Septuagenary (a.) Consisting of seventy; also, seventy years old.
Septuagenary (n.) A septuagenarian.
Septuagesima (n.) The third Sunday before Lent; -- so called because it is about seventy days before Easter.
Septuagesimal (a.) Consisting of seventy days, years, etc.; reckoned by seventies.
Septuagint (n.) A Greek version of the Old Testament; -- so called because it was believed to be the work of seventy (or rather of seventy-two) translators.
Septuary (n.) Something composed of seven; a week.
Septulate (a.) Having imperfect or spurious septa.
Septula (pl. ) of Septulum
Septulum (n.) A little septum; a division between small cavities or parts.
Septa (pl. ) of Septum
Septum (n.) A wall separating two cavities; a partition; as, the nasal septum.
Septum (n.) A partition that separates the cells of a fruit.
Septum (n.) One of the radial calcareous plates of a coral.
Septum (n.) One of the transverse partitions dividing the shell of a mollusk, or of a rhizopod, into several chambers. See Illust. under Nautilus.
Septum (n.) One of the transverse partitions dividing the body cavity of an annelid.
Septuor (n.) A septet.
Septuple (a.) Seven times as much; multiplied by seven; sevenfold.
Septupled (imp. & p. p.) of Septuple
Septupling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Septuple
Septuple (v. t.) To multiply by seven; to make sevenfold.
Sepulcher (n.) Alt. of Sepulchre
Sepulchre (n.) The place in which the dead body of a human being is interred, or a place set apart for that purpose; a grave; a tomb.
Sepulchered (imp. & p. p.) of Sepulchre
Sepulchred () of Sepulchre
Sepulchering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sepulchre
Sepulchring () of Sepulchre
Sepulcher (v. t.) Alt. of Sepulchre
Sepulchre (v. t.) To bury; to inter; to entomb; as, obscurely sepulchered.
Sepulchral (a.) Of or pertaining to burial, to the grave, or to monuments erected to the memory of the dead; as, a sepulchral stone; a sepulchral inscription.
Sepulchral (a.) Unnaturally low and grave; hollow in tone; -- said of sound, especially of the voice.
Sepulture (n.) The act of depositing the dead body of a human being in the grave; burial; interment.
Sepulture (n.) A sepulcher; a grave; a place of burial.
Sequacious (a.) Inclined to follow a leader; following; attendant.
Sequacious (a.) Hence, ductile; malleable; pliant; manageable.
Sequacious (a.) Having or observing logical sequence; logically consistent and rigorous; consecutive in development or transition of thought.
Sequaciousness (n.) Quality of being sequacious.
Sequacity (n.) Quality or state of being sequacious; sequaciousness.
Sequel (n.) That which follows; a succeeding part; continuation; as, the sequel of a man's advantures or history.
Sequel (n.) Consequence; event; effect; result; as, let the sun cease, fail, or swerve, and the sequel would be ruin.
Sequel (n.) Conclusion; inference.
Sequelae (pl. ) of Sequela
Sequela (n.) One who, or that which, follows.
Sequela (n.) An adherent, or a band or sect of adherents.
Sequela (n.) That which follows as the logical result of reasoning; inference; conclusion; suggestion.
Sequela (n.) A morbid phenomenon left as the result of a disease; a disease resulting from another.
Sequence (n.) The state of being sequent; succession; order of following; arrangement.
Sequence (n.) That which follows or succeeds as an effect; sequel; consequence; result.
Sequence (n.) Simple succession, or the coming after in time, without asserting or implying causative energy; as, the reactions of chemical agents may be conceived as merely invariable sequences.
Sequence (n.) Any succession of chords (or harmonic phrase) rising or falling by the regular diatonic degrees in the same scale; a succession of similar harmonic steps.
Sequence (n.) A melodic phrase or passage successively repeated one tone higher; a rosalia.
Sequence (n.) A hymn introduced in the Mass on certain festival days, and recited or sung immediately before the gospel, and after the gradual or introit, whence the name.
Sequence (n.) Three or more cards of the same suit in immediately consecutive order of value; as, ace, king, and queen; or knave, ten, nine, and eight.
Sequence (n.) All five cards, of a hand, in consecutive order as to value, but not necessarily of the same suit; when of one suit, it is called a sequence flush.
Sequent (a.) Following; succeeding; in continuance.
Sequent (a.) Following as an effect; consequent.
Sequent (n.) A follower.
Sequent (n.) That which follows as a result; a sequence.
Sequential (a.) Succeeding or following in order.
Sequestered (imp. & p. p.) of Sequester
Sequestering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sequester
Sequester (v. t.) To separate from the owner for a time; to take from parties in controversy and put into the possession of an indifferent person; to seize or take possession of, as property belonging to another, and hold it till the profits have paid the demand for which it is taken, or till the owner has performed the decree of court, or clears himself of contempt; in international law, to confiscate.
Sequester (v. t.) To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc.
Sequester (v. t.) To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
Sequester (v. t.) To cause to retire or withdraw into obscurity; to seclude; to withdraw; -- often used reflexively.
Sequester (v. i.) To withdraw; to retire.
Sequester (v. i.) To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.
Sequester (n.) Sequestration; separation.
Sequester (n.) A person with whom two or more contending parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy; one who mediates between two parties; a mediator; an umpire or referee.
Sequester (n.) Same as Sequestrum.
Sequestered (a.) Retired; secluded.
Sequestrable (a.) Capable of being sequestered; subject or liable to sequestration.
Sequestral (a.) Of or pertaining to a sequestrum.
Sequestrated (imp. & p. p.) of Sequestrate
Sequestrating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sequestrate
Sequestrate (v. t.) To sequester.
Seguestration (n.) The act of separating, or setting aside, a thing in controversy from the possession of both the parties that contend for it, to be delivered to the one adjudged entitled to it. It may be voluntary or involuntary.
Seguestration (n.) A prerogative process empowering certain commissioners to take and hold a defendant's property and receive the rents and profits thereof, until he clears himself of a contempt or performs a decree of the court.
Seguestration (n.) A kind of execution for a rent, as in the case of a beneficed clerk, of the profits of a benefice, till he shall have satisfied some debt established by decree; the gathering up of the fruits of a benefice during a vacancy, for the use of the next incumbent; the disposing of the goods, by the ordinary, of one who is dead, whose estate no man will meddle with.
Seguestration (n.) The seizure of the property of an individual for the use of the state; particularly applied to the seizure, by a belligerent power, of debts due from its subjects to the enemy.
Seguestration (n.) The state of being separated or set aside; separation; retirement; seclusion from society.
Seguestration (n.) Disunion; disjunction.
Sequestrator (n.) One who sequesters property, or takes the possession of it for a time, to satisfy a demand out of its rents or profits.
Sequestrator (n.) One to whom the keeping of sequestered property is committed.
Sequestra (pl. ) of Sequestrum
Sequestrum (n.) A portion of dead bone which becomes separated from the sound portion, as in necrosis.
Sequin (n.) An old gold coin of Italy and Turkey. It was first struck at Venice about the end of the 13th century, and afterward in the other Italian cities, and by the Levant trade was introduced into Turkey. It is worth about 9s. 3d. sterling, or about $2.25. The different kinds vary somewhat in value.
Sequoia (n.) A genus of coniferous trees, consisting of two species, Sequoia Washingtoniana, syn. S. gigantea, the "big tree" of California, and S. sempervirens, the redwood, both of which attain an immense height.
Sequoiene (n.) A hydrocarbon (C13H10) obtained in white fluorescent crystals, in the distillation products of the needles of the California "big tree" (Sequoia gigantea).
Seraglio (n.) An inclosure; a place of separation.
Seraglio (n.) The palace of the Grand Seignior, or Turkish sultan, at Constantinople, inhabited by the sultan himself, and all the officers and dependents of his court. In it are also kept the females of the harem.
Seraglio (n.) A harem; a place for keeping wives or concubines; sometimes, loosely, a place of licentious pleasure; a house of debauchery.
Serai (n.) A palace; a seraglio; also, in the East, a place for the accommodation of travelers; a caravansary, or rest house.
Seralbumen (n.) Serum albumin.
Serang (n.) The boatswain of a Lascar or East Ondian crew.
Serape (n.) A blanket or shawl worn as an outer garment by the Spanish Americans, as in Mexico.
Seraphs (pl. ) of Seraph
Seraphim (pl. ) of Seraph
Seraph (n.) One of an order of celestial beings, each having three pairs of wings. In ecclesiastical art and in poetry, a seraph is represented as one of a class of angels.
Seraphic (a.) Alt. of Seraphical
Seraphical (a.) Of or pertaining to a seraph; becoming, or suitable to, a seraph; angelic; sublime; pure; refined.