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Fifth Voyage. The ship in which he sailed was dashed to pieces by huge stones let down from the talons of two angry rocs. Sinbad swam to a desert island, where he threw stones at the monkeys, and the monkeys threw back cocoa-nuts. On this island Sinbad encountered and killed the Old Man of the Sea.

Sixth Voyage. Sinbad visited the island of Serendib (or Ceylon), and climbed to the top of the mountain “where Adam was placed on his expulsion from paradise.

Seventh Voyage. He was attacked by corsairs, sold to slavery, and employed in shooting from a tree at elephants. He discovered a tract of hill country completely covered with elephants’ tusks, communicated his discovery to his master, obtained his liberty, and returned home.—Arabian Nights (“Sinbad the Sailor”).

Sinbad, Ulysses, and the Cyclops. (See Ulysses and Polyphemos.)

Sinel, thane of Glamis, and father of Macbeth. He married the younger daughter of Malcolm II. of Scotland.

Sing (Sadha), the mourner of the desert.—Sir W. Scott: The Surgeon’s Daughter (time, George II.).

Singe 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 Chery 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’Aulnoy: 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).

(In the tale of Chery and Fairstar, “the singing tree” is called “the singing apple.”)

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.

The second part [of Robinson Crusoe] scarcely rises above the level of Captain Singleton.—Encyclopadia Britannica (article “Romance”).

Singular Doctor (The), William Occam, Doctor Singularis et Invincibilis (1276–1347).

N.B.—The “Occam razor” was entia non sunt multiplicanda, “entities must not be multiplied;” in other words, elements are few in number, and should be so considered.

Sinis or Sinnis, a Corinthian robber, called “The Pine-Bender,” because he fastened his victims to the branches of two adjacent pine trees bent down by force; being then left to rebound, they tore the victim to pieces.—Greek Fable.

In Stephen’s reign, we are told, “the barons took those supposed to have any property, and inflicted on them unutterable tortures. Some they hanged up by the feet, and smoked with foul smoke; some they hung by the thumbs, and weighted with coats of mail. They tied knotted cords about the heads of