Căutare în Webster - Dicționarul explicativ al limbii engleze

Pentru căutare rapidă introduceți minim 3 litere.

 

SINISTER - Definiția din dicționar

Traducere: română


Notă: Puteţi căuta fiecare cuvânt din cadrul definiţiei printr-un simplu click pe cuvântul dorit.

Sin"is*ter (sĭn"ĭs*t&etilde_;r; 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.
[1913 Webster]

My mother's blood
Runs on the dexter cheek, and this sinister
Bounds in my father's Shak.
[1913 Webster]

&hand_; 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.
[1913 Webster]

2. Unlucky; inauspicious; disastrous; injurious; evil; -- the left being usually regarded as the unlucky side; as, sinister influences.
[1913 Webster]

All the several ills that visit earth,
Brought forth by night, with a sinister birth. B. Jonson.
[1913 Webster]

3. Wrong, as springing from indirection or obliquity; perverse; dishonest; corrupt; as, sinister aims.
[1913 Webster]

Nimble and sinister tricks and shifts. Bacon.
[1913 Webster]

He scorns to undermine another's interest by any sinister or inferior arts. South.
[1913 Webster]

He read in their looks . . . sinister intentions directed particularly toward himself. Sir W. Scott.
[1913 Webster]

4. Indicative of lurking evil or harm; boding covert danger; as, a sinister countenance.
[1913 Webster]

Bar sinister. (Her.) See under Bar, n. -- Sinister aspect (Astrol.), an appearance of two planets happening according to the succession of the signs, as Saturn in Aries, and Mars in the same degree of Gemini. -- Sinister base, Sinister chief. See under Escutcheon.
[1913 Webster]