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SEA-MOSS

Milton-2. A fish, Chimera monstrosa. See CHIMERA, 4.

Sea-moss (sè'mos), n. A marine plant of the genus Corallina (C. officinalis), formerly used in medicine. Sea-inoss... to cool his boiling blood.' Drayton. See CORALLINA. Sea-mouse (se'mous), n. A marine dorsibranchiate annelid of the family Aphroditide, of which the genus Aphrodite is the type. The common sea-mouse (A. aculeata) of the British and French coasts is about 6 or 8 inches long and 2 or 3 in width. With respect to colouring it is one of the most splendid of all animals. The sea-mice are easily recognized by two rows of broad scales covering the back, under which the gills are situated in the form of fleshy crests. The scales are covered by a substance resembling tow, which, while excluding mud and sand, admits of the free access of water. Seam-presser (sem'pres-ér), n. In agri. an implement consisting of two cast-iron cylinders, which follows the plough to press down the newly-ploughed furrows. Seam-rent (sẽm'rent), n. A rent along a

seam

Seam-rent+ (sēm'rent),a. Having the seams of one's clothes torn out; ragged; low; contemptible. Such poor seam-rent fellows.' B. Jonson

Seam-roller (sêm'ről-ér), n. An agricultural implement; a species of roller consisting of two cylinders of cast-iron, which, following in the furrow, press and roll down the earth newly turned up by the plough. Seamstert (sêm'stér),n. One who sews well, or whose occupation is to sew.

Our schismatics would seem our seamsters, and our renders will needs be our reformers and repairers. Bp. Gauden. Seamstress (sém'stres), n. [A. Sax. seamestre, with term. -ess.] A woman whose occupation is sewing; a sempstress. Seamstressyt (sem'stres-i), n. The business of a sempstress.

Sea-mud (sé'mud), n. A rich saline deposit from salt-marshes and sea-shores. It is also called ooze, and is employed as a manure. Sea-mule (se'mül), n. The sea-mew or seagull

Seamy (sem'i), a. Having a seam; containing seams or showing them.

Everything has its fair, as well as its seamy, side.
Sir W. Scott.

Sean (sen), n. A net. See SEINE.
Sea-navel (sẽ’nā-vel), n. A common name
for a small shell-fish resembling a navel.
Seance (sa'ans), n. [Fr. séance, from L. sedeo,
to sit.] 1. Session, as of some public body.
2. In spiritualism, a sitting with the view
of evoking spiritual manifestations or hold-
ing intercourse with spirits.
Sea-needle (se'né-dl), n. A name of the gar
or garfish. See GARFISH.

Sea-nettle (se'net-1), n. A popular name of those medusa which have the property of stinging when touched.

Seannachie (sen'a-che), n. [Gael. seannachauth, one skilled in ancient or remote history, a reciter of tales-seannachar, sagacious, sean, old.] A Highland genealogist, chronicler, or bard. Sir W. Scott.

Sea-nymph (sē’nimf), n. A nymph or goddess of the sea; one of the inferior Olympian divinities called Oceanides.

Her maidens, dressed like sea-nymphs or graces,
handled the silken tackle and steered the vessel.
S. Sharpe.
Same as Sea-wrack.

Sea-oak (sé'ōk), n.
Sea-onion (së'un-yun), n. A plant, the
Scilla maritima, or squill.
Sea-ooze (sé'óz), n. Same as Sea-mud.
Mortimer.

Sea-orb (sé'orb), n. A marine fish almost round; the globe-fish.

Sea-otter (së'ot-ér), n. A marine mammal of the genus Enhydra (E. marina), of the family Mustelidae, and closely allied to the common otter. It averages about 4 feet in length including the tail, which is about 7 inches long. The ears are small and erect, and the whiskers long and white, the legs are short and thick, the hinder ones somewhat resembling those of a seal. The fur is extremely soft, and of a deep glossy black. The skins of the sea-otters are of great value, and have long been an article of considerable export from Russian America. Sea-owl (sé'oul), n. The lump-fish, belonging to the genus Cyclopterus. Sea-pad (se pad), n. The star-fish. Sea-parrot (sé'par-ot). n. A name sometimes given to the puffin, from the shape of its bill.

Sea-pass (se'pas), n. A passport carried by

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neutral merchant vessels in time of war to prove their nationality and insure them from molestation.

Sea-pea (se'pë), n. A British plant of the genus Lathyrus, L. maritimus. Sea-pen (se'pen), n. A compound eightarmed polyp, the Pennatula phosphorea, not unfrequently dredged on our coasts. See ALCYONARIA.

Sea-perch (sẽ'pêrch), n. A marine fish, Labrax lupus, of the family Percidæ, and closely allied to the perch. Its spines, especially the dorsal spines, are strong and sharp, and the gill-covers are edged with projecting teeth that cut like lancets, so that if grasped carelessly it inflicts severe wounds. It is voracious in its habits. Called also Bass and Sea-dace.

Sea-pheasant (se'fez-ant), n. The pin-tail

duck.

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Painters often employ their pencils upon sea-pieces.
Addison.

Sea-pike (se'pik), n. 1. Centropomus undecimalis, a fish of the perch family, found on the western coasts of tropical America. It resembles the pike in the elongation of its form, and attains a large size. The colour is silvery-white, with a green tinge on the back. 2. Another name for the garfish (which see).

Sea-pincushion (se'pin-kush-on), n. The egg-case of the skate. See SEA-BARROW. Sea-pink (se pingk), n. A plant of the genus Armeria, nat. order Plumbaginaceæ, growing on or near the sea-shore. The common sea-pink (A. maritima) is found on all the coasts of Britain and on many of the mountains. It is often used in gardens as an edging for borders, in place of box. Called also Thrift, Sea-thrift.

Sea-plant (se'plant), n. A plant that grows in salt-water; a marine plant. Sea-plantain (sephan-tan), n A British plant of the genus Plantago (P. maritima), nat, order Plantaginaceae. Sea-poacher (sé'pōch-ér), n. A British acanthopterygious fish of the genus Aspidophorus (A. europæus). It is a small fish, seldom exceeding 6 inches in length. Called also Armed Bull-head, Pogge, Lyrie, and Noble.

Sea-pool (se'pöl), n. A pool or sheet of salt water.

I have heard it wished that all land were a sea-pool. Spenser Sea-porcupine (se'por-ku-pin), n. A fish, the Diodon Hystrix, the body of which is covered with spines.

Seaport (se'port), n. 1. A port or harbour on the sea.-2. A city or town situated on a harbour, on or near the sea. Seapoy (se'poi), n. A sepoy: an improper spelling.

Sea-pudding (se'pud-ing), n. Same as Seacucumber. See under SCYLLI

Sea-purse (sē'pėrs), n.

IDE.

Sea-purslane (së'pèrs-lan), n. A British plant of the genus Atriplex, the A. portulacoides, called also Shrubby Orach. See ORACH.

Sea-pye (se'pi), n. See SEA-PIE. Sea-quake (se'kwāk), n. A quaking or concussion of the sea.

Sear (ser), v.t. [A. Sax. searian, to dry up, to parch; L.G. sören, soren, L.G. sor, soor, O.D. sore, soore, D. zoor, dry; connections doubtful.] 1. To wither; to dry. A scatter'd leaf, sear'd by the autumn blast of grief.' Byron.-2. To burn to dryness and hardness the surface of; to cauterize; to burn into the substance of; also, simply to burn, to scorch; as, to sear the flesh with an iron. 'Red-hot steel, to sear me to the brain.' Shak. 'The sun that seared the wings of my sweet boy.' Shak.

I'm sear'd with burning steel.

3. To make callous or insensible.

Rowe.

It was in vain that the amiable divine tried to give salutary pain to that seared conscience. Macaulay. 4. To brand. For calumny will sear

Virtue itself. Shak. -To sear up, to close by searing or cauterizing; to stop.

Cherish veins of good humour, and sear up those of ill. Sir W. Temple.

SEARCHER

Sear (sér), a. Dry; withered; no longer green; as, sear leaves. Spelled also Sere. Old age which, like sear trees, is seldom seen affected.' Beau. & Fl.

My way of life.

Shak.

Has fallen into the sear, the yellow leaf. Sear (sér), n. [Fr. serre, a lock, a bar, from L. sera, a bolt or bar.] The pivoted piece in a gun-lock which enters the notches of the tumbler and holds the hammer at full or half cock.

Sea-radish (sẽrad-ish), n. A British plant of the genus Raphanus, the R. maritimus. See RAPHANUS.

Sea-rat (se'rat), n. A pirate. Massinger. Sea-raven (se'rā-vn), n. An acanthopterygious fish of the sculpin or bullhead family, genus Hemitripterus. The common species (H. Acadianus), called also yellow sculpin and Acadian bullhead, inhabits the Atlantic shores of North America.

Searce (sérs), n. [Also written searse, sarse.

See SARSE. 1 A sieve; a bolter. 'A sieve, or searce to dress my meal, and to part it from the bran and husk.' Defoe. [Obsolete or local.]

Searce (sers), v.t. pret. & pp. searced; ppr. searcing. To separate the fine part of, as meal, from the coarse; to sift; to bolt. 'Finely searced powder of alabaster.' Boyle. [Obsolete or local.]

For the keeping of meal, bolt and searce it from the bran. Mortimer.

Searcer (sérs'èr), n. One that sifts or bolts. [Obsolete or local. J

Search (sèrch), v.t. [O.E. serche, cerche, O. Fr. cercher, cerchier, Mod. Fr. chercher, to search; It. cercare, to run about, to search; L. L. cercare, circare, from L. circus, a circle. See CIRCLE.] 1. To look over or through, for the purpose of finding something; to examine by inspection; to explore.

Send thou men, that they may search the land of Canaan. Num. xiii. 2. Help to search my house this one time. If I find not what I seek, show no colour for my extremity. Shak.

2. To inquire after; to seek for. To search a meaning for the song.' Tennyson. Enough is left besides to search and know. Milton. 3. To seek the knowledge of, by feeling with an instrument; to probe; as, to search a wound.-4. To examine; to try; to put to the test.

Thou hast searched me and known me. Ps. cxxxix. I. -To search out, to seek till found, or to find by seeking. 'To search out truth.' Watts.

Search (sèrch), v.i. 1. To seek; to look; to make search.

Satisfy me once more; once more search with me. Shak. 2. To make inquiry; to inquire.

It suffices that they have once with care sifted the matter, and searched into all the particulars. Locke. Search (sèrch), n. The act of seeking or looking for something; the act of examining or exploring; pursuit for finding; inquiry; quest: sometimes followed by for, of, or after. Make further search for my poor son.' Shak. The orb he roam'd With narrow search, and with inspection deep.

Milton.

The parents, after a long search for the boy, gave him up for drowned in a canal. Addison.

This common practice carries the heart aside from all that is honest in our search after truth. Il'atts. Throughout the volume are discernible the traces of a powerful and independent mind, emancipated from the influence of authority, and devoted to the search of truth. Macaulay.

-Search of encumbrances, the inquiry made in the special legal registers by a purchaser or mortgagee of lands as to the burdens and state of the title, in order to discover whether his purchase or investment is safe. -Right of search, in maritime law, the right claimed by one nation to authorize the commanders of their lawfully commissioned cruisers to enter private merchant vessels of other nations met with on the high seas, to examine their papers and cargo, and to search for enemy's property, articles contraband of war, &c. Searchable (sèrch'a-bl), a. Capable of being searched or explored. Cotgrave. Searchableness (sèrch'a-bl-nes), n. The state of being searchable. Searcher (sèrch'èr), n. One who or that which searches, explores, or examines for the purpose of finding something, obtaining

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He whom we appeal to is truth itself, the great searcher of hearts, who will not let fraud go unpunished. Addison.

Avoid the man who practises anything unbecoming a free and open searcher after truth.

Watts.

Specifically, (a) a person formerly appointed

in London to examine the bodies of the dead, and report the cause of their death. (b) An officer of the customs whose business is to search and examine ships outward bound, to ascertain whether they have prohibited goods on board, also baggage, goods, &c. (c) A prison official who searches or examines the clothing of newly arrested persons, and takes temporary possession of the articles found about them. (d) A civil officer formerly appointed in some Scotch towns to apprehend idlers on the street during church hours on Sabbath.

If we bide here, the searchers will be on us, and carry us to the guard-house for being idlers in kirk time. Sir W. Scott.

(e) An inspector of leather. [Local.] (ƒ) An instrument for examining ordnance, to ascertain whether guns have any cavities in them. (g) An instrument used in the inspection of butter, &c., to ascertain the quality of that contained in firkins, &c.

Searching (sêrch'ing), p. and a. 1. Looking into or over; exploring; examining; inquiring; seeking; investigating.-2. Penetrating; trying; close; keen; as, a searching discourse; a searching examination; a searching wind. Searchingly (sèrch'ing-li), adv. In a searching manner.

Searchingness (sêrch'ing-nes). n. The quality of being searching, penetrating, close, or trying.

Searchless (sèrch'les), a. Eluding search or
investigation; inscrutable; unsearchable.
The modest-seeming eye,
Beneath whose beauteous beams, belying heaven,
Lurk searchiess cunning, cruelty, and death.
Thomson.

Search-warrant (serch'wor-ant), n. In law, a warrant granted by a justice of the peace to a constable to enter the premises of a person suspected of secreting stolen goods, in order to discover, and if found to seize, the goods. Similar warrants are granted to search for property or articles in respect of which other offences are committed, such as base coin, coiners' tools, also gunpowder, nitro-glycerine, liquors, &c., kept contrary to law.

Sear-cloth (ser'kloth), n. [For cere-cloth.] A waxed cloth to cover a sore; stickingplaster.

Sear-cloth (ser'kloth), v.t. To cover with

sear-cloth.

Sea-reach (se'réch), n. The straight course or reach of a winding river, which stretches out to seaward.

Searedness (sérd'nes), n. The state of being seared, cauterized, or hardened; hardness; hence, insensibility. 'Delivering up the sinner to a stupidity, or searedness of conscience.' South. Sea-reed (se'rēd), n.

A British grass of the genus Ammophíla (A. arundinacea), found on sandy sea-shores, where its roots assist in binding the shifting soil. See AMMOPHILA,1. Sea-reeve (se'rēv), n. An officer formerly appointed in maritime towns and places to take care of the maritime rights of the lord of the manor, watch the shore, and collect the wrecks.

Sea-risk, Sea-risque (se'risk), n. Hazard or risk at sea; danger of injury or destruction by the sea.

He was so great an encourager of commerce, that he charged himself with all the sea-risque of such vessels as carried corn to Rome in the winter. Arbuthnot.

Sea-robber (se'rob-er), n. A pirate; one that robs on the high seas.

Trade is much disturbed by pirates and sea-robbers. Milton. Sea-robin (se'rob-in), n. A British acanthopterygious fish of the genus Trigla (T. cuculus), otherwise called the Red or Cuckoo Gurnard. It is about 1 foot long, and of a beautiful bright red colour. Sea-rocket (se'rok-et), n. A British plant of the genus Cakile, the C. maritima, growing on the sea-shore in sand. It belongs to the nat. order Cruciferæ. Sea-room (se'röm), n. Sufficient room at sea for a vessel to make any required movement; space free from obstruction in which a ship can be easily manoeuvred or navigated.

There is sea-room enough for both nations, without offending one another. Bacon.

that cruises for plunder.

A certain island left waste by sea-rovers.' Milton.2. A ship or vessel that is employed in cruising for plunder. Sea-roving (se'röv-ing), a. Wandering on

the ocean.

Sea-roving (se'rōv-ing), n.

The act of rov

ing over the sea; the acts and practices of a sea-rover; piracy.

Nor was it altogether nothing, even that wild searoving and battling, through so many generations. Carlyle. Searse (sers), v. t. and n. Same as Searce. Sear-spring (ser'spring), n. The spring in a gun-lock which causes the sear to catch in the notch of the tumbler.

Sea-ruff (se'ruf), n. A marine fish of the genus Orphus.

Sea-salt (se'salt), n. Chloride of sodium or common salt obtained by evaporation of sea-water. See SALT.

Sea-sandwort (se'sand-wêrt), n. A British maritime perennial plant of the genus Honkenya (H. peploides), nat. order Caryophyllaces. It grows in large tufts on the seabeach, its rhizome creeping in the sand and throwing up numerous low stems with fleshy leaves and small white flowers. Seascape (se skap), n. [Formed on the model of landscape.] A picture representing a scene at sea; a sea-piece. Seascape -as painters affect to call such things.' Dickens. [Recent, but in good usage.] Sea-scorpion (se'skor-pi-on), n. An acanthopterygious marine fish (Cottus scorpius) 1 foot in length, with a large spine-armed head. It is very voracious.

Sea-serpent (se'sér-pent), n. 1. A name common to a family of snakes, Hydridæ, of several genera, as Hydrus, Pelamis, Chersydrus, &c. These animals frequent the seas of warm latitudes. They are found off the coast of Africa, and are plentiful in the Indian Archipelago. They are all, so far as known, exceedingly venomous. They delight in calms, and are fond of eddies and tideways, where the ripple collects numerous fish and medusa, on which they feed. The

Sea-serpent (Hydrus Stokesii).

Hydrus Stokesii here depicted, inhabits the Australian seas, and is as thick as a man's thigh. Called also Sea-snake.-2. An enormous animal of serpentine form, said to have been repeatedly seen at sea. Its length has been sometimes represented to be as much as 700 or 800 feet, and it has been described as lying in the water in many folds, and appearing like a number of hogsheads floating in a line at a considerable distance from each other. That people have honestly believed they saw such a monster there is no doubt, but naturalists generally suppose that they have been deceived by a line of porpoises, floating sea-weed, or the like, and are rather sceptical as to the real existence of the great sea-serpent. Sea-service (se'sèr-vis), n. Service in the royal navy; naval service.

You were pressed for the sea-service, and got off with much ado. Swift,

Sea-shark (se'shärk), n. The white shark (Squalus carcharias). Seashell (se'shel), n.

The shell of a mol

lusc inhabiting the sea; a marine shell; a shell found on the sea-shore. Mortimer. Sea-shore (se'shōr), n. 1. The coast of the sea; the land that lies adjacent to the sea or ocean. 2. In law, the ground between the ordinary high-water mark and lowwater mark.

Sea-sick (se'sik), a. Affected with sickness or nausea by means of the pitching or rolling of a vessel.

A nervous Sea - sickness (së'sik-nes), n. affection attended with nausea and convulsive vomiting, produced by the rolling, but more especially the pitching of a vessel at

sea.

Its origin and nature are still imperfectly known. It usually attacks those persons who are unaccustomed to a seafaring

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life, but persons so accustomed do not always escape. It may attack the strong and cautious, while the debilitated and incautious may go free. It may attack on smooth waters, while a rough sea may fail to produce it. It may pass away after the lapse of a few hours, or last during a whole voyage. One good authority explains it as an undue accumulation of the blood in the nervous centres along the back, and especially in those segments of the spinal cord related to the stomach and the muscles concerned in vomiting, and recommends as the best remedy against it the application of ice-bags to the spinal column. In some cases its violence may be considerably mitigated by iced brandy, by small doses of opium, by soda-water, or by saline draughts in the effervescent state.

Sea - side (sẽ’sid), n. The land bordering on the sea; the country adjacent to the sea or near it. The green sea-side.' Pope. Often used adjectively, and signifying pertaining to the sea-side or coast; as, a seaside residence or home. Seaside-grape (se'sid-grap), n. A small West Indian tree of the genus Coccoloba (C. uvifera), nat. order Polygonaceæ, growing on the sea-coasts. The wood is heavy, hard, durable, and beautifully veined, and the fruit, which consists of a pulpy calyx investing a nut, is pleasant and sub-acid, in appearance somewhat resembling a currant. The extract of the wood is so astringent as to have received the name of Jamaica kino.

Sea-slater (se'slät-ér), n. Ligia oceanica, a

small marine crustaceous animal. Sea-sleeve (së'slēv), n. See CALAMARY. Sea-slug (se'slug), n. A name applied generally to sea-lemons and other gasteropodous molluscs destitute of shells and belonging to the section Nudibranchiata. The name has been derived from the resemblance presented by these marine gasteropods to the familiar terrestrial slugs. Sea-snail (se'snál), n. A British malacopterygious fish of the family Discoboli and genus Liparis, the L. vulgaris, called also Unctuous Sucker. It is a small fish, seldom exceeding 4 or 5 inches in length, and derives its popular names from the soft and slime-covered surface of its body. Sea-snake (së'snāk), n. Same as Sea-serpent.

Sea-snipe (se'snip), n. 1. The bellows-fish (which see).-2. The dunlin.

Season (së'zn), n. [O.E. seson, sesoun, O. Fr. seson, seison, Mod. Fr. saison, Pr. and Sp. sazon, fit or due time, time of maturity, season, from L. satio, sationis, a sowing, from sero, satum, to sow. Originally, therefore, it meant the time of sowing certain crops, hence season in general] 1. One of the periods into which the year is naturally divided, as marked by its characteristics of temperature, moisture, conditions of nature, and the like. In the temperate regions of the globe there are four wellmarked divisions or seasons-spring, summer, autumn, and winter. Astronomically the seasons are marked as follows: spring is from the vernal equinox, when the sun enters Aries, to the summer solstice; summer is from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox; autumn, from the autumnal equinox to the winter solstice; and winter, from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox. The characters of the seasons are, of course, reversed to inhabitants of the southern hemisphere. Within the tropics the seasons are not greatly marked by the rise or fall of the temperature, so much as by dryness and wetness, and they are usually distinguished as the wet and the dry seasons.— 2. A period of time, especially as regards its fitness or suitableness for anything contemplated or done; a convenient or suitable time; a proper conjuncture; the right time.

All business should be done betimes; and there's as little trouble of doing it in season too, as out of season, Sir R. L'Estrange.

3. A certain period of time not very long; a while; a time.

Thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. Acts xiii. 11. After the lapse of more than twenty-seven years, in a season as dark and perilous, his own shattered frame and broken heart were laid with the same pomp in the same consecrated mould. Macaulay. 4. That time of the year when a particular locality is most frequented by visitors or shows most bustling activity; as, the London season; the Brighton season. Also, that part of the year when a particular trade,

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And am I then revenged,

To take him in the purging of his soul, When he is fit and seasoned for his passage? Shak. 2. To fit for any use by time or habit; to habituate; to accustom; to mature; to inure; to acclimatize.

How many things by season season'd are

To their right praise and true perfection! Shak. A man should harden and season himself beyond Addison. the degree of cold wherein he lives.

3. To bring to the best state for use by any process; as, to season a cask by keeping liquor in it; to season a tobacco-pipe by frequently smoking it; to season timber by drying or hardening, or by removing its natural sap.

Only a sweet and virtuous soul,

Like reasoned timber, never gives. G. Herbert. 4. To fit for the taste; to render palatable, or to give a higher relish to, by the addition or mixture of another substance more pungent or pleasant; as, to season meat with salt; to season anything with spices.

And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt. Lev. ii. 13.

5. To render more agreeable, pleasant, or delightful; to give a relish or zest to by something that excites, animates, or exhila

rates.

You season still with sports your serious hours. Dryden. The proper use of wit is to season conversation. Tillotson. 6. To render more agreeable, or less rigorous and severe; to temper; to moderate; to qualify by admixture. 'When mercy seasons justice' Shak.

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3. Something added or mixed to enhance the pleasure of enjoyment; as, wit or humour may serve as a seasoning to eloquence.

Political speculations are of so dry and austere a nature, that they will not go down with the public Addison. without frequent seasonings. Seasonless (se'zn-les), a. sion of seasons.

Without succes

Season-ticket (sẽ'zn-tik-et), n. A ticket which entitles its holder to certain privileges during a specified period of time, as a pass for travelling by railway, steamboat, or other means of conveyance at pleasure during an extended period, issued by the company at a reduced rate; a ticket of admission to a place of amusement for an extended period, purchased at a reduced rate. Sea-spider (se'spi-dér), n. A marine crab of the genus Maia (M. squinado). The body is triangular; the legs slender, and sometimes long. Also applied to members of the arachnidan order Podosomata. Sea-squirt (se'skwêrt). n. Sea-star (se'stär), n.

An ascidian. The star-fish. Sir T.

Browne. A British Sea-starwort (se'stär-wêrt), n. maritime plant of the genus Aster (A. Tripolium), nat. order Compositæ. It is a pretty plant, 6 inches to 2 feet high, with lanceshaped, smooth, fleshy leaves, and stems terminating in corymbs of purple-rayed flower-heads. Called also Sea-side Aster. Sea-stick (sē'stik), n. A herring caught and cured at sea. A. Smith. Sea-stock (se'stok), n. A British plant of the genus Matthiola, M. sinuata. See MATTHIOLA.

Sea-sunflower (sé'sun-flou-êr), n. The seaanemone, a cœlenterate polyp of the genus Actinia.

Sea-swallow (se'swol-ló), n. 1. A provincial name of the storm-petrel (Thalassidroma pelagica). 2. The common tern, so called from its excessively long and pointed wings, and from its forked tail, which render its flight and carriage analogous to those of swallows. See TERN.

Sea-swine (se'swin), n. A common name for the porpoise (which see). 'Let their palates Seat (set), n. [Directly from the Scandina

Season your admiration for a while. Shak. 7. To gratify; to tickle. be season'd with such viands.' Shak.-8. To imbue; to tinge or taint. Season their younger years with prudent and pious principles. Fer. Taylor. Parents first season us: then schoolmasters Deliver us to laws. G. Herbert.

9. To copulate with; to impregnate. Holland. Season (se'zn), v.i. 1. To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate, as the human body.-2. To become dry and hard by the escape of the natural juices, or by being penetrated with other substance.

Carpenters rough plane boards for flooring, that they may set them by to season. Moxon.

3. To give token; to smack; to savour. Lose not your labour and your time together; It seasons of a fool. Bean. & Fl Suitable as to time or season; opportune; occurring, happening, or being done in due season or proper time for the purpose; as, a seasonable supply of rain.

Seasonable (së'zn-a-bl), a.

Cook.

This. .. was very serviceable to us on many other accounts, and came at a very seasonable time. Seasonableness (se'zn-a-bl-nes), n. The state or quality of being seasonable; opportuneness.

Sexsonableness is best in all these things which have their ripeness and decay. Bp. Hall. Seasonably (sé'zn-a-bli), adv. In due time; in time convenient; sufficiently early; as, to sow or plant seasonably. Seasonaget (së'zn-aj), n. Seasoning; sauce. Charity is the grand seasonage of every Christian duty. South. Seasonal (sê'zn-al), a. Pertaining to the seasons; relating to a season or seasons. 'The deviations which occur from the seasonal averages of climate.' Encyc. Brit. Seasoner (së'zn-ér), n. One that seasons; that which seasons, matures, or gives a relish

Seasoning (sezn-ing), n. 1. The act by which anything is seasoned or rendered palatable. fit for use, or the like.-2. That which is added to any species of food to give it a higher relish; usually, something pungent or aromatic, as salt, spices, &c.

Many vegetable substances are used by mankind as signing, which abound with a highly exalted aromatic oil; as thyme and savory. Arbuthnot.

vian Icel. sæti, set, Sw. sate, a seat, from root of sit; so L.G. sitt, G. sitz. The A. Sax. seems only to have had the dim. form setl.] 1. The place or thing on which one sits; more especially in such narrower senses as, (a) something made to be sat in or on, as a chair, throne, bench, stool, or the like. The tables of the money changers, and the seats of them that sold doves.' Mat. xxi.12. (b) That part of a thing on which a person sits; as, the seat of a chair or saddle; the seat of a pair of trousers. (c) A regular or appropriate place of sitting; hence, a right to sit; a sitting; as, a seat in a church, a theatre, a railwaycarriage, or the like.-2. Place of abode; residence; mansion; as, a gentleman's country seat.-3. Place occupied by anything; the place where anything is situated, fixed, settled, or established, or on which anything rests, resides, or abides; station; abode; as, a seat of learning; the seat of war; Italy is the seat of the arts; London the seat of 'While memory holds a seat in this distracted globe.' Shak.

commerce.

This castle hath a pleasant seat; the air Numbly and sweetly recommends itself Unto our gentle senses. Shak. Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her work, gave signs of woe. Milton.

[It was formerly used exactly as we now use site, and may be regarded as having that meaning in the above passage from Shakspere. So also in the following:

Neither do I reckon it an ill seat only when the air is unwholesome, but likewise where the air is unequal. Bacon (Of Building)]

4. Posture or way of sitting, as of a person on horseback; as, he has a good firm seat.5. A part on which another part rests; as, the seat of a valve.

Seat (sét), v. t. 1. To place on a seat; to cause to sit down; as, we seat our guests.

The guests were no sooner seated but they entered into a warm debate. Arbuthnot.

2. To place in a post of authority, in office, or a place of distinction.

Thus high, by thy advice, And thy assistance, is king Richard seated. Shak. 3. To settle; to fix in a particular place or country; to situate; to locate; as, a colony of Greeks seated themselves in the south of Italy, another at Massilia in Gaul.

Sometimes the grand dukes would travel through the vast regions of Central Asia to the court of the

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5. To assign seats to; to accommodate with seats or sittings; to give sitting accommodation to; as, the gallery seats four hundred. 6. To fit up with seats; as, to seat a church; a hall seated for a thousand persons.-7. To repair by making the seat new; as, to seat a garment.-8. To settle; to plant with inhabitants; as, to seat a country. Seat (set), v.i.

To rest; to lie down. "The folds, where sheep at night do seat.' Spenser.

Sea-tang (se'tang), n. A kind of sea-weed; tang; tangle. Their nest of sedge and

sea-tang. Longfellow. Sea-tangle (se’tang - gì), n. The common name of several species of sea-weeds of the genus Laminaria. L. digitata is the wellknown tangle of the Scotch. Sea-term (se'term), n. A word or term used appropriately by seamen or peculiar to the art of navigation. Pope. Sea-thief (se'thef), n. A pirate. Sea-thong (se'thong), n. One of the names for the British sea-weed Himanthalia lorea. Sea-thrift (se'thrift), n. Same as Sea-pink. Seating (set'ing), n. 1. The act of placing on a seat; the act of furnishing with a seat or seats.-2. The material for making seats or the covering of seats, as horse-hair, American leather, and the like. Sea-titling (se'tit-ling), n. A British dentirostral bird of the genus Anthus or pipits (A. aquaticus or obscurus), abundant on the sea-coast, but rare inland. It is of dark plumage, and a good songster. Called also Shore-pipit. The angler or fishing

Sea-toad (sé'tōd), n. frog. See LOPHIUS. Sea-tortoise (se'tor-tois), n. A marine turtle. See TURTLE.

Sea-tossed, Sea-tost (se'tost), a. Tossed by the sea. "The sea-tost Pericles.' Shak. Sea-turn (së'térn), n. A gale, mist, or breeze from the sea. Sea-turtle (së'tèr-tl), n.

1. A marine turtle.

2. A marine bird, the black guillemot (Uria grylle). Sea-unicorn (sẽ ́ū - ni - korn), n. See NAR

WAL.

Sea-urchin (sé'èr-chin), n. A name popularly given to the numerous species of the family Echinidæ. See ECHINUS.

Seave (sev), n. [Dan. siv, a rush, Icel. sef, sedge.] A rush; a wick made of rush. Sea-view (sẽ vi), n. A prospect at sea or of the sea, or a picture representing a scene at sea; a marine view; a seascape. Sea-wall (se'wal), n. A strong wall or embankment on the shore to prevent encroachments of the sea, to form a breakwater, &c. Surrounded or deSea-walled (se'wald), a. fended by the sea. Our sea-walled garden.' Shak.

Sea-wand (se wond), n. Same as Sea-girdle. Seaward (se' wêrd), a. Directed toward the sea. To your seaward steps farewell." Donne.

Seaward (se'wêrd), adv. Toward the sea. The rock rush'd seaward with impetuous roar, Ingulf'd, and to the abyss the boaster bore. Pofe. Sea-ware (sé'wår), n. [See WARE] A term frequently applied to the weeds thrown up by the sea in many situations, and which are collected and made use of as manure and for other purposes.

Sea-water (se'wa-tér), n. The salt water of the sea or ocean. Sea-water contains chlorides and sulphates of sodium (chloride of sodium=common salt), magnesium, and potassium, together with bromides and carbonates, chiefly of potassium and calcium.

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Sea-wax (se'waks), n. Same as Maltha. Sea-way (sé'wȧ), n. Naut. (a) progress made by a vessel through the waves. (b) An open space in which a vessel lies with the sea rolling heavily.

Sea-weed (se'wed), n. A name given generally to any plant growing in the sea, but more particularly to members of the nat. order Algæ. The most important of these plants are the Fucaceæ, which comprehend the Fuci, from the species of which kelp is manufactured; the Laminariæ or tangles; the Florideæ, which includes the Carrageen moss (Chondrus crispus) and the dulse of the Scotch (Rhodomenia palmata).

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Sea-wife (se'wif), n. An acanthopterygious marine fish of the genus Labrus (L. vetula), allied to the wrasse.

Sea-willow (se' wil-lō), n. A polyp of the genus Gorgonia.

Sea-wing (se'wing), n. 1. A bivalve mollusc allied to the mussels.-2. A sail. [Rare.]

Antony,

Claps on his sea-wing, and like a doting mallard, Leaving the fight in height, flies after her. Shak. Sea-withwind (sẽ'with-wind), n. A species of bindweed (Convolvulus Soldanella). Sea-wold (se’wõld), n. Sea wood or forest; vegetation under the sea resembling a forest. We would run to and fro, and hide and seek, On the broad sea-wolds. Tennyson. Sea-wolf (se'wylf), n. A name sometimes given to the sea-elephant, a large species of seal; also to the wolf-fish (Anarrhichas lupus) and to the bass. See WOLF-FISH,

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Sea-worthiness (se' wer-THi-nes), n. The state of being sea-worthy.

Sea-worthy (se'wer-THI), a. Applied to a ship in good condition and fit for a voyage; worthy of being trusted to transport a cargo with safety; as, a sea-worthy ship.

Dull the voyage was with long delays, The vessel scarce sea-worthy.

Tennyson.

Sea-wrack (së'rak), n. A plant, the Zostera marina; sea-grass. See GRASSWRACK. Seb (seb), n. One of the great Egyptian divinities represented in the hieroglyphics as the father of the gods, a character ascribed to other gods, as Neph, Pthah, &c. He married his sister Nutpe, and was father of Osiris and Isis. He corresponds to the Greek Kronos.

Sebaceous (sē-bā'shus), a. [L.L. sebaceus, from L. sebum, tallow.] 1. Pertaining to tallow or fat; made of, containing, or secreting fatty matter; fatty.-Sebaceous glands, small glands seated in the cellular membrane under the skin, which secrete the sebaceous humour. Sebaceous humour, a suet-like or glutinous matter secreted by the sebaceous glands, which serves to defend the skin and keep it soft.-2. In bot. having the appearance of tallow, grease, or wax; as, the sebaceous secretions of some plants. Henslow.

Sebacic (se-bas'ik), a. [See above.] In chem. pertaining to fat; obtained from fat; as, sebacic acid, an acid obtained from olein. It crystallizes in white, nacreous, very light needles or laminae resembling benzoic acid. Sebastes (se-bas'těz), n. [Gr. sebastos, venerable.] A genus of acanthopterygious fishes of the family Cottida. The S. marinus or Norvegica is the Norway haddock, which resembles the perch in form. abounds on the coast of Norway, and is found at Iceland, Greenland, off Newfoundland, &c. Other species are found in the Mediterranean, in the Indian and Polynesian seas, at Kamtchatka, the Cape of Good Hope, and elsewhere.

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Sebate (se'bat), n. In chem, a salt formed by sebacic acid and a base. Sebestan, Sebesten (se-bes'tan, së-bes'ten), N. [It. and Sp., from Pers. sapistan.] The Assyrian plum, a name given to two species of Cordia and their fruit, the C. Myxa and C. latifolia. The fruit was formerly used as a medicine in Europe, but now by the native practitioners of the East only. See CORDIA.

Sebiferous (se-bif'èr-us), a. [L. sebum, tallow or wax, and fero, to produce.] Producing fat or fatty matter. In bot. producing vegetable wax.

Sebiparous (sé-bip'a-rus), a. [L. sebum, tallow, and pario, to produce.] Lit. tallow, fat, or suet producing: specifically applied to certain glands, called also sebaceous glands. See SEBACEOUS.

Sebka (seb'ka), n. A name of salt marshes in North Africa, sometimes so hard on the dried surface that laden camels can traverse them, sometimes so soft that these venturing to enter them sink beyond the power of

recovery.

Sebundy, Sebundee (së-bun'di, sẽ-bun'dē), N. In the East Indies, an irregular or native soldier or local militia-man, generally employed in the service of the revenue and police.

Secale (se-kā'lé), n. [L., rye, or black spelt, from seco, to cut.] A genus of cereal grasses,

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to which the rye (S. cereale) belongs.-Secale cornutum, ergot or spurred rye, used in obstetric practice. See ERGOT. Secamone (sek-a-mō'në), n. [Altered from squamona, the Arabic name of S. aegyptiaca] A genus of plants belonging to the nat. order Asclepiadace, found in the warm parts of India, Africa, and Australia. The species form erect or climbing smooth shrubs with opposite leaves and lax cymes of small flowers. Some of them secrete considerable portion of acrid principle which makes them useful in medicine. Thus the roots of S. emetica, being emetic in action, are employed as a substitute for ipecacuanha.

Secancy (se'kan-si), n. A cutting or intersection; as, the point of secancy of one line with another.

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Secant (se'kant), a. [L. secans, secantis, ppr. of seco, to cut (whence section, dissect, &c.).] Cutting; dividing into two parts.-Secant plane, a plane cutting a surface or solid. Secant (se'kant), n. [See the adjective.] In geom, a line that cuts another or divides it into parts; more especially, a straight line cutting a curve in two or more points; in trigon. a straight line drawn from the centre of a circle, which, cutting the circumference, proceeds till it meets with a tangent to the same circle. The secant of an arc is a straight line drawn from the centre of the circle of which the arc is a part, to one extremity of the arc, and produced till it meets the tangent to the other extremity. Thus, ACB is the secant of the arc C D. The secant of an arc is a third proportional to the cosine and the radins.

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Secco (sek kō), n. [It, from L. siccus, dry.] In the fine arts, a kind of fresco painting in which the colours have a dry sunken appearance, owing to the colours being absorbed into the plaster.

Secede (se-sed'), v.i. pret. seceded; ppr. seceding. [L secedo-se, apart, and cedo, to go.] To withdraw from fellowship, communion, or association; to separate one's self; to draw off; to retire; specifically, to withdraw from a political or religious organization; as, certain ministers seceded from the Church of Scotland about the year 1733; the Confederate States of America seceded from the Federal Union. Seceder (se-sed ́ér), n. One who secedes; in Scottish eccles. hist. one of a numerous body of presbyterians who seceded from the communion of the Established Church in the year 1733, on account of the toleration of certain alleged errors, the evils of patronage, and general laxity in discipline. The seceders, or Associate Synod as they called themselves, remained a united body till 1747, when they split into two on the question of the lawfulness of certain oaths, especially the burgess oath necessary to be sworn previous to holding office or becoming a freeman of a burgh. larger division, who held that the oath might be conscientiously taken by seceders, called themselves Burghers, and their opponents took the name of Antiburghers. But in 1820 the Burghers and Antiburghers coalesced again into the United Associate Synod. In May, 1847, the body of dissenters forming the Relief Church united with the Associate Synod and formed one body, named the United Presbyterian Church. (See Relief Church under RELIEF.) A portion of the body of seceders, who adhered to the principle of an established church, separated in 1806, calling themselves the Original Seceders. They now form the Synod of United Original Seceders.

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Secern (se-sérn'), v. t. [L. secerno, secretum (whence secret)-se, apart, and cerno, to separate.] 1. To separate; to distinguish. Averroes secerns a sense of titillation and a sense of hunger and thirst. Sir W Hamilton.

2. In physiol. to secrete.

The mucus secerned in the nose... is a laudable humour. Arbuthnot.

Secernent (se-ser'nent), n. 1. That which promotes secretion. Darwin.-2. In anat. a vessel whose function it is to secrete or separate matters from the blood. Secernent (sé-sér'nent), a. In physiol. having the power of separating or secreting; secreting; secretory.

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Secernment (se-sèrn'ment), n.

The pro

cess or act of secreting; secretion. Secesh (se-sesh'), n. A cant term in the United States for a Secessionist, of which it is an abbreviation.

Secess† (se-ses′), n. [L. secessus, from secedo, secessum. See SECEDE.] Retirement; retreat. 'Silent secess, waste solitude.' Dr. H. More.

Secession (se-se'shon), n. [L. secessio, secessionis, from secedo, secessum. See SECEDE] 1. The act of seceding or withdrawing, particularly from fellowship and communion; the act of withdrawing from a political or religious organization.-2. The act of departing; departure.

The accession of bodies upon, or secession thereof from, the earth's surface, disturb not the equilibrium of either hemisphere. Sir T. Browne.

3. In Scottish eccles. hist. the whole body of seceders from the Established Church of Scotland. See SECEDER. Secessionism (sé-se'shon-izm), n. The principles of secessionists; the principle that affirms the right of a state to secede at its pleasure from a federal union. Secessionist (se-se'shon-ist), n. One who maintains the principle of secessionism; specifically, in the United States, one who took part or sympathized with the inhabitants of the Southern States of America in their struggle, commencing in 1861, to break away from union with the Northern States.

The author seems to have been struck ... that the Unionists. . . did not shoot or stab any of the Secessionists. Saturday Rev. Seche,t v.t. [An old and softened form of seek.] To seek. Chaucer.

Sechium (se'ki-um), n. [From Gr. sēkos, a pen or fold in which cattle are reared and fed. The fruit serves to fatten hogs in the mountains and inland parts of Jamaica, where the plant is much cultivated] A West Indian edible vegetable, the Sechium edule. The fruit in size and form resembles a large pear. The plant is a climber, with tendril-bearing stems, rough cordate fiveangled leaves, and monoecious yellow flowers, nat. order Cucurbitaceæ.

Seckel (sek'el), n. A small delicious pear, ripe about the end of October, but only keeping good a few days.

Seclet (sek'l), n. [Fr. siècle, L. seculum, a generation, an age, a century.] A century. It is wont to be said that three generations make one secle, or hundred years. Hammond. Seclude (sé-klūd'), v. t. pret. & pp. secluded; ppr. secluding. [L. secludo-se, apart, and claudo, cludo, to shut.] 1. To separate or shut up apart from company or society, and usually to keep apart for some length of time; to withdraw into solitude; as, persons in low spirits seclude themselves from society.

Let Eastern tyrants from the light of heav'n
Seclude their bosom slaves.
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2. To shut out; to prevent from entering; to preclude.

Inclose your tender plants in your conservatory. secluding all entrance of cold. Evelyn. Secluded (sé-klůd'ed), p. and a. Separated from others; living in retirement; retired; apart from public notice; as, a secluded spot; to pass a secluded life.

Secludedly (sé-klūd'ed-li), adv. In a se

cluded manner.

Seclusenesst (se-klüs'nes), n. The state of being secluded from society; seclusion. Dr. H. More.

Seclusion (se-klū'zhon), n. The act of secluding or the state of being secluded; a separation from society or connection; a shutting out; retirement; privacy; solitude; as, to live in seclusion. A place of seclusion from the external world." Horsley. Seclusive (se-klu'siv), a. Tending to seclude or shut out from society, or to keep separate or in retirement. Coleridge. Second (sek'und), a. [Fr., from L. secundus, second, from sequor, secutus, to follow (whence sequence, consequent, persecution, &c., and also sue, pursue, &c.)] 1. Immediately following the first; next the first in order of place or time; hence, occurring or appearing again; other. A second fear through all her sinews spread.' Shak.

And he slept and dreamed the second time. Gen. xli. 5. There has been a veneration paid to the writings and to the memory of Confucius; which is without any second example in the history of our race. Brougham. 2. Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; inferior; secondary;

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as, the silks of China are second to none in quality. Art thou not second woman in the realm.' Shak. None I know

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Second to me, or like; equal much less. Milton. 3 Lending assistance; helpful; giving aid. Nay, rather, good my lords, be second to me; Fear you his tyrannous passion more, alas, Than the queen's life? -Second coat, a second coating or layer as of paint, varnish, plaster,&c.-Second distance, in painting, that part of a picture between the foreground and background.-At second hand. See SECOND-HAND, .---Second violin, or fiddle, an ordinary violin, which in concerted instrumental music plays the part next in height to the upper part or air, or in other words, that part which is represented by the alto in vocal music.-To play second fiddle, (fig.) to take a subordinate

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Second (sek'und), n. 1. One next to the first; one next after another in order, place, rank, time, or the like; one who follows or comes after.

'Tis great pity that the noble Moor Should hazard such a place as his own second With one of an ingraft infirmity. Shak. 2 One who assists and supports another; specifically, one who attends another in a duel, to aid him, mark out the ground or distance, and see that all proceedings between the parties are fair; hence, the principal supporter in a pugilistic encounter.

He propounded the duke as a main cause of divers infirmities in the state, being sure enough of seconds after the first onset. Warton.

After some toil and bloodshed they were parted by the seconds. Addison.

3 Aid; help; assistance. Give second and my love is everlasting thine.' J. Fletcher.— 4 The sixtieth part of a minute of time or of that of a degree, that is the second division next to the hour or degree. A degree of a circle and an hour of time are each divided into 60 minutes, and each minute into 60 seconds, often marked thus 60". In old treatises seconds were distinguished as minute secundæ, from minutæ primæ, minutes. See DEGREE.-5. In music, (a) an interval of a conjoint degree, being the difference between any sound and the next nearest sound above or below it. There are three kinds of seconds, the minor second or semitone, the major second, and the extreme sharp second. (b) A lower part added to a melody when arranged for two voices or instruments.-6. pl. A coarse kind of flour; hence, any baser matter.

Take thou my oblation, poor but free,
Which is not mix'd with seconds.

Shak.

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3 In legislative or deliberative assemblies and public meetings, to support, by one's voice or vote; to unite with a person, or act as his second, in proposing some measure or motion; as, to second a motion or proposition; to second the mover.-4. In the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers, to put into temporary retirement, as an officer when he accepts civil employment under the crown. He is seconded after months of such employment, that is, he loses military pay, but retains his rank, &c., in his corps. After being seconded for ten years he must elect to return to military duty or to retire altogether. Secondarily (sek'und-a-ri-li), adv. 1. In a secondary or subordinate manner; not primarily or originally, Sir K. Digby-2. Secondly; in the second place. First apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers.' i Cor. xii. 28.

Secondariness (sek'und-a-ri-nes), n.

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state of being secondary. The primariness and secondariness of the perception.' Norris. Secondary (sek'und-a-ri),a. [L. secundarius, from secundus. See SECOND.] 1. Succeeding next in order to the first; of second place, origin, rank, importance, and the like; not primary; subordinate.

Where there is moral right on the one hand, no secondary right can discharge it. Sir R. L'Estrange.

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As the six primary planets revolve about him, so the secondary ones are moved about them. Bentley. The supreme power can never be said to be lodged in the original body of electors, but rather in those assemblies of secondary or tertiary electors who chose the representative. Brougham.

2. Acting by deputation or delegated authority; acting in subordination or as second to another; subordinate. "The work of secondary hands.' Milton.-Secondary acids, acids derived from organic acids by the substitution of two equivalents of an alcoholic radical for two of hydrogen. Secondary amputation, amputation of a limb, &c., deferred till the immediate effects of the injury on the constitution have passed away.-Secondary battery, in elect. a number of metal plates, usually platinum, with pieces of moistened cloth between, which, after being connected for a time with a galvanic battery, become in turn the origin of a current. - Secondary circle, in geoin. and astron, a great circle passing through the poles of another great circle perpendicular to its plane-Secondary colours, colours produced by the mixture of any two primary colours in equal proportions. Secondary conveyances, in law, same as Derivative Conveyances. See under DERIVATIVE.-Secondary creditor, in Scots law, an expression used in contradistinction to Catholic creditor. See under CATHOLIC.-Secondary crystal, a crystal derived from one of the primary forms.— Secondary current, in elect. a momentary current induced in a closed circuit by a current of electricity passing through the same or a contiguous circuit at the beginning and also at the end of the passage of the primitive current-Secondary evidence, indirect evidence which may be admitted upon failure to obtain direct or primary evidence.-Secondary fever, a fever which arises after a crisis or a critical effort, as after the declension of the small - pox or measles. Secondary plane, in crystal. any plane on a crystal which is not one of the primary planes.-Secondary planet. See PLANET. Secondary qualities of bodies, those qualities which are not inseparable from bodies, as colour, taste, odour, &c.— Secondary strata, Secondary rocks, Secondary formation, in geol. the mesozoic strata. See MESOZOIC.-Secondary tints, in painting, those of a subdued kind, such as grays, &c. -Secondary tone, in music, same as Harmonic.-Secondary use. See under USE. 1. A delegate Secondary (sek'und-a-ri), n. or deputy; one who acts in subordination to another; one who occupies a subordinate or inferior position.

I am too high-born to be propertied,
To be a secondary at control.

Shak.

2. One of the feathers growing on the second bone of a bird's wing.-3. A secondary circle. See under the adjective. -4. A secondary planet. See under PLANET. Second-best (sek'und-best), a. Next to the best; of second kind or quality. The linen that is called second-best.' W. Collins-To come off second-best, to be defeated; to get the worst of it.

Second-cousin (sek’und-kuz-n), n. The son or daughter of a cousin-german. Seconder (sek'und-er), n. One that seconds; one that supports what another attempts, or what he affirms, or what he moves or proposes; as, the seconder of a motion. Second-flour (sek'und-flour), n. Flour of a coarser quality; seconds. Second-hand (sek'und-hand), n. Possession received from the first possessor.-At secondhand, not in the first place, or by or from the first; not from the first source or owner; by transmission; not primarily; not originally; as, a report received at second-hand.

In imitation of preachers at second-hand, I shall transcribe from Bruyère a piece of raillery Tatler 1. Not Second-hand (sek'und-hand), a. original or primary; received from another. Some men build so much upon authorities they have but a second-hand or implicit knowledge.

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Secondly (sek'und-li), adv. place. First, she hath disobeyed the law; and, secondly, trespassed against the husband. Ec. xxiii. 23. Second-rate (sekʼund-rat), n. The second order in size, quality, dignity, or value. 'Thunder of the second-rate.' Addison. Second-rate (sek'und-rāt), a. Of the second size, rank, quality, or value; as, a secondrate ship; a second-rate cloth; a second-rate champion.

Second-scent (sek'und-sent), n. [Formed on the model of second-sight.] A power of discerning things future or distant by the sense of smell. Moore. (Rare.] Second-sight (sek'und-sit), n. The power of seeing things future or distant; prophetic vision a well-known Highland superstition. It is alleged that not a few in the Highlands and Isles of Scotland possess the power of foreseeing future events, especially of a disastrous kind, by means of a spectral exhibition, to their eyes, of the persons whom these events respect, accompanied with such emblems as denote their fate. Second-sighted (sek'und-sit-ed), a. Having the power of second-sight. Addison. Secre,t n. and a. Secret.

Secrecy (se'kre-si), n. [From secret.] 1. A state of being secret or hidden; concealment from the observation of others, or from the notice of any persons not concerned; secret manner or mode of proceeding; as, to carry on a design in secrecy; to secure secrecy. This to me

Shak.

In dreadful secrecy impart they did. The lady Anne. Whom the king hath in secrecy long married, This day was view'd in open as his queen. Shak. 2. Solitude; retirement; privacy; seclusion. Thou in thy secrecy, although alone, Best with thyself accompanied, seek'st not Social communication.

Milton.

It is not with public as with private prayer; in this, rather secrecy is commanded than outward show. Hooker.

3. The quality of being secret or secretive; forbearance of disclosure or discovery; fidelity to a secret; close silence; the act or habit of keeping secrets. For secrecy no lady closer. Shak.

Thanks, provost, for thy care and secrecy. Shak. 4. A secret.

The subtle-shining secrecies Writ in the glassy margents of such books. Shak. Secree,t a. Secret. Chaucer. Secrenesse, tn. Privacy; secretness. Chau

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Secret (se'kret), a. [Fr. secret, from L. secretus, pp. of secretum, to set apart, secerno-se, apart, and cerno, to sift, distinguish, discern, perceive (whence discern, discrete, concern, concrete, &c.); Gr. krinō, to separate, search into: Skr. kri, to separate, to know.] 1. Apart from the knowledge of others; concealed from the notice or knowledge of all persons except the individual or individuals concerned; private. Smile at thee in secret thought." Shak.

I have a secret errand to thee, O king. Judg. iii. 19. 2. Not revealed; known only to one or to few; kept from general knowledge or observation; hidden. Their secret and sudden arrival.' Shak.

Secret things belong to the Lord our God.

Deut. xxix. 29.

3. Being in retirement or seclusion; private.

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4. Affording privacy; retired; secluded; pri'The secret top of Oreb, or of Sinai.' Milton. 'Abide in a secret place and hide thyself.' 1 Sam. xix. 2.-5. Keeping secrets; faithful to secrets intrusted; secretive; not inclined to betray confidence. 'I can be secret as a dumb man.' Shak.

Secret Romans that have spoke the word.
And will not palter.
Shak.

6. Occult; mysterious; not seen; not apparent; as, the secret operations of physical causes. Physie, through which secret art.' Shak.-7. Privy; not proper to be seen. 1 Sam. v. 9.

Secret (sekret). n. [See the adjective.] 1.Something studiously hidden or concealed; a thing kept from general knowledge; what is not or should not be revealed; as, a man who cannot keep his own secrets, will hardly keep the secrets of others.

A talebearer revealeth secrets. Prov xi. 13. To tell our own secrets is often folly; to communicate those of others is treachery. Rambler.

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