Dictionary meanings for sī from Apte and Monier-Williams.

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Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

a word used in learning letters (?) DivyA7v. 153973 1218,2 245037

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Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

(either invented to account for sītā below or a lost root meaning) to draw a straight line 153974 1218,2 245038 f. (less correctly written śītā; cf. sīm/an, sīra) a furrow, the track or line of a ploughshare (also personified, and apparently once worshipped as a kind of goddess resembling Pomona; in RV. iv, 57, 6, Si1ta1 sītā is invoked as presiding over agriculture or... f. N. of a form of Da1ksha1yan2i1 dākṣāyaṇī...

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