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SINKING SPRING, or Middletown, a post village of 
the United States, in Highland county, Ohio. 
SINKQUAN, a town on the west coast of Sumatra. Lat. 
1. 12. N. long. 98. 13. E. 
SUNLESS, adj. [jrnleaj'. Sax.] Exempt from sin. 
Infernal ghosts and hellish furies round 
Environ’d thee; some howl’d, some yell’d, some shriek’d. 
Some bent at thee their fiery darts, while thou 
Satt’st unappall'd in calm and sinless peace. Milton. 
SI'NLESSNESS, s. Exemption from sin.—-We may then 
admire at his gracious condescensions to those, the sinless¬ 
ness of whose condition will keep them from turning his 
vouchsafements into any thing but occasions of joy and 
gratitude. Boyle. 
SIN-LO, a town of China, of the third rank, in Pechelee. 
SINN, a small river of Germany, which falls into the 
Franconian Saale, near Gemunden. 
SINN, a village of Diarbekir, in Asiatic Turkey; 40 
miles south-east of Diarbekir. 
SI'NNER, s. One at enmity with God; one not truly 
or religiously good. An offender; a criminal.—Here’s that 
which is too weak to be a sinner, honest water, which 
ne’er left man i’ th’ mire. Shakspeare. 
Over the guilty then the fury shakes 
The sounding whip, and brandishes her snakes, 
And the pale sinner with her sisters takes. Dry den. 
To SI'NNER, v. n. To act the part of a sinner. 
Unused. 
Whether the charmer sinner it or saint it. 
If folly grows romantic, I must paint it. Pope. 
SINNINGTON, a parish of England, North Riding of 
Yorkshire; 4 miles west-north-west of Pickering. 
SINO, a small sea-port on the Grain coast of Africa; 30 
miles south-east of Sanguin. 
SIN-O'FFERING, s. An expiation or sacrifice for sin.— 
The flesh of the bullock shalt thou burn without the camp; 
it is a sin-offering. Ex. 
SINON, a small river of Persia, in the province of Ma- 
zanderan, which falls into the Caspian; 5 miles east of 
Fehrabad. 
SINQNGI, a town of Ximo, in Japan; 20 miles south¬ 
west of Sanga. 
SINOQTS, a town of Ximo, in Japan; 20 miles east of 
Taisero. 
SINOPE, a sea-port on the northern coast of Asia, an¬ 
ciently the capital of Pontus, and a place of great wealth 
and importance. At present it is greatly reduced, and being 
deserted by all its Greek inhabitants, contains a population 
of not more than 5000. It is situated on a promontory 
stretching into the sea, which, on the southern side, incloses 
an excellent road, with docks for the Turkish imperial marine. 
There is still a considerable exportation of rice, fruits, hides, 
and timber. Lat. 41. 6. N. long. 35. E. 
SI'NOPER, or Sinople, s. [terra pontica, Latin.] A 
species of earth; ruddle. Ainsworth. 
SINOPLE, or Senople, in Heraldry, denotes vert, or 
the green colour in armories; thus called by the ancient 
heralds. 
S1NOPOLI, a small town of Italy, in the south of the 
kingdom of Naples, in Calabria Ultra; 5 miles south-west 
of Oppido. 
SINOS, a small river of Brazil, in the province of Rey, 
which runs west into the river Grande. 
SINPING, a town of China, of the third rank, in Yunan. 
SINSI, a town of Corea; 30 miles north-north-east of 
Kingkitao. 
SINSICATE, a settlement of South America, in the pro¬ 
vince of Tucuman ; 36 miles north of Cordova, on the 
shore of the river Primero. 
SINSIL1N, a village of Ghilan, in Persia; 23 miles west- 
north-west of Reshd. 
SINSIN, a village of Irak, in Persia; 120 miles north of 
Ispahan. 
Vol. XXIII. No. 1567. 
SINSO, a province of Angola, in Western Africa, to the 
north of Loan da. 
SINTAL SHEEROS, a town of the south of India, pro¬ 
vince of the Carnatic, district of Ongole. Lat. 15. 44. N. 
long. 79. 18. E. 
SINTON, a hamlet of England, in Worcestershire; 6 
miles south-west of Worcester. 
SINU, a river of the province of Carthagena, in South 
America, which runs north, and enters the Carribean Sea, 
in lat. 9. 29. N. There is a settlement of the same name on 
its shores. 
To SI'NUATE, v. a. [ sinuo, Latin.] To bend in and 
out.—Another was very perfect, somewhat less with the 
margin, and more sinuated. Woodward. 
SINUA'TION, s. A bending in and out.—The human 
brain is, in proportion to the body, much larger than the 
brains of brutes, in proportion to their bodies, and fuller of 
anfractus, or sinuations. Hale. 
SINUO'SITY, s. The quality of being sinous.—There 
was no need—of any sinuosity or protuberance whatsoever. 
Biblioth. Bibl. 
SI'NUOUS, adj. [sinueux, Fr., from sinus, Lat.] Bend¬ 
ing in and out.—Try with what disadvantage the voice will 
be carried in an horn, which is a line arched; or in a 
trumpet, which is a line retorted; or in some pipe that were 
sinuous. Bacon. 
SI'NUS, s. [Lat.] A bay of the sea; an opening of the 
land.—Plato supposeth his Atlantis to have sunk all into the 
sea: whether that be true or no, I do not think it impossible 
that some arms of the sea, or sinuses, might have had such 
an original. Burnet .—Any fold or opening.—There was 
no sinus or inequality, or perhaps so much as one pore left 
open, according to this hypothesis of the figure of the ark. 
In surgery a burrowing abscess. Biblioth. Bibl. 
SINUS, in Surgery, a small canal leading down to an 
abscess. 
SIN WELL, a township of England, in Gloucestershire; 
1 mile from Wooton. Population, including the adjoining 
village of Bradley, 1558. 
SINZHEIM, a small town of the west of Germany, in 
Baden. Population 2200; 14 miles south-south-east of 
Heidelberg. 
SINZHEIM, a large village of the west of Germany, in 
Baden. Population 1200; 7 miles south of Rastadt. 
SINZIG, a small town of the Prussian province of the 
Lower Rhine, near the river Rhine. Population 800; 14 
miles south-south-east of Bonn. 
SIO, a small sea-port of Zanquebar, in Eastern Africa. 
SIOCON, a town on the west coast of the island of Min - 
danao. Lat. 7.25. N. long. 122. 12. E. 
SION, or Sitten, a small town in the south of Switzer¬ 
land, the chief place of the canton called the. Valais, and the 
see of a bishop. It stands on the banks of the Rhone, in the 
widest part of the valley watered by that river, and is tra¬ 
versed by the Sitten, a small brook which descends from an 
adjacent glacier. It has pleasant environs, and is tolerably 
well built. It contains 5000 inhabitants, and has an epis¬ 
copal palace, a cathedral, several churches and monasteries, 
a town-house, and a public school. It cannot boast of 
manufactures, and its trade is only in transit from Italy to 
Switzerland. The town of Sion is very ancient, and, among 
other monuments, has several inscriptions which prove it to 
have been the civitas Sedunorum of the Romans. On the 
hill behind the town are three castles, one of which, called 
Majoria, is the usual episcopal residence, and the place of 
meeting of the diets of the canton. The bishop presides at 
these, and has, in other respects, very important privileges; 
60 miles east of Geneva, and 50 south-by-west of Bern. 
Lat. 46. 14. 15. N. long. 7. 21. 45. E. 
SION, a town and fortress of Hindostan, on the island of 
Bombay, situated about 9 miles from the city of that name, 
and at the opposite extremity of the island. The fort is 
situated on the top of a conical hill, where it commands the 
passage to the neighbouring island of Salsette, and was of 
great importance while the Mahrattas retained that island, 
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