The peculiar sickness, characterized by nausea and prostration, which is caused by the pitching or rolling of a vessel.

The land bordering on, or adjacent to, the sea; the seashore. Also used adjectively.

To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate.

Occurring in good time, in due season, or in proper time for the purpose; suitable to the season; opportune; timely; as, a seasonable supply of rain.

A seasoning.

Of or pertaining to the seasons.

A form of mild depression that occurs in winters, associated with reduction in the amount of sunlight. It is characterized by oversleeping, irritability, and sometimes overeating. It can be treated by light therapy and usually disappears with the arrival of spring.

One who, or that which, seasons, or gives a relish; a seasoning.

The act or process by which anything is seasoned.

Without succession of the seasons.

To rest; to lie down.

The act of providing with a seat or seats; as, the seating of an audience.

Having no seat.

A rush.

Overgrown with rushes.

The name used by the Algonquin Indians for the shell beads which passed among the Indians as money.

Toward the sea.

Seaweed; esp., coarse seaweed. See Ware, and Sea girdles.

Popularly, any plant or plants growing in the sea.

A European wrasse (Labrus vetula).

The state or quality of being seaworthy, or able to resist the ordinary violence of wind and weather.

Fit for a voyage; worthy of being trusted to transport a cargo with safety; as, a seaworthy ship.

Pertaining to, or secreting, fat; composed of fat; having the appearance of fat; as, the sebaceous secretions of some plants, or the sebaceous humor of animals.

Of or pertaining to fat; derived from, or resembling, fat; specifically, designating an acid (formerly called also sebic, and pyroleic, acid), obtained by the distillation or saponification of certain oils (as castor oil) as a white crystalline substance.

The eleventh month of the ancient Hebrew year, approximately corresponding with February.

A salt of sebacic acid.

The mucilaginous drupaceous fruit of two East Indian trees (Cordia Myxa, and Cordia latifolia), sometimes used medicinally in pectoral diseases.

See Sebacic.

Producing vegetable tallow.

Same as Sebiferous.

A morbidly increased discharge of sebaceous matter upon the skin; stearrhea.

A genus of cereal grasses including rye.

A cutting; an intersection; as, the point of secancy of one line by another.

A line that cuts another; especially, a straight line cutting a curve in two or more points.

Dry.

To withdraw from fellowship, communion, or association; to separate one's self by a solemn act; to draw off; to retire; especially, to withdraw from a political or religious body.

One who secedes.

To separate; to distinguish.

That which promotes secretion.

The act or process of secreting.

Retirement; retreat; secession.

The act of seceding; separation from fellowship or association with others, as in a religious or political organization; withdrawal.

The doctrine or policy of secession; the tenets of secession; the tenets of secessionists.

One who upholds secession.

To seek.

The edible fruit of a West Indian plant (Sechium edule) of the Gourd family. It is soft, pear-shaped, and about four inches long, and contains a single large seed. The root of the plant resembles a yam, and is used for food.

Barren; unprofitable. See Rent seck, under Rent.

A small reddish brown sweet and juicy pear. It originated on a farm near Philadelphia, afterwards owned by a Mr. Seckel.

A century.

To shut up apart from others; to withdraw into, or place in, solitude; to separate from society or intercourse with others.

The act of secluding, or the state of being secluded; separation from society or connection; a withdrawing; privacy; as, to live in seclusion.

Tending to seclude; keeping in seclusion; secluding; sequestering.

To follow in the next place; to succeed; to alternate.

Of the rank or degree below the best or highest; inferior; second-rate; as, a second-class house; a second-class passage; a second-class citizen.

Of the second size, rank, quality, or value; as, a second-rate ship; second-rate cloth; a second-rate champion.

The power of discerning what is not visible to the physical eye, or of foreseeing future events, esp. such as are of a disastrous kind; the capacity of a seer; prophetic vision.

Having the power of second-sight.

In a secondary manner or degree.

The state of being secondary.

One who occupies a subordinate, inferior, or auxiliary place; a delegate or deputy; one who is second or next to the chief officer; as, the secondary, or undersheriff of the city of London.

Not original or primary; received from another; as, secondhand information.

In the second place.

The second part in a concerted piece.

A secret.

The state or quality of being hidden; as, his movements were detected in spite of their secrecy.

Secretly.

Secrecy; privacy.

To keep secret.

A process in which mercury, or some of its salts, is employed to impart the property of felting to certain kinds of furs.

Of or pertaining to a secretary; befitting a secretary.

The office of a secretary; the place where a secretary transacts business, keeps records, etc.

One who keeps, or is intrusted with, secrets.

The office, or the term of office, of a secretary.

To deposit in a place of hiding; to hide; to conceal; as, to secrete stolen goods; to secrete one's self.

The act of secreting or concealing; as, the secretion of dutiable goods.

A dealer in secrets.

Parted by animal secretion; as, secretitious humors.

Tending to secrete, or to keep secret or private; as, a secretive disposition.

The quality of being secretive; disposition or tendency to conceal.

In a secret manner.

The state or quality of being secret, hid, or concealed.

Causing secretion; -- said of nerves which go to glands and influence secretion.

Secreting; performing, or connected with, the office of secretion; secernent; as, secretory vessels, nerves. A secretory vessel; a secernent.

Those following a particular leader or authority, or attached to a certain opinion; a company or set having a common belief or allegiance distinct from others; in religion, the believers in a particular creed, or upholders of a particular practice; especially, in modern times, a party dissenting from an established church; a denomination; in philosophy, the disciples of a particular master; a school; in society and the state, an order, rank, class, or party.

One of the portions of space bounded by the three coordinate planes. Specif. (Crystallog.), one of the parts of a crystal into which it is divided by the axial planes.

One of a sect; a member or adherent of a special school, denomination, or religious or philosophical party; one of a party in religion which has separated itself from established church, or which holds tenets different from those of the prevailing denomination in a state.

The quality or character of a sectarian; devotion to the interests of a party; excess of partisan or denominational zeal; adherence to a separate church organization.

To imbue with sectarian feelings; to subject to the control of a sect.

Sectarianism.

A sectary.

A sectarian; a member or adherent of a sect; a follower or disciple of some particular teacher in philosophy or religion; one who separates from an established church; a dissenter.

A follower; a disciple; an adherent to a sect.

Capable of being cut; specifically (Min.), capable of being severed by the knife with a smooth cut; -- said of minerals.

The state or quality of being sectile.

The act of cutting, or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies.

Of or pertaining to a section or distinct part of larger body or territory; local.

A disproportionate regard for the interests peculiar to a section of the country; local patriotism, as distinguished from national.

The state or quality of being sectional; sectionalism.

To divide according to geographical sections or local interests.

In a sectional manner.

To form into sections.

Devotion to a sect.

One devoted to a sect; a sectary.

A little or petty sect.

A part of a circle comprehended between two radii and the included arc.

Of or pertaining to a sector; as, a sectoral circle.

Adapted for cutting. A sectorial, or carnassial, tooth.

A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules.

The state or quality of being secular; a secular spirit; secularity.

One who theoretically rejects every form of religious faith, and every kind of religious worship, and accepts only the facts and influences which are derived from the present life; also, one who believes that education and other matters of civil policy should be managed without the introduction of a religious element.

Supreme attention to the things of the present life; worldliness.

The act of rendering secular, or the state of being rendered secular; conversion from regular or monastic to secular; conversion from religious to lay or secular possession and uses; as, the secularization of church property.

To convert from regular or monastic into secular; as, to secularize a priest or a monk.

In a secular or worldly manner.

The quality or state of being secular; worldliness; worldly-mindedness.

Arranged on one side only, as flowers or leaves on a stalk.

To make prosperous.

Prosperity.

The second coat, or integument, of an ovule, lying within the primine.

A right of inheritance belonging to a second son; a property or possession so inherited.