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 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.

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.

A thought prompted by passion or feeling; a state of mind in view of some subject; feeling toward or respecting some person or thing; disposition prompting to action or expression.

Having, expressing, or containing a sentiment or sentiments; abounding with moral reflections; containing a moral reflection; didactic.

The quality of being sentimental; the character or behavior of a sentimentalist; sentimentality.

One who has, or affects, sentiment or fine feeling.

The quality or state of being sentimental.

To think or act in a sentimental manner, or like a sentimentalist; to affect exquisite sensibility.

In a sentimental manner.

A place for dregs and dirt; a sink; a sewer.

To watch over like a sentinel.

Painful vivisection; -- opposed to callisection.

A soldier placed on guard; a sentinel.

Without; as, senza stromenti, without instruments.

A leaf or division of the calyx.

Having one or more sepals.

Relating to, or having the nature of, sepals.

The metamorphosis of other floral organs into sepals or sepaloid bodies.

Like a sepal, or a division of a calyx.

Having, or relating to, sepals; -- used mostly in composition. See under Sepal.

Quality of being separable or divisible; divisibility; separableness.

Capable of being separated, disjoined, disunited, or divided; as, the separable parts of plants; qualities not separable from the substance in which they exist.

Divided from another or others; disjoined; disconnected; separated; -- said of things once connected.