Webster's Dictionary 1828

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SEMINIFICAL

SEMINIF'ICAL,

1595

SEMINIFICATION

SEMINIFICA'TION, noun Propagation from the seed or seminal parts.

1596

SEMIPED

SEM'IPED, noun [semi and Latin pes, a foot.] A half foot in poetry.

1597

SEMIPEDAL

SEMIPE'DAL, adjective Containing a half foot.

1598

SEMIQUAVER

SEM'IQUAVER, noun [semi and quaver.] In music, a note of half the duration of the quaver; the sixteenth of the semibreve.SEM'IQUAVER, verb transitive To sound or sing in semiqua...

1599

SEMITERTIAN

SEMITER'TIAN, adjective [semi and tertian.] Compounded of a tertian and a quotidian ague.SEMITER'TIAN, noun Am intermittent compounded of a tertian and a quotidian.

1600

SEMITONE

SEM'ITONE, noun [semi and tone.] In music, half a tone; an interval of sound, as between mi and fa on the diatonic scale, which is only half the distance of an interval between ...

1601

SEMITONIC

SEMITON'IC, adjective Pertaining to a semitone; consisting of a simitone.

1602

SEMPERVIRENT

SEMPERVI'RENT, adjective [Latin semper, always and virens, flourishing.] Always fresh; evergreen.

1603

SEMPERVIVE

SEMP'ERVIVE, noun [Latin semper, always, and vivus, alive.] A plant.

1604

SEMPITERNAL

SEMPITERN'AL, adjective [Latin sempiternus; semper, always, and eternus, eternal.]1. Eternal in futurity; everlasting; endless; having beginning, but no end.2. Eternal; everlast...

1605

SEMPITERNITY

SEMPITERN'ITY, noun [Latin sempiternitas.] Future duration without end.

1606

SEMSTER

SEM'STER, noun A seamster; a man who uses a needle. [Not in use.]

1607

SEN

SEN, adverb This word is usedby some of our common people for since. It seems to be a contraction of since, or it is the Sw. sen, Dan. seen, slow, late.

1608

SENARY

SEN'ARY, adjective [Latin seni, senarius.] Of six; belonging to six; containing six.

1609

SENATE

SEN'ATE, noun [Latin senatus, from senex, old.]1.An a assembly or council of senators; a body of the principal inhabitants of the city or state,with a share in the government. T...

1610

SENATE-HOUSE

SEN'ATE-HOUSE, noun A house in which a senate meets, or a place of public council.

1611

SENATOR

SEN'ATOR, noun1. A mimber of a senate. In Rome one of the qualifications of a senator was the possession of property to the amount of 80, 000 sesterces, about 7000 pounds sterli...

1612

SENATORIAL

SENATO'RIAL, adjective1. Pertaining to a senate; becoming a senator; as senatorial robes; senatorial eloquence.2. Entitled to elect a senator; as senatorial district.

1613

SENATORIALLY

SENATO'RIALLY, adverb In the manner of a senate; with dignity or solemnity.

1614

SENATORSHIP

SEN'ATORSHIP, noun The office or dignity of a senator.

1615

SEND

SEND, verb transitivepreterit tense and participle passivesent.1. In adjectivegeneral sense, to throw, cast or thrust; to impel or drive by force to a distance, either with the ...

1616

SENDAL

SEN'DAL, noun A light thin stuff of silk or thread. [Not in use.]

1617

SENDER

SEND'ER, noun One that sends.

1618

SENEGA

SEN'EGA, noun A plant called rattlesnake root, of the genus Polygala.

1619

SENEKA

SEN'EKA,

1620

SENESCENCE

SENES'CENCE, noun [Latin senesco, from senex, old. See Senate.] The state of growing old; decay by time.