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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.

Semiannular

Having the figure of a half circle; forming a semicircle.

Semiaxis

One half of the axis of an /llipse or other figure.

Semibarbarian

Half barbarous; partially civilized. One partly civilized.

Semibarbaric

Half barbarous or uncivilized; as, semibarbaric display.

Semibarbarism

The quality or state of being half barbarous or uncivilized.

Semibreve

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.

Semibull

A bull issued by a pope in the period between his election and coronation.

Semicalcareous

Half or partially calcareous; as, a semicalcareous plant.

Semichorus

A half chorus; a passage to be sung by a selected portion of the voices, as the female voices only, in contrast with the full choir.

Semicircle

The half of a circle; the part of a circle bounded by its diameter and half of its circumference. A semicircumference.

Semicirque

A semicircular hollow or opening among trees or hills.

Semicolon

The punctuation mark [;] indicating a separation between parts or members of a sentence more distinct than that marked by a comma.

Semicolumn

A half column; a column bisected longitudinally, or along its axis.

Semicolumnar

Like a semicolumn; flat on one side and round on the other; imperfectly columnar.

Semicope

A short cope, or an inferier kind of cope.

Semicrystalline

Half crystalline; -- said of certain cruptive rocks composed partly of crystalline, partly of amorphous matter.

Semicubical

Of or pertaining to the square root of the cube of a quantity.

Semicupium Semicubium

A half bath, or one that covers only the lewer extremities and the hips; a sitz-bath; a half bath, or hip bath.

Semidiameter

Half of a diameter; a right line, or the length of a right line, drawn from the center of a circle, a sphere, or other curved figure, to its circumference or periphery; a radius.

Semiditone

A lesser third, having its terms as 6 to 5; a hemiditone.

Semidiurnal

Pertaining to, or accomplished in, half a day, or twelve hours; occurring twice every day.

Semidome

A roof or ceiling covering a semicircular room or recess, or one of nearly that shape, as the apse of a church, a niche, or the like. It is approximately the quarter of a hollow sphere.

Semidouble

Having the outermost stamens converted into petals, while the inner ones remain perfect; -- said of a flower.

Semifable

That which is part fable and part truth; a mixture of truth and fable.

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