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.

One who seconds{3} or supports what another attempts, affirms, moves, or proposes; as, the seconder of an enterprise or of a motion.

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.

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.

That may be secured.

To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.

In a secure manner; without fear or apprehension; without danger; safely.

The act of securing; protection.

The condition or quality of being secure; exemption from fear; want of vigilance; security.

One who, or that which, secures.

The Serrifera.

Having the form of an ax or hatchet.

One of a family of beetles having the maxillary palpi terminating in a hatchet-shaped joint.

The condition or quality of being secure; secureness. Freedom from apprehension, anxiety, or care; confidence of power or safety; hence, assurance; certainty.

A portable chair or covered vehicle for carrying a single person, -- usually borne on poles by two men. Called also sedan chair.

Undisturbed by passion or caprice; calm; tranquil; serene; not passionate or giddy; composed; staid; as, a sedate soul, mind, or temper.

The act of calming, or the state of being calm.

A remedy which allays irritability and irritation, and irritative activity or pain.

Sitting; inactive; quiet.

In a sedentary manner.

Quality of being sedentary.

Accustomed to sit much or long; as, a sedentary man.

A sitting, as of a court or other body.

Any plant of the genus Carex, perennial, endogenous, innutritious herbs, often growing in dense tufts in marshy places. They have triangular jointless stems, a spiked inflorescence, and long grasslike leaves which are usually rough on the margins and midrib. There are several hundred species.

Made or composed of sedge.

Overgrown with sedge.

Seats in the chancel of a church near the altar for the officiating clergy during intervals of service.

The matter which subsides to the bottom, from water or any other liquid; settlings; lees; dregs.

Sedimentary.

Of or pertaining to sediment; formed by sediment; containing matter that has subsided.

The act of depositing a sediment; specifically (Geol.), the deposition of the material of which sedimentary rocks are formed.

The raising of commotion in a state, not amounting to insurrection; conduct tending to treason, but without an overt act; excitement of discontent against the government, or of resistance to lawful authority.

An inciter or promoter of sedition.

Of or pertaining to sedition; partaking of the nature of, or tending to excite, sedition; as, seditious behavior; seditious strife; seditious words.

Same as Seidlitz.

To draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty in any manner; to entice to evil; to lead astray; to tempt and lead to iniquity; to corrupt.

The act of seducing.

One who, or that which, seduces. For a female seducer, the term seductress is also used

Capable of being seduced; corruptible.

Seductive.

The act of seducing; enticement to wrong doing; enticement to fail in some duty.

Tending to lead astray; apt to mislead by flattering appearances; tempting; alluring; as, a seductive offer.

In a seductive manner.

A woman who seduces; a female seducer.

The quality or state of being sedulous; diligent and assiduous application; constant attention; unremitting industry; sedulousness.

Diligent in application or pursuit; constant, steady, and persevering in business, or in endeavors to effect an object; steadily industrious; assiduous; as, the sedulous bee.

A genus of plants, mostly perennial, having succulent leaves and cymose flowers; orpine; stonecrop.

To have the power of sight, or of perceiving by the proper organs; to possess or employ the sense of vision; as, he sees distinctly.

A full-grown male fur seal.

To sprinkle with seed; to plant seeds in; to sow; as, to seed a field.