sightening ( gh silent)

[English sight; -en; Calico-print.: A fugitive color added to a paste to enable the printer to judge of the perfectne of the work. the Gr. keep Zool.: A genus of Aphroditide, with cirri on all the feet. Sigalion boa , the Boa-shaped Sigalion, is a worm about eight inches long, and a quarter of an inch broad, with numerous feet and horny jaws. It lives near low-water mark in the British and Mediterranean Seas. sig-a-rê-tus, subst. [Latinized by Adanson from sagaret, prob. the native name of some species.] Zool. & Palæont .: A genus of Naticide; shell striated, ear-shaped; spire minute; aperture very wide, oblique, not pearly; operculum minute, horny, sub spiral. Recent species thirty-one, from the West Indies, India, China, and Peru: fo il ten, from the Eocene onward. ( S. P. Woodward.) 7. That which is beheld; a spectacle, or worth seeing. "I will now turn aside and see this great sight , why the bush is not burned." - Exodus iii. 3. 8. A small aperture through which objects can be seen, and by which the direction is settled or ascertained; an aperture for the eyes in a helmet, . "Their eyes of fire sparkling through sights of steel." Shakesp.: Henry IV., Pt. 11., iv. 1. 9. A piece of metal attached or applied to a firearm, by which the arm is pointed at the object. Small arms have breech and front sights, the former usually notched, and the latter pointed. "The back sight in a great measure hides the body of the deer."- Field , April 4, 1885. *sight-ful ( gh silent), a. [Eng. sight ; -ful ( 1 ).] *sight-fül-ne ( gh silent), s. [Eng. sightful; -ne . Clearne of sight. "Let us not wink, though void of purest sight fulne ." Sidney: Arcadia, bk. ii. sight-ing ( gh silent), pr . par.or a. [SIGHT, V.] sighting-shot, s. A shot fired for the purpose of ascertaining if the weapon is properly sighted; a trial shot. sight le ( gh silent), *sight le e, adj. [Eng. sight: -le .] 1. Wanting sight; blind. "Raising his sightle balls to heaven." Scott : Marmion , ii. 32. marive; gō, pot, pine, pit, sire, sir, Zool.: The type-genus of the group Sigmodontes (q. v.). It contains but one species, Sigmodon his pidus , the Cotton-rat or Rice-rat, ranging through the southern United States and Mexico to Vera Cruz and Guatemala. sig-mo-dont, a. & s. [SIGMODONTES.] the genus Sigmodon or the group Sigmodontes A. As adj .: Of, belonging to, or characteristic of "Probably descendants of Sigmodont Muride."- Encyc. Brit. (edition 9th), xvii. 6. B. As subst.: Any in- dividual of the genus Sigmodon or the group Sigmodontes (q. v.). sig-mo-don-tēs, s. pl . [Mod. Lat., pl. of sigmodon (q. v.).] Zool .: A group of Mu- Molars of Ordinary Murine rinæ (q. v.), having the cusps of the molars arranged biserially in pairs along the teeth. When ground down by use, the cusps show S-like patterns in the folds of the enamel. Ten genera, four from Madagascar and six from America. The teeth in the cut are much "There stay until the twelve celestial signs Have brought about their annual reckoning." Shakesp.: Love's Labor's Lost , v. 2. 6. any remarkable event, transaction, or phenom- enon, regarded as indicating the will of the deity, or as manifesting an interposition of the divine power for some special end; a wonder. "If they will not hearken to the voice of the first sign , they will not believe the latter sign." - Exodus iv. 8. *7. A word regarded as the outward manifestation of thought. ( Bacon .) IMG:content-1449.png:[blocks in formation] signable 3. To affix one's signature to a writing or deed; to mark and ratify by writing one's name; to subscribe in one's own handwriting. *4. To convey formally; to a ign. *5. To dre or array in insignia. "Here thy hunters stand Signed in thy spoil." Shakesp.: Julius Cæsar, iii. 1. 3686 but few only have the power of effecting the former; the English have always signalized themselves for their unconquerable valor in battle; there is no nation that has not distinguished itself at some period or other in war. (Crabb.)