s' tusks, communicated his
discovery to his master, obtained his liberty, and returned
home.--_Arabian Nights_ ("Sindbad the Sailor").

=Sindbad, Ulysses, and the Cyclops.= (See ULYSSES AND POLYPHEMOS.)

=Sin'el=, thane of Glamis, and father of Macbeth. He married the younger
daughter of Malcolm II. of Scotland.

=Sinfire=, brilliant, seductive, and wicked heroine of Julian Hawthorne's
novel of the same name.

=Sing= (_Sadha_), the mourner of the desert.--Sir W. Scott, _The Surgeon's
Daughter_ (time, George II.).

=Sing de Racine= (_Le_), Campistron, the French dramatic poet (1656-1723).

=Singing Apple= (_The_), in the deserts of Libya. This apple resembled a
ruby crowned with a huge diamond, and had the gift of imparting wit to
those who only smelt of it. Prince Cherry obtained it for Fairstar. (See
SINGING TREE.)

The singing apple is as great an embellisher of wit as the dancing
water is of beauty. Would you appear in public as a poet or prose
writer, a wit or a philosopher, you only need smell it, and you are
possessed at once of these rare gifts of genius.--Comtesse D'Aunoy,
_Fairy Tales_ ("Princess Fairstar," 1682).

=Singing Tree= (_The_), a tree, every leaf of which was a mouth, and all
the leaves sang together in harmonious concert.--_Arabian Nights_ ("The
Two Sisters," the last story).

[Asterism] In the tale of _Cherry and Fairstar_, "the singing tree" is
called "the singing apple" (_q.v._).

=Single-Speech Hamilton=, William Gerard Hamilton, statesman (1729-1796).
His first speech was delivered November 13, 1775, and his eloquence
threw into the shade every orator except Pitt himself.

It was supposed that he had exhausted himself in that one speech,
and had become physically incapable of making a second; so that
afterwards, when he really did make a second, everybody was
naturally disgusted, and most people dropped his acquaintance.--De
Quincey (1786-1859).

=Singleton= (_Captain_), the hero of a novel by D. Defoe, called _The
Adventures of Captain Singleton_.

=Singular Doctor= (_The_), William Occam, _Doctor Singularis et
Invincibilis_ (1276-1347).

[Asterism] The "Occam razor" was _entia non sunt multiplicanda_,
"entities are not to be unnecessarily multiplied." In other words,
elements, genera, and first principles are very few in number.

=Sinner Saved= (_A_). Cyra, daughter of Proter[)i]us of Cappad[=o]cia, was