Emily Dickinson Lexicon

sir, n. [see sire, n.]

1. Lord; don; chief; knight; baron; [fig.] priest; bachelor of arts; young male scholar preparing to be a minister; [respectful form of address to a beloved man.]
2. Dear; love; darling; [affectionate form of address to a beloved man.]
3. Superior; your Highness; [respectful form of address to the sun].
4. Sire; your Eminence; [respectful form of address to a king or prince.]
5. Master; Savior; Jesus; [respectful form of address to Deity or a heavenly being].
6. Mister; [respectful form of address to someone older or higher in status.]

sire, n. [OFr < L. senior, old.]

1. Lord; sir; [archaic form of address to a man of some importance.]
2. Father; forefather; ancestor; patriarch; progenitor.
3. Master; God; Savior; [archaic form of address to Deity or a higher power.]

siren, adj. [see siren, n.]

1. Enticing; alluring; thought-provoking; [word play] serene; shining; sunlit.
2. Enchanting; attractive; enthralling; fascinating; ravishing; overpowering, like the music of bewitching mermaids; resembling the song of mythical creatures that lured sailors towards death; overwhelmingly beautiful, like the call of creatures who are part woman and part bird; [fig.] poetic; lyrical.

siren, n. [L. < Gk. possibly 'serpent'.]

Enchanting damsel; femme fatale; pretty female; lovely woman; attractive lady.

sirocco (-s), n. [It. < Arab. sharq, east.]

Steam; the Syrian wind; hot air that blows from the southeast in Italy; oppressive air current blowing from the north coast of Africa over the Mediterranean; [fig.] fever; shooting pain; itchy burning sensation.

sister (-s), n. [OE.]

1. Female sibling; girl child born of the same parents; [polysemy] sister-in-law; female sibling by adoption.
2. Female neighbor; fellow schoolgirl.
3. Female martyr; female fellow Christian; woman who is a saint; maiden who is a member of a religious order.
4. Kin; female relative; kindred spirit; [personification] cognate; synonym; similar concept; word with a related meaning.

sit (sat, -s, sitting), v. [OE < L. or Gk. 'seat'.]

1. Settle; sink; locate.
2. Pose; appear in a certain position.
3. Remain; stay; continue; [fig.] grow; develop; be planted.
4. Stiffen; cease to move; maintain a resting posture.
5. Perch; roost; alight.
6. Settle down in; [fig.] manifest; be evident in.
7. Rest; endure; prevail; put down weight; [fig.] preside; dominate; reign.
8. Mount; ride; keep place on.
9. Exist; live.
10. Phrase. “sit … down to”: submit to resign oneself to.
11. Phrase. “by … to sit”: to sit by; be seated close to; take a seat near to; [fig.] watch over; wait upon; [metaphor] remember; memorialize; commemorate; [word order variation] “as the dead we love to sit by become so wondrous dear.”
12. Phrase. “with the Saints sat down”: died and went to paradise.
13. Phrase. “sit opon”: adorn; cover; clothe; be worn upon.

site (-s), n. [L. situs, place, position.]

1. Location; [fig.] reality; existence.
2. Seat; ground-plot; local position; place on earth; area upon which something is located.
3. Point; pole; orientation.
4. State of being; [possible word play with the obsolete noun “site” < ON sút, sorrow, distress, grief] desolation; loneliness.

situate (-ed, -s), v. [L.; see site, n.]

1. Alight; arrive; pose; find a place.
2. Settle; determine a relationship between entities.
3. Relocate; be located; take up residence.
4. Spread out; position for flying.
5. Place oneself; [fig.] navigate; hover; glide; float.

situation (-s), n. [Fr. < L. 'site'.]

Place; locality; circumstance; context; position; dimension; [fig.] alternate state of consciousness.