sissing (sising)

[Verbal n. of si 1, v.] A hi ing sound. Sibilus est genus serpent is, Anglice a sy yng. MS . Bibl . Reg . 12 B. i. f. 12 (1400). ( Hall i well .) Si y (sis'i), n. Diminutive of sis1 , 2. sist (sist), v . t. [ sisten (rare), state .] 1. In Scots law : ( a ) To present at the bar: used reflexively: for example, a party is said to sist himself when appearing before the court to answer. ( b ) To cause to appear; cite into court; summon. Some, however, have preposterously sisted nature as the first or generative principle, and regarded mind as merely the derivative of corporeal organism. Sir W. Hamilton . 2. To stop; stay; delay: now only in Scots law. Thus siste it that the graynes stille abide In withe the syve, and floures downe to shake. Palladius , Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 163. To sist one's self, to take a place at the bar of a court where one's cause is to be judicially tried and determined. - To sist parties, to join other parties in a suit or action, and serve them with proce . - To sist procedure sist proceedings, or proce , to delay judicial proceedings in a cause: used in both civil and ecclesiastical courts.