A swimming leg (of an insect) having a fringe of hairs on the margin.
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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.
To drain, as a pond, for taking the fish.
The contents of a sewer or drain; refuse liquids or matter carried off by sewers
To perform the duties of a sewer. See 3d Sewer.
A scarecrow, generally made of feathers tied to a string, hung up to prevent deer from breaking into a place.
A peculiar gregarious burrowing rodent (Haplodon rufus), native of the coast region of the Northwestern United States. It somewhat resembles a muskrat or marmot, but has only a rudimentary tail. Its head is broad, its eyes are small and its fur is brownish above, gray beneath. It constitutes the family Haplodontidae. Called also boomer, showt'l, and mountain beaver.
A British trout usually regarded as a variety (var. Cambricus) of the salmon trout.
Formerly, an upper servant, or household officer, who set on and removed the dishes at a feast, and who also brought water for the hands of the guests.
The construction of a sewer or sewers.
Same as Sewen.
The act or occupation of one who sews.
A seamstress.
The distinguishing peculiarity of male or female in both animals and plants; the physical difference between male and female; the assemblage of properties or qualities by which male is distinguished from female.
A person who is sixty years old.
Something composed of sixty parts or divisions.
The second Sunday before Lent; -- so called as being about the sixtieth day before Easter.
A sexagesimal fraction.
A hexagon.
Having six angles; hexagonal.
Hexagonally.
See Sexivalent.
The state of having six fingers on a hand, or six toes on a foot.
One who has six fingers on a hand, or six toes on a foot.
Belonging to sex; having sex; distinctively male of female; as, the sexed condition.
Proceeding by sixes; sextuple; -- applied especially to a system of arithmetical computation in which the base is six.
Lasting six years, or happening once in six years. A sexennial event.
Once in six years.
Six-cleft; as, a sexfid calyx or nectary.
Having six syllables.
A word of six syllables.
Hexavalent.
Having no sex.
Having six cells for seeds; six-celled; as, a sexlocular pericarp.
Pertaining to sex.
Having six rays; -- said of certain sponge spicules. See Illust. of Spicule.
The office for the sixth canonical hour, being a part of the Breviary. The sixth book of the decretals, added by Pope Boniface VIII.
A stanza of six lines; a sestine.
A Roman coin, the sixth part of an as.
The sixth part of a circle.
A sacristy.
See Sestet.
A sacristan.
Of the sixth degree or order. A quantic of the sixth degree.
The aspect or position of two planets when distant from each other sixty degrees, or two signs. This position is marked thus: 8star/.
According to the method of numeration (which is followed also in the United States), the number expressed by a unit with twenty-one ciphers annexed. According to the English method, a million raised to the sixth power, or the number expressed by a unit with thirty-six ciphers annexed. See Numeration.
A book consisting of sheets each of which is folded into six leaves.
A book composed of sheets each of which is folded into sixteen leaves; hence, indicating, more or less definitely, a size of a book; -- usually written 16mo, or 16/.
A double triplet; a group of six equal notes played in the time of four.
An under officer of a church, whose business is to take care of the church building and the vessels, vestments, etc., belonging to the church, to attend on the officiating clergyman, and to perform other duties pertaining to the church, such as to dig graves, ring the bell, etc.
A female sexton; a sexton's wife.
Sextonship.
The office of a sexton.
See Sacristy.
Six times as much; sixfold.
Of or pertaining to sex, or the sexes; distinguishing sex; peculiar to the distinction and office of male or female; relating to the distinctive genital organs of the sexes; proceeding from, or based upon, sex; as, sexual characteristics; sexual intercourse, connection, or commerce; sexual desire; sexual diseases; sexual generation.
One who classifies plants by the sexual method of Linnaeus.
The quality or state of being distinguished by sex.
To attribute sex to.
In a sexual manner or relation.
imp. pl. p. p. of See.
imp. sing. 2d pers. pl. of See.
p. p. of Senge, to singe.
A gridle. See 1st Seint.
Forcing or forced; -- a direction placed over a note, to signify that it must be executed with peculiar emphasis and force; -- marked fz (an abbreviation of forzando), sf, sfz, or /.
Having vague outlines, and colors and shades so mingled as to give a misty appearance; -- said of a painting.
Scratched; -- said of decorative painting of a certain style, in which a white overland surface is cut or scratched through, so as to form the design from a dark ground underneath.
To scratch; to rub.
Shabby.
In a shabby manner.
The quality or state of being sghabby.
A kind of crooked sword or hanger.
Torn or worn to rage; poor; mean; ragged.
The saddlecloth or housing of a cavalry horse.
The grain left after harvest or gleaning; also, nuts which have fallen to the ground.
to live together in a sexual relationship, without being legally married.
A hound.
To tie or confine the limbs of, so as to prevent free motion; to bind with shackles; to fetter; to chain.
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