sicomore, n.f. V. sycomore.
sidéral, -e, adj., sideral, sidereal.
sidéritis, n.m. V. crapaudine.
sidéroxylon, n.m., iron wood.
siècle, n.m., century, hundred years; age, time; world; period. Les mœurs de notre —; the manners of our age. Il y a un — qu’on ne vous a vu; we have not seen you for an age. A tous les —s, aux —s des —s, dans tous les —s des —s; for ever and ever, in all times, in all ages.
siège, n.m., seat, coach-box; bench (of a court of justice); bishopric, see; dickey (of a carriage); (milit.) siege; offices. En état de —; in a state of siege; under martial law. Equipage de —; siege-train. Pièce de —; siege gun. Mettre le — devant; to lay siege to. Le — d’un cocher; a coachman’s box. Le saint-—; the holy see. Le — d’une société; the office of any society. Lever le —; to raise the siege.
siéger, v.n., to hold one’s see (of bishops); to sit (of assemblies or courts); to be seated (fig.); to lie, to reside (of a thing).
sien, -ne (si-īn, si-è-n), pron., his, hers, its; one’s own. Mon père et le sien; my father and his, hers. Ma sœur et la sienne; my sister and his, hers.
sien, n.m., -ne, n.f., one’s own property; his own, her own, one’s own. Chacun le — n’est pas trop; let each have his own and all is fair. Faire des —nes; to play pranks. Les —s; one’s people, relations and friends. À chacun le —; to each his own.
sienne (terre de), n.f., sienna earth, sienna.