SENSITIVE-PLANT — SERGEANTRY NWAD SENSITIVE-PLANT.1

SENSITIVE-PLANT, n. A plant of the genus Mimosa [mimic,] so called from the sensibility of its leaves and footstalks, which shrink, contract and fall on being slightly touched. NWAD SENSITIVE-PLANT.1

SENSORIAL, a. Pertaining to the sensory or sensorium; as sensorial faculties; sensorial motion or powers. NWAD SENSORIAL.1

SENSORIUM, n. [from L. senus, sentio.] NWAD SENSORIUM.1

SENSORY, a. NWAD SENSORY.1

1. The seat of sense; Darwin uses sensorium to express not only the medullary part of the brain, spinal marrow, nerves, organs of sense and the muscles, but also that living principle or spirit of animation which resides throughout the body, without being cognizable to our senses, except by its effects. The canges which occasionally take place in the sensorium, as during exertions of volition, or the sensations of pleasure and pain, he terms sensorial motions. NWAD SENSORY.2

2. Organ of sense; as double sensories; two eyes, two ears, etc. NWAD SENSORY.3

SENSUAL, a. [from L. sensus.] NWAD SENSUAL.1

Pertaining to the senses, as distinct from the mind or soul. NWAD SENSUAL.2

Far as creation’s ample range extends. NWAD SENSUAL.3

The scale of sensual, mental pow’rs ascends. Pope. NWAD SENSUAL.4

2. Consisting in sense, or depending on it; as sensual appetites, hunger, lust, etc. NWAD SENSUAL.5

3. Affecting the senses, or derived from them; as sensual pleasure or gratification. Hence, NWAD SENSUAL.6

4. In theology, carnal; pertaining to the flesh or body, in opposition to the spirit; not spiritual or holy; evil. NWAD SENSUAL.7

5. Devoted to the gratification of sense; given to the indulgence of the appetites; sewd; luxurious. NWAD SENSUAL.8

No small part of virtue consists in abstaining from that on wich sensual men place their felicity. Atterbury. NWAD SENSUAL.9

SENSUALIST, n. Aperson given to the indulgence of the appetites or senses; one who places his chief happiness in carnal pleasures. NWAD SENSUALIST.1

SENSUALITY, n. Devotedness o the gratification of the bodily appetites; free indulgence in carnal or sensual pleasures. NWAD SENSUALITY.1

Those pamper’d animals NWAD SENSUALITY.2

That rage in savage sensuality. Shak. NWAD SENSUALITY.3

They avoid dress, lest they should have affections tainted by any sensuality. Addison. NWAD SENSUALITY.4

SENSUALIZE, v.t. To make sensual; to subject to the love of sensual pleasure; to debase by carnal gratifications; as sensualized by pleasure. NWAD SENSUALIZE.1

By the neglect of prayer, the thoughts are sensualized. NWAD SENSUALIZE.2

SENSUALLY, adv. In a sensual manner. NWAD SENSUALLY.1

SENSUOUS, a. [from sense.] Tender; pathetic. [Not in use.] NWAD SENSUOUS.1

SENT, pret. and pp. of send. NWAD SENT.1

SENTENCE, n. [from L. sententia, from sentio, to think.] NWAD SENTENCE.1

1. In law, a judgement pronounced by a court or judge upon a criminal; a jdicial decision publicly and officially declared in a criminal prosecution. In technical language, sentence is used only for the declaration of judgement against the convicted of a crime. In civil cases, the decision of the court is called a judgement. In criminal cases, sentence is a judgement pronounced; doom. NWAD SENTENCE.2

2. In language not technical, a determination or decision given, particularly a decision that condemns, ar an unfavorable determination. NWAD SENTENCE.3

Let him be sent out lome of Luther’s works, that by them we may pass sentence upon his doctrines. Atterbury. NWAD SENTENCE.4

3. An opinion; judgement concerning a controverted point. NWAD SENTENCE.5

4. A maxim; an axiom; a short saying containing moral instruction. NWAD SENTENCE.6

5. Vindication of one’s innocence. NWAD SENTENCE.7

6. In grammar, a period; a number of words containing a complete sense or sentiment, and followed by a full pause. Sentences are simple or compound. A simple sentence consists of one subject and one finite verb; as, “the Lord reigns.” A compound sentence two or more subjects and finite verbs, as in this verse, NWAD SENTENCE.8

He fills, he bounds, connects and equals all. Pope. NWAD SENTENCE.9

A dark sentence, a saying not easily explained. NWAD SENTENCE.10

SENTENCE, v.t. NWAD SENTENCE.11

1. To pass or pronounce the judgement of a court on; to doom; as, to sentence a convict to death, to transportation, or to imprisonment. NWAD SENTENCE.12

2. To condenm; to doom to punisment. NWAD SENTENCE.13

Nature herself is sentenc’d in your doom. Dryden. NWAD SENTENCE.14

SENTENTIAL, a. NWAD SENTENTIAL.1

1. Comprising sentences. NWAD SENTENTIAL.2

2. Pertaining to a sentence or full period; as a sentential pause. NWAD SENTENTIAL.3

SENTENTIOUS, a. NWAD SENTENTIOUS.1

1. Abounding with sentences, axioms and maxims; short and energetic; as a sententious style or discourse; sententious truth. NWAD SENTENTIOUS.2

How he apes his sire, NWAD SENTENTIOUS.3

Ambitiously sententious. Addison. NWAD SENTENTIOUS.4

2. Comprising sentences; as sententious marks. NWAD SENTENTIOUS.5

[This should be sentential.] NWAD SENTENTIOUS.6

SENTENTIOUSLY, adv. In short expressive periods; with striking brevity. NWAD SENTENTIOUSLY.1

Nausicca delivers her judgement sententiously, to give it more weight. Broome. NWAD SENTENTIOUSLY.2

SENTENTIOUSNESS, n. Pithiness of sentences; brevity with strength. NWAD SENTENTIOUSNESS.1

The Medea I esteem for its gravity and sententiousness. Dryden. NWAD SENTENTIOUSNESS.2

Sentery, and sentry are corrupted from sentinel. NWAD SENTENTIOUSNESS.3

SENTIENT, a. sen’shent. [L. sentiens, sentio.] That perceives; having the faculty of perception. Man is a sentient being; he possesses a sentient principle. NWAD SENTIENT.1

SENTIENT, n. NWAD SENTIENT.2

1. A being or person that has the faculty of perception. NWAD SENTIENT.3

2. He that perceives. NWAD SENTIENT.4

SENTIMENT, n. [from L. sentio, to feel, perceive or think.] NWAD SENTIMENT.1

1. Properly. a thought prompted by passion or feeling. NWAD SENTIMENT.2

2. In a popular sense, Thought; opinion; notion; judgement; the decilion of the mind formed by deliberation or reasoning. Thus in deliberative bodies, every man has the privilege of delivering his sentiments upon questions, motions and bills. NWAD SENTIMENT.3

3. The sense, thought or opinion contained in words, but considered as distinct from them. We may like the sentiment, when we dislike the language. NWAD SENTIMENT.4

4. Sensibility; feeling. NWAD SENTIMENT.5

SENTIMENTAL, a. NWAD SENTIMENTAL.1

1. Abounding with sentiment, or just opinions or reflections; as a sentimental discourse. NWAD SENTIMENTAL.2

2. Expressing quick intellectual feeling. NWAD SENTIMENTAL.3

3. Affecting sensibility; in a contemptuous sense. NWAD SENTIMENTAL.4

SENTIMENTALIST, n. One that affects sentiment, fine feeling or exquisite sensibility. NWAD SENTIMENTALIST.1

SENTIMENTALITY, n. Affectation of fine feeling or exqisite sensibility. NWAD SENTIMENTALITY.1

SENTINEL, n. [from L. sentio, to perceive.] In military affairs, a soildier sent to watch or guard an army, camp or other place from surprise, to observe the approach of danger and give notice of it. In popular sense, the word is contracted into sentry. NWAD SENTINEL.1

SENTRY, n. NWAD SENTRY.1

1. [See Sentinel.] NWAD SENTRY.2

2. Guard; watch; the duty of a sentines. NWAD SENTRY.3

O’er my slumbers sentry keep. Brown. NWAD SENTRY.4

SENTRY-BOX, n. A box to cover a sentinel at his post, and shelter him from the weather. NWAD SENTRY-BOX.1

SEPAL, n. [from L. sepio.] In botany, the small leaf or part of a calyx. NWAD SEPAL.1

SEPARABILITY, n. [from separable.] The quality of being separable, or of admitting separation or disunion. NWAD SEPARABILITY.1

Separability is the greatest argument of real distinction. Glanville. NWAD SEPARABILITY.2

SEPARABLE, a. That may be separated, disjoined, disunited or rent; as the separable parts of plants; qualities not separable from the substance in which they exsist. NWAD SEPARABLE.1

SEPARABLENESS, n. The quality of being capable of separation or disunion. NWAD SEPARABLENESS.1

Trials permit me not to doubt of the separablenessof a yellow tincture from gold. Boyle. NWAD SEPARABLENESS.2

SEPARATE, v.t. [L. separo.] NWAD SEPARATE.1

1. To disunite; to divide; to sever; to part, in almost any manner, either things naturally or casually joined. The parts of a solid substance may be separated by breaking, cutting or splitting, or by fusion, decomposition or natural dissolution. A compound body may be separated into its constituent parts. Friends may be separated by necessity, and must be separated by death. The prism separates the several kinds of colored rays. A riddle separates the chaff from the grain. NWAD SEPARATE.2

2. To set apart from a number for a particular service. NWAD SEPARATE.3

Separate me Barnabas and Saul. Acts 13:2. NWAD SEPARATE.4

3. To dilconnect; as, to separate man and wife by divorce. NWAD SEPARATE.5

4. To make space between. The Atlantic separates Europe from America. A narrow strait separates Europe from Africa. NWAD SEPARATE.6

To separate one’s self, to withdraw; to depart. NWAD SEPARATE.7

Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me. Genesis 13:9. NWAD SEPARATE.8

SEPARATE, v.i. NWAD SEPARATE.9

1. To part; to be disunited; to be disconnected; to withdraw from each other. The parties separated, and each retired. NWAD SEPARATE.10

2. To cleave; to open; as, the parts of a substance separate by drying or freezing. NWAD SEPARATE.11

SEPARATE, a. [L. separatus.] NWAD SEPARATE.12

1. Divided from the rest; being parted from another; disjoined; disconnected; used of things that have been united or connected. NWAD SEPARATE.13

2. Unconnected; not united; distinct; used of things that have not been connected. NWAD SEPARATE.14

Christ was holy, harmless, undefiled and separate from sinners. Hebrews 7:26. NWAD SEPARATE.15

3. Disunited from the body; as a separate spirit; the separate state of souls. NWAD SEPARATE.16

SEPARATED, pp. Divided; parted; disunited; disconnected. NWAD SEPARATED.1

SEPARATELY, adv. In a separate or unconnected state; apart; distinctly; singly. The opinions of the council were separately taken. NWAD SEPARATELY.1

SEPARATENESS, n. The state of being separate. NWAD SEPARATENESS.1

SEPATATING, ppr. Dividing; disjoining; putting or driving asunder; disconecting; decompsing. NWAD SEPATATING.1

SEPARATION, n. [L. separatio.] NWAD SEPARATION.1

1. The act of separating, severing or disconnecting; disjunction; as the separation of the soul from the body. NWAD SEPARATION.2

2. The state of being separate; disunion; disconection. NWAD SEPARATION.3

All the days of his separation he is holy to the lord. Numbers 6:8. NWAD SEPARATION.4

3. The operation of disuniting or decomposing substances; chimical analysis. NWAD SEPARATION.5

4. Divorce; disunion of married persons. NWAD SEPARATION.6

SEPARATIST, n. One that withdraws from an established church, to which he has belonged; a dissenter; a seceder; a schismatic; a sectary. NWAD SEPARATIST.1

SEPARATOR, n. One that divides or disjoins; a divider. NWAD SEPARATOR.1

SEPARATORY, a. That separates; as separatory ducts. [Little used.] NWAD SEPARATORY.1

SEPARATORY, n. A chimical vessel for separating liquors; and a surgical instrument for separating the pericranium from the cranium. NWAD SEPARATORY.2

SEPAWN, n. A species of food consisting of mial of maiz boiled in water. It is in New York NWAD SEPAWN.1

SEPIN, and Pennsylvania what hasty-pudding is in New England. NWAD SEPIN.1

SEPIMENT, n. [L. sepimentum, from sepio, to inclose.] A hedge; a fence; something that seperates or defends. NWAD SEPIMENT.1

SEPOSE, v.t. sepo’ze. [L. sepono, sepositus.] To set apart. [Not in use.] NWAD SEPOSE.1

SEPOSITION, n. The act of setting apart; segregation. [Not in use.] NWAD SEPOSITION.1

SEPOY, n. A native of India, employed as a soldier in the service of European powers. NWAD SEPOY.1

SEPS, n. [L. from Gr. Cuvier.] A species of venomous eft or lizard. A genus of lizards, the efts, closely resembling the serpents, from which they scarcely differ, expect in their short and often indistinct feet, and the marks of an external auditory oriface. NWAD SEPS.1

SEPT, n. [L. prosapia; or Heb. See Class Sb. No. 23.] A clan, race or family, proceeding from a common progrnitor; used of the races or families in Ireland. NWAD SEPT.1

SEPTANGULAR, a. [L. septem, seven, and angulus, angle.] Having seven angles or sides. NWAD SEPTANGULAR.1

SEPTARIA, n. [L. septa, partitions.] A name given to nodules or spheroidal mass of calcarios marl, whose interior present numerous fissures or seams of some crystalized substance, which divide the mass. NWAD SEPTARIA.1

SEPTEMBER, n. [L. septem, seven.] The seventh month from march, which was formerly the first month of the year. September is now the ninth conth of the year. NWAD SEPTEMBER.1

SEPTEMPARTITE, a. Divided into seven parts. NWAD SEPTEMPARTITE.1

SEPTENARY, a. [L. septenarius, from septem, seven.] Consisting of seven; as a sepenary number. NWAD SEPTENARY.1

SEPTENARY, n. The number seven. NWAD SEPTENARY.2

SEPTENNIAL, a. [L. septennis; septem, seven, and annus, year.] NWAD SEPTENNIAL.1

1. Lasting or continuing seven years; as septennial parliaments. NWAD SEPTENNIAL.2

2. Happening or returning once in wvery seven years; as septennial elections in England. NWAD SEPTENNIAL.3

SEPTENTRION, n. [L. septentrio.] The north or northern regions. NWAD SEPTENTRION.1

SEPTENTRIONAL, a. [L. septentrionalis] Northern; pertaining to the north. NWAD SEPTENTRIONAL.1

From cold septerion blasts. NWAD SEPTENTRIONAL.2

SEPTENTRIONALITY, n. Northerliness. [A bad word.] NWAD SEPTENTRIONALITY.1

SEPTENTRIONATE, v.i. To tend northerly. [This word septentrion and its derivatives are hardly anglicized; they are harsh, unnecessary and little used, and may well be suffered to pass into disuse.] NWAD SEPTENTRIONATE.1

SEPTFOIL, n. [L. septem and folium; seven leaved.] A plant of the genus Tormentilla. NWAD SEPTFOIL.1

SEPTIC, SEPTICAL, a. [Gr. to putrefy.] NWAD SEPTIC.1

1. Having power to promote putrefacation. Many experiments were made by Sir John Pringle to ascertain the septic and anteseptic virtues of natural bodies. NWAD SEPTIC.2

2. Proceeding from or generated by putrefaction; as septic acid. NWAD SEPTIC.3

SEPTIC, n. A substance that promotes the putrefaction of bodies. NWAD SEPTIC.4

SEPTICITY, n. Tendency to putrefaction. NWAD SEPTICITY.1

SEPTILATERAL, a. [L. septem, seven and latus, side.] Having seven sides; as a septilateral figure. NWAD SEPTILATERAL.1

SEPTINSULAR, a. [L. septum, seven, and insula, isle.] Consisting of seven isles; as the septinsular republic of the Ionian isles. NWAD SEPTINSULAR.1

SEPTUAGENARY, a. [L. septuagenarius, from septuaginta, seventy.] Consisting of seventy. NWAD SEPTUAGENARY.1

SEPTUAGENARY, n. A person seventy years of age. NWAD SEPTUAGENARY.2

SEPTUAGESIMA, n. [L. septuagesimus, seventieth.] THe third Sunday before Lent, or before Quadragesima Sunday, supposed to be called because it is about seventy days before Easter. NWAD SEPTUAGESIMA.1

SEPTUAGESIMAL, a. [supra.] Cosisting of seventy. NWAD SEPTUAGESIMAL.1

Our abriged and septuagesimal age. Brown. NWAD SEPTUAGESIMAL.2

SEPTUAGINT, n. [L. septuaginta, seventy; septem, seven, and some word signifying ten.] A Greek version of the Old Testament, so call because it was the work of seventy, or rather of seventy-two interpreters. This translation from the Hebrew is supposed have been made in the reign and by the order of Ptolemy Philadelphus, king of Egypt, about two hundred and seventy or eighty years before the birth of Christ. NWAD SEPTUAGINT.1

SEPTUAGINT, a. Pertaining to the Septuagint; contained in the Greek copy of the Old Testament. NWAD SEPTUAGINT.2

The Septuagint chonology makes fifteen hundred years more from the creation to Abraham, than the present Hebrew copies of the Bible. Encyc. NWAD SEPTUAGINT.3

SEPTUARY, n. [L. septum, seven.] Something composed of seven; a week. [Little used.] NWAD SEPTUARY.1

SEPTUPLE, a. [Low L. septuplex; septum, seven. and plico, to fold.] Seven fold; seven times as much. NWAD SEPTUPLE.1

SEPULCHER, n. [from L. sepulchrum, from sepelio, to bury, which seems to be formed with a prefix on the Goth. filhan, to bury.] A grave; atomb; the place in which a dead body of a human being is interred, or a place destined for that purpose. Among the Jews sepulchers were often excavations in rocks. NWAD SEPULCHER.1

SEPULCHER, v.t. To bury; to inter; to entomb; as obscurely sepulchered. NWAD SEPULCHER.2

SEPULCHRAL, a. [L. sepulchralis, from sepulchrum.] Pertaining to burial, to grave, or to monuments erected to the memory of the dead; as sepulchral stone; a sepulchral statue; a sepulchral inscription. NWAD SEPULCHRAL.1

SEPULTURE, n. Burial; internment; the act of depositing the dead body of a human being in the grave. NWAD SEPULTURE.1

Where we may royal sepulture prepare. Dryden. NWAD SEPULTURE.2

SEQUACIOUS, a. [L. sequax, from sequor, to follow. See Seek.] NWAD SEQUACIOUS.1

1. Following; attendant. NWAD SEQUACIOUS.2

Trees uprooted left their place, NWAD SEQUACIOUS.3

Sequacious of the lyre. Dryden. NWAD SEQUACIOUS.4

The fond sequacious herd. Thomson. NWAD SEQUACIOUS.5

2. Ductile; pliant. NWAD SEQUACIOUS.6

The forge was easy, and the matter ductile and sequacious. [Little used.] Ray. NWAD SEQUACIOUS.7

SEQUACIOUSNESS, n. State of being sepuacious; disposition to follow. NWAD SEQUACIOUSNESS.1

SEQUACITY, n. [supra.] NWAD SEQUACITY.1

1. A following, or disposition to follow. NWAD SEQUACITY.2

2. Ductility; pliableness. [Little used.] NWAD SEQUACITY.3

SEQUEL, n. [L. sequor, to follow.] NWAD SEQUEL.1

1. That which follows; a succeeding part; as the sequel of a man’s adventures or history. NWAD SEQUEL.2

2. Consequence; event. Lit the sun or moon cease, fail or swerve, and the sequel would be ruin. NWAD SEQUEL.3

3. Consequence inferred; consequentialness. [Little used.] NWAD SEQUEL.4

SEQUENCE, n. [L. sequens, sequor.] NWAD SEQUENCE.1

1. A following, or that which follows; aconsequent. NWAD SEQUENCE.2

2. Order of succession. NWAD SEQUENCE.3

How art thou king But by fair sequence and succession? Shak. NWAD SEQUENCE.4

3. Series; arrangement; method. NWAD SEQUENCE.5

4. In music, a regular alternate succession of similar chords. NWAD SEQUENCE.6

SEQUENT, a. [supra.] NWAD SEQUENT.1

1. Following; succeeding. NWAD SEQUENT.2

2. Consequential. [Little used.] NWAD SEQUENT.3

SEQUENT, n. A follower. [Not in use.] NWAD SEQUENT.4

SEQUESTER, v.t. [L. sequestro, to sever or separate, to put int the hands of and indifferent person, as a deposit; sequester, belonging to mediation or umpirage, and as a noun an umpire, referee, midiator. This word is probably a compound of se and the root of quaestus, quaesitus, sought. See Question.] NWAD SEQUESTER.1

1. To separate from the owner for a time; to seize or take possession of some property which belongs to another, and hold it tillthe profits hve paid the demand for which it is taken. NWAD SEQUESTER.2

Formerly the goods of a defendant in chancery, were, in the last resort, sequestered and detained to enforce the degrees of the court. and now the profits of a benefice are sequestered to pay the debts of the ecclesiastecs. Blackstone. NWAD SEQUESTER.3

2. To take from parties in controversy and put into the possession of an indiffernt person. NWAD SEQUESTER.4

3. To put aside; to remove; to separate; frome other things. NWAD SEQUESTER.5

I had wholly sequestered my civil affairs. Bacon. NWAD SEQUESTER.6

4. To sequester one’s self, to separate one’s self from seciety; to withdraw or retire; to seclude one’s self for the sake of privacy or solitude; as, to sequester one’s self from action. NWAD SEQUESTER.7

5. To cause to retire or withdraw into obscurity. NWAD SEQUESTER.8

It was his taylor and his cook, his fine fashions and his French ragouts which sequestered him. South. NWAD SEQUESTER.9

SEQUESTER, v.i. To decline, as a window, any concern with the estate of a husband. NWAD SEQUESTER.10

SEQUESTERED, pp. Seized asnd detained for a time, to satisfy a demand; separated; also, being in retirement; secluded; private; as a sequestered situation. NWAD SEQUESTERED.1

SEQUESTRABLE, a. That may be seqestered or separated; subject or liable to sequestration. NWAD SEQUESTRABLE.1

SEQUESTRATE, v.t. To seqester. [It is less used than seqester, but exactly synonymous.] NWAD SEQUESTRATE.1

SEQUESTRATION, n. NWAD SEQUESTRATION.1

1. The act of taking a thing from parties contending for it, and entrusting it to an indifferent person. NWAD SEQUESTRATION.2

2. In the civil law, the act of the ordinary, disposing of the goods and chattels of one deceased, whose estate no will meddle with. NWAD SEQUESTRATION.3

3. The act of taking property from the owner for a time, till the rents, issues and profits satisfy a demand. NWAD SEQUESTRATION.4

4. The act of seizing the estate of a delinquent for the use of the state. NWAD SEQUESTRATION.5

5. Separation; retirement; seclusion from society. NWAD SEQUESTRATION.6

6. State of being separated or set aside. NWAD SEQUESTRATION.7

7. Disunion; disjunction. [Not in use.] NWAD SEQUESTRATION.8

SEQUESTRATOR, n. NWAD SEQUESTRATOR.1

1. One that sequesters property, or takes the possession of it for a time, to satilfy a demand out of its rents or profits. NWAD SEQUESTRATOR.2

2. One to whom the keeping of sequestered property is committed. NWAD SEQUESTRATOR.3

SEQUIN, n. A gold coin of Venice and Turkey, of different value in different places. At Venice, its value is about 9s. 2d. sterling, or $2.04. In other parts of Italy, it is stated to be of the 9s. value, or $2. It is sometimes written chequin and zechin. [See Zechin.] NWAD SEQUIN.1

SERAGLIO, n. seral’yo. The palace of the Grand Seignior or Turkish sultan, or the palace of a prince. The seraglio of the sultan is a long range of buildings inhabited by the Grand Seignior and all the officers and dependents of his court; and in it is transacted all the business of government. In this also are confined the females of the harem. NWAD SERAGLIO.1

SERAPH, n. plu. seraphs; but sometimes the Hebrew plural, seraphim, is used. [from Heb. to burn.] An angel of the highest order. NWAD SERAPH.1

As full, as perfect in vile man that mourns, NWAD SERAPH.2

As the rapt seraph that adores and burns. Pope. NWAD SERAPH.3

SERAPHIC, SERAPHICAL, a. NWAD SERAPHIC.1

1. Pertaining to a seraph; angelic; sublime; as seraphic purity; seraphic fervor. NWAD SERAPHIC.2

2. Pure; refined from sensuality. NWAD SERAPHIC.3

3. Burning or inflamed with love or zeal. Thus St. Bonaventure was called the seraphic doctor. NWAD SERAPHIC.4

SERAPHIM, n. [the Hebrew plural of seraph.] Angels of the highest order in the celestial hierarchy. [It is sometimes improperly written seraphims.] NWAD SERAPHIM.1

SERASKIER, n. A Turkish commander or general of land forces. NWAD SERASKIER.1

SERASS, n. A fowl of the East Indies, of the crane kind. NWAD SERASS.1

SERE, a. Dry; withered; usually written sear, which see. NWAD SERE.1

SERE, n. A claw or talon. [Not in use.] NWAD SERE.2

SERENADE, n. [from L. serenus, clear, serene.] NWAD SERENADE.1

1. Properly, music performed in a clear night; hence, an entertainment of music given in the night by a lover to his mistress under her window. It cosists of generally instrumental music, but that of the voice is sometimes added. The songs composed for these occasions are also called serenades. NWAD SERENADE.2

2. Music performed in the streets during the stillness of the night; as a midnight serenade. NWAD SERENADE.3

SERENADE, v.t. To entertain with nocturnal music. NWAD SERENADE.4

SERENADE, v.i. To perform nocturnal music. NWAD SERENADE.5

SERENA GUTTA. [See Gutta Serena.] NWAD SERENA_GUTTA.1

SERENATA, n. A vocal piece of music on an armorous subject. NWAD SERENATA.1

SERENE, a. [L. serenus; Heb. Ch. Syr. Ar. to shine. Class Sr. No. 2. 23.47.] NWAD SERENE.1

1. Clear or fair, and calm; as a serene sky; serene air; Serene imports great purity. NWAD SERENE.2

2. Bright. NWAD SERENE.3

The moon, serene in glory, mounts the sky. Pope. NWAD SERENE.4

3. Caln; unruffled; undisturbed; as a serene aspect; a serene soul. NWAD SERENE.5

4. A title given to several princes and magistrates in Europe; as serene highness; most serene. NWAD SERENE.6

SERENE, n. A cold damp evening. [Not in use.] NWAD SERENE.7

SERENE, v.t. NWAD SERENE.8

1. To make clear and calm; to quiet. NWAD SERENE.9

2. To clear; to brighten. NWAD SERENE.10

SERENELY, adv. NWAD SERENELY.1

1. Calmly; quietly. NWAD SERENELY.2

The setting sun now shown serenely bright. Pope. NWAD SERENELY.3

2. With unruffled temper; colly. NWAD SERENELY.4

SERENENESS, n. The state of being serene; serenity. NWAD SERENENESS.1

SERENITUDE, n. Calmness. [Not in use.] NWAD SERENITUDE.1

SERENITY, n. [L. serenitas.] NWAD SERENITY.1

1. Clearness and calmness; as the serenity of the air or sky. NWAD SERENITY.2

2. Calmness; quietness; stillness; peace. NWAD SERENITY.3

A general peace and serenity newly succeeded general trouble. Temple. NWAD SERENITY.4

3. Calmness of mind; evenness of temper; undisturbed state; collness. NWAD SERENITY.5

I cannot see how any men should transgress those moral rules with confidence and serenity. Locke. NWAD SERENITY.6

4. A title of respect. NWAD SERENITY.7

SERF, n. [L. servus.] A servant or slave employed in husbandry, and in some countries, attached to the soil and transferred with it. The serfs in Poland are slaves. NWAD SERF.1

SERGE, n. A wollen quilted stuff manufactured in a loom with four treddles, after the manner of ratteens. NWAD SERGE.1

SERGEANT, n. s’arjent. [L. serviens, serving, for so was this word written in Latin.] NWAD SERGEANT.1

1. Formerly, an officer in England, nearly answering to to the more modern bailif 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 effenders. This officer is now called serjeant at arms, or mace. There are at present other officers of an inferior kind, to attend mayors and magistrates to execute their orders. NWAD SERGEANT.2

2. In military affairs, a non-commissioned officer in a company of infantry or troop of dragoons, armed with halbert, whose duty is to see discipline is observed, to order and form the ranks, etc. NWAD SERGEANT.3

3. In England, a lawyer of the highest rank, answering to the doctor of the civil law. NWAD SERGEANT.4

4. A title sometimes given to the king’s servants; as sergeant surgeon, servant surgeon. NWAD SERGEANT.5

SERGEANTRY, n. s’arjentry. In england, sergeantry is of two kinds; grand sergeantry and petit sergeantry. Grand sergeantry, is a particular kind of knight service, a tenure by which the tenant was bound to do some special honorary service to the king in person, as to carry his banner, his sword or the like, or to be his butler, his champion or other officer at his coronation, to lead his host, to be his marshal, to blow a horn when an enemy approaches, etc. NWAD SERGEANTRY.1

Petit sergeantry, was a tenure by which the tenant was bound to render to the king annually some small implement of war, as a bow, a pair of spurs, a sword, a lance, or the like. NWAD SERGEANTRY.2