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Sedative

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

Sedent

Sitting; inactive; quiet.

Sedentary

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

Sederunt

A sitting, as of a court or other body.

Sedge

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.

Sedged

Made or composed of sedge.

Sedgy

Overgrown with sedge.

Sedilia

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

Sediment

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.

Sedimentation

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

Sedition

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.

Seditious

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

Seduce

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.

Seducer

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

Seducible

Capable of being seduced; corruptible.

Seduction

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

Seductive

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

Sedulity

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

Sedulous

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.

Sedum

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

See

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.

Seed

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

Seed-lac

A species of lac. See the Note under Lac.

Seedbox

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

Seedcake

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

Seeder

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

Seediness

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

Seedling

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

Seedsman

A sower; one who sows or scatters seed.

Seedy

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

Seeing

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.

Seek

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

Seek-no-further

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

Seeker

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

Seel

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

Seem

To befit; to beseem.

Seemer

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

Seeming

Appearance; show; semblance; fair appearance; speciousness.

Seemingly

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

Seemliness

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

Seemly

In a decent or suitable manner; becomingly.

Seen

Versed; skilled; accomplished.

Seepage

The act or process of seeping; percolation.

Seer

A person who foresees events; a prophet.

Seeress

A female seer; a prophetess.

Seerfish

A scombroid food fish of Madeira (Cybium Commersonii).

Seerhand

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

Seership

The office or quality of a seer.

Seersucker

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.

Seesaw

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

Seethe

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

Seether

A pot for boiling things; a boiler.

Seg

A castrated bull.

Seggar

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

Segment

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

Segmentation

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.

Segmented

Divided into segments or joints; articulated.

Segno

A sign. See Al segno, and Dal segno.

Sego

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

Segregate

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

Segregation

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

Seiches

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

Seid

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

Seidlitz

Of or pertaining to Seidlitz, a village in Bohemia.

Seigneurial

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

Seigniorage

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.

Seignioral

Of or pertaining to a seignior; seigneurial.

Seignioralty

The territory or authority of a seignior, or lord.

Seigniory

The power or authority of a lord; dominion.

Seine

A large net, one edge of which is provided with sinkers, and the other with floats. It hangs vertically in the water, and when its ends are brought together or drawn ashore incloses the fish.

Seiner

One who fishes with a seine.

Seirospore

One of several spores arranged in a chain as in certain algae of the genus Callithamnion.

Seismogram

The trace or record of an earth tremor, made by means of a seismograph.

Seismograph

An apparatus for registering the shocks and undulatory motions of earthquakes.

Seismographic

Of or pertaining to a seismograph; indicated by a seismograph.

Seismography

A writing about, or a description of, earthquakes.

Seismometer

An instrument for measuring the direction, duration, and force of earthquakes and like concussions.

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