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Semi-Pelagianism (sĕmĭp�lājĭ�nĭz'm), n. The doctrines or tenets of the Semi-Pelagians.
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Semipellucid (sĕmĭpĕllūsĭd), a. Half clear, or imperfectly transparent; as, a semipellucid gem.
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Semipellucidity (sĕmĭpĕll�sĭdĭt�), n. The quality or state of being imperfectly transparent.
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Semipenniform (sĕmĭpĕnnĭfôrm), a. (Anat.) Half or partially penniform; as, a semipenniform muscle.
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Semipermanent, n. Half or partly permanent.
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Semiperspicuous (sĕmĭpẽrspĭk�ŭs), a. Half transparent; imperfectly clear; semipellucid.
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Semiphlogisticated (sĕmĭfl�jĭstĭkātĕd), a. (Old Chem.) Partially impregnated with phlogiston. [Obs.]
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Semiplume (sĕmĭplūm), n. (Zoöl.) A feather which has a plumelike web, with the shaft of an ordinary feather.
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Semiprecious (sĕmĭprĕshŭs), a. Somewhat precious; as, semiprecious stones or metals. Used mostly of gemstones used in jewelry, such as amethyst, garnet, or iolite, which are sufficiently rare to have commercial value, but are not considered as precious, as are the diamond, emerald, and ruby.
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Semiproof (sĕmĭpr�f), n. Half proof; evidence from the testimony of a single witness. [Obs.] Bailey.
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Semi pupa (sĕmĭpūpȧ), n. (Zoöl.) The young of an insect in a stage between the larva and pupa.
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{ Semiquadrate (sĕmĭkwŏdr�t), Semiquartile (sĕmĭkw�rtĭl), } n. (Astrol.) An aspect of the planets when distant from each other the half of a quadrant, or forty-five degrees, or one sign and a half. Hutton.
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Semiquaver (sĕmĭkwāvẽr), n. (Mus.) A note of half the duration of the quaver; -- now usually called a sixteenth note.
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Semiquintile (sĕmĭkwĭntĭl), n. (Astrol.) An aspect of the planets when distant from each other half of the quintile, or thirty-six degrees.
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Semiradial (?), a. Half radial.
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Semiradial engine. (Mach.) See , above.
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Semirecondite (sĕmĭrĕkŏndīt or sĕmĭr�kŏndĭt), a. (Zool.) Half hidden or half covered; said of the head of an insect when half covered by the shield of the thorax.
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Semiring (sĕmĭrĭng), n. (Anat.) One of the incomplete rings of the upper part of the bronchial tubes of most birds. The semirings form an essential part of the syrinx, or musical organ, of singing birds.
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Semisavage (sĕmĭsăv�j), a. Half savage.
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Semisavage, n. One who is half savage.
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Semi-Saxon (?), a. Half Saxon; -- specifically applied to the language intermediate between Saxon and English, belonging to the period 1150-1250.
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Semisextile (?), n. (Astrol.) An aspect of the planets when they are distant from each other the twelfth part of a circle, or thirty degrees. Hutton.
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Semisolid (?), a. Partially solid.
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Semisoun (-s�n), n. A half sound; a low tone. [Obs.] “Soft he cougheth with a semisoun.” Chaucer.
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{ Semispheric (?), Semispherical (?), } a. Having the figure of a half sphere. Kirwan.
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Semispheroidal (?), a. Formed like a half spheroid.
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Semisteel (�), n. Puddled steel. [U. S. ]
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Semita (?), n.; pl. Semitæ. [L., a path.] (Zoöl.) A fasciole of a spatangoid sea urchin.
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Semitangent (?), n. (Geom.) The tangent of half an arc.
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Semite (?), n. One belonging to the Semitic race. Also used adjectively. [Written also Shemite.]
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Semiterete (?), a. (Nat. Hist.) Half terete.
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Semitertian (?), a. (Med.) Having the characteristics of both a tertian and a quotidian intermittent. -- n. An intermittent combining the characteristics of a tertian and a quotidian.
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Semitic (?), a. Of or pertaining to Shem or his descendants; belonging to that division of the Caucasian race which includes the Arabs, Jews, and related races. [Written also Shemitic.]
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Coloq. Semitic language , a name used to designate a group of Asiatic and African languages, some living and some dead, namely: Hebrew and Phœnician, Aramaic, Assyrian, Arabic, Ethiopic (Geez and Ampharic). Encyc. Brit.
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Semitism (?), n. A Semitic idiom; a word of Semitic origin. [Written also Shemitism.]
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Semitone (?), n. [Pref. semi- + tone. CF. .] (Mus.) Half a tone; -- the name commonly applied to the smaller intervals of the diatonic scale.
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☞ There is an impropriety in the use of this word, and half step is now preferred. See . J. S. Dwight.
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Semitonic (?), a. Of or pertaining to a semitone; consisting of a semitone, or of semitones.
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Semitontine (?), a. (LIfe Insurance) Lit., half-tontine; -- used to designate a form of tontine life insurance. See . -- Semitontine, n.
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Semitransept (?), n. (Arch.) The half of a transept; as, the north semitransept of a church.
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Semitranslucent (?), a. Slightly clear; transmitting light in a slight degree.
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Semitransparency (?), n. Imperfect or partial transparency.
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Semitransparent (?), a. Half or imperfectly transparent.
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Semiverticillate, (�) a. Partially verticillate.
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Semivif (?), a. [L. semivivus.] Only half alive. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.
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Semivitreous (?), a. Partially vitreous.
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Semivitrification (?), n. 1. The quality or state of being semivitrified.
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2. A substance imperfectly vitrified.
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Semivitrified (?), a. Half or imperfectly vitrified; partially converted into glass.
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Semivocal (?), a. (Phon.) Of or pertaining to a semivowel; half cocal; imperfectly sounding.
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Semivowel (?), n. (Phon.) (a) A sound intermediate between a vowel and a consonant, or partaking of the nature of both, as in the English w and y. (b) The sign or letter representing such a sound.
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Semiweekly (?), a. Coming, or made, or done, once every half week; as, a semiweekly newspaper; a semiweekly trip. -- n. That which comes or happens once every half week, esp. a semiweekly periodical. -- adv. At intervals of half a week each.
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Semolella (?), n. [It.] See .
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Semolina (?), n. [It. semolino, from semola bran, L. simila the finest wheat flour. Cf. , .] The purified fine, hard parts of durum wheat, derived mostly from the endosperm, rounded by the attrition of the millstones, -- used in cookery, such as in the preparation of Italian pasta.
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Semolino (?), n. [It.] Same as .
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Semoule (?), n. [F.] Same as .
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Sempervirent (?), a. [L. semper always + virens, p. pr. of virere to be green.] Always fresh; evergreen. [R.] Smart.
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Sempervive (?), n. [L. semperviva, sempervivum, fr. sempervivus ever-living; semper always + vivus living.] (Bot.) The houseleek.
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Sempervivum (?), n. (Bot.) A genus of fleshy-leaved plants, of which the houseleek (Sempervivum tectorum) is the commonest species.
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Sempiternal (?), a. [L. sempiternus, fr. semper always: cf. F. sempiternel.] 1. Of neverending duration; everlasting; endless; having beginning, but no end. Sir M. Hale.
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2. Without beginning or end; eternal. Blackmore.
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Sempiterne (?), a. Sempiternal. [Obs.]
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Sempiternity (?), n. [L. sempiternitas.] Future duration without end; the relation or state of being sempiternal. Sir M. Hale.
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Sempre (?), adv. [It., fr. L. semper.] (Mus.) Always; throughout; as, sempre piano, always soft.
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Sempster (?), n. A seamster. [Obs.]
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Sempstress (?), n. A seamstress.
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Two hundred sepstress were employed to make me shirts.
Swift.
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Sempstressy (?), n. Seamstressy.
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Semster (?), n. A seamster. [Obs.]
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Semuncia (?), n. [L., fr. semi half + uncia ounce.] (Rom. Antiq.) A Roman coin equivalent to one twenty-fourth part of a Roman pound.
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Sen (?), n. A Japanese coin, worth about one half of a cent.
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Sen, adv., prep., & conj. [See .] Since. [Obs.]
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Senary (?), a. [L. senarius, fr. seni six each, fr. sex six. See .] Of six; belonging to six; containing six. Dr. H. More.
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Senate (?), n. [OE. senat, F. sénat, fr. L. senatus, fr. senex, gen. senis, old, an old man. See , .] 1. An assembly or council having the highest deliberative and legislative functions. Specifically: (a) (Anc. Rom.) A body of elders appointed or elected from among the nobles of the nation, and having supreme legislative authority.
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The senate was thus the medium through which all affairs of the whole government had to pass.
Dr. W. Smith.
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(b) The upper and less numerous branch of a legislature in various countries, as in France, in the United States, in most of the separate States of the United States, and in some Swiss cantons. (c) In general, a legislative body; a state council; the legislative department of government.
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2. The governing body of the Universities of Cambridge and London. [Eng.]
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3. In some American colleges, a council of elected students, presided over by the president of the college, to which are referred cases of discipline and matters of general concern affecting the students. [U. S.]
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Coloq. Senate chamber , a room where a senate meets when it transacts business. -- Coloq. Senate house , a house where a senate meets when it transacts business.
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Senator (?), n. [OE. senatour, OF. senatour, F. sénateur, fr. L. senator.] 1. A member of a senate.
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The duke and senators of Venice greet you.
Shak.
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☞ In the United States, each State sends two senators for a term of six years to the national Congress.
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2. (O.Eng.Law) A member of the king's council; a king's councilor. Burrill.
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Senatorial (?), a. [F. sénatorial, or L. senatorius.] 1. Of or pertaining to a senator, or a senate; becoming to a senator, or a senate; as, senatorial duties; senatorial dignity.
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2. Entitled to elect a senator, or by senators; as, the senatorial districts of a State. [U. S.]
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Senatorially, adv. In a senatorial manner.
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Senatorian (?), a. Senatorial. [R.] De Quincey.
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Senatorious (?), a. Senatorial. [Obs.]
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Senatorship (?), n. The office or dignity of a senator. Carew.
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Senatusconsult (?), n. [L. senatus consultum.] A decree of the Roman senate.
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Send (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sent (�); p. pr. & vb. n. Sending.] [AS. sendan; akin to OS. sendian, D. zenden, G. senden, OHG. senten, Icel. senda, Sw. sända, Dan. sende, Goth. sandjan, and to Goth. sinp a time (properly, a going), gasinpa companion, OHG. sind journey, AS. sī�, Icel. sinni a walk, journey, a time. W. hynt a way, journey, OIr. s�t. Cf. .] 1. To cause to go in any manner; to dispatch; to commission or direct to go; as, to send a messenger.
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I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran.
Jer. xxiii. 21.
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I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
John viii. 42.
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Servants, sent on messages, stay out somewhat longer than the message requires.
Swift.
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2. To give motion to; to cause to be borne or carried; to procure the going, transmission, or delivery of; as, to send a message.
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He . . . sent letters by posts on horseback.
Esther viii. 10.
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O send out thy light an thy truth; let them lead me.
Ps. xliii. 3.
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3. To emit; to impel; to cast; to throw; to hurl; as, to send a ball, an arrow, or the like.
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4. To cause to be or to happen; to bestow; to inflict; to grant; -- sometimes followed by a dependent proposition. “God send him well!” Shak.
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The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke.
Deut. xxviii. 20.
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And sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
Matt. v. 45.
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God send your mission may bring back peace.
Sir W. Scott.
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Send (?), v. i. 1. To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message, or to do an errand.
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See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away my head?
2 Kings vi. 32.
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2. (Naut.) To pitch; as, the ship sends forward so violently as to endanger her masts. Totten.
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Coloq. To send for , to request or require by message to come or be brought.
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Send, n. (Naut.) The impulse of a wave by which a vessel is carried bodily. [Written also scend.] W. C. Russell. “The send of the sea”. Longfellow.
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Sendal (?), n. [OF. cendal (cf. Pr. & Sp. cendal, It. zendale), LL. cendallum, Gr. ��� a fine Indian cloth.] A light thin stuff of silk. [Written also cendal, and sendal.] Chaucer.
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Wore she not a veil of twisted sendal embroidered with silver?
Sir W. Scott.
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Sender (?), n. One who sends. Shak.
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Senecas (?), n. pl.; sing. Seneca (�). (Ethnol.) A tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited a part of Western New York. This tribe was the most numerous and most warlike of the Five Nations.
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Coloq. Seneca grass (Bot.), holy grass. See under . -- Coloq. Seneca eil , petroleum or naphtha. -- Coloq. Seneca root , or Coloq. Seneca snakeroot (Bot.), the rootstock of an American species of milkworth (Polygala Senega) having an aromatic but bitter taste. It is often used medicinally as an expectorant and diuretic, and, in large doses, as an emetic and cathartic. [Written also Senega root, and Seneka root.]
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Senecio (?), n. [L., groundsel, lit., an old man. So called in allusion to the hoary appearance of the pappus.] (Bot.) A very large genus of composite plants including the groundsel and the golden ragwort.
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Senectitude (?), n. [L. senectus aged, old age, senex old.] Old age. [R.] “Senectitude, weary of its toils.” H. Miller.
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Senega (?), n. (Med.) Seneca root.
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Senegal (?), n. Gum senegal. See under .
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Senegin (?), n. (Med. Chem.) A substance extracted from the rootstock of the Polygala Senega (Seneca root), and probably identical with polygalic acid.
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Senescence (?), n. [See .] The state of growing old; decay by time.
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Senescent (?), a. [L. senescent, p. pr. of senescere to grow old, incho. fr. senere to be old.] Growing old; decaying with the lapse of time. “The night was senescent.” Poe. “With too senescent air.” Lowell.
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Seneschal (?), n. [OF. seneschal, LL. seniscalcus, of Teutonic origin; cf. Goth. sineigs old, skalks, OHG. scalch, AS. scealc. Cf. , .] An officer in the houses of princes and dignitaries, in the Middle Ages, who had the superintendence of feasts and domestic ceremonies; a steward. Sometimes the seneschal had the dispensing of justice, and was given high military commands.
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Then marshaled feast
Served up in hall with sewers and seneschale.
Milton.
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Philip Augustus, by a famous ordinance in 1190, first established royal courts of justice, held by the officers called baitiffs, or seneschals, who acted as the king's lieutenants in his demains.
Hallam.
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Seneschalship, n. The office, dignity, or jurisdiction of a seneschal.
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Senge (?), v. t. To singe. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Sengreen (?), n.[AS. singr�ne, properly, evergreen, fr. sin (in composition) always + grëne green; akin to OHG. sin- ever, L. semper.] (Bot.) The houseleek.
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Senhor (?), n. [Pg. Cf. , .] A Portuguese title of courtesy corresponding to the Spanish señor or the English Mr. or sir; also, a gentleman.
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Senhora (?), n. [Pg. Cf. .] A Portuguese title of courtesy given to a lady; Mrs.; Madam; also, a lady.
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Senile (?), a. [L. senilis, from senex, gen. senis, old, an old man: cf. F. sénile. See .] Of or pertaining to old age; proceeding from, or characteristic of, old age; affected with the infirmities of old age; as, senile weakness. “Senile maturity of judgment.” Boyle.
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Coloq. Senile gangrene (Med.), a form of gangrene occuring particularly in old people, and caused usually by insufficient blood supply due to degeneration of the walls of the smaller arteries.
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Senility (?), n. [Cf. F. sénilité.] The quality or state of being senile; old age.
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Senior (?), a. [L. senior, compar. of senex, gen. senis, old. See .] 1. More advanced than another in age; prior in age; elder; hence, more advanced in dignity, rank, or office; superior; as, senior member; senior counsel.
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2. Belonging to the final year of the regular course in American colleges, or in professional schools.
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Senior, n. 1. A person who is older than another; one more advanced in life.
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2. One older in office, or whose entrance upon office was anterior to that of another; one prior in grade.
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3. An aged person; an older. Dryden.
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Each village senior paused to scan,
And speak the lovely caravan.
Emerson.
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4. One in the fourth or final year of his collegiate course at an American college; -- originally called senior sophister; also, one in the last year of the course at a professional schools or at a seminary.
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Seniority (?), n. The quality or state of being senior.
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Seniorize (?), v. i. To exercise authority; to rule; to lord it. [R.] Fairfax.
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Seniory (?), n. Seniority. [Obs.] Shak.
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Senna (?), n. [Cf. It. & Sp. sena, Pg. sene, F. séné; all fr. Ar. sanā.] 1. (Med.) The leaves of several leguminous plants of the genus Cassia. (C. acutifolia, C. angustifolia, etc.). They constitute a valuable but nauseous cathartic medicine.
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2. (Bot.) The plants themselves, native to the East, but now cultivated largely in the south of Europe and in the West Indies.
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Coloq. Bladder senna . (Bot.) See under . -- Coloq. Wild senna (Bot.), the Cassia Marilandica, growing in the United States, the leaves of which are used medicinally, like those of the officinal senna.
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