sinusoid (sinusoid)

[ curve of sines, in which the absci as are proportional to an angle, and the ordinates to its sine. sinusoidal (si-nu-soi'dal), a. Sinusoid. [ sinusoid + -al.] Of or pertaining to the sinusoid.-Sinusoidal function. See function. - Sinusoidal map-projection. See projection. sinusoidally (si-nu-soi'dal-i), adv. In a sinusoidal manner; in the manner of a sinusoid. Philos. Mag., XXVI. 373. sin-worn (sin'wõrn), a. Worn by sin. [Rare.] I would not soil these pure ambrosial weeds With the rank vapours of this sin - worn mould. sipāh - sālār, army-leader.] In India, a commander-in-chief; a commanding general: as, the sipahselar Timour. sipe (sīp), v. i.; pret. and pp. siped, ppr. siping. [Also seep (also spelled seip, sepe ); = = LG. sipen , ooze, trickle (freq. sipern sippra , ooze, drop, trickle); appar. not an orig. strong verb, but related to sipian , etc., and ult. sūpan , sup, taste: see sip , sup . Cf. seep .] 1. To ooze; trickle; soak through or out. The siping through of the waters into the house. Granger, On Ecclesiastes (1621), p. 316. ( Latham .) Her throat's sair misguggled, though she wears ars her corpse-sheet drawn weel up to hide it, but that canna hinder the bluid seiping through. 2. To steep; soak. Scott , Heart of Mid-Lothian, xvii. siogun, n. Same as shogun . siont, n. An obsolete form of scion . -sion. See -tion .