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.
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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.
Sesamoid.
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.
To cut the dewlap (of a cow or an ox), and to insert a seton, so as to cause an issue.
The bear's-foot (Helleborus f/tidus); -- so called because the root was used in settering, or inserting setons into the dewlaps of cattle. Called also pegroots.
The act of one who, or that which, sets; as, the setting of type, or of gems; the setting of the sun; the setting (hardening) of moist plaster of Paris; the setting (set) of a current.
To become fixed or permanent; to become stationary; to establish one's self or itself; to assume a lasting form, condition, direction, or the like, in place of a temporary or changing state.
The quality or state of being settled; confirmed state.
The act of setting, or the state of being settled.
One who settles, becomes fixed, established, etc.
The act of one who, or that which, settles; the act of establishing one's self, of colonizing, subsiding, adjusting, etc.
A small, short hair or bristle; a small seta.
A setula.
Having small bristles or setae.
A plant formerly valued for its restorative qualities (Valeriana officinalis, or Valeriana Pyrenaica).
The number greater by one than six; seven units or objects.
A firearm, esp. a pistol, with seven barrels or chambers for cartridges, or one capable of firing seven shots without reloading.
A name given to three several issues of United States Treasury notes, made during the Civil War, in denominations of $50 and over, bearing interest at the rate of seven and three tenths (thirty hundredths) per cent annually. Within a few years they were all redeemed or funded.
The game of cards called also all fours, and old sledge.
Seven times as much or as often.
A week; any period of seven consecutive days and nights. See Sennight.
Seven times twenty, that is, a hundred and forty.
The number greater by one than sixteen; the sum of ten and seven; seventeen units or objects.
The next in order after the sixteenth; one coming after sixteen others.
One next in order after the sixth; one coming after six others.
In the seventh place.
One next in order after the sixty-ninth.
The sum of seven times ten; seventy units or objects.
A naval vessel carrying seventy-four guns.
To suffer disjunction; to be parted, or rent asunder; to be separated; to part; to separate.
Capable of being severed.
Each particular taken singly; an item; a detail; an individual.
Each particular taken singly; distinction.
To distinguish.
Separately; distinctly; apart from others; individually.
A state of separation from the rest, or from all others; a holding by individual right.
The act of severing, or the state of being severed; partition; separation.
Serious in feeling or manner; sedate; grave; austere; not light, lively, or cheerful.
The quality or state of being severe.
A bay or compartment of a vaulted ceiling.
A calling aside.
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