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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

Sensual.

The quality or state of being sensual; devotedness to the gratification of the bodily appetites; free indulgence in carnal or sensual pleasures; luxuriousness; voluptuousness; lewdness.

The act of sensualizing, or the state of being sensualized.

To make sensual; to subject to the love of sensual pleasure; to debase by carnal gratifications; to carnalize; as, sensualized by pleasure.

In a sensual manner.

Sensuality; fleshliness.

Sensualism.

The quality or state of being sensuous; sensuousness.

Of or pertaining to the senses, or sensible objects; addressing the senses; suggesting pictures or images of sense.

imp. p. p. of Send.

To pass or pronounce judgment upon; to doom; to condemn to punishment; to prescribe the punishment of.

One who pronounced a sentence or condemnation.

Comprising sentences; as, a sentential translation.

In a sentential manner.

A sententiary.

One who read lectures, or commented, on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris (1159-1160), a school divine.

The quality or state of being sententious.

Abounding with sentences, axioms, and maxims; full of meaning; terse and energetic in expression; pithy; as, a sententious style or discourse; sententious truth.

A sentry.

Scent.

The quality or state of being sentient; esp., the quality or state of having sensation.

One who has the faculty of perception; a sentient being.

In a sentient or perceptive way.