Sitaris 
, ,,'. having iilil'orm antennas and subulate 
elytra. They are found only in southern Europe and 
northern Africa, and only about a dozen species are known. 
Sitarfj collttte. 
a, first larva ; g, anal spinnerets and clasps of same ; A, second 
larva: c, pupa; d, female imago; e, pseudopupa; /, third larva. 
(All enlarged ; hair-lines indicate natural sizes.) 
In early stages they are parasitic in the nests of wild bees, 
as S. colletis of southern France in those of bees of the 
genus Uolletes, where they undergo hypermetamorphosis. 
site 1 !, [ME., also syt, syte, cytte, < Icel. silt, 
grief, sorrow, affliction, var. of soft (= AS. svht\ 
sickness, < sjiikr, sick, anxious, = AS. se6c, E. 
sick: see sick 1 .'] 1. Sorrow; grief; misery; 
trouble. 
Now, alle-weliland Gode, that wyr scheppez usalle, 
Uif the sorowe and syte, . . . the fende have thi saule ! 
Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1060. 
Adam, thy seltfe made al this syte, 
For to the tree thou wente full tyte, 
And boldely on the frute gan byte my lord for-bed. 
York Plays, p. 30. 
2. Sinfulness; sin. 
He [God] knyt a couenande cortaysly with monkynd . . . 
That he schulde neuer for no syt smyte al at ones. 
Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), ii. 686. 
site 1 !, <' ' [ME. siten, si/ten, < Icel. syta, grieve, 
wail, < niit, grief, sorrow: see site 1 , n.] To 
grieve; mourn. 
Hot i site for an other thing, 
That we o water has nu wanting ; 
Vr water purueance es gan, 
And in this wildernes es nan. 
Cursor Mundi (E. E. T. S.X 1. 11675. 
site 2 (sit), 11. [Formerly often spelled, errone- 
ously, scite; < ME. site, < OF. site, sit, F. site 
= It. alto (cf. Sp. Pg. sitio), < L. situs, position, 
place, site, < siitcre, pp. situs, put, lay, set down, 
usually let, suffer, permit (cf. poiterc = *po- 
sinere, put: see position); cf. site 3 . Hence ult. 
(< L. situs) E. situate, etc.] 1. Position, espe- 
cially with reference to environment ; situa- 
tion; location. 
Cities and towns of most conspicuous site. 
B. Joitson, Poetaster, v. 1. 
Its elevated site forbids the wretch 
To drink sweet waters of the crystal well. 
Cowper, Task, i. 239. 
2. The ground on which anything is, has been, 
or is to be located. 
We ask nothing in gift tn the foundation, but only the 
house and scite, the residue for the accustomed rent. 
Sp. Burnet, Records, II. ii. 2, No. 30. 
The most niggardly computation . . . presents us with 
a sum total of several hundreds of thousands of years for 
the time which has elapsed since the sea . . . flowed over 
the site of London. Huxley, Physiography, p. 295. 
3. Posture; attitude; pose. [Rare.] 
The semblance of a lover flx'd 
In melancholy site, with head declin'd, 
And love-dejected eyes. Thomson, Spring, 1. 1021. 
4. In furt., the ground occupied by a work: 
also called plane of site. 
Sitedt (si'ted), a. [< site% + -ed?.] Having a 
site or position ; situated; located; placed. 
A farm-house they call Spelunca, sited 
By the sea-side, among the Fundane hills. 
B. Jomon, Sejanus, iv. 1. 
Nuremberg in Germany is sited in a most barren soil. 
Burton, Anat. of Mel., To the Reader, p. 59. 
sitfast (sit'fast), a. and n. [<.#it + fast 1 .'] I. a. 
Stationary; fixed; immovable; steadfast. 
'Tis good, when you have crossed the sea and back, 
To find the sitfast acres where you left them. 
Emerson, Hamatreya. 
5660 
II. n. In farriery, a circumscribed 
of the skin in horses or other saddle- and park- 
animals, due to pressure of the load, it nut in- 
frequently becomes converted into an ulcer, and is then 
the ordinary "sore back" of these animals, which seldom 
gets well as long as they are ruldrn or hnlrn. To prevent 
such sores is the chief care of packers. 
sithH (with), atle., prep., and eonj. [< ME. xitli. 
syth, with earlier final vowel tithe, M///K, xilln-, 
sittithe, fi/ththe, xetlitlii; xro/htlte, soilithc, xiit/i- 
the, with earlier final consonant xitlini. xi/then, 
xutliHH. xitlini. xrlliiii. xit/licii, xitlitluii. IfAtken. 
si/thetliyn, seoththcn, < AS. siththan, orig. xitli 
tham (= MHG. sit don. (i. xntdon (cf. MHG. 
xiiitdim nialc. (jr. xintcmal) = led. xiilhiiii = Sw. 
sedan = Dan. siden). after that, since: sith = 
OS. sith, sidh, sid = MD. sijd, sind = MLG. sint, 
sent, sitnt, LG. sint = OHG. sid, sidli, xitli, MHG. 
Hid, sit, G.seit, after, = Icel. sidh, late, = Goth. 
'seiths, in ni thana-seiths, no longer (cf. neut. 
adj. seithtt, late); a compar. adv., appearing 
also later, with added compar. suffix, in AS. 
xitlior = OS. sithor = MD. seder, with excres- 
cent t sedert, sindert, D. sedert = MLG. LG. 
seder, sedder, sedert, ser, seer = OHG. sidor, 
sidor, MHG. sider, sider, afterward, since ; tham, 
dat. of that, that (see that). Tliis word ap- 
pears in six distinct types: the earliest ME. 
type sithen became by reg. loss of its term, sithe. 
then sith; the same form sithen became by 
contr. sin, whence with added adverbial term. 
sine; and the same form sitheii also took on an 
adverbial gen. suffix -es, and became sithenes, 
later spelled sithence, whence by contr. the 
usual mod. form since. See sin 2 , sine 1 , sithence, 
since.] I. adi: Same as since. 
First to the ry,~ht honde thou ehalle go, 
Sitthen to tho left honde thy neghe thou cast. 
Babees Book (E. E. T. 3.), p. 300. 
Being of so young days brought up with him. 
And sith so neighbour'd to his youth and haviour. 
Shak., Hamlet, ii. 2. 12. 
II. prep. Same as since. 
Natheles men seyn there comonnly that the Erthe hat hr 
so ben cloven sythe the tyme that oure Lady was there 
buryed. Mandentte, Travels, p. 95. 
Ten days ago I drown'd these news in tears ; 
And now . . . 
I come to tell you things sith then befall'n. 
Shak., 3 Hen. VI., ii. 1. 106. 
III. conj. Same as since. 
Why meuestow thi mode for a mote in thi hrotheres eye ; 
Sithen a beem in thine owne ablyndeth thf-selue? 
Piers Ploirman (B), x. 264. 
Sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue 
thee. Ezek. xxxv. 6. 
sith 2 t. An old spelling of gidc 1 , sithe 2 . 
sitheH, n. The older and proper spelling of 
scutlie. 
sithe'-'t (sith), n. [< ME. sithe, sythe, sith, syth, 
githe, time, < AS. sith (for *sinth), journey, turn, 
time, = OS. sith = OHG. sind, MHG. sint, a way, 
time, = Icel. SIMM* (for 'sinthi), sinn, a walk, 
journey, time. = Goth, sinths, a time, = W. 
hjjnt (for 'sint), a way, course, journey, expe- 
dition, = Olr. set, a way: see send, scent.] 1. 
Way; path; course; figuratively, course of 
action ; conduct. 
An he [Lucifer] wurthe [became] in him-seluen prud, 
An with that pride him wex a nyth [envy] 
That iwel weldeth al his sith. 
Uciiesisand Exodm(E. E. T. S.), 1. 274. 
2. Way; manner; mode. 
No sith might thai suffer the sorow that thai hade. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 9535. 
3. Time; season; occasion. 
After the deth she ciyed a thousand sythe. 
Chaucer, Troilus, iv. 753. 
Thus with his wife he spends the year, as blithe 
As doth the king at every tide or sith. 
Greene, Shepherd's Wife's Song. 
Sithe 2 t, v. i. [ME. sithen, < AS. sithiaa (= OS. 
sithon = OHG. sindon, MHG. sinden = Icel. 
sinna), journey, < sith, a journey: see sithe' 2 , 
sittandly 
sithencet, <idr., jin/i.. and riinj. [Early mod. 
K. also xitlirHx; < ME. xilh/'iix. xrt/ii HX. xitlienes, 
etc. ; a later form, with added adverbial gen. 
suffix -es (see -ce), of sithen : see sith 1 . Hence, 
by contr., since.'] Same as sith 1 for since. 
I wil sowe it my-self, and silthenes wil I wende 
To pylgrymage as palmers don panloun forto haue. 
Piers Plomnan (B), vi. 65. 
We read that the earth hath beene divided into three 
parts, even sithenn the generall floud. 
Holinshed, Descrip. of Britain, i. (Xarea.) 
Have you inform 'd them sithence? 
Shak., Cor., III. 1. 47. 
Sithence this is my first letter that ever I did write to 
you, I will not that it be all empty. 
Sir 11. Sidney (Arber's Eng. Garner), I. 41. 
Mine eyes . . . cry aloud, and curse my feet, for not 
ambling up and down to feed colon; sithence, if good 
meat be in any place, 'tis known my feet can smell. 
Massinger and Dekker, Virgin-Martyr, iii. :f. 
Sitiology (sit-i-pl'o-ji), . [< Gr. atTum, dim. of 
n'tTof, food, + -?.o}<'a,Ofyv, speak: see -oloi/y.] 
Same as sitology. 
sitiophobia (sit'i-o-fo'bi-a), . [< Gr. airiov, 
dim. of alrof, food, -f- -ipoftia, < fojifiaBat, fear.] 
Same as sitojihobia. 
Sitka cypress, . See cypress 1 , 1 (6). 
Sitodrepa (si-tod're-pa), . [NL. (Thomson, 
1863), < Gr. airof, foocf, + fiplirctv, pluck.] A ge- 
nus of serricom beetles of the family Ptin'nl;i\ 
founded upon S.-panicea, a small brown convex 
insect of cosmopolitan distribution, and often 
a serious pest to stored food, to drugs, and to 
specimens of natural history in museums. See 
cut under book-worm. 
sitolet, . See citole. 
sitology (si-tol'o-ji), . [< Gr. alrof, food, + 
-Xoy/a, < teyeiv, speak: see -oloi/y.] That de- 
partment of medicine which relates to the regu- 
lation of diet ; the doctrine or consideration of 
aliments; dietetics. 
sitophobia (si-to-fo'bi-a), . [NL., < Gr. alrof, 
food, 4- -ijiofiia, (. ipo/3eia6ai, fear.] Morbid or in- 
sane aversion to food. Also sitioj>hobia. 
sitophobic (si-to-fo'bik), a. [< sitoj>hobia + 
-/c.J Morbidly averse to food ; affected with 
sitophobia. 
sit-sicker (sit'sik''er), . [< sit + sicker.] The 
creeping crowfoot, Jtanunculus repens: so called 
in allusion to its close adherence to the ground. 
Britten and Holland, Eng. Plant Names. [Scot- 
land.] 
Sitta (sit'a), w. [NL., < Gr. mTrn, a kind of 
woodpecker.] A Linnean genus of birds, the 
nuthatches, typical of the family Sittidse. There 
are about 15 species, of Europe, Asia, and North America. 
The common bird of Europe is S. eunpeea, of which a 
\ 
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n.] To journey ; travel, 
sithe" 
sithe 3 (sith), . i. [Early mod. E. also sythe; a 
var. of sigh 1 .] To sigh. [Obsolete or prov. 
Eng.] 
So I say sithing, and sithing say my end is to paste up a 
siquis. My masters fortunes are forc'd to cashere me. 
Marston, What you Will, iii. 1. 
sithe 3 (sith), H. [Early mod. E. also .sythe; a var. 
of sigh 1 .] A sigh. [Obsolete or prov. Eng.] 
Whilest thou wast hence, all dead in dole did lie; 
The woods were heard to waile full many a sythe, 
And all their birds with silence to complaine. 
Spenser, Colin Clout, 1. 23. 
sithent, adv., prep., and conj. Same as sith 1 for 
since. 
European Nuthatch (5///a europsta*,. 
variety, S. cassia, is recognized. Five species occur in the 
United States : the red-bellied, S. canadensis; the white- 
bellied, 5. carolinensis ; the slender-billed. S. aculeata; 
the brown-headed, S. punilla ; and the pygmy, S. pygnura. 
The first of these inhabits North America at large ; the 
second, eastern parts of the continent ; the third, western ; 
the fourth, southeastern; and the fifth, southwestern. 
See also cut under nuthatch. 
sittacine, . A variant of psittacine. 
Sittandt, p- a. [ME.,ppr. of sit, v. Cf. sitting, 
p. a.] Same as xitting, 3. 
He salu^ede that sorowfulle with siUande wordez, 
And fraynez aftyre the fende fairely there aftyre. 
Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 953. 
sittandlyt, adr. [ME., < sittand + -ly*.] Same 
as sittingly. 
That they bee herberde in haste in thoos heghe chambres ; 
Sythine rittandli/ in sale servyde ther-aftyr. 
Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 159. 
