One of the incomplete rings of the upper part of the bronchial tubes of most birds. The semirings form an essential part of the syrinx, or musical organ, of singing birds.

One who is half savage.

An aspect of the planets when they are distant from each other the twelfth part of a circle, or thirty degrees.

Partially solid.

A half sound; a low tone.

Having the figure of a half sphere.

Formed like a half spheroid.

Puddled steel.

A fasciole of a spatangoid sea urchin.

The tangent of half an arc.

One belonging to the Semitic race. Also used adjectively.

Half terete.

Having the characteristics of both a tertian and a quotidian intermittent. An intermittent combining the characteristics of a tertian and a quotidian.

Of or pertaining to Shem or his descendants; belonging to that division of the Caucasian race which includes the Arabs, Jews, and related races.

A Semitic idiom; a word of Semitic origin.

Half a tone; -- the name commonly applied to the smaller intervals of the diatonic scale.

Of or pertaining to a semitone; consisting of a semitone, or of semitones.

Lit., half-tontine; -- used to designate a form of tontine life insurance. See Tontine insurance.

The half of a transept; as, the north semitransept of a church.

Slightly clear; transmitting light in a slight degree.

Imperfect or partial transparency.

Half or imperfectly transparent.

Partially verticillate.

Only half alive.

Partially vitreous.

The quality or state of being semivitrified.

Half or imperfectly vitrified; partially converted into glass.

Of or pertaining to a semivowel; half cocal; imperfectly sounding.

A sound intermediate between a vowel and a consonant, or partaking of the nature of both, as in the English w and y. The sign or letter representing such a sound.

Coming, or made, or done, once every half week; as, a semiweekly newspaper; a semiweekly trip. That which comes or happens once every half week, esp. a semiweekly periodical. At intervals of half a week each.

See Semolina.

The purified fine, hard parts of durum wheat, derived mostly from the endosperm, rounded by the attrition of the millstones, -- used in cookery, such as in the preparation of Italian pasta.

Same as Semolina.

Same as Semolina.

Always fresh; evergreen.

The houseleek.

A genus of fleshy-leaved plants, of which the houseleek (Sempervivum tectorum) is the commonest species.

Of neverending duration; everlasting; endless; having beginning, but no end.

Sempiternal.

Future duration without end; the relation or state of being sempiternal.

Always; throughout; as, sempre piano, always soft.

A seamster.

A seamstress.

Seamstressy.

A seamster.

A Roman coin equivalent to one twenty-fourth part of a Roman pound.

Since.

Of six; belonging to six; containing six.

An assembly or council having the highest deliberative and legislative functions. A body of elders appointed or elected from among the nobles of the nation, and having supreme legislative authority.

A member of a senate.

Of or pertaining to a senator, or a senate; becoming to a senator, or a senate; as, senatorial duties; senatorial dignity.

In a senatorial manner.

Senatorial.

Senatorial.

The office or dignity of a senator.

A decree of the Roman senate.

The impulse of a wave by which a vessel is carried bodily.

A light thin stuff of silk.

One who sends.

A tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited a part of Western New York. This tribe was the most numerous and most warlike of the Five Nations.

Old age.

Seneca root.

Gum senegal. See under Gum.

A substance extracted from the rootstock of the Polygala Senega (Seneca root), and probably identical with polygalic acid.

The state of growing old; decay by time.

Growing old; decaying with the lapse of time.

An officer in the houses of princes and dignitaries, in the Middle Ages, who had the superintendence of feasts and domestic ceremonies; a steward. Sometimes the seneschal had the dispensing of justice, and was given high military commands.

The office, dignity, or jurisdiction of a seneschal.

To singe.

The houseleek.

A Portuguese title of courtesy corresponding to the Spanish se/or or the English Mr. or sir; also, a gentleman.

A Portuguese title of courtesy given to a lady; Mrs.; Madam; also, a lady.

Of or pertaining to old age; proceeding from, or characteristic of, old age; affected with the infirmities of old age; as, senile weakness.

The quality or state of being senile; old age.

A person who is older than another; one more advanced in life.

The quality or state of being senior.

To exercise authority; to rule; to lord it.

Seniority.

The leaves of several leguminous plants of the genus Cassia. (Cassia acutifolia, Cassia angustifolia, etc.). They constitute a valuable but nauseous cathartic medicine.

See Seannachie.

The barracuda.

The space of seven nights and days; a week.

A braided cord or fabric formed by plaiting together rope yarns or other small stuff.

Having six eyes.

In european geology, a name given to the middle division of the Upper Cretaceous formation.

A Spanish title of courtesy corresponding to the English Mr. or Sir; also, a gentleman.

A Spanish title of courtesy given to a lady; Mrs.; Madam; also, a lady.

A Spanish title of courtesy given to a young lady; Miss; also, a young lady.

Since.

To feel or apprehend more or less distinctly through a sense, or the senses; as, to sensate light, or an odor.

Felt or apprehended through a sense, or the senses.

An impression, or the consciousness of an impression, made upon the central nervous organ, through the medium of a sensory or afferent nerve or one of the organs of sense; a feeling, or state of consciousness, whether agreeable or disagreeable, produced either by an external object (stimulus), or by some change in the internal state of the body.

Of or pertaining to sensation; as, sensational nerves.

The doctrine held by Condillac, and by some ascribed to Locke, that our ideas originate solely in sensation, and consist of sensations transformed; sensualism; -- opposed to intuitionalism, and rationalism.

An advocate of, or believer in, philosophical sensationalism.

To perceive by the senses; to recognize.

Full of sense, meaning, or reason; reasonable; judicious.

Destitute of, deficient in, or contrary to, sense; without sensibility or feeling; unconscious; stupid; foolish; unwise; unreasonable.

The quality or state of being sensible, or capable of sensation; capacity to feel or perceive.

Sensation; sensibility.

The quality or state of being sensible; sensibility; appreciation; capacity of perception; susceptibility.

In a sensible manner; so as to be perceptible to the senses or to the mind; appreciably; with perception; susceptibly; sensitively.

Converting into sensation.

Exciting sensation; conveying sensation.

Exciting sensation.

Susceptible of, or converting into, sensation; as, the sensificatory part of a nervous system.

Causing or exciting sensation.

Same as Sensualism, 2 3.

One who, in philosophy, holds to sensism.

Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul.

The quality or state of being sensitive; -- used chiefly in science and the arts; as, the sensitivity of iodized silver.

To render sensitive, or susceptible of being easily acted on by the actinic rays of the sun; as, sensitized paper or plate.

An agent that sensitizes.

An instrument or apparatus for comparing and grading the sensitiveness of plates, films, etc., as a screen divided into squares of different shades or colors, from which a picture is made on the plate to be tested.

See Sensory.

Having sense or sensibility; sensitive.

Sensory; as, the sensor nerves.

Concerned both in sensation and volition; -- applied to those nerve fibers which pass to and from the cerebro-spinal axis, and are respectively concerned in sensation and volition.

Of or pertaining to the sensorium; as, sensorial faculties, motions, powers.

The seat of sensation; the nervous center or centers to which impressions from the external world must be conveyed before they can be perceived; the place where external impressions are localized, and transformed into sensations, prior to being reflected to other parts of the organism; hence, the whole nervous system, when animated, so far as it is susceptible of common or special sensations.