A female seer; a prophetess.
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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A light fabric, originally made in the East Indies, of silk and linen, usually having alternating stripes, and a slightly craped or puckered surface; also, a cotton fabric of similar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.
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.
One who fishes with a seine.
Fishing with a seine.
A saint.
Sanctuary.
Same as Seerfish.
One of several spores arranged in a chain as in certain algae of the genus Callithamnion.
See Seize.
See Seizin.
Of or pertaining to an earthquake; caused by an earthquake.
The trace or record of an earth tremor, made by means of a seismograph.
An apparatus for registering the shocks and undulatory motions of earthquakes.
Of or pertaining to a seismograph; indicated by a seismograph.
A writing about, or a description of, earthquakes.
Of or pertaining to seismology.
The science of earthquakes.
An instrument for measuring the direction, duration, and force of earthquakes and like concussions.
Of or pertaining to seismometry, or seismometer; as, seismometric instruments; seismometric measurements.
The mensuration of such phenomena of earthquakes as can be expressed in numbers, or by their relation to the coordinates of space.
A seismometer.
Something peculiar to one's self.
That may be seized.
To fall or rush upon suddenly and lay hold of; to gripe or grasp suddenly; to reach and grasp.
One who, or that which, seizes.
Possession; possession of an estate of froehold. It may be either in deed or in law; the former when there is actual possession, the latter when there is a right to such possession by construction of law. In some of the United States seizin means merely ownership.
The act of taking or grasping suddenly.
One who seizes, or takes possession.
The act of seizing, or the state of being seized; sudden and violent grasp or gripe; a taking into possession; as, the seizure of a thief, a property, a throne, etc.
Sitting, as a lion or other beast.
To separate.
The act of disjoining, or the state of being disjoined.
Capable of being disjoined.
To seek.
A place in a pagan temple in which the images of the deities were inclosed.
One of the Selachii. See Illustration in Appendix.
An order of elasmobranchs including the sharks and rays; the Plagiostomi. Called also Selacha, Selache, and Selachoidei.
Same as Selachii.
A division of ganoid fishes which includes the paddlefish, in which the mouth is armed with small teeth.
A genus of cryptogamous plants resembling Lycopodia, but producing two kinds of spores; also, any plant of this genus. Many species are cultivated in conservatories.
A word of doubtful meaning, occuring frequently in the Psalms; by some, supposed to signify silence or a pause in the musical performance of the song.
A seal.
Rarely known; unusual; strange.
Rarely; seldom.
Seldom.
Rare; infrequent.
Rareness.
Seldom seen.
Rarely shown or exhibited.
To choose and take from a number; to take by preference from among others; to pick out; to cull; as, to select the best authors for perusal.
With care and selection.
The act of selecting, or the state of being selected; choice, by preference.
Selecting; tending to select.
One of a board of town officers chosen annually in the New England States to transact the general public business of the town, and have a kind of executive authority. The number is usually from three to seven in each town.
The quality or state of being select.
One who selects.
A salt of selenic acid; -- formerly called also seleniate.
Of, pertaining to, or designating, hydrogen selenide, H2Se, regarded as an acid analogous to sulphydric acid.
Of or pertaining to selenium; derived from, or containing, selenium; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a higher valence as contrasted with selenious compounds.
A binary compound of selenium, or a compound regarded as binary; as, ethyl selenide.
Containing, or impregnated with, selenium; as, seleniferous pyrites.
Of, pertaining to, or containing, selenium; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a lower valence as contrasted with selenic compounds.
A variety of gypsum, occuring in transparent crystals or crystalline masses.
Of or pertaining to selenite; resembling or containing selenite.
A nonmetallic element of the sulphur group of atomic number 34, analogous to sulphur in its compounds. It is found in small quantities with sulphur and some sulphur ores, and obtained in the free state as a dark reddish powder or crystalline mass, or as a dark metallic-looking substance. It exhibits under the action of light a remarkable variation in electric conductivity, and is used in certain electric apparatus. Symbol Se. Atomic weight 78.96.
A selenide.
Combined with selenium as in a selenide; as, seleniureted hydrogen.
As seen or estimated from the center of the moon; with the moon central.
A picture or delineation of the moon's surface, or of any part of it.
One skilled in selenography.
Of or pertaining to selenography.
A selenographer.
The science that treats of the physical features of the moon; -- corresponding to physical geography in respect to the earth.
That branch of astronomy which treats of the moon.
A hypothetical radical of selenium, analogous to sulphonium.
The individual as the object of his own reflective consciousness; the man viewed by his own cognition as the subject of all his mental phenomena, the agent in his own activities, the subject of his own feelings, and the possessor of capacities and character; a person as a distinct individual; a being regarded as having personality.
Humbled by consciousness of inferiority, unworthiness, guilt, or shame.
Degradation of one's self by one's own act.
Lowering or humbling one's self.
Abhorrence of one's self.
Self-denial; self-renunciation; self-sacrifice.
The abuse of one's own self, powers, or faculties.
Accused by one's self or by one's conscience.
Acting of or by one's self or by itself; -- said especially of a machine or mechanism which is made to perform of or for itself what is usually done by human agency; automatic; as, a self-acting feed apparatus; a self-acting mule; a self-acting press.
Action by, or originating in, one's self or itself.
Acting of one's self or of itself; acting without depending on other agents.
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