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.

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.

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.

A species of lac. See the Note under Lac.

A capsule. A plant (Ludwigia alternifolia) which has somewhat cubical or box-shaped capsules.

A sweet cake or cooky containing aromatic seeds, as caraway.

A seedlip.

One who, or that which, sows or plants seed.

The quality or state of being seedy, shabby, or worn out; a state of wretchedness or exhaustion.

Without seed or seeds.

A plant reared from the seed, as distinguished from one propagated by layers, buds, or the like.

A vessel in which a sower carries the seed to be scattered.

Seedtime.

A sower; one who sows or scatters seed.

The season proper for sowing.

Abounding with seeds; bearing seeds; having run to seeds.

In view of the fact (that); considering; taking into account (that); insmuch as; since; because; -- followed by a dependent clause; as, he did well, seeing that he was so young.

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

A kind of choice winter apple, having a subacid taste; -- formerly called go-no-further.

One who contrives to give himself vexation.

One who seeks; that which is used in seeking or searching.

Good fortune; favorable opportunity; prosperity. [Obs.] /So have I seel/.

In a silly manner.

The rolling or agitation of a ship in a storm.

See Silly.

To befit; to beseem.

One who seems; one who carries or assumes an appearance or semblance.

Appearance; show; semblance; fair appearance; speciousness.

In appearance; in show; in semblance; apparently; ostensibly.

Semblance; fair appearance; plausibility.

Unseemly.

In a seemly manner.

The quality or state of being seemly: comeliness; propriety.

In a decent or suitable manner; becomingly.

Comely or decent appearance.

Versed; skilled; accomplished.

The act or process of seeping; percolation.

A person who foresees events; a prophet.

A female seer; a prophetess.