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.

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.

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.

A scombroid food fish of Madeira (Cybium Commersonii).

A kind of muslin of a texture between nainsook and mull.

The office or quality of a seer.

A light fabric, originally made in the East Indies, of silk and linen, usually having alternating stripes, and a slightly craped or puckered surface; also, a cotton fabric of similar appearance.

Dry wood.

Moving up and down, or to and fro; having a reciprocating motion.

Sate; sat.

imp. of Seethe.

To be a state of ebullition or violent commotion; to be hot; to boil.

A pot for boiling things; a boiler.

A castrated bull.

See Cigar.

A case or holder made of fire clay, in which fine pottery is inclosed while baking in the kin.

The hedge sparrow.

To divide or separate into parts in growth; to undergo segmentation, or cleavage, as in the segmentation of the ovum.

Relating to, or being, a segment.

The act or process of dividing into segments; specifically (Biol.), a self-division into segments as a result of growth; cell cleavage; cell multiplication; endogenous cell formation.

Divided into segments or joints; articulated.

Sluggishness; dullness; inactivity.

A sign. See Al segno, and Dal segno.

A liliaceous plant (Calochortus Nuttallii) of Western North America, and its edible bulb; -- so called by the Ute Indians and the Mormons.

To separate from a mass, and collect together about centers or along lines of fracture, as in the process of crystallization or solidification.

The act of segregating, or the state of being segregated; separation from others; a parting.

Local oscillations in level observed in the case of some lakes, as Lake Geneva.

A descendant of Mohammed through his daughter Fatima and nephew Ali.

Of or pertaining to Seidlitz, a village in Bohemia.

Saw.

Of or pertaining to the lord of a manor; manorial.

A lord; the lord of a manor.

Something claimed or taken by virtue of sovereign prerogative; specifically, a charge or toll deducted from bullion brought to a mint to be coined; the difference between the cost of a mass of bullion and the value as money of the pieces coined from it.

Of or pertaining to a seignior; seigneurial.

The territory or authority of a seignior, or lord.

Same as Seigneurial.

To lord it over.

The power or authority of a lord; dominion.