Chapter V: Front Matter (5)

SCYTODEPSIC, sk[=i]-t[=o]-dep'sik, _adj._ pertaining to tanning. [Gr. _skytos_, skin, _depsein_, to soften.]

SCYTODERMATOUS, sk[=i]-t[=o]-der'ma-tus, _adj._ having a tough, leathery integument. [Gr. _skytos_, hide, _derma_, skin.]

SCYTODES, sk[=i]-t[=o]'dez, _n._ a genus of spiders.--_adj._ SCYT[=O]'DOID. [Gr. _skytos_, skin, _eidos_, form.]

SCYTONEMA, s[=i]-t[=o]-n[=e]'ma, _n._ a genus of fresh-water algæ.--_adj._ SCYTONEM'ATOID. [Gr. _skytos_, skin, _n[=e]ma_, a thread.]

SCYTOSIPHON, s[=i]-t[=o]-s[=i]f'n, _n._ a genus of marine algæ. [Gr. _skytos_, skin, _siph[=o]n_, a tube.]

SDAIN, SDEIGN, sd[=a]n, _n._ and _v.t._ (_Spens._) same as DISDAIN.--_adj._ SDEIGN'FUL=_Disdainful_.

'SDEATH, sdeth, _interj._ an exclamation of impatience--for _God's death_.

SEA, s[=e], _n._ the great mass of salt water covering the greater part of the earth's surface: any great expanse of water less than an ocean: the ocean: the swell of the sea in a tempest: a wave: any widely extended mass or quantity, a flood: any rough or agitated place or element.--_ns._ SEA'-[=A]'CORN, a barnacle; SEA'-ADD'ER, the fifteen-spined stickle-back; SEA'-AN'CHOR, a floating anchor used at sea in a gale; SEA'-ANEM'ONE, a kind of polyp, like an anemone, found on rocks on the seacoast; SEA'-APE, the sea-otter; SEA'-[=A]'PRON, a kind of kelp; SEA'-ARR'OW, a flying squid: an arrow-worm; SEA'-ASPAR'AGUS, a soft-shelled crab; SEA'-BANK, the seashore; an embankment to keep out the sea; SEA'-BAR, the sea-swallow or tern; SEA'-BARR'OW, the egg-case of a ray or skate; SEA'-BASS, a name applied to some perch-like marine fishes, many common food-fishes in America--black sea-bass, bluefish, &c.; SEA'-BAT, a genus of Teleostean fishes allied to the Pilot-fish, and included among the _Carangidæ_ or horse-mackerels--the name refers to the very long dorsal, anal, and ventral fins; SEA'-BEACH, the seashore; SEA'-BEAN, the seed of a leguminous climbing plant: a small univalve shell: the lid of the aperture of any shell of the family _Turbinidæ_, commonly worn as amulets; SEA'-BEAR, the polar bear: the North Pacific fur-seal; SEA'-BEAST (_Milt._), a monster of the sea.--_adjs._ SEA'-BEAT, -EN, lashed by the waves.--_n._ SEA'-BEAV'ER, the sea-otter.--_n.pl._ SEA'-BELLS, a species of bindweed.--_ns._ SEA'-BELT, the sweet fucus plant; SEA'-BIRD, any marine bird; SEA'-BIS'CUIT, ship-biscuit; SEA'-BLUBB'ER, a jelly-fish; SEA'-BOARD, the border or shore of the sea; SEA'-BOAT, a vessel considered with reference to her behaviour in bad weather.--_adjs._ SEA'-BORN, produced by the sea; SEA'-BORNE, carried on the sea.--_ns._ SEA'-BOTT'LE, a seaweed; SEA'-BOY (_Shak._), a boy employed on shipboard: a sailor-boy; SEA'-BRANT, the brent goose; SEA'-BREACH, the breaking of an embankment by the sea; SEA'-BREAM, one of several sparoid fishes: a fish related to the mackerel; SEA'-BREEZE, a breeze of wind blowing from the sea toward the land, esp. that from about 10 a.m. till sunset; SEA'-BUCKTHORN, or SALLOW-THORN, a genus of large shrubs or trees with gray silky foliage and entire leaves; SEA'-BUM'BLEBEE, the little auk; SEA'-BUN, a heart-urchin; SEA'-BUR'DOCK, clotbur; SEA'-CABB'AGE, sea-kale; SEA'-CALF, the common seal, so called from the supposed resemblance of its voice to that of a calf; SEA'-CAN[=A]'RY, the white whale; SEA'-CAP (_Shak._), a cap worn on shipboard: a basket-shaped sponge; SEA'-CAP'TAIN, the captain of a ship, as distinguished from a captain in the army; SEA'-CARD, the card of the mariners' compass: a map of the ocean; SEA'-CARN[=A]'TION, a sea-pink; SEA'-CAT, a name of various animals, as the wolf-fish, the chimæra, any sea-cat-fish; SEA'-CAT'ERPILLAR, a scale-back; SEA'-CAT'-FISH, a marine siluroid fish; SEA'-CAT'GUT, a common seaweed--sea-lace; SEA'-CAUL'IFLOWER, a polyp; SEA'-CEN'TIPED, one of several large marine annelids; SEA'-CHANGE (_Shak._), a change effected by the sea; SEA'-CHART, a chart or map of the sea, its islands, coasts, &c.; SEA'-CHEST'NUT, a sea-urchin; SEA'-CHICK'WEED, a seaside species of sandwort; SEA'-CLAM, the surf clam used for food: a clamp for deep-sea sounding-lines; SEA'-COAL, coal brought by sea, as distinguished from charcoal; SEA'COAST, the coast or shore of the sea: the land adjacent to the sea; SEA'-COB, a sea-gull; SEA'-COCK, a gurnard: the sea-plover: a valve communicating with the sea through a vessel's hull: a sea-rover or viking; SEA'-COL'ANDER, a large olive seaweed; SEA'-COLE'WORT, sea-kale; SEA'-COM'PASS, the mariners' compass; SEA'-COOK, a cook on shipboard; SEA'-COOT, a black sea-duck; SEA'-COR'MORANT, a sea-crow; SEA'-CORN, the string of egg-capsules of the whelk or similar gasteropod--also SEA'-RUFF'LE, SEA'-HON'EYCOMB, SEA'-NECK'LACE, &c.; SEA'-COW, the walrus: the rhytina: the dugong or manatee: the hippopotamus; SEA'-CRAB, a marine crab; SEA'-CRAFT, skill in navigation; SEA'-CRAW'FISH, a prawn or shrimp; SEA'-CROW, a name of various birds, as the common skua, the chough, the coot, &c.; SEA'-C[=U]'CUMBER, trepang or bêche-de-mer; SEA'-DACE, a sea-perch: the common English bass; SEA'-DAFF'ODIL, a plant producing showy, fragrant flowers; SEA'-DAI'SY, the lady's cushion; SEA'-DEV'IL, a name of various fishes, as the ox-ray, the angel-fish, &c.; SEA'-DOG, the harbour-seal: the dog-fish: an old sailor: a pirate: (_her._) a bearing representing a beast nearly like a talbot; SEA'-DOTT'EREL, the turnstone; SEA'-DOVE, the little auk; SEA'-DRAG'ON, a flying sea-horse; SEA'-DRAKE, a sea-crow; SEA'-DUCK a duck often found on salt waters, having the hind-toe lobate: the eider-duck; SEA'-EA'GLE, the white-tailed eagle: the bald eagle: the osprey: the eagle-ray; SEA'-EAR, a mollusc, an ormer or abalone; SEA'-EEL, a conger-eel; SEA'-EGG, a sea-urchin: a sea-hedgehog: a whore's egg; SEA'-EL'EPHANT, the largest of the seal family, the male about 20 feet long, an inhabitant of the southern seas; SEA'-FAN, an alcyonarian polyp with a beautiful much-branched fan-like skeleton; SEA'F[=A]RER, a traveller by sea, a sailor.--_adj._ SEA'F[=A]RING, faring or going to sea: belonging to a seaman.--_ns._ SEA'-FEATH'ER, a polyp, a sea-pen; SEA'-FENN'EL, samphire; SEA'-FIGHT, a battle between ships at sea; SEA'-FIR, a sertularian polyp; SEA'-FIRE, phosphorescence at sea; SEA'-FISH, any salt-water or marine fish; SEA'-FOAM, the froth of the sea: meerschaum; SEA'-FOG, a fog, occurring near the coast.--_n.pl._ SEA'-FOLK, seafaring people.--_ns._ SEA'-FOWL, a sea-bird; SEA'-FOX, or _Fox-shark_, the thresher, the commonest of the larger sharks occasionally seen off British coasts, over 12 feet long, following shoals of herrings, pilchards, &c.; SEA'FRONT, the side of the land, or of a building, which looks toward the sea; SEA'-FROTH, the foam of the sea, seaweeds; SEA'-GAGE, -GAUGE, the depth a vessel sinks in the water: an instrument for determining the depth of the sea.--_n.pl._ SEA'-GATES, a pair of gates in a tidal basin as a safeguard against a heavy sea.--_ns._ SEA'-GHER'KIN, a sea-cucumber; SEA'-GILL'IFLOWER, the common thrift; SEA'-GIN'GER, millipore coral.--_adj._ SEA'-GIRT, girt or surrounded by the sea.--_ns._ SEA'-GOD, one of the divinities ruling over or inhabiting the sea:--_fem._ SEA'-GOD'DESS.--_adj._ SEA'-G[=O]'ING, sailing on the deep sea, as opposed to coasting or river vessels.--_ns._ SEA'-GOOSE, a dolphin: a phalarope; SEA'-GOWN (_Shak._), a short-sleeved garment worn at sea; SEA'-GRAPE, a genus of shrubby plants of the natural order _Gnetaceæ_, closely allied to the Conifers, and sometimes called Joint-firs: a glasswort: the clustered egg-cases of sepia and some other cuttle-fish; SEA'-GRASS, the thrift: grasswrack: a variety of cirrus cloud.--_adj._ SEA'-GREEN, green like the sea.--_ns._ SEA'-GROVE, a grove in the bottom of the sea; SEA'-GULL (same as GULL); SEA'-HAAR (_Scot._), a chilling, piercing mist arising from the sea; SEA'-HALL, a hall in the bottom of the sea; SEA'-HARE, a name given to the genus _Aplysia_ of nudibranch gasteropods; SEA'-HAWK, a rapacious, gull-like bird: a skua; SEA-HEDGE'HOG, a sea-urchin: a globe-fish: a sea-egg: a porcupine-fish; SEA'-HEN (_Scot._), the common guillemot: the great skua: the piper gurnard; SEA'-HOG, a porpoise; SEA'-HOLL'Y, the eryngo; SEA'-HOLM, a small uninhabited island: sea-holly; SEA'HORSE, the walrus: the hippopotamus or river-horse: the hippocampus; SEA'-HOUND, the dog-fish; SEA'-ISLAND COTT'ON, a fine long-stapled variety grown on the islands off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia; SEA'-JELL'Y, a sea-blubber; SEA'KALE, a perennial plant with large, roundish, sinuated sea-green leaves, found on British seashores, the blanched sprouts forming a favourite esculent; SEA'-KID'NEY, a polyp of the genus Renilla, so called from its shape; SEA'-KING, a name sometimes given to the leaders of the early Scandinavian piratical expeditions; SEA'-KITT'IE, a kittiwake; SEA'-LACE, a species of algæ--sea-catgut; SEA'-LAM'PREY, a marine lamprey; SEA'-LARK, a sandpiper, as the dunlin: a ring-plover, as the ring-dotterel: the sea-titling; SEA'-LAV'ENDER, a salt-marsh plant: marsh rosemary; SEA'-LAW'YER, a captious sailor, an idle litigious 'long-shorer, more given to question orders than to obey them: the mangrove snapper: a tiger-shark; SEA'-LEECH, a marine suctorial annelid.--_n.pl._ SEA'-LEGS, ability to walk on a ship's deck when it is pitching or rolling.--_ns._ SEA'-LEM'ON, a doridoid; SEA'-LEN'TIL, the gulf-weed; SEA'-LEOP'ARD, a seal of the southern seas, with spotted fur; SEA'-LETT'ER, -BRIEF, a document of description that used to be given to a ship at the port where she was fitted out; SEA'-LEV'EL, the level or surface of the sea, generally the mean level between high and low water.--_adj._ SEA'-LIKE, like or resembling the sea.--_ns._ SEA'-LIL'Y, a lily-star: a living crinoid; SEA'-LINE, the line where sky and sea seem to meet: lines used for fishing in deep water; SEA'-LIN'TIE (_Scot._), the sea-titling: a sea-lark: the rock-lintie; SEA'-L[=I]'ON, a species of otary--from its barking-roar and the mane of the male: (_her._) a monster consisting of the upper part of a lion combined with the tail of a fish; SEA'-LIQ'UOR, brine; SEA'-LIZ'ARD, a nudibranchiate gasteropod: a fossil reptile; SEA'-LOACH, a gadoid fish, a Motella; SEA'-LONG'WORM, a nemertean worm; SEA'-LOUSE, a parasitic isopod crustacean: the horse-shoe crab; SEA'-LUCE, the hake; SEA'-LUNGS, a comb-jelly; SEA'-MAG'PIE, a sea-pie: the oyster-catcher; SEA'MAID (_Shak._), a mermaid: a sea-nymph; SEA'-MALL a sea-gull; SEA'MAN, a man below the rank of officer, employed in the navigation of a ship at sea: a sailor: a merman.--_adjs._ SEA'MAN-LIKE, showing good seamanship; SEA'MANLY, characteristic of a seaman.--_ns._ SEA'MANSHIP, the art of navigating ships at sea; SEA'-MAN'TIS, a squill; SEA'-MARGE, the marge or shore of the sea; SEA'MARK, any mark or object on land serving as a guide to those at sea: a beacon; SEA'-MAT, a very common genus of polyzoa; in the wrack of the seashore--also _Hornwrack_; SEA'-MEL'ON, a pedate holothurian; SEA'-MEW, the common gull, any gull--also SEA'-MAW (_Scot._); SEA'-MILE, a geographical mile, 6080 feet in length; SEA'-MINK, a kind of American whiting; SEA'-MONK, the monk-seal; SEA'-MON'STER, any huge marine animal; SEA'-MOSS, a kind of compound polyzoan: Irish moss, or carrageen; SEA'-MOUSE, a genus of Chætopod worms, covered with iridescent silky hairs; SEA'-MUD, a rich saline deposit from salt-marshes; SEA'-MUSS'EL, a marine bivalve; SEA'-NEED'LE, the garfish; SEA'-NETT'LE, any of the stinging species of acalephæ; SEA'-NURSE, a shark; SEA'-NYMPH, a goddess of the sea, esp. one of the Oceanids; SEA'-ON'ION, the officinal squill; SEA'-OOZE, sea-mud; SEA'-OR'ANGE, a large, globose, orange-coloured holothurian; SEA'-ORB, a globe-fish; SEA'-OTT'ER, a marine otter; SEA'-OWL, the lump-fish or lump-sucker; SEA'-OX, the walrus; SEA'-OX'EYE, a fleshy seashore plant; SEA'-PAD, a star-fish; SEA'-PAN'THER, a South African fish, brown with black spots; SEA'-PARR'OT, a puffin: an auk; SEA'-PARS'NIP, an umbelliferous plant; SEA'-PAR'TRIDGE, the English conner, a labroid fish; SEA'-PASS, a passport, or document carried by neutral merchant-vessels to secure them against molestation; SEA'-PEA, the beach-pea; SEA'-PEACH, a sea-squirt or ascidian; SEA'-PEAR, a sea-squirt; SEA'-PEN, one of the radiate zoophytes somewhat resembling a quill; SEA'-PERCH, a sea-dace: a bass: the red-fish or rose-fish; SEA'-PERT, the opah; SEA'-PHEAS'ANT, the pintail or sprigtail duck; SEA'-PIE, a sailor's dish made of salt-meat, vegetables, and dumplings baked: the oyster-catcher or sea-magpie: (_her._) a bearing representing such a bird; SEA'-PIECE, a picture representing a scene at sea; SEA'-PIG, a porpoise: the dugong; SEA'-PI'GEON, the black guillemot; SEA'-PIKE, an edible American fish found on the Florida and Texas coasts, allied to the perches: the garfish or belone: the hake; SEA'-PIN'CUSHION, the mermaid's purse: a star-fish; SEA'-PINK, a sea-carnation; SEA'-PLANT, an alga; SEA'-POACH'ER, the armed bull-head; SEA'-POR'CUPINE, any fish of the genus _Diodon_, whose body is covered with spines; SEA'-PORK, an American compound ascidian; SEA'PORT, a port or harbour on the seashore: a town near such a harbour; SEA'-PUDD'ING, a sea-cucumber; SEA'-PUMP'KIN, a sea-melon; SEA'-PURSE, a sea-barrow: a skate-barrow; SEA'-QUAIL, the turnstone; SEA'-RAT, the chimera: a pirate; SEA'-R[=A]'VEN, the cormorant: the North American bull-head; SEA'-REED, the mat grass; SEA'-REEVE, an officer in maritime towns; SEA'-RISK, hazard of injury by sea; SEA'-ROB'BER, a pirate; SEA'-ROB'IN, a common American name for fishes of the genus _Prionotus_, which represents in America the European gurnards: the red-breasted merganser; SEA'-ROCK'ET, a cruciferous plant of genus _Cakile_; SEA'-ROD, a kind of sea-pen, a polyp; SEA'-ROLL, a holothurian; SEA'-ROOM, room or space at sea for a ship to be navigated without running ashore; SEA'-ROSE, a sea-anemone; SEA'-ROSE'MARY, sea-lavender; SEA'-R[=O]'VER, a pirate: a vessel employed in cruising for plunder; SEA'-R[=O]'VING, piracy; SEA'-RUFF, a sea-bream; SEA'-SALT, common salt obtained from sea-water by evaporation; SEA'SCAPE, a sea-piece; SEA'-SCOR'PION, a scorpion-fish: a cottoid-fish; SEA'-SER'PENT, an enormous marine animal of serpent-like form, frequently seen and described by credulous sailors, imaginative landsmen, and common liars: a name applied to various marine venomous serpents; SEA'-SERV'ICE, service on board ship; SEA'-SHARK, the man-eater shark; SEA'-SHELL, a marine shell; SEA'SHORE, the land adjacent to the sea: (_law_) the ground between high-water mark and low-water mark; SEA'-SHRUB, a sea-fan.--_adj._ SEA'SICK, affected with sickness through the rolling of a vessel at sea.--_ns._ SEA'SICKNESS; SEA'SIDE, the land beside the sea; SEA'-SKIM'MER, the skimmer bird; SEA'-SL[=A]T'ER, the rock-slater; SEA'-SLEEVE, a cuttle-fish; SEA'-SLUG, a nudibranch, as a doridoid: a marine gasteropod with the shell absent or rudimentary; SEA'-SNAIL, a fish of the genus _Liparis_, the sucker, the periwinkle; SEA'-SNAKE, a sea-serpent; SEA'-SNIPE, a sandpiper: the snipe-fish; SEA'-SOL'DIER, a marine; SEA'-SP[=I]'DER, a spider-crab; SEA'-SPLEEN'WORT, a fern--_Asplenium marinum_; SEA'-SQUID, a cuttle-fish; SEA'-SQUIRT, any tunicate or ascidian--also SEA'-PERCH, SEA'-PEAR, SEA'-PORK; SEA'-STICK, a herring cured at sea at once; SEA'-STOCK, fresh provisions for use at sea; SEA'-STRAW'BERRY, a kind of polyp; SEA'-SUN'FLOWER, a sea-anemone; SEA'-SUR'GEON, one of a family of spiny-rayed Teleostean fishes living in tropical seas, esp. near coral-reefs--the name refers esp. to the members of the genus _Acanthurus_, characterised by a lancet-like spine ensheathed on each side of the tail; SEA'-SWALL'OW, a tern: the stormy petrel; SEA'-SWINE, a porpoise: the sea-hog: the ballan-wrasse; SEA'-TANG, sea-tangle; SEA'-TAN'GLE, one of several species of seaweeds, esp. of genus _Laminaria_; SEA'-TENCH, the black sea-bream; SEA'-TERM, a word used by sailors or peculiar to ships or sailing; SEA'-THONG, a cord-like seaweed; SEA'-TIT'LING, the shore-pipit or sea-lark; SEA'-TOAD, the sea-frog: the sculpin: the great spider-crab; SEA'-TOR'TOISE, a sea-turtle.--_adj._ SEA'-TOST (_Shak._), tossed upon or by the sea.--_ns._ SEA'-TROUT, a popular name for various species of the genus _Salmo_, but esp. for the common _Salmo trutta_; SEA'-TRUM'PET, a medieval musical instrument similar to the monochord: (_bot._) a large seaweed; SEA'-TURN, a gale from the sea; SEA'-TUR'TLE, the sea-pigeon: a tortoise; SEA'-UMBRELL'A, a pennatulaceous polyp; SEA'-[=U]'NICORN, the narwhal; SEA'-UR'CHIN, one of a class of Echinoderms, some with the body symmetrical and nearly globular (_Echinus_), others heart-shaped (_Spatangus_), others shield-shaped and flattened (_Clypeaster_)--in all cases the body walled in by continuous plates of lime; SEA'-VAM'PIRE, a devil-fish or manta; SEA'VIEW, a picture of a scene at sea; SEA'-WALL, a wall to keep out the sea.--_adj._ SEA'-WALLED, surrounded by the sea.--_n._ SEA'-WANE, wampum.--_adj._ SEA'WARD, towards the sea.--_adv._ towards or in the direction of the sea.--_adjs._ SEA'WARD-BOUND, outward-bound, as a vessel leaving harbour; SEA'WARD-GAZ'ING, gazing or looking towards the sea.--_n._ SEA'-WARE, that which is thrown up by the sea on the shore, as seaweed, &c.--_n.pl._ SEA'-WASH'BALLS, the egg-cases of the common whelk.--_ns._ SEA'-WA'TER, water from the sea; SEA'-WAY, progress made by a vessel through the waves; SEA'WEED, a general and popular name applied to a vast collection of lower plant-forms growing on the seacoast from high-water mark (or a little above that limit) to a depth of from 50 to 100 fathoms (rarely deeper), and all belonging to the sub-class of the _Thallophyta_, to which the name _Algæ_ has been given; SEA'-WHIP, any alcyonarian like black coral; SEA'-WHIP'CORD, a common form of seaweed, sea-thong; SEA'-WHIS'TLE, the seaweed whose bladders are used by children as whistles; SEA'-WIFE, a kind of wrasse; SEA'-WILL'OW, a polyp with slender branches like the osier; SEA'-WING, a wing-shell: a sail; SEA'-WITH'-WIND, a species of bindweed; SEA'-WOLD, an imaginary tract like a wold under the sea; SEA'-WOLF, the wolf-fish: the sea-elephant: a viking, a pirate; SEA'-WOOD'COCK, the bar-tailed godwit; SEA'-WOOD'LOUSE, a sea-slater: a chiton; SEA'-WORM, a marine annelid; SEA'-WORM'WOOD, a saline plant found on European shores.--_adj._ SEA'WORTHY, fit for sea, able to endure stormy weather.--_ns._ SEA'WORTHINESS; SEA'-WRACK, coarse seaweeds of any kind.--AT FULL SEA, at full tide; AT SEA, away from land: on the ocean: astray; GO TO SEA, to become a sailor; HALF-SEAS OVER, half-drunk; HEAVY SEA, a sea in which the waves run high; HIGH SEAS, the open ocean; IN A SEA-WAY, in the position of a vessel when a heavy sea is running; MAIN SEA, the ocean; MOLTEN SEA, the great brazen laver of 1 Kings, vii. 23-26; SHIP A SEA, to have a large wave washing in; SHORT SEA, a sea in which the waves are choppy, irregular, and interrupted; THE FOUR SEAS, those bounding Great Britain. [A.S. _s['æ]_; Dut. _zee_, Ger. _see_, Ice. _sær_, Dan. _sö_.]

SEAH, s[=e]'a, _n._ a Jewish dry-measure containing nearly fourteen pints. [Heb.]

SEAL, s[=e]l, _n._ an engraved stamp for impressing the wax which closes a letter, &c.: the wax or other substance so impressed: that which makes fast or secure: that which authenticates or ratifies: assurance: the water left standing in the trap of a drain or sewer, preventing the upward flow of gas: the sigil or signature of a plant, &c., in medieval medicine: the sign of the cross, baptism, confirmation, the ineffaceable character supposed to be left on the soul by some sacraments.--_v.t._ to fasten with a seal: to set a seal to: to mark with a stamp: to make fast: to confirm: to keep secure: to close the chinks of: to secure against an escape of air or gas by means of a dip-pipe: to accept: to sign with the cross, to baptise or confirm.--_adj._ SEALED, certified by a seal: inaccessible.--_ns._ SEAL'-ENGRAV'ING, the art of engraving seals; SEAL'ER, one who seals: an inspector of stamps; SEAL'ING, confirmation by a seal; SEAL'ING-DAY (_Shak._), a day for sealing anything; SEAL'ING-WAX, wax for sealing letters, &c.--also SEAL'-WAX; SEAL'-PIPE, a dip-pipe; SEAL'-PRESS, a stamp bearing dies for embossing any device upon paper or lead; SEAL'-RING (_Shak._), a signet-ring; SEAL'-WORT, Solomon's seal.--SEAL OF THE FISHERMAN, the papal privy seal impressed on wax, representing St Peter fishing.--GREAT SEAL, the state seal of the United Kingdom; LEADEN SEAL, a disc of lead pierced with two holes through which are passed the ends of a twisted wire; PRIVY SEAL, the seal appended to grants, and in Scotland authenticating royal grants of personal rights; SET ONE'S SEAL TO, to give one's authority or assent to; UNDER SEAL, authenticated. [O. Fr. _seel_--L. _sigillum_, dim. of _signum_, a mark.]

SEAL, s[=e]l, _n._ the name commonly applied to all the _Pinnipedia_ except the morse or walrus--carnivorous mammals adapted to a marine existence; the two great families are _Phocidæ_ (without external ears) and _Otariidæ_ (having distinct though small external ears): (_her._) a bearing representing a creature something like a walrus.--_v.t._ to hunt seals.--_ns._ SEAL'-BIRD, the slender-billed shear-water; SEAL'ER, a man or a ship engaged in the seal-fishery; SEAL'ERY, a seal-fishing station: seal-fishery; SEAL'-FLOW'ER, the bleeding heart; SEAL'ING, SEAL'-FISH'ING, the act of catching seals; SEAL'-ROCK'ERY, a place where many seals breed; SEAL'SKIN, the prepared fur of the fur-seal used for women's jackets, a garment made of this.--SEALSKIN CLOTH, a cloth made of mohair with a nap, and dyed to resemble the fur of the seal. [A.S. _seolh_; Ice. _selr_, Sw. _själ_.]

SEAM, s[=e]m, _n._ (_Shak._) grease, hog's lard.--_v.t._ to grease. [O. Fr. _sain_--L. _sagina_, grease.]

SEAM, s[=e]m, _n._ that which is sewed: a piece of plain sewing: the line formed by the sewing together of two pieces: a line of union: a vein or stratum of metal, ore, coal, &c.: a suture: (_geol._) a thin layer between thicker strata.--_v.t._ to unite by a seam: to sew: to make a seam in.--_ns._ SEAM'ER, one who seams; SEAM'ING-LACE, a galloon, braiding, gold lace, &c. to sew upon seams in upholstery; SEAM'ING-MACHINE', a power-tool for bending sheet-metal as required: a machine used to join fabrics lengthwise preparatory to printing, &c.--_adj._ SEAM'LESS, without a seam: woven throughout.--_ns._ SEAM'-PRESS'ER, an implement used to press down the newly-ploughed furrow: a goose or iron used by tailors to flatten the seams of cloth; SEAM'-RENT, a rent along a seam; SEAM'-ROLL'ER, in leather-working, a rubber for flattening down the edges of seams; SEAM'-RUBB'ER; SEAM'-SET, a grooved punch used by tinmen; SEAM'STER, one who sews:--_fem._ SEAM'STRESS; SEAM'STRESSY (_Sterne_), sewing.--_adj._ SEAM'Y, having a seam or seams.--_n._ SEAM'Y-SIDE, the worst side or view of anything.--WHITE SEAM (_Scot._), underclothing in the process of making. [A.S. _séam_--_síwian_, to sew; Dut. _zoom_, Ger. _saum_.]

SEAM, s[=e]m, _n._ a load for a pack-horse, eight bushels of grain. [A.S. _séam_, a burden--L. _sagma_--Gr. _sagma_, a pack-saddle.]

SEAMED, s[=e]md, _adj._ in falconry, not in good condition. [Prob. related to _Seam_ (1).]

SEAN, s[=e]n, _n._ a drag-net: a seine. [_Seine_.]

SÉANCE, s[=a]'ängs, _n._ a sitting, as of some public body: a sitting for consideration or inquiry, esp. a meeting of spiritualists for the consultation of spirits. [Fr.,--L. _sed[=e]re_, to sit.]

SEANNACHIE, sen'a-h[=e], _n._ a bard among the Scottish Highlanders who recited the traditions of a clan.--Also SEANN'ACHY, SENN'ACHIE. [Gael. _seanachaidh_.]

SEAR, s[=e]r, _n._ the catch in a gun-lock by which it is held at cock or half-cock: a part of a gun-lock.--_n._ SEAR'-SPRING, a spring in a gun-lock. [O. Fr. _serre_--L. _sera_, a bar.]

SEAR, s[=e]r, _v.t._ to dry up: to burn to dryness on the surface: to scorch: to cauterise: to render callous or insensible.--_adj._ dry, withered.--_adj._ SEARED, dried up: burned: hardened.--_ns._ SEARED'NESS, hardness, insensibility; SEAR'NESS, dryness; SEAR'WOOD, wood dry enough to burn. [A.S. _seár_, dry, _seárian_, to dry up; Low Ger. _soor_, Dut. _zoor_.]

SEARCE, sers, _v.t._ (_Scot._) to sift through a sieve.--_n._ a sieve.

SEARCH, s[.e]rch, _v.t._ to look round to find: to seek; to examine: to inspect: to explore: to put to the test: to probe.--_v.i._ to seek for: to make inquiry.--_n._ the act of seeking or looking for: examination: inquiry: investigation: pursuit.--_adj._ SEARCH'ABLE, capable of being searched.--_ns._ SEARCH'ABLENESS, the state or quality of being searchable; SEARCH'ER, a seeker: an inquirer or examiner: a custom-house officer: an officer who formerly apprehended idlers on the street during church hours in Scotland: a sieve or strainer.--_adj._ SEARCH'ING, looking over closely: penetrating: trying: severe.--_adv._ SEARCH'INGLY.--_n._ SEARCH'INGNESS, the quality of being searching, penetrating, or severe.--_adj._ SEARCH'LESS, unsearchable.--_ns._ SEARCH'-LIGHT, an electric arc-light used on board ship and in military operations; SEARCH'-WARR'ANT, a legal warrant authorising a search for stolen goods, &c.--RIGHT OF SEARCH, the right claimed by one nation to authorise the commanders of their cruisers to search private merchant-vessels for articles contraband of war. [O. Fr. _cercher_ (Fr. _chercher_)--L. _circ[=a]re_, to go about--_circus_, a circle.]

SEASE, s[=e]z, _v.t._ (_Spens._) to seize.

SEASON, s[=e]'zn, _n._ one of the four periods of the year: the usual or proper time for anything: any particular time: any period of time, esp. of some continuance, but not long: seasoning, relish.--_v.t._ to mature: to prepare for use: to accustom or fit for use by any process: to fit for the taste: to give relish to: to mingle: to moderate, temper, or qualify by admixture: to inure, imbue, tinge, or taint: to preserve from decay.--_v.i._ to become seasoned or matured: to grow fit for use: to become inured.--_adj._ SEA'SONABLE, happening in due season: occurring in good, suitable, or proper time: timely, opportune.--_n._ SEA'SONABLENESS.--_adv._ SEA'SONABLY.--_adj._ SEA'SONAL.--_adv._ SEA'SONALLY.--_n._ SEA'SONER, one who, or that which, seasons: a sailor, &c., who hires for the season: a loafer, a beach-comber.--SEASON TICKET (see TICKET).--CLOSE SEASON, close time; IN SEASON, ripe, fit and ready for use: allowed to be killed, fit to be eaten, edible; IN SEASON AND OUT OF SEASON, at all times; OUT OF SEASON, inopportune; THE FOUR SEASONS, the ember or fast days of the Church on days set apart in each of the four seasons. [O. Fr. _seson_ (Fr. _saison_)--L. _satio_, _-onis_, seedtime.]

SEASONING, s[=e]'zn-ing, _n._ that which is added to food to give it greater relish: anything added to increase enjoyment: in diamond-cutting, the charging of the laps or wheels with diamond dust and oil.--_n._ SEA'SONING-TUB, a trough in which dough is set to rise.--_adj._ SEA'SONLESS, without relish: insipid.

SEAT, s[=e]t, _n._ that on which one sits: a chair, bench, &c.: the place or room where one sits, as in church, at a theatre, &c.: site: a place where anything is settled or established: post of authority: station: abode: a mansion: that part of the body or of a garment on which one sits: posture or situation on horseback: a right to sit: membership: sitting-room: a sitting: a sitting of eggs.--_v.t._ to place on a seat: to cause to sit down: to place in any situation, site, &c.: to establish: to fix: to assign a seat to: to furnish with seats: to fit accurately: to repair by making a seat new.--_v.i._ to lie down.--_ns._ SEAT'-BACK, a loose ornamental covering for the back of a sofa or chair; SEAT'-EARTH, in coal-mining, the bed of clay by which many coal-seams are underlain.--_p.adj._ SEAT'ED, fixed, confirmed, located.--_ns._ SEAT'-FAS'TENER, in a wagon, the screw-clamp for securing the seat to the body; SEAT'ING, the act of furnishing with seats: haircloth: in shipbuilding, that part of the floor which rests on the keel; SEAT'-LOCK, the lock of a reversible seat in railroad cars; SEAT'-RAIL, a cross-piece between the legs, below the seat, of a chair, &c.; SEAT'-WORM, a pin-worm.--SEAT OF THE SOUL, the sensorium.--TAKE A SEAT, to sit down. [A.S. _s['æ]t_, an ambush--_sittan_, to seat; or more prob. Ice. _sæti_, a seat--_sat_, pa.t. of _sitja_, to sit.]

SEAVE, s[=e]v, _n._ a wick made of rush.--_adj._ SEAV'Y, overgrown with rushes.

SEAX, s[=e]'aks, _n._ a curved, one-edged sword, used by Germanic and Celtic peoples: (_her._) a bearing representing a weapon like the seax. [A.S. _seax_.]

SEBACEOUS, s[=e]-b[=a]'shus, _adj._ pertaining to or secreting fat or fatty matter: (_bot._) like tallow or wax, as the secretions of certain plants.--_adj._ S[=E]BAC'IC, pertaining to or obtained from fat.--_n._ S[=E]'B[=A]TE, a salt formed by the combination of sebacic acid with a base.--_adj._ S[=E]BIF'EROUS, sebaceous.--_n._ S[=E]BORRH[=E]'A, a disease of the sebaceous glands with excessive secretion--also S[=E]BORRHOE'A.--_adj._ S[=E]BORRH[=E]'IC.--_n._ S[=E]'BUM, the secretion of the sebaceous glands. [Low L. _sebaceus_--_sebum_, tallow.]

SE-BAPTIST, s[=e]-bap'tist, _n._ one who baptises himself.

SEBASTOMANIA, s[=e]-bas-t[=o]-m[=a]'ni-a, _n._ religious insanity. [Gr. _sebastos_, reverenced, _mania_, madness.]

SEBAT, s[=e]-bat', _n._ the fifth month of the Jewish civil year, and the eleventh of the ecclesiastical year, falling in part of January and February.

SEBESTEN, s[=e]-bes'ten, _n._ a tree with plum-like fruit.--Also SEBES'TAN. [Fr.,--Ar.]

SEBILLA, s[=e]-bil'a, _n._ in stone-cutting, a wooden bowl for holding the water used in sawing, &c. [Fr.]

SEBUNDY, s[=e]-bun'di, _n._ a native soldier or local militiaman in India.--Also SEBUN'DEE. [Hind.]

SEC, sek, _adj._ dry, of wines. [Fr.]

SEC., sek, _n._ an abbreviation of _secretary_, _secant_, _second_; also of _secundum_, according to.

SECABILITY, sek-a-bil'i-ti, _n._ capability of being divided. [L. _sec[=a]re_, to cut.]

SECALE, s[=e]-k[=a]'l[=e], _n._ a genus of grasses including rye.

SECAMONE, sek-a-m[=o]'n[=e], _n._ a genus of shrubby climbers.

SECANT, s[=e]'kant, _adj._ cutting: dividing.--_n._ a line that cuts another: a straight line from the centre of a circle to one extremity of an arc, produced till it meets the tangent to the other extremity.--_n._ S[=E]'CANCY. [L. _secans_, _secantis_, pr.p. _of sec[=a]re_, to cut.]

SECCO, sek'k[=o], _n._ (_mus._) unaccompanied: plain. [It.]

SECEDE, s[=e]-s[=e]d', _v.i._ to go away: to separate one's self: to withdraw from fellowship or association.--_ns._ SEC[=E]'DER, one who secedes: one of a body of Presbyterians who seceded from the Church of Scotland about 1733; SECES'SION, the act of seceding: withdrawal: departure; SECES'SIONISM, the doctrine of secession; SECES'SIONIST, one who maintains the principle of secession.--WAR OF SECESSION, in United States history, the civil war (1860-65) which resulted from the attempted withdrawal of eleven Southern States from the United States. [L. _seced[)e]re_, _secessum_--_se-_, away, _ced[)e]re_, to go.]

SECERN, s[=e]-sern', _v.i._ and _v.t._ to separate: to distinguish: to secrete.--_adj._ SECER'NENT.--_n._ SECERN'MENT. [L. _secern[)e]re_, _secretum_, to separate.]

SECESH, s[=e]-sesh', _n._ and _adj._ (_U.S. slang_) secessionist.--_n._ SECESH'ER.

SECESSIVE, s[=e]-ses'iv, _adj._ set apart: isolated.

SECHIUM, s[=e]'ki-um, _n._ a genus of gourds. [Prob. Gr. _s[=e]kos_, an enclosure.]

SECKEL, sek'el, _n._ a variety of pear.

SECLUDE, s[=e]-kl[=oo]d', _v.i._ to shut apart: to keep apart.--_adj._ S[=E]CLUD'ED, retired: withdrawn from observation.--_adv._ S[=E]CLUD'EDLY.--_ns._ S[=E]CLU'SION, the act of secluding: a shutting out: the state of being secluded or apart: separation: retirement: privacy: solitude; S[=E]CLU'SIONIST.--_adj._ S[=E]CLU'SIVE. [L. _seclud[)e]re_, _seclusum_--_se-_, apart, _claud[)e]re_, to shut.]

SECOHM, sek'[=o]m, _n._ the practical unit of electrical self-induction--now more commonly _Henry_.--_n._ SEC'OHMM[=E]TER, an instrument for measuring the coefficient, of electrical self-induction. [_Sec_ (_ond_) and _ohm_, the unit of resistance.]

SECOND, sek'und, _adj._ immediately following the first: the ordinal of two: next in position: inferior: other: another: favourable.--_n._ one who, or that which, follows or is second: one who attends another in a duel or a prize-fight: a supporter: the 60th part of a minute of time, or of a degree.--_v.t._ to follow: to act as second: to assist: to encourage: to support the mover of a question or resolution: (_mus._) to sing second to: to put into temporary retirement in the army, as an officer when holding civil office (usually s[=e]cond').--_n._ SEC'OND-AD'VENTIST, one who lives in expectation of a second coming of Christ to establish a personal kingdom on earth, a premillenarian.--_adv._ SEC'ONDARILY, in a secondary manner or degree: (_B._) secondly.--_n._ SEC'ONDARINESS.--_adj._ SEC'ONDARY, following or coming after the first: second in position: inferior: subordinate: deputed.--_n._ a subordinate: a delegate or deputy.--_adjs._ SEC'OND-BEST, next to the best: best except one--(COME OFF SECOND-BEST, to get the worst of a contest); SEC'OND-CLASS, inferior to the first, as a second-class carriage.--_ns._ SEC'ONDER, one who seconds or supports; SEC'OND-FLOUR, flour of a coarser quality, seconds.--_adj._ SEC'OND-HAND, received as it were from the hand of a second person: not new: that has been used by another.--_n._ a hand for marking seconds on a clock or watch.--_adv._ SEC'ONDLY, in the second place.--_ns._ SEC'OND-MARK, the character " as the mark in mathematics for a second of arc, in architecture for inches, and as a sign for a second of time; SECON'DO, the lower part in a duet.--_adj._ SEC'OND-RATE, being second in power, size, rank, quality, or value.--_ns._ SEC'OND-SIGHT (see SIGHT); SEC'ONDS-PEN'DULUM, a pendulum which makes one oscillation per second of mean time.--SECONDARY EDUCATION, that which is higher than primary or elementary; SECONDARY FORMATION, ROCKS, STRATA, the Mesozoic strata; SECONDARY PLANET, a moon or satellite; SECONDARY SCHOOL, a school for higher education; SECOND CHILDHOOD, a condition of mental weakness often accompanying old age; SECOND COMING, the second coming of Christ, or Second Advent; SECOND COUSIN, the child of a cousin; SECOND ESTATE, the House of Lords; SECOND GUARD, an additional guard to a sword; SECOND STORY, in America, the second range of rooms from the first level, called in England the first floor; SECOND THOUGHTS, reconsideration. [Fr.,--L. _secundus_--_sequi_, _secutus_, to follow.]

SECRET, s[=e]'kret, _adj._ concealed from notice: removed from sight: unrevealed: hidden: secluded: retired: private: keeping secrets: reserved.--_n._ that which is concealed: anything unrevealed or unknown: privacy: the key or principle by which something is made clear: a form of steel skull-cap: one of the prayers in the Mass, immediately following the 'Orate, fratres,' said inaudibly by the celebrant: (_pl._) any prayers said secretly and not aloud: the parts of the body which are concealed.--_ns._ S[=E]'CRECY, the state of being secret: separation: concealment: retirement: privacy: fidelity to a secret: the keeping of secrets; S[=E]'CRETAGE, a process in dressing furs.--_adj._ S[=E]'CRET-FALSE (_Shak._), secretly false, while apparently sincere.--_adv._ S[=E]'CRETLY, in a secret manner: privately: unknown to others: inwardly.--_n._ S[=E]'CRETNESS, the state of being secret.--SECRET SERVICE, a department of government service.--OPEN SECRET, a secret which all may inquire into. [Fr.,--L. _secretus_--_secern[)e]re_, _secretum_--_se-_, apart, _cern[)e]re_, to separate.]

SECRETARY, sek'r[=e]-t[=a]-ri, _n._ one employed to write for another: a public officer entrusted with the affairs of a department of government, or of a company, &c.: a piece of furniture for writing, with drawers, pigeon-holes, &c. (also SECRETAIRE').--_adj._ SECRET[=A]'RIAL, pertaining to a secretary or his duties.--_ns._ SECRET[=A]'RIATE, the official position of secretary; SEC'RETARY-BIRD a raptorial serpent-eating bird resembling the crane, found in South Africa and the East--from the tufts of feathers at the back of its head like pens stuck behind the ear; SEC'RETARYSHIP.

SECRETE, s[=e]-kr[=e]t', _v.t._ to make secret: to hide: to conceal: to produce from the circulating fluids, as the blood in animals, the sap in vegetables.--_adj._ separate, distinct.--_n.pl._ S[=E]CR[=E]'TA, the products of secretion.--_n._ S[=E]CR[=E]'TION, the act of secreting or separating from a circulating fluid: that which is so secreted.--_adj._ S[=E]CR[=E]'TIONAL.--_n._ S[=E]'CRETIST, a dealer in secrets.--_adjs._ S[=E]CRETI'TIOUS, produced by secretion; S[=E]CR[=E]'TIVE, tending to, or causing, secretion: given to secrecy or to keeping secrets.--_adv._ S[=E]CR[=E]'TIVELY.--_ns._ S[=E]CR[=E]'TIVENESS, a phrenological organ supposed to indicate a turn for secrecy and concealment; S[=E]CR[=E]'TOR, a secreting organ.--_adj._ S[=E]CR[=E]'TORY, performing the office of secretion.--SECRETING GLANDS, true glands; SECRETING ORGANS, certain specialised organs of plants. [L. _secern[)e]re_, _secretum_.]

SECT, sekt, _n._ a body of men who unite in holding some particular views, esp. in religion and philosophy: those who dissent from an established church: a denomination: a school of philosophy: a party: faction: apparel: a part cut off.--_adj._ SECT[=A]'RIAN, pertaining to, or peculiar to, a sect: bigotedly devoted to the interests of a sect, narrow, exclusive (also SECT[=A]'RIAL).--_n._ one of a sect: one strongly imbued with the characteristics of a sect.--_v.t._ SECT[=A]'RIANISE.--_ns._ SECT[=A]'RIANISM, quality or character of a sectarian: excessive devotion to a sect; SEC'TARIST; SEC'TARY, one of a sect: a dissenter; SECT[=A]'TOR (_obs._), an adherent of a school or party; SEC'TIST; SECT'-MAS'TER, the leader of a sect.--SECTARIAL MARKS, emblems marked on the foreheads of the different sects in India. [Fr. _secte_--L. _secta_, a school of philosophy--_sec[=a]re_, _sectum_, to cut off.]

SECTANT, sek'tant, _n._ a portion of space cut off from the rest by three planes, but extending to infinity.

SECTION, sek'shun, _n._ act of cutting: a division: a portion: a distinct part of a book: the plan of any object cut through, as it were, to show its interior: the line formed by the intersection of two surfaces: the surface formed when a solid is cut by a plane: one of the squares, each containing 640 acres, into which the public lands of the United States are divided: (_zool._) a group: the sign §, as a mark of reference.--_v.t._ to divide into sections, as a ship; to reduce to the degree of thinness required for study with the microscope.--_adjs._ SEC'TILE, SEC'TIVE, capable of being cut.--_n._ SECTIL'ITY.--_adj._ SEC'TIONAL, pertaining to a section or distinct part: local.--_n._ SEC'TIONALISM, the spirit of a class, commercial or political.--_adv._ SEC'TIONALLY.--_ns._ SEC'TION-BEAM, in warping, a roller which receives the yarn from the spools; SEC'TION-CUT'TER, an instrument used for making sections for microscopic work.--_v.t._ SEC'TIONISE, to render sectional in scope or spirit.--_ns._ SEC'TION-LIN'ER, a draftsman's instrument for ruling parallel lines; SEC'TION-PLANE, a cut surface; SEC'TIOPLANOG'RAPHY, a method of laying down the sections of engineering work in railways; SEC'TIUNCLE, a petty sect.

SECTOR, sek'tur, _n._ that which cuts: that which is cut off: a portion of the circle between two radii and the intercepted arc: a mathematical instrument for finding a fourth proportional: an astronomical instrument: (_mech._) a toothed gear, the face of which is the arc of a circle.--_adjs._ SEC'TORAL; SECT[=O]'RIAL, adapted or intended for cutting.--_n._ a scissor-tooth. [L. _sector_--_sec[=a]re_, to cut.]

SECULAR, sek'[=u]-lar, _adj._ pertaining to an age or generation: coming or observed only once in a century: permanent: lay or civil, as opposed to clerical: (_geol._) gradually becoming appreciable in the course of ages: pertaining to the present world, or to things not spiritual: not bound by monastic rules.--_n._ a layman: an ecclesiastic, as a parish priest, not bound by monastic rules.--_n._ SECULARISA'TION, the state of being secularised.--_v.t._ SEC'ULARISE, to make secular: to convert from spiritual to common use.--_ns._ SEC'ULARISM; SEC'ULARIST, one who, discarding religious belief and worship, applies himself exclusively to the things of this life: one who holds that education should be apart from religion; SECULAR'ITY, state of being secular or worldly: worldliness.--_adv._ SEC'ULARLY.--_n._ SEC'ULARNESS. [L. _secularis_--_seculum_, an age, a generation.]

SECUND, s[=e]'kund, _n._ (_bot._, _zool._) unilateral.

SECUNDARIUS, sek-un-d[=a]'ri-us, _n._ a lay-vicar.

SECUNDATE, s[=e]-kun'd[=a]t, _v.t._ to make prosperous.--_n._ SECUND[=A]'TION.

SECUNDINE, sek'un-din, _n._ the afterbirth: (_bot._) inner coat of an ovule, within the primine.

SECUNDOGENITURE, s[=e]-kun'do-jen'i-t[=u]r, _n._ the right of inheritance pertaining to a second son.

SEOUNDUM, s[=e]-kun'dum, _prep._ according to.--SECUNDUM ARTEM, artificially: skilfully: professionally; SECUNDUM NATURAM, naturally; SECUNDUM QUID, in some respects only; SECUNDUM VERITATEM, universally valid.

SECURE, s[=e]-k[=u]r', _adj._ without care or anxiety, careless (_B._): free from fear or danger: safe: confident: incautious: in safe keeping: of such strength as to ensure safety.--_v.t._ to make safe: to guard from danger: to seize and confine: to get hold of: to make one's self master of: (_obs._) to plight or pledge: to render certain: to guarantee: to fasten.--_adj._ SEC[=U]R'ABLE, that may be secured.--_n._ SECUR'ANCE, assurance, confirmation.--_adv._ SEC[=U]RE'LY.--_ns._ SEC[=U]RE'MENT; SEC[=U]RE'NESS; SEC[=U]R'ER, one who, or that which, secures or protects; SEC[=U]R'ITAN, one who dwells in fancied security; SEC[=U]R'ITY, state of being secure: freedom from fear: carelessness: protection: certainty: a pledge: (_pl._) bonds or certificates in evidence of debt or property.--SECURE ARMS, to guard the firearms from becoming wet. [L. _securus_--_se-_ (for _sine_), without, _cura_, care.]

SECURICULA, sek-[=u]'-rik'[=u]-la, _n._ a little ax, a votive offering in this form.

SECURIFER, s[=e]-k[=u]'ri-f[.e]r, _n._ a sawfly.--_adjs._ SEC[=U]RIF'EROUS; SEC[=U]'RIFORM, axe-shaped.

SECURIGERA, sek-[=u]-rij'e-ra, _n._ a genus of leguminous plants--the _hatchet-vetch_, _axe-fitch_.

SECURIPALPI, s[=e]-k[=u]r-i-pal'p[=i], _n._ a group of beetles.

SECURITE, sek'[=u]r-[=i]t, _n._ a modern high explosive in the form of a yellowish powder.

SED, sed, _n._ a line fastening a fish-hook: a snood.

SEDAN, s[=e]-dan', _n._ a covered chair for one, carried on two poles, generally by two bearers: a hand-barrow for fish. [Invented at _Sedan_, in France.]

SEDATE, s[=e]-d[=a]t', _adj._ quiet: serene: serious.--_adv._ SED[=A]TE'LY.--_n._ SED[=A]TE'NESS, composure: tranquillity.--_adj._ SED'ATIVE, tending to make sedate: moderating: allaying irritation or pain.--_n._ a medicine that allays irritation or pain. [L. _sed[=a]re_, _-[=a]tum_, to seat, akin to _sed[=e]re_, to sit.]

SE DEFENDENDO, s[=e] d[=e]-fen-den'd[=o], _n._ the plea of a person charged with slaying another, that it was in his own defence.

SEDENTARIA, sed-en-t[=a]'ri-a, _n.pl._ the tubicolous worms: the sedentary spiders.

SEDENTARY, sed'en-t[=a]-ri, _adj._ sitting much: passed chiefly in sitting: requiring much sitting: inactive: (_zool._) not migratory: not errant: lying in wait, as a spider: not free-swimming: motionless, as a protozoan.--_adj._ S[=E]'DENT, at rest.--_adv._ SED'ENTARILY.--_n._ SED'ENTARINESS. [L. _sedentarius_--_sed[=e]re_, to sit.]

SEDERUNT, s[=e]-d[=e]'runt, _n._ in Scotland, the sitting of a court.--ACTS OF SEDERUNT, ordinances of the Scottish Court of Session. [L., 'they sat'--_sed[=e]re_, to sit.]

SEDES IMPEDITA, s[=e]'dez im-p[=e]-d[=i]'ta, a term for a papal or episcopal see when there is a partial cessation by the incumbent of his episcopal duties.--SEDES VACANS (s[=e]-dez v[=a]'kanz), a term of canon law to designate a papal or episcopal see when vacant.

SEDGE, sej, _n._ a kind of flag or coarse grass growing in swamps and rivers.--_adj._ SEDGED, composed of sedge or flags.--_ns._ SEDGE'-HEN, a marsh-hen; SEDGE'-WAR'BLER, a reed-warbler, the sedge-wren.--_adj._ SEDG'Y, overgrown with sedge. [Older form _seg_--A.S. _secg_; cf. Low Ger. _segge_.]

SEDGE, sej, _n._ a flock of herons, bitterns, or cranes. [A variant of _siege_.]

SEDIGITATED, s[=e]-dij'i-t[=a]-ted, _adj._ having six fingers on one hand.

SEDILIUM, s[=e]-dil'i-um, _n._ one of a row of seats in a Roman amphitheatre: a seat in the chancel of a church near the altar for the officiating clergyman--sometimes S[=E]D[=I]'LE:--_pl._ S[=E]DIL'IA. [L.]

SEDIMENT, sed'i-ment, _n._ what settles at the bottom of a liquid: dregs.--_adj._ SEDIMEN'TARY, pertaining to, consisting of, or formed by sediment.--_n._ SEDIMENT[=A]'TION. [L. _sedimentum_--_sed[=e]re_, to sit.]

SEDITION, s[=e]-dish'un, _n._ insurrection: any offence against the State next to treason.--_n._ S[=E]DI'TIONARY, an inciter to sedition.--_adj._ SEDI'TIOUS, pertaining to, or exciting, sedition: turbulent.--_adv._ S[=E]DI'TIOUSLY.--_n._ SEDI'TIOUSNESS. [Fr.,--L. _seditio_--_se-_, away, _[=i]re_, _[=i]tum_, to go.]

SEDUCE, s[=e]-d[=u]s', _v.t._ to draw aside from rectitude: to entice: to corrupt: to cause a woman to surrender her chastity through persuasion, entreaty, under promise of marriage, &c.--_ns._ S[=E]D[=U]CE'MENT, act of seducing or drawing aside: allurement; S[=E]D[=U]'CER.--_adj._ S[=E]D[=U]'CIBLE.--_adv._ S[=E]D[=U]'CINGLY.--_n._ S[=E]DUC'TION, act of seducing or enticing from virtue, any enticement to evil: the act of fraudulently depriving an unmarried woman of her chastity.--_adj._ S[=E]DUC'TIVE, tending to seduce or draw aside: assiduous.--_adv._ S[=E]DUC'TIVELY.--_ns._ S[=E]DUC'TIVENESS; S[=E]DUC'TOR, one who leads astray. [L. _seduc[)e]re_--_se-_, aside, _duc[)e]re_, _ductum_, to lead.]

SEDULOUS, sed'[=u]-lus, _adj._ diligent: constant.--_ns._ S[=E]D[=U]'LITY, SED'ULOUSNESS.--_adv._ SED'ULOUSLY. [L. _sedulus_--_sed[=e]re_, to sit.]

SEDUM, s[=e]'dum, _n._ a genus of polypetalous plants, as stone-crop. [L., a house-leek.]

SEE, s[=e], _n._ the seat or jurisdiction of a bishop or archbishop: a throne.--HOLY SEE, the papal court. [O. Fr. _se_, _siet_--L. _sedes_--_sed[=e]re_, to sit.]

SEE, s[=e], _v.t._ to perceive by the eye: to observe: to discover: to remark: to bring about as a result: to wait upon, escort: to receive: to consult for any particular purpose: to suffer, experience: to meet and accept by staking a similar sum: to visit: to discern: to understand.--_v.i._ to look or inquire: to be attentive: to apprehend: to consider:--_pa.t_. saw; _pa.p._ seen.--_interj._ look! behold!--_adj._ SEE'ABLE, capable of being seen.--_n._ S[=E]'ER, one who sees or who foresees, a prophet.--SEE ABOUT A THING, to consider it; SEE ONE THROUGH, to aid in accomplishing or doing, esp. something difficult or dangerous; SEE OUT, to see to the end: to outdo; SEE THROUGH ONE, to understand one thoroughly; SEE TO, to look after: (_B._) to behold; SEE TO IT, look well to it.--HAVE SOON ONE'S BEST DAYS, to be now on the decline; LET ME SEE, a phrase employed to express consideration. [A.S. _séon_; Ger. _sehen_, Dut. _zien_.]

SEE-BRIGHT, s[=e]'-br[=i]t, _n._ the common clary.

SEE-CATCHIE, s[=e]'-kach'i, _n._ the male fur-seal.

SEE-CAWK, s[=e]'-kawk, _n._ the common American skunk.

SEED, s[=e]d, _n._ the thing sown: the male fecundating fluid, semen, sperm, milt, spat, the substance produced by plants and animals from which new plants and animals are generated: first principle: original: descendants: children: race: red-seed: a small bubble formed in imperfectly fused glass.--_v.i._ to produce seed: to grow to maturity.--_v.t._ to sow: to plant: to graft.--_ns._ SEED'-BAG, a bag for seeds; SEED'-BED, a piece of ground for receiving seed; SEED'-BIRD, the water-wagtail; SEED'-BUD, the bud or germ of the seed; SEED'-CAKE, a sweet cake containing aromatic seeds; SEED'-COAT, the exterior coat of a seed; SEED'-COD, a basket for holding seed; SEED'-COR'AL, coral in small and irregular pieces; SEED'-CORN, corn to be used for sowing; SEED'-CRUSH'ER, an instrument for crushing seeds to express the oil; SEED'-DOWN, the down on cotton, &c.; SEED'-DRILL, a machine for sowing seed in rows; SEED'-EAT'ER, a granivorous bird.--_adj._ SEED'ED, bearing seed, full-grown: sown: (_her._) having the stamens indicated.--_ns._ SEED'-EMBROI'DERY, embroidery in which seeds form parts of the design; SEED'ER, a seed-drill: an apparatus for removing seeds from fruit: a seed-fish; SEED'-FIELD, a field in which seed is raised; SEED'-FINCH, a South American finch; SEED'-FISH, roe or spawn; SEED'-FOWL, a bird that feeds on grain.--_adj._ SEED'FUL, rich in promise.--_ns._ SEED'-GALL, a small gall; SEED'-GRAIN, corn for seed.--_adv._ SEED'ILY.--_ns._ SEED'INESS, the state of being seedy: shabbiness: exhaustion; SEED'ING; SEED'ING-MACHINE', an agricultural machine for sowing; SEED'ING-PLOUGH, a plough fitted with a hopper from which seed is automatically deposited; SEED'-LAC (see LAC, 2); SEED'-LEAF, a cotyledon; SEED'-LEAP, a seed-basket.--_adj._ SEED'LESS, having no seeds.--_ns._ SEED'LING a plant reared from the seed--also _adj._; SEED'-LOBE, a cotyledon or seed-leaf; SEED'NESS (_Shak._), seedtime; SEED'-OIL, oil expressed from seeds.--_ns.pl._ SEED'-OY'STERS, very young oysters; SEED'-PEARLS, very small or imperfect pearls strung together on horse-hair and attached to mother-of-pearl, &c., for ornament--used also in the composition of electuaries, &c.--_ns._ SEED'-PLANT'ER, a seeder for planting seed on hills; SEED'-PLOT, a piece of nursery-ground, a hot-bed; SEED'-SHEET, the sheet containing the seed of the sower; SEEDS'MAN, one who deals in seeds: a sower:--_pl._ SEEDS'MEN; SEED'-SOW'ER, a broadcast seeding-machine; SEED'-STALK, the funiculus; SEED'-TICK, a young tick; SEED'TIME, the time or season for sowing seed; SEED'-VESS'EL, the pericarp which contains the seeds; SEED'-WEEV'IL, a small weevil which infests seeds; SEED'-WOOL, cotton-wool from which the seeds have not been removed.--_adj._ SEED'Y, abounding with seed: run to seed: having the flavour of seeds: worn out: out of sorts, looking or feeling unwell: shabby.--_n._ SEED'Y-TOE, a diseased condition of a horse's foot. [A.S. _s['æ]d_--_sáwan_, to sow; Ice. _sádh_, Ger. _saat_.]

SEEING, s[=e]'ing, _n._ sight: vision.--_conj._ since: because: taking into account.--_n._ SEE'ING-STONE (_obs._), a looking-glass, a divining crystal.

SEEK, s[=e]k, _v.t._ to go in search of: to look for: to try to find or gain: to ask for: to solicit: to pursue: to consult.--_v.i._ to make search or inquiry: to try: to use solicitation: (_B._) to resort to:--_pa.t._ and _pa.p._ sought.--_ns._ SEEK'ER, an inquirer: one of a sect in the time of Cromwell: (_anat._) tracer; SEEK'-NO-FAR'THER, a reddish winter apple; SEEK'-SORR'OW (_obs._), a self-tormentor.--SOUGHT AFTER, in demand, desired; To seek, to be sought: at a loss, without knowledge or resources, helpless. [A.S. _sécan_; cf. Dut. _zoeken_, Ger. _suchen_.]

SEEL, s[=e]l, _v.t._ to close the eyes of by sewing the eyelids together, as a hawk: to blind, hoodwink. [O. Fr. _siller_, _ciller_--_cil_--L. _cilium_, eyelash.]

SEEL, s[=e]l, _n._ (_prov._) good fortune, happiness: opportunity, season.--_n._ SEEL'INESS.--_adj._ SEEL'Y (_Spens._), silly, innocent: fortunate, happy, good: simple: trifling.--_n._ good fortune: bliss: (_Scot._) opportunity. [A.S. _s['æ]l_, time--_s['æ]l_, propitious.]

SEEL, s[=e]l, _v.i._ to lean to one side, to pitch or roll.--_n._ a roll of a ship. [Prob. related to _sail_.]

SEELDE, s[=e]ld, _adv._ (_Spens._) seldom.

SEEM, s[=e]m, _v.i._ to appear: to have a show: to look: to pretend, to assume an air: to appear to one's self.--_v.t._ (_B._) to befit: to become.--_n._ SEEM'ER.--_adj._ SEEM'ING, apparent: specious: ostensible.--_n._ appearance: semblance: a false appearance: way of thinking.--_adv._ SEEM'INGLY.--_n._ SEEM'INGNESS.--_adj._ SEEM'LESS (_Spens._), unseemly: indecorous.--_n._ SEEM'LINESS.--_adj._ SEEM'LY (_comp._ SEEM'LIER, superl. SEEM'LIEST), becoming: suitable: decent: handsome.--_adv._ in a decent or suitable manner.--_n._ SEEM'LYHED (_Spens._), decent comely appearance.--IT SEEMS, it appears: it seems to me. [A.S. _séman_, to satisfy, to suit; or prob. direct from Scand., Ice. _sæma_, to honour, conform to.]

SEEN, s[=e]n, _pa.p._ of _see_.

SEEN, s[=e]n, _adj._ skilled, experienced: manifest.

SEEP, s[=e]p, _v.i._ to ooze gently: to trickle: to drain off.--_n._ SEEP'AGE.--_adj._ SEEP'Y. [_Sipe._]

SEER, s[=e]r, _n._ one who foresees events: a prophet: a soothsayer.--_n._ SEER'SHIP.

SEER-FISH, s[=e]r'-fish, _n._ a longish scombroid fish, valuable for food.--Also SEIR'-FISH.

SEERSUCKER, s[=e]r-suk'[.e]r, _n._ a thin East Indian linen fabric.

SEESAW, s[=e]'saw, _n._ motion to and fro, as in the act of sawing: a play among children, in which two seated at opposite ends of a board supported in the centre move alternately up and down.--_adj._ moving up and down, or to and fro: reciprocal.--_v.i._ to move backwards and forwards. [Prob. a redup. of _saw_.]

SEETHE, s[=e]th, _v.t._ to boil: to cook in hot liquid: to soak.--_v.i._ to be boiling: to be hot:--_pa.t._ seethed or sod; _pa.p._ seethed or sodd'en.--_n._ SEETH'ER. [A.S. _seóthan_; Ice. _sjótha_, Ger. _sieden_.]

SEETULPUTTY, s[=e]'tul-put-i, _n._ a Bengalese grass mat for sleeping on. [Hind.]

SEG, seg, _n._ a castrated bull.

SEG, seg, _n._ sedge: the yellow flower-de-luce.--_n._ SEG'GAN (_Scot._).

SEGGAR, seg'ar, _n._ a case of clay in which fine pottery is enclosed while baking in the kiln. [_Saggar_.]

SEGGROM, seg'rom, _n._ the ragwort.

SEGHOL, se-g[=o]l', _n._ a vowel-point in Hebrew with sound of _e_ in _pen_, placed under a consonant, thus [seghol].--_n._ SEGH'[=O]L[=A]TE, a dissyllabic noun form with tone-long vowel in the first and a short seghol in the second syllable.

SEGMENT, seg'ment, _n._ a part cut off: a portion: (_geom_.) the part of a circle cut off by a straight line: the part of a sphere cut off by a plane: a section: one of the parts into which a body naturally divides itself: (_her._) a bearing representing one part only of a rounded object.--_v.t._ and _v.i._ to divide or become divided.--_adj._ SEGMEN'TAL, being a segment: in embryology, noting the rudimental venal organs.--_adv._ SEGMEN'TALLY.--_adjs._ SEG'MENTARY, SEG'MENTATE.--_n._ SEGMENT[=A]'TION, the act of cutting into segments.--_adj._ SEGMEN'TED.--_ns._ SEG'MENT-GEAR, a gear extending over an arc only of a circle, providing a reciprocating motion; SEG'MENT-RACK, a rack having a cogged surface; SEG'MENT-SAW, a circular saw used for cutting veneers; SEG'MENT-SHELL, a modern form of projectile for artillery. [L. _segmentum_--_sec[=a]re_, to cut.]

SEGNITUDE, seg'ni-t[=u]d, _n._ sluggishness, inactivity, [L. _segnitia_, slowness, _segnis_, slow.]

SEGNO, s[=a]'ny[=o], _n._ (_mus._) a sign to mark the beginning or end of repetitions--abbreviated [segno]. [It.,--L. _signum_, a mark.]

SEGO, s[=e]'g[=o], _n._ a showy plant of the United States.

SEGREANT, seg'r[=e]-ant, _adj._ an epithet of the griffin: (_her._) equivalent to rampant and salient.

SEGREGATE, seg'r[=e]-g[=a]t, _v.t._ to separate from others.--_adj._ separate from others of the same kind: (_geol._) separate from a mass and collected together along lines of fraction.--_n._ SEGREG[=A]'TION. [L. _segreg[=a]re_, _-[=a]tum_--_se-_, apart, _grex_, _gregis_, a flock.]

SEGUIDILLA, seg-i-d[=e]l'yä, _n._ a lively Spanish dance for two: music for such a dance.

SEICHE, s[=a]sh, _n._ a remarkable fluctuation of the level observed on the Lake of Geneva and other Swiss lakes, probably due to local variations in the barometric pressure. [Fr.]

SEIDLITZ, s[=e]d'litz, _adj._ saline water of or from _Seidlitz_ in northern Bohemia, also a saline aperient powder.

SEIGNIOR, SEIGNEUR, s[=e]'nyor, _n._ a title of honour and address in Europe to elders or superiors: the lord of a manor.--_ns._ SEIGN'IORAGE, SEIGN'ORAGE, a royalty: a share of profit: a percentage on minted bullion; SEIGNIORAL'TY, the authority or the territory of a seignior or lord.--_adjs._ SEIGNIORIAL (s[=e]-ny[=o]'ri-al), SEIGNEU'RIAL, SIGN[=O]'RIAL, manorial.--_v.t._ SEIGN'IORISE, to lord it over.--_ns._ SEIGN'IORY, SEIGN'ORY, the power or authority of a seignior or lord: a domain, a lordship without a manor, or that of manor whose lands were held by free tenants: the elders forming the municipal council in a medieval Italian republic.--GRAND SEIGNIOR, the Sultan of Turkey. [Fr. _seigneur_--L. _senior_--_senex_, old. In Late. L. _senior_ is sometimes equivalent to _dominus_, lord.]

SEIL, s[=i]l, _v.t._ (_Scot._) to strain.--_n._ a strainer. [_Sile._]

SEINE, s[=a]n, or s[=e]n, _n._ a large net for catching fish.--_v.t._ to catch with such.--_ns._ SEINE'-BOAT; SEINE'-EN'GINE, a steam-engine used in hauling seines; SEINE'-GANG, a body of men engaged in seining, with their boats and other gear; SEIN'ER, one who seines: a vessel engaged in purse-seining for mackerel; SEIN'ING, the art of using the seine. [Fr.,--L. _sagena_--Gr. _sag[=e]n[=e]_, a fishing-net.]

SEIROSPORE, s[=i]'r[=o]-sp[=o]r, _n._ one of the non-sexual spores arranged in a chain in certain florideous algæ.--_adj._ SEIROSPOR'IC.

SEISED, s[=e]zd, _adj._ (_Spens._) taken possession of.--_n._ SEIS'IN (_Spens._), possession.

SEISMOGRAPH, s[=i]s'm[=o]-graf, _n._ an instrument for registering the shocks and concussions of earthquakes, a seismometer.--_adjs._ SEIS'MAL; SEIS'MIC, belonging to an earthquake.--_ns._ SEIS'MOGRAM, the record made by a seismometer; SEISMOG'RAPHER.--_adjs._ SEISMOGRAPH'IC, -AL, connected with the seismograph.--_n._ SEISMOG'RAPHY, the study of earthquake phenomena.--_adjs._ SEISMOLOG'IC, -AL.--_ns._ SEISMOL'OGIST, a student of earthquake phenomena; SEIS'MOLOGUE, a catalogue of earthquake observations; SEISMOL'OGY, the science of earthquakes and volcanoes; SEISMOM'ETER, an instrument for measuring shakings, tremors, and tiltings of the earth.--_adjs._ SEISMOM'ETRIC, -AL.--_ns._ SEISMOM'ETRY, the measuring the phenomena of earthquakes; SEIS'MOSCOPE, a name of the simpler form of seismometer.--_adj._ SEISMOSCOP'IC. [Gr. _seismos_, an earthquake, _graphein_, to write.]

SEISON, s[=i]'son, _n._ a genus of parasitic leech-like rotifers.

SEISURA, s[=i]-s[=u]'ra, _n._ a genus of Australian fly-catchers.

SEITY, s[=e]'i-ti, _n._ something peculiar to one's self.

SEIURUS, s[=i]-[=u]'rus, _n._ the genus of birds including the American wagtails.

SEIZE, s[=e]z,--_v.t._ to take possession of forcibly: to take hold of: to grasp: to apprehend by legal authority: to come upon suddenly: to lash or make fast.--_v.i._ to lay hold of with the claws: in metallurgy, to cohere.--_adj._ SEIZ'ABLE.--_ns._ SEIZ'ER; SEIZ'ING, the act of taking hold: (_naut._) the operation of lashing with several turns of a cord. [O. Fr. _saisir_ (Prov. _sazir_, to take possession of)--Old High Ger. _sazzan_, to set, Ger. _setzen_, Eng. _set_.]

SEIZIN, SEISIN, s[=e]'zin, _n._ the taking possession of an estate as of freehold: the thing possessed--the same as _Sasine_ (q.v.).--_n._ SEIZ'OR, one who takes legal possession.

SEIZURE, s[=e]'zh[=u]r, _n._ act of seizing: capture: grasp: the thing seized: a sudden attack.

SEJANT, SEJEANT, s[=e]'jant, _adj._ (_her._) sitting. [Fr. _séant_, pr.p. of _seoir_--L. _sed[=e]re_, to sit.]

SEJOIN, s[=e]-join', _v.t._ (_obs._) to separate.--_n._ SEJUNC'TION, separation.

SEJUGOUS, s[=e]'j[=oo]-gus, _adj._ (_bot._) having six pairs of leaflets. [L. _sejugis_--_sex_, six, _jugum_, a yoke.]

SEKOS, s[=e]'kos, _n._ in Greek antiquities, any sacred enclosure, a sanctuary, cella of the temple.

SEL, sel, _n._ (_Scot._) self.

SELACHE, sel'a-k[=e], _n._ a genus of sharks.--_adjs._ SEL[=A]'CHIAN, SEL'ACHIOID. [Gr. _selachos_, a sea-fish.]

SELAGINELLA, s[=e]-laj-i-nel'a, _n._ a genus of heterosporous cryptogams, allied to club-moss.

SELAH, s[=e]'lä, _n._ in the Psalms, a transliterated Hebrew word (connected by Gesenius with _s[=a]l[=a]h_, rest), supposed to be a direction in the musical rendering of a passage, probably meaning 'pause.'

SELANDRIA, s[=e]-lan'dri-a, _n._ a genus of saw-flies.

SELASPHORUS, s[=e]-las'f[=o]-rus, _n._ the genus of lightning hummers.

SELCOUTH, sel'k[=oo]th, _adj._ (_Spens._) rarely known, uncommon.--_adv._ SEL'COUTHLY. [A.S. _selcúth_ for _seldcúth_--_seld_, seldom, _cúth_--known, _cunnan_, to know.]

SELD, seld, _adj._ (_Spens._) rare, uncommon.--_adv._ seldom, rarely.--_adjs._ SELD'SEEN, rarely seen; SELD'-SHOWN (_Shak._), rarely shown. [_Seldom_.]

SELDOM, sel'dum, _adv._ rarely: not often.--_n._ SEL'DOMNESS.--_adv._ SEL'DOM-TIMES. [A.S. _seldum_, _seldan_--_seld_ (adj.), rare; Ger. _selten_.]

SELECT, s[=e]-lekt', _v.t._ to pick out from a number by preference: to choose: to cull.--_adj._ picked out: nicely chosen: choice: exclusive.--_adj._ SELEC'TED.--_adv._ SELEC'TEDLY.--_ns._ SELEC'TEDNESS; SELEC'TION, act of selecting: things selected: a book containing select pieces.--_adj._ SELEC'TIVE.--_adv._ SELEC'TIVELY, by selection.--_ns._ SELECT'MAN, in New England towns, one of a board of officers chosen annually to manage various local concerns; SELECT'NESS; SELECT'OR.--SELECT MEETING, in the Society of Friends, a meeting of ministers and elders.--NATURAL SELECTION, the preservation of some forms of animal and vegetable life and the destruction of others by the ordinary operation of natural causes. [L. _selig[)e]re_, _selectum_--_se-_, aside, _leg[)e]re_, to choose.]

SELENE, s[=e]-l[=e]'n[=e], _n._ (_Gr. myth._) the goddess of the moon, the Latin _Luna_--also _Phoebe_: a genus of carangoid fishes, the moon-fishes.--_n._ SEL[=E]'NISCOPE, an instrument for observing the moon.--_adj._ SEL[=E]NOCEN'TRIC, having relation to the centre of the moon.--_ns._ SEL[=E]'NOGRAPH, a delineation of the moon; SEL[=E]NOG'RAPHER, a student of selenography.--_adjs._ SEL[=E]NOGRAPH'IC, -AL.--_ns._ SEL[=E]NOG'RAPHIST, a selenographer; SEL[=E]NOG'RAPHY, description of the moon.--_adj._ SEL[=E]NOLOG'ICAL, pertaining to the physiography of the moon.--_ns._ SEL[=E]NOL'OGIST, a selenographer; SEL[=E]NOL'OGY, selenography.--_adj._ SEL[=E]N[=O]TROP'IC, turning to the moon.--_ns._ SEL[=E]NOT'ROPISM, SEL[=E]NOT'ROPY. [Gr. _sel[=e]n[=e]_.]

SELENITE, sel'en-[=i]t, _n._ a transparent and beautiful variety of gypsum: a salt of selenium: a supposed inhabitant of the moon.--_adjs._ SELENIT'IC; SELENITIF'EROUS. [Gr. _sel[=e]nit[=e]s_ (_lithos_, stone), moon-like--_sel[=e]n[=e]_, the moon.]

SELENITES, sel-[=e]-n[=i]'tez, _n.pl._ a genus of coleopterous insects.

SELENIUM, s[=e]-l[=e]'ni-um, _n._ an element discovered by Berzelius in the refuse of a sulphuric-acid factory in 1817.--_n._ SEL'[=E]NATE, a compound of selenic acid with a base.--_adjs._ SELEN'IC, SEL[=E]'NIOUS.--_n._ SEL'ENIDE, a compound of selenium with one other element or radical--also SEL[=E]'NIURET.--_adjs._ SELENIF'EROUS; SEL[=E]'NIURETTED, containing selenium. [Gr. _s[=e]l[=e]ne_, the moon.]

SELENODONT, s[=e]-l[=e]'n[=o]-dont, _adj._ having crescentic ridges on the crown, as molar teeth.

SELEUCIDÆ, se-l[=u]'si-d[=e], _n.pl._ the descendants of _Seleucus_ I., surnamed Nicator, who governed Syria from 312 B.C. to 65 B.C.

SELEUCIDES, se-l[=u]'si-d[=e]z, _n._ a genus containing the twelve-wired bird of Paradise.