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Peduncles erect, filiform, villose four inches long. Calyx 
glandular-hairy; exterior five-leaved, interior ten-leaved, 
converging, angular. Compound corolla almost uniform, 
resembling a floscular flower, globular; having many herm¬ 
aphrodite florets in the disk, and five female in the ray. 
Seeds to both florets obovate, curved in, somewhat rugged, 
brown. This species is distinguished at first sight from the 
orientalis by its floscular-like flowers, and dichotomous, 
diffused blanches. Perhaps it is the only plant which is tri- 
androus, in the class syngenesia.—Native of Peru, whence 
it was sent by Dombey. It is an annual plant, flowering in 
June and July; and was introduced in 1784 by Chevalier 
Thunberg. 
Propagation and Culture. —- 1 . Sow the seeds on a hot¬ 
bed, and set out the plants in a warm border the beginning 
of June, supplying them with water in dry weather. 
2. Is a perennial hardy plant. 
3. Soon ripens its seeds, and may be propagated by them 
or by cuttings. 
SIGETH, NAGY, or Szigethvar, a market town in 
the west of Hungary, near the river Almasch, situated among 
marshes, from which it takes its name, Szigeth signifying an 
island. It has a Catholic and a Greek church, a Catholic 
and Calvinist seminary, and 3000 inhabitants. It is divided 
into the fortress, which stands in a marsh now drained ; the 
town properly so called, and the suburb. It has been re¬ 
peatedly besieged by the Turks; 44 miles south-east of 
Canischa, and 160 south-south-east of Vienna. Lat. 46. 31. 
5. N. long. 17. 48. 48. E. 
SIGETH, or Szigeth, a small town of Hungary, and 
the chief place of the county of Marmarosch, situated at the 
confluence of the Itza and the Theyss. It has 6500 inha¬ 
bitants, with a Catholic, a Calvinist, and a United Greek 
church. It has also a government office for the salt-works 
of the mines of Rhonaszek; 48 miles north-by-east of Nagy- 
Banya, and 243 east-by-north of Pest. 
SIGG, or Sikke, a river in the western part of Algiers, 
which rises in the Atlas, and unites with the Habran, when 
their combined stream falls into the Mediterranean, near 
Oran. 
SIGGESTON, a village of England, in the North Riding 
of Yorkshire; 4 miles east-north-east of Northallerton. 
SIGGLESTHORPE, a village of England, East Riding 
of Yorkshire; 10 miles north-east of Beverley. 
SIGGU, a town of Niphon, in Japan ; 65 miles north¬ 
east of Meaco. 
To SIGH, v. n. [pcan, pceecan, Saxon; such ten, 
Dutch.] And thus the old Eng. pret. was sight; as in 
Chaucer, “ privily he sighte," Man of Lawes Tale; and 
in Spenser, “ Full many a one for me deep groan’d and 
sight," F. Q. vi. viii. 20. Pronounced «'.] To emit the 
breath audibly, as in grief. 
I lov'd the maid I married ; never man 
Sigh'd truer breath. Shakspeare. 
I’ll not be made a soft dull-ey’d fool, 
To shake the head, relent, and sigh, and yield 
To Christian intercessors. Shakspeare. 
To SIGH, v. a. To lament; to mourn. Not muse. 
Ages to come, and men unborn, 
Shall bless her name and sigh her fate. Prior. 
SIGH, s. A violent and audible emission of the breath 
which has been long retained, as in sadness. 
Love is a smoke rais’d with the fume of sighs; 
Being purg’d, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes. Shakspeare. 
SI'GHER, s. One who sighs. 
I could wish myself a sigh to be so chid, . 
Or at least a sigher to be so comforted. Beautn. and FI. 
SIGHILL, or Sedgehill, a village of England, in Nor¬ 
thumberland ; 6 miles north-west of North Shields. 
SI'GHING, s. The act of emitting the breath audibly, 
as in grief.—For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing 
of the needy will I arise. Ps , ’ 
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Sighing is an effort of nature, by which the lungs are 
put into greater motion, and more dilated, so that the blood 
passes more freely, and in greater quantity, to the left au¬ 
ricle, and thence to the ventricle. Hence we learn, says 
Dr. Hales, how sighing increases the force of the blood, 
and consequently proportionably chears and relieves nature, 
when oppressed by its too slow motion, which is the case 
of those who are dejected and sad. Hale's Statistical Ess. 
SIGHT, s. [gepbe, Sax.; sicht, gesicht, Dutch.] Per¬ 
ception by the eye; the sense of seeing.—If bees go forth 
to a right place, they must needs have sight. Bacon .— 
Open view; a situation in which nothing obstructs the eye. 
Undaunted Hotspur 
Brings on his army, eager unto fight. 
And plac’d the same before the king in sight. Daniel. 
Act of seeing or beholding; view. 
Nine things to sight required are; 
The power to see, the light, the visible thing. 
Being not too small, too thin, too nigh, too far. 
Clear space and time the form distinct to bring. Davies. 
Notice; knowledge.—It was writ as a private letter to a 
person of piety, upon an assurance that it should never come 
to any one’s sight but her own. Wake. —Eye; instrument 
of seeing. 
From the depth of hell they lift their sight. 
And at a distance see superiour light. Dry den. 
Aperture pervious to the eye, or other point fixed to guide 
the eye: as, the sights of a quadrant. 
Their armed staves in charge, their beavers down, 
Their eyes of fire, sparkling through sights of steel. 
Shakspeare. 
Spectacle; show; thing to be seen. 
Thus are my eyes still captive to one sight; 
Thus all my thoughts are slaves to one thought still. Sidney. 
Them seem’d they never saw a sight so fair 
Of fowls so lovely, that they sure did deem 
Them heavenly born. Spenser. 
SI'GHTED, adj. Seeing in a particular manner. It is 
used only in composition, as quicksighted, shortsighted.— 
As they might, to avoid the weather, pull the joints of the 
coach up close, so they might put each end down, and re¬ 
main as discovered and open sighted as on horseback. Sid¬ 
ney. —The king was very quick sighted in discerning diffi¬ 
culties, and raising objections, and very slow in mastering 
them. Clarendon. 
SI'GHTFULNESS, s. Perspicuity; clearness of sight. 
Not in use. 
SI'GHTLESS, adj. Wanting sight; blind. 
The latent tracts, the giddy heights explore. 
Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar. Pope. 
Not sightly; offensive to the eye; unpleasing to look at. 
Full of unpleasing blots, and sightless stains,— 
Patch’d with foul moles, and eye-offending marks. 
Shakspeare. 
Invisible. 
You murdering ministers. 
Wherever in your sightless substances 
You wait on nature’s mischief! Shakspeare. 
SI'GHTLINESS, s. Appearance pleasing or agreeable to 
the eye.—.Glass-eyes may be used, though not for seeing, for 
sightliness. Fuller. 
SI'GHTLY, adj. Pleasing to the eye; striking to the 
view. 
It lies as sightly on the back of him. 
As great Alcides shews upon an ass. Shakspeare. 
A great many brave sightly horses were brought out, and 
only one plain nag that made sport. L'Estrange. 
SI'GIL, s. [sigillum, Lat.] Seal; signature. 
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