Webster's Dictionary 1913

3700

Servitorship

Serv″i‐tor‐ship, n. The office, rank, or condition of a servitor. Boswell.

3701

Servitude

Serv″i‐tude (?), n. [L. servitudo: cf. F. servitude.] 1. The state of voluntary or compulsory subjection to a master; the condition of being bound to service; the condition of a...

3702

Serviture

Serv″i‐ture (?), n. Servants, collectively.

3703

Servitute

Serv″i‐tute (?), n. [L. servitus.] Servitude.

3704

Servo-motor

Ser′vo–mo″tor (?), n. [Sometimes erroneously spelt serro-motor.] [F. servo-moteur. See Serf; Motor.] (Mach.) A relay apparatus; specif.: (a) An auxiliary motor, regulated by a h...

3705

Serye

Se″rye (?), n. A series. Chaucer.

3706

Sesame

Ses″a‐me (?), n. [L. sesamum, sesama, Gr. ����, ���: cf. F. sésame.] (Bot.) Either of two annual herbaceous plants of the genus Sesamum (S. Indicum, and S. orientale), from the ...

3707

Sesamoid

Ses″a‐moid (?), a. [Gr. ���� like sesame; ����� sesame + ��� form: cf. F. sésamoïde.] 1. Resembling in shape the seeds of sesame.2. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the sesamoid bone...

3708

Sesamoid (2)

Ses″a‐moid, n.(Anat.) A sesamoid bone or cartilage.

3709

Sesamoidal

Ses′a‐moid″al (?), a.(Anat.) Sesamoid.

3710

Sesban

Ses″ban (?), n. [F., fr. Ar. saisabān, seisebān, a kind of tree, fr. Per. sīsabān seed of cinquefoil.] (Bot.) A leguminous shrub (Sesbania aculeata) which furnishes a fiber used...

3711

Sesqui-

‖Ses′qui– (?). (Chem.) A combining form (also used adjectively) denoting that three atoms or equivalents of the substance to the name of which it is prefixed are combined with t...

3712

Sesquialter

Ses′qui‐al″ter (?), a. Sesquialteral.

3713

Sesquialter (2)

{ Ses′qui‐al″ter (?), Ses′qui‐al″ter‐a (?), } n. [NL. sesquialtera.] (Mus.) A stop on the organ, containing several ranks of pipes which reënforce some of the high harmonics of ...

3714

Sesquialteral

{ Ses′qui‐al″ter‐al (?), Ses′qui‐al″ter‐ate (?), } a. [L. sesquialter once and a half; sesqui- + alter other: cf. F. sesquialtére.] Once and a half times as great as another; ha...

3715

Sesquialterous

Ses′qui‐al″ter‐ous (?), a. Sesquialteral.

3716

Sesquibasic

Ses′qui‐ba″sic (?), a. [Sesqui- + basic.] (Chem.) Containing, or acting as, a base in the proportions of a sesqui compound.

3717

Sesquiduplicate

Ses′qui‐du″pli‐cate (?), a. [Sesqui- + duplicate.] Twice and a half as great (as another thing); having the ratio of two and a half to one.Sesquiduplicate ratio(Math.), the rati...

3718

Sesquioxide

Ses′qui‐ox″ide (?), n. [Sesqui- + oxide.] (Chem.) An oxide containing three atoms of oxygen with two atoms (or radicals) of some other substance; thus, alumina, Al2O3 is a sesqu...

3719

Sesquipedal

{ Ses‐quip″e‐dal (?), Ses′qui‐pe‐da″li‐an (?), } a. [Sesqui- + pedal: cf. F. sesquipédal, L. sesquipedalis.] Measuring or containing a foot and a half; as, a sesquipedalian pygm...

3720

Sesquipedalianism

{ Ses′qui‐pe‐da″li‐an‐ism (?), Ses‐quip″e‐dal‐ism (?), } n. Sesquipedality.

3721

Sesquipedality

Ses′qui‐pe‐dal″i‐ty (?), n. 1. The quality or condition of being sesquipedal. Sterne.2. The use of sesquipedalian words; style characterized by the use of long words; sesquipeda...

3722

Sesquiplicate

Ses‐quip″li‐cate (?), a. [Sesqui- + plicate.] (Math.) Subduplicate of the triplicate; — a term applied to ratios; thus, a and a′ are in the sesquiplicate ratio of b and b′, when...

3723

Sesquisalt

Ses″qui‐salt (?), n. [Sesqui- + salt.] (Chem.) A salt derived from a sesquioxide base, or made up on the proportions of a sesqui compound.

3724

Sesquisulphide

Ses′qui‐sul″phide (?), n. [Sesqui- + sulphide.] (Chem.) A sulphide, analogous to a sesquioxide, containing three atoms of sulphur to two of the other ingredient; — formerly call...

3725

Sesquitertial

Ses′qui‐ter″tial (?), a. Sesquitertian.

3726

Sesquitertian

{ Ses′qui‐ter″tian (?), Ses′qui‐ter″tian‐al (?), } a. [Sesqui- + L. tertianus belonging to the third. Cf. Tertian.] (Math.) Having the ratio of one and one third to one (as 4: 3).