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Semita

A fasciole of a spatangoid sea urchin.

Semite

One belonging to the Semitic race. Also used adjectively.

Semitertian

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

Semitic

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

Semitism

A Semitic idiom; a word of Semitic origin.

Semitone

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

Semitonic

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

Semitontine

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

Semitransept

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

Semivitrified

Half or imperfectly vitrified; partially converted into glass.

Semivocal

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

Semivowel

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.

Semiweekly

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.

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.

Sempervivum

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

Sempiternal

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

Sempiternity

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

Sempre

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

Semuncia

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

Senary

Of six; belonging to six; containing six.

Senate

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.

Senatorial

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

Send

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

Sendal

A light thin stuff of silk.

Senecas

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.

Senecio

A very large genus of composite plants including the groundsel and the golden ragwort.

Senegin

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

Senescence

The state of growing old; decay by time.

Senescent

Growing old; decaying with the lapse of time.

Seneschal

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.

Seneschalship

The office, dignity, or jurisdiction of a seneschal.

Senhor

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

Senhora

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

Senile

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

Senility

The quality or state of being senile; old age.

Senior

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

Seniority

The quality or state of being senior.

Seniorize

To exercise authority; to rule; to lord it.

Senna

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

Sennight

The space of seven nights and days; a week.

Sennit

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

Senonian

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

Senor Senyor

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

Senora Senyora

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

Senorita Senyorita

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

Sensate

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

Sensation

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.

Sensational

Of or pertaining to sensation; as, sensational nerves.

Sensationalism

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.

Sensationalist

An advocate of, or believer in, philosophical sensationalism.

Sense

To perceive by the senses; to recognize.

Senseful

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

Senseless

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

Sensibility

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

Sensibleness

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

Sensibly

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

Sensificatory

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

Sensist

One who, in philosophy, holds to sensism.

Sensitive

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

Sensitivity

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

Sensitize

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

Sensitometer

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.

Sensive

Having sense or sensibility; sensitive.

Sensor

Sensory; as, the sensor nerves.

Sensori-volitional

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.

Sensorial

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

Sensorium

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.

Sensory

Of or pertaining to the sensorium or sensation; as, sensory impulses; -- especially applied to those nerves and nerve fibers which convey to a nerve center impulses resulting in sensation; also sometimes loosely employed in the sense of afferent, to indicate nerve fibers which convey impressions of any kind to a nerve center.

Sensual

Pertaining to, consisting in, or affecting, the sense, or bodily organs of perception; relating to, or concerning, the body, in distinction from the spirit.

Sensualism

The condition or character of one who is sensual; subjection to sensual feelings and appetite; sensuality.

Sensualist

One who is sensual; one given to the indulgence of the appetites or senses as the means of happiness.

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