Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Sinister

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Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Sinister


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(1):

(a.) Indicative of lurking evil or harm; boding covert danger; as, a sinister countenance.

(2):

(a.) Wrong, as springing from indirection or obliquity; perverse; dishonest; corrupt; as, sinister aims.

(3):

(a.) Unlucky; inauspicious; disastrous; injurious; evil; -- the left being usually regarded as the unlucky side; as, sinister influences.

(4):

(a.) On the left hand, or the side of the left hand; left; -- opposed to dexter, or right.