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Sibilation
- noun - a fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval); "the performers could not be heard over the hissing of the audience"
- pronunciation with a sibilant (hissing or whistling) sound
Siccatives
- noun - a substance that promotes drying (e.g., calcium oxide absorbs water and is used to remove moisture)
Sick Berth
- noun - (nautical) a room for the treatment of the sick or injured (as on a ship)
Sick Leave
- noun - a leave of absence from work because of illness
Sick Of(P)
- adjective - having a strong distaste from surfeit; "grew more and more disgusted"; "fed up with their complaints"; "sick of it all"; "sick to death of flattery"; "gossip that makes one sick"; "tired of the noise and smoke"
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).