Reliance on one's own powers or judgment; self-trust.
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Reliant upon one's self; trusting to one's own powers or judgment.
The act of renouncing, or setting aside, one's own wishes, claims, etc.; self-sacrifice.
The quality or state of being self-repelling.
Made up of parts, as molecules or atoms, which mutually repel each other; as, gases are self-repelling.
Repetition of one's self or of one's acts; the saying or doing what one has already said or done.
The act of reproaching one's self; censure by one's own conscience.
Reproached by one's own conscience or judgment.
Reproaching one's self.
The act of reproving one's self; censure of one's conduct by one's own judgment.
Reproved by one's own conscience or one's own sense of guilt.
Reproving one's self; reproving by consciousness of guilt.
In a self-reproving way.
Self-contradictory; inconsistent.
Self-repelling.
Respect for one's self; regard for one's character; laudable self-esteem.
Restrained by one's self or itself; restrained by one's own power or will.
Restraint over one's self; self-control; self-command.
A reverent respect for one's self.
Righteous in one's own esteem; pharisaic.
The quality or state of being self-righteous; pharisaism.
The act of sacrificing one's self, or one's interest, for others; self-devotion.
Yielding up one's own interest, feelings, etc; sacrificing one's self.
The quality or state of being self-satisfied.
Satisfied with one's self or one's actions; self-complacent.
Giving satisfaction to one's self.
One who seeks only his own interest, advantage, or pleasure.
The act or habit of seeking one's own interest or happiness; selfishness.
Suicide.
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.
The quality or state of being self-sufficient.
Sufficient for one's self without external aid or cooperation.
Sufficing for one's self or for itself, without needing external aid; self-sufficient.
Suspended by one's self or by itself; balanced.
Suspicious or distrustful of one's self.
Taught by one's own efforts.
One who torments himself.
The act of inflicting pain on one's self; pain inflicted on one's self.
Faith in one's self; self-reliance.
One with itself; separate from others.
A view of one's self; specifically, carefulness or regard for one's own interests.
One's own will, esp. when opposed to that of others; obstinacy.
Governed by one's own will; not yielding to the wishes of others; obstinate.
Obstinacy.
The idolizing of one's self; immoderate self-conceit.
Wrong done by a person to himself.
Existence as a separate self, or independent person; conscious personality; individuality.
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.
In a selfish manner; with regard to private interest only or chiefly.
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.
Concentration of one's interests on one's self; self-love; selfishness.
A selfish person.
Having no regard to self; unselfish.
Quality or state of being selfless.
Selfishness.
Precisely the same; the very same; identical.
A short piece of land in arable ridges and furrows, of uncertain quantity; also, a ridge of land lying between two furrows.
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.
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.
An imposition; a cheat; a hoax.
See Sallenders.
One who sells.
A gazogene.
A skein or hank of rope yarns wound round with yarns or marline, -- used for stoppers, straps, etc.
Vast woodland plains of South America.
Self; same.
The edge of cloth which is woven in such a manner as to prevent raveling.
Having a selvage.
pl. of Self.
Silly.
A division of Discophora having large free mouth lobes. It includes Aurelia, and Pelagia. Called also Semeostoma. See Illustr. under Discophora, and Medusa.
pertaining to the meanings of words.
the study of the meanings of words and of the sense development of words; -- formerly called semasiology.
A signal telegraph; an apparatus for giving signals by the disposition of lanterns, flags, oscillating arms, etc.
Of or pertaining to a semaphore, or semaphores; telegraphic.
By means of a semaphore.
One who manages or operates a semaphore.
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.
Significant; ominous; serving as a warning of danger; -- applied esp. to the warning colors or forms of certain animals.
The doctrine of signs as the expression of thought or reasoning; the science of indicating thought by signs.
An instrument for signaling by reflecting the rays of the sun in different directions.
Likeness; representation.
In like manner.
Seeming; appearance; show; figure; form.
Show; appearance; figure; semblance.
Resembling.
Like; resembling.
The practice of attracting the males of Lepidoptera or other insects by exposing the female confined in a cage.
A linguistic sign.
Sprinkled or sown; -- said of field, or a charge, when strewed or covered with small charges.
A daughter of Cadmus, and by Zeus mother of Bacchus.
The seed of plants.
Seminiferous.
A period of six months; especially, a term in a college or university which divides the year into two terms.
Half of a circumference.
Half crustaceous; partially crustaceous.
The young of an insect in a stage between the larva and pupa.
Of or pertaining to Semi-Arianism.
The doctrines or tenets of the Semi-Arians.
Half Christianized.
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.
Of or pertaining to the Semi-Pelagians, or their tenets.
The doctrines or tenets of the Semi-Pelagians.
Half Saxon; -- specifically applied to the language intermediate between Saxon and English, belonging to the period 1150-1250.
Slightly acid; subacid.
Half acidified.
Adherent part way.
Partially amplexicaul; embracing the stem half round, as a leaf.
The half of a given, or measuring, angle.
Half-yearly.
Every half year.
Having the figure of a half circle; forming a semicircle.
One half of the axis of an /llipse or other figure.
Half barbarous; partially civilized. One partly civilized.
Half barbarous or uncivilized; as, semibarbaric display.
The quality or state of being half barbarous or uncivilized.
Half barbarous.
A note of half the time or duration of the breve; -- now usually called a whole note. It is the longest note in general use.
A semibreve.
A bull issued by a pope in the period between his election and coronation.
Half or partially calcareous; as, a semicalcareous plant.
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