L. (< 
forthenine. Tarquin, astonished at this conduct, bought 
the books, which were found to contain directions as to 
the worship of the gods and the policy of the Romans. 
These sibylline books, or books professing to have this 
origin, written in Greek hexameters, were kept with 
ger.] An assassin; specifically leap.], one of 
a class of assassins and zealots in Palestine in 
the later years of Nero's reign. They are re- 
ferred to in Acts xxi. 38. 
great care at Rome, and consulted from time to time by s } cca (sik'a), a. K Hind, silcka, in some dia- 
under the direction of the senate. They , \JM S W.*KI <>;Mv7 sil-a. a 
lects sika, "Marathi sikka, sika, a coin so call- 
ed, also a coining-die, a mark, seal, signet, = 
oracle-keepers _ 
were destroyed at the burning of the temple of Jupiter in 
83 B. C. Fresh collections were made, which were finally 
d< 
ferred 
astical lit 
Chi 
from th 
be of vs 
third century after Christ. of"the'Great 'Mogul. "lhe"slcca rupee was abolished as 
Sibylle [F.], . . . Sybill, one of the tenne SybUls, ... a current coin in 1836. It was richer in silver than the 
a Prophetesse. Cvtyrave. "Company's rupee." 
Hence- 2. An old woman professing to be a siccan (sik'an), a. [Formerly also sicken, sickin 
prophetess or fortune-teller; a sorceress. (= a n - ^kken): see C i, such.] Such; such 
like; such kind of: as, siccan a man; stccaw 
times. [Scotch.] 
Thair heidis heisit with sickin saillis. 
Maitland, Poems, p. 185. (Jamieson.) 
A sibyl, that had numher'd in the world 
The sun to course two hundred compasses. 
Shak., Othello, iii. 4. 70. 
A sibyl old, bow-bent with crooked age, 
That far events full wisely could presage. 
Hilton, Vac. Ex., 1 
And so, ae morning, siccan a fright as I got ! 
Scott, Waverley, Ixiv. 
I know a maidei 
these antiq 
n aunt of a great family who is one of s j ccan t (sik'ant), a. [< L. siccan(t-)s, ppr. of 
- and prophesie8 me s to w - 
< AS. 
r 
,/r.wWw, (Lye), relationship, < yesib, related: . fe ' m (si . birik) _ [= Pg . gimieo s u,,mco ; 
ee &,.] Relationship; kmdred. " s sibyl + -ic.] Of sibylline ch 
David, thou were bore of my kyn ; 
For thi godnesse art thou myn ; 
More frr thi godnesse 
Then for eny sibnesse. 
llummifj ><}' Hell, p. 27. (Halliwell.) 
i character; like a 
sibyl. [Rare.] 
"H. H." . . . can, when she likes, be sibyllic enough to 
be extremely puzzling to the average mind. 
The Nation, XI. 390. 
Addison, Spectator, No. 7. siccar (sik'iir), a. See sicker. 
siccate (sik'at), v. t.; pret. and pp. siccated, 
ppr. siccating. [< L. siccatus, pp. of siccare, 
dry, dry up, < rictus, dry. Cf. sacA-3, desiccate.] 
To dry ; especially, to dry gradually for preser- 
vation in unaltered form, as a plant or leaf. 
siccation (si-ka'shon), . [< L. siccatio(n-), a 
drying, < siccare, dry: see sicca te.] The act or 
process of drying; especially, gradual expul- 
sion of moisture. 
