SE'ABOARD, adverb Towards the sea.

SE'ABORD noun The sea shore.

SEAL, noun The common name for the species of the genus Phoca. These animals are ampibious, most of the inhabiting the sea coasts, particularly in the higher latitudes. They have six cutting teeth in the upper jaw, and four in the lower. Their hind feet are placed at the extremity of the body, in the same diretion with it, and serve the purpose of a caudal fin; the fore feet are also adapted for swimming, and furmished each with five claws; the external ears are either very small or wanting. There are numerous species; as the leonina, sometimes 18 feet in length, and the jubata, sometimes 25 feet in length, with a name like a lion, both called sea-lion, and found in the southern seas, and alo in the noun Pacific; the ursina, or sea bear, 8 or 9 feet in length, and covered with long, thick bristly hair, found in the noun Pacifac; and the common seal frome 4 to 6 feet in length, found generally throughout the Atlantic and the seas and bays communicating with it, covered with short, stiff, glossy hair, with a smooth head without external ears, and with the fore legs deeply immersed in the skin. Seals are much sought after for their skins and fur.

SEAL, noun [L. sigillum.]

1. A piece of metal or other hard substance, usually round or oval, on which is ingraved some image or device, and sometimes a legend or inscription. This is used by idividuals, corporate bodies and states, for making impressions on wax upon instuments of writing, as an evidence of their authenticity. The king of England has his seal and his privy seal. Seals are sometimes worn in rings.

The wax set to an instument, and impressed or stamped with a seal Thus we give a deed under had and seel. Wax is generally used in sealing instruments, but other substances may be used.

3. The wax or wafer that makes fast a letter or other paper.

4. Any act of confirmation.

5. That which confirms, ratifies or makes stable; assurance. 2 Timothy 2:19.

6. That which effectually shuts, confines or secures; that which makes fast. Revelation 20:3.

SEAL, verb transitive

1. To fasten with a seal; to attach together with a wafer or with wax; as, to seal a letter.

2. To set or affix a seal as a mark of authenticity; as, to seal a deed. Hence,

3. To confirm; to ratify; to establish.

And with my hand I seal our true hearts' love. Shak.

When therefore I hace performed this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will come by you in Spain. Romans 15:28.

4. To shut or keep close; sometimes with up. Seal your lips; seal up you lips.

Open your ears, and seal your bosom upon the secret conserns of a friend. Dwight.

5. To make fast.

So they went and made the sepulcher sure, sealing the stone and settig a watch.

Matthew 27:1.

6. To mark with a stamp, as an evidence of standard exactness, legal size, or merchantable quality. By our laws, weights and measures are to be sealed by an officer appointe and sworn for that purpose; and lether is to be sealed by a like officer, as evidence that it has been inspected and found to be of good quality.

7. To keep secret.

Shut up the words, and seal the book. Daniel 11:1. Isaiah 8:16.

8. To mark as ones property, and secure from danger.

9. To close; to fulfill; to complete; with up.

10. To imprint on the ; as, to seal instruction.

11. To inclose; to hide; to conceal.

12. To confine; to restrain.

13. In architecture, to fix a piece of wood or iron in a wall with cement.

SEAL, verb intransitive To fix a seal

I will seal unto this bond. [Unusual.] Shak.

SE'ALED, participle passive Furnished with a seal; fastened with a seal; confirmed; closed.

SE'ALER, noun

1. One who seals; an officer in chancery who seals writs and instruments.

2. In New England, an officer appointed by the town or other proper authority, to examine and try weithts and measures, and set a stamp on such as are according to the standards established by the state; also, an officer who inspects lether and stamps such as is good. These are called sealers of weights and measures, and sealers of lethers.

SE'ALING, participle present tense Fixing a seal; fastening with a seal; confirming; closing; keeping secret; fixing a piece of wood or iron in a wall with cement.

SE'ALING, noun [from seal, the animal] The operation of taking seals and curing their skins.

SEAM, noun

1. The suture or uniting of two edges of cloth by the needle.

The coat was without seam , woven from the top throughout. John 19:23.

2. The joint or juncture of planks in a ship's side or deck; or rather the intervals between the edges of boards or planks in a floor, etc. The seams of the ships are filled with oakum, and covered with pitch.

3. In mines, a vein or stratum of metal, ore, coal and the like.

4. A cicatrix or scar.

5. A measure of eight bushels of corn; or the vessel that contains it. [Not used in America.]

A seam of glass, the quanity of 120 pounds, or 24 stones of five pounds each. [Not used in America.]

SEAM, noun Tallow; grease; lard. [Not in use.]

SEAM, verb transitive

1. To form a seam; to sew or otherwise unite.

2. To mark with a cicatrix; to scar; as seamed with wounds.

SEAMAN. [See under Sea.]

SE'AMANSHIP, noun The skill of a good seaman; an acquaintance with the art of managing and navigating a ship; applicable both to officers and to men. Naval skill, is the art of managing a fleet, particularly in an engagement; a very different thing from seamanship.

SE'AMED, participle passive Marked with seams; having seams or scars.

SE'AMING, participle present tense Marking with scars; making seams.

SE'AMLESS, adjective Having mo seam; as the seamless garment of Christ.

SE'AMOUSE, noun [sea and mouse.] A marine animal of the genus Aphrodita.

SE'AMSTER, noun One that sews well, or whose occupation is to sew.

SE'AMSTRESS, noun A woman whose occupation is sewing.

SE'AMY, adjective Having a seam; containing seams or showing them.

SEAN, noun a met. [See Seine.]

SE'APORT, noun [sea and port.]

1. A harbor near the sea, formed by an arm of the sea or by a bay.

2. A city or town situated on a harbor, on or near the sea. We call a town a seaport, instead fo a seaport town.

SE'APOY, noun A native of India in the military service of an European power, and disceplined SE'POY, after the European maner.

SEAR, verb transitive [Gr. to dry; to parch; dry. L. torreo, in a diffrent dialect.]

1. To burn to dryness and hardness the surface of any thing; to cauterize; to expose to a degree of heat that changes the color of the surface, ar makes it hard; as, to sear the skin or flesh.

I'm sear'd with burning steel. Rowe.

Sear is allied to scorch in signification; cut it is applied primarily to animal flesh, and has special reference to the effect of heat in making the surface hard. Scorch is applied to flesh, sloth or any other substance, and has mo reference to the effect of hardness.

2. To wither; to dry.

3. To make callous or insensible.

Having their conscience seared with a hot iron. 1 Timothy 4:2.

To sear up, to close by searing or cauterizing; to stop.

Cherish veins of good humor, and sear up those of ill. Temple.

SEAR, adjective. Dry; withered

SEARCE, verb transitive sers. To shift; to bolt; to separate the fine part of meal from the coarse. [Little used.]

SEARCE, n. sers. A sieve; a bolter. [Little used.]

SEARCER, n. sers'er. One that sifts or bolts. [Little used.]

SEARCH, verb transitive serch

1. To look over or through for the purpose of finding something; to explore; to examine by inspection; as, to search the house for a book; to search the wood for a thief.

Send though men, that they may search the land of Canaan. Numbers 13:2.

2. To inquire; to seek for.

Enough is left besides to search and know. Milton.

3. To probe; to seek the knowledge of by feeling with instrument; as to search a wound.

4. To examine; to try. Psalms 139:23S

To search out, to seek till found, or to find by seeking; as, to search out truth.

Watts.

SEARCH, verb intransitive serch.

1. To seek; to look for; to make search

Once more search with me. Shak.

2. To make inquiry; to inquire.

It suffices that they have once with care sifted the matter, and searched into all the particulars. Locke.

To search for, to look for; to seek; to find; as, to search for a gentleman now in the house. Shak.

SEARCH, noun serch.

1. A seeking or looking for something that is lost, or the place of which us unknown; with for or after; as a search for lost money; a search for mines of gold and silver; a search after happiness or knowledge.

2. Inquiry; a seeking. He spent his life in search of truth.

3. Quest; pursuit for finding.

Nor did my search of liberty begin, Till my black hairs were chang'd upon my chin. Dryden.

SEARCHABLE, adjective serch'able. That may be searched or explored.

SEARCHED, participle passive serch'ed. Looked over carefully; explored; examined.

SEARCHER, noun serch'er.

1. One who searches, explores or examines for the prupose of finding something.

2. A seeker; an inquirer.

3. An examiner; a trier; as the Seacher of hearts.

4. An officer in London, appointed to examine the bodies of the dead, and report the cause of their death.

5. An officer of the customs, whose business is to search and examine ships outward bound, to ascertain whether they have prohibited goods on board, also baggage, goods, etc.

6. An inspector of lether.

7. In military affairs, an instrument for examining ordnance, to ascertain whether guns have any cavities in them.

8. An instrument used in the inspection of butter, etc. to ascertain the quality of that which is contained in firkins.

SEARCHING, participle passive serch'ing.

1. Looking into or over; exploring; examining; inquiring; seeking; investigating.

2. adjective Penetrating; trying; close; as a searching discourse.

SEARCHING, noun search'ing. Exanination; severe inquisition. Judges 5:16.

SEARCHLESS, noun serch'less. Inscrutable; eluding search or investigation.

SE'ARED, participle passive [from sear.] Burnt on the furface; cauterized; hardened;

SE'AREDNESS, noun The state of being seared, cauterized or hardened; hardness; hence insensibility.

SE'ASON. noun se'zn.Season literally signifies that which comes or arrives; and in this general sense, is synonymous with time. Hence,

1. A fit or suitable time; the convenient time; the usual or appointed time; as, the messenger arrived in season; in good season. This fruit is out of season.

2. Any time, as distinguished from others.

The season prime for sweetest scents and airs. Milton.

3. A time of some continuance, but not long.

Thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. Acts 13:11.

4. One of the four divisions of the year, spring, summer, autumn, winter. The season is mild; it is cold for the season.

We saw in six days' traveling, the several seasons of the year n their beauty.

Addison.

We distinguish the season by prefixing its appropriate name, as the spring-season, summer-seacon, etc.

To be in season, to be in good time, or sufficiently early for the prupose.

To be out of season, to be too late, beyoun the proper time, or beyond the

usually appointed time.

From the sense of convenience, is derived the following.

5. That which matures or prepares for the taste; that which gives a relish.

You lack the season of all nature, sleep. Shak.

But in this sense, we now use seasoning.

SE'ASON, verb transitive

1. To render palatable, or to give a higher relish to, by the addition or mixture of another substance more pungent or pleasant; as, to season meat with salt; to season any thing with spices. Leviticus 2:13.

2. To render more agreeable, pleasant or delightful; to give relish or zest to by something that excites, animates or exhilarates.

You season still with sports your serious hours. Dryden.

The proper use of wit is to season conversation. Tillotson.

3. To render more agreeable, or less rigorous and severe; to temper; to moderate; to qualify by admixture.

When mercy seasons justice. Shak.

4. To imbue; to tinge or taint.

Season their younger years with prudent and pious principles. Taylor.

5. To fit any use by time or habit; to mature; to prepare.

Who in want a hollow friend doth try, Directly seasons him an enemy. Shak.

6. To prepare for use by drying or hardening; to take out or suffer to escape the natural juices; as, to season timber.

7. To prepare or mature for a climate; to accustom to and enable to endure; as, to season the body to a particular climate. Long residence in the West Indies, or a fever, may season strangers.

SE'ASON, verb intransitive

1. To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate, as the human body.

2. To become dry and hard by the escape of natural juices, or by being penetrated with other substances. Timber seasons well under cover in the air, and ship timber seasons in salt water.

3. To betoken; to savor.

SE'ASONABLE, adjective Opportune; that comes, happens or is done in good time, in due season or in proper time for the purpose; as a seasonable supply of rain.

Mercy is seasonable in the time of affliction. Ecclus.

SE'ASONABLENESS, noun Opportuneness of time; that state of being in good time, or in time convenient for the prupose or sufficiently early.

SE'ASONABLY, adverb In due time; in time convenient; sufficiently early; as, to sow or plant seasonably.

SE'ASONAGE, noun Seasoning; sauce. [Not used.]

SE'ASONED, participle passive Mixed or sprinkled with something that gives a relish; tempered; moderated; qualified; matured; dried and hardened.

SE'ASONER, noun He that seasons; that which seasons, matures or gives a relish.

SE'ASONING, participle present tense Giving a relish by something added; moderating; qualifying; maturing; drying and hardening; fitting by habit.

SE'ASONING, noun

1. That which is added to any species of food to give it a higher relish; usually, something pungent or aromatic; as salt, spices or other aromatic herbs, acids, sugar, or a mixture of several things.

2. Something added or mixed to enhance the pleasure of enjoyment; as, with or humor may serve as a seasoning to eloquence.

Political speculations are of so dry and asutere a nature, that they will not go down with the public without frequent seasoning. Addison.

SEAT, noun [L. sedes, situs.]

1. That on which one sits; a chair, bench, stool or any other thing on which a person sits.

Christ--overthrew the tables of the money changers and the seats of them that sold doves. Matthew 21:12.

2. The place of sitting; throne; chair of state; tribunal; post of authority; as the seat of justice; judgment-seat.

3. Mansion; residence; dwelling; abode; as Italy the seat of empire. The Greeks sent colonies to seek a new seat in Gaul.

In Albe he shall fix his royal seat. Dryden.

4. Site; situation. The seat of Eden has never been incontrovertibly ascertained.

5. That part of a saddle on which a person sits.

6. In horsemanship, posture or situation of a perosn on horseback.

7. A pew or slip in a chruch; a place to sit in.

8. The place where a thing is settled or established. London is the seat of business and opulence. So we say, the seat of the muses, the seat of arts, the seat of commerce.

SEAT, verb transitive

1. To place on a seat; to cause to sit down. We seat ourselves; we seat our guests.

The guests were no sooner seated but they entered into a warm debate.

Arbuthnot.

2. To place in a post of authority, in office or a place of distinction. He seated his son in the professor's chair.

Then high was king Richard seated. Shak.

3. To settle; to fix in a particular place or country. A colony of Greeks seated themselves in the south of Italy; another at Massilia in Gaul.

4. To fix; to set firm.

From their foundations, loosening to and fro, They pluck'd the seated hills. Milton.

5. To place in a chruch; to assign seats to. In New England, where the pews in churches are not private property, it is customary to seat families for a year or longer time; that is, assign and appropriate seats to their use.

6. To appropriate the pews in, to particular families; as, to seat a church.

7. To repair by making the seat new; as, to seat a garment.

8. To settle; to plant with inhabitants; as, to seat a country. [Not used much.]

SEAT, verb intransitive To rest; to lie down. [Not in use.]

SE'ATED, participle passive Placed in a chair or on a bench, etc.; set; fixed; settled; established; furnished with a seat.

SE'ATING, participle present tense Placing on a seat; setting; settling; furnishing with a seat; having its seats assigned to individuals, as a church.

SEAVES, noun plu. [Heb. suf.] Rushes.

SE'AVY, adjective Overgrown with rushes.

SE'AWARD, adjective [sea and ward.] Directed towards the sea.

SE'AWARD, adverb Towards the sea.

SE'AWORTHY, adjective [sea and worthy.] Fit for a voyage; worthy of being trusted to transport a cargo with safety; as a seaworthy ship.

SEBA'CEOUS, adjective [Low L. sebaceus, from sebum, sevum, tallow.] Made of tallow or fat; pretaining to fat.

Sebaceous humor, a suet-like or glutinous matter secreted by the sebaceous glands, which serves to defent the skin and keep it soft. Coxe. Parr.

Sebaceous glands, small glands seated in the cellular membrane under the skin, which secrete the sebaceous humor. Parr.

SEBAC'IC, adjective [supra.] In chimistry, pretaining to fat; obtained fro fat; as the sebacic acid.

SE'BATE, noun [supra.] In chimistry, a salt formed by the sebacic acid and a base.

SEBES'TEN, noun The Assyrian plum, a plant of the genus Cordia, a species of jujube.

SE'CANT, adjective [L. secans, seco, to cut or cut off, coinciding with Eng. saw.] Cutting; dividing into two parts.

SE'CANT, noun

1. In geometry, a line that cuts another, or divides it into parts. The secant of a circle is a line drawn from the circumference on one side, to a point without the circumference on the other, In trigonometry, a secant is a right line drawn from the center of a circle, which, cutting the circumference, proceeds till it meets with a tangent to the same circle.

2. In trigonometry, the secant of an arc is a right line drawn from the center through one end of the arc, and terminated by a tangent drawn through the other end.

SECE'DE, verb intransitive [L. secedo; se, from, and cedo, to move. Se is an inseparable preposition or prefix in Latin, but denoting departure or separation.] To withdraw from fellowship, communion or association; to separate ones's self; as, certain ministers seceded from the church of Scotland about the year 1733.

SECE'DER, noun One who secedes. In Scotland, the seceders are a numerous body of presbyterians who seceded from the communion of the established church, about the year 1733.

SECE'DING, participle present tense Withdrawing from fellowship or communion.

SECERN', verb transitive [L. secerno; se and cerno, to separate.] In the animal economy, to secrete.

The mucus secerned in the nose--is a laudable humor. Arbuthnot.

SECERN'ED, participle passive Separated; secreted.

SECERN'ENT, noun That which promotes secretion; that which increases the irritative motions, which constitute secretion.

SECERN'ING, participle present tense Separating; secreting; as secerning vessels.

SECLU'DE, verb transitive [L. secludo; se and claudo, cludo, to shut.]

1. To separate, as from company or society, and usually to keep apart for some length of tome, or to confine in a separate state; as persons in low spirits seclude themselves from society.

Let eastern tyrants from the light of heav'n Seclude their bosom slaves. Thomson.

2. To shut out; to prevent from entering; to preclude.

Inclose your tender plants in your conservatory, secluding all entrance of cold.

Evelyn.

SECLU'DED, participle passive Separated from others; living in retirement; shut out.

SECLU'DING, participle present tense Separating from others; confining in solitude or in a separate state; preventing entrance.

SECLU'SION, noun s as z. The act of separating from society or connection; the state of being separate or apart; separation; a shutting out; as to live in seclusion.

SEC'OND, adjective [L. secundus; L. sequor, to follow. See Seek.]

1. That immediately follows the first; the mext following the first in order of place or time; the ordinal of two. Take the second book from the shelf. Enter the second house.

And he slept and dreamed the second time. Gen. 41.

2. Next in value, power, excellence, dignity or rank; inferior. The silks of China are second to none. Lord Chatham was second to none in eloquence. Dr. Johnson was second to none in itellecual powers, but second to many in research and erudition.

Second terms, in algebra, those where the unknown quantity has a degree of power less than it has in the term where it is raised to the highest.

At second-hand, in the sicond place of order; not in first place, orby or from the first; by transmission; not primarily; not originally; as a report received at second hand.

In imitation of preachers at second hand, I shall transcribe from Bruyere a piece of raillery. Tatler.

SEC'OND, noun

1. One who attends another in a duel, to aid him, mark out the ground or destance, and see that all proceedings between the parties are fair.

2. One that supports or maintains another; that which supports

Being sure enough of seconds after the first onset. Wotton.

3. The sixtieth part of a minute or of a degree, that is, the second minute or small division next to the hour. Sound moves above 1140 English feet in a second.

4. In music, an interval of a conjoint degree, being the difference between any sound and the next nearest sound above ar below it.

SEC'OND, verb transitive [L. secundo.]

1. To follow in the next place.

Sin is seconded with sin. [Little used.] South.

2. To support; to lend aid to the attempt of another; to assist' to forward; to promote; to encourage; to act as the maintainer.

We have supplies to second our attempt. Shak.

The attempts of Austria to circumscribe the conquests of Buonaparte, were seconded by Russia. Anon.

In God's, one single can its end produce,

Yet serves second too some other use. Pope.

3. In legislation, to support, as a motion or the mover. We say, to second a motion or proposition, or to second the mover.

SEC'ONDARILY, adv. [from secondary.] In second degree or second order; not primarily or originally; not the first intention. Duties on imports serve primarily to raise a revenue, and secondarily to encourage domestic manufactures and industry.

SEC'ONDARINESS, noun. The state of being secondary.

SEC'ONDARY, adjective. [L. secundarius, from secundus.]

1. Succeeding next in order to the first; subordinate.

Where there is moral right on the one hand, not secondary right can discharge it.

L' Estrange.

2. Not primary; not of the first intention.

Two are racial differences; the secondary differences are as four. Bacon.

3. Not of the first order or rate; revolving about a primary planet. Primary planets revolve about the sun; secondary planets revolve about the primary.

4. Acting by deputation or delegated authority; as the work of secondary hands.

5. Acting in subordination, or second to another; as a secondary officer.

Secondary rocks, in geology, are those which were formed after the primary. they are always situated over or above the primitive and transition rocks; they abound with organic remains or petrifications, and are supposed to be mechanical deposits from water. Cleaveland.

A secondary fever, is that which arises after a crisis, or the discharge of some morbid matter, as after the declension of the small pox or measles. Quincy.

Secondary circles, or secondaries, in astronomy, circles passing through the poles of any of the great circles of the sphere, perpendicular to the planes of those circles.

Secondary qualities, are the qualities of bodies which are not inseparable from them, but which is proceed from casual circumstances, such as color, taste, odor, etc.

Secondary formations, in geology, formations of substances, subsequent to the primitive.

SEC'ONDARY, noun.

1. A delegate or deputy; one who acts in subordination to another; as the secondaries of the court of king's bench and common pleas.

2. A fether growing on the second bone of a fowl's wing.

SEC'ONDED, participle passive Supported; aided.

SEC'ONDER, noun One that supported what another attempts, or what he affirms, or hat he moves or proposes; as the seconder of an enterprise or of a motion.

SEC'ONDLY, adv. In the second place.

SE'CRECY, noun. [from secret.]

1. Properly, a state of separation; hence, concealment from the observation of others, or from the notice of any persons not concerned; privacy; a state of being bid from view. When used of an individual, secrecy implies concealment from all others; when used of two or more, it implies concealment from all persons except those concerned. thus a company of counterfeiters carry on their villainy in secrecy.

The Lady Anne, Whom the king in secrecy hath long married. Shak.

2. Solitude; retirement; seclusion from the view of others.

3. Forbearance of disclosure or discovery.

It is not with public as with private prayer; in this, rather secrecy is commanded than outward show. Hooker.

4. Fidelity to a secret; the act or habit of keeping secrets.

For secrecy no lady closer.

SE'CRET, adjective. [Latin secretus. This is given as the participle of secerno, but is radically a different word. The radical sense of seg is to separate, as in Latin seco, to cut off; and not improbably this word is contracted into the Latin se, a prefix in segrego, separo, etc.]

1. Properly, separate; hence, hid; concealed from the notice or knowledge of all persons except the individual or individuals concerned.

I have a secret errand to thee, O king. Judges 3:19.

2. Unseen; private; secluded; being in retirement.

There secret in her sapphire cell,

He with the Nais wont to dwell. Fenton.

3. Removed from sight; private; unknown.

Abide in a secret place, and hide thyself. I Sam. 19.

4. Keeping secrets; faithful to secrets entrusted; as secret Romans. [Unusual.]

5. Private; affording privacy.

6. Occult; not seen; not apparent; as the secret operations of physical causes.

7. Known to God only.

Secret things belong to the Lord our God. Deuteronomy 29:29.

Not proper to be seen; kept or such as ought to be kept from observation.

SE'CRET, noun. [Latin secretum]

1. Something studiously concealed. A man who cannot keep his own secrets, will hardly keep the secrets of others.

To tell our own secrets is often folly; to communicate those of others is treachery.

Rambler.

A talebearer revealeth secrets. Proverbs 11:13

2. A thing not discovered and therefore not known.

All secrets of the deep, all nature's works. Milton.

Hast thou heard the secret of God? Job 15:8.

3. Secrets, plural , The parts which modesty and propriety require to be concealed. In secret, in a private place; in privacy or secrecy; in a state or place not seen; privately.

Bread eaten in secret is pleasant. Proverbs 9:17.

SE'CRET, v. t. To keep private. [Little used.]

SEC'RETARISHIP, noun. The office of a secretary.

SEC'RETARY, noun. [Latin secretus, secret; originally a confident, one entrusted with secrets.]

1. A person employed by a public body, by a company or by an individual, to write orders, letters, dispatches, public or private papers, and the like. Thus ligislative bodies have secretaries, whose business is to record all their laws and resolves. Embassadors have secretaries.

2. An officer whose business is to superintend and manage the affairs of a particular department of government; as the secretary of state, who conducts correspondence of a state with foreign courts: the secretary of the treasury, who manages the department of finance; the secretary of war, of the navy, etc.

SECRE'TE, verb transitive

1. To hide; to conceal; to remove from observation or the knowledge of others; as to secrete stolen goods.

2. To secrete one's self; to retire from notice into a private place; to abscend.

3. In the animal economy, to produce from the blood substances different from the blood itself, or from any of its constituents; as the glands. The liver secretes bile; the salivary glands secrete saliva.

SECRE'TED, pp. Concealed; secerned.

SECRE'TING, ppr. Hiding; secerning.

SECRE'TION, noun.

1. The act of secerning; the act of the producing from the blood substances different from the blood itself, or from any of its constituents, as bile, saliva, mucus, urine, etc. This was considered 0by the older physiologists as merely separation from the blood of certain substances previously contained in it; the literal meaning of secretion. But this opinion is generally exploded. The organs of secretion are of very various form and structure, but the most general are called glands.

2. The matter secreted, as mucus, perspirable matter, etc.

SE'CRETIST, noun. A dealer in secrets. [Not in use.]

SECRETI'TIOUS, adjective. Parted by an animal in secretion.

SE'CRETLY, adv.

1. Privately; privily; not openly; without the knowledge of others; as, to dispatch a messenger secretly.

2. Inwardly; not apparently or visibly; latently.

Now secretly with inward grief she pin'd. Addison.

SE'CRETNESS, noun.

1. The state of being hid or concealed.

2. The quality of keeping a secret.

SECT, noun. [Latin Sp. secta; from Latin seco, to cut off, to separate.]

1. A body or number of persons united in tenets, chiefly in philosophy or religion, but constituting a distinct party by holding sentiments different from those of other men. Most sects have originated in a particular person, who taught and propagated some peculiar notions in philosophy or religion, and who is considered to have been its founder. Among the jews, the principal sects were the Pharisees, Sadducees, and Essenes. In Greece were the Cynic sect, founded by Antisthenes; and the Academic sect, by Plato. The Academic sect gave birth to the Peripatetic, and a Cynic to the Stoic.

2. A cutting or coin. [Not used.]

SECTA'RIAN, adjective. [Latin secrarius.] Pertaining to a sect or sects; as sectarian principles or prejudices.

SECT'ARIAN, noun. One of a sect; one of a party in religion which has separated itself from the established church, or which holds tenets different from those of the prevailing denomination in a kingdom or state.

SECTA'RIANISM, noun. The disposition to dissent from the established church or predominant religion, and to form new sects.

SECT'ARISM, noun. Sectarianism. [Little used.]

SECT'ARIST, noun. A secretary. [Not much used.]

SECT'ARY, noun.

1. A person who separates from an established church, or from the prevailing denomination of christians; one that belongs to a sect; a dissenter.

2. a follower; a pupil. [Not in use.]

SECTA'TOR, noun. A follower; a disciple; an adherent to a sect. [Not now used.]

SECT'ILE, adjective. [Latin sectilus, from seco, to cut.] A sectile mineral is one that is midway between the briddle and the malleable, as soapstone and plumbago.

SEC'TION, noun [L. sectio; seco, to cut off.]

1. The act of cutting or of separating by cutting; as the section of the bodies.

2. A part separated from the rest; a division.

3. In books and writings, a distinct part or portion; the subdivision of a chapter; the division of a law or other writing or instrument. In laws, a section is sometimes called a paragraph or article.

4. A distinct part of a city, town, country or people; a part of territory separated by geographecal lines, or of a people considered as distinct. Thus we say, the northern or eastern section of the United States, the middle section, the southern or western section.

5. In geometry, a side or surface of a body or figure cut off by another; or the place where lines, planes, etc. cut each other.

SEC'TIONAL, adjective Pertaining to a section or distinct part of a larger body or territory.

SECT'OR, noun [L. seco, to cut.]

1. In geometry, a part of a circle comprehended between two radii and the arch; or a mixed triangle, formed by two radii and the arch of a circle.

2. A mathematical instrument so marked with lines of sines, tangents, secants, chords, etc. as to fit all radii and scales, and useful in finding the proportion between quantities of the same kind. The sector is founded on the fourth proposition of the sixth book of Euclid, where it is proved that similar triangles have their homologous sides proportional.

SEC'ULAR, adjective. [Latin secularis, from seculum, the world or an age.]

1. Pertaining to the present world, or to things not spiritual or holy; relating to things not immediately or primarily respecting the soul, but the body; worldly. The secular concerns of life respect making provision for the support of life, the preservation of health, the temporal prosperity of men, of states, etc. Secular power is that which superintends and governs the temporal affairs of men, the civil or political power; and is contradistinguished from spiritual or ecclsiastical power.

2. Among catholics, not regular; not bound by monastic vows or rules; not confines to a monastery or subject to the rules of a religious community. Thus we say, the secular clergy and the regular clergy.

3. Coming once in a century; as a secular year.

Secular games, in Rome, were games celebrated once in an age or century, which lasted three days and three nights, with sacrifices, theatrical shows, combats, sports, etc.

Valerius Maximus.

Secular music, any music or songs not adapted to sacred uses.

Secular song or poem, a song or poem composed for the secular games, or sung or rehearsed at those games.

SEC'ULAR, noun. A church officer or officiate whose functions are confines to the vocal department of the choir.

SECULAR'ITY, noun. Worldiness; supreme attention to the things of the present life.

SECULARIZA'TION, noun. [foom secularize.] the act of converting a regular person, place or benefice into a secular one. Most cathedral churchses were formerly regular, that is, the canons were of religious or monastic orders; but they have since been secularized. for the secularization of a regular church, there is wanted the authority of the pope, that of the prince, the bishop of the place, the patron, and even the consent of the people.

SEC'ULARIZE, v. t.

1. To make secular; to convert from spiritual appropriation to scular or common use; to convert that which is regular or monastic into secular; as, the ancient regular cathedral churches were secularized.

At the reformation, the abbey was secularized. Coxe, Switz.

2. To make worldy.

SEC'ULARIZED, pp. Converted from regular to secular.

SEC'ULARIZING, ppr. Converting from regular or monastic to secular.

SEC'ULARLY, adv. In a worldy manner.

SEC'ULARNESS, noun. A secular disposition; worldliness; worldly mindedness.

SEC'UNDINE, noun. Secundines, in the plural, as generally used, are the several coats or membranes in which the fetus is wrapped in the womb; the after-birth.

SECU'RE, adjective. [Latin securus.]

1. Free from danger of being taken by an enemy; that may resist assault or attack. Teh place is well fortified and very secure. Gibraltar is a secure fortress. In this sense, secure is followed by against or from; as secure against attack, or from an enemy.

2. Free from danger; safe; applied to persons; with from.

3. Free from fear or apprehension of danger; not alarmed; not disturbed by fear; confident of safety; hence, careless of the means of defense. Men are often most in danger when they feel most secure.

Confidence then bore thee on, secure

To meet no danger. Milton.

4. Confident; not distrultful; with of.

But thou, secure of soul, unbent with woes. Dryden.

It concerns the most secure of his strength, to pray to God not to expose him to an enemy. Rogers.

5. Careless; wanting caution. [See No. 3.]

6. Certain; very confident. He is secure of a welcome reception.

SECU'RE, v. t.

1. To guard effectually from danger; to make safe. Fortifications may secure a city; ships of war may secure a harbor.

I spread a cloud before the victor's sight,

Sustain'd the vanquish'd, and secur'd his flight. Dryden.

2. To make certain; to put beyond hazard. Liberty and fixed laws secure to every citizen

due protection of person and property. the first duty of the highest interest of men is to secure the favor of God by repentance and faith, and thus secure to themselves future felicity.

3. To inclose or confine effectually; to guard effectually from escape; sometimes, to seize

and confine; as, to secure a prisoner. The sherif pursued the theif with a warrant, and secured him.

4. To made certain of payment; as, to secure a debt by mortgage.

5. To make certain of receiving a precarious debt by giving bond, mail, surety or other-wise; as, to secure a creditor.

6. To insure, as property.

7. To make fast; as, to secure a door; to secure a rafter to a plate; to secure the hatches of a ship.

SECU'RED, pp. Effectually guarded or protected; made certain; put beyond hazard; effectually confined; made fast.

SECU'RELY, adv.

1. Without danger; safely; as, to pass a river on ice securely. But safely is generally used.

2. Without fear or apprehension; carelessly; in an unguarded state; in confidence of safety.

His daring foe securely him defied. Milton.

Devise not evil against thy neighbor, seeing he dwelleth securely by thee. Proverbs 3:29.

SECU'REMENT, noun. Security; protection. [Not used.]

SECU'RENESS, noun. Confidence of safety; exemption from fear; hence, want of vigilance or caution.

SECU'RER, noun. He or that which secures or protects.

SECU'RIFORM, adjective. [Latin securis, an ax or hatchet, and form.] In botany, having the form of an ax or hatchet.

SECU'RITY, noun. [Latin securitas.]

1. Protection; effectual defense or saftey from danger of any kind; as a chain of forts erected for the security of the frontiers.

2. That which protects or guards from danger. A navy constitutes the security of Great Britain from invasion.

3. Freedom from fear or apprehension; confidence of safety; whence, negligence in providing means of defense. Security is dangerous, for it exposes men to attack when unprepared. Security in sin is the worst condition of the sinner.

4. Safety; certainty. We have no security for peace with Algiers, but the dread of our navy.

5. Anything given or deposited to secure the payment of a debt, or the performance of a contract; as a bond with surety, a mortgage, the indorsement of a responsible man, a pledge, etc.

6. Something given or done to secure peace or good behavior. Violent and dangerous men are obliged to give security for their good behavior, or for keeping the peace. This security

in being bound with one or more sureties in a recognizance to the king or state.

SEDAN', noun [L. sedeo; like L. esseda] A portable chair or cover vehicle for carrying a single person. It is borne on poles by two men.

SEDA'TE, adjective [L. sedatus, from sedo, to calm or appease, that is, to set, to cause to subside.] Settled; composed; calm; quiet; tranquil; still; serene; unruffled by passion; udisturbed; as a sedate soul, mind or temper. So we say, a sedate look or countenance.

SEDA'TELY, adverb Calmly; without agitation of mind.

SEDA'TENESS, noun Calmness of mind, manner or countenance; freedom from agitation; a settled state; composure; serenity; tranquillity; as sedateness of temper or soul; sedateness of countenance; sedateness of conversation.

SEDA'TION, noun The act of calming. [Not in use.]

SEDATIVE, adjective [L. sedo, to calm.] In medicine, moderating muscular action or animal energy.

SED'ATIVE, noun A midicine that moderates muscular action or animal energy. Se defendendo, in defending himself; the plea of a person charged with murder, who alledges that he committed the act in his own defense.

SED'ENTARILY, adverb [from sedentary.] The state of being sedentary, or living without much action.

SED'ENTARINESS, noun The state of being sedentary.

SED'ENTARY, adjective. [Latin sedentarius, from sedens, sedeo, to sit.]

1. Accustomed to sit much, or to pass most of the time in a sitting posture; as a sedentary man. Students, taylors and women are sedentary persons.

2. Requiring much sitting; as a sedentary occupation or employment.

3. Passed for the most part in sitting; as a sedentary life.

4. Inactive; motionless; sluggish; as the sedentary earth.

The soul, considered abstractly from its passions, is of a remiss sedentary nature.

Spectator.

SEDGE, noun. [Latin seco, to cut; that is sword grass, like Latin gladiolus.]

1. A narrow flag, or growth of such flags; called in the north of England, seg or sag.

2. In New England, a species of very coarse grass growing in swamps, and forming bogs or clumps.

SEDG'ED, adjective. Composed of flags or sedge.

SEDG'Y, adjective. Overgrown with sedge.

On the gentle Severn's sedgy bank. Shak.

SED'IMENT, noun. [Latin sedimentum, from sedeo, to settle.] The matter which subsides to the bottom of liquors; settlings; lees; dregs.

SEDI''TION, noun. [Latin seditio. The sense of this word is the contrary of that which is naturally deducible from sedo, or sedeo, denoting a rising or raging, rather than an appeasing. But to set is really to throw down, to drive, and sedition may be a setting or rushing together.] A factious commotion of the people, a tumultuous assembly of men rising in opposition to law or the administration of justice, and in disturbance of the public peace. sedition is a rising or commotion of less extent than an insurrection, and both are less than rebellion; but some kinds of sedition in Great Britain, amount to high treason. In general, sedition is a local or limited insurrection in opposition to civil authority, as mutiny is to military.

SEDI''TIONARY, noun. An inciter or promoter of sedition.

SEDI''TIOUS, adjective. [Latin seditiosus.]

1. Pertaining to sedition; partaking of the nature of sedition; as seditious behavior; seditious strife.

2. Tending to excite sedition; as seditious words.

3. Disposed to excite violent or irregular opposition to law or lawful authority; turbulent; factious, or guilty of sedition; as seditious citizens.

SEDI''TIOUSLY, adv. With tumultious opposition to law; in a manner to violate the public peace.

SEDI''TIOUSNESS, noun. The disposition to excite popular commotion in opposition to law; or the act of exciting such commotion.

SEDU'CE, v. t. [Latin seduco; se, from, and duco, to lead.]

1. To draw aside or entice from the path of rectitude and duty in any manner, by flattery,

promises, bribes or otherwise; to tempt and lead to iniquity; to corrupt; to deprave.

Me the gold of France did not seduce. Shak.

In the latter times, some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits.

Tim. 4.

2. To entice to a surrender of chastity. He that can seduce a female is base enough to betray her.

SEDU'CEMENT, noun.

1. The act of seducing; seduction.

2. The means employed to seduce; the arts of flattery, falsehood and deception.

SEDU'CER, noun.

1. One that seduces; one that by temptation or arts, entices another to depart from the path of rectitude and duty; pre-eminently, one that by flattery, promises or falsehood, persuades a female to surrender her chastity. The seducer of a female is little less criminal than the murderer.

2. That which leads astray; that which entices to evil.

He whose firm faith no reason could remove,

Will mest before that soft seducer, love. Dryden.

SEDU'CIBLE, adjective. Capable of being drawn aside from the path of rectitude; corruptible.

SEDU'CING, ppr. Enticing from the path of virtue or chastity.

SEDU'CTION, noun. [Latin seductio.]

1. The act of seducing or of enticing from the path of duty.

2. Appropriately, the act or crime of persuading a female, by flattery or deception, to surrender her chastity. A woman who is above flattery, is least liable to seduction; but the best safeguard is principle, the love and purity of holiness, the fear of God and reverence forHis commandments.

SEDUC'TIVE, adjective. Tending to lead astray; apt to mislead by flattering appearances.

SEDU'LITY, noun. [Latin sedulitas. See Sedulous.] Diligent and assiduous application to business; constant attention; unremitting industry in any pursuit. It denotes constancy and perseverance rather than intenseness of application.

Let there be but the same propensity and bent of will to religion, and there will be the same sedulity and indefatigable industry in men's inquiries into it. South.

SED'ULOUS, adjective. [Latin sedulus, from the root of sedeo, to sit; as assiduous from assideo.] Literally, sitting close to an employment; hence, assiduous; diligent in application or pursuit; constant, steady and persevering in business or endeavors to effect an object; steadily industrious; as the sedulous bee.

What signifies the sound of words in prayer, without the affection of heart, and a sedulous application of the proper means that may lead to such an end? L'Estrange.

SED'ULOUSLY, adv. Assiduously; industriously; diligently; with constant or continued application.

SED'ULOUSNESS, noun. Assiduity; assiduousness; steady diligence; continued industry or effort.

SEDU'SED, pp. Drawn or enticed from virtue; corrupted; depraved.

SEE, noun.

1. The seat of episcopal power; a diocese; the jurisdiction of a bishop.

2. The seat of an archbishop; a province or jurisdiction of an archbishop; as an archiepiscopal see.

3. The seat, place or office of the pope or Roman pontif; as the papal see.

4. The authority of the pope or court of Rome; as, to appeal to the see of Rome.

SEE, v. t. [Latin sequor, and Eng. essay, are all from the same radix. The primary sense of the root is to strain, stretch, extend; and as applied to see, the sense is to extend to, to reach, to strike with the eye or sight.]

1. To perceive by the eye; to have knowledge of the existence and the apparent qualities of objects by the organs of sight; to behold.

I will now turn aside and see this great sight. Exodus 3:3.

We have seen the land, and behold, it is very good. Judges 18:1.

2. To observe; to note or notice; to know; to regard or look to; to take care; to attend, as to

the execution of some order, or to the performance of something.

Give them the first one simple idea, and see that they fully comprehend before you go any farther. Locke.

See that ye fall not out by the way. Genesis 45:12.

3. To discover; to descry; to understand. Who so dull as not to see the device or strategem?

very notable actions often lose much of their excellence when the motives are seen.

4. To converse or have intercourse with. We improve by seeing men of different habits and tempers.

5. To visit; as, to call and see a friend. The physician sees his patient twice a day.

6. To attend; to remark or notice.

I had a mind to see him out, and therefore did not care to contradict him. Addison.

7. To behold with patience or sufferance; to endure.

It was not meet for us to see the king's dishonor. Ezra 4:14.

8. In Scripture, to hear or attend to.

I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. Revelation 1:7.

9. To feel; to suffer; to experience.

Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years in which we have seen evil. Psalms 90:1.

If a man shall keep my saying, he shall never see death. John 8:51. Luke 2:15.

10. To know; to learn.

Go, I pray thee, see whether it be well with thy brethren. Genesis 37:14.

11. To perceive; to understand; to comprehend. I see the train of argument; I see his motives.

12. To perceive; to understand experimentally.

I see another law in my members. Romans 7:23.

13. To beware.

See thou do it not. Revelation 1:79.

14. To know by revelation.

The word that Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. Isaiah 2:8.

15. To have faith in and reliance on.

Seeing him who is invisible. Hebrews 11:5.

16. To enjoy; to have fruition of.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. Matthew 5:8.

SEE, verb intransitive

1. To have the power of perceiving by the proper organs, or the power of sight. Som animals, it is said, are able to see best in the night.

2. To discern; to have intellectual seght; to penetrate; to understand; with through or into; as, to see through the plans or policy of another; to see into artful schemes and pretensions.

3. To eximane or inquere. See wether the estimate is correct.

4. To be attentive.

5. To have full understanding.

But now ye say, we see, therefore your sin remaineth. John 9:41.

Let me see let us see are used to express consideration, or to introduce the particular consideration of a subject, or some scheme or calculation.

See is used imperatively, to call the attention of others to an object or a subject. See, see, how the balloon ascends.

See what it is to habe a poet in your house. Pope.

SEED, noun

1. The substance, animal or vegetable, which nature prepares for the reproduction and conservation of the species. The seeds of plants are a deciduous part, containing the rudiments of a new vegetable. In some cases, the seeds costitute the fruit or valuable part of plants, as in the case of wheat and other esculent grain; sometimes the seeds are inclosed in fruit, as in apples and melons. When applied to animal matter, it has no plural.

2. That from which any thing springs; first principle; original; as the seeds of virtue or vice.

3. Principle of production.

Praise of great acts he scatters as a seed. Waller.

4. Progeny; offspring; children; descendants; as the seed of Abraham; the seed of David. In this sense, the word is applied to one person, or to any number collectively, and admits of the plural form; but rarely used in the plural.

5. Race; generation; birth.

Of mortal seed they were not held. Waller.

SEED, verb intransitive

1. To grow to maturity, so as to produce seed. Maiz will not seed in a cool climate.

2. To shed the seed

SEED, verb transitive To sow; to sprinkle with seed which germinates and takes root.

SEE'DLING, noun A young plant or root just sprung from the seed.

SEE'DNESS, noun Seed-time. [Not in use.]

SEE'DSMAN, noun [seed and man.] A person who deals in seeds; also, a sower.

SEE'DY, adjective [from seed.]

1. Abounding with seeds.

2. Having a peculiar flavor, supposed to be derived from the weeds growing amoung vines; applied to French brandy.

SEE'ING, participle present tense [from see.] Perceiving by the eye; knowing; understanding; observing; beholding.

[Note. This participle appears to be used indefinitely, or without direct reference to a person or persons. 'Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me.?' Genesis 26:27. That is, since, or the fact being that or thus; because that. In this form of phraseology, that is understood or implied after seeing; why come ye to me, seeing that, ye hate me? The resolution of the phrase or sentence is, ye hate me; that fact being seen or known by you, why come ye to me? or why come you to me, ye seeing [knowing] that fact which follows, viz. ye hate me. In this case, seeing retains its participial character, although its relation to the pronoun is somewhat obscured. Originally, seeing, in this use, had direct relation to the speaker or to some other person. 'Mow I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not witheld thy son.' Genesis 22:12. Here seeing refers to I, or according to the language of syntax, agrees or accords with I. I know thou fearest God, for I see thou hast not withheld thine only son; I know thou fearest God by seeing, in consequence of seeing this fact, thou hast not withheld thine only son. But the use of seeing is extended to cases in which it cannot be referred to a specifec person or persons, in which cases it expresses the notoriety or admission of a fact in general, and is left, like the French on, in the phrases on dit, on voit, without application to any particular person.]

SEEK, verb transitive pret and participle passive sought, pronounced sawt. [L. sequor, to follow; for to seek is to go after, and the primary sense is to advance, to press, to drive forward, as in the L. peto.]

1. To go in searh or quest of; to look for; to search for by going from place to place.

The man asked him, saying, what seekest thou? And he said, I seek my brethen.

Genesis 37:16.

2. To inquire for; to ask for; to solicit; to endeavor to find or gain by any means.

The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God. Psalms 104:21.

He found no place for repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears. Hebrews 12:1

Others tempting him, sought of him a sign. Luke 11:9.

3.Seek is followed sometimes by out or after. To seek out, properly implies to look for a specific thing among a number. But in general, the use of out and after with seek, is unnecessary and inelegant.

To seek God, his name, or his face, in Scripture, to ask for his favor, direction and assistance. Psalms 83:16.

God seeks men, when he fixes his love on them, and by his word and Spirit, and the righteousness of Christ, reclaims and recovers them from their miserable condition as sinners.

Ezekiel 34:6. Psa 119. Luke 15:8.

To seek after the life, or soul, to attempt by arts or machinations; or to attempt to destroy or ruin. Psa 35.

To seek peace, or judgement, to endeavor to promote it; or to practice it.

Psa 34. Isaiah 1:17.

To seek an altar, temple, or habitation, to frequent it; to restore to it often.

2 Chronicles 1:1. Amos 5:4.

To seek out God's works, to endeavor to understand them. Psa 111.

SEEK, v. i.

1. To make search or inquiry; to endeavor to make discovery.

Seek ye out of the book of the Lord. Isaiah 34:16.

2. To endeavor.

Ask not what pains, nor further seek to know

Their process, or the forms of law below. Dryden.

To seek after, to make pursuit; to attempt to find or take. [See No. 3 supra.]

To seek for, to endeavor to find. Knolles.

To seek to, to apply to; to resort to. 1 Kings 10:1.

To seek, at a loss; without knowledge, measures or experience.

Unpractic'd, unprepar'd and still to seek. Milton. [This phrase, I believe, is wholly obsolete.]

SEEKER, noun.

1. One that seeks; an inquirer; as a seeker of truth.

2. One of a sect that profess no determinate religion.

SEEL, v. t. To close the eyes; a term of falconry, from the practice of the closing the eyes of a wild hawk.

SEEL, v. i. [See Sell.] To lean ; to incline to one side. Obs.

SEEL, noun. The rolling or agitation of a ship in a storm. Obs.

SEE'LILY, adv. In a silly manner. Obs.

SEE'LING,

SEEL, noun. Time; opportunity; season. Obs.

SEE'LY, adjective. [from seel.]

1. Lucky; fortunate. Obs.

2. Silly; foolish; simple. Obs. [See Silly.]

SEEM, v. i.

1. To appear; to make or have a show or semblance.

Thou art not what thou seems't. Shak.

All seem'd well pleased; all seem'd, but were not all. Milton.

2. To have the appearance of truth or fact; to be understood as true. It seems that the Turkish power is on the decline.

A prince of Italy, it seems, entertained his mistress on a great lake. Addison.

SEEM, v. t. To become; to befit. Obs.

SEE'MER, noun. One that carries an appearance or semblance.

Hence we shall see

If pow'r change purpose, what our seemers be. Shak.

SEE'MING, ppr.

1. Appearing; having the appearance or semblance, whether real or not.

2. adjective. Specious.

SEE'MING, noun.

1. Appearance; show; semblance.

2. Fair appearance.

These keep

Seeming and and savor all the winter long. Shak.

3. Opinion or liking; favorable opinion.

Nothing more clear to their seeming. Hooker.

His persuasive words impregn'd

with reason to her seeming. Obs. Milton.

SEE'MINGLY, adv. In appearance; in show; in semblance.

This the father seemingly complied with. Addison.

they depend often on remote and seemingly disproportioned causes. Atterbury.

SEE'MINGNESS, noun. Fair appearance; plausibility.

SEE'MLESS, adjective. Unseemly; unfit; indecorous. Obs.

SEE'MLINESS, noun. [from seemly.] Comliness; grace; fitness; propriety; decency; decorum.

When seemliness combines with portliness. Camden.

SEE'MLY, adjective. Becoming; fit; suited to the object, occasion, purpose or character; suitable.

Suspense of judgement and excercise of charity were safer and seemlier for christian men, than the hot pursuit of these controversies. Hooker.

Honor is not seemly for a fool. Proverbs 26:1.

SEE'MLY, adv. In a decent or suitable manner.

SEE'MLYHEAD, [See Head and Hood.] Comely or decent appearance. Obs.

SEEN, pp. of see.

1. Beheld; observed; understood.

2. adjective. Versed; skilled.

Noble Boyle, not less in nature seen- Obs. Dryden.

SEER, noun. [from see.]

1. One who sees; as a seer of visions.

2. A prophet; a person who forsees future events.

SEETHE, v. t. preterit tense seethed, sod; participle passive seethed, sodden. [Heb. to seethe to boil, to swell, to be inflated.] To boil; to decoct or prepare for food in hot liquor; as, to seethe flesh.

Thou shalt not seethe a kid in its mother's milk. Exodus 23:19.

SEETHE, v. i. To be in a state of ebullition; to be hot. [This word is rarely used in the common concerns of life.]

SEE'THED, pp. Boiled; decoated.

SEE'THER, noun. A boiler; a pot for boiling things.

SEE'THING, ppr. Boiling; decoating.

SEG, noun. Sedge. [Not in use.]

SEG'HOL, noun. a Hebrew vowel-point, or short vowel.

SEG'HOLATE, adjective. Marked with a seghol.

SEG'MENT, noun. [Latin segmentum, from seco, to cut off.]

1. In geometry, that part of the circle contained between a chord and an arch of that circle, or so much of the circle as is cut off by the chord.

2. In general, a part cut off or divided; as the segments of a calyx.

SEG'NITY, noun. [from Latin segnis.] Sluggishness; dullness; inactivity. [Not used.]

SEG'REGATE, v. t. [Latin segrego; se, from, and grex, flock.] To separate from others; to set apart.

SEG'REGATE, adjective. Select. [Little used.]

Segregate polygamy, (Polygamia segregata, Linne, ) a mode of inflorescence, when several florets comprehended within a common calyx, are furnished also with their proper perianths.

Martyn.

SEG'REGATED, pp. Separated; parted from others.

SEG'REGATING, ppr. Separating.

SEGREGA'TION, noun. Separation from others; a parting.

SEIGNEURIAL, adjective

1. Pertaining to the lord of a manor; manorial.

2. Vested with large powers; independent.

SEIGNIOR, noun [L. senior, elder.] A lord; the lord of a manor; but used also in the sout of Europe as a title of honor. The sultan of Turkey is called Grand Seignior.

SEIGNIORAGE, noun A royal right or prerogative of the king of England, by which he claims an allowance of gold and silver brought in the mass to be exchanged for coin.

SEIGNIO'RIAL, the same as seigneurial.

SEIGNIORIZE, verb transitive To lord it over. [Little used.]

SEIGNIORY, noun

1. A lordship; a manor.

2. The power or authority of a lord; dominion.

O'Neal never had any seignory over that country, but what he got by encroachment upon the English.

SEIN, noun [L. sagena.] A large net for catching fish. The seins used for taking shad in the Connecticut, sometimes sweep nearly the whole breadth of the river.

SE'INER, noun A fisher with a sein or net. [Not much used.]

SE'ITY, noun [L. se, one's self.] Something peculiar to a man's self. [Not well authorized.]

SEIZE, verb transitive

1. To fall or rush upon suddenly and lay hold on; or to gripe or grasp suddenly. The tiger rushes from the thicket and seizes his prey. A dog seizes an animal by the throat. The hawk seizes a chicken with his claws. The officer seizes a theif.

2. To take possession by force, with or without right.

At last they seize The scepter, and regard not David's son. Milton.

3. To invade suddenly; to take hold of; to come upon suddenly; as, a fever seizes a patient

And hope and doubt alternate seize her soul. Pope.

4. To take possession by virtue of a warrant or legal authority. The sherif seized the debtor's goods; the whole estate was seized and cofiscated. We say, to arrest a person, to seize goods.

5. To fasten; to fix. In seaman's language, to fasten two ropes or different parts oof one rope together with a cord.

To be seized of, to have possession; as a griffin seized of his prey. A B was seized and possessed of the manor of Dale.

To seize on or upon, is to fall on and grasp; to take hold on; to take possession.

SE'IZED, pp. Suddenly caught or grasped; taken by force; invaded suddenly; taken possession of; fastened with a cord; having possession.

SE'IZER, noun. One that seizes.

SE'IZING, ppr. Falling on and grasping suddenly; laying hold on suddenly; taking possession by force, or taking by warrant; fastening.

SE'IZING, noun.

1. The act of taking or grasping suddenly.

2. In seamen's language, the operation of fastening together ropes with a cord; also, the cord or cords used for such fastening.

SE'IZOR, noun. One who seizes.

SE'IZURE, noun.

1. The act of seizing; the act of laying hold on suddenly; as the seizure of a thief.

2. The act of taking possession by force; as the seizure of lands or goods; the seizureof a town by an enemy; the seizure of a throne by a usurper.

3. The act of taking by warrant; as the seizure of contraband goods.

4. The thing taken or seized.

5. Gripe; grasp; possession.

And give me seizure of the mighty wealth. Dryden.

6. Catch; a catching.

let there be no sudden seizure of a lapsed syllable, to play upon it. Watts.

SE'JANT, adjective. In heraldry, sitting, like a great cat with the fore feet straight; applied to a lion or other beast.

SEJU'GOUS, adjective. [Latin sejigus; sex, six, and jugum, yoke.] In botany, a sejugous leaf is a pinnate leaf having six pairs of leaflets.

SEJUNC'TION, noun. [Latin sejunctio; se, from, and jungo, to join.] The act of disjoining; a disuniting; separation. [Little used.]

SEJUNG'IBLE, adjective. [supra.] That may be disjoined. [Little used.]

SEKE, for sick, oblolete. [See Sick.]

SEL'COUTH, adjective. Rarely known; unusual; uncommon. Obs.

SEL'DOM, adv. [Sel probably signifies separate, distinct, coinciding with Latin solus.] Rarely; not often; not frequently.

Wisdom and youth are seldom joined in one. Hooker.

SEL'DOM, adjective. Rare; unfrequent. [Little used.]

SEL'DOMNESS, noun. Rareness; uncommonness; infrequency.

SELD'SHOWN, adjective. Rarely shown or exhibited. [Not in use.]

SELECT', v. t. [Latin selectus, from seligo; se, from, and lego, to pick, cull or gather.] to choose and take from a number; to take by preference from among others; to pick out; to cull; as, to select the best authors for persual; to select the most interesting and virtuous men for associates.

SELECT', adjective. Nicely chosen; taken from a number by preference; choice; whence, preferable; more valuable or excellent than others; as a body of select troops; a select company or society; a library consisted of select authors.

SELECT'ED, pp. Chosen and taken by preference from among a number; picked; culled.

SELECT'EDLY, adv. With care in selection.

SELECT'ING, ppr. Choosing and taking from a number; picked; culled.

SELEC'TION, noun. [Latin selectio.]

1. The act of choosing and taking from among a number; a taking from a number by preference.

2. A numbers of things selected or taken from others by preference. I have a small but valuable selection of books.

SELECT'IVE, adjective. Selecting; tending to select. [Unusual.]

SELECT'MAN, noun. [select and man.] In New England, a town officer chosen anually to manage the concerns of the town, provide for the poor, etc. Their number is usually from three to seven in each town, and these constitute a kind of executive authority.

SELECT'NESS, noun. The state of being select or well chosen.

SELECT'OR, noun. [Latin] One that selects or chooses from among a number.

SELE'NIATE, noun. a compound of selenic acid with a base.

SELEN'IC, adjective. Pertaining to selenium, or extracted from it; as selenic acid.

SEL'ENITE, noun. [Gr. the moon; so called on account of its reflecting the the moon's light with brilliancy.] Foliated or crystalized sulphate of lime. selenite is a subspecies of sulphate of lime, of two varieties, massive and acicular.

SELENIT'IC, adjective. Pertaining to selenite; resembling it, or partaking of its nature or properties.

SELENIT'ICAL,

SELE'NIUM, noun. [supra.] A new elementary body or substance, extracted from the pyrite of Fahlun in Sweden. It is of a gray dark brown color, with a brilliant metallic luster, and slighty translucent. It is doubted whether it ought to be classified with the metals.

SELENIU'RET, noun. A newly discovered mineral, of a shining lead gray color, with granular SELENU'RET, texture. It is composed chiefly of selenium, silver and copper.

SELENOGRAPH'IC, adjective. [infra.] Belonging to selenography.

SELENOGRAPH'ICAL,

SELENOG'RAPHY, noun. [Gr. the moon; to describe.] A desciption of the moon and its phenomena; a branch of cosmography.

SELF, adjective. or pron. plural selves; used chiefly in composition.

1. In old authors, this sometimes signifies particular, very, or same. 'And on tham sylfan geare; ' in that same year, that very year. Sax. Chron. adjective D. 1052, 1061.

Shoot another arrow that self way. Shak.

On these self hills. Raleigh.

At that self moment enters Palamon. Dryden.

In this sense, self is an adjective, and is now obsolete, except when followed by same; as on the self-same day; the self-same hour; the self-same thing; which is tautology.

2. In present usage, selfis united to certain personal pronouns and pronominal adjectives, to express emphasis or distinction; also when the pronoun is used reciprocally. thus, for emphasis, I myself will write; I will examine for myself; Thou thyself shalt go; thou shalt see for thyself; You yourself shall write; you shall see for yourself. He himself shall write; he shall examine for himself. She herself shall write; she shall examine for herself. The child itself shall be carried; it shall be present itself.

Reciprocally, I abhor myself; thou enrichest thyself; he loves himself; she admires herself; it pleases itself; we value ourselves; ye hurry yourselves; they see themselves. I did not hurt him, he hurt himself; he did not hurt me, I hurt myself.

Except when added to pronouns used reciprocally, self serves to give emphasis to the pronoun, or to render the distinction expressed by it more emphatical. 'I myself will decide, ' not only expresses my determination to decide, but the determination that no other shall decide.

Himself, herself, themselves, are used in the nomnative case, as well as in the objective.

Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples. See Matthew 23:4.

3. Self is sometimes as a noun, noting the individual subject to his own contemplation or action, or noting identity of person. Consciousness makes everyone to be what he call self.

A man's self may be the worst fellow to converse with in the world. Pope.

4. It also signifies personal interest, or love of private interest; selfishness.

The fondness we have for self- furnishes anothe long rank of prejudices. Watts.

Self is much used in composition.

SELF'CON'SCIOUNESS, noun. Consciouness within one's self.

SELF'DENY'ING, adjective. Denying one's self; a forbearing to indulge one's one appetites or desires.

SELF'ISH, adjective Regarding one's own interest chiefly or soley; influenced in actions by a view to private advantage.

SELF'ISHLY, adverb The exclusive of a person to his own interest or happiness; or that supreme self-love or self-preference, which leads a person in his actions to direct his purposes to the advancement of his own interest, power or happiness, without regarding the interest of others. Selfishness, in its worst or unqualified sense, is the ver essence of human depravity, and it stands in direct opposition to benevolence, which is the essence of the divine character. As God is love, so man, in his natural state, is selfishness.

SELF'NESS, noun Self-love; selfishness. [Not in use.]

SELL, for self; and sells for selves. [Scot.]

SELL, noun [Latin sella.] A saddle, and a throne. Obs.

SELL, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive sold. [

1. To transfer property or the exclusive right of possession to another for an equivalent in money. It is correlative to buy, as one party buys what the other sells. It is distinguished from exchange or barter, in which one commodity is given for another; wheras in selling the consideration is money, or its representative in current notes. To this distinction there may be certain exceptions. 'Esau sold his birthright to Jacob for a mess of pottage.' But this is unusual. 'Let us sell Joseph to the Ishmaelites- And they sold him for twenty pieces of silver.' Genesis 37:27.

Among the Hebrews, parents had power to sell their children.

2. To betray; to deliver or surrender for money or reward; as, to sell one's country.

3. To yield or give for a certain consideration. the troops fought like lions, and sold their lives dearly. that is, they yielded their lives, but first destroyed many, which made it a dear purchase for their enemies.

4. In Scripture, to give up to be harassed and made slaves.

He sold them into the hands of their enemies. Judges 2:1.

5. To part with; to renounce or forsake.

Buy the truth and sell it not. Proverbs 23:23.

To sell one's self to do evil, to give up one's self to be the slave of sin, and to work wickedness without restraint.

SELL, verb intransitive

1. To have commerce; to practice selling.

2. To be sold. Corn sells at a good price.

SEL'LANDER, noun A dry scab in a horses hough or pastern.

SELL'ER, noun The person that sells; a vender.

SELL'ING, participle present tense

1. Transferring the property of a thing for a price or equivalent in money.

2. Betraying for money.

SELV'EDGE, noun The edge of a cloth, where it is closed by complication the threads; a woven border, or border of the close works.

SELV'EDGED, adjective Having a selvedge.

SELVES, plu. of self.

SEM'BLABLE, adjective Like; similar; resembles.

SEM'BLABLY, adverb In like manner. [Not in use.]

SEM'BLANCE, noun

1. Likeness; resemblance; actual similitude; as the semblance of worth; semblance of virtue.

The semblance and initations of shells. Woodward.

2. Appearance; show; figure; form.

Their semblance kind, and mild their gestures where. Fairfax.

SEM'BLANT, noun Show; figure; resemblance. [Not in use.]

SEM'BLANT, adjective Like; resembling. [Not in use.]

SEM'BLATIVE, adjective Resembling; fit; suitable; according to.

And all is semblativea woman's part. Shak. [Not in use.]

SEM'BLE, verb transitive To imitate; to represent or make similar.

Where sembling art may carve the fair effect. Shak. [Not in use.]

SEM'I, Latin semi, In composition, signifies half.

SEM'IBREVE, [semi and breve; formerly written semibref.] In music, a note of half the duration of time of the breve. It is the measure note by which all others are regulated. It contains the time of two minims, four crotchets, eights quavers, sixteen semiquavers and thirty-two demisemiquavers.

SEM'ICIRCLE, noun [semi and circle.]

1. The half of a circle; the part of a circle comprehended between its diameter and half of its circumference.

2. Any body in the form of a half circle.

SEM'ICIRCLED, adjective Having the form of a half circle.

SEM'ICIRCULAR,

SEM'ICOLON, noun [semi and colon.] In grammar, and punctuation, the point [; ] the mark of pause to be observed- in reading or speaking, of less duration than the colon, double the duration of the comma, or half the duration of the period. It is used to distinguish the conjunct members of the sentence.

SEMIF'IC, adjective [Latin semen, seed and facio, to make.] Forming or producing seed.

SEM'IFLORET, noun [semi and floret.] A half floret, which is tubulous at the beginning, like a floret, and afterwards expanded in the form of a tongue.

SEMIFLOS'CULOUS, adjective [semi and Latin flosculous, a little flower. Semifloscular is also used, but is less analogical.] Composed of semiflorets; ligulate; as a semiflosculous flower.

SEMILU'NAR, adjective [Latin semi, and luna, moon.] Resembling in form a half moon.

SEMILU'NARY,

SEM'INAL, adjective [Latin seminalis, from semen, seed; from the root of sow.]

1. Pertaining to seed, or to the elements of production.

2. Contained in a seed; radical; rudimental; original; as seminal principles of generation; seminal virtue.

Seminal leaf, the same as seed-leaf.

SEM'INAL, noun seminal state.

SEMINAL'ITY, noun The nature of seed; or the power of being produced.

SEM'INARIST, noun [from seminary.] A Romish priest educated in a seminary.

SEM'INARY, noun [Latin seminarium, from semen, seed; semino, to sow.]

1. A seed-plant; ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation; a nursery; as, to transplant trees from a seminary.

[In this sense, the word is not used in America; being superseded by nusery.]

2. The place or original stock whence anything is brought.

This stratum, being the seminary or promptuary, furnishing matter for the formation of animal or vegetable bodies- Woodward. [Not in use.]

3. Seminal state. [Not in use.]

4. Source of propagation.

5. A place of education; any school, academy, college or univerlity, in which young persons are instructed in the several branches of learning which may qualify them for future employments. [This is the only signification of the word in the United States, at least as far as my knowledge

extends.]

6. A Romish priest educated in a seminary; a seminarist.

SEM'INARY, adjective Seminal; belonging to seed.

SEM'INATE, verb transitive [Latin semino] To sow; to spread; to propagate.

SEMINA'TION, noun [Latin seminatio.]

1. The act of sowing.

2. In botany, the natural dispersion of seeds.

SEM'INED, adjective Thick covered, as with seeds.

SEMINIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin semen, seed, and fero, to produce.] Seed-bearing; producing seed.

SEMINIF'ICAL,

SEMINIFICA'TION, noun Propagation from the seed or seminal parts.

SEM'IPED, noun [semi and Latin pes, a foot.] A half foot in poetry.

SEMIPE'DAL, adjective Containing a half foot.

SEM'IQUAVER, noun [semi and quaver.] In music, a note of half the duration of the quaver; the sixteenth of the semibreve.

SEM'IQUAVER, verb transitive To sound or sing in semiquavers.

SEMITER'TIAN, adjective [semi and tertian.] Compounded of a tertian and a quotidian ague.

SEMITER'TIAN, noun Am intermittent compounded of a tertian and a quotidian.

SEM'ITONE, noun [semi and tone.] In music, half a tone; an interval of sound, as between mi and fa on the diatonic scale, which is only half the distance of an interval between ut and re, or sol and la. It is the smallest interval admitted in modern.

SEMITON'IC, adjective Pertaining to a semitone; consisting of a simitone.

SEMPERVI'RENT, adjective [Latin semper, always and virens, flourishing.] Always fresh; evergreen.

SEMP'ERVIVE, noun [Latin semper, always, and vivus, alive.] A plant.

SEMPITERN'AL, adjective [Latin sempiternus; semper, always, and eternus, eternal.]

1. Eternal in futurity; everlasting; endless; having beginning, but no end.

2. Eternal; everlasting.

SEMPITERN'ITY, noun [Latin sempiternitas.] Future duration without end.

SEM'STER, noun A seamster; a man who uses a needle. [Not in use.]

SEN, adverb This word is usedby some of our common people for since. It seems to be a contraction of since, or it is the Sw. sen, Dan. seen, slow, late.

SEN'ARY, adjective [Latin seni, senarius.] Of six; belonging to six; containing six.

SEN'ATE, noun [Latin senatus, from senex, old.]

1.An a assembly or council of senators; a body of the principal inhabitants of the city or state,

with a share in the government. The senate of ancient Rome was one of the most illustrious bodies of men that ever bore this name. Some of the Swiss cantons have a senate, either legislative or executive.

2. In the United States, senate denotes the higher branch or house of legislature. Such is the senate of the United States, or upper house of the congress; and in most of the states, the higher and least numerous branch of the legislature, is called the senate. In the U. States, the senate is an elective body.

3. In a looser sense, Any legislative or deliberative boky of men; as the eloquence of the senate.

SEN'ATOR, noun

1. A mimber of a senate. In Rome one of the qualifications of a senator was the possession of property to the amount of 80, 000 sesterces, about 7000 pounds sterling, or thirty dollars. In Scotland, the lords of session are called senators of the college of justices.

2. A counselor; a judge or magistrate.

SENATO'RIAL, adjective

1. Pertaining to a senate; becoming a senator; as senatorial robes; senatorial eloquence.

2. Entitled to elect a senator; as senatorial district.

SENATO'RIALLY, adverb In the manner of a senate; with dignity or solemnity.

SEN'ATORSHIP, noun The office or dignity of a senator.

SEND, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive sent.

1. In adjective general sense, to throw, cast or thrust; to impel or drive by force to a distance, either with the hand or with an instrument or by other means. We send a ball with the hand or with a bat; a bow sends an arrow; a cannon sends a shot; a trumpet sends the voice much farther than the unassisted organs of speech.

2. To cause to be conveyed or transmitted; as, to send letters or dispatches from one country to another.

3. To cause to go or pass from place to place; as, to send a messenger from London to Madrid.

4. To commission, autorize or direct to go and act.

I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran. Jeremiah 23:1.

5. To cause to come or fall; to bestow.

He sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. Matthew 5:45.

6. To cause to come or fall; to inflict.

The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation and rebuke. Duet. 28.

7. To propagate; to diffuse.

Cherubic songs by night from neighb'ring hills

Aerial music send. Milton.

To send away, to dismiss; to cause to depart.

To send forth or out, to produce; to put or bring forth; as, a tree sends forth branches.

2. To emit; as flowers send forth their fragrance.

SEND, verb intransitive To dispatch an agent or messenger for some purpose.

See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away my head? 2 Kings 6:13.

So we say, we sent to invite guests; we sent to inquire into the facts.

To send for, to request or require by message to come or be brought; as, to send for a physician; to send for a coach. But these expressions are elliptical.

SEN'DAL, noun A light thin stuff of silk or thread. [Not in use.]

SEND'ER, noun One that sends.

SEN'EGA, noun A plant called rattlesnake root, of the genus Polygala.

SEN'EKA,

SENES'CENCE, noun [Latin senesco, from senex, old. See Senate.] The state of growing old; decay by time.

SEN'ESCHAL, noun A steward; an officer in the houses of princes and dignitaries, who has the superintendance of feasts and domestic ceremonies. In some instances, the seneschal is an officer who has the dispensing of justice, as the high seneschal of England, etc.

SEN'GREEN, noun A plant, the houseleek, of the genus Sempervivium.

SE'NILE, adjective [Latin senilis.] Pertaining to old age; proceeding from age.

SENIL'ITY, noun Old age. [Not much used.]

SENIOR, adjective see'nyor. [Latin senior, comparative of senex, old.] Elder or older; but as an adjective, it usually signifies older in office; as the senior pastor of a church, where there are colleagues; a senior counselor. In such use, senior has no reference to age, for a senior counselor may be, and ofted is the younger man.

SENIOR, noun see'nyor.

1. A person who is older than another; one more advanced in life.

2. One that is older in office, or one whose first entrance upon an office was anterior to that of another. Thus a senator or counselor of sixty years of age, often has a senior who is not fifty years of age.

3. An aged person; one of the oldest inhabitants.

A senior of the place replies. Dryden.

SENIOR'ITY, noun

1. Eldership; superior age; priority of birth. He is the elder brother, and entitled to the plae of seniority.

2. Priority in office; as the seniority of a pastor or counselor.

SEN'NA, noun The leaf of the cassia senna, a native of the east, used as a cathartic.

SENNIGHT, noun sen'nit. [contracted from sevennight, as fortnight from fourteennight.] The space of seven nights and days; a week. The court will be held this sennight, that is, a week from this day; or the court will be held next Tuesday sennight, a week from next Tuesday.

SENOC'ULAR, adjective [Latin seni, six, and oculus, the eye.] Having six eyes.

Most animals are binocular, spiders are octonocular, and some are senocular.

Derham.

SENS'ATED, adjective [See Sense.] Perceived by the senses. [Not used.]

SENSA'TION, noun [from Latin sensus, sentio, to perceive. See Sense.] The perception of external objects by means of the senses.

Sensation is an exertion or charge of the central parts of the sensorium, or of the whole of it, beginning at some of those extreme parts of it which reside in the muscles or organs of sense. The secretion of tears in grief is caused by the sensation of pain. Efforts of the will are frequently accompanied by painful or pleasurable sensations.

SENSE, noun [from Latin sensus, from sentio, to feel or perceive.]

1. The faculty of the soul by which it perceives external objects by means of impressions made on certain organs of the body.

SENSE is a branch of perception. the five senses of animals are sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste.

2. Sensation; perception by the senses.

3. Perception by the intellect; apprehension; discernment.

4. Sensibility; quickness or acuteness of perception.

5. Understanding; soundness of faculties; strength of natural reason.

Opprest nature sleeps;

This rest might yet have balm'd thy broken senses. Shak.

6. Reason; reasonable or rational meaning.

He raves; his words are loose

As heaps of sand, and scattering wide from sense. Dryden.

7. Opinion; notion; judgement.

I speak my private but impartial sense

With freedom. Roscommon.

8. Consciousness; conviction; as a due sense of our weakness or sinfulness.

9. Moral perception.

Some are so hardened in wickedness, as to have no sense of the most friendly offices.

L'Estrange.

10. Meaning; important; signification; as the true sense of words or phrases. In interpretation, we are to examine whether words are to be understood in a literal or figurative sense. So we speak of a legal sense, a grammatical sense, an historical sense, etc.

Common sense, that power of the mind which, by a kind of instinct, or a short process of reasoning, perceives truth, the relation of things, cause and effect, etc. and hence enables the possessor to discern what is right, useful, expedient, or proper, and adopt the best meams to accomplish his purpose. This power seems to be the gift of nature, improved by experience and observation.

Moral sense, a determination of the mind to be pleased with the contemplation of those effections, actions or characters of rational agents, which are called good or virtuous.

SENS'ED, participle passive Perceived by the senses. [Not in use.]

SENSEFUL, adjective sens'ful. Reasonable; judicious. [Not in use.]

SENSELESS, adjective sens'less.

1. Wanting the faculty of perception. The body when dead is senseless; but a limb or other part of the body may be senseless, when the rest of the boky enjoys its usual sensibility.

2. Unfelling; wanting sympathy.

The senseless feels not your pious sorrows. Rowe.

3. Unreasonable; foolish; stupid.

They would repent this their senseless perverseness, when it would be to late.

Clarendon.

4. Unreasonable; stupid; acting without sense or judgement.

Ther were a senseless stupid race. Swift.

5. Contrary to reason or sound judgement; as, to destroy by a senseless fondness the happiness of children.

6. Wanting knowledge; unconscious; with of; as libertiness, senseless of any charm in love.

7. Wanting sensibility or quick perception.

SENSELESSNESS, noun sens'lessness. Unreasonableness; folly; stupidity; absurdity.

SENSIBIL'ITY, noun

1. Susceptibility of impressions; the capacity for feeling or perceiving the impressions of external objects; applied to the animal bodies; as when we say, a frozen limb has lost its sensibility.

2. Acuteness of sensation; applied to the body.

3. Capacity of acuteness of perception; that quality of the soul which renders it susceptible of impressions; delicacy of feeling; as sensibility to pleasure or pain; sensibility to shame or praise; exquisite sensibility.

4. Actual feeling.

This adds to my great sensibility. Burke.

[This word is often used in this manner for sensation.]

5. It is sometimes used in the plural.

His sensibilities seem rather to have been those of patriotism, than of wounded pride.

Marshall.

Sensibilities unfriendly to happiness, may be acquired. Encyc.

6. Nice perception, so to speak, of a balance; that quality of a balance which renders it movable with the smallest weight, or the quality or state of any insrument that renders it easily affected; as the sensibility of a balance or of a thermometer.

SENS'IBLE, adjective

1. Having the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; capable of perceiving by the instrumentality of the proper organs. We say the body or the flesh is sensible, when it feels the impulse of an external body. It may be more or less sensible.

2. Perceptible by the senses. The light of the moon furnishes no sensible heat.

Air is sensible to the touch by its motion. Arbuthnot.

3. Perceptible or perceived by the mind.

The disgrace was more sensible then the pain. Temple.

4. Perceiving or having perception, either by the mind or the senses.

A man cannot think at any time, waking or sleeping, without being sensible of it.

Locke.

5. Having moral perception; capable of being affected by moral good or evil.

If thou wert sensible of courtesy,

I should not make so great a show of zeal. Shak.

6. Having acute intellectual feeling; being easily or strongly affected; as, to be sensible of wrong.

7. Perceiving so clearly as to be convinced; satisfied; persuaded.

They are now sensible it would have been better to comply, than refuse. Addison.

8. Intelligent; descerning; as a sensible man.

9. Moved by a very small weight or impulse; as, a sensible balance is necessary to ascertain exact weight.

10. Affected by a slight degree of heat or cold; as a sensible thermometer.

11. Containing good sense or sound reason.

He addressed Claudius in the following sensible and noble speech. Henry.

Sensible note, in music, that which constitutes a third major above the dominant, and a semitone beneath the tonic.

SENS'IBLE, noun Sensation; also, whatever may be perceived.

SENS'IBLENESS, noun

1. Possibility of being perceived by the senses; as the sensibleness of odor or sound.

2. Actual perception by the mind or body; as the sensibleness of an impression on the organs. [But qu.]

3. Sensibility; quickness or acuteness of perception; as the sensibleness of the eye.

4. Susceptibility; capacity of being strongly affected, or actual feeling; consciousness; as the sensibleness of the soul and sorrow for sin.

5. Intelligence; reasonableness; good sense.

6. Susceptibility of slight impressions. [See Sensible, No. 9, 10.]

SENS'IBLY, adverb

1. In a manner to be perceived by the senses; perceptibly to the senses; as pain sensibly increased; motion sensibly accelerated.

2. With perception, either of mind or body. He feels his loss very sensibly.

3. Externally; by affecting the senses.

4. With quick intellectual perception.

5. With intelligence or good sense; judiciously. The man converses very sensibly on all common topics.

SENS'ITIVE, adjective [Latin sensitivus, from sensus, sentio.]

1. Having sense or feeling, or having the capacity of perceiving impressions from external objects; as sensitive soul; sensitive appetite; sensitive faculty.

2. That affects the senses; as sensitive objects.

3. Pertaining to the senses, or to sensation; depending on sensation; as sensitive motions; sensitive muscular motions excited by irritation.

SENS'ITIVELY, adverb In a sensitive manner.

SENS'ORIAL, adjective Pertaining to the sensory or sensorium; as sensorial faculties; sensorial motion or powers.

SENSO'RIUM, noun [from Latin senus, sentio.]

SENS'ORY,

1. The seat of sense; Darwin uses sensorium to express not only the medullary part of the brain, spinal marrow, nerves, organs of sense and the muscles, but also that living principle or spirit of animation which resides throughout the body, without being cognizable to our senses, except by its effects. The canges which occasionally take place in the sensorium, as during exertions of volition, or the sensations of pleasure and pain, he terms sensorial motions.

2. Organ of sense; as double sensories; two eyes, two ears, etc.

SENSUAL, adjective [from Latin sensus.]

Pertaining to the senses, as distinct from the mind or soul.

Far as creation's ample range extends.

The scale of sensual, mental pow'rs ascends. Pope.

2. Consisting in sense, or depending on it; as sensual appetites, hunger, lust, etc.

3. Affecting the senses, or derived from them; as sensual pleasure or gratification. Hence,

4. In theology, carnal; pertaining to the flesh or body, in opposition to the spirit; not spiritual or holy; evil.

5. Devoted to the gratification of sense; given to the indulgence of the appetites; sewd; luxurious.

No small part of virtue consists in abstaining from that on wich sensual men place their felicity. Atterbury.

SENSU'ALIST, noun Aperson given to the indulgence of the appetites or senses; one who places his chief happiness in carnal pleasures.

SENSUAL'ITY, noun Devotedness o the gratification of the bodily appetites; free indulgence in carnal or sensual pleasures.

Those pamper'd animals

That rage in savage sensuality. Shak.

They avoid dress, lest they should have affections tainted by any sensuality. Addison.

SENS'UALIZE, verb transitive To make sensual; to subject to the love of sensual pleasure; to debase by carnal gratifications; as sensualized by pleasure.

By the neglect of prayer, the thoughts are sensualized.

SENS'UALLY, adverb In a sensual manner.

SENS'UOUS, adjective [from sense.] Tender; pathetic. [Not in use.]

SENT, preterit tense and participle passive of send.

SEN'TENCE, noun [from Latin sententia, from sentio, to think.]

1. In law, a judgement pronounced by a court or judge upon a criminal; a jdicial decision publicly and officially declared in a criminal prosecution. In technical language, sentence is used only for the declaration of judgement against the convicted of a crime. In civil cases, the decision of the court is called a judgement. In criminal cases, sentence is a judgement pronounced; doom.

2. In language not technical, a determination or decision given, particularly a decision that condemns, ar an unfavorable determination.

Let him be sent out lome of Luther's works, that by them we may pass sentence upon his doctrines. Atterbury.

3. An opinion; judgement concerning a controverted point.

4. A maxim; an axiom; a short saying containing moral instruction.

5. Vindication of one's innocence.

6. In grammar, a period; a number of words containing a complete sense or sentiment, and followed by a full pause. Sentences are simple or compound. A simple sentence consists of one subject and one finite verb; as, 'the Lord reigns.' A compound sentence two or more subjects and finite verbs, as in this verse,

He fills, he bounds, connects and equals all. Pope.

A dark sentence, a saying not easily explained.

SEN'TENCE, verb transitive

1. To pass or pronounce the judgement of a court on; to doom; as, to sentence a convict to death, to transportation, or to imprisonment.

2. To condenm; to doom to punisment.

Nature herself is sentenc'd in your doom. Dryden.

SENTEN'TIAL, adjective

1. Comprising sentences.

2. Pertaining to a sentence or full period; as a sentential pause.

SENTEN'TIOUS, adjective

1. Abounding with sentences, axioms and maxims; short and energetic; as a sententious style or discourse; sententious truth.

How he apes his sire,

Ambitiously sententious. Addison.

2. Comprising sentences; as sententious marks.

[This should be sentential.]

SENTEN'TIOUSLY, adverb In short expressive periods; with striking brevity.

Nausicca delivers her judgement sententiously, to give it more weight. Broome.

SENTEN'TIOUSNESS, noun Pithiness of sentences; brevity with strength.

The Medea I esteem for its gravity and sententiousness. Dryden.

Sentery, and sentry are corrupted from sentinel.

SENTIENT, adjective sen'shent. [Latin sentiens, sentio.] That perceives; having the faculty of perception. Man is a sentient being; he possesses a sentient principle.

SEN'TIENT, noun

1. A being or person that has the faculty of perception.

2. He that perceives.

SEN'TIMENT, noun [from Latin sentio, to feel, perceive or think.]

1. Properly. a thought prompted by passion or feeling.

2. In a popular sense, Thought; opinion; notion; judgement; the decilion of the mind formed by deliberation or reasoning. Thus in deliberative bodies, every man has the privilege of delivering his sentiments upon questions, motions and bills.

3. The sense, thought or opinion contained in words, but considered as distinct from them. We may like the sentiment, when we dislike the language.

4. Sensibility; feeling.

SENTIMENT'AL, adjective

1. Abounding with sentiment, or just opinions or reflections; as a sentimental discourse.

2. Expressing quick intellectual feeling.

3. Affecting sensibility; in a contemptuous sense.

SENTIMENT'ALIST, noun One that affects sentiment, fine feeling or exquisite sensibility.

SENTIMENTAL'ITY, noun Affectation of fine feeling or exqisite sensibility.

SENT'INEL, noun [from Latin sentio, to perceive.] In military affairs, a soildier sent to watch or guard an army, camp or other place from surprise, to observe the approach of danger and give notice of it. In popular sense, the word is contracted into sentry.

SEN'TRY, noun

1. [See Sentinel.]

2. Guard; watch; the duty of a sentines.

O'er my slumbers sentry keep. Brown.

SE'PAL, noun [from Latin sepio.] In botany, the small leaf or part of a calyx.

SEPARABIL'ITY, noun [from separable.] The quality of being separable, or of admitting separation or disunion.

Separability is the greatest argument of real distinction. Glanville.

SEP'ARABLE, adjective That may be separated, disjoined, disunited or rent; as the separable parts of plants; qualities not separable from the substance in which they exsist.

SEP'ARABLENESS, noun The quality of being capable of separation or disunion.

Trials permit me not to doubt of the separablenessof a yellow tincture from gold.

Boyle.

SEP'ARATE, verb transitive [Latin separo.]

1. To disunite; to divide; to sever; to part, in almost any manner, either things naturally or casually joined. The parts of a solid substance may be separated by breaking, cutting or splitting, or by fusion, decomposition or natural dissolution. A compound body may be separated into its constituent parts. Friends may be separated by necessity, and must be separated by death. The prism separates the several kinds of colored rays. A riddle separates the chaff from the grain.

2. To set apart from a number for a particular service.

Separate me Barnabas and Saul. Acts 8:1.

3. To dilconnect; as, to separate man and wife by divorce.

4. To make space between. The Atlantic separates Europe from America. A narrow strait separates Europe from Africa.

To separate one's self, to withdraw; to depart.

Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me. Genesis 8:1.

SEP'ARATE, verb intransitive

1. To part; to be disunited; to be disconnected; to withdraw from each other. The parties separated, and each retired.

2. To cleave; to open; as, the parts of a substance separate by drying or freezing.

SEP'ARATE, adjective [Latin separatus.]

1. Divided from the rest; being parted from another; disjoined; disconnected; used of things that have been united or connected.

2. Unconnected; not united; distinct; used of things that have not been connected.

Christ was holy, harmless, undefiled and separate from sinners. Hebrews 7:26.

3. Disunited from the body; as a separate spirit; the separate state of souls.

SEP'ARATED, participle passive Divided; parted; disunited; disconnected.

SEP'ARATELY, adverb In a separate or unconnected state; apart; distinctly; singly. The opinions of the council were separately taken.

SEP'ARATENESS, noun The state of being separate.

SEPARA'TION, noun [L. separatio.]

1. The act of separating, severing or disconnecting; disjunction; as the separation of the soul from the body.

2. The state of being separate; disunion; disconection.

All the days of his separation he is holy to the lord. Numbers 6:4.

3. The operation of disuniting or decomposing substances; chimical analysis.

4. Divorce; disunion of married persons.

SEP'ARATIST, noun One that withdraws from an established church, to which he has belonged; a dissenter; a seceder; a schismatic; a sectary.

SEP'ARATOR, noun One that divides or disjoins; a divider.

SEP'ARATORY, adjective That separates; as separatory ducts. [Little used.]

SEP'ARATORY, noun A chimical vessel for separating liquors; and a surgical instrument for separating the pericranium from the cranium.

SEP'ATATING, participle present tense Dividing; disjoining; putting or driving asunder; disconecting; decompsing.

SEPAWN', noun A species of food consisting of mial of maiz boiled in water. It is in New York

SEP'IMENT, noun [L. sepimentum, from sepio, to inclose.] A hedge; a fence; something that seperates or defends.

SEPIN', and Pennsylvania what hasty-pudding is in New England.

SEPO'SE, verb transitive sepo'ze. [L. sepono, sepositus.] To set apart. [Not in use.]

SEPOSI''TION, noun The act of setting apart; segregation. [Not in use.]

SE'POY, noun A native of India, employed as a soldier in the service of European powers.

SEPS, noun [L. from Gr. Cuvier.] A species of venomous eft or lizard. A genus of lizards, the efts, closely resembling the serpents, from which they scarcely differ, expect in their short and often indistinct feet, and the marks of an external auditory oriface.

SEPT, noun [L. prosapia; or Heb. See Class Sb. No. 23.] A clan, race or family, proceeding from a common progrnitor; used of the races or families in Ireland.

SEPTAN'GULAR, adjective [L. septem, seven, and angulus, angle.] Having seven angles or sides.

SEPTA'RIA, noun [L. septa, partitions.] A name given to nodules or spheroidal mass of calcarios marl, whose interior present numerous fissures or seams of some crystalized substance, which divide the mass.

SEPTEM'BER, noun [L. septem, seven.] The seventh month from march, which was formerly the first month of the year. september is now the ninth conth of the year.

SEPTEM'PARTITE, adjective Divided into seven parts.

SEP'TENARY, adjective [L. septenarius, from septem, seven.] Consisting of seven; as a sepenary number.

SEP'TENARY, noun The number seven.

SEPTEN'NIAL, adjective [L. septennis; septem, seven, and annus, year.]

1. Lasting or continuing seven years; as septennial parliaments.

2. Happening or returning once in wvery seven years; as septennial elections in England.

SEPTEN'TRION, noun [L. septentrio.] The north or northern regions.

SEPTEN'TRION, [L. septentrionalis] Northern; pertaining to the north.

SEPTEN'TRIONAL

From cold septerion blasts.

SEPTENTRIONAL'ITY, noun Northerliness. [A bad word.]

SEPTEN'TRIONATE, verb intransitive To tend northerly. [This word septentrion and its derivatives are hardly anglicized; they are harsh, unnecessary and little used, and may well be suffered to pass into disuse.]

SEPT'FOIL, noun [L. septem and folium; seven leaved.] A plant of the genus Tormentilla.

SEP'TIC, adjective [Gr. to putrefy.]

SEP'TICAL,

1. Having power to promote putrefacation. Many experiments were made by Sir John Pringle to ascertain the septic and anteseptic virtues of natural bodies.

2. Proceeding from or generated by putrefaction; as septic acid.

SEP'TIC, noun A substance that promotes the putrefaction of bodies.

SEPTIC'ITY, noun Tendency to putrefaction.

SEPTILAT'ERAL, adjective [L. septem, seven and latus, side.] Having seven sides; as a septilateral figure.

SEPTIN'SULAR, adjective [Latin septum, seven, and insula, isle.] Consisting of seven isles; as the septinsular republic of the Ionian isles.

SEPTUAG'ENARY, adjective [Latin septuagenarius, from septuaginta, seventy.] Consisting of seventy.

SEPTUAG'ENARY, noun A person seventy years of age.

SEPTUAGES'IMA, noun [Latin septuagesimus, seventieth.] THe third Sunday before Lent, or before

Quadragesima Sunday, supposed to be called because it is about seventy days before Easter.

SEPTUAGES'IMAL, adjective [supra.] Cosisting of seventy.

Our abriged and septuagesimal age. Brown.

SEP'TUAGINT, noun [Latin septuaginta, seventy; septem, seven, and some word signifying ten.] A Greek version of the Old Testament, so call because it was the work of seventy, or rather of seventy-two interpreters. This translation from the Hebrew is supposed have been made in the reign and by the order of Ptolemy Philadelphus, king of Egypt, about two hundred and seventy or eighty years before the birth of Christ.

SEP'TUAGINT, adjective Pertaining to the Septuagint; contained in the Greek copy of the Old Testament.

The Septuagint chonology makes fifteen hundred years more from the creation to Abraham, than the present Hebrew copies of the Bible. Encyc.

SEP'TUARY, noun [Latin septum, seven.] Something composed of seven; a week. [Little used.]

SEP'TUPLE, adjective [Low Latin septuplex; septum, seven. and plico, to fold.] Seven fold; seven times as much.

SEP'ULCHER, noun [from Latin sepulchrum, from sepelio, to bury, which seems to be formed with a prefix on the Goth. filhan, to bury.] A grave; atomb; the place in which a dead body of a human being is interred, or a place destined for that purpose. Among the Jews sepulchers were often excavations in rocks.

SEP'ULCHER, verb transitive To bury; to inter; to entomb; as obscurely sepulchered.

SEPUL'CHRAL, adjective [Latin sepulchralis, from sepulchrum.] Pertaining to burial, to grave, or to monuments erected to the memory of the dead; as sepulchral stone; a sepulchral statue; a sepulchral inscription.

SEP'ULTURE, noun Burial; internment; the act of depositing the dead body of a human being in the grave.

Where we may royal sepulture prepare. Dryden.

SEQUA'CIOUS, adjective [Latin sequax, from sequor, to follow. See Seek.]

1. Following; attendant.

Trees uprooted left their place,

Sequacious of the lyre. Dryden.

The fond sequacious herd. Thomson.

2. Ductile; pliant.

The forge was easy, and the matter ductile and sequacious. [Little used.] Ray.

SEQUA'CIOUSNESS, noun State of being sepuacious; disposition to follow.

SEQUAC'ITY, noun [supra.]

1.A following, or disposition to follow.

2. Ductility; pliableness. [Little used.]

SE'QUEL, noun [L. sequor, to follow.]

1. That which follows; a succeeding part; as the sequel of a man's adventures or history.

2. Consequence; event. Lit the sun or moon cease, fail or swerve, and the sequel would be ruin.

3. Consequence inferred; consequentialness. [Little used.]

SE'QUENCE, noun [L. sequens, sequor.]

1. A following, or that which follows; aconsequent.

2. Order of succession.

How art thou king But by fair sequence and succession? Shak.

3. Series; arrangement; method.

4. In music, a regular alternate succession of similar chords.

SE'QUENT, adjective [supra.]

1. Following; succeeding.

2. Consequential. [Little used.]

SE'QUENT, noun A follower. [Not in use.]

SEQUES'TER, verb transitive [L. sequestro, to sever or separate, to put int the hands of and indifferent person, as a deposit; sequester, belonging to mediation or umpirage, and as a noun an umpire, referee, midiator. This word is probably a compound of se and the root of quaestus, quaesitus, sought. See Question.]

1. To separate from the owner for a time; to seize or take possession of some property which belongs to another, and hold it tillthe profits hve paid the demand for which it is taken.

Formerly the goods of a defendant in chancery, were, in the last resort, sequestered and detained to enforce the degrees of the court. and now the profits of a benefice are sequestered to pay the debts of the ecclesiastecs. Blackstone.

2. To take from parties in controversy and put into the possession of an indiffernt person.

3. To put aside; to remove; to separate; frome other things.

I had wholly sequestered my civil affairs. Bacon.

4. To sequester one's self, to separate one's self from seciety; to withdraw or retire; to seclude one's self for the sake of privacy or solitude; as, to sequester one's self from action.

5. To cause to retire or withdraw into obscurity.

It was his taylor and his cook, his fine fashions and his French ragouts which sequestered him. South.

SEQUES'TER, verb intransitive To decline, as a window, any concern with the estate of a husband.

SEQUES'TERED, participle passive Seized asnd detained for a time, to satisfy a demand; separated; also, being in retirement; secluded; private; as a sequestered situation.

SEQUES'TRABLE, adjective That may be seqestered or separated; subject or liable to sequestration.

SEQUES'TRATE, verb transitive To seqester. [It is less used than seqester, but exactly synonymous.]

SEQUESTRA'TION, noun

1. The act of taking a thing from parties contending for it, and entrusting it to an indifferent person.

2. In the civil law, the act of the ordinary, disposing of the goods and chattels of one deceased, whose estate no will meddle with.

3. The act of taking property from the owner for a time, till the rents, issues and profits satisfy a demand.

4. The act of seizing the estate of a delinquent for the use of the state.

5. Separation; retirement; seclusion from society.

6. State of being separated or set aside.

7. Disunion; disjunction. [Not in use.]

SEQUESTRA'TOR, noun

1. One that sequesters property, or takes the possession of it for a time, to satilfy a demand out of its rents or profits.

2. One to whom the keeping of sequestered property is committed.

SE'QUIN, noun A gold coin of Venice and Turkey, of different value in different places. At Venice, its value is about 9s. 2d. sterling, or $2.04. In other parts of Italy, it is stated to be of the 9s. value, or $2. It is sometimes written chequin and zechin. [See Zechin.]

SERAGLIO, noun seral'yo. The palace of the Grand Seignior or Turkish sultan, or the palace of a prince. The seraglio of the sultan is a long range of buildings inhabited by the Grand Seignior and all the officers and dependents of his court; and in it is transacted all the business of government. In this also are confined the females of the harem.

SER'APH, noun plural seraphs; but sometimes the Hebrew plural, seraphim, is used. [from Heb. to burn.] An angel of the highest order.

As full, as perfect in vile man that mourns,

As the rapt seraph that adores and burns. Pope.

SERAPH'IC, adjective

SERAPH'ICAL,

1. Pertaining to a seraph; angelic; sublime; as seraphic purity; seraphic fervor.

2. Pure; refined from sensuality.

3. Burning or inflamed with love or zeal. Thus St. Bonaventure was called the seraphic doctor.

SER'APHIM, noun [the Hebrew plural of seraph.] Angels of the highest order in the celestial hierarchy. [It is sometimes improperly written seraphims.]

SERAS'KIER, noun A Turkish commander or general of land forces.

SERASS' noun A fowl of the East Indies, of the crane kind.

SERE, adjective Dry; withered; usually written sear, which see.

SERE, noun A claw or talon. [Not in use.]

SERENA'DE, noun [from Latin serenus, clear, serene.]

1. Properly, music performed in a clear night; hence, an entertainment of music given in the night by a lover to his mistress under her window. It cosists of generally instrumental music, but that of the voice is sometimes added. The songs composed for these occasions are also called serenades.

2. Music performed in the streets during the stillness of the night; as a midnight serenade.

SERENA'DE, verb transitive To entertain with nocturnal music.

SERENA'DE, verb intransitive To perform nocturnal music.

SERENA GUTTA. [See Gutta Serena.]

SERENA'TA, noun A vocal piece of music on an armorous subject.

SERE'NE, adjective [Latin serenus; Heb. Ch. Syr. Ar. to shine. Class Sr. No. 2. 23.47.]

1. Clear or fair, and calm; as a serene sky; serene air; Serene imports great purity.

2. Bright.

The moon, serene in glory, mounts the sky. Pope.

3. Caln; unruffled; undisturbed; as a serene aspect; a serene soul.

4. A title given to several princes and magistrates in Europe; as serene highness; most serene.

SERE'NE, noun A cold damp evening. [Not in use.]

SERE'NE, verb transitive

1. To make clear and calm; to quiet.

2. To clear; to brighten.

SERE'NELY, adverb

1. Calmly; quietly.

The setting sun now shown serenely bright. Pope.

2. With unruffled temper; colly.

SERE'NENESS, noun The state of being serene; serenity.

SEREN'ITUDE, noun Calmness. [Not in use.]

SEREN'ITY, noun [Latin serenitas.]

1. Clearness and calmness; as the serenity of the air or sky.

2. Calmness; quietness; stillness; peace.

A general peace and serenity newly succeeded general trouble. Temple.

3. Calmness of mind; evenness of temper; undisturbed state; collness.

I cannot see how any men should transgress those moral rules with confidence and serenity. Locke.

4. A title of respect.

SERF, noun [Latin servus.] A servant or slave employed in husbandry, and in some countries, attached to the soil and transferred with it. The serfs in Poland are slaves.

SERGE, noun A wollen quilted stuff manufactured in a loom with four treddles, after the manner of ratteens.

SERGEANT, noun s'arjent. [Latin serviens, serving, for so was this word written in Latin.]

1. Formerly, an officer in England, nearly answering to to the more modern bailif of the hundred; also, an officer whose duty was to attend on the king, and on the lord high steward in court, to arrest traitors and other effenders. This officer is now called serjeant at arms, or mace. There are at present other officers of an inferior kind, to attend mayors and magistrates to execute their orders.

2. In military affairs, a non-commissioned officer in a company of infantry or troop of dragoons, armed with halbert, whose duty is to see discipline is observed, to order and form the ranks, etc.

3. In England, a lawyer of the highest rank, answering to the doctor of the civil law.

4. A title sometimes given to the king's servants; as sergeant surgeon, servant surgeon.

SERGEANTRY, noun s'arjentry. In england, sergeantry is of two kinds; grand sergeantry and petit sergeantry. Grand sergeantry, is a particular kind of knight service, a tenure by which the tenant was bound to do some special honorary service to the king in person, as to carry his banner, his sword or the like, or to be his butler, his champion or other officer at his coronation, to lead his host, to be his marshal, to blow a horn when an enemy approaches, etc.

Petit sergeantry, was a tenure by which the tenant was bound to render to the king annually some small implement of war, as a bow, a pair of spurs, a sword, a lance, or the like.

SERGEANTSHIP, noun s'argentship. The office of a sergeant.

SERI''CEOUS, adjective [Latin sericus, from sericum, silk.] Pertaining to silk; consisting of silk; silky. In botany, covered with very soft hairs pressed close to the surface; as a sericeous leaf.

SE'RIES, noun [Latin this word probably belongs to the Shemetic, the primary sense of which is to stretch or strain.]

1. A continued succession in the things of the same order, and bearing the same relation to each other; as a series of kings; a series of successors.

2. Sequence; order; course; succession of things; as a series of calamitous events.

3. In natural history, an order or subdivision of some class of natural bodies.

4. In arithmetic and algebra, a number of terms in succession, increasing or diminishing in a certain ratio; as arithmetical series and geometrical series. [See Progression.]

SER'IN, noun A songbird of Italy and Germany.

SE'RIOUS, adjective [Latin serius.]

1. Grave in manner or disposition; solemn; not light, gay or volatile; as a serious man; a serious habit or disposition.

2. Really intending what is said; being in earnest; not jesting or making false pretense. Are you serious, or in jest?

3. Important; weighty; not trijling.

The holy Sciptures bring to your ears the most serious things in the world. Young.

4. Particularlyattentive to religioul concerns or one's own religious state.

SE'RIOUSLY, adverb Gravely; solemnly; in earnest; without levity. One of the first duties of a rational being is to inquire seriously why he was created, and what he is to do to answer the purpose of his cretion.

SE'RIOUSNESS, noun

1. Gravity of manner or of mind; solemnity. He spoke with great serioulness, or with an air of seriousness.

2. Earnest attention, particularly to religious concerns

That spirit of religion and seriousness vanished all at once. Atterbury.

SERMOCINA'TION, noun Speech-making. [Not used.]

SERMOCINA'TOR, noun One that makes sermons or speeches. [Not in use.]

SER'MON, noun

1. A discourse delivered in public by a licensed clergymen for the purpose of religious instruction, and usually grounded on some text or passage of Scripture. Sermons are extemporary addresses or written discourses.

His preaching much, but more his practice wrought,

A living sermon of the truths he taught. Dryden.

2. A printed discourse.

SER'MON, verb transitive

1. To discourse as in a sermon [Little used.]

2. To tutor; to lesson; to teach. [Little used.]

SER'MON, verb intransitive To compose or deliver a sermon [Little used.]

SER'MONING, noun Discourse; instruction; advice. [Not in use.]

SER'MONIZE, verb intransitive

1. To preach.

2. To inculate rigid rules.

3. To make sermons; to compose or write a sermons or sermons. [This is the sense in which the verb is generally used in the U. States.]

SER'MONIZER, noun One that composes sermons.

SER'MONIZING, participle present tense Preaching; inculating rigid precepts; composing sermons.

SER'MOUNTAIN, noun A plant of the genus Laserpitium; laserwort; seseli.

SEROON, noun

1. A seroon of almonds is the quantity of two hudred pounds; of anise seed, three to four hundred weight; of Caltile soap, from two hundred and a half to three hundred and three quarters.

2. A bale or package.

SEROS'ITY, In medicine, the watery part of the blood.

SER'OTINE, noun A species of bat.

SE'ROUS, adjective

1. Thin; watery; like whey; used of that part of the blood which separates in coagulation from the grumous or red part.

2. Pertaining to serum.

SER'PENT, noun [Latin serpens, creeping; serpo, to creep.]

1. An animal of the order of Serpentes, [creepers, crawlers, ] Of the class of Amphibia. Serpents are amphibious animals, breathing through the mouth bymeans of lungs only; having tapering bodies, without a distinct neck; the jaws not articulated, but dilatable, and withour feet, fins or ears. Serpents move along the earth by a winding motion, and with the head elevated. Some species of them are viviparous, or rather ovi-viviparous; others are oviparous; and several species are venomous.

2. In astronomy, a constellation of the northern hemisphere, containing, according to the British catalogue, sixty-four stars.

3. An instrument of music, serving as a base to the cornet or small shawm, to sustain a chorus of singers in a large edifice. It is so called for its folds or wreaths.

4. Figuratively, a subtil or malicious person.

5. In mythology, a symbol of the sun.

Serpent stones or snake stones, are fossil shells of different sizes, found in strata of stones and clays.

SERPENTA'RIA, noun A plant, called also snake root; a species of Aristolochia.

SERPENTA'RIUS, noun A constellation in the northern hemisphere, containing seventy-four stars.

SER'PENTINE, adjective [Latin serpentinus, from serpens.]

1. Resembling a serpent; usually, winding and turing one way and the other, like a moving serpent; anfractuous; as a serpentine road or course.

2. Spiral; twisted; as a serpentine worm of a still.

3. Like a serpent; having the color or properties of a serpent.

Serpentine tongue, in the manege. A horse is said to have a serpentine tongue, when he is constantly moving it, and sometimes passing it over the bit.

Serpentine verse, a verse which begins and ends with the same word.

SER'PENTIZE, verb transitive To wind; to turn or bend, first in one direction and then in opposite; to meander

The road serpentized through a tall shrubbery. Barrow, Trav. in Africa.

SER'PET, noun A basket. [Not in use.]

SERPIG'INOUS, adjective [L. from serpo, to creep.] A kind of herpes or tetter; called in popular language, a ringworm.

SER'PRNTINE, noun A species of talck or magnesian stone, usually of an obscure green color.

SER'PULITE, noun Petrified shells or fossil remains of the genus Serpula.

SERR, verb transitive To crowd, press or drive together. [ Not in use.]

SER'RATE, [L. serratus, from serro, to saw; serra, a saw.] Jagged; notched; indented on the

SER'RATED, edge, like a saw. In botany, having sharp notches about the edge, pointing towards the extremity; as a serrate leaf.

When a serrate leaf has small serrature upon the large ones, it is said to by doubly serrate, as in the elm. We say also, a serrate calyx, corol or stipule.

A serrate-ciliate leaf, is one having fine hairs, like the eye lashes, on the serreatures.

A serrature-toothed leaf, has the serratures toothed.

A serrulate leaf, is one finely serrate, with very small notches or teeth.

SERRA'TION, noun Formation in the shape of a saw.

SER'RATURE, noun An indenting or indenture in the edge of any thing, like those of a saw.

SER'ROUS, adjective Like the teeth of a saw; irregular. [Little used.]

SER'RULATE, adjective Finely serrate; having very minute teeth or notches.

SER'RY, verb transitive To crowd; to press together. [Not in use.]

SE'RUM, noun [L. ]

1. The thin transparent part of the blood.

2. The thin part of milk; whey.

SER'VAL, noun An animal of the feline genus, resembling the lynx in form and size, and the panther in spots; a native of Malabar.

SERV'ANT, [L. servans, from servo, to keep or hold; properly one that waits, that is, stops, holds, attends, or one that is bound.]

1. A person, male or female, that attends another for the purpose of performing menial offices for him, or who is employed by another for such offices or for other labor, and is subject to his command. The word is correlative to master. Servant differs from slave, as the servant's subjection to a master is voluntary, the slave's is not. Every slave is a servant but every servant is not a slave.

Servants are of various kinds; as household or domestic servants, menial servants; laborers, who are hired by the day, week or other term, and do not reside with their employers, or if they board in the same house, are employed abroad and not in the domestic services; apprentices, who are bound for a term of years to serve a master, for the purpose of learning his trade or occupation.

In a legal sense, stewards, factors, bailifs and other agents, are servants for the time they are employed in such character, as they act in subordination to others.

2. One in a state of subjection.

3.In Scripture, a slave; a bondman; one purchased for money, and who was compelled to serve till the year of jubilee; also, one purchased for a term of years.

4. The subject of a king; as the servants of David or of Saul.

The Syrians became servants to David. 2 Samuel 8:2.

5. A person who voluntarily serves another or acts as his minister; as joshua was the servant of Moses, and the apostles the apostles the servants of Christ. So Christ himself is called a servant, Isaiah 42:1. Moses is called the servant of the Lord, Duet. 34.

6. A person employed or used as an instrument in accomplishing God's purposes of mercy or wrath. So Nebuchadnezzar is called the servant of God. Jeremiah 25:9.

7. One who yields obedience to another. The saints are called servants of God, or of righteousness; and the wicked are called the servants of sin.

8. That which yields obedience, or acts on subordination as an instrument.

9. One that makes painful sacrifices in compliance with the weakness or wants of others.

10. A person of base condition or ignoble spirit.

11. A word of civility. I am, sir, your humble or obedient servant.

Our betters tell us they are our humble servants, but understand us to be their slaves. Swift.

Servant of servants, one debased to the lowest condition of servitude.

SERV'ANT, verb transitive To subject. [Not in use.]

SERVE, verb transitive serv. [Latin servio. This verb is supposed to be from the noun servus, a servant or slave, and this from servo, to keep.]

1. To work for; to bestow the labor of boky and mind in the employment of another.

Jacob loved Rachel and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy youngest daughters. Genesis 29:15.

No man can serve two masters. Matthew 6:24.

2. To act as the minister of; to perform official duties to; as, a minister serves his prince.

Had I served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs. Cardinal Woolsey.

3. To attend at command; to wait on.

A goddess among gods, ador'd and serv'd

By anbels numberless, thy daily train. Milton.

4. To obey servilely or meanly. be not to wealth a servant.

5. To supply with food; as, to be served in plate.

6. To be subservient or subordinate to.

Bodies bright and greater should not serve

The less not bright. Milton.

7. To perform the duties required in; as, the curate served two churches.

8. To obey; to perform duties in the employment of; as, to serve the king or the country in the army or navy.

9. To be sufficient, or to promote; as, to serve one's turn, end or purpose.

10. To help by good offices; as, to serve one's country.

11. To comply with; to submit to.

They think herein we serve the time, because thereby we either hold or seek preferment. Hooker.

12. To be sufficient for; to satisfy; to content.

One half pint bottle serves them both to dine,

And is at once their vinegar and wine. Pope.

13. To be in the place of any thing to one. A sofa serves the Turks for a seat and a couch.

14. To treat; to requite; as, he served me ungratefully; he served me very ill; We say also, he served me a trick, that is he deceived me, or practiced an artifice on me.

15. In Scripture and theology, to obey and worship; to act in conformity to the law of a superior, and treat him with due reverence.

Fear the Lord and serve him in sincerity and truth. As for me and my house, we will serve the lord. Joshua 24:14.

16. In a bad sense, to obey; to yeild compliance or act according to.

Serving divers lusts and treasures. Titus 3:1.

17. To worship; to render homage to; as, to serve idols or false gods.

18. To be a slave to; to be in bondage to.

19. To serve one's self of, to use; to make use of; a Gallicism, [se sevir de.]

I will serve myself of this concession. Chillingworh.

20. To use; to manage; to apply. The guns are well served.

21. In seamen's language, to wind something round a rope to prevent friction.

To serve up, to prepare and present in a dish; as, to serve up a sirloin of beef in plate; figuratively, to prepare.

To serve in, as used by Shakespeare, for to bring in, as meat by an attendant, I have never to be used in America.

To serve out, to distribute in portions; as, to serve out provisions to soldiers.

To serve a writ, to read it to the defendant; or to leave an attested copy at his usual place of abode.

To serve an attachment, or writ of attachment, to levy it on the or goods by seizure; or to seize.

To serve an execution, to levy it on lands, goods or person by seizure or taking possession.

To serve a warrant, to read it, and to seize the person against whom it is issued.

In general, to serve a process, is to read it so as to give due notice to the party concerned, or to leave an attested copy with him or his attorney, or at his usual place of abode.

To serve an office, to discharge a public duty. [This phrase, I believe, is not used in America. We say, a man serves in an office, that is, serves the public in an office.]

SERVE, verb intransitive serv.

1. To be a servant or slave.

The Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve Isaiah 14:3.

2. To be employed in labor or or other business for another.

3. To be in subjection.

4. To wait; to attend; to perform domestic offices to another.

5. To perform duties, as in the army, navy or in any office. An officer serves five years in India, or under a particular commander. The late scretary of the colony, and afterwards state, of Connecticut, was annually appointed, and served in the office sixty years.

6. To answer; to accomplish the end.

She feared that all would not serve. Sidney.

7. To be sufficient for a purpose.

This little brand will serve to light your fire. Dryden.

8. To suit; to be convenient. Take this, and use it as occasion serves.

9. To conduce; to be of use.

Our victory only served to lead us on to other visionary prospects. Swift.

10. To officiate or minister; to do the honors of; as, to serve at a public dinner.

SERV'ED, participle passive Attended; waited on; worshiped; levied.

SERV'ICE, noun [From Latin servitium.]

1. In a general sense, labor of body or of body and mind, performed at the command of a superior, or the pursuance of duty, or for the benefit of another. service is voluntary or involuntary. Voluntary service is that of hired servants, or of contract, or of persons who spontaneously perform something for another's benefit. Involuntary service is that of slaves, who work by compulsion.

2. The business of a servant; menial office.

3. Attendance of a servant.

4. Place of a servant; actual employment of a servant; as, to be out of service.

5. Any thing done by way of duty to a superior.

This poem was the last piece of service I did for my master king Charles.

Dryden.

6. Attendance on a superior.

Madam, I entreat true peace of you,

Which I will purchase with my duteous service. Shak.

7. Profession of respect uttered or sent.

Pray do my service to his majesty. Shak.

8. Actual duty; that which is required to be done in an office; as, to perform the services of a clerk, a sherif or judge.

9. That which God requires of man; worship; obedience.

God requires no man's service upon hard and unreasonable terms. Tillotson.

10. Employment; business; office; as, to qualify a man for public service.

11. Use; purpose. The guns are not fit for public service.

12. Military duty by land or sea; as a military or naval service.

13. A military achievment.

14. Useful office; advantage conferred; that which promotes interest or happiness. Medicine often does no service to the sick; calumny is sometimes of service to an author.

15. Favor.

To thee a woman's services are due. Shak.

16. The duty which a tenant owes to his lord for his fee. Personal service consists in homage and fealty, etc.

17. Public worship or office of devotion. Divine service was interrupted.

18. A musical church composition consisting of choruses, trios, duets, solos, etc.

19. The official duties of a minister of the gospel, as in church, at a funeral, marriage, etc.

20. Courses; order of dishes at table.

There was no extraordinary service seen on the board. Hakewill.

21. In seamen's language, the material used for serving a rope, as spun yarn, small lines, etc.

22. A tree and its fruit, of the genus Sorbus. The wild service is of the genus Crataegus.

Service of a writ, process, etc.; the reading of it to the person to whom notice is intended to be given, or the leaving of an attested copy with the person or his attorney, or at his usual place of abode.

Service of an attachment, the seizing of the person or goods according to the direction.

The service of an execution, the sevying of it upon the goods, estate or person of the defendant.

SERV'ICEABLE, adjective

1. That does service; that promotes happiness, interest, advantage or any good; useful; beneficial; advantageous. Rulers may be very serviceable to religion by their example. The attentions of my friends were very serviceable to me when abroad. Rain and manure are serviceable to land.

2. Active; diligent; officious.

I know thee well, a serviceable villain. Shak. [Unusual.]

SERV'ICEABLENESS, noun

1. Usefulness of promoting good of any kind; beneficialness.

All action being for some end, its aptness to be commanded or forbidden must be founded upon its serviceableness or disserviceableness to some end. Norris.

2. Officiousness; readiness to do service.

SERV'IENT, adjective [Latin serviens.] Subordinate. [Not in use.]

SERV'ILE, adjective [Latin servilis, from servio, to serve.]

1. Such as pertains to a servant or slave; slavish; mean; such as proceeds from dependence; as servile fear; servile obedience.

2. Held in subjection; dependent.

Ev'n fortune rules no more a servile land. Pope.

3. Cringing; fawning; meanly submissive; as servile flattery.

She must bend the servile knee. Thomson.

SERV'ILELY, adverb

1. Meanly; slavishly; with base submission or obsequiousness.

2.With base deference to another; as, to copy servilely; to adopt opinions servilely.

SERV'ILENESS, noun

SERVIL'ITY,

1. Slavery; the condition of a slave or bondman.

To be a queen in bondage is more vile

Than is a slave in base servility. Shak.

2. Mean submission; baseness; slavishness.

3. Mean obsequiousness; slavish deference; as the common servility to custom; to copy manners or opinions with servility.

SERV'ING, participle present tense Working for; acting in subordination to; yielding obedience to; worshiping; also, performing duties; as serving in the army.

SERV'ITOR, noun [From Latin servio, to serve.]

1. A servant; an attendant.

2. One that acts under another; a follower or adherent.

3. One that professes duty and obedience.

4. In the university of Oxford, a student who attends on another for his maintenance and learning; such as is called in Cambridge, a sizer.

SERV'ITORSHIP, noun The office of a servitor.

SERV'ITUDE, noun [Latin servitudo or servitus. See Serve.]

1. The condition of a slave; the state of involuntary subjection to a master; slavery; bondage. Such is the state of slaves in America. A large portion of the human race is in servitude.

2. The state of a servant. [Less common and less proper.]

3. The condition of a conquered country.

4. A state of slavish dependence. Some persons may be in love with splendid servitude.

5. Servants, collectively. [Not in use.]

SES'AME, noun [Latin sesama.] Oily grain; a genus of annual herbaceous plants, from the

SES'AMUM, seeds of which an oil is expressed. One species of it is cultivated in Carolina, and the blacks use the seed for food. It is called there bene.

SES'BAN, noun A plant; a species of AEschynomene or Bastard sensitive plant.

SES'ELI, noun [L. Gr. seselis.] A genus of plants; meadow saxifrage; hartwort.

SESQIP'EDAL, adjective [Latin sesqui, one and a half, and pedalis, from pes, a foot.]

SESQUIDU'PLICATE, adjective [Latin sesqui, supra, and duplicatis, double.] Designating the ratio of two and a half to one, or where the greater term contains the lesser twice and a half, as that of 50 to 20.

SESQUIL'TER, adjective [Latin from sesqui, half as much more, and alter, other.]

SESQUIL'TERAL,

1. In geometry, designating a ratio where one quantity or number contains another once, and half as much more; as 9 contains 6 and its half.

2. A sesquialteral floret, is when large fertile floret is accompanied with a small abortive one.

SESQUIPEDA'LIAN, Containing a foot and a half; as a sesquipedalian pigmy.

Addison uses sesquipedal as a noun.

SESQUIP'LICATE, adjective [Latin sesqui, one and a half, and plicatus, plico, to fold.] Designating the ratio of one and a half to one; as the sesquiplicate proportion of the periodical times of the planets.

SESQUITER'TIAN, adjective [Latin sesqui, one and a half, and tertius, third.] Designating the

SESQUITER'TIONAL, ratio of one and one third.

SES'QUITONE, noun In music, a minor third, or interval of three semitones.

SESS, noun [Latin sessio.] A tax. [Little used or not at all. See Assessment.]

SES'SILE, adjective [Latin sessilis. See Set.] In botany, sitting on the stem. A sessile leaf issues directly from the stem or branch, without petiole or footstalk. A sessile flower has no peduncle. Sessile pappus or down has no stipe, but is placed immediately on the seed.

SES'SION, noun [Latin sessio, from sedeo. See Set.]

1. A sitting or being placed; as the ascension of Christ and his session at the right hand of God.

2. The actual sitting of a court, council, legislature, etc.; or the actual assembly of the members of these o rany similar body for the transaction of business. Thus we say, the court is now in session, meaning that the members are assembled for business.

3. The time, space or term during which a court, council, legislature and the like, meet for daily business; or the space of time between the first meeting and the prorogation of adjournment. Thus a session of parliament is opened with a speech from the throne, and closed by prorogation. The session of a judicial court is called a term. Thus a court may have two sessions or four sessions annually. The supreme court of the United States has one anual session. The legislatures of most of the states have one anualsession only; some have more. The congress of the United States has one only.

4. Sessions, in some of the states, is particularly used for a court of justices, held for granting licenses to innkeepers or taverners, for laying out new highways or altering old ones and the like.

Quarter sessions, in England, is a court held once in every quarter, by two justices of the peace, one of whom is of the quorum, for the trial of small felonies and misdemeanors.

Sessions of the peace, a court consisting of justices of the peace, held in each county for inquiring into trespasses, larcenies, forestalling, etc. and in general, for the conversation of the peace.

SESS'-POOL, noun [sess and pool] A cavity sunk into the earth to receive and retain the sediment of water conveyed in drains. Sess-pools should be placed at proper distances in all drains, and particularly should one be placed at the entrance.

SES'TERCE, noun [Latin sestertius.] A Roman coin or denomination of money, in value the fourth part of a denarius, and originally containing two asses and a half, about two pence sterling or four cents.The sestertium, that is, sestertium pondus, was two pounds and a half, or two hundred and fifty denarii; about seven pounds sterling, or thirty one dollars. One qualification of a Roman knight was the possession of estate of the value of four hundred thousand sesterces; that of a senator was double this sum.

Authors mention a copper sesterce, of the value of one third of a penny sterling.

Sesterce was also used by the ancients for a thing two holes and a half; the as being taken for the integer.

SET, verb transitive preterit tense participle passive set. [Latin sedo; to compose, as a book, to dispose or put in order, to establish, found or institute, to possess, to cease; Latin sedo, sedeo and sido, coinciding with sit, but all of one family. From the Norman orthography of this word, we have assess, assise. See Assess. Heb. Ch. to set to place.]

1. To put or place; to fix or cause to rest in a standing posture. We set a house on a wass of stone; we set a book on a shelf. In this use, set differs from lay; we set a thing on its end or basis; we lay it on its side.

2. To put or place in its proper or natural posture. We set a chest or trunk on its bottom, not its end; we set a bedstead or a table on its feet or laeg.

3. To put, place or fix in any situation. God set the sun, moon and stars in the firmament.

I do set my bow in the cloud. Genesis 9:13.

4. To put into any condition or state.

The Lord the God will set thee on high. Duet. 28.

I am come to set a man at variance against his father. Matthew 10:35.

So we say, to set in order, to set at ease, to set to work, or at work.

5. To put; to fix; to attach to.

The Lord set a mark upon Cain. Genesis 4:15.

So we say, to set a label on a vial or a bale.

6. To fix; to render motionless; as, the eyes are set, the jaws are set.

7. To put or fix, as a price. We set a price on a house, farm or horse.

8. To fix; to state by some rule.

The gentleman spoke with a set gesture and countenance. Carew.

The town of Berne has handsome fountains planted and set distances from one end of the street to the other. Addison.

9. To regulate or adjust; as, to set a timepiece by the sun.

He sets judgement by his passion. Prior.

10. To fit to music; to adapt with notes; as, to set the words of a psalm to music.

Set thy own songs, and sing them to they lute. Dryden.

11. To pitch; to begin to sing in public.

He set the hundredth psalm. Spectator.

12. To plant, as a shrub, tree or vegetable.

13. To variegate, intersperse or adorn with something fixed; to stud; as, to set any thing with diamonds or pearls.

High on their heads, with jewels richly set,

Each lady wore a radiant coronet. Dryden.

14. To return to its proper place or state; to replace; to reduce from dislocated or fractured state; as, to set a bone or a leg.

15. To fix; to place; as the heart or affections.

Set your affections on things above. Colossians 3:2.

-Minds altogether set on trade and profit. Addison.

16. To fix firmly; to predetermine.

The heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. Ecclesiastes 8:11.

Hence we say, a thing is done of set purpose; a man is set, that is, firm or obstinate in his opinion or way.

17. To fix by appointment; to appoint; to assign; as, to set a time for meeting; to set an hour or day.

18. To place or station; to appoint to a particular duty.

Am I a sea or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me.

19. To stake at play. [Little used.]

20. To offer a wager at dice to another. [Little used.]

21. To fix in metal.

And him to rich a jewel to be set

In vulgar metal for a vulgar use. Dryden.

22. To fix; to cause to stop; to obstruct; as, to set a coach in the mire. The wagon or the team was set at the hill. In some of the states, stall is used in a like sense.

23. To embarrass; to perplex.

They are hard set to represent the bill as a grievance. Addison.

24. To put in good order; to fix for use; to bring to a fine edge; as, to set a razor.

25. To loose and extend; to spread; as, to set the sails of a ship.

26. To point out without noise or disturbance; as, a dog sets birds.

27. To oppose.

Will you set your wit to a fool's? Shak.

28. To prepare with runnet for cheese; as, to set milk.

29. To dim; to darken or extinguish.

Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age. 1 Kings 19:1.

To set by the compass, among seamen, to observe the bearing or situation of a distant object by the compass.

To set about, to begin, as an action or enterprise; to apply to. He has planned his enterprise, and he will soon setabout it.

To set one's self against, to place in a state of emnity or opposition.

The king of Babylon set himself against Jerusalem this same day. Ezekiel 24:2.

To set against, to oppose, to set in comparison, or to oppose as an equivalent in exchange; as, to set one thing against another; or to set off one thing against another.

To set aside, to omit for the present; to lay out of the question.

Setting aside all other considerations, I will endeavor to know the truth and yield to that. Tillotson.

2. To reject.

I embrace that of the deluge, and set aside all the rest. Woodward.

3. To annul; to vacate. The court set aside the verdict or the judgement.

To set abroach, to spread.

To set a-going, to cause to begin to move.

To set by, to set apart or on on side; to reject. [In this sense, by is emphatical.]

2. To esteem; to regard; to value. [In this sense, set is pronounced with more emphasis than by.]

To set down, to place upon the ground or floor.

2. To enter in writing; to register.

Some rules were to be set down for the government of the army. Clarendon.

3. To explain or relate in writing.

4. To fix on a resolve. [Little used.]

5. To fix; to establish; to ordain.

This law we may name eternal, being that order which God hathset down with himself for himself to do all things by. Hooker.

To set forth, to manifest; to offer our present to view.

2. To publish; to promulgate; to make appear.

3. To send out; to prepare and send.

The Venetian admiral had a fleet of sixty galleys, set forth by the Venetians.

Obs. Knolles.

4. To display; to exhibit; to present to view; to show.

To set forward, to advance; to move on; also, to promote.

To set in, to put in the way to begin.

If you please to assist and set me in, I will recollect myself. Collier.

To set off, to adorn; to decorate; to embellish.

They set off the worst faces with the best airs. Addison.

2. To give a pompus or flattering description of; to eulogize; to recommend; as, to set off a character.

3. To place against as an equivalent; as, to set off one man's services against another's.

4. To separate or assign for a particular purpose; as, to set off a portion of an estate.

To set on or upon, to incite; to instigate; to animate to action.

Thou, traitor, hast set on thy wife to this. Shak.

2. To assault or attack; seldom used transitively, but the passive form is often used.

Alphonsus- was set upon by a Turkish pirate and taken. Knolles.

3. To employ, as in a task.

Set on thy wife to observe. Shak.

4. To fix the attention; to determine to any thing withsettled purpose.

It becomes a true lover to have your own heart more set upon her good than your own. Sidney.

To set out, to assign; to allot; as, to set out the share of each proprietor or heir of an estate; to set out the widow's thirds.

2. To publish. [Not elegant nor common.]

3. To mark by boundaries or distinctions of space.

-Determinate portions of those infinite abysses of space and duration, set out, or supposed to be distinguished from all the rest by known boundaries. Locke.

4. To adorn; to embellish.

An ugly woman in a rich habit, set out with jewels, nothing can become.

Dryden.

5. To raise, equip and send forth; to furnish.

The Venetians pretend they could set out, in case of great necessity, thirty men of war. [Not elegant and little used.] Addison.

6. To show; to display; to recommend; to set off.

I could set out that best side of Luther. Atterbury.

7. To show; to prove.

Those very reasons set out how hainous his sin was. [Little used and not elegant.] Atterbury.

8. In law, to recite; to state at large.

To set up, to erect; as, to set up a building; to set up a post, a wall a pillar.

2. To begin a new institution; to institute; to establish; to found; as, to set up a manufactory; to set up a school.

3. To enable to commence a new business; as, to set up a son in trade.

4. To raise; to exalt; to put in power; as, to set up the throne of David over Israel.

5. To place in view; as, to set up a mark.

6. To raise; to utter loudly; as, to set up the voice.

I'll set up such a note as she shall hear. Dryden.

7. To advance; to propose as truth or for reception; as, to set up a new opinion or doctrine.

8. To raise from depression or to a sufficient fortune. This good fortune quite set him up.

9. In seamen's language, to extend, as the shrouds, stays, etc.

To set at naught, to undervalue; to contemn; to despise.

Ye have set at naught all my counsel. Proverbs 1:25.

To set in order, to adjust or arrange; to reduce to method.

The rest will I set in order when I come. 1 Corinthians 11:34.

To set eyes on, to see; to behold; or to fix the eyes in looking on.

To set the teeth on edge, to affect the teeth with painful sensation.

To set over, to appoint or constitute supervisor, inspector, ruler or commander.

2. To assign; to transfer; to convey.

To set right, to correct; to put in order.

To set at ease, to quiet; to tranquilize; as, to set the heart at ease.

To set free, to release from confinement, imprisonment or bondage; to liberate; to emancipate.

To set at work, to cause to enter on work or action; or to direct how to enter on work.

To set on fire, to communicate fire to; to inflame; and figuratively, to enkindle the passions; to make rage; to irritate; to fill with disorder.

To set before, to offer; to propose; to present to view.

To set a trap, snare or gin, to place in a situation to catch prey; to spread; figuratively, to lay a plan to deceive and draw into the power of another.

SET, verb intransitive

1. To decline; to go down; to pass below the horizin; as, the sun sets; the stars set.

2. To be fixed hard; to be close or firm.

3. To fit music to words.

4. To congeal or concrete.

That fluid in a few minutes begins to set. Boyle.

5. To begin a journey. The king is set from London. [This is obsolete. We now say, to set out.]

6. To plant; as, 'to sow dry, and to set wet.'

7. To flow; to have a certain direction in motion; as, the tide sets to the east or north; the current sets westward.

8. To catch birds with a dog that sets them, that is, one that lies down and points them out, and with a large net.

To set one's self about, to begin; to enter upon; to take the first steps.

To set one's self, to apply one's self.

To set about, to fall on; to begin; to take the first steps in a business or enterprise.

To set in, to begin. Winter in New England, usually sets in

2. To become settled in a particular state.

When the weather was set in to be very bad. Addison.

To set forward, to move or march; to begin to march; to advance.

The sons of Aaron and the sons of Merari set forward. Numbers 10:17.

To set on, or upon, to begin a journey or an enterprise.

He that would seriously set upon the search of truth- Locke.

2. To assault; to make an attack.

To set out, to begin a journey or course; as, to set out for London or from London; to set out in business; to set out in life or in the world.

2. To have a beginning.

To set to, to apply one's self to.

To set up, to begin business or a scheme of life; as, to set up in trade; to set up for one's self.

2. To profess openly; to make pretensions. He sets up for a man of wit; he sets up to teach morality.

SET, participle passive

1. Placed; put; located; fixed; adjusted; composed; studded or adorned; reduced, as a dislocated or broken bone.

2. adjective Regular; uniform; formal; as a set speech or phrase; a set discourse; a set battle.

3. Fixed in opinion; determined; firm; obstinate; as a man set in his opinions or way.

4. Established; prescribed; as set forms of prayer.

SET, noun

1. A number or collection of things of the same kind and of similar form, which are ordinarily used together; as a set of chairs; a set of tea cups; a set of China or other ware.

2. A number of things fitted to be used together, though different in form; as a set of dining tables.

3. A number of persons customarily or officialy associated, as a set of men, a set of officers; or a number of persons having a simlitude of character, or of things which have some resemblance or relation to each other. Hence our common phrase, a set of opinions.

This falls into different divisions or sets of nations connected under particular religions, etc. Ward's Law of Nations.

4. A number of particular things that are united in the formation of a whole; as a set of features.

5. A young plant for growth; as sets of white thorn or other shrub.

6. The descent of the sun or other other below the horizon; as the set of the sun.

7. A wager at dice.

That was but civil war, an equal set. Dryden.

8. A game.

We will, in france, play a set

Shall strike his father's crown into the hazard. Shak.

SETA'CEOUS, adjective [Latin seta, a bristle.]

1. Bristly; set with strong hairs; consisting of strong hairs; as a stiff setaceous tail.

2. In botany, bristle-shaped; having the thickness and length of a bristle; as a setaceous seaf or leaflet.

Setaceous worm, a name given to a water worm that resembles a horse hair, vulgarly supposed to be an animated hair. But this is a mistake.

SE'TIFORM, adjective [Latin seta, a bristle, and form.] Having the form of a bristle.

SE'TON, noun [Latin seta, a bristle.] In surgery, a few horsehairs or small threads, or a twist of silk, drawn through the skin by a large needle, by which a small opening is made and which is continued for the discharge of humors.

SE'TOUS, adjective [Latin setosus, from seta, a bristle.] In botany, bristly; having the surface set with bristles; as a setous seaf or receptacle.

SETTEE', noun [from set.]

1. A long seat with a back to it.

A vessel with one deck and a very long sharp prow, carrying two or three masts with lateen sails; used in the Mediterranean.

SET'TER, noun

1. One that sets; as a setter on, or inciter; a setter up; a setter forth, etc.

2. A dogs that beats the field and starts birds for sportsmen.

3. A man that performs the office of a setting dogor finds persons to be plundered.

4. One that adapts words to music in composition.

5. Whatever sets off, adorns or recommendws. [Not used.]

SET'TING, participle present tense Placing; putting; fixing; studding; appointing; sinking below the horizon, etc.

SET'TING, noun

1. The act of putting, placing, fixing or establishing.

2. The act of sinking below the horizon. The setting of stars is of three kinds, cosmical, acronical, and heliacal. [See these words.]

3. The act or manner of taking birds by a setting dog.

4. Inclosure; as settings of stones.

5. The direction of a current at sea.

SET'TLE, noun [Latin sedile. See Set.] A seat or bench; something to sit on.

SET'TLE, verb transitive [from set.]