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2. Sison segetum, or corn honewort.—Leaves pinnate; 
leaflets roundish numerous; umbels drooping irregular. 
Root small but strong, annual in general but often biennial. 
Stems very much branched, round, striated, slender and 
rush-like, leafy.—Native of Switzerland and England, in 
corn fields in a chalk and clay soil, but not very fre¬ 
quently. 
3. Sison canadense, or three-leaved honewort.—-Root 
perennial. Radical leaves ternate, serrate; the middle leaf 
trifid, the two side ones bifid. Stem-leaves ternate, serrate, 
lanceolate, shining. Umbel four-cleft, unequal, without any 
involucre. Umbellets mostly seven-flowered, with a very 
small involucret. Petals white, equal.—Native of North 
America and Japan. 
4. Sison Ammi.—Leaves tripinnate ; root-leaves linear; 
stem-leaves bristle-shaped; stipular-leaves longer.—Root 
annual.—Native of Portugal, Apulia and Egypt. 
5. Sison inundatum, or water honewort.—Leaves pinnate 
gashed; those under water cut as fine as hairs into many 
parts, umbels five-flowered, bifid. Root annual or biennial. 
Stems creeping, floating, round.—-Native of the North of 
Europe, Britain, Germany, Switzerland and Dauphine. 
6. Sison salsum.—Leaves only radical, in bundles, shorter, 
pinnate: pinnas opposite, oblong; the first pair decom¬ 
pounded, the rest not.—Native of Siberia, in the salts near 
the Wolga. 
7. Sison crinitum.—Root-leaves triplicate-pinnate; stem- 
leaves bipinnate; leaflets bristle shaped; universal involucre 
many-leaved bipinnate.—Native of Siberia. 
Pr-opagation and Culture. —Sow the seeds in autumn, 
in a moist shady spot of ground; or permit the seeds to 
scatter, and the plants will rise without care. 
SISONBY, a parish of England, in Leicestershire; 1 mile 
west-by-soulh of Melton Mowbray. 
SISACH, a small town of the Swiss canton of Bale, on 
the river Ergelz, with 1600 inhabitants. It has a seminary 
for training schoolmasters onPestalozzi’s plan; 13 miles south¬ 
east of Bale. 
SISSECK, a small town of the Austrian states, in Croatia, 
near the influx of the river Kulpa into the Save, fortified 
with a wall and ditch; 5 miles north-east of Petrinia, and 38 
east of Carlstadt. 
SISONE, a small town in the north-east of France, de¬ 
partment of the Aisne, on the Souche, with 1100 inhabitants; 
10 miles east of Laon. 
SISSOPOLI, or Sizepoli, the ancient Apolonia, a town 
of European Turkey, in Romania, situated on a point of land 
which projects into the Black Sea. It has the best roadstead in 
the whole gulph, where men-of-war may anchor in perfect 
safety. The inhabitants are almost all Greeks, and the chief 
articles of trade are wine and wood; 115 miles north-north¬ 
west of Constantinople. Lat. 42. 30. N. long. 27. 44. E. 
Sl'STER, s. [ppeopcep. Sax.; zuster , Dutch. M. Goth. 
suistar; Icel. syster ; from syst, uterus.] A woman bom 
of the same parents ; correlative to brother. Shakspeare .— 
I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; to the worm, 
thou art my mother and my sister. Job. —Woman of the 
same faith; a Christian. One of the same nature, human 
being.—If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of 
food, and you say unto them, Depart in peace, be yewarmed 
and filled : notwithstanding you give them not those things 
which are needful to the body, what doth it profit. James. 
—A female of the same kind. 
He chid the sisters, 
And bade them speak to him. Shakspeare. 
One of the same kind; one of the same condition. 
There grew two olives, closest of the grove, 
With roots entwin’d, but branches interwove: 
Alike (heir leaves, but not alike they smil’d 
With swifer-fruits; one fertile, one was wild. Pope. 
SI'STER-zWmy, s. A husband or wife’s sister.—Thy 
sister-in-law is gone back unto her people : return thou after 
thy sister-in-law. Ruth. 
SIS 
To Sl'STER, v. a. To resemble closely. 
She — with her neeld composes 
Nature’s own shape, of bud, bird, branch, or berry. 
That even her art sisters the natural roses. Shakspeare, 
To Sl'STER, v. n. To be akin; to be near to. 
A hill, whose concave womb reworded 
A plaintful story from a sistering vale. Shakspeare. 
SISTER-BLOCKS, in Block-Making, are blocks made of 
ash, similar to two single blocks, and turned out of a solid 
piece. 
SPSTERHOOD, s. The office or duty of a sister. 
She abhorr’d 
Her proper blood, and left to do the part 
Of sisterhood , to do that of a wife. Daniel. 
A set of sisters.—There is a kind of natural equality in sis¬ 
terhood. Bp. Hall. —A number of women of the same 
order.—A woman who flourishes in her innocence, amidst 
that spite and rancour which prevails among her exasperated 
sisterhood , appears more amiable. Addison. 
SI'STERLY, adj. Like a sister; becoming a sister. 
After much debatement, 
My sisterly remorse confutes mine honour, 
And I did yield to him. Shakspeare. 
SISTERON, a small town in the south-east of France, the 
capital of an arrondissement in the department of the Lower 
Alps, situated at the base of rocks on the banks of the Du¬ 
rance. It is a place of antiquity, and has long been the see 
of a bishop. It is defended by a strong castle, has a fine ca¬ 
thedral, and contains nearly 4000 inhabitants. Wine is cul¬ 
tivated in the neigbourhood; 45 miles north-east of Aix. 
SISTERS, two small islands in the Great Southern oqean, 
lying in the strait between Van Diemen’s Land and south¬ 
west of New Holland. 
SIST ON, a village of England, in Gloucestershire, situ¬ 
ated in a pleasant vale, on the banks of a rivulet which runs 
into the Avon. Tin ore has been found in the neighbour¬ 
hood, and the village contains a manufactory of brass, and 
another of salt-petre. Population 833; 6 miles east-by-north 
of Bristol. 
SISTOVA, Szistow, or Schistab, a large town in the 
north of European Turkey, in Bulgaria, on the right bank of 
the Danube. It has a citadel, and is said to contain 20,000 
inhabitants. Its trade, promoted by the navigation of the 
Danube, consists chiefly in the leather and cotton supplied by 
the adjacent country. A number of the traders are Arme¬ 
nians and Greeks. In history it is remarkable for the con¬ 
ference held here in 1791, between the Turks and Austrians, 
which separated the latter from their co-operation with Russia; 
25 miles east of Nicopoli. Lat. 43. 45. N. long. 24. 44. E. 
SISTRUM, a sacred musical instrument with the ancient 
Egyptians. See Music. 
SISYMBRIUM [of Pliny. of Theophrastus. 
'S.ia-vp.taa, of Nicander], in Botany, a genus of the class 
tetrad ynamia, order siliquosa, natural order of siliquosae, 
cruciformes or cruciferse.—Generic Character. Calyx: 
perianth four-leaved: leaflets lanceolate-linear, spreading, 
coloured, deciduous. Corolla: four-petalled, cruciform. 
Petals oblong, spreading, commonly less than the calyx, 
with very small claws. Stamina: filaments six, longer than 
the calyx: of these two opposite a little shorter. Anthers 
simple. Pistil i germ oblong, filiform. Style scarcely any. 
Stigma obtuse. Pericarp: silique long, incurved, gibbous, 
round, two-celled, two-valved: valves in opening straight- 
ish: partition a little longer than the valves. Seeds very 
many, small.— Essential Character. Silique opening with 
straightish valves. Calyx and corolla spreading. 
I.—Siliques declined short. 
1. Sisymbrium nasturtium, or common water cress.—■ 
Roots perennial, consisting of long white fibres, the 
lowermost fixed in the soil, the rest suspended in the water. 
Stems spreading, declining or floating, branched, leafy. 
Flowers 
