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Shy
() Cautious; wary; suspicious.
Shied
() of Shy
Shying
() of Shy
Shy
() To start suddenly aside through fright or suspicion; -- said especially of horses.
Shy
() To throw sidewise with a jerk; to fling; as, to shy a stone; to shy a slipper.
Shy
() A sudden start aside, as by a horse.
Shy
() A side throw; a throw; a fling.
Shyly
() In a shy or timid manner; not familiarly; with reserve.
Shyness
() The quality or state of being shy.
Shyster
() A trickish knave; one who carries on any business, especially legal business, in a mean and dishonest way.
Si
() 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.
Siaga
() The ahu, or jairou.
Sialogogue
() An agent which promotes the flow of saliva.
Siamang
() A gibbon (Hylobates syndactylus), native of Sumatra. It has the second and third toes partially united by a web.
Siamese
() Of or pertaining to Siam, its native people, or their language.
Siamese
() A native or inhabitant of Siam; pl., the people of Siam.
Siamese
() The language of the Siamese.
Sib
() A blood relation.
Sib
() Related by blood; akin.
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.
Siberian
() Of or pertaining to Siberia, a region comprising all northern Asia and belonging to Russia; as, a Siberian winter.
Siberian
() A native or inhabitant of Siberia.
Sibilance
() Alt. of Sibilancy
Sibilancy
() The quality or state of being sibilant; sibilation.
Sibilant
() Making a hissing sound; uttered with a hissing sound; hissing; as, s, z, sh, and zh, are sibilant elementary sounds.
Sibilant
() A sibiliant letter.
Sibilate
() To pronounce with a hissing sound, like that of the letter s; to mark with a character indicating such pronunciation.
Sibilation
() Utterance with a hissing sound; also, the sound itself; a hiss.
Sibilatory
() Hissing; sibilant.
Sibilous
() Having a hissing sound; hissing; sibilant.
Sibyl
() A woman supposed to be endowed with a spirit of prophecy.
Sibyl
() A female fortune teller; a pythoness; a prophetess.
Sibylist
() One who believes in a sibyl or the sibylline prophecies.
Sibylline
() Pertaining to the sibyls; uttered, written, or composed by sibyls; like the productions of sibyls.
Sic
() Such.
Sic
() Thus.
Sicamore
() See Sycamore.
Sicca
() A seal; a coining die; -- used adjectively to designate the silver currency of the Mogul emperors, or the Indian rupee of 192 grains.
Siccate
() To dry.
Siccation
() The act or process of drying.
Siccative
() Drying; causing to dry.
Siccative
() That which promotes drying.
Siccific
() Causing dryness.
Siccity
() Dryness; aridity; destitution of moisture.
Sice
() The number six at dice.
Sicer
() A strong drink; cider.
Sich
() Such.
Sicilian
() Of or pertaining to Sicily or its inhabitants.
Sicilian
() A native or inhabitant of Sicily.
Siciliano
() 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.