Shuttlecork Shut"tle·cork` noun See Shuttlecock .

Shuttlewise Shut"tle·wise` adverb Back and forth, like the movement of a shuttle.

Shwan-pan Shwan"-pan noun See Schwan- pan .

Shy Shy (shī) adjective [ Compar. Shier (-ẽr) or Shyer ; superl. Shiest or Shyest .] [ Middle English schey , skey , sceouh , Anglo-Saxon sceóh ; akin to Danish sky , Swedish skygg , Dutch schuw , Middle High German schiech , German scheu , Old High German sciuhen to be or make timid. Confer Eschew .] 1. Easily frightened; timid; as, a shy bird.

The horses of the army . . . were no longer shy , but would come up to my very feet without starting.

Swift.

2. Reserved; coy; disinclined to familiar approach.

What makes you so shy , my good friend? There's nobody loves you better than I.

Arbuthnot.

The embarrassed look of shy distress
And maidenly shamefacedness.

Wordsworth.

3. Cautious; wary; suspicious.

I am very shy of using corrosive liquors in the preparation of medicines.

Boyle.

Princes are, by wisdom of state, somewhat shy of thier successors.

Sir H. Wotton.

To fight shy . See under Fight , intransitive verb

Shy Shy intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Shied ; present participle & verbal noun Shying .] [ From Shy , adjective ] To start suddenly aside through fright or suspicion; -- said especially of horses.

Shy Shy transitive verb To throw sidewise with a jerk; to fling; as, to shy a stone; to shy a slipper. T. Hughes.

Shy Shy noun 1. A sudden start aside, as by a horse.

2. A side throw; a throw; a fling. Thackeray.

If Lord Brougham gets a stone in his hand, he must, it seems, have a shy at somebody.

Punch.

Shy Shy adjective Inadequately supplied; short; lacking; as, the team is shy two players. [ Slang]

Shyly Shy"ly adverb In a shy or timid manner; not familiarly; with reserve. [ Written also shily .]

Shyness Shy"ness noun The quality or state of being shy. [ Written also shiness .]

Frequency in heavenly contemplation is particularly important to prevent a shyness bewtween God and thy soul.

Baxter.

Syn. -- Bashfulness; reserve; coyness; timidity; diffidence. See Bashfulness .

Shyster Shy"ster noun [ Perh. from German scheisse excrement.] A trickish knave; one who carries on any business, especially legal business, in a mean and dishonest way. [ Slang, U.S.]

Si Si [ Italian ] (Mus.) A syllable applied, in solmization, to the note B; more recently, to the seventh tone of any major diatonic scale. It was added to Guido's scale by Le Maire about the end of the 17th century.

Si quis Si` quis" [ Latin , if any one (the first words of the notice in Latin).] (Ch. of Eng.) A notification by a candidate for orders of his intention to inquire whether any impediment may be alleged against him.

Siaga Si·a"ga noun (Zoology) The ahu, or jairou.

Sialogogue Si·al"o·gogue noun [ Greek si`alon saliva + ............ leading, from ......... to lead: confer French sialagogue .] (Medicine) An agent which promotes the flow of saliva.

Siamang Si"a·mang` noun [ Malay siāmang .] (Zool.) A gibbon ( Hylobates syndactylus ), native of Sumatra. It has the second and third toes partially united by a web.

Siamese Si`a·mese" adjective Of or pertaining to Siam, its native people, or their language.

Siamese Si`a·mese` noun sing. & plural 1. A native or inhabitant of Siam; plural , the people of Siam.

2. sing. The language of the Siamese.

Sib Sib noun [ Anglo-Saxon sibb alliance, gesib a relative. √289. See Gossip .] A blood relation. [ Obsolete] Nash.

Sib Sib adjective Related by blood; akin. [ Obsolete or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

Your kindred is but . . . little sib to you.

Chaucer.

[ He] is no fairy birn, ne sib at all
To elfs, but sprung of seed terrestrial.

Spenser.

Sibbens Sib"bens noun [ Etymol. uncertain.] (Medicine) A contagious disease, endemic in Scotland, resembling the yaws. It is marked by ulceration of the throat and nose and by pustules and soft fungous excrescences upon the surface of the body. In the Orkneys the name is applied to the itch. [ Written also sivvens .]

Siberian Si·be"ri·an adjective [ From Siberia , Russian Sibire .] Of or pertaining to Siberia, a region comprising all northern Asia and belonging to Russia; as, a Siberian winter. -- noun A native or inhabitant of Siberia.

Siberian crab (Botany) , the Siberian crab apple. See Crab apple , under Crab . -- Siberian dog (Zoology) , one of a large breed of dogs having erect ears and the hair of the body and tail very long. It is distinguished for endurance of fatigue when used for the purpose of draught. -- Siberian pea tree (Botany) , a small leguminous tree ( Cragana arborescens ) with yellow flowers. It is a native of Siberia.

Sibilance, Sibilancy Sib"i·lance, Sib"i·lan·cy noun The quality or state of being sibilant; sibilation.

Milton would not have avoided them for their sibilancy , he who wrote . . . verses that hiss like Medusa's head in wrath.

Lowell.

Sibilant Sib"i·lant adjective [ Latin sibilans , -antis , present participle of sibilare to hiss: confer French sibilant .] Making a hissing sound; uttered with a hissing sound; hissing; as, s , z , sh , and zh , are sibilant elementary sounds. -- noun A sibiliant letter.

Sibilate Sib"i·late transitive verb & i. To pronounce with a hissing sound, like that of the letter s ; to mark with a character indicating such pronunciation.

Sibilation Sib`i·la"tion noun [ Latin sibilatio .] Utterance with a hissing sound; also, the sound itself; a hiss.

He, with a long, low sibilation , stared.

Tennyson.

Sibilatory Sib"i·la·to·ry adjective Hissing; sibilant.

Sibilous Sib"i·lous adjective [ Latin sibilus .] Having a hissing sound; hissing; sibilant. [ R.] Pennant.

Sibyl Sib"yl noun [ Latin sibylla , Greek .............] 1. (Class. Antiq.) A woman supposed to be endowed with a spirit of prophecy.

» The number of the sibyls is variously stated by different authors; but the opinion of Varro, that there were ten, is generally adopted. They dwelt in various parts of Persia, Greece, and Italy.

2. A female fortune teller; a pythoness; a prophetess. "An old highland sibyl ." Sir W. Scott.

Sibylist Sib"yl·ist noun One who believes in a sibyl or the sibylline prophecies. Cudworth.

Sibylline Sib"yl·line adjective [ Latin sibyllinus .] Pertaining to the sibyls; uttered, written, or composed by sibyls; like the productions of sibyls.

Sibylline books . (a) (Rom. Antiq.) Books or documents of prophecies in verse concerning the fate of the Roman empire, said to have been purchased by Tarquin the Proud from a sibyl. (b) Certain Jewish and early Christian writings purporting to have been prophetic and of sibylline origin. They date from 100 b. c. to a.d. 500.

Sic Sic adjective Such. [ Scot.]

Sic Sic adverb [ Latin ] Thus.

» This word is sometimes inserted in a quotation [ sic ], to call attention to the fact that some remarkable or inaccurate expression, misspelling, or the like, is literally reproduced.

Sicamore Sic"a·more noun (Botany) See Sycamore .

Sicca Sic"ca noun [ Arabic sikka .] A seal; a coining die; -- used adjectively to designate the silver currency of the Mogul emperors, or the Indian rupee of 192 grains.

Sicca rupee , an East Indian coin, valued nominally at about two shillings sterling, or fifty cents.

Siccate Sic"cate transitive verb [ Latin siccatus , past participle of siccare to dry, from siecus dry.] To dry. [ R.]

Siccation Sic·ca"tion noun [ Latin siccatio .] The act or process of drying. [ R.] Bailey.

Siccative Sic"ca·tive adjective [ Latin siccativus .] Drying; causing to dry. -- noun That which promotes drying.

Siccific Sic·cif"ic adjective [ Latin siccificus ; siccus dry + facere to make. See -fy .] Causing dryness.

Siccity Sic"ci·ty noun [ Latin siccitas , from siccus dry.] Dryness; aridity; destitution of moisture. [ Obsolete]

The siccity and dryness of its flesh.

Sir T. Browne.

Sice Sice noun [ French six , from Latin sex six. See Six .] The number six at dice.

Sicer Si"cer noun [ Latin sicera . See Cider .] A strong drink; cider. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Sich Sich adjective Such. [ Obsolete or Colloq.] Spenser.

Sicilian Si·cil"i·an adjective Of or pertaining to Sicily or its inhabitants.

Sicilian vespers , the great massacre of the French in Sicily, in the year 1282, on the evening of Easter Monday, at the hour of vespers.

Sicilian Si·cil"i·an noun A native or inhabitant of Sicily.

Siciliano Si·ci`li·a"no noun [ Italian , Sicilian.] A Sicilian dance, resembling the pastorale, set to a rather slow and graceful melody in 12-8 or 6-8 measure; also, the music to the dance.

Sicilienne Si`ci`lienne" noun [ French, fem. of sicilien Sicilian.] A kind of rich poplin.

Sick Sick adjective [ Compar. Sicker ; superl. Sickest .] [ Middle English sek , sik , ill, Anglo-Saxon seóc ; akin to Old Saxon siok , seoc , OFries. siak , Dutch ziek , German siech , Old High German sioh , Icelandic sj...kr , Swedish sjuk , Danish syg , Goth. siuks ill, siukan to be ill.] 1. Affected with disease of any kind; ill; indisposed; not in health. See the Synonym under Illness .

Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever.

Mark i. 30.

Behold them that are sick with famine.

Jer. xiv. 18.

2. Affected with, or attended by, nausea; inclined to vomit; as, sick at the stomach; a sick headache.

3. Having a strong dislike; disgusted; surfeited; -- with of ; as, to be sick of flattery.

He was not so sick of his master as of his work.

L'Estrange.

4. Corrupted; imperfect; impaired; weakned.

So great is his antipathy against episcopacy, that, if a seraphim himself should be a bishop, he would either find or make some sick feathers in his wings.

Fuller.

Sick bay (Nautical) , an apartment in a vessel, used as the ship's hospital. -- Sick bed , the bed upon which a person lies sick. -- Sick berth , an apartment for the sick in a ship of war. -- Sick headache (Medicine) , a variety of headache attended with disorder of the stomach and nausea. -- Sick list , a list containing the names of the sick. -- Sick room , a room in which a person lies sick, or to which he is confined by sickness. [ These terms, sick bed , sick berth , etc., are also written both hyphened and solid.]

Syn. -- Diseased; ill; disordered; distempered; indisposed; weak; ailing; feeble; morbid.

Sick Sick noun Sickness. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Sick Sick intransitive verb To fall sick; to sicken. [ Obsolete] Shak.

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