siding-hook 
Siding-hook (si'ding-huk), n. A carpenters' 
tool used for marking accurately lengths of ma- 
terial to be fitted into determined spaces, as in 
fitting weather-boarding between a window- 
frame and a corner-board. 
siding-machine (si'ding-ma-shen"), 11. A ma- 
chine for sawing timber into boards ; a resaw- 
ing-maehine. 
sidingst, dr. [ME. sidinges, syddynges; with 
adverbial gen. suffix -es, < side 2 + -"iff 1 .] Side- 
ways ; to one side. 
Hot thow moste seke more southe, syddynges a lyttille, 
ffor he wille hafe sent liym-selfe sex myle large. 
Morte Arlhure (E. E. T. 8.), 1. 1039. 
sidle (si'dl), r. ; pret. and pp. sidled, ppr. sidling. 
[< side 1 , through the adj. sideling, taken as ppr.] 
1. intrans. 1. To move side wise or obliquely; 
edge along slowly or with effort; go aslant, as 
while looking in another direction. 
He . . . then sidled close to the astonished girl. Scott. 
"Bobby, come and sit on my knee, will you?" but 
Bobby preferred sidling over to his mother. 
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, x. 
This is his [Carlyle's] usual way of treating unpleasant 
matters, sidling by with a deprecating shrug of the shoul- 
ders. Lowell, Study Windows, p. 146. 
2. To saunter idly about in no particular di- 
rection. Halliwell. [Prov. Eng.] 
II. trans. To cause to move in , sidling man- 
ner; direct the course of sidewise. [Bare.] 
Reining up Tomboy, she sidled him, snorting and glow- 
ing all over, close to the foot-path. 
Whyte Melville, White Rose, II. viii. 
sidlingt, adv. A Middle English form of side- 
ling. 
Sidbnian (si-do'ni-an), a. and n. [Also Xidoni- 
an; < L. Sidonius, < Sidon, < Qr. Sitiuv, < Heb. 
Tsidhdn (lit. 'fishing-place'), Sidon.] I. a. Of 
or pertaining to Sidon, on the coast of Syria, 
the most important city of ancient Phenicia be- 
fore the rise of Tyre, now called Saida. 
II. H. An inhabitant of ancient Sidon ; espe- 
cially, a Phenician living in Sidon or in the ter- 
ritory subject to it. 
sie 1 (si), v. [Also sigh, Sc. sey ; (a) < ME. sien, 
si/en, sigeit, < AS. sigan (pret. sah, pi. "sigon, pp. 
sit/en), fall, sink, slide down, = OS. sigan = 
OFries. siga = OHG. sigan, MHG. sigcn = Icel. 
xiija, fall, sink, slide down, refl. let oneself 
drop; orig. identical with (6) ME. sihen, < AS. 
*siltan, contr. sedn (pret. *s(ih, pp. *sigen), flow 
through, percolate, filter, sift, = MD. sijglien, 
D. zijgen = OHG. sihaii, MHG. sihen, G. seiheii, 
let flow or trickle, strain, filter, pass through a 
sieve, = Icel. tsia (weak verb), filter; akin to 
AS. sicerian (= G. sickern), trickle, OHG. seih- 
han, MHG. G. seiehen = LG. seken, make water, 
urinate, OHG. MHG. seicli, G. seiche, urine; 
Teut. root *siliw ; of. OBulg. sichati, make wa- 
ter, siclii, urine, Gr. k/iof, moisture, Skt. -\/ sich, 
pour out. Hence ult. sig, sigger, sike 1 , sile 1 , 
silt. Cf. sag, sink.'] I. intrans. If. To sink; 
fall; drop; fall, as in a swoon. Prompt. Pan., 
p. 455. 
For when she gan hire fader fer espie, 
Wei neigh doun of hire hors she gan to sye. 
Chaucer, Troilus, v. 182. 
2. To drop, as water; trickle. [Prov. Eng.] 
The rede blod eeh ut. Old Eng. Horn. (E. E. T. 8.), 1. 121. 
II. trans. If. To sift. Prompt. Parv., p. 455. 
2. To strain, as milk. Palsgrave. [Prov. 
Eng.] 
sie 1 ! (si), . [< sie 1 , v.~\ A drop. 
sie 2 t. An obsolete preterit of see 1 . 
Sieboldia (sf-bol'di-a), H. [NL. (Bonaparte), 
named from Philipp Franz von Siebold, a Ger- 
man traveler in Japan (1796-1866).] A genus 
of urodele amphibians, containing the largest 
living representative of the whole order, S. 
maximus of Japan, the giant salamander. Also 
called Cryptobranclms and Megalobatrachus 
(which see). 
Sieclet, See seclc. 
Many trifling poemes of Homer. Ouid, Virgill, Catullus, 
and other notable writers of former ages ... are come 
from many former siecles vnto our times. 
Puttenham, Arte of Eug. Poesie (ed. Arber), p. 125. 
siegburgite (seg'berg-It), , [< Siegbwrg (see 
def.) + -jie 2 .] A fossil resin from Siegburg, 
near Bonn, in Prussia. 
Siege (sej), . [E. dial, also sedge (see sedge?) ; 
< ME. seige, sege, < OF. sege, siege, a seat, 
throne, F. siege = Pr. setge, sege (cf. Sp. sitio, 
Pg. as-sedio, a siege) = It. seggio (cf. sedia), a 
chair, seat, < L. as if *sedimn (cf. ML. assedium, 
L. obsidium, a siege), < sedere, sit, = E. sit: see 
sedent. Cf. besiege, see 2 . Otherwise < LL. *sedi- 
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ciim,< L. sedes, a seat.] 1. A seat; a throne. 
[Obsolete or archaic.] 
At the left syde of the Emperoures Seije is the Sege of 
his flrste Wif, o degree lowere than the Emperour. 
Mandeville, Travels, p. 217. 
Thow thiself that art plaunted in me chasedest out of 
the sege of my corage alle covetise of mortal thinges. 
Chaucer, Boethius, i. prose 4. 
Besides, upon the very siege of justice, 
Lord Angelo hath to the public ear 
Profess'd the contrary. 
Shak., M. fr M., iv. 2. 101. 
The knights masquers sitting in their several sieges. 
B. Jonson, Masque of Oberon. 
2f. A fixed situation or position ; station as to 
rank or class ; specifically, of the heron, a sta- 
tion or an attitude of watchfulness for prey. 
I fetch my life and being 
From men of royal siege. Shak., Othello, i. 2. 22. 
We'll to the field again ; 
... a hearn [heron] put from her siege, 
And a pistol shot otf In her breech, shall mount 
So high that to your view she'll seem to soar 
Above the middle region of the air. 
Maseinger, Guardian, L 1. 
3f. A camp ; an encampment, especially as the 
seat of a besieging army. 
Thei were loigged at a seige be-fore a Citee cleped Na- 
blaise, that was a grete town and a riche, and plentevouse 
of alle goodes. ... The Kynge Leodogan . . . hadde not 
peple in his reame sufficient to a-reyse hem fro the sege, 
ne to chase hem oute of his reame. 
Merlin (E. E. T. 8.), ii. 202. 
4. The stationing or sitting down of an attack- 
ing force in a strong encampment before or 
around a fortified place, for the purpose of cap- 
turing it by continuous offensive operations, 
such as the breaching, undermining, or scaling 
of walls or other works, the destruction of its 
defenders, the cutting off of supplies, etc. ; the 
act of besieging, or the state of being besieged ; 
besiegement ; beleaguerment : as, to push the 
siege; to undergo a siege; hence, figuratively, a 
prolonged or persistent endeavor to overcome 
resistance maintained with the aid of a shelter 
or cover of any kind. 
And with the Sunne the Beares also returned, sometime 
laying violent siege to their house 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 434. 
No fort so fensible, no wals so strong, 
But that continuall battery will rive, 
Or daily siege, through dispurvayaunce long. 
Spenser, F. Q., III. i. 10. 
Love stood the fiege, and would not yield his breast. 
Dryden, Theodore and Honoria. 1. 33. 
5t. Stool; excrement; fecal matter. 
How earnest thou to be the xiege of this moon-calf? Can 
he vent Trinculos? Shak., Tempest, ii. 2. 110. 
6. In meek. : (a) The floor of a glass-furnace. 
(ft) A workmen's table or bench. E. E. Knight. 
7f. A flock, as of herons, bitterns, or cranes. 
A seye of herons, and of bitterns.' 
Strutt, Sports and Pastimes, p. 97. 
Attack of a siege. See attack. To lay siege to. See 
lay*. To raise a siege. BeanriMi. 
siege (sej), r. t. ; pret. and pp. sieged, ppr. sieg- 
ing. [< siege, n. Cf. besiege."] To lay siege 
to; besiege; beleaguer; beset. 
Thrice did Darius fall 
Beneath my potencie; great Babylon, 
Mighty in walls, I sieg'd, and seised on. 
Heywood, Dialogues (Works, ed. Pearson, 1874, VI. 141). 
siege-basket (sej'bas'ket), n. 1. A variety of 
mantlet made of osier or other wattled material. 
2. A gabion. 
siege-battery (sej'bat'er-i), n. See battery. 
siege-cap (sej'kap), n. A helmet of unusual 
thickness and weight, supposed to have been 
worn as a defense against missiles thrown from 
the walls of a besieged place, 
siege-gun (sej'gun), . A cannon, top heavy 
for field-service, employed for battering and 
breaching purposes in siege operations. See 
cuts under howitzer. 
siegenite (se'gen-it), n. 
+ -i'te 2 .] In mineral., 
a nickeliferous va- 
riety of the cobalt 
sulphid linnseite, 
found at Siegen in 
Prussia, 
siege-piece (sej'pes), 
n. A coin, generally 
of unusual shape and 
rude workmanship, 
issued in a town or 
castle during a siege, 
when the operations 
of the ordinary mints 
are suspended. The 
English siege-pieces, 
made from plate melted Obverse of Newark Siege piece. 
Reverse of Newark Siepe-piece 
(one shilling). British Museum. 
[< Siegen (see def.) 
Sierra Leone fever 
down, and issued during 
the civil war by the fol- 
lowers of Charles I. at 
some of the chief royalist 
cities and castles (Bees- 
ton, Carlisle, Colchester, 
Newark, Scarborough, 
Pontefract), are note- 
worthy examples of the 
class. 
siege-train (sej'- 
tran), n. The artil- 
lery, carriages, am- 
munition, and equip- 
ments which are car- 
ried with an army 
for the purpose of 
attacking a fortified 
place. 
siege-works (sej'- (size of original.) 
werks), n. pi. The 
offensive or protective structures, as breast- 
works, trenches, etc., prepared by an investing 
force before a besieged place. 
Pope . . . surrounded the place by siege-u-orks in which 
he could protect his men. The Century, XXXVI. 660. 
sielet, (' An obsolete form of c< il. 
Siemens armature. A form of armature in- 
vented by Siemens, and much used in dynamo- 
machines. It is essentially a cylinder wound longitu- 
dinally with copper wires or rods, and having its poles, 
when it is rotated in the field of the electromagnets, on 
opposite sides of the cylinder. 
Siemens-Martin process. See steel. 
Siemens process. See steel. 
Siena marble. See marble, 1. 
siencet, . An obsolete form of scion. Cotgrave. 
Sienese (si-e-neV or -nez'), . and w. [< Siena 
(see def.) -r- -ese.] I. a. Of or pertaining to 
Siena, a city and a province of central Italy, 
the ancient Sena Julia, formerly an indepen- 
dent republic. 
The history of Sienese art is a fair and luminous record. 
Eneyc. Brit., XXII. 43. 
Sienese school of painting, one of the chief of the 
Italian schools of the thirteenth and fourteenth cen- 
turies, parallel in development to the early school of 
Florence, like which it had its origin in the Byzantine 
mannerism and rigidity. In general, this school is char- 
acterized by a coloring at once harmonious and brilliant, 
by a predilection for rich costumes and accessories, and 
by a notable power of sentimental expression. It is in 
ferior to the Florentine school in the grouping of its fig- 
ures and in vigor and correctness of drawing. Among 
the chief artists of the school are Duccio di Buoninsegna, 
Simone di Martino, Lippo Memmi, and Ambrogio Loren- 
zetti, with the later Sano di Pietro and Matteo di Giovanni. 
II. H. sing, and pi. An inhabitant or a native 
of the city or province of Siena, or, collectively, 
the people of Siena. 
sienite, . See syenite. 
sienitic, a. See syenitic. 
sienna (si-en'a), n. [< Sienna, < It. Siena, a city 
of central Italy; terra di Siena, Siena earth.] 
1. A ferruginous ocherous earth, fine and 
smooth, used as a pigment in both oil and 
water-color painting. The finest is that obtained 
from Italy. Itaw sienna is the native pigment prepared 
by simply drying the material which is taken from the 
mine or vein and afterward powdering. In composition 
and appearance it somewhat resembles yellow ocher, but 
it is deeper in tint and of a browner hue. It gives a high- 
ly chromatic orange-yellow, considerably darkened, its lu- 
minosity being about half that of a bright chrome-yellow. 
Its transparency is one of its important qualities, while 
opacity should be the characteristic of an ocher. Burnt 
sienna is the raw material roasted in a furnace before 
powdering. By this means the color is changed to a 
warm reddish brown similar to old mahogany. It is, like 
raw sienna, translucent in body. 
2. The color of sienna pigment. 
Siennese, a. and . An occasional spelling of 
Sienese. 
sienst, An obsolete form of scion. Cotgrave. 
sierra (sier'a), H. [< Sp. sierra, a saw, a saw- 
like ridge o? mountains, = Pr. Pg. It. serra, a 
saw, < Li. serra, a saw : see serrate.] 1 . A chain 
of hills or mountains : used as part of the name 
of many mountain-chains in Spanish or for- 
merly Spanish countries : as, the Sierra Nevada 
(in Spain and in California). 
For miles and miles we skirt the Ragusan island of 
Mcleda, long, slender, with its endless hills of no great 
height standing up like the teeth of a saw a true sierra 
in miniature. E. A. Freeman, Venice, p. 193. 
2. A scombrpid fish, Scomberoniortts caballa, a 
kind o? Spanish mackerel. The sides of the body 
of the young are relieved by indistinct dark-yellowish 
spots, which are lost in the adult, and the spinous dorsal 
has no anterior black blotch. It is the largest species 
of its genus, and occasionally reaches a weight of 100 
pounds. It inhabits the tropical Atlantic, and rarely 
visits the southern coast of the United States. 
3. Same as chromosphere. 
Sierra Leone fever, peach, etc. See fever*-, 
etc. 
