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Siamang
- noun - large black gibbon of Sumatra having the 2nd and 3rd toes partially united by a web
Sibbens
- - 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.
Sibling
- noun - a person's brother or sister
Sickens
- verb - cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of; "The pornographic pictures sickened us"
- get sick; "She fell sick last Friday, and now she is in the hospital"
- make sick or ill; "This kind of food sickens me"
- upset and make nauseated; "The smell of the food turned the pregnant woman's stomach"; "The mold on the food sickened the diners"
Sicking
- verb -
- urge to attack someone; "The owner sicked his dogs on the intruders"; "the shaman sics sorcerers on the evil spirits"
Siddons
- noun - English actress noted for her performances in Shakespearean roles (1755-1831)
Sidling
- verb - move sideways
- move unobtrusively or furtively; "The young man began to sidle near the pretty girl sitting on the log"
Siemens
- noun - engineer who was a brother of Ernst Werner von Siemens and who moved to England (1823-1883)
- German electrical engineer (1816-1892)
- Siemens - a unit of conductance equal to the reciprocal of an ohm
Sieving
- verb - check and sort carefully; "sift the information"
- distinguish and separate out; "sift through the job candidates"
- examine in order to test suitability; "screen these samples"; "screen the job applicants"
- separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements; "sift the flour"
Sifting
- verb - check and sort carefully; "sift the information"
- distinguish and separate out; "sift through the job candidates"
- move as if through a sieve; "The soldiers sifted through the woods"
- separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements; "sift the flour"
- the act of separating grain from chaff; "the winnowing was done by women"