Part 13

SEMI-, sem'i, a prefix of Latin origin, meaning 'half,' and also less accurately 'partly,' 'incompletely.'--_n._ and _adj._ SEMIAC'ID, half-acid, sub-acid.--_n._ SEM'IANGLE, the half of a given angle.--_adj._ SEMI-AN'NUAL, half-yearly.--_adv._ SEM'I-AN'NUALLY, once every six months.--_adj._ SEMIAN'NULAR, semicircular.--_ns._ SEM'I-AN'THRACITE, coal intermediate between anthracite and semi-bituminous coal; SEM'I-APE, a lemur.--_adjs._ SEM'I-AQUAT'IC (_zool._, _bot._), entering the water, but not necessarily existing by it; SEM'I-[=A]'RIAN, relating to the Christology of the so-called Semi-Arians (Eusebius of Cæsarea, &c.) who held a middle ground between the Arian _hetero-ousia_ and the orthodox _homo-ousia_ or co-equality of the Son with the Father, asserting the _homoi-ousia_, or similarity of essence.--_n._ SEM'I-[=A]'RIANISM.--_adjs._ SEM'I-ARTIC'ULATE, loose-jointed; SEM'I-ATTACHED', partially bound by affection or interest; SEMIBARB[=A]'RIAN, half-barbarian or savage: partially civilised.--_n._ [Illustration] SEMIBAR'BARISM.--_adj._ SEM'I-BIT[=U]'MINOUS, partly bituminous, as coal.--_ns._ SEM'IBR[=E]VE, a musical note, half the length of a breve = 2 minims or 4 crotchets; SEM'IBULL, a bull issued by a pope between the time of his election and that of his coronation.--_adjs._ SEM'ICALC[=A]'REOUS, partly chalky; SEM'I-CAL'CINED, half-calcined; SEMICARTILAG'INOUS, gristly; SEMICENTENN'IAL, occurring at the completion of fifty years.--_n._ a celebration at the end of fifty years.--_adj._ SEMICH[=O]'RIC.--_ns._ SEMICH[=O]'RUS, a small number of selected singers; SEM'ICIRCLE, half a circle: the figure bounded by the diameter of a circle and half the circumference.--_adjs._ SEM'ICIRCLED; SEMICIR'CULAR.--_adv._ SEMICIR'CULARLY.--_ns._ SEMICIRCUM'FERENCE, half of the circumference of a circle; SEM'ICIRQUE, a semicircular hollow; SEMICL[=O]'SURE, half-closure; SEM'ICOLON, the point (;) marking a division greater than the comma; SEMIC[=O]'LON-BUTT'ERFLY, a butterfly with a silver mark on the under side; SEM'I-COL'UMN, a half-column.--_adjs._ SEM'I-COLUM'NAR, flat on one side and rounded on the other; SEM'I-COMPLETE' (_entom._), incomplete; SEM'I-CON'FLUENT (_path._), half-confluent; SEM'I-CON'JUGATE, conjugate and halved; SEM'I-CON'SCIOUS, half or imperfectly conscious; SEM'I-CONVER'GENT, convergent as a series, while the series of moduli is not convergent.--_n._ SEM'ICOPE, an outer garment worn by some of the monastic clergy in the Middle Ages.--_adjs._ SEM'ICOR'NEOUS, partly horny; SEMICOR'ONATE.--_n._ SEM'ICOR'ONET (_entom._), a line of spines half surrounding a part.--_adjs._ SEM'I-COSTIF'EROUS, half-bearing a rib; SEMICRIT'ICAL, related to a differential equation and its criticoids.--_n._ SEM'ICROME (_mus._), a sixteenth note.--_adjs._ SEM'ICRUST[=A]'CEOUS, half-hard; SEMICRYS'TALLINE, imperfectly crystallised.--_n._ SEMIC[=U]'BIUM, a half-bath.--_adjs._ SEMICYLIN'DRICAL, resembling a cylinder divided longitudinally; SEMIDEF'INITE, half-definite: SEM'I-DEPEND'ENT, half-dependent; SEM'IDES'ERT, half-desert; SEM'IDETACHED', partly separated: noting one of two houses joined by a party-wall, but detached from other buildings.--_ns._ SEM'I-DIAM'ETER, half the diameter of a circle: a radius; SEM'I-DIAP[=A]'SON, a diminished octave; SEM'I-DIAPHAN[=E]'ITY, half-transparency.--_adj._ SEMI'-DIAPH'ANOUS, half-transparent.--_n._ SEMIDIUR'NA, a group of lepidopterous insects including the hawk-moth.--_adj._ SEMIDIUR'NAL, accomplished in half a day: (_entom._) flying in twilight.--_n._ SEM'I-DOME', half a dome, esp. as formed by a vertical section.--_adj._ SEM'IDOUB'LE, having the outermost stamens converted into petals.--_n._ a festival on which half the antiphon is repeated before and the whole antiphon after the psalm.--_n._ SEM'I-EF'FIGY, a representation of a figure seen at half-length only.--_adj._ SEM'I-ELLIP'TICAL, having the form of an ellipse which is cut transversely.--_ns._ SEM'I-F[=A]'BLE, a mixture of truth and fable; SEM'I-FAIENCE', pottery having a transparent glaze instead of the opaque enamel of true faience; SEM'I-FIG'URE, a partial human figure in ornamental design.--_v.t._ SEM'I-FLEX, to half-bend.--_n._ SEM'I-FLEX'ION.--_adj._ SEM'I-FLOS'CULAR.--_n._ SEM'I-FLOS'CULE, a floret with a strap-shaped corolla.--_adjs._ SEM'I-FLOS'CUL[=O]SE, SEM'I-FLOS'CULOUS, having the corolla split, flattened out, and turned to one side, as in the ligular flowers of composites; SEMIFLU'ID, half or imperfectly fluid; SEM'I-FORMED, half-formed.--_n._ SEM'I-FR[=A]'TER, a secular benefactor of a religious house, having a share in its intercessory prayers and masses.--_adjs._ SEM'I-FUSED', half-melted; SEMIGL[=O]'B[=O]SE, SEMIGLOB'ULAR, having the shape of half a sphere.--_adv._ SEMIGLOB'ULARLY.--_ns._ SEM'I-GOD, a demi-god; SEM'I-INDEPEND'ENCE.--_adjs._ SEM'I-INDEPEND'ENT, not fully independent; SEM'I-IN'FINITE, limited at one end and extending to infinity; SEM'I-LIG'NEOUS, partially woody: (_bot._) having a stem woody at the base and herbaceous at the top; SEMI-LIQ'UID, half-liquid.--_n._ SEMI-LIQUID'ITY.--_adjs._ SEM'I-LOG'ICAL, half-logical, partly logical; SEM'I-L[=U]'CENT, half-transparent; SEMI-L[=U]'NAR, half-moon shaped, as the semi-lunar bone of the wrist; SEM'I-L[=U]'NATE, having the form of a half-moon; SEM'I-MALIG'NANT, not very malignant, said of tumours; SEM'I-MAT[=U]RE', half-ripe.--_n._ SEMIMEMBRAN[=O]'SUS, a long muscle of the back of the thigh.--_adjs._ SEMIMEM'BRANOUS (_anat._), partly membranous; SEM'I-MEN'STRUAL, half-monthly, esp. of an inequality of the tide.--_n._ SEM'I-MET'AL, in old chemistry, a metal that is not malleable, as zinc.--_adjs._ SEM'I-METAL'LIC; SEM'I-MONTH'LY, occurring twice a month.--_n._ SEMI-M[=U]TE', one who, having lost the faculty of hearing, has also lost the faculty of speech--also _adj._--_adj._ SEM'I-N[=U]DE', half-naked.--_n._ SEM'INYMPH, the pupa of an insect which undergoes only semi-metamorphosis.--_adjs._ SEM'I-OBSCURE', noting the wings of insects when deeply tinged with brownish-gray, but semi-transparent; SEM'I-OFFIC'IAL, partly official.--_adv._ SEM'I-OFFIC'IALLY.--_n._ SEM'I-[=O]'PAL, a variety of opal not possessing opalescence.--_adj._ SEM'I-OPAQUE', partly opaque.--_n._ SEM'I-OP'TERA, a genus of birds--the standard-wings.--_adj._ SEM'I-ORBIC'ULAR, having the shape of half a sphere.--_n._ SEM'I-OR'DINATE, half a chord bisected by the transverse diameter of a conic.--_adjs._ SEM'I-OSS'EOUS, partly bony; SEMI[=O]'VAL, having the form of an oval; SEMIOVIP'AROUS, imperfectly viviparous; SEMIPAL'MATE, half-webbed, as the toes of a bird.--_ns._ SEMIPALM[=A]'TION; SEMIPARAB'OLA, one branch of a parabola being terminated at the principal vortex of the curve; SEM'IPED, in prose, a half-foot.--_adjs._ SEM'IPEDAL; SEM'I-PEL[=A]'GIAN, relating to the theology of the Semi-Pelagians (John Cassianus, &c.), who tried to find a middle course between the Augustinian doctrine of predestination and the Pelagian doctrine of the free-will of man.--_n._ SEM'I-PEL[=A]'GIANISM.--_adjs._ SEM'I-PELL[=U]'CID, imperfectly transparent; SEM'IPEN'NIFORM, half-penniform; SEM'I-PER'FECT, nearly perfect; SEM'I-PIS'CINE, half-fish; SEM'I-PLANT'IGRADE, incompletely plantigrade: partly digitigrade; SEM'I-PLAS'TIC, imperfectly plastic.--_ns._ SEMIPLOT[=I]'NA, a group or sub-family of cyprinoid fishes; SEM'IPLUME, a feather of partly downy structure; [Illustration] SEMIQUAD'RATE, an aspect of two planets when distant from each other 45 degrees; SEM'IQU[=A]VER, a musical note, half the length of a quaver: something of short duration.--_adjs._ SEM'I-RECON'DITE, half-hidden; SEM'I-R[=E]'FLEX, involuntarily performed, but not entirely independent of the will; SEM'I-REG'ULAR, pertaining to a quadrilateral having four equal sides, but only pairs of equal angles; SEM'I-RETRAC'TILE, retractile to some extent.--_n._ SEM'I-RING, a bronchial half-ring.--_adjs._ SEM'I-SAG'ITTATE (_entom._), shaped like the barbed end of a fish-hook; SEM'I-SAV'AGE, semi-barbarian; SEM'I-SAX'ON, early Middle English (c. 1150-1250); SEM'I-SEP'TATE, half-partitioned.--_ns._ SEM'I-SEX'TILE, the position of planets when they are distant from each other the twelfth part of a circle, or 30°; SEM'I-SMILE, a faint smile.--_adjs._ SEM'I-SOLID, partially solid; SEMISPHER'ICAL, having the figure of a half-sphere.--_ns._ SEM'I-SPIN[=A]'LIS, a deep muscular layer of the back; SEM'I-SQUARE, an aspect of two planets when 45 degrees from each other; SEM'I-STEEL, puddled steel.--_adjs._ SEM'I-SUPERNAT'URAL, half-divine and half-human; SEM'I-S[=U]'PINATED, placed between supination and pronation.--_ns._ SEM'I-TAN'GENT, the tangent of half an arc; SEM'I-TENDIN[=O]'SUS, a fusiform muscle on the back of the thigh.--_adjs._ SEMITEN'DINOUS, tendinous for half its length; SEMIT[=E]R[=E]'TE, half-round; SEMITER'TIAN, partly tertian and partly quotidian.--_n._ SEM'ITONE, half a tone: one of the lesser intervals of the musical scale, as from B to C.--_adj._ SEMITON'IC.--_n._ SEM'I-TRANSP[=A]'RENCY.--_adjs._ SEM'I-TRANSP[=A]RENT, half or imperfectly transparent; SEM'I-TROP'ICAL, subtropical; SEM'I-T[=U]'BULAR, like the half of a tube divided longitudinally; SEM'I-TYCHON'IC, approximating to Tycho Brahe's astronomical system; SEM'I-UN'CIAL, intermediate between uncial and minuscule.--_n._ a method of writing Latin and Greek in use in the sixth and seventh centuries.--_adjs._ SEMIVIT'REOUS, partially vitreous; SEMIVIT'RIFIED, half-vitrified; SEM'IVIVE (_obs._) half-alive; SEM'I-V[=O]'CAL, pertaining to a semivowel: imperfectly sounding.--_n._ SEMIVOW'EL, a half-vowel, a letter possessing the character of both a vowel and a consonant, usually only _w_ and _y_, but sometimes including also the liquids _l_ and _r_ and the nasals _m_ and _n_.--_adj._ SEM'I-WEEK'LY, issued twice a week.--SEMICYLINDRICAL LEAF, a leaf elongated, flat on one side, round on the other.

SEMINAL, sem'in-al, _adj._ pertaining to seed: radical: rudimentary.--_n._ (_obs._) a seed.--_n._ SEMINAL'ITY, the germinating principle.--_v.t._ SEM'IN[=A]TE, to sow: to propagate: to disseminate.--_n._ SEMIN[=A]'TION, act of sowing: natural dispersion of seed: propagation.--_adjs._ SEMINIF'EROUS, seed-bearing: producing seed; SEMINIF'IC, producing seed.--_ns._ SEMINIFIC[=A]'TION; SEM'INIST, one who holds that the admixture of the male and female seed originates the new individual. [L. _semen_, _seminis_, seed--_ser[)e]re_, to sow.]

SEMINARY, sem'in-ar-i, _n._ the original place whence anything is derived, a nursery: a place of education, esp. in branches of knowledge to be afterwards applied in practice, as theology, &c.: a group of advanced students working in some specific subject of study under a teacher--also and more commonly SEMINÄR' (the German name): a seminary priest.--_n._ SEM'INARIST, a student at a seminary: a R.C. priest educated in a foreign seminary.

SEMINOLE; sem'i-n[=o]l, _n._ one of a tribe of American Indians, originally a vagrant branch of the Creeks, now mostly confined to the Indian Territory.

SEMIOGRAPHY, SEMIOLOGY, SEMIOTICS. See SEMEIOGRAPHY, SEMEIOLOGY, SEMEIOTICS.

SEMIOTELLUS, s[=e]-mi-[=o]-tel'us, _n._ a widely distributed genus of hymenopterous parasites.

SEMIS, s[=e]'mis, _n._ a bronze coin of the ancient Roman republic, half the value of an as.

SEMISPATA, sem-i-sp[=a]'ta, _n._ a Frankish dagger. [L. _semi-_, half, _spatha_, a sword.]

SEMITA, sem'i-ta, _n._ a fasciole of the spatangoid sea-urchins.--_adj._ SEM'ITAL. [L., a path.]

SEMITAUR, sem'i-tawr, _n._ a fabulous animal, half-bull, half-man. [L. _semi-_, half, _taurus_, a bull.]

SEMITIC, sem-it'ik, _adj._ pertaining to the _Semites_, or supposed descendants of Shem, or their language, customs, &c.--also SHEMIT'IC.--_ns._ SEM'ITE; SEMITIS[=A]'TION.--_v.t._ SEM'ITISE, to render Semitic in language or religion.--_ns._ SEM'ITISM, a Semitic idiom; SEM'ITIST, a Hebrew scholar.--SEMITIC LANGUAGES, Assyrian, Aramean, Hebrew, Phoenician, together with Arabic and Ethiopic. [Applied by J. G. Eichhorn in 1817 to the closely allied peoples represented in Gen. x. as descended from _Shem_.]

SEMMIT, sem'it, _n._ (_Scot._) an undershirt. [_Samite_.]

SEMNOPITHECINÆ, sem-n[=o]-pith-[=e]-s[=i]'n[=e], _n._ a sub-family of catarrhine monkeys.--_adjs._ SEMNOPITH'ECINE, SEMNOPITH'ECOID.--_n._ SEMNOPITH[=E]'CUS, the typical genus of the foregoing sub-family, the sacred monkeys of Asia. [Gr. _semnos_, honoured, _pith[=e]kos_, an ape.]

SEMOLINA, sem-[=o]-l[=e]'na, _n._ the particles of fine, hard wheat which do not pass into flour in milling: an article of food consisting of granules of the floury part of wheat.--Also SEM'[=O]LA, SEM[=O]LI'N[=O]. [It. _semola_--L. _simila_, the finest wheat flour.]

SEMOSTOMÆ, s[=e]-mos't[=o]-m[=e], _n.pl._ a sub-order of _Discomedusæ_, containing jelly-fishes.--_adj._ S[=E]MOS'TOMOUS, having long oral processes. [Gr. _s[=e]ma_, a mark, _stoma_, mouth.]

SEMOTED, s[=e]-m[=o]'ted, _adj._ (_obs._) separated: remote.

SEMOTILUS, s[=e]-mot'i-lus, _n._ an American genus of leuciscine fishes, including the chub and dace. [Gr. _s[=e]ma_, a mark, _ptilon_, a feather.]

SEMPER IDEM, sem'p[.e]r [=i]'dem, always the same. [L.]

SEMPERVIRENT, sem-p[.e]r-v[=i]'rent, _adj._ evergreen. [L. _semper_, always, _virens_--_vir[=e]re_, to be green.]

SEMPER VIVUM, sem'p[.e]r v[=i]'vum, _n._ a genus of polypetalous plants, including the house-leek. [L.]

SEMPITERNAL, sem-pi-t[.e]r'nal, _adj._ everlasting: endless--also SEMP'ITERN.--_v.t._ SEMPITER'NISE, to perpetuate.--_n._ SEMPITER'NITY.--_adj._ SEMPITER'NOUS.--_n._ SEMPITER'NUM, a durable twilled woollen material. [L. _sempiternus_--_semper_, ever, _æternus_, eternal.]

SEMPLE, sem'pl, _adj._ a Scotch form of simple, esp. meaning of low birth, the opposite of _Gentle_.

SEMPLICE, sem'pl[=e]-che, _adj._ (_mus._) simple, without embellishments. [It.]

SEMPRE, sem'pre, _adv._ (_mus._) in the same style throughout. [It.,--L. _semper_, always.]

SEMPSTER, sem'st[.e]r, SEMPSTRESS, sem'stres, _n._ a woman who sews. [_Seamstress_.]

SEMUNCIA, s[=e]-mun'shi-a, _n._ a Roman coin of four drachmas weight, the twenty-fourth part of the Roman pound.--_adj._ SEMUN'CIAL.

SEN., s[=e]n, an abbreviation of _Senior_.

SEN, sen, _n._ a Japanese copper coin the hundredth part of a yen or dollar.

SEÑAL, se-nyal', _n._ (_Amer._) a landmark. [Sp.]

SENARY, sen'ar-i, _adj._ containing six: of or belonging to six.--_n._ SEN[=A]'RIUS, in Latin prosody, a verse of six feet. [L. _senarius_--_seni_, six each--_sex_, six.]

SENATE, sen'[=a]t, _n._ a legislative or deliberative body, esp. the upper house of a national legislature, as of France, the United States, &c.: a body of venerable or distinguished persons: the governing body of the University of Cambridge.--_ns._ SEN'ATE-HOUSE, a house in which a senate meets; SEN'ATOR, a member of a senate: in Scotland, the lords of session are called SENATORS OF THE COLLEGE OF JUSTICE.--_adj._ SENAT[=O]'RIAL, pertaining to, or becoming, a senate or a senator.--_adv._ SENAT[=O]'RIALLY, with senatorial dignity.--_ns._ SEN'ATORSHIP; SEN[=A]'TUS, a governing body in certain universities.--SEN[=A]TUS ACADEMICUS, the governing body of a Scotch university, consisting of the principal and professors; SEN[=A]TUS CONSULT, a decree of the senate of ancient Rome. [L. _senatus_--_senex_, _senis_, an old man.]

SENCE, sens, _n._ an obsolete form of sense.

SENCH, sensh, _v.t._ to cause to sink.

SENCION, sen'shi-on, N. (_obs._) groundsel. [L. _senecio_.]

SEND, send, _v.t._ to cause to go: to cause to be conveyed: to despatch: to forward: to compel: to throw: to hurl: to authorise: to grant: to drive: to dismiss: to commission: to diffuse: to bestow.--_v.i._ to despatch a message or messenger: (_naut._) to pitch into the trough of the sea:--_pa.t._ and _pa.p._ sent.--_n._ (_Scot._) a messenger, esp. one sent for the bride: a present: the impulse of a wave on a ship.--_ns._ SEN'DER, one who sends: (_teleg._) the instrument by which a message is transmitted; SEN'DING, despatching: pitching bodily into the trough of the sea; SEND'-OFF, a start as on a journey.--SEND FOR, to require by message to come or be brought; SEND FORTH, or OUT, to give, put, or bring forth; SEND TO COVENTRY, to cut: to exclude from society. [A.S. _sendan_; Ice. _senda_, Goth. _sandjan_, Ger. _senden_.]

SENDAL, sen'dal, _n._ a thin silk or linen. [O. Fr.,--Low L. _cendalum_--L. _sindon_--Gr. _sind[=o]n_.]

SENECA-OIL, sen'[=e]-kä-oil, _n._ crude petroleum.--SENECA'S MICROSCOPE, a glass globe filled with water.

SENECIO, s[=e]-n[=e]'si-o, _n._ a genus of composite plants--ragwort, &c.--_adj._ SEN[=E]'CIOID.

SENEGA, sen'[=e]-ga, _n._ the seneca snakeroot, the dried root of _Polygala Senega_, good for snake-bites.

SENEGAL, sen'[=e]-gal, _n._ a small African blood-finch, the fire-bird.

SENESCENCE, s[=e]-nes'ens, _n._ the state of growing old or decaying: decay by time.--_n._ SENEC'TITUDE.--_adj._ SENES'CENT, growing old: decaying with the lapse of time. [L. _senescens_, _-entis_, pr.p. of _senesc[)e]re_, to grow old--_senex_, old.]

SENESCHAL, sen'e-shal, _n._ a steward: a major-domo.--_n._ SEN'ESCHALSHIP. [O. Fr., (Fr. _sénéchal_)--_sin-s_, old, _skalks_, a servant.]

SENEX, s[=e]'neks, _n._ a South American hawk: a Brazilian swift.

SENG-GUNG, seng'-gung, _n._ the teledu or Javan badger.

SENGREEN, sen'gr[=e]n, _n._ the house-leek: (_her._) a figure resembling it. [A.S. _singrene_; Ger. _singrün_.]

SENHOR, se-ny[=o]r', _n._ the Portuguese form corresponding to the Spanish _señor_ and Italian _signor_.

SENILE, s[=e]'nil, _adj._ pertaining to old age or attendant on it: aged.--_n._ SENIL'ITY, old age: the imbecility of old age. [L. _senilis_--_senex_, _senis_, old.]

SENIOR, s[=e]n'yor, _adj._ elder: older in office.--_n._ one older than another, the elder of two persons in one family bearing the same name: one older in office: an aged person: one of the older fellows of a college, a student in the fourth year of the curriculum.--_v.i._ S[=E]'NIORISE, to lord it over.--_n._ S[=E]NIOR'ITY, priority of birth, or of service: a body of seniors--also S[=E]'NIORY (_Shak._). [L., comp. of _senex_.]

SENNA, sen'a, _n._ the purgative dried leaflets of several species of cassia. [Fr.,--Ar. _sena_.]

SENNET, sen'et, _n._ (_Shak._) a particular set of notes on the trumpet or cornet.

SENNIGHT, sen'n[=i]t, _n._ a week. [_Seven night_.]

SENNIT, sen'it, _n._ a sort of flat, braided cordage.--Also SINN'ET.

SENOCULAR, s[=e]-nok'[=u]-lar, _adj._ having six eyes.

SENONIAN, s[=e]-n[=o]'ni-an, _n._ (_geol._) a division of the upper Cretaceous in France and Belgium.

SEÑOR, se-ny[=o]r', _n._ a gentleman: in address, sir: as a title, Mr:--_fem._ SEÑORA (se-ny[=o]'ra), a lady: in address, madam: as a title, Mrs.--_n._ SEÑORITA (sen-y[=o]-r[=e]'ta), a young lady: in address, miss: as a title, Miss. [Sp.]

SENS, sens, _adv._ (_Spens._) since.

SENSATION, sen-s[=a]'shun, _n._ perception by the senses: the change in consciousness which results from the transmission of nervous impulses to the brain, feeling excited by external objects, by the state of the body, or by immaterial objects: a state of excited feeling.--_adjs._ SEN'S[=A]TE, -D, perceived by the senses; SENS[=A]'TIONAL, pertaining to sensation: having sensation: intended as a literary work to excite violent emotions: adhering to a philosophical sensationalism.--_ns._ SENS[=A]'TIONALISM, the doctrine that our ideas originate solely in sensation, and that there are no innate ideas: sensualism: sensational writing; SENS[=A]'TIONALIST, a believer in sensationalism: a sensational writer.--_adj._ SENS[=A]TIONALIST'IC.--_adv._ SENS[=A]'TIONALLY.--_adjs._ SEN'SATIVE; SENSAT[=O]'RIAL, pertaining to sensation.--SENSATION NOVELS, novels that deal in violent effects, strained emotion, and usually improbable situations.

SENSE, sens, _n._ a faculty by which objects are perceived: perception: discernment: understanding: power or soundness of judgment: reason: opinion: conviction: import: immediate consciousness.--_ns._ SENSE'-BOD'Y, a sense-organ in acalephs supposed to have a visual or an auditory function; SENSE'-CAP'SULE, a receptive chamber for sensory perception, connected with the ear, eye, and nose; SENSE'-CEN'TRE, a centre of sensation.--_adj._ SENSED, chosen as to sense or meaning.--_ns._ SENSE'-EL'EMENT, an external sensation, as an element of perception; SENSE'-FIL'AMENT, a filament having the function of an organ of sense.--_adjs._ SENSE'FUL (_Spens._), full of sense or meaning, reasonable, judicious, perceptive; SENSE'LESS, without sense: incapable of feeling: wanting sympathy: foolish: unreasonable.--_adv._ SENSE'LESSLY.--_ns._ SENSE'LESSNESS; SENSE'-OR'GAN, any organ of sense, as the eye, ear, or nose; SENSE'-PERCEP'TION, perception by means of the senses; SENSE'-RHYTHM, Hebrew parallelism; SENSE'-SKEL'ETON, the framework of a sense-organ; SENSIBIL'ITY, state or quality of being sensible: actual feeling: capacity of feeling: susceptibility: acuteness of feeling: delicacy: mental receptivity.--_adj._ SEN'SIBLE, capable of being perceived by the senses or by the mind: capable of being affected: easily affected: delicate: intelligent, marked by sense, judicious: cognisant: aware: appreciable: sensitive: amenable to.--_n._ SEN'SIBLENESS.--_adv._ SEN'SIBLY.--_adjs_ SENSIF[=A]'CIENT, producing sensation; SENSIF'EROUS, SENSIF'IC, SENSIFIC[=A]'TORY; SENSIG'ENOUS, giving rise to sensation; SEN'SILE, capable of affecting the senses.--_ns_ SEN'SION, the becoming aware of being affected from without in sensation; SEN'SISM, sensualism in philosophy; SEN'SIST, a sensationalist.--_n._ SENSITIS[=A]'TION.--_v.t._ SEN'SITISE, to render sensitive, to render capable of being acted on by actinic rays of light.--_n._ SEN'SITISER.--_adj._ SEN'SITIVE, having sense or feeling: susceptible to sensations: easily affected: pertaining to, or depending on, sensation.--_adv._ SEN'SITIVELY.--_ns_ SEN'SITIVENESS, SEN'SITIVITY, the state of being sensitive: keen sensibility: the state of being delicately adjusted, as a balance: (_chem._) the state of being readily affected by the action of appropriate agents; SENSITOM'ETER, an apparatus for testing the degrees of sensitiveness of photographic films.--_adjs_ SENS[=O]'RIAL, pertaining to the sensorium, sensory; SENSORIDIGEST'IVE, partaking of digestive functions and those of touch, as the tongue of a vertebrate animal.--_ns_ SENS[=O]'RIUM, SEN'SORY, the organ which receives the impressions made on the senses: the nervous centre to which impressions must be conveyed before they are received: the whole sensory apparatus of the body, the nervous system, &c.--_adj._ SEN'SUAL, pertaining to, affecting, or derived from the senses, as distinct from the mind: not intellectual or spiritual: given to the pleasures of sense: voluptuous: lewd: carnal: worldly.--_n._ SENSUALIS[=A]'TION.--_v.t._ SEN'SUALISE, to make sensual: to debase by carnal gratification.--_ns_ SEN'SUALISM, sensual indulgence: the doctrine that all our knowledge is derived originally from sensation: the regarding of the gratification of the senses as the highest end; SEN'SUALIST, one given to sensualism or sensual indulgence: a debauchee: a believer in the doctrine of sensualism.--_adj._ SENSUALIST'IC, sensual: teaching the doctrines of sensualism.--_n._ SENSUAL'ITY, indulgence in sensual pleasures: lewdness.--_adv._ SEN'SUALLY, in a sensual manner.--_ns_ SEN'SUALNESS; SEN'SUISM; SEN'SUIST.--_adj._ SEN'SUOUS, pertaining to sense: connected with sensible objects: easily affected by the medium of the senses.--_adv._ SEN'SUOUSLY.--_n._ SEN'SUOUSNESS.--SENSITIVE FLAMES, flames easily affected by sounds; SENSITIVE PLANT, one of certain species of Mimosa--from the peculiar phenomena of irritability which their leaves exhibit when touched or shaken; SENSUOUS COGNITION, cognition through the senses.--A SENSITIVE PERSON, one sensitive to mesmeric influence; THE SENSES, or FIVE SENSES, sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. [Fr.,--L. _sensus_--_sent[=i]re_, to feel.]

SENT, sent, _n._ (_Spens._) scent, perception.

SENT, sent, _pa.t._ and _pa.p._ of _send_.

SENTENCE, sen'tens, _n._ opinion: a judgment pronounced on a criminal by a court or judge: a maxim: (_gram._) a number of words containing a complete thought: sense: meaning: matter.--_v.t._ to pronounce judgment on: to condemn.--_n._ SEN'TENCER, one who sentences.--_adj._ SENTEN'TIAL, pertaining to a sentence: comprising sentences.--_adv._ SENTEN'TIALLY.--_adj._ SENTEN'TIOUS, abounding with sentences or maxims: short and pithy in expression: bombastic, or affected in speech.--_adv._ SENTEN'TIOUSLY.--_n._ SENTEN'TIOUSNESS, brevity with strength.--MASTER OF THE SENTENCES, the great 12th-century schoolman, Peter Lombard (died 1160), from his work _Sententiarum Libri IV._, an arranged collection of sentences from Augustine, &c. [Fr.,--L. _sententia_--_sent[=i]re_, to feel.]

SENTIENT, sen'shi-ent, _adj._ discerning by the senses: having the faculty of perception and sensation: (_phys._) noting those parts which on stimulation give rise to sensation.--_n._ the mind as capable of feeling.--_ns_ SEN'TIENCE, SEN'TIENCY.--_adv._ SEN'TIENTLY, in a sentient or perceptive manner.

SENTIMENT, sen'ti-ment, _n._ a thought occasioned by feeling: opinion: judgment: sensibility: feeling: a thought expressed in words: a maxim: a toast: emotion: an exhibition of feeling, as in literature or art: (_pl., phren._) the second division of the moral faculties.--_adj._ SENTIMEN'TAL, having or abounding in sentiments or reflections: having an excess of sentiment or feeling: affectedly tender.--_v.t._ SENTIMEN'TALISE, to talk sentiment.--_ns_ SENTIMEN'TALISM, SENTIMENTAL'ITY, quality of being sentimental: affectation of fine feeling; SENTIMEN'TALIST, one who affects sentiment or fine feeling: one guided by mere sentiment: one who regards sentiment as more important than reason.--_adv._ SENTIMEN'TALLY. [Fr.,--Late L.,--L. _sent[=i]re_, to feel.]

SENTINE, sen't[=e]n, _n._ (_obs._) a sink. [L. _sentina_.]

SENTINEL, sen'ti-nel, _n._ a soldier or soldier-marine at a point with the duty of watching for the approach of an enemy, or guarding the gun-park, camp, magazine, or other locality: a sentry.--_adj._ acting as a sentinel.--_v.t._ to watch over, as a sentinel.--_adj._ SEN'TINELLED, furnished with a sentinel.--SENTINEL CRAB, a crab of the Indian Ocean with long eye-stalks. [Fr. _sentinelle_--It. _sentinella_, a watch, prob. the L. _sentinator_, one who pumps bilge-water out of a ship--_sentina_, the hold of a ship. Others explain Fr. _sentinelle_ as a dim. of _sentier_, a path--Low L. _semitarius_--L. _semita_, a footpath.]

SENTISECTION, sen-ti-sek'shun, _n._ painful vivisection--opp. to _Callisection_.

SENTRY, sen'tri, _n._ a sentinel: a soldier on guard to observe the approach of danger: a watch-tower.--_ns_ SEN'TRY-BOX, a box to shelter a sentry; SEN'TRY-GO, any active military duty. [Prob. a corr. of _sentinel_--Low L. _semitarius_--L. _semita_, a path.]

SENVY, sen'vi, _n._ (_obs._) mustard-seed. [O. Fr. _seneve_--L. _sinapi_--Gr. _sinapi_, mustard.]

SENZA, sen'tsa, _prep._ (_mus._) without. [It.]

SEP, sep, an abbreviation for _sepal_.

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SEPAL, sep'al, or s[=e]'pal, _n._ a leaf or division of the calyx of a flower.--_adjs._ SEP'ALINE, SEP'ALOID, SEP'ALOUS.--_n._ SEPAL'ODY, change of petals into sepals. [Fr. _sépale_--L. _separ_, separate.]

SEPARATE, sep'a-r[=a]t, _v.t._ to divide: to part: to withdraw: to set apart for a certain purpose: to sever.--_v.i._ to part: to withdraw from each other: to become disunited.--_adj._ separated: divided: apart from another: distinct.--_n._ SEPARABIL'ITY.--_adj._ SEP'ARABLE, that may be separated or disjointed.--_n._ SEP'ARABLENESS.--_advs._ SEP'ARABLY; SEP'ARATELY.--_ns_ SEP'ARATENESS; SEP'ARATING-DISC, an emery-wheel for cutting a space between teeth; SEPAR[=A]'TION, act of separating or disjoining: state of being separate: disunion: chemical analysis: divorce without a formal dissolution of the marriage-tie; SEPAR[=A]'TIONIST; SEP'ARATISM, act of separating or withdrawing, esp. from an established church; SEP'ARATIST, one who separates or withdraws, esp. from an established church, a dissenter: a name applied by the Unionists to those Liberals in favour of granting Home Rule to Ireland.--_adj._ SEP'AR[=A]TIVE, tending to separate.--_ns._ SEP'AR[=A]TOR, one who, or that which, separates: a divider; SEP'AR[=A]TORY, a chemical vessel for separating liquids of different specific gravities; SEP'AR[=A]TRIX, the line separating light from shade on any partly illuminated surface; SEPAR[=A]'TUM, a separate copy of a paper which has been published in the proceedings of a scientific society.--SEPARATE ESTATE, property of a married woman over which her husband has no right of control; SEPARATE MAINTENANCE, a provision made by a husband for the sustenance of his wife where they decide to live apart. [L. _separ[=a]re_, _-[=a]tum_--_se-_, aside, _par[=a]re_, to put.]

SEPAWN=_Supawn_ (q.v.).

SEPHARDIM, se-fär'd[=e]m, _n.pl._ the Spanish-Portuguese Jews, descended from those expelled from Spain in 1492--as distinguished from _Ashkenazim_, or German-Polish Jews.--_adj._ SEPHAR'DIC.

SEPHEN, sef'en, _n._ a sting-ray of the Indian Ocean, valued for shagreen.

SEPHIROTH, sef'i-roth, _n._ in the cabbala, the first ten numerals identified with Scripture names of God.

SEPIA, s[=e]'pi-a, _n._ a fine, brown pigment used as a water-colour--from the ink-bag of a few species of cuttle-fish: Indian or China ink: a genus of cuttle-fishes.--_n.pl._ S[=E]PI[=A]'CEA, a group of cephalopods, same as S[=E]PIIDÆ.--_n._ S[=E]PIAD[=A]'RIUM, a genus of cuttles.--_adjs._ S[=E]PI[=A]'RIAN, S[=E]'PI[=A]RY, S[=E]PID[=A]'CEOUS, S[=E]'PIOID; S[=E]'PIC, done in sepia, as a drawing.--_ns._ S[=E]'PIOST, SEPIOSTAIRE', S[=E]'PIUM, cuttle-bone. [L.,--Gr. _s[=e]pia_, the cuttle-fish.]

SEPIMENT, sep'i-ment, _n._ a hedge, a fence. [L. _sæpimentum_, a hedge.]

SEPOSE, s[=e]-p[=o]z', _v.t._ (_obs._) to set apart.--_v.i._ to go apart.--_n._ S[=E]POSI'TION.

SEPOY, s[=e]'poi, _n._ a native soldier, whether Hindu or Mohammedan, in the British army in India. [Hind. _sip[=a]h[=i]_, a soldier--Pers. _sip[=a]h[=i]_, a horseman.]

SEPPUKU, sep-puk'[=oo], _n._ the hara-kiri. [Jap.]

SEPS, seps, _n._ a genus of scincoid lizards. [Gr.]

SEPSIS, sep'sis, _n._ putridity, rot: a genus of dipterous insects. [Gr. _s[=e]psis_, putrefaction.]

SEPT, sept, _n._ in Ireland, a subdivision of a tribe: an enclosure, a railing.--_adj._ SEP'TAL, belonging to a sept: partitional. [Probably a corr. of _sect_.]

SEPT.=_Septuagint_; _September_.

SEPTAN, sep'tan, _adj._ recurring every seventh day.

SEPTANGLE, sep'tang-gl, _n._ a figure with seven angles and seven sides.--_adj._ SEPTANG'[=U]LAR, having seven angles. [L. _septem_, seven, _angulus_, angle.]

SEPTARIA, sep-t[=a]'ri-a, _n._ a genus of shipworms--_Teredo_.

SEPTARIUM, sep-t[=a]'ri-um, _n._ an ovate flattened nodule of argillaceous limestone or ironstone--turtle-stone:--_pl._ SEPT[=A]'RIA.--_adj._ SEPT[=A]'RIAN.

SEPTATE, -D, sep't[=a]t, -ed, _adj._ divided into compartments.