Sinus, buius sinus, m. g. Terent.A bosome: the turning or hollownes of water bankes: a goulfc: the hollownesse of the eyes. A coppe for wyne. A saile puffed with the winde, or the hollownesse of the sayle.Tepidus fious, Ouid. Abstrahere sinu vel gremio.Cicer.To put out of ones bosome.Complecti sinu. Colum. Blando sinu fouens nepotern. Sen. Fouere dextram sinu, Ouid.To put or holde his hand in his bosome. Sinus vestium.Virg.The lappe, or a plaite in garments. Dissutus sinus.Ouid.A cote open or ripped at the brest.Enormis sinus, Stat.Garmentes with great lappes and plaites.Lacer finus, Ouid.Torto nexilis orbe sinus.Ouid.A round circle in heare curled, or crisped with a hote yron or pinne.Purpurei sinus.Ouid.Parple garments. Ferre nuces sinu laxo. Horat. To cary nuts in his large or wide bosome.Onerato sinu portare aliquid. Sen. Rumpere sinum.Ouid.To teare or rent his garment at the hrest.Soluere sinus. Catul. To vndoe or vnbuckle his garments.Substringere finus veste remissa.Senec.To open or vnconer his biest.Ex toga facere sinum.Liu.To holde vp his gowne rounde like a lappe.Subducere sinum bonis. Sene. To refuse to take the goods that one doth offer vs. Attoniti micuere sinus, Ouid.My hart panted for feare. Calumniatores ex sinu suo opposuit, Ci.He suborned false accusers that were his great friends and familiars.Qui è Chelidonis sinu in prouinciam profectus esset.Cic.In sinu suo habere, Caius iurecons.To haue secreatelye in his hands or power that other know not of.In sinu gaudere, Vide GAVDEO.Solu. o sinu. Sen. With all liberalitie: bomttifnlly.Confugit in sinum tunm concussa Resp.Plin. iun.The common weale being in trouble, flyeth to thee for succour. Sinus vrbis.Salust.The middle of the citie. Sinus, per translationem. Plin. Goulfes of the sea: bosoms: turnings in water bankes.Orbis extremi sinus, Vitgil.The bending of the ende of the world.Angustus sinus, Virg.A little or narow hollownesse: a little goulfe.Ater sinus Adriæ, Hor. Curui sinus, Stat.Sinus adductos modicè falcatus in arcus, Ouid.A bosome of the sea somewhat crooked, or bending like a bowe.Gelidi sinus.Ouid.Profundus sinus. Sen. A deepe pit, bosome or goulfe.Vadosi sinus, Sen.The ctooked windinges of places in the water that may be gone through.Vastus sinus, Virg. Monstriferos agit vnda sinus, Lucan.Immenso sion labitur amnis, Sen.Seindit sese vnda in sinus reductos, Virg The sea diuideth it selfe with winding reflections of water.Laxant arua sinns, Vir.The fieldes inward toward the land ware broader and broader. Sinus, Virg.The hollownesse of the eye holes.Sinus vlceris, Cels.The hollownesse of a sore. Sinus, Virg.Nettes, or the hollownesse of nets, Impleuítque sinus, Virg. Sinus, luuen.The saile of a ship.Plenáque curuato pandere vela sinu, Ouid.Crepantes sinus carbasei.Virg.Obliquat sinus in ventum, Virg.He turneth the sayles toward the wind. Sinus, huius sinus: vel Sinum, fini, Virg.A little cuppe to drinke wine or milke in.Tanc autem SI producitur, teste Sernio.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
sīnum, i, n. (masc. collat. form sīnus, Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 82; id. Rud. 5, 2, 31; for the form of the abl., sinu, Varr. ap. Non. 547, 23, we should perh. substitute sino; cf. Prisc. p. 714 P.) [1. sinus], a large, round drinking-vessel with swelling sides (like our bowls), esp. for wine (cf. Cic. Fragm. ap. Schol. Veron. ad Verg. E. 7, 33), Varr. L. L. 5, 123 Müll.; id. ap. Non. 547, 23; Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 75; 1, 1, 82; id. Rud. 5, 2, 32; Atta ap. Serv. Verg. E. 7, 33; Valgius ap. Philarg. Verg. G. 3, 177; Col. 7, 8, 2 al.; cf. Becker, Gallus, 3, p. 225 (2d edit.).