Causing, or being to cause, separation.

One who, or that which, separates. A device for depriving steam of particles of water mixed with it. An apparatus for sorting pulverized ores into grades, or separating them from gangue. An instrument used for spreading apart the threads of the warp in the loom, etc.

An apparatus used in separating, as a separating funnel.

The decimal point; the dot placed at the left of a decimal fraction, to separate it from the whole number which it follows. The term is sometimes also applied to other marks of separation.

See Supawn.

Admitting of burial.

Burial.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, the Jews (the Sephardim, also called Spanish or Portuguese Jews) descended from Jewish families driven from Spain by the Inquisition.

Jews who are descendants of the former Jews of Spain and Portugal. They are as a rule darker than the northern Jews, and have more delicate features.

A large sting ray of the genus Trygon, especially Trygon sephen of the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea. The skin is an article of commerce.

Of a dark brown color, with a little red in its composition; also, made of, or done in, sepia.

Of or pertaining to sepia; done in sepia; as, a sepic drawing.

Like or pertaining to the cuttlefishes of the genus Sepia.

Something that separates; a hedge; a fence.

Meerschaum. See Meerschaum.

The bone or shell of cuttlefish. See Illust. under Cuttlefish.

See Supawn.

To set apart.

To set aside; to give up.

The act of setting aside, or of giving up.

A native of India employed as a soldier in the service of a European power, esp. of Great Britain; an Oriental soldier disciplined in the European manner.

Same as Hara-kiri.

A soluble poison (ptomaine) present in putrid blood. It is also formed in the putrefaction of proteid matter in general.

The poisoning of the system by the introduction of putrescent material into the blood.

A clan, tribe, or family, proceeding from a common progenitor; -- used especially of the ancient clans in Ireland.

Septicaemia.

Of or pertaining to a septum or septa, as of a coral or a shell.

See Heptane.

A figure which has seven angles; a heptagon.

Heptagonal.

A flattened concretionary nodule, usually of limestone, intersected within by cracks which are often filled with calcite, barite, or other minerals.

Divided by partition or partitions; having septa; as, a septate pod or shell.

The ninth month of the year, containing thurty days.

A Setembrist.

An agent in the massacres in Paris, committed in patriotic frenzy, on the 22d of September, 1792.

Flowing sevenfold; divided into seven streams or currents.

Divided nearly to the base into seven parts; as, a septempartite leaf.

Septentrion.

One of a board of seven men associated in some office.

The office of septemvir; a government by septimvirs.

The number seven.

Having parts in sevens; heptamerous.

A period of seven years; as, the septennate during which the President of the French Republic holds office.

Lasting or continuing seven years; as, septennial parliaments.

Once in seven years.

Septentrional.

The constellation Ursa Major.

The north or northern regions.

Of or pertaining to the north; northern.

Northerliness.

Northerly.

To tend or point toward the north; to north.

A set of seven persons or objects; as, a septet of singers.

A European herb, the tormentil. See Tormentil.

A substance that promotes putrefaction.

A poisoned condition of the blood produced by the absorption into it of septic or putrescent material; blood poisoning. It is marked by chills, fever, prostration, and inflammation of the different serous membranes and of the lungs, kidneys, and other organs.

Having power to promote putrefaction.

In a septic manner; in a manner tending to promote putrefaction.

Dividing the partitions; -- said of a method of dehiscence in which a pod splits through the partitions and is divided into its component carpels.

Tendency to putrefaction; septic quality.

Conveying putrid poison; as, the virulence of septiferous matter.

Flowing in seven streams; septemfluous.

Having seven leaves.

Having the form of a septum.

Breaking from the partitions; -- said of a method of dehiscence in which the valves of a pod break away from the partitions, and these remain attached to the common axis.

Having seven sides; as, a septilateral figure.

According to the French method of numeration (which is followed also in the United States), the number expressed by a unit with twenty-four ciphers annexed. According to the English method, the number expressed by a unit with forty-two ciphers annexed. See Numeration.

A group of seven notes to be played in the time of four or six.

Consisting of seven islands; as, the septinsular republic of the Ionian Isles.

A word of seven syllables.

See Heptoic.

Of or pertaining to the nasal septum and the maxilla; situated in the region of these parts. A small bone between the nasal septum and the maxilla in many reptiles and amphibians.

A person who is seventy years of age; a septuagenary.

Consisting of seventy; also, seventy years old. A septuagenarian.

The third Sunday before Lent; -- so called because it is about seventy days before Easter.

Consisting of seventy days, years, etc.; reckoned by seventies.

A Greek version of the Old Testament; -- so called because it was believed to be the work of seventy (or rather of seventy-two) translators.

Something composed of seven; a week.

Having imperfect or spurious septa.

A little septum; a division between small cavities or parts.

A wall separating two cavities; a partition; as, the nasal septum.

A septet.

To multiply by seven; to make sevenfold.

Of or pertaining to burial, to the grave, or to monuments erected to the memory of the dead; as, a sepulchral stone; a sepulchral inscription.

To bury; to inter; to entomb; as, obscurely sepulchered.

The act of depositing the dead body of a human being in the grave; burial; interment.

Inclined to follow a leader; following; attendant.

Quality of being sequacious.

Quality or state of being sequacious; sequaciousness.

That which follows; a succeeding part; continuation; as, the sequel of a man's advantures or history.

One who, or that which, follows. An adherent, or a band or sect of adherents. That which follows as the logical result of reasoning; inference; conclusion; suggestion.

to determine the sequence of; as, to sequence a protein or a DNA fragment.

A follower.

Succeeding or following in order.

Sequestration; separation.

Retired; secluded.

Capable of being sequestered; subject or liable to sequestration.

Of or pertaining to a sequestrum.

To sequester.

The act of separating, or setting aside, a thing in controversy from the possession of both the parties that contend for it, to be delivered to the one adjudged entitled to it. It may be voluntary or involuntary. A prerogative process empowering certain commissioners to take and hold a defendant's property and receive the rents and profits thereof, until he clears himself of a contempt or performs a decree of the court. A kind of execution for a rent, as in the case of a beneficed clerk, of the profits of a benefice, till he shall have satisfied some debt established by decree; the gathering up of the fruits of a benefice during a vacancy, for the use of the next incumbent; the disposing of the goods, by the ordinary, of one who is dead, whose estate no man will meddle with. The seizure of the property of an individual for the use of the state; particularly applied to the seizure, by a belligerent power, of debts due from its subjects to the enemy.

One who sequesters property, or takes the possession of it for a time, to satisfy a demand out of its rents or profits. One to whom the keeping of sequestered property is committed.

A portion of dead bone which becomes separated from the sound portion, as in necrosis.

An old gold coin of Italy and Turkey. It was first struck at Venice about the end of the 13th century, and afterward in the other Italian cities, and by the Levant trade was introduced into Turkey. It is worth about 9s. 3d. sterling, or about $2.25. The different kinds vary somewhat in value.

A genus of coniferous trees, consisting of two species, Sequoia Washingtoniana, syn. Sequoia gigantea, the /big tree/ of California, and Sequoia sempervirens, the redwood, both of which attain an immense height.

A hydrocarbon (C13H10) obtained in white fluorescent crystals, in the distillation products of the needles of the California /big tree/ (Sequoia gigantea).

A pinnacle of ice among the crevasses of a glacier; also, one of the blocks into which a glacier breaks on a steep grade.

An inclosure; a place of separation.

A palace; a seraglio; also, in the East, a place for the accommodation of travelers; a caravansary, or rest house.

Serum albumin.

The boatswain of a Lascar or East Ondian crew.

A blanket or shawl worn as an outer garment by the Spanish Americans, as in Mexico.

One of an order of celestial beings, each having three pairs of wings. In ecclesiastical art and in poetry, a seraph is represented as one of a class of angels.

Of or pertaining to a seraph; becoming, or suitable to, a seraph; angelic; sublime; pure; refined.

The character, quality, or state of a seraph; seraphicalness.

The Hebrew plural of Seraph. Cf. Cherubim.

A seraphine.

A wind instrument whose sounding parts are reeds, consisting of a thin tongue of brass playing freely through a slot in a plate. It has a case, like a piano, and is played by means of a similar keybord, the bellows being worked by the foot. The melodeon is a portable variety of this instrument.

An Egyptian deity, at first a symbol of the Nile, and so of fertility; later, one of the divinities of the lower world. His worship was introduced into Greece and Rome.

A general or commander of land forces in the Turkish empire; especially, the commander-in-chief of minister of war.

The office or authority of a seraskier.