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Self-posited

Disposed or arranged by an action originating in one's self or in itself.

Self-positing

The act of disposing or arranging one's self or itself.

Self-possessed

Composed or tranquil in mind, manner, etc.; undisturbed.

Self-possession

The possession of one's powers; calmness; self-command; presence of mind; composure.

Self-registering

Registering itself; -- said of any instrument so contrived as to record its own indications of phenomena, whether continuously or at stated times, as at the maxima and minima of variations; as, a self-registering anemometer or barometer.

Self-reliance

Reliance on one's own powers or judgment; self-trust.

Self-reliant

Reliant upon one's self; trusting to one's own powers or judgment.

Self-renunciation

The act of renouncing, or setting aside, one's own wishes, claims, etc.; self-sacrifice.

Self-repelling

Made up of parts, as molecules or atoms, which mutually repel each other; as, gases are self-repelling.

Self-repetition

Repetition of one's self or of one's acts; the saying or doing what one has already said or done.

Self-reproach

The act of reproaching one's self; censure by one's own conscience.

Self-reproof

The act of reproving one's self; censure of one's conduct by one's own judgment.

Self-reproved

Reproved by one's own conscience or one's own sense of guilt.

Self-reproving

Reproving one's self; reproving by consciousness of guilt.

Self-respect

Respect for one's self; regard for one's character; laudable self-esteem.

Self-restrained

Restrained by one's self or itself; restrained by one's own power or will.

Self-sacrifice

The act of sacrificing one's self, or one's interest, for others; self-devotion.

Self-sacrificing

Yielding up one's own interest, feelings, etc; sacrificing one's self.

Self-satisfied

Satisfied with one's self or one's actions; self-complacent.

Self-seeker

One who seeks only his own interest, advantage, or pleasure.

Self-seeking

The act or habit of seeking one's own interest or happiness; selfishness.

Self-starter

A mechanism (usually one operated by electricity, compressed air, a spring, or an explosive gas), attached to an internal-combustion engine, as on an automobile, and used as a means of starting the engine without cranking it by hand; -- called also a starter.

Self-sufficient

Sufficient for one's self without external aid or cooperation.

Self-sufficing

Sufficing for one's self or for itself, without needing external aid; self-sufficient.

Self-torture

The act of inflicting pain on one's self; pain inflicted on one's self.

Self-uned

One with itself; separate from others.

Self-view

A view of one's self; specifically, carefulness or regard for one's own interests.

Self-will

One's own will, esp. when opposed to that of others; obstinacy.

Self-willed

Governed by one's own will; not yielding to the wishes of others; obstinate.

Self-worship

The idolizing of one's self; immoderate self-conceit.

Selfhood

Existence as a separate self, or independent person; conscious personality; individuality.

Selfish

Caring supremely or unduly for one's self; regarding one's own comfort, advantage, etc., in disregard, or at the expense, of those of others.

Selfishly

In a selfish manner; with regard to private interest only or chiefly.

Selfishness

The quality or state of being selfish; exclusive regard to one's own interest or happiness; that supreme self-love or self-preference which leads a person to direct his purposes to the advancement of his own interest, power, or happiness, without regarding those of others.

Selfism

Concentration of one's interests on one's self; self-love; selfishness.

Selfless

Having no regard to self; unselfish.

Selfsame

Precisely the same; the very same; identical.

Selion

A short piece of land in arable ridges and furrows, of uncertain quantity; also, a ridge of land lying between two furrows.

Seljuckian

A member of the family of Seljuk; an adherent of that family, or subject of its government; the dynasty of Turkish sultans sprung from Seljuk.

Seljukian

Of or pertaining to Seljuk, a Tartar chief who embraced Mohammedanism, and began the subjection of Western Asia to that faith and rule; of or pertaining to the dynasty founded by him, or the empire maintained by his descendants from the 10th to the 13th century.

Sell

An imposition; a cheat; a hoax.

Selvagee

A skein or hank of rope yarns wound round with yarns or marline, -- used for stoppers, straps, etc.

Selvedge Selvage

The edge of cloth which is woven in such a manner as to prevent raveling.

Semaeostomata

A division of Discophora having large free mouth lobes. It includes Aurelia, and Pelagia. Called also Semeostoma. See Illustr. under Discophora, and Medusa.

Semantics

the study of the meanings of words and of the sense development of words; -- formerly called semasiology.

Semaphore

A signal telegraph; an apparatus for giving signals by the disposition of lanterns, flags, oscillating arms, etc.

Semasiology

The science of meanings or sense development (of words); the explanation of the development and changes of the meanings of words; -- more commonly referred to as semantics.

Sematic

Significant; ominous; serving as a warning of danger; -- applied esp. to the warning colors or forms of certain animals.

Sematology

The doctrine of signs as the expression of thought or reasoning; the science of indicating thought by signs.

Sematrope

An instrument for signaling by reflecting the rays of the sun in different directions.

Semblance

Seeming; appearance; show; figure; form.

Semblant

Show; appearance; figure; semblance.

Sembling

The practice of attracting the males of Lepidoptera or other insects by exposing the female confined in a cage.

seme

A linguistic sign.

Seme

Sprinkled or sown; -- said of field, or a charge, when strewed or covered with small charges.

Semele

A daughter of Cadmus, and by Zeus mother of Bacchus.

Semester

A period of six months; especially, a term in a college or university which divides the year into two terms.

Semi pupa

The young of an insect in a stage between the larva and pupa.

Semi-Diesel

Designating an internal-combustion engine of a type resembling the Diesel engine in using as fuel heavy oil which is injected in a spray just before the end of the compression stroke and is fired without electrical ignition. The fuel is sprayed into an iron box (called a hot bulb or hot pot) opening into the combustion chamber, and heated for ignition by a blast-lamp until the engine is running, when it is, ordinarily, kept red hot by the heat of combustion.

Semi-Pelagian

Of or pertaining to the Semi-Pelagians, or their tenets.

Semi-Saxon

Half Saxon; -- specifically applied to the language intermediate between Saxon and English, belonging to the period 1150-1250.

Semiamplexicaul

Partially amplexicaul; embracing the stem half round, as a leaf.

Semiangle

The half of a given, or measuring, angle.

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