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but now is of little consequence. In the vicinity of this 
place, a stone causeway has recently been constructed, with 
a draw-bridge in. the centre, which now unites the two 
islands, and will be of great utility whenever Salsette shall 
be properly cultivated. Lat. 19. 7. N. long. 72. 40. E. 
SION, a settlement of Peru, in the province of Caxamar- 
quilla, on the shore of the river Guallaga. 
SION, a hill of Palestine, celebrated as the site of the an¬ 
cient citadel of Jerusalem. 
Sion was also one of the names of Mount Hermon, or 
rather of a chain of mountains, called Mountains of Hermon, 
from Mount Hermon, the principal of them. 
SIONE, a river of America, which runs into Lake Erie. 
Lat. 42. 22. N. long. 82. 52. W. 
SIOPE, a river of Brazil, which runs into the Atlantic. 
Lat. 3. 20. S. long. 40. W. 
SIOTO. See Scioto. 
SIOULE, a small river in the south-east of France, de¬ 
partment of the Puy de Dome, which joins the Allier at 
Echerolles; 2 miles north of St. Pourqain. 
SIOUT. SeeSiuT. 
• SIOUX, a powerful Indian tribe of North America, the 
dread of whose power is extended over all the savage tribes 
from the confluence of the Mississippi and the Missouri, to 
the Raven river on the former, and to the Snake Indians on 
the latter. The nation of the Sioux is supposed to amount 
to 10,000. 
SIOUX, Great, a river of the United States, in Louisiana, 
which runs south into the Missouri, 253 miles above the 
Platte. It is about 110 yards wide at its confluence with 
the Missouri, and is navigable for 200 miles to the falls, and 
even beyond them. 
SIOUX. Little, a river of the United States, in Lou¬ 
isiana, which runs into the Missouri, 733 miles from the 
Mississippi. At its confluence it is 80 yards wide. 
To SIP, v. a. [ppan, Saxon; sippcn, Dutch.] To 
drink by small draughts. 
Soft yielding minds to water glide away. 
And sip with nymphs their elemental tea. Pope. 
To drink in small quantities. 
Find out the peaceful hermitage; 
The hairy gown and mossy cell. 
Where I may sit and rightly spell 
Of every star that heaven doth shew, 
And every herb that sips the dew. Milton. 
To drink out of. 
The winged nation o’er the forest flies: 
Then stooping on the meads and leafy bowers. 
They skim the floods and sip the purple flowers. Dry den. 
To SIP, ». v. To drink a small quantity. 
She rais’d it to her mouth with sober grace; 
Then, sipping, offer’d to the next. Dryden. 
SIP, s. A small mouthful. 
One sip of this 
Will bathe the drooping spirits in delight. 
Beyond the bliss of dreams. Milton. 
SIPAPU, a river of Guiana, which enters the Orinoco 
near its mouth, swelled by the accession of other streams. 
SIPATUBA, a small river of Brazil, in the province of 
Maranham, which runs north-north-east into the Atlantic. 
To SIPE, v. n. [sijpen , Teut.] To ooze or drain out 
slowly. North. 
SIPHANTO, or Siphno, an island of Greece, belonging 
to the Archipelago, and situated to the west of Paros. It is 
nearly 30 miles in length, and about 7 in breadth. It has 
no good harbour, but its atmosphere is pure and healthy. 
Its soil, where not covered with marble and granite, is of 
considerable fertility, producing maize and wheat; also mul¬ 
berries, olives, vines, figs, and cotton. Its gold and silver 
mines are no longer known; but mines of iron and lead 
have been traced, and might be wrought under a better go¬ 
vernment. Here are several quarries of beautiful marble. 
S I p 
The population, about 4000, are all Greeks. The chief 
place, a village called Siphanto, stands on a high rock. 
SI'PHON, s. [ m<pov ; sipho, Lat.; siphon, Fr.] A pipe 
through which liquors are conveyed. 
Beneath th’ incessant weeping of these drains 
I see the rocky siphons stretch’d immense. 
The mighty reservoirs of harden’d chalk, 
Of stiff compacted clay. Thomson. 
SIPHONANTHUS, [From 'Zitpuv, a siphon or tube; and 
avOo;, a flower], in Botany a genus of the class tetrandria, 
order monogynia, natural order of borraginese (Juss .)— 
Generic Character. Calyx: perianth one-leafed, five-parted, 
wide, permanent Corolla : one-petalled, funnel-form: tube 
filiform, very narrow, several times as long as the calyx : 
border four-parted, spreading, less than the calyx. Stamina : 
filaments four, longer than the border of the corolla. Anthers 
oblong, triangular. Pistil: germ four-cleft, very short, 
superior. Style filiform, length of the stamens, recurved at 
the tip. Stigma simple. Pericarp: berries four, with the 
spreading calyx, roundish. Seeds solitary, roundish.—. 
Essential Character. Corolla : one-petalled, funnel-form, 
very long, inferior. Berries four, one-seeded. 
1. Siphonanthus Indica.—Stem herbaceous; quite simple. 
Leaves opposite and alternate; linear-lanceolate. Flowers 
in axillary corymbs; three or four together. Border of the 
corolla flat, with the segments spreading and acute. An- 
thers triangular, sagittate. Stigma undivided; thickish.— 
Native of South America. 
2. Siphonanthus angustifolia.—.Border of the corolla two¬ 
lipped ; stigma bifid.—This has leaves like those of the 
preceding, but much narrower, and by threes. Flowers 
axillary in bifid corymbs, six-flowered or three-flowered. 
Tube of the corolla curved in; segments of the corolla 
blunt; three of them bent back, the uppermost erect, as in a 
labiate flower. Anthers roundish. Stigma bifid. 
SIPHONIA. See Jatropha. 
SIPID, adj. [an old form of sapid, which see.] Savoury : 
this seems not an improper word, as opposed to insipid, and 
is in the vocabulary of Cockeram. 
SIPIRI, or Esk.cure, a river of Quito, in the province of 
Moxos, which runs north, and enters the Marmore Grande. 
SIPOLTO, a small town in the east part of the kingdom 
of Naples, province of Capitanata, near Manfredonia, situated, 
on a bay called from it the bay of Sipolto. 
SIPOMO, a river of Guiana, which runs north, and enters 
the Caura. 
SIPONIMA, in Botany. See Ciponima and S ymplocos. 
SI PORAH, or Good Fortune Island, a woody 
island of the Eastern Seas, north west of the Poggy or 
Nassau islands, and inhabited by the same race of people. 
It contains several villages, but is not known to have been 
visited recently. 
SI'PPER, s. One that sips. 
SI'PPET s. A small sop.—Your sweet sippets in widows’ 
houses. Milton. 
SIPPO, a river of the United States, in the Ohio, which 
flows into the Scioto ; 5 miles below Circleville. 
SIPSEY, a river of the United States, in Alabama territory, 
which runs into the Tombigbee. Lat. 32.22. N. long. 87. 
51. W. 
SIPUNCULUS, or Tube-worm, in Vermiology, a genus 
of the Vermes Intestina class and order, of which the Generic 
Character is as follows: body round, elongated ; mouth cy¬ 
lindrical at the end, and narrower than the body ; the aper¬ 
ture at the side of the body, and veruciform. There are 
only two. 
1. Sipunculis nidus.—The body of this species is covered 
with a close skin, and globular at the lower end. It is de¬ 
scribed and figured by Pennant, Barbut, and Martin.—It in¬ 
habits European seas, under stones ; and is about eight inches 
long. The body is conic, and broader on the fore part; the 
mouth is much slenderer than the body, and armed with 
fleshy, three-pointed papillae; the aperture is near the upper 
extremity. 
2. Sipunculus 
