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.

Claw; talon.

Dry; withered; no longer green; -- applied to leaves.

A mist, or very fine rain, which sometimes falls from a clear sky a few moments after sunset.

To perform a serenade.

One who serenades.

A piece of vocal music, especially one on an amoreus subject; a serenade.

To make serene.

In a serene manner; clearly.

Serenity.

Serenity.

The quality or state of being serene; clearness and calmness; quietness; stillness; peace.

A servant or slave employed in husbandry, and in some countries attached to the soil and transferred with it, as formerly in Russia.

The state or condition of a serf.

Serfage.

A large wax candle used in the ceremonies of various churches.

The office of a sergeant; sergeantship.

Formerly, in England, an officer nearly answering to the more modern bailiff of the hundred; also, an officer whose duty was to attend on the king, and on the lord high steward in court, to arrest traitors and other offenders. He is now called sergeant-at-arms, and two of these officers, by allowance of the sovereign, attend on the houses of Parliament (one for each house) to execute their commands, and another attends the Court Chancery.

Same as Sergeancy.

See Sergeanty.

The office of sergeant.

Tenure of lands of the crown by an honorary kind of service not due to any lord, but to the king only.

A publication appearing in a series or succession of part; a tale, or other writing, published in successive numbers of a periodical.

The quality or state of succession in a series; sequence.

In a series, or regular order; in a serial manner; as, arranged serially; published serially.

Arranged in a series or succession; pertaining to a series.

In regular order; one after the other; severally.

Arrangement or position in a series.

Of or pertaining to silk; consisting of silk; silky.

A gelatinous nitrogenous material extracted from crude silk and other similar fiber by boiling water; -- called also silk gelatin.

A kind of muscovite occuring in silky scales having a fibrous structure. It is characteristic of sericite schist.

A silk gland, as in the silkworms.

The raising of silkworms.

Series.

either of two large South American birds related to the cranes, the cariama of Southern Brazil (Cariama cristata, formerly Dicholophus cristata) or the Chunga burmeisteri of Argentina. They have an erectile crest and a short, broad bill. They are often domesticated.

A number of things or events standing or succeeding in order, and connected by a like relation; sequence; order; course; a succession of things; as, a continuous series of calamitous events.

A winding in which the armature coil and the field-magnet coil are in series with the external circuits; -- opposed to shunt winding.

An autographic device to test the strength of raw silk.

A European finch (Serinus hortulanus) closely related to the canary.

one of the natural L-amino acids, obtainable as a white crystalline nitrogenous substance by the action of dilute sulphuric acid on silk gelatin. It is found in many proteins, and, having a free primary hydroxyl group on the side chain, is involved in the catalytic action at the active site of some enzymes, such as proteases. The IUPAC abbreviation for serine in protein sequences is Ser. Chemically it is 2-amino-3-hydroxy-propanoic acid (C3H7NO3), HO.CH2.CH(NH2).COOH.

Having a mixture of seriousness and sport; serious and comical.

Grave in manner or disposition; earnest; thoughtful; solemn; not light, gay, or volatile.

See Ceriph.

The making of speeches or sermons; sermonizing.

One who makes sermons or speeches.

To discourse to or of, as in a sermon.

A sermonizer.

A preacher; a sermonizer.

A short sermon.

Like, or appropriate to, a sermon; grave and didactic.

The act of discoursing; discourse; instruction; preaching.

Resembling a sermon.

See Sermonizer.

To preach or discourse to; to affect or influence by means of a sermon or of sermons.

One who sermonizes.

A peculiar fatty substance found in the blood, probably a mixture of fats, cholesterin, etc. A body found in fecal matter and thought to be formed in the intestines from the cholesterin of the bile; -- called also stercorin, and stercolin.

Same as Ceroon.

Serous.

The quality or state of being serous.

Serum-therapy. The whey cure.

The European long-eared bat (Vesperugo serotinus).