sighn.

Brit.

/sʌɪ/, U.S.

/saɪ/

Forms: α. Middle English syhe, Middle English–1500s syghe, 1500s sygh; Middle English–1600s sighe, Middle English– sigh. β. Scottish1500s sych(e, 1500s, 1700s–1800s sich, 1500s, 1800s archaic siche, 1800s sicgh; northern1800s seegh.

Etymology: < sigh v.

1. A sudden, prolonged, deep and more or less audible respiration, following on a deep-drawn breath, and esp. indicating or expressing dejection, weariness, longing, pain, or relief.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pleasure > state of being consoled or relieved > [noun] > expression of relief

sighc1381

the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > longing or yearning > [noun] > expression of longing

sighc1381

the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > sighing > [noun] > a sigh

sichec1000

sike?c1225

sighinga1300

sighta1375

sighc1381

sithe?1553

sospire?1578

the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > breathing > audible breathing > [noun] > sighing > a sigh

sichec1000

sike?c1225

sighinga1300

sighta1375

sighc1381

soughc1386

suspirec1450

sithe?1553

sospire?1578

α.

c1381 G. Chaucer Parl. Foules 248 Withyn the temple of syghes [v.r. syhes] hote as fyre.., Whyche syghes engendryd were with desyre [etc.].

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 15169 Ful mani sari sigh, i-wis, þar sank tille his herte.

c1400 Pilgr. Sowle (1483) iv. xxxi. 80 He draweth a depe sighe fro the herte rote.

1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xvi. 372 Rowland..sawe not durandall his swerd, wherof he dyde caste a grete syghe.

a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 100 Thow may complain with sighis lamentable The death of Bernard Stewar.

1595 S. Daniel First Fowre Bks. Ciuile Warres i. lxxxviii. sig. E3^v Wringing her hands as one that grieud and praid, With sighes commixt, with words.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) i. ii. 289 Stopping the Cariere Of Laughter, with a sigh .

1642 T. Fuller Holy State v. xix. 440 In their sighes they breathed many a prosperous gale to Nassaw's party.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 7. ¶1 The Lady..said to her Husband with a Sigh, My Dear, Misfortunes never come Single.

1759 T. Gray Epit. Tomb-stone in Gentleman's Mag. Oct. 485 A sigh, an unavailing tear.

1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk II. ii. 19 A sigh uttered from the fulness of the heart, an involuntary aspiration born and dying in the same moment.

1878 M. A. Brown tr. J. L. Runeberg Nadeschda 38 A sigh of admiration is His full heart's only language now.

in extended use.1817 J. Keats I stood Tip-toe 12 There crept A..noiseless noise among the leaves, Born of the very sigh that silence heaves.β. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xiii. v. 115 Drawand the sobbis hard and sychis smart.1567 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xi. 116 With sobbing sych I to ȝou send This my complaint.1594 A. Hume Treat. Conscience vi. 45 [He] wil vtter his passions..with sichis, & with sobbes.17.. A. Ramsay Some of Contents Ever-green ix His eisy sangs..Sall be esteimd quhyle sichs saft lufe betray.1805 R. Anderson Ballads in Cumberland Dial. 21 Now, hey for seeghs and suggar words.1879 G. MacDonald Sir Gibbie xlvi She gae a gret sich, an' a sab.

2. transferred. A sound made by the wind, suggestive of a sigh.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > [noun] > rushing sound > of wind > sough or sigh

sough1338

swough1338

soughing?a1400

sighing1653

sigh1810

swoof1825

souffle1879

suther1881

1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake i. 15 Creeping shrubs of thousand dyes, Waved in the west-wind's summer sighs.

1816 P. B. Shelley Alastor 2 Autumn's hollow sighs in the sere wood.

1848 L. Hunt Jar of Honey v. 64 Like the sigh that answers a wind over a churchyard.

Compounds

sigh-blown, sigh-born, sigh-broken, sigh-clogged, sigh-like, sigh-swollen, etc.

ΚΠ

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) iii. sig. Kk5 At length he ended—His oft sigh-broken dittie.

1601 Marie Magdalens Lament. 15 I will suppresse my sigh-swolne sadnesse.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Han, the..sigh-like voyce, wherewith woodcleauers, &c., keepe time to their stroakes.

1633 G. Herbert Temple: Sacred Poems 19 Recover all thy sigh-blown age On double pleasures.

1702 C. Beaumont J. Beaumont's Psyche (new ed.) xvii. lxiii. 262 With such potent passion did she breath That sigh-clogg'd Word.

a1847 E. Cook Under Moon ix. 1 We may breathe a farewell in a sigh-deepened tone.

1849 T. De Quincey Vision Sudden Death in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 746/2 Suggesting solemn and..sigh-born thoughts.

1873 E. J. Brennan Witch of Nemi 12 Bathed in the streams of sigh-fermented tears.

1911 J. A. Thomson Biol. Seasons ii. 193 When the young bird appears to be contented and very comfortable, it utters a plaintive, almost sigh-like cheep.

1964 J. C. Catford in D. Abercrombie et al. Daniel Jones 32 Auditory effect, ‘sigh-like’ mixture of breath and voice: one form of voiced [h].

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

sighv.

Brit.

/sʌɪ/, U.S.

/saɪ/

Forms: α. Middle English sihe(n, Middle English syhe(n, Middle English syh(gh)yn; Middle English siȝ(h)e, siȝȝe (Middle English six-), syȝ(h)e, Middle English sye. β. Middle English sighen, Middle English–1600s sighe (Middle English sighye?), Middle English–1500s syghe, 1500s– sigh. γ. ScottishMiddle English–1500s sych, Middle English–1500s, 1800s sich. δ. Middle English–1500s seigh, Middle English seye (?), 1500s segh; ScottishMiddle English seych, 1800s seich, sech. ε. past tense 1500s–1600s (1800s dialect) sight (1600s sigh't), 1500s seight.

Etymology: Middle English sihen , siȝen , sighen , etc., probably a back-formation < sihte , siȝte , past tense of siche v., through the guttural having more phonetic appropriateness than the palatal sound. The old past tense, however, survived in literary use down to the 17th cent.; it may also have been the source of the variant sight v.² Further variations are sithe v.² and the dialect sife, siff.

a. intransitive. To emit, give, or heave a sigh.In Middle English frequently in phrase to sigh sore.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > sighing > sigh [verb (intransitive)]

sichec893

sikec1175

sigh1377

to sigh unsound?a1400

sightc1450

sithec1450

throb1557

to break a sigh1765

heave1820

sock1863

the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > breathing > audible breathing > [verb (intransitive)] > sigh

sichec893

sikec1175

sughc1175

sigh1377

sightc1450

sithec1450

suspirec1450

soughc1475

supire?1590

to break a sigh1765

sock1863

α.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Job iii. 24 Er I shul ete, I siȝhe.

1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Josh. xv. 18 She siȝide [a1425 L.V. siȝȝide], as she sat in the asse.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 2959 Abraham syhid in his hert ful sare.

c1420 Prymer (1895) 34 To þee we siȝen, gronynge in þis valey of teeris.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 455/2 Syhghyn, for mornynge (K. syhyn..), suspiro.

β. 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 319 Sche fond non amendement To syghen.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 14221 Quen thomas..Hard þat ded was lazarus,..He sighed sar.a1400–50 Alexander 5584 Þe berne..Sighis selcuthly sare & sadli he wepis. R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Mending of Life 130 It is no meruell þof it say syghand: ‘Qwho sall gif me þe, my broþer?’1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 718/1 He syghed tyll his herte dyd nerehande bruste.1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cccxlii To sigh, and to wincke as thoughe he were a slepe.1670 J. Dryden Tyrannick Love iii. i. 25 And when his strength is wanting to his mind, Looks back, and sighs on what he left behind.1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 142 On thee,..in Desarts all alone, He call'd, sigh'd, sung. 1727 J. Thomson Summer 68 They..talk'd the flowing Heart, Or sigh'd, and look'd unutterable Things!1781 W. Cowper Expostulation 722 My soul shall sigh in secret, and lament A nation scourg'd.1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe III. xi. 273 Wilfred sighed, therefore, and held his peace.1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 17 Then sigh'd and smiled the hoary-headed Earl.γ. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) x. l. 278 Wallace tharfor sichit with hart full sar.1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) iii. 350 Men mycht haiff sene..knychtis, for thar luffis sak, Bath sich and wep.?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 53 I sith without sair hert or seiknes in body.?a1600 ( R. Sempill Legend Bischop St. Androis in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlv. 368 The vther gaid hame..Sichand, and durst say no mair.1791 J. Learmont Poems Pastoral 113 She sicht sair i' her bed.1884 D. Grant Lays & Legends of North 92 The Cooper didna sich an' grain.δ. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xviii. 89 He seighed & sayde, ‘sore it me athynketh’.c1400 St. Alexius 122 (Laud 108) His fader at hom seyetȝ sore, & seyþ ‘allas! allas!’c1440 Generydes 1416 Ye seigh gretly, I prae yow telle me why.1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes i, in Wks. 130/2 Some sely woman seking saint Sythe when she seghyth for miscasting of her kayes.1877 J. M. Neilson Poems 57 (E.D.D.) They sech loud an' lang.1883 J. Currie Poems & Songs 44 Nae langer noo I seich an' mane.ε. ?c1550 Sir Andrew Barton in Surtees Misc. (1890) 65 The merchauntes answered, soore they sight.1592 N. Breton Pilgrimage to Paradise in Wks. (1879) I. 14/2 Shrinking downe, it sight, and spake no more.1633 A. Cowley Poet. Blossomes 329 With that..He sight, as if they'd coole his torment's ire.1689 J. Carlile Fortune-hunters i. ii. 4 He lookt indeed and sight, and set his Cravat-string, and sight agen.1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Sight, sighed.

b. figurative and transferred.

ΚΠ

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 783 Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe.

1708 Brit. Apollo 24–26 Nov. To hear her after, Sigh in Welsh, (Which ill-bred Clowns will call a Belch).

1775 R. B. Sheridan Songs Duenna i. 1 Tell me, my lute, can thy fond strain..So softly sing, so humbly sigh, That [etc.]?

c. Of the wind, trees, etc.: To make or give out a sound suggestive of a sigh. Also of turtles.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > [verb (intransitive)] > rushing sound > sough or sigh

soughOE

swoof?1590

sigh1757

suther1821

1757 T. Gray Ode II i. ii, in Odes 14 Hark, how each giant-oak, and desert cave, Sighs to the torrent's aweful voice beneath!

1764 O. Goldsmith Traveller 6 Like yon neglected shrub..That..sighs at every blast.

1820 W. Scott Monastery I. ix. 254 A chill easterly wind was sighing among the withered leaves.

1830 Ld. Tennyson Claribel 4 The solemn oaktree sigheth.

1855 Ld. Tennyson Maud xxi. vii, in Maud & Other Poems 69 Whenever a March-wind sighs He sets the jewel-print of your feet In violets.

1929 R. Hughes High Wind in Jamaica 81 Only the children's luggage was left untouched: and the turtles. Their melancholy sighing was the sole sound to be heard.

a. To express desire or longing by the utterance of sighs; hence, to wish or long ardently. Const. for (†after), or to with infinitive.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > longing or yearning > long or yearn [verb (intransitive)]

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forlongc1175

longc1225

alonga1393

greena1400

suspirec1450

earnc1460

to think long?1461

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groanc1560

hank1589

twitter1616

linger1630

hanker1642

to hang a nose1655

hangc1672

yammer1705

yen1919

1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. Phil. iii. f. viii^v Yet in soule our conuersacion is in heauen, sighing continuallye thither.

1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus In aliquam suspirare, to sigh after one, or for one.

1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. viii. sig. Ff5^v I was belou'd of many a gentle Knight,..Full many a one for me deepe groand and sight .

1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies i. vi. 18 Many Spaniards..sigh for Spaine, having no discourse, but of their countrie.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 205. ¶3 The Foreigner sighs after some British Beauty, whom he only knows by Fame.

1746 P. Francis tr. Horace in P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Epistles i. xx. 5 You..fondly praise The public World, even sighing to be read,—Unhappy Book!

1847 F. Marryat Children of New Forest I. iv. 71 He sighed for the time when the King's cause should be again triumphant.

1855 Ld. Tennyson Maud ii, in Maud & Other Poems 10 Long have I sigh'd for a calm.

b. To be sorry, feel sorrow. Const. that, to.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > feel sorrow or grief [verb (intransitive)]

sorroweOE

sorryeOE

careOE

heavyOE

mournOE

rueOE

murkenOE

dole13..

likec1330

wailc1374

ensorrowc1384

gloppen?a1400

sytea1400

teena1400

grievec1400

angera1425

erme1481

yearna1500

aggrieve1559

discomfort?a1560

melancholyc1580

to eat one's (own) heart1590

repent1590

passion1598

sigh1642

1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. D5^v Fair semblances these Apterites Do make of good, and sighen very sore, That God no stronger is.

1672 J. Dryden Conquest Granada i. iii. i. 32 May your heroique Act so prosperous be, That Almahide may sigh you set her free.

1734 A. Pope Ess. Man: Epist. IV 146 And which more blest? who chain'd his Country, say, Or he, whose Virtue sigh'd to lose a day?

3. transitive.

a. To speak or utter (words, etc.) with a sigh. Chiefly with adverbs, as forth and out.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > say in a particular manner [verb (transitive)] > with a sigh or unhappily

pule1535

suspirec1550

sigh1553

sob1782

sough1816

the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > breathing > audible breathing > [verb (transitive)] > sigh > utter with

suspirec1550

sigh1553

1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique 117 b Some sighes out their woordes. Some synges their sentences.

1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iii. i. 12 To..sigh a note and sing a note.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) i. i. 203 They..sigh'd forth Prouerbes.

1624 F. Quarles Iob Militant §8 Bvt wretched Iob, sigh't forth these words, and said, Ah me!

1811 J. Austen Sense & Sensibility III. i. 28 Marianne sighed out her similar apprehension.

1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. I. 212 It is rather too late..for you and me to sit up sighing out romances in real life.

1859 Ld. Tennyson Elaine in Idylls of King 217 The Queen..sigh'd in passing, ‘Lancelot, Forgive me’.

1879 M. E. Braddon Cloven Foot xxxviii ‘Yes,’ sighed Celia, ‘He went early on Tuesday morning’.

b. To emit, give out, impart, etc., by sighing. Frequently with adverbs, as away, forth, out. Also transferred.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > breathing > audible breathing > [verb (transitive)] > sigh > give out or impart by

sigh1597

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II iii. i. 20 [I] Haue..sigh't my English breath In forren cloudes.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) iv. v. 116 Neuer man Sigh'd truer breath.

1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 273 Sapores..sighed out his affrighted ghost, at the age..of seventy one.

1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey III. xiv. 51 Far from his country roams my hapless Lord! Or sigh'd in exile forth his latest breath.

1790 R. Burns in J. Johnson Scots Musical Museum III. 232 He gaz'd, he wish'd, he fear'd, he blush'd, And sigh'd his very soul.

1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam lxxxiv. 124 Sweet after showers, ambrosial air,..sigh The full new life that feeds thy breath Throughout my frame.

1874 F. W. Farrar Silence & Voices of God i. 5 Hundreds of martyrs sighed away their souls amid the flames.

c. With cognate object.

ΚΠ

1789 W. Blake Anothers Sorrow in Songs of Innocence Think not, thou canst sigh a sigh, And thy maker is not by.

1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre II. ii. 37 She sighed a sigh of ineffable satisfaction, as if her cup of happiness were now full.

1888 Mrs. H. Ward Robert Elsmere III. vi. xli. 225 Robert sighed a long sigh.

a. To spend, consume, or while away (time) by sighing. Also with away and out.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > spending time > spend time or allow time to pass [verb (transitive)] > in some activity > in other specific activities

sigh1600

talk1676

pace1700

wrangle1794

singa1822

the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > sighing > sigh over [verb (transitive)] > pass time by sighing

sigh1600

1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing i. i. 190 Thou wilt needes thrust thy necke into a yoke,..and sigh away sundaies.

1673 J. Milton Psalm VI in Poems (new ed.) 137 Wearied I am with sighing out my dayes.

1700 M. Prior Carmen Sæculare 9 Sighing the Moments that defer our Ease.

b. To bring into a certain state or condition by sighing. Also transferred and reflexive.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > breathing > audible breathing > [verb (transitive)] > sigh > affect by

sigha1616

a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) i. ii. 162 Thy head stands so tickle on thy shoulders, that a milke-maid, if she be in loue, may sigh it off.

1813 W. Scott Rokeby ii. 55 The gale had sighed itself to rest.

1850 E. B. Browning Prospect in Sonn. As fretful children do, Leaning their faces on the window~pane To sigh the glass dim.

a. To lament (an event, circumstance, etc.) with sighing.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > lament or express grief for [verb (transitive)] > with sighing

sigh1602

1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida iii. sig. F2^v No..kinsman left To weepe my fate, or sigh my funerall.

1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets xxx. sig. C3 I sigh the lacke of many a thing I sought.

1695 M. Prior Ode after Queen's Death Ages to come..Shall bless her Name, and sigh her Fate.

†b. To desire or long for (something). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > longing or yearning > long or yearn for [verb (transitive)]

yearneOE

yearnOE

copena1225

longc1225

to yawn after or fora1250

yerec1275

to stand to ——a1400

hungerc1450

ache1622

desiderate1646

sigh1650

tire1801

lonesome for1905

1650 Earl of Monmouth tr. J. F. Senault Man become Guilty 224 God's beauty is then..that, that we ought to sigh, all other desires are unjust.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	sigh
释义	sighn. Brit. /sʌɪ/, U.S. /saɪ/ Forms: α. Middle English syhe, Middle English–1500s syghe, 1500s sygh; Middle English–1600s sighe, Middle English– sigh. β. Scottish1500s sych(e, 1500s, 1700s–1800s sich, 1500s, 1800s archaic siche, 1800s sicgh; northern1800s seegh. Etymology: < sigh v. 1. A sudden, prolonged, deep and more or less audible respiration, following on a deep-drawn breath, and esp. indicating or expressing dejection, weariness, longing, pain, or relief. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > state of being consoled or relieved > [noun] > expression of relief sighc1381 the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > longing or yearning > [noun] > expression of longing sighc1381 the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > sighing > [noun] > a sigh sichec1000 sike?c1225 sighinga1300 sighta1375 sighc1381 sithe?1553 sospire?1578 the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > breathing > audible breathing > [noun] > sighing > a sigh sichec1000 sike?c1225 sighinga1300 sighta1375 sighc1381 soughc1386 suspirec1450 sithe?1553 sospire?1578 α. c1381 G. Chaucer Parl. Foules 248 Withyn the temple of syghes [v.r. syhes] hote as fyre.., Whyche syghes engendryd were with desyre [etc.]. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 15169 Ful mani sari sigh, i-wis, þar sank tille his herte. c1400 Pilgr. Sowle (1483) iv. xxxi. 80 He draweth a depe sighe fro the herte rote. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xvi. 372 Rowland..sawe not durandall his swerd, wherof he dyde caste a grete syghe. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 100 Thow may complain with sighis lamentable The death of Bernard Stewar. 1595 S. Daniel First Fowre Bks. Ciuile Warres i. lxxxviii. sig. E3^v Wringing her hands as one that grieud and praid, With sighes commixt, with words. a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) i. ii. 289 Stopping the Cariere Of Laughter, with a sigh . View more context for this quotation 1642 T. Fuller Holy State v. xix. 440 In their sighes they breathed many a prosperous gale to Nassaw's party. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 7. ¶1 The Lady..said to her Husband with a Sigh, My Dear, Misfortunes never come Single. 1759 T. Gray Epit. Tomb-stone in Gentleman's Mag. Oct. 485 A sigh, an unavailing tear. 1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk II. ii. 19 A sigh uttered from the fulness of the heart, an involuntary aspiration born and dying in the same moment. 1878 M. A. Brown tr. J. L. Runeberg Nadeschda 38 A sigh of admiration is His full heart's only language now. in extended use.1817 J. Keats I stood Tip-toe 12 There crept A..noiseless noise among the leaves, Born of the very sigh that silence heaves.β. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xiii. v. 115 Drawand the sobbis hard and sychis smart.1567 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xi. 116 With sobbing sych I to ȝou send This my complaint.1594 A. Hume Treat. Conscience vi. 45 [He] wil vtter his passions..with sichis, & with sobbes.17.. A. Ramsay Some of Contents Ever-green ix His eisy sangs..Sall be esteimd quhyle sichs saft lufe betray.1805 R. Anderson Ballads in Cumberland Dial. 21 Now, hey for seeghs and suggar words.1879 G. MacDonald Sir Gibbie xlvi She gae a gret sich, an' a sab. 2. transferred. A sound made by the wind, suggestive of a sigh. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > [noun] > rushing sound > of wind > sough or sigh sough1338 swough1338 soughing?a1400 sighing1653 sigh1810 swoof1825 souffle1879 suther1881 1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake i. 15 Creeping shrubs of thousand dyes, Waved in the west-wind's summer sighs. 1816 P. B. Shelley Alastor 2 Autumn's hollow sighs in the sere wood. 1848 L. Hunt Jar of Honey v. 64 Like the sigh that answers a wind over a churchyard. Compounds sigh-blown, sigh-born, sigh-broken, sigh-clogged, sigh-like, sigh-swollen, etc. ΚΠ a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) iii. sig. Kk5 At length he ended—His oft sigh-broken dittie. 1601 Marie Magdalens Lament. 15 I will suppresse my sigh-swolne sadnesse. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Han, the..sigh-like voyce, wherewith woodcleauers, &c., keepe time to their stroakes. 1633 G. Herbert Temple: Sacred Poems 19 Recover all thy sigh-blown age On double pleasures. 1702 C. Beaumont J. Beaumont's Psyche (new ed.) xvii. lxiii. 262 With such potent passion did she breath That sigh-clogg'd Word. a1847 E. Cook Under Moon ix. 1 We may breathe a farewell in a sigh-deepened tone. 1849 T. De Quincey Vision Sudden Death in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 746/2 Suggesting solemn and..sigh-born thoughts. 1873 E. J. Brennan Witch of Nemi 12 Bathed in the streams of sigh-fermented tears. 1911 J. A. Thomson Biol. Seasons ii. 193 When the young bird appears to be contented and very comfortable, it utters a plaintive, almost sigh-like cheep. 1964 J. C. Catford in D. Abercrombie et al. Daniel Jones 32 Auditory effect, ‘sigh-like’ mixture of breath and voice: one form of voiced [h]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). sighv. Brit. /sʌɪ/, U.S. /saɪ/ Forms: α. Middle English sihe(n, Middle English syhe(n, Middle English syh(gh)yn; Middle English siȝ(h)e, siȝȝe (Middle English six-), syȝ(h)e, Middle English sye. β. Middle English sighen, Middle English–1600s sighe (Middle English sighye?), Middle English–1500s syghe, 1500s– sigh. γ. ScottishMiddle English–1500s sych, Middle English–1500s, 1800s sich. δ. Middle English–1500s seigh, Middle English seye (?), 1500s segh; ScottishMiddle English seych, 1800s seich, sech. ε. past tense 1500s–1600s (1800s dialect) sight (1600s sigh't), 1500s seight. Etymology: Middle English sihen , siȝen , sighen , etc., probably a back-formation < sihte , siȝte , past tense of siche v., through the guttural having more phonetic appropriateness than the palatal sound. The old past tense, however, survived in literary use down to the 17th cent.; it may also have been the source of the variant sight v.² Further variations are sithe v.² and the dialect sife, siff. 1. a. intransitive. To emit, give, or heave a sigh.In Middle English frequently in phrase to sigh sore. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > sighing > sigh [verb (intransitive)] sichec893 sikec1175 sigh1377 to sigh unsound?a1400 sightc1450 sithec1450 throb1557 to break a sigh1765 heave1820 sock1863 the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > breathing > audible breathing > [verb (intransitive)] > sigh sichec893 sikec1175 sughc1175 sigh1377 sightc1450 sithec1450 suspirec1450 soughc1475 supire?1590 to break a sigh1765 sock1863 α. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Job iii. 24 Er I shul ete, I siȝhe. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Josh. xv. 18 She siȝide [a1425 L.V. siȝȝide], as she sat in the asse. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 2959 Abraham syhid in his hert ful sare. c1420 Prymer (1895) 34 To þee we siȝen, gronynge in þis valey of teeris. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 455/2 Syhghyn, for mornynge (K. syhyn..), suspiro. β. 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 319 Sche fond non amendement To syghen.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 14221 Quen thomas..Hard þat ded was lazarus,..He sighed sar.a1400–50 Alexander 5584 Þe berne..Sighis selcuthly sare & sadli he wepis. R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Mending of Life 130 It is no meruell þof it say syghand: ‘Qwho sall gif me þe, my broþer?’1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 718/1 He syghed tyll his herte dyd nerehande bruste.1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cccxlii To sigh, and to wincke as thoughe he were a slepe.1670 J. Dryden Tyrannick Love iii. i. 25 And when his strength is wanting to his mind, Looks back, and sighs on what he left behind.1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 142 On thee,..in Desarts all alone, He call'd, sigh'd, sung. View more context for this quotation1727 J. Thomson Summer 68 They..talk'd the flowing Heart, Or sigh'd, and look'd unutterable Things!1781 W. Cowper Expostulation 722 My soul shall sigh in secret, and lament A nation scourg'd.1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe III. xi. 273 Wilfred sighed, therefore, and held his peace.1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 17 Then sigh'd and smiled the hoary-headed Earl.γ. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) x. l. 278 Wallace tharfor sichit with hart full sar.1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) iii. 350 Men mycht haiff sene..knychtis, for thar luffis sak, Bath sich and wep.?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 53 I sith without sair hert or seiknes in body.?a1600 ( R. Sempill Legend Bischop St. Androis in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlv. 368 The vther gaid hame..Sichand, and durst say no mair.1791 J. Learmont Poems Pastoral 113 She sicht sair i' her bed.1884 D. Grant Lays & Legends of North 92 The Cooper didna sich an' grain.δ. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xviii. 89 He seighed & sayde, ‘sore it me athynketh’.c1400 St. Alexius 122 (Laud 108) His fader at hom seyetȝ sore, & seyþ ‘allas! allas!’c1440 Generydes 1416 Ye seigh gretly, I prae yow telle me why.1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes i, in Wks. 130/2 Some sely woman seking saint Sythe when she seghyth for miscasting of her kayes.1877 J. M. Neilson Poems 57 (E.D.D.) They sech loud an' lang.1883 J. Currie Poems & Songs 44 Nae langer noo I seich an' mane.ε. ?c1550 Sir Andrew Barton in Surtees Misc. (1890) 65 The merchauntes answered, soore they sight.1592 N. Breton Pilgrimage to Paradise in Wks. (1879) I. 14/2 Shrinking downe, it sight, and spake no more.1633 A. Cowley Poet. Blossomes 329 With that..He sight, as if they'd coole his torment's ire.1689 J. Carlile Fortune-hunters i. ii. 4 He lookt indeed and sight, and set his Cravat-string, and sight agen.1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Sight, sighed. b. figurative and transferred. ΚΠ 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 783 Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe. View more context for this quotation 1708 Brit. Apollo 24–26 Nov. To hear her after, Sigh in Welsh, (Which ill-bred Clowns will call a Belch). 1775 R. B. Sheridan Songs Duenna i. 1 Tell me, my lute, can thy fond strain..So softly sing, so humbly sigh, That [etc.]? c. Of the wind, trees, etc.: To make or give out a sound suggestive of a sigh. Also of turtles. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > [verb (intransitive)] > rushing sound > sough or sigh soughOE swoof?1590 sigh1757 suther1821 1757 T. Gray Ode II i. ii, in Odes 14 Hark, how each giant-oak, and desert cave, Sighs to the torrent's aweful voice beneath! 1764 O. Goldsmith Traveller 6 Like yon neglected shrub..That..sighs at every blast. 1820 W. Scott Monastery I. ix. 254 A chill easterly wind was sighing among the withered leaves. 1830 Ld. Tennyson Claribel 4 The solemn oaktree sigheth. 1855 Ld. Tennyson Maud xxi. vii, in Maud & Other Poems 69 Whenever a March-wind sighs He sets the jewel-print of your feet In violets. 1929 R. Hughes High Wind in Jamaica 81 Only the children's luggage was left untouched: and the turtles. Their melancholy sighing was the sole sound to be heard. 2. a. To express desire or longing by the utterance of sighs; hence, to wish or long ardently. Const. for (†after), or to with infinitive. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > longing or yearning > long or yearn [verb (intransitive)] thirstc893 forlongc1175 longc1225 alonga1393 greena1400 suspirec1450 earnc1460 to think long?1461 sigh1549 groanc1560 hank1589 twitter1616 linger1630 hanker1642 to hang a nose1655 hangc1672 yammer1705 yen1919 1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. Phil. iii. f. viii^v Yet in soule our conuersacion is in heauen, sighing continuallye thither. 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus In aliquam suspirare, to sigh after one, or for one. 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. viii. sig. Ff5^v I was belou'd of many a gentle Knight,..Full many a one for me deepe groand and sight . View more context for this quotation 1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies i. vi. 18 Many Spaniards..sigh for Spaine, having no discourse, but of their countrie. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 205. ¶3 The Foreigner sighs after some British Beauty, whom he only knows by Fame. 1746 P. Francis tr. Horace in P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Epistles i. xx. 5 You..fondly praise The public World, even sighing to be read,—Unhappy Book! 1847 F. Marryat Children of New Forest I. iv. 71 He sighed for the time when the King's cause should be again triumphant. 1855 Ld. Tennyson Maud ii, in Maud & Other Poems 10 Long have I sigh'd for a calm. b. To be sorry, feel sorrow. Const. that, to. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > feel sorrow or grief [verb (intransitive)] sorroweOE sorryeOE careOE heavyOE mournOE rueOE murkenOE dole13.. likec1330 wailc1374 ensorrowc1384 gloppen?a1400 sytea1400 teena1400 grievec1400 angera1425 erme1481 yearna1500 aggrieve1559 discomfort?a1560 melancholyc1580 to eat one's (own) heart1590 repent1590 passion1598 sigh1642 1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. D5^v Fair semblances these Apterites Do make of good, and sighen very sore, That God no stronger is. 1672 J. Dryden Conquest Granada i. iii. i. 32 May your heroique Act so prosperous be, That Almahide may sigh you set her free. 1734 A. Pope Ess. Man: Epist. IV 146 And which more blest? who chain'd his Country, say, Or he, whose Virtue sigh'd to lose a day? 3. transitive. a. To speak or utter (words, etc.) with a sigh. Chiefly with adverbs, as forth and out. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > say in a particular manner [verb (transitive)] > with a sigh or unhappily pule1535 suspirec1550 sigh1553 sob1782 sough1816 the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > breathing > audible breathing > [verb (transitive)] > sigh > utter with suspirec1550 sigh1553 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique 117 b Some sighes out their woordes. Some synges their sentences. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iii. i. 12 To..sigh a note and sing a note. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) i. i. 203 They..sigh'd forth Prouerbes. View more context for this quotation 1624 F. Quarles Iob Militant §8 Bvt wretched Iob, sigh't forth these words, and said, Ah me! 1811 J. Austen Sense & Sensibility III. i. 28 Marianne sighed out her similar apprehension. View more context for this quotation 1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. I. 212 It is rather too late..for you and me to sit up sighing out romances in real life. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Elaine in Idylls of King 217 The Queen..sigh'd in passing, ‘Lancelot, Forgive me’. 1879 M. E. Braddon Cloven Foot xxxviii ‘Yes,’ sighed Celia, ‘He went early on Tuesday morning’. b. To emit, give out, impart, etc., by sighing. Frequently with adverbs, as away, forth, out. Also transferred. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > breathing > audible breathing > [verb (transitive)] > sigh > give out or impart by sigh1597 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II iii. i. 20 [I] Haue..sigh't my English breath In forren cloudes. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) iv. v. 116 Neuer man Sigh'd truer breath. View more context for this quotation 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 273 Sapores..sighed out his affrighted ghost, at the age..of seventy one. 1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey III. xiv. 51 Far from his country roams my hapless Lord! Or sigh'd in exile forth his latest breath. 1790 R. Burns in J. Johnson Scots Musical Museum III. 232 He gaz'd, he wish'd, he fear'd, he blush'd, And sigh'd his very soul. 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam lxxxiv. 124 Sweet after showers, ambrosial air,..sigh The full new life that feeds thy breath Throughout my frame. 1874 F. W. Farrar Silence & Voices of God i. 5 Hundreds of martyrs sighed away their souls amid the flames. c. With cognate object. ΚΠ 1789 W. Blake Anothers Sorrow in Songs of Innocence Think not, thou canst sigh a sigh, And thy maker is not by. 1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre II. ii. 37 She sighed a sigh of ineffable satisfaction, as if her cup of happiness were now full. 1888 Mrs. H. Ward Robert Elsmere III. vi. xli. 225 Robert sighed a long sigh. 4. a. To spend, consume, or while away (time) by sighing. Also with away and out. ΘΚΠ the world > time > spending time > spend time or allow time to pass [verb (transitive)] > in some activity > in other specific activities sigh1600 talk1676 pace1700 wrangle1794 singa1822 the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > sighing > sigh over [verb (transitive)] > pass time by sighing sigh1600 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing i. i. 190 Thou wilt needes thrust thy necke into a yoke,..and sigh away sundaies. View more context for this quotation 1673 J. Milton Psalm VI in Poems (new ed.) 137 Wearied I am with sighing out my dayes. 1700 M. Prior Carmen Sæculare 9 Sighing the Moments that defer our Ease. b. To bring into a certain state or condition by sighing. Also transferred and reflexive. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > breathing > audible breathing > [verb (transitive)] > sigh > affect by sigha1616 a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) i. ii. 162 Thy head stands so tickle on thy shoulders, that a milke-maid, if she be in loue, may sigh it off. View more context for this quotation 1813 W. Scott Rokeby ii. 55 The gale had sighed itself to rest. 1850 E. B. Browning Prospect in Sonn. As fretful children do, Leaning their faces on the window~pane To sigh the glass dim. 5. a. To lament (an event, circumstance, etc.) with sighing. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > lament or express grief for [verb (transitive)] > with sighing sigh1602 1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida iii. sig. F2^v No..kinsman left To weepe my fate, or sigh my funerall. 1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets xxx. sig. C3 I sigh the lacke of many a thing I sought. View more context for this quotation 1695 M. Prior Ode after Queen's Death Ages to come..Shall bless her Name, and sigh her Fate. †b. To desire or long for (something). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > longing or yearning > long or yearn for [verb (transitive)] yearneOE yearnOE copena1225 longc1225 to yawn after or fora1250 yerec1275 to stand to ——a1400 hungerc1450 ache1622 desiderate1646 sigh1650 tire1801 lonesome for1905 1650 Earl of Monmouth tr. J. F. Senault Man become Guilty 224 God's beauty is then..that, that we ought to sigh, all other desires are unjust. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.c1381v.1377
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