Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To strain, as milk; pass through a strainer or anything similar; filter.
- To flow down; drop; fall; sink.
- To settle down; compose or calm one's self.
- To pass; go.
- To boil gently; simmer.
- n. A sieve.
- n. A strainer or colander for liquids.
- n. That which is sifted or strained; hence, settlings; sediment; filth.
- n. Same as sill.
- n. A dialectal variant of soil.
- n. A young herring.
Wiktionary
- n. A column; pillar.
- n. A beam; rafter; one of the principal rafters of a building.
- n. The foot or lower part of a couple or rafter.
- n. A roof rafter or couple, usually one of a pair.
- v. transitive To strain, as milk; pass through a strainer or anything similar; filter.
- v. intransitive To flow down; drip; drop; fall; sink.
- v. intransitive To settle down; calm or compose oneself.
- v. intransitive To go; pass.
- v. intransitive To boil gently; simmer.
- v. intransitive, Northern England To pour with rain.
- n. A sieve.
- n. A strainer or colander for liquids;
- n. That which is sifted or strained, hence, settlings; sediment; filth.
- n. A young herring.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. Prov. Eng. To strain, as fresh milk.
- v. Prov. Eng. To drop; to flow; to fall.
- n. Prov. Eng. A sieve with fine meshes.
- n. Prov. Eng. Filth; sediment.
- n. (Zoöl.), engraving A young or small herring.
Etymologies
- From Middle English *sile, from Old Norse síl ("a kind of herring"), from Proto-Germanic *sīlan, *sīlō (“herring”), of unknown origin. Cognate with Icelandic síld ("herring"), Norwegian and Danish sild ("herring"), Swedish dialectal sil ("young fish, fry"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The mis'sile's hunter-pilot circuits were not intelligent enough to foresee that and change course while there was still time.”
“Developerzy Nokii chyba zrozumieli, że obecnie o sile systemu decyduje ilość i różnorodność aplikacji dla niego dostępnych i postanowili rozejrzeć się po rynku aby uatrakcyjnić swoją ofertę.”
“And it was a message that was a heat-seeking mis- sile aimed at otherwise clear-thinking individuals who come from the most coddled, overprotected, information-drenched generation in American history.”
“May 3, 2010 at 3:05 am lettus nao paws fur a momint ob sile ins.”
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“Being also easily amused, I think of this action as playing the sile-phone.”
“These movies of Saturn and its satellites are sile ...”
“Maks na sile wkladal mi kabanosy do ust, a kiedy rozmawialam z Mama, myslal, ze rozmawiam z M. i krzyczal, ze jestem pijana. pijana bynajmniej ani troche nie bylam.”
“NIE LUBIE, kiedy ktos na sile zwraca czyjas uwage.”
“Thistles here is also remarkable fine, and the land is also devided hoff by luxurient Stone Hedges — much more usefle and ickonomicle than your quickset or any of that rubbishing sort of timber: indeed the sile is of that fine natur, that timber refuses to grow there altogether.”
“The fire had burne twice and twice the plump housekeeper had come in, sile stoke it up again.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sile’.
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T'ain't going to drain no more
wordie stoppers: without refrain: stanza on its own: lotion motion: T'ain't going to drain no moor
nanopyle, nanonize, nanocosm, ombromombo, misle(ad), nanostrobos, nanomini, peerl, serein, hyetalous, pelter, sluiciest and 43 more...
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Are we there yet?
These have some growing up to do.
colt, foal, kitten, cub, pup, heifer, larva, imago, veliger, trochophore, grub, maggot and 178 more...
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lotic words of flow
fast flowing, rapid, confluent words
boustrophedon, boustrophedric, thixotrophic, ludic, hesychastic, blend, quaquaversal, phacoemulsification, mordant, glissando, vatic, tournure and 233 more...
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Words featured in Mrs. Byrne's Dictio...
Selections from Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure and Preposterous Words by Josefa Heifetz Byrne (University Books, 1974). Definitions in the comments when not available elsewhere.
apanthropy, anoetic, aristology, ayne, bibliopole, bibliotaph, calecannon, caoine, catlap, chirospasm, clamjamfry, coadunate and 174 more...
Tweets
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