Semivitreous Sem`i·vit"re·ous adjective Partially vitreous.

Semivitrification Sem`i·vit"ri·fi·ca"tion noun 1. The quality or state of being semivitrified.

2. A substance imperfectly vitrified.

Semivitrified Sem`i·vit"ri·fied adjective Half or imperfectly vitrified; partially converted into glass.

Semivocal Sem`i·vo"cal adjective (Phon.) Of or pertaining to a semivowel; half cocal; imperfectly sounding.

Semivowel Sem"i·vow`el noun (Phon.) (a) A sound intermediate between a vowel and a consonant, or partaking of the nature of both, as in the English w and y . (b) The sign or letter representing such a sound.

Semiweekly Sem`i·week"ly adjective Coming, or made, or done, once every half week; as, a semiweekly newspaper; a semiweekly trip. -- noun That which comes or happens once every half week, esp. a semiweekly periodical. -- adverb At intervals of half a week each.

Semolella Sem`o·lel"la noun [ Italian ] See Semolina .

Semolina Sem`o·li"na noun [ Italian semolino , from semola bran, Latin simila the finest wheat flour. Confer Semoule , Simnel .] The fine, hard parts of wheat, rounded by the attrition of the millstones, -- used in cookery.

Semolino Sem`o·li"no noun [ Italian ] Same as Semolina .

Semoule Se·moule" noun [ French] Same as Semolina .

Sempervirent Sem`per·vi"rent adjective [ Latin semper always + virens , present participle of virere to be green.] Always fresh; evergreen. [ R.] Smart.

Sempervive Sem"per·vive noun [ Latin semperviva , sempervivum , from sempervivus ever- living; semper always + vivus living.] (Botany) The houseleek.

Sempervivum Sem`per·vi"vum noun (Botany) A genus of fleshy-leaved plants, of which the houseleek ( Sempervivum tectorum ) is the commonest species.

Sempiternal Sem`pi·ter"nal adjective [ Latin sempiternus , from semper always: confer French sempiternel .] 1. Of neverending duration; everlasting; endless; having beginning, but no end. Sir M. Hale.

2. Without beginning or end; eternal. Blackmore.

Sempiterne Sem"pi·terne adjective Sempiternal. [ Obsolete]

Sempiternity Sem`pi·ter"ni·ty noun [ Latin sempiternitas .] Future duration without end; the relation or state of being sempiternal. Sir M. Hale.

Sempre Sem"pre adverb [ Italian , from Latin semper .] (Mus.) Always; throughout; as, sempre piano, always soft.

Sempster Semp"ster noun A seamster. [ Obsolete]

Sempstress Semp"stress noun A seamstress.

Two hundred sepstress were employed to make me shirts.

Swift.

Sempstressy Semp"stress·y noun Seamstressy.

Semster Sem"ster noun A seamster. [ Obsolete]

Semuncia Se·mun"ci·a noun [ Latin , from semi half + uncia ounce.] (Rom. Antiq.) A Roman coin equivalent to one twenty-fourth part of a Roman pound.

Semĉostomata Se·mĉ`o·stom"a·ta noun plural [ New Latin , from Greek ............ a military standard + ........., ........., mouth.] (Zoology) A division of Discophora having large free mouth lobes. It includes Aurelia , and Pelagia . Called also Semeostoma . See Illustr . under Discophora , and Medusa .

Sen Sen noun A Japanese coin, worth about one half of a cent.

Sen Sen adverb , preposition , & conj. [ See Since .] Since. [ Obsolete]

Senary Sen"a·ry adjective [ Latin senarius , from seni six each, from sex six. See Six .] Of six; belonging to six; containing six. Dr. H. More.

Senate Sen"ate noun [ Middle English senat , French sénat , from Latin senatus , from senex , gen. senis , old, an old man. See Senior , Sir .] 1. An assembly or council having the highest deliberative and legislative functions. Specifically: (a) (Anc. Rom.) A body of elders appointed or elected from among the nobles of the nation, and having supreme legislative authority.

The senate was thus the medium through which all affairs of the whole government had to pass.

Dr. W. Smith.

(b) The upper and less numerous branch of a legislature in various countries, as in France, in the United States, in most of the separate States of the United States, and in some Swiss cantons. (c) In general, a legislative body; a state council; the legislative department of government.

2. The governing body of the Universities of Cambridge and London. [ Eng.]

3. In some American colleges, a council of elected students, presided over by the president of the college, to which are referred cases of discipline and matters of general concern affecting the students. [ U. S.]

Senate chamber , a room where a senate meets when it transacts business. -- Senate house , a house where a senate meets when it transacts business.

Senator Sen"a·tor noun [ Middle English senatour , Old French senatour , French sénateur , from Latin senator .] 1. A member of a senate.

The duke and senators of Venice greet you.

Shak.

» In the United States, each State sends two senators for a term of six years to the national Congress.

2. (O.Eng.Law) A member of the king's council; a king's councilor. Burrill.

Senatorial Sen`a·to"ri·al adjective [ French sénatorial , or Latin senatorius .] 1. Of or pertaining to a senator, or a senate; becoming to a senator, or a senate; as, senatorial duties; senatorial dignity.

2. Entitled to elect a senator, or by senators; as, the senatorial districts of a State. [ U. S.]

Senatorially Sen`a·to"ri·al·ly adverb In a senatorial manner.

Senatorian Sen`a·to"ri·an adjective Senatorial. [ R.] De Quincey.

Senatorious Sen`a·to"ri·ous adjective Senatorial. [ Obsolete]

Senatorship Sen"a·tor·ship noun The office or dignity of a senator. Carew.

Senatusconsult Se·na`tus·con·sult" noun [ Latin senatus consultum .] A decree of the Roman senate.

Send Send transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Sent ; present participle & verbal noun Sending .] [ Anglo-Saxon sendan ; akin to Old Saxon sendian , Dutch zenden , German senden , Old High German senten , Icelandic senda , Swedish sända , Danish sende , Goth. sandjan , and to Goth. sinp a time (properly, a going), ga sinpa companion, Old High German sind journey, Anglo-Saxon sī... , Icelandic sinni a walk, journey, a time. W. hynt a way, journey, OIr. s...t . Confer Sense .] 1. To cause to go in any manner; to dispatch; to commission or direct to go; as, to send a messenger.

I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran.

Jer. xxiii. 21.

I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.

John viii. 42.

Servants, sent on messages, stay out somewhat longer than the message requires.

Swift.

2. To give motion to; to cause to be borne or carried; to procure the going, transmission, or delivery of; as, to send a message.

He . . . sent letters by posts on horseback.

Esther viii. 10.

O send out thy light an thy truth; let them lead me.

Ps. xliii. 3.

3. To emit; to impel; to cast; to throw; to hurl; as, to send a ball, an arrow, or the like.

4. To cause to be or to happen; to bestow; to inflict; to grant; -- sometimes followed by a dependent proposition. "God send him well!" Shak.

The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke.

Deut. xxviii. 20.

And sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

Matt. v. 45.

God send your mission may bring back peace.

Sir W. Scott.

Send Send intransitive verb 1. To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message, or to do an errand.

See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away my head?

2 Kings vi. 32.

2. (Nautical) To pitch; as, the ship sends forward so violently as to endanger her masts. Totten.

To send for , to request or require by message to come or be brought.

Send Send noun (Nautical) The impulse of a wave by which a vessel is carried bodily. [ Written also scend .] W. C. Russell. "The send of the sea". Longfellow.

Sendal Sen"dal noun [ Old French cendal (cf. Pr. & Spanish cendal , Italian zendale ), Late Latin cendallum , Greek ......... a fine Indian cloth.] A light thin stuff of silk. [ Written also cendal , and sendal .] Chaucer.

Wore she not a veil of twisted sendal embroidered with silver?

Sir W. Scott.

Sender Send"er noun One who sends. Shak.

Senecas Sen"e·cas noun plural ; sing. Seneca (Ethnol.) A tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited a part of Western New York. This tribe was the most numerous and most warlike of the Five Nations.

Seneca grass (Botany) , holy grass. See under Holy . -- Seneca eil , petroleum or naphtha. -- Seneca root , or Seneca snakeroot (Botany) , the rootstock of an American species of milkworth ( Polygala Senega ) having an aromatic but bitter taste. It is often used medicinally as an expectorant and diuretic, and, in large doses, as an emetic and cathartic. [ Written also Senega root , and Seneka root .]

Senecio Se·ne"ci·o noun [ Latin , groundsel, lit., an old man. So called in allusion to the hoary appearance of the pappus.] (Botany) A very large genus of composite plants including the groundsel and the golden ragwort.

Senectitude Se·nec"ti·tude noun [ Latin senectus aged, old age, senex old.] Old age. [ R.] " Senectitude , weary of its toils." H. Miller.

Senega Sen"e·ga noun (Medicine) Seneca root.

Senegal Sen"e·gal noun Gum senegal. See under Gum .

Senegin Sen"e·gin noun (Med. Chem.) A substance extracted from the rootstock of the Polygala Senega (Seneca root), and probably identical with polygalic acid.

Senescence Se·nes"cence noun [ See Senescent .] The state of growing old; decay by time.

Senescent Se·nes"cent adjective [ Latin senescent , present participle of senescere to grow old, incho. from senere to be old.] Growing old; decaying with the lapse of time. "The night was senescent ." Poe. "With too senescent air." Lowell.

Seneschal Sen"es·chal noun [ Old French seneschal , Late Latin seniscalcus , of Teutonic origin; confer Goth. sineigs old, skalks , Old High German scalch , Anglo-Saxon scealc . Confer Senior , Marshal .] An officer in the houses of princes and dignitaries, in the Middle Ages, who had the superintendence of feasts and domestic ceremonies; a steward. Sometimes the seneschal had the dispensing of justice, and was given high military commands.

Then marshaled feast
Served up in hall with sewers and seneschale .

Milton.

Philip Augustus, by a famous ordinance in 1190, first established royal courts of justice, held by the officers called baitiffs, or seneschals , who acted as the king's lieutenants in his demains.

Hallam.

Seneschalship Sen"es·chal·ship noun The office, dignity, or jurisdiction of a seneschal.

Senge Senge transitive verb To singe. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

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