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Traditional English :: SIS
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sismic.html - abbr.
Secret Intelligence Service. |
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Traditional English :: sis
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sismic.html - n.
colloq. a sister. [abbr.] |
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Traditional English :: sisal
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sismic.html - n. 1 a Mexican plant, Agave sisalana, with large fleshy leaves. 2 the fibre made from this plant, used for cordage, ropes, etc. [Sisal, the port of Yucatan, Mexico] |
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Traditional English :: siskin
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sismic.html - n. a dark-streaked yellowish-green songbird, Carduelis spinus, allied to the goldfinch. [MDu. siseken dimin., rel. to MLG sisek, MHG zise, zisec, of Slav. origin] |
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Traditional English :: sissy
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sismic.html - n. & adj. (also cissy) colloq. --n. --adj. (sissier, sissiest) effeminate; cowardly. sissified adj. sissiness n. sissyish adj. [SIS + -Y(2)] |
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Traditional English :: sister
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sismic.html - n. 1 a woman or girl in relation to sons and other daughters of her parents. 2 a (often as a form of address) a close female friend or associate. b a female fellow member of a trade union, class, sect, or the human race. 3 a senior female nurse. 4 a member of a female religious order. 5 (attrib.) of the same type or design or origin etc. (sister ship; prose, the younger sister of verse). sister german see GERMAN . sister-in-law (pl. sisters-in-law)
1 the sister of one's wife or husband.
2 the wife of one's brother.
3 the wife of one's brother-in-law. Sister of Mercy a member of an educational or charitable order of women, esp. that founded in Dublin in 1827. sister uterine see UTERINE . sisterless adj. sisterly adj. sisterliness n. [ME sister (f. ON), suster etc. (repr. OE sweoster f. Gmc)] |
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