Creeping; -- said of lesions which heal over one portion while continuing to advance at another.

A dry, scaly eruption on the skin; especially, a ringworm.

Wild thyme.

Any one of numerous species of tubicolous annelids of the genus Serpula and allied genera of the family Serpulidae. They secrete a calcareous tube, which is usually irregularly contorted, but is sometimes spirally coiled. The worm has a wreath of plumelike and often bright-colored gills around its head, and usually an operculum to close the aperture of its tube when it retracts.

A serpula.

A fossil serpula shell.

To crowd, press, or drive together.

Any fish of the family Serranidae, which includes the striped bass, the black sea bass, and many other food fishes. Of or pertaining to the Serranidae.

Notched on the edge, like a saw.

Condition of being serrate; formation in the shape of a saw.

Having a toothed bill, like that of a toucan.

The ivory gull (Larus eburneus).

A notching, like that between the teeth of a saw, in the edge of anything.

Covered with fine silky down.

Any one of a numerous tribe of beetles (Serricornia). The joints of the antennae are prominent, thus producing a serrate appearance. See Illust. under Antenna.

Crowded; compact; dense; pressed together.

A division of Hymenoptera comprising the sawflies.

Same as Lamellirostres.

Like the teeth off a saw; jagged.

The red-breasted merganser.

Finely serrate; having very minute teeth.

The state of being notched minutely, like a fine saw.

To crowd; to press together.

A genus of delicate branching hydroids having small sessile hydrothecae along the sides of the branches.

Any species of Sertularia, or of Sertularidae, a family of hydroids having branched chitinous stems and simple sessile hydrothecae. Also used adjectively.

The watery portion of certain animal fluids, as blood, milk, etc. A thin watery fluid, containing more or less albumin, secreted by the serous membranes of the body, such as the pericardium and peritoneum.

The treatment of disease by the injection of blood serum from immune animals.

Capable of being served.

Serfage; slavery; servitude.

An African wild cat (Felis serval) of moderate size; -- called also serval cat. It has rather long legs and a tail of moderate length. Its color is tawny, with black spots on the body and rings of black on the tail.

Related to, or resembling, the serval.

To subject.

A maidservant.

A body of servants; servants, collectively.

To be a servant or a slave; to be employed in labor or other business for another; to be in subjection or bondage; to render menial service.

One who serves.

Of or pertaining to Servia, a kingdom of Southern Europe. A native or inhabitant of Servia.

The act of serving; the occupation of a servant; the performance of labor for the benefit of another, or at another's command; attendance of an inferior, hired helper, slave, etc., on a superior, employer, master, or the like; also, spiritual obedience and love.

A name given to several trees and shrubs of the genus Pyrus, as Pyrus domestica and Pyrus torminalis of Europe, the various species of mountain ash or rowan tree, and the American shad bush (see Shad bush, under Shad). They have clusters of small, edible, applelike berries.

Doing service; promoting happiness, interest, advantage, or any good; useful to any end; adapted to any good end use; beneficial; advantageous.

Servitude.

Subordinate.

A table napkin.

An element which forms no part of the original root; -- opposed to radical.

In a servile manner; slavishly.

Quality of being servile; servility.

The quality or state of being servile; servileness.

a. n. from Serve.

One of the order of the Religious Servants of the Holy Virgin, founded in Florence in 1223.

One who serves; a servant; an attendant; one who acts under another; a follower or adherent.

The office, rank, or condition of a servitor.

The state of voluntary or compulsory subjection to a master; the condition of being bound to service; the condition of a slave; slavery; bondage; hence, a state of slavish dependence.

Servants, collectively.

Servitude.

A relay apparatus; An auxiliary motor, regulated by a hand lever, for quickly and easily moving the reversing gear of a large marine engine into any desired position indicated by that of the hand lever, which controls the valve of the motor. In a Whitehead torpedo, a compressed-air motor, for moving the rudders so as to correct deviations from the course.

control by a servomechanism.

an electronically controlled mechanical or hydraulic device permitting a large action or strong forces to be controlled by a small electrical signal.

A series.

Either of two annual herbaceous plants of the genus Sesamum (Sesamum Indicum, and Sesamum orientale), from the seeds of which an oil is expressed; also, the small obovate, flattish seeds of these plants, sometimes used as food. See Benne.

A sesamoid bone or cartilage.

A leguminous shrub (Sesbania aculeata) which furnishes a fiber used for making ropes.

Sesquialteral.

A stop on the organ, containing several ranks of pipes which reenforce some of the high harmonics of the ground tone, and make the sound more brilliant.

Once and a half times as great as another; having the ratio of one and a half to one.

Sesquialteral.

Containing, or acting as, a base in the proportions of a sesqui compound.

Twice and a half as great (as another thing); having the ratio of two and a half to one.

An oxide containing three atoms of oxygen with two atoms (or radicals) of some other substance; thus, alumina, Al2O3 is a sesquioxide.

Measuring or containing a foot and a half; as, a sesquipedalian pygmy; -- sometimes humorously applied to long words.

Sesquipedality.

The quality or condition of being sesquipedal.

Subduplicate of the triplicate; -- a term applied to ratios; thus, a and a/ are in the sesquiplicate ratio of b and b/, when a is to a/ as the square root of the cube of b is to the square root of the cube of b/, or a:a/::/b3:/b/3.

A salt derived from a sesquioxide base, or made up on the proportions of a sesqui compound.

A sulphide, analogous to a sesquioxide, containing three atoms of sulphur to two of the other ingredient; -- formerly called also sesquisulphuret; as, orpiment, As2S3 is arsenic sesquisulphide.

Sesquitertian.

Having the ratio of one and one third to one (as 4 : 3).

A minor third, or interval of three semitones.

A tax; an assessment. See Cess.

Hurry; run.

Attached without any sensible projecting support.

Having eyes which are not elevated on a stalk; -- opposed to stalk-eyed.

The act of sitting, or the state of being seated.

Of or pertaining to a session or sessions.

Same as Cesspool.

A Roman coin or denomination of money, in value the fourth part of a denarius, and originally containing two asses and a half, afterward four asses, -- equal to about two pence sterling, or four cents.

A piece of music composed for six voices or six instruments; a sextet; -- called also sestuor.

A sestet.

See Sextain.

A sestet.

An evil beast-headed god with high square ears and a long snout; his was the brother and murderer of Osiris. Called also Seth

In plastering, a particularly good troweled surface.

A sleeve joined to the body of a garment by a seam starting at the edge of the shoulder and continuing around the armhole. Contrasted to a raglan sleeve.

That which is set off against another thing; an offset.

Stitched according to a formal pattern.

A contest in boxing, in an argument, or the like.

Any slender, more or less rigid, bristlelike organ or part; as the hairs of a caterpillar, the slender spines of a crustacean, the hairlike processes of a protozoan, the bristles or stiff hairs on the leaves of some plants, or the pedicel of the capsule of a moss.

Set with, or consisting of, bristles; bristly; as, a stiff, setaceous tail.

Offset, n., 4.

An iron pin, or bolt, for fitting planks closely together.

The humbling of a person by act or words, especially by a disparaging remark, a retort or a reproof; the retort or the reproof which has such effect. Also called put-down.

See 2d Settee.

Sat.

See Cetewale.

See Septfoil.

An evil beast-headed god with high square ears and a long snout; his was the brother and murderer of Osiris. Called also Set

See Since.

See Sothic.

Producing, or having one or more, bristles.

Having the form or structure of setae.

An annelid having setae; a chaetopod.

Covered with bristles; having or bearing a seta or setae; setiferous; as, setigerous glands; a setigerous segment of an annelid; specifically (Bot.), tipped with a bristle.

See Shittim.

Producing setae; -- said of the organs from which the setae of annelids arise.

A swimming leg (of an insect) having a fringe of hairs on the margin.

The quality or state of being set; formality; obstinacy.

A few silk threads or horsehairs, or a strip of linen or the like, introduced beneath the skin by a knife or needle, so as to form an issue; also, the issue so formed.

Thickly set with bristles or bristly hairs.

A display, as of plate, equipage, etc.; that which is displayed.

See Set, n., 2 (e) and 3.

A vessel with a very long, sharp prow, carrying two or three masts with lateen sails, -- used in the Mediterranean.