SELF-TORMENTING
SELF-TORMENT'ING, adjective [self and torment.] Tormenting one's self; as self-tormenting sin.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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SELF-VALUING
SELF-VAL'UING, adjective Esteeming one's self.
SELF-WILL
SELF-WILL', noun [self and will.] One's own will; obstinacy.
SELF-WILLED
SELF-WILL'ED, adjective Governed by one's own will; not yielding to the will or wishes of others; not accomodating or compliant; obstinate.
SELF-WRONG
SELF-WRONG', noun [self and wrong.] Wrong done by a person to himself.
SELFCONSCIOUNESS
SELF'CON'SCIOUNESS, noun. Consciouness within one's self.
SELFDENYING
SELF'DENY'ING, adjective. Denying one's self; a forbearing to indulge one's one appetites or desires.
SELFISH
SELF'ISH, adjective Regarding one's own interest chiefly or soley; influenced in actions by a view to private advantage.
SELFISHLY
SELF'ISHLY, adverb The exclusive of a person to his own interest or happiness; or that supreme self-love or self-preference, which leads a person in his actions to direct his pu...
SELFNESS
SELF'NESS, noun Self-love; selfishness. [Not in use.]
SELL
SELL, for self; and sells for selves. [Scot.]SELL, noun [Latin sella.] A saddle, and a throne. Obs.SELL, verb transitivepreterit tense and participle passivesold. [1. To transfe...
SELLANDER
SEL'LANDER, noun A dry scab in a horses hough or pastern.
SELLER
SELL'ER, noun The person that sells; a vender.
SELLING
SELL'ING, participle present tense1. Transferring the property of a thing for a price or equivalent in money.2. Betraying for money.
SELVEDGE
SELV'EDGE, noun The edge of a cloth, where it is closed by complication the threads; a woven border, or border of the close works.
SELVEDGED
SELV'EDGED, adjective Having a selvedge.
SELVES
SELVES, plu. of self.
SEMBLABLE
SEM'BLABLE, adjective Like; similar; resembles.
SEMBLABLY
SEM'BLABLY, adverb In like manner. [Not in use.]
SEMBLANCE
SEM'BLANCE, noun1. Likeness; resemblance; actual similitude; as the semblance of worth; semblance of virtue.The semblance and initations of shells. Woodward.2. Appearance; show;...
SEMBLANT
SEM'BLANT, noun Show; figure; resemblance. [Not in use.]SEM'BLANT, adjective Like; resembling. [Not in use.]
SEMBLATIVE
SEM'BLATIVE, adjective Resembling; fit; suitable; according to.And all is semblativea woman's part. Shak. [Not in use.]
SEMBLE
SEM'BLE, verb transitive To imitate; to represent or make similar.Where sembling art may carve the fair effect. Shak. [Not in use.]
SEMI
SEM'I, Latin semi, In composition, signifies half.
SEMI-ACIDIFIED
SEMI-ACID'IFIED, adjective or participle passive Half acidified. [See Acidified.]
SEMI-AMPLEXICAUL
SEMI-AMPLEX'ICAUL, adjective [Latin semi, amplexus, or amplector, to embrace, and caulis, stem.]In botang, embracing the stem half way, as a stem.
SEMI-ANNUAL
SEMI-AN'NUAL, adjective [semi and annual.] Half yearly.