Part 418

I took notice of this little figure for the singularity of the instrument.

Addison.

2. Anything singular, rare, or curious.

Your gallery Have we passed through, not without much content In many singularities.

Shak.

3. Possession of a particular or exclusive privilege, prerogative, or distinction.

No bishop of Rome ever took upon him this name of singularity [universal bishop].

Hooker.

Catholicism . . . must be understood in opposition to the legal singularity of the Jewish nation.

Bp. Pearson.

4. Celibacy. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

Sin"gu*lar*ize (s"g*lr*z), v. t. To make singular or single; to distinguish. [R.]

Sin"gu*lar*ly, adv. 1. In a singular manner; in a manner, or to a degree, not common to others; extraordinarily; as, to be singularly exact in one's statements; singularly considerate of others. "Singularly handsome." Milman.

2. Strangely; oddly; as, to behave singularly.

3. So as to express one, or the singular number.

Sin"gult (?), n.[L. singultus.] A sigh or sobbing; also, a hiccough. [Obs.] Spenser. W. Browne.

Sin*gul"tous (?), a. (Med.) Relating to, or affected with, hiccough. Dunglison.

||Sin*gul"tus (?), n. [L.] (Med.) Hiccough.

Sin"i*cal (?), a. [From Sine.] (Trig.) Of or pertaining to a sine; employing, or founded upon, sines; as, a sinical quadrant.

Sin"i*grin (?), n. [From NL. Sinapis nigra.] (Chem.) A glucoside found in the seeds of black mustard (Brassica nigra, formerly Sinapis nigra) It resembles sinalbin, and consists of a potassium salt of myronic acid.

Sin"is*ter (sn"s*tr; 277), a. [Accented on the middle syllable by the older poets, as Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden.] [L. sinister: cf. F. sinistre.] 1. On the left hand, or the side of the left hand; left; -- opposed to dexter, or right. "Here on his sinister cheek." Shak.

My mother's blood Runs on the dexter cheek, and this sinister Bounds in my father's

Shak.

In heraldy the sinister side of an escutcheon is the side which would be on the left of the bearer of the shield, and opposite the right hand of the beholder.

2. Unlucky; inauspicious; disastrous; injurious; evil; -- the left being usually regarded as the unlucky side; as, sinister influences.

All the several ills that visit earth, Brought forth by night, with a sinister birth.

B. Jonson.

3. Wrong, as springing from indirection or obliquity; perverse; dishonest; corrupt; as, sinister aims.