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jkote, situated in a desert, 30 miles east of the Indus, they 
have placed all their treasures. The tribute to Cabul, is about 
40,000/. per annum, but is never paid unless enforced ; so 
that five-sixths of the amount is still due. In the year 1808, 
the Bombay government sent an embassy to the Ameers of 
Sinde; and a native agent, or charge d'affaires , resides at 
Hyderabad, on the part of the East India Company. 
SINDE, a river of Hindostan. This river has its rise in 
the province of Malwah, and after a winding course, falls 
into the Jumna; 7 miles below the town of Calpie. 
SINDE SAGOR, a district of Hindostan, province of 
Lahore, belonging to the Seiks. It is principally situated 
between the 31st and 32d degrees of northern latitude. It is 
bounded on three sides by the rivers Indus, Ravy, and Jhy- 
lum, and on the north by a range of mountains. Under a 
good government it would be extremely productive. 
SINDELFINGEN, a small town of the south-west of 
Germany, in Wirtemberg; 9 miles south-west of Stutgard. 
It contains 3000 inhabitants, and was once the seat of an 
Augustinian monastery, the funds of which were applied in 
1477, to the establishment of the university of Jubingea. 
The environs are uncommonly fertile. 
SINDERBY, a hamlet of England, North Riding of 
Yorkshire ; 4 miles west-by-south of Thirsk. 
SINDI, a people of Asiatic Sarmatia, in the number of 
those who inhabited the Cimmerian Bosphorus. Strabo. 
SINDIA, a town of Asia Minor, in Lycia. Steph. Byz. 
SINDIANI, a Scythian people who inhabited the vicinity 
of the Palus Maeotis, according to Lucian. 
SINDION, a village of Lower Egypt, on the western 
bank of the Nile ; 4 miles north of Faoua. 
SINDKERA, a town of Hindostan, province of Khandesh, 
belonging to the Mahrattas. Lat. 21. 11. N. long. 74. 
40. E. 
SI'NDON, s. [Most take sidinim, (Heb.) from whence 
the word sindon seems to come, for such linen cloths as the 
whole body may be wrapped in. Patrick on Judges.'] A 
fold; a wrapper.—There were found a book and" a letter, 
both written in fine parchment, and wrapped in sindons of 
linen. Bacon. —Others say the word properly signifies a 
shroud, and is thus used by the evangelist to denote the linen 
cloth in which Joseph of Arimathea wrapped the body of 
Jesus, after its embalment, &c. 
u Ridebis ventos, hoc munere tectus, et imbres 
Nec sic in Syria Sindone tectus eris.” Mart. 1. iv. ep. 19. 
SINDON, in old Surgery, was a little round piece of linen, 
or silk, or lint, used in dressing the wound after trepanning. 
SINDOURY, a town of Hindostan, province of Gund- 
waneh, belonging to the Nagpore rajah. Lat. 22. 7. N, 
long. 82. 40. E. 
SINDSCAR. See Sinjar. 
SINE, s. [sinus, Latin.] A right sine, in geometry, is a 
right line drawn from one end of an arch perpendicularly 
upon the diameter drawn from the other end of that arch ; 
or it is half the chord of twice the arch. Harris. —What¬ 
ever inclinations the rays have to the plane of incidence, the 
sine of the angle of incidence of every ray, considered apart, 
shall have to the sine of the angle of refraction a constant 
ratio. Cheyne. 
SINE DIE, in Law. When judgment is given against 
the plaintiff, he is said to be in misericordia pro falso 
clamore suo; and for the defendant, it is said, eat inde sine 
die; i. e. he is dismissed the court. 
The phrase is also used in parliament, for the adjournment 
of any debate, without fixing the day when it shall come on 
again; which is looked upon as a genteeler dismission of the 
thing in question. 
SI'NECURE, s. [sine without, and cura, care, Latin.] 
An office which has revenue without any employment. 
No simony nor sinecure is known, 
There works the bee, no honey for the drone. Garth. 
SINEGAR CREEK, a river of the United States, in 
Maryland, which runs into the Potomac. Lat. 39. 8. N. 
long. 77.33. W, 
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SINEMAHONING, a north-western branch of the Sus¬ 
quehanna river. 
SINEPUXENT, a long and narrow bay on the south-east 
coast of Maryland and Virginia, in the United States, extend¬ 
ing north-north-east and south-south-west, parallel with the 
sea coast. It is separated from the Atlantic by Asatiegue, a 
long and narrow island. This inlet is situated in about Lat. 
38. II. 30. N. 
SINES, a small sea-port in the south-west of Portugal, 
province of Alentejo. It contains 1400 inhabitants, and has 
some fisheries; but is more noted for having given birth to 
the celebrated navigator Vasco de Gama; 40 miles south 
of Setubal. Lat. 37. 57. 30. N. long. 8. 44. 45. W. 
SINEU, a town of the Spanish dominions, in the interior 
of the island of Majorca; 20 miles east of Palma. It is 
situated in one of the finest and richest districts of the island, 
and contains 5500 inhabitants, with a handsome church, a 
convent, and a monastery. It was a town so far back as the 
time of the Romans; afterwards the residence of the Moor¬ 
ish princes, and finally of the Christian kings of Majorca. 
SI'NEW, s. [pinep, pinepa, Sax.; sinewen, Dutch.] A 
tendon. 
The torrent roar’d and we did buffet it 
With lusty sinews. Shakspeare. 
Applied to whatever gives strength or compactness: as, 
money is the sinews of war.—Some other sinews there are, 
from which that overplus of strength in persuasion doth 
arise. Hooker. —Nerve. But this is improper. 
The feeling power, which is life’s root. 
Through every living part itself doth shed 
By sinews, which extend from head to foot; 
And, like a net, all o’er the body spread. Davies. 
To SI'NEW, v. a. To knit as by sinews. Not in use, 
but elegant. 
Ask the Lady Bona for thy queen; 
So shalt thou sinew both these lands together. Shakspeare. 
SINEW RIVER, a river of North America, which rises 
in the Rocky Mountains, between the 55th and 56th degrees 
of north latitude, and falls into the Peace river, after a course 
of about 100 miles. 
SI'NEWED, adj. Furnished with sinews.—Strong 
sinewed was the youth, and big of bone. Dryden. — 
Strong; firm ; vigorous. 
He will the rather do it when he sees 
Ourselves well sinewed to our defence. Shakspeare. 
SI'NEWLESS, adj. Having no sinews; without power 
or strength. Huloet. —All that ever was said against these 
helps to beauty, seems to many women weak and sinewless. 
Bp. Taylor. 
SI'NEWSHRUNK, adj. A horse is said to be sinew- 
shrunk when he has been overridden, and so fatigued that 
he becomes gauntbellied by a stiffness and contraction of the 
two sinews which are under his belly. Farrier's Diet. 
SI'NEWY, adj. Consisting of a sinew ; nervous. The 
nerves and sinews are in poetry often confounded. 
The sinewy thread my brain lets fall 
Through every part. 
Can tie those parts, and make me one of all. Donne. 
Strong; nervous; vigorous; forcible. 
And for thy vigour. 
Bull-bearing Milo his addition yields 
To sinewy Ajax. Shakspeare. 
The northern people are large, fair-complexioned, strong, 
sinewy, and courageous. Hale. 
SINFARS, a small town of Portugal, in the province of 
Beira, with 2500 inhabitants. 
SINFIN, a hamlet of England, in Derbyshire; 3-'- miles 
south-by-west of Derby. 
SI'NFUL, adj. [pnpnll, Saxon.] Alien from God; not 
holy; unsanctified. 
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