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sign, signacle, sinacle, sinnacle,
sign [səin]
n. A sign.
Compounds and phrases etc.
assign: To appoint or designate for some function, duty, or privilege.
assignation: Assignation, (legal) assignment.
signacle [ˈsɪnakl]: A sign, vestige, trace. A grain, small quantity.
insigneeficant, signeeficant,
signeeficant [ˈsignifɪkənt]
adj. Significant.
Compounds and phrases etc.
insigneeficant [ɪn-]: Insignificant.
Signet,
signet [ˈsɪgnət]
n. A Crown seal of Scotland that was used for private and official documents of the Sovereign, now the seal of the Court of Session.
cyle, cyles, sile, sile-blade, siles, syle, syles,
sile [səil]
n. A pillar. A roof rafter or couple. I. A short iron or wooden bar resting in a socket across the eye on the underside of an upper millstone and fitted on top of the spindle of the horizontal mill wheel by which the stone was made to revolve.
Compounds and phrases etc.
aff o the sile I.Sh.: Out of one's usual health or temper, cross, out of sorts.
pair o siles: The foot or lower part of a rafter.
sile-blade: A large horizontal beam to the ends of which the lower extremities of the couples are nailed.
sile, sill, syle,
sile [səil, sɪl]
n. Newly hatched young fish. Milt.
seyl, sile, sile$t, siled, silt, soolyie, sulyie, syle, syle$t, syled, sylet, sylit, sylt,
sile [səil]
n. Soil.
v. To soil.
pt. pp. sile't, siled
Compounds and phrases etc.
sulyie: An archaic form of sile, NN.a. a disrespectful term a person of bad stock or breeding.
silk, silken, sulk,
silk [sɪlk]
n. Silk.
silken [ˈsɪlkən]
adj. Made of silk.
ba$siller, ba$-siller, ba-seller, baw_siller, cellar, cellarless, selver, silder, silderless, sillar, sillars, siller, sillered, sillerless, sillert, souch_siller,
siller [ˈsɪlər, ˈsɪldər]
n. Silver, money.
adv. With a silvery lustre.
v. To cover with silver. To make the hair a silvery colour. To grizzle. To give money to, pay.
pt. pp. sillert, sillered adj. Moneyed, having wealth.
Compounds and phrases etc.
baw siller: Money scattered for children to scramble for on the occasion of a marriage.
fund siller: Unexpected or unearned money, a windfall.
dry siller: Hard cash.
lyin siller: Ready cash.
sillar [-ər]: A silversmith.
siller darlins: A tabu term for herring
sillerless: Having no money, impecunious.
souch siller: Hush money.
white siller: Silver money.
Nether_Kilrennie, Nether_Kilrenny, Sillerdyke, Skimfie, Skinfasthaven,
Sillerdyke [ˈsɪlərdəik]
pn. Cellardyke (Fife).
also Nether Kilrenny and Skinfasthaven the name of the small harbour. Skimfie a nickname for an inhabitant of Cellardyke derived from that.
sellag, sheelag, sheelog, sheelug, shelug, sillack, sillag, sillak, silleck, sillek, sillick, sillo, sillock, sliick, stainlock, stanelock, stanlock, Stenloch, stenlock,
sillock [ˈsɪˈlək, NN.b. ˈsɪˈləg]
also U. WC. stenlock [ˈstɛnlək] An overgrown coalfish Pollachius virens.
n. NN.b. I.Ork. The fry of the coalfish Pollachius virens.
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