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Sicklebill
- - Any one of three species of humming birds of the genus Eutoxeres, native of Central and South America. They have a long and strongly curved bill. Called also the sickle-billed hummer. (b) A curlew. (c) A bird of the genus Epimachus and allied genera.
Sicklepods
- noun - cosmopolitan tropical herb or subshrub with yellow flowers and slender curved pods; a weed; sometimes placed in genus Cassia
- North American rock cress having very long curved pods
Sicklewort
- - A plant of the genus Coronilla (Coronilla scorpioides); -- so named from its curved pods. (b) The healall (Brunella vulgaris).
Sickliness
- - The quality or state of being sickly.
Sidelights
- noun - light carried by a boat that indicates the boat's direction; vessels at night carry a red light on the port bow and a green light on the starboard bow
Sidelining
- verb - remove from the center of activity or attention; place into an inferior position; "The outspoken cabinet member was sidelined by the President"
Sifflement
- - The act of whistling or hissing; a whistling sound; sibilation.
Sigillaria
- - Little images or figures of earthenware exposed for sale, or given as presents, on the last two days of the Saturnalia; hence, the last two, or the sixth and seventh, days of the Saturnalia.
Sigillarid
- - One of an extinct family of cryptagamous trees, including the genus Sigillaria and its allies.
Sigillated
- - Decorated by means of stamps; -- said of pottery.