Seasonable Sea"son·a·ble adjective Occurring in good time, in due season, or in proper time for the purpose; suitable to the season; opportune; timely; as, a seasonable supply of rain. Mercy is seasonable in the time of affliction.
Ecclus. xxxv. 20. --
Sea"son*a*ble*ness ,
noun --
Sea"son*a*bly ,
adverb
Seasonage Sea"son·age noun A seasoning. [ Obsolete]
South.
Seasonal Sea"son·al adjective Of or pertaining to the seasons. Seasonal dimorphism (Zoology) ,
the condition of having two distinct varieties which appear at different seasons, as certain species of butterflies in which the spring brood differs from the summer or autumnal brood.
Seasoner Sea"son·er noun One who, or that which, seasons, or gives a relish; a seasoning.
Seasoning Sea"son·ing noun 1. The act or process by which anything is seasoned. 2. That which is added to any species of food, to give it a higher relish, as salt, spices, etc.; a condiment. 3. Hence, something added to enhance enjoyment or relieve dullness; as, wit is the seasoning of conversation. Political speculations are of so dry and austere a nature, that they will not go down with the public without frequent seasonings .
Addison. Seasoning tub (Bakery) ,
a trough in which dough is set to rise. Knight.
Seasonless Sea"son·less adjective Without succession of the seasons.
Seat Seat (sēt)
noun [ Middle English
sete , Icelandic
sæti ; akin to Swedish
säte , Danish
sæde , Middle High German
sāze , Anglo-Saxon
set ,
setl , and English
sit . √154. See
Sit , and confer
Settle ,
noun ]
1. The place or thing upon which one sits; hence; anything made to be sat in or upon, as a chair, bench, stool, saddle, or the like. And Jesus . . . overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of them that sold doves.
Matt. xxi. 12. 2. The place occupied by anything, or where any person or thing is situated, resides, or abides; a site; an abode, a station; a post; a situation. Where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is.
Rev. ii. 13. He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat committeth himself to prison.
Bacon. A seat of plenty, content, and tranquillity.
Macaulay. 3. That part of a thing on which a person sits; as, the seat of a chair or saddle; the seat of a pair of pantaloons. 4. A sitting; a right to sit; regular or appropriate place of sitting; as, a seat in a church; a seat for the season in the opera house. 5. Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback. She had so good a seat and hand she might be trusted with any mount.
G. Eliot. 6. (Machinery) A part or surface on which another part or surface rests; as, a valve seat . Seat worm (Zoology) ,
the pinworm.
Seat Seat transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Seated ;
present participle & verbal noun Seating .]
1. To place on a seat; to cause to sit down; as, to seat one's self. The guests were no sooner seated but they entered into a warm debate.
Arbuthnot. 2. To cause to occupy a post, site, situation, or the like; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle. Thus high . . . is King Richard seated .
Shak. They had seated themselves in New Guiana.
Sir W. Raleigh. 3. To assign a seat to, or the seats of; to give a sitting to; as, to seat a church, or persons in a church. 4. To fix; to set firm. From their foundations, loosening to and fro,
They plucked the seated hills.
Milton. 5. To settle; to plant with inhabitants; as to seat a country. [ Obsolete]
W. Stith. 6. To put a seat or bottom in; as, to seat a chair.
Seat Seat intransitive verb To rest; to lie down. [ Obsolete]
Spenser.
Seating Seat"ing (sēt"ĭng)
noun 1. The act of providing with a seat or seats; as, the seating of an audience. 2. The act of making seats; also, the material for making seats; as, cane seating .
Seatless Seat"less adjective Having no seat.
Seave Seave noun [ Confer Danish
siv , Swedish
säf , Icelandic
sef .]
A rush. [ Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.
Seavy Seav`y adjective Overgrown with rushes. [ Prov. Eng.]
Seawan, Seawant Sea"wan, Sea"want noun The name used by the Algonquin Indians for the shell beads which passed among the Indians as money. »
Seawan was of two kinds;
wampum , white, and
suckanhock , black or purple, -- the former having half the value of the latter. Many writers, however, use the terms
seawan and
wampum indiscriminately.
Bartlett.
Seawand Sea"wand` (Botany) See Sea girdles .
Seaward Sea"ward adjective Directed or situated toward the sea. Donne. Two still clouds . . . sparkled on their seaward edges like a frosted fleece.
G. W. Cable.
Seaward Sea"ward adverb Toward the sea. Drayton.
Seaware Sea"ware` noun [ Confer Anglo-Saxon
sǣwār seaweed.]
(Botany) Seaweed; esp., coarse seaweed. See Ware , and Sea girdles .
Seaweed Sea"weed` noun 1. Popularly, any plant or plants growing in the sea. 2. (Botany) Any marine plant of the class Algæ, as kelp, dulse, Fucus, Ulva, etc.
Seawife Sea"wife` noun ;
plural Seawives (Zoology) A European wrasse ( Labrus vetula ).
Seaworthiness Sea"wor`thi·ness noun The state or quality of being seaworthy, or able to resist the ordinary violence of wind and weather. Kent.
Seaworthy Sea"wor`thy adjective Fit for a voyage; worthy of being trusted to transport a cargo with safety; as, a seaworthy ship.
Sebaceous Se·ba"ceous adjective [ New Latin
sebaceus , from Latin
sebum tallow, grease.]
(Physiol.) Pertaining to, or secreting, fat; composed of fat; having the appearance of fat; as, the sebaceous secretions of some plants, or the sebaceous humor of animals. Sebaceous cyst (Medicine) ,
a cyst formed by distention of a sebaceous gland, due to obstruction of its excretory duct. --
Sebaceous glands (Anat.) ,
small subcutaneous glands, usually connected with hair follicles. They secrete an oily semifluid matter, composed in great part of fat, which softens and lubricates the hair and skin.
Sebacic Se·bac"ic adjective [ Latin
sebum tallow: confer French
sébacique .]
(Chemistry) Of or pertaining to fat; derived from, or resembling, fat; specifically, designating an acid (formerly called also sebic , and pyroleic , acid), obtained by the distillation or saponification of certain oils (as castor oil) as a white crystalline substance.
Sebat Se"bat noun [ Hebrew
shĕbāt .]
The eleventh month of the ancient Hebrew year, approximately corresponding with February. W. Smith (Bibl. Dict.).
Sebate Se"bate (sē"b\ddt)
noun (Chemistry) A salt of sebacic acid.
Sebesten Se·bes"ten noun [ Arabic
sebestān the tree: confer Spanish
sebesten .]
(Botany) The mucilaginous drupaceous fruit of two East Indian trees ( Cordia Myxa , and C. latifolia ), sometimes used medicinally in pectoral diseases. » In the West Indies the name is given to the similar fruit of
Cordia Sebestana .
Sebic Se"bic adjective See Sebacic . [ Obsolete]
Sebiferous Se·bif"er·ous adjective [ Latin
sebum tallow +
-ferous .]
1. (Botany) Producing vegetable tallow. 2. (Physiol.) Producing fat; sebaceous; as, the sebiferous , or sebaceous, glands.
Sebiparous Se·bip"a·rous adjective [ Latin
sebum tallow +
parere to bring forth.]
(Physiol.) Same as Sebiferous .
Seborrhea Seb"or·rhe·a noun [ New Latin , from Latin
sebum tallow + Greek ... to flow.]
(Medicine) A morbidly increased discharge of sebaceous matter upon the skin; stearrhea.
Secale Se·ca"le noun [ Latin , a kind of grain.]
(Botany) A genus of cereal grasses including rye.
Secancy Se"can·cy noun [ See
Secant .]
A cutting; an intersection; as, the point of secancy of one line by another. [ R.]
Davies & Peck (Math. Dict. ).
Secant Se"cant (sē"kănt)
adjective [ Latin
secans ,
-antis , present participle of
secare to cut. See
Section .]
Cutting; dividing into two parts; as, a secant line.
Secant Secant noun [ Confer French
sécante . See
Secant ,
adjective ]
1. (Geom.) A line that cuts another; especially, a straight line cutting a curve in two or more points. 2. (Trig.) A right line drawn from the center of a circle through one end of a circular arc, and terminated by a tangent drawn from the other end; the number expressing the ratio of this line to the radius of the circle. See Trigonometrical function , under Function .
Secco Sec"co adjective [ Italian ]
Dry. Secco painting , or
Painting in secco ,
painting on dry plaster, as distinguished from fresco painting , which is on wet or fresh plaster.
Secede Se"cede" intransitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Seceded ;
present participle & verbal noun Seceding .] [ Latin
secedere ,
secessum ; pref
se- aside +
cedere to go, move. See
Cede .]
To withdraw from fellowship, communion, or association; to separate one's self by a solemn act; to draw off; to retire; especially, to withdraw from a political or religious body.
Seceder Se·ced"er noun 1. One who secedes. 2. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a numerous body of Presbyterians in Scotland who seceded from the communion of the Established Church, about the year 1733, and formed the Secession Church, so called.
Secern Se·cern" transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Secerned ;
present participle & verbal noun Secerning .] [ Latin
secernere . See
Secrete .]
1. To separate; to distinguish. Averroes secerns a sense of titillation, and a sense of hunger and thirst.
Sir W. Hamilton. 2. (Physiol.) To secrete; as, mucus secerned in the nose. Arbuthnot.
Secernent Se·cern"ent adjective [ Latin
secernens , present participle]
(Physiol.) Secreting; secretory.
Secernent Se·cern"ent noun 1. That which promotes secretion. 2. (Anat.) A vessel in, or by means of, which the process of secretion takes place; a secreting vessel.
Secernment Se·cern"ment noun (Physiol.) The act or process of secreting.
Secess Se·cess" (se*sĕs")
noun [ Latin
secessus . See
Secede .]
Retirement; retreat; secession. [ Obsolete]
Dr. H. More.
Secession Se·ces"sion (se*sĕsh"ŭn)
noun [ Latin
secessio : confer French
sécession . See
Secede .]
1. The act of seceding; separation from fellowship or association with others, as in a religious or political organization; withdrawal. 2. (U.S. Hist.) The withdrawal of a State from the national Union. Secession Church (in Scotland). See Seceder .
Secessionism Se·ces"sion·ism noun The doctrine or policy of secession; the tenets of secession; the tenets of secessionists.
Secessionist Se·ces"sion·ist noun 1. One who upholds secession. 2. (U.S. Hist.) One who holds to the belief that a State has the right to separate from the Union at its will.
Seche Seche transitive verb & i. To seek. [ Obsolete]
Chaucer.
Sechium Se"chi·um noun [ New Latin : confer French
séchion ; perhaps formed from Greek ... cucumber.]
(Botany) The edible fruit of a West Indian plant ( Sechium edule ) of the Gourd family. It is soft, pear-shaped, and about four inches long, and contains a single large seed. The root of the plant resembles a yam, and is used for food.
Seck Seck adjective [ French
sec , properly, dry, Latin
siccus .]
Barren; unprofitable. See Rent seck , under Rent .
Seckel Seck"el noun (Botany) A small reddish brown sweet and juicy pear. It originated on a farm near Philadelphia, afterwards owned by a Mr. Seckel .
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