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4. Sinapis alba, or white mustard.—Root annual. That 
&nd the stem nearly as in the arvensis.—Native of Germany, 
France, Flanders, Switzerland and Britain. 
' White mustard is generally cultivated in gardens as a salad 
herb, with cresses, raddish, &c., for winter and spring use. 
The seeds have nearly the same properties with those of com¬ 
mon mustard. 
5. Sinapis nigra, common, or black mustard.-—Root an¬ 
nual, small. Stem upright, round, streaked, three or four 
feet in height, with many distant spreading branches.—Na¬ 
tive of Europe. 
6. Sinapis Pyrenaica, or Pyrenean mustard.-—Siliques 
streaked, rugged; leaves runcinate, even. Root biennial. 
Flowers racemed, small, yellow.—Native of the Pyrenees, 
Blount Cenis, the Alps of the Vaudois and di Viu. There is 
a variety of this species.—Native of the coast of Uneglia, the 
descent of the Col di Tenda and the following mountains to¬ 
wards Nice, &c. 
The remaining species of this genus are Sinap is pubescens, 
hispida, Chinensis, juncea, allioni, erucoides, cernua, 
Hispanica, Japonica, incana, frutescens,radicata and laevigata. 
Propagation and Culture .—All the species, when they 
are weeds among corn, being annuals, may be destroyed, or 
at least checked, by spring-feeding with sheep, or by 
weeding with the hook, to prevent their flowering. The seed 
will lie in the ground, till turned up within the sphere of 
vegetation ; by which means they may be destroyed on 
fallows. 
White mustard is chiefly cultivated in gardens for a salad 
herb in the winter and spring. For this purpose sow the 
seeds very thick in drills, upon a warm border, or in very 
cold weather upon a moderate hot-bed. 
Common mustard is cultivated only for the seeds, which 
should be sown in the same way as those of the preceding, 
and treated in the same manner, only allowing the plants 
twice as much room, or hoeing them out to the distance of 
eighteen inches. 
The other sorts are cultivated only for variety, and may 
be treated in the same way. 
SINAPISIS, a word used by some writers as a name for 
Armenian bole. 
SINAPISM [a-ivBnvKTg.cn;, Gr.], in Pharmacy, a cataplasm 
formed of equal parts of mustard seed and linseed meal. 
SINAPISTRUM, in Botany, Tourn. 231. t. 116, a name 
of Hermann’s, alluding to the resemblance of the plant, or at 
least of its pods, to Sinapis, or Mustard. See Cleome. 
SINARA, the name of the male dancers, who according 
to the mythology of the Hindoos, amuse their god Indra re¬ 
gent of the firmament. 
SINARUCO, or Sinaruca, a large river of New Granada, 
in the province of San Juan de los Llanos, which rises at the 
foot of the snowy desert of Chisgas, in the mountains of 
Bogota. It receives an accession to its waters from the 
overflowings of the Apure and the Arauca, and enters the 
Orinoco between the Capanapa and the Meta. 
SINASBARIUM, in Botany, a name given by some au¬ 
thors to the sisymbrium, or water-mint, common in all our 
ditches and watery places. 
S1NASSE, a village of Abyssinia; 40 miles north-east of 
Mine. 
SIN AY, a large village of the Netherlands, in East 
Flanders, with 3400 inhabitants; 16 miles - north-east of 
Ghent. 
SIN AY, a small island near the west coast of the island of 
Lueon. Lat. 18.11. N. long. 120. 36. E. 
SINGAPORE, or Sincapora, an island, with a town of 
the same name, near the south coas^ of Malacca, which gives 
name to the narrow sea called the straits of Sincapora, The 
depth of water through these straits is generally from 16 to 
37 fathoms, and the scenery along the shores is highly beau¬ 
tiful. The port of Sincapore is extremely fine, and through 
its straits pass multitudes of vessels from various countries. 
Sir Stamford Raffles formed a British settlement there in 1819, 
which is so rapidly increasing that it promises to eclipse the 
older one of Pulo-fenang, and indeed to become one of 
the greatest emporiums of the Eastern world. Its being a 
free port, of course conduces as much to its success as its 
beauty and situation. Lat. 1. 12. N. long. 103. 30. E. 
SIN-CARPOU, a port of Chinese Tartary; 555 miles 
east-north-east of Peking. 
SINCE, conj. [formed by contraction, from sithence, or 
sitk thence, from pSe, Saxon.] Because that. 
Since truth and constancy are vain. 
Since neither love, nor sense of pain. 
Nor force of reason can persuade, 
Then let example be obey’d. Granville. 
From the time that.—He is the most improved mind since 
you saw him that ever was. Pope. 
SINCE, adv. Ago; before this.—A law was made no 
longer since than the twenty-eighth of Henry the eighth. 
Davies. 
SINCE, preposition. After; reckoning from sometime 
past to the time present.—He since the morning hour set 
out from heaven. Milton. 
SINCENY, a small town of France, department of the 
Aisne, on the Oise, near Chauny, with a large manufacture 
of stoneware. 
SINCE'RE, adj. [sincerus, Lat.; sincere, Fr.] Unhurt; 
uninjured. 
He try’d a tough well-chosen spear; 
The inviolable body stood sincere . Dryden. 
Pure; unmingled. 
Pardon my tears, ’tis joy which bids them flow; 
A joy which never was sincere till now; 
That which my conquest gave, I could not prize, 
Or ’twas imperfect till I saw your eyes. Dry den. 
Honest; undissembling; uncorrupt. 
This top-proud fellow, 
Whom from the flow of gall I name not, but 
From sincere motions’by intelligence, 
I do know to be corrupt. Shakspeare. 
SINCE'RELY, adv. Perfectly; without alloy. 
Joy shall overtake us as a flood, 
When every thing that is sincerely good 
And perfectly divine. 
With truth, and peace, and love, shall ever shine. Milton. 
Honestly; without hypocrisy ; with purity of heart.—The 
purer and perfecter our religion is, the worthier effects it hath 
in them who stedfastly and sincerely embrace it. Hooker. 
SINCE'RENESS, s. Sincerity. Unused. 
SINCE'RITY, s. [sincerity, French.] Honesty of inten¬ 
tion; purity of mind.—-Jesus Christ has purchased for us 
terms of reconciliation, who will accept of sincerity instead 
of perfection ; but then this sincerity implies our honest en¬ 
deavours to do our utmost. Rogers. —Freedom from hypo¬ 
crisy. 
In thy consort cease to fear a foe; 
For thee she feels sincerity of woe. Pope. 
SINCIPUT, in Anatomy, the fore-part of the head, in op¬ 
position to occiput 
SINCLAIR’S BAY, a bay on the east coast of Scotland, 
in the county of Caithness. Lat. 58. 28. N. long. 2. 
58. W. 
SINCLAIR’S ROCKS, four small rocky islets off the 
coast of New Holland, included by Captain Flinders in Nuyt’s 
archipelago. 
SINCLAIRTOWN, a village of Scotland, in Fifeshire, 
immediately adjoining Pathhead, containing in 1811, 947 
inhabitants, who are mostly weavers. 
SIND, in Agriculture, provincially to rinse or wash out, as 
a milking pail, dish, &c. 
SIND ANGAN BAY, a bay on the north-west coast of 
Mindanao, extending from north to south about 100 miles. 
Lat. 8. 15. N. long. 123. 5. E. 
S1NDE, 
