site2 (sit)

[Formerly often spelled, errone ously, scite; ME. site, tion; location. Cities and towns of most conspicuous site. B. Jonson, Poetaster, v. 1. Its elevated site forbids the wretch To drink sweet waters of the crystal well. Cowper , Task, i. 239. 2. The ground on which anything is, has been, or is to be located. We ask nothing in gift to the foundation, but only the house and scite, the residue for the accustomed rent. Bp . Burnet , Records, II. ii. 2, No. 30. The most niggardly computation presents us with a sum total of several hundreds of you sands of years for the time which has elapsed since the sea flowed over the site of London. Huxley, Physiography, p. 295. 3. Posture; attitude; pose. [Rare.] The semblance of a lover fix'd In melancholy site , with head declin'd, And love-dejected eyes. Thomson , Spring, 1. 1021. 5660 II. n. In farriery , a circumscribed callosity of the skin in horses or other saddle and pack animals, due to pre ure of the load. It not infrequently becomes converted into an ulcer, and is then the ordinary "sore back" of these animals, which seldom gets well as long as they are ridden or laden. To prevent such sores is the chief care of packers. sith1+ (sith), adv., prep., and conj. [ First to the ryght honde thou shalle go, Sitthen to tho left honde thy neg he thou cast. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 300. Being of so young days brought up with him, And sith so neighbour'd to his youth and haviour. Shak ., Hamlet, ii. 2. 12. II. prep . Same as since . Natheles men seyn there comounly that the Erthe hat he so ben cloven sythe the tyme that oure Lady was there buryed. Mandeville , Travels, p. 95. Ten days ago I drown'd these news in tears; And now I come to tell you things sith then befall'n. Shak ., 3 Hen. VI., ii. 1. 106. III. conj . Same as since . Why meuestow thi mode for a mote in thi bro the res eye; Sithen a beem in thine owne ablyndeth thi-selue? Piers Plowman (B), x. 264. Sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee. Ezek. xxxv. 6. sith2t. An old spelling of side1, sithe2. sithelt, n. The older and proper spelling of scythe.