Definitions for siris

siris si·ris

Spelling: [suh-rees]
IPA: /səˈris/

Siris is a 5 letter English word.

You can make 26 anagrams from letters in siris (iirss).

Definitions for siris

noun

  1. lebbek (def 1).

Origin of siris

1870-75; Hindi siris, siras; compare Sanskrit śirīṣa

Examples for siris

Bishop Berkeley, in his pamphlet siris, started a flourishing tar-water craze, which lived long and died slowly.

The two armies met at length on the banks of the river siris, where Rome fought its first great battle with a foreign foe.

The results of his investigations were published in the 'Querist' and in 'siris.'

siris seems to us the Sanscrit word Saras, a river in general, or the river, from its imputed superiority.

A phrase by the way, which Cowper, though little given to borrowing, took straight from Berkeley's 'siris.'

He next visited siris, in lower Italy, a city of which he speaks very favourably.

Near it flows the Takazz, the ancient siris, with its poisonous waters bordered by majestic trees.

Earle's "vulgar-spirited" man, with whom "to thrive is to do well," recalls a famous passage in the siris.

It foretold to them the rising of the Nile, which they called siris, and admonished them when to sow.

Sic quoque etiamnum siris, ut ante, nominatus per aliquos in totum Homero gyptus, aliisque Triton.

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