SENESCHAL
SEN'ESCHAL, noun A steward; an officer in the houses of princes and dignitaries, who has the superintendance of feasts and domestic ceremonies. In some instances, the seneschal ...
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SENGREEN
SEN'GREEN, noun A plant, the houseleek, of the genus Sempervivium.
SENILE
SE'NILE, adjective [Latin senilis.] Pertaining to old age; proceeding from age.
SENILITY
SENIL'ITY, noun Old age. [Not much used.]
SENIOR
SENIOR, adjectivesee'nyor. [Latin senior, comparative of senex, old.] Elder or older; but as an adjective, it usually signifies older in office; as the senior pastor of a church...
SENIORITY
SENIOR'ITY, noun1. Eldership; superior age; priority of birth. He is the elder brother, and entitled to the plae of seniority.2. Priority in office; as the seniority of a pastor...
SENNA
SEN'NA, noun The leaf of the cassia senna, a native of the east, used as a cathartic.
SENNIGHT
SENNIGHT, nounsen'nit. [contracted from sevennight, as fortnight from fourteennight.] The space of seven nights and days; a week. The court will be held this sennight, that is, ...
SENOCULAR
SENOC'ULAR, adjective [Latin seni, six, and oculus, the eye.] Having six eyes.Most animals are binocular, spiders are octonocular, and some are senocular.Derham.
SENSATED
SENS'ATED, adjective [See Sense.] Perceived by the senses. [Not used.]
SENSATION
SENSA'TION, noun [from Latin sensus, sentio, to perceive. See Sense.] The perception of external objects by means of the senses.Sensation is an exertion or charge of the central...
SENSE
SENSE, noun [from Latin sensus, from sentio, to feel or perceive.]1. The faculty of the soul by which it perceives external objects by means of impressions made on certain organ...
SENSED
SENS'ED, participle passive Perceived by the senses. [Not in use.]
SENSEFUL
SENSEFUL, adjective sens'ful. Reasonable; judicious. [Not in use.]
SENSELESS
SENSELESS, adjectivesens'less.1. Wanting the faculty of perception. The body when dead is senseless; but a limb or other part of the body may be senseless, when the rest of the ...
SENSELESSNESS
SENSELESSNESS, nounsens'lessness. Unreasonableness; folly; stupidity; absurdity.
SENSIBILITY
SENSIBIL'ITY, noun1. Susceptibility of impressions; the capacity for feeling or perceiving the impressions of external objects; applied to the animal bodies; as when we say, a f...
SENSIBLE
SENS'IBLE, adjective1. Having the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; capable of perceiving by the instrumentality of the proper organs. We say the body or ...
SENSIBLENESS
SENS'IBLENESS, noun1. Possibility of being perceived by the senses; as the sensibleness of odor or sound.2. Actual perception by the mind or body; as the sensibleness of an impr...
SENSIBLY
SENS'IBLY, adverb1. In a manner to be perceived by the senses; perceptibly to the senses; as pain sensibly increased; motion sensibly accelerated.2. With perception, either of m...
SENSITIVE
SENS'ITIVE, adjective [Latin sensitivus, from sensus, sentio.]1. Having sense or feeling, or having the capacity of perceiving impressions from external objects; as sensitive so...
SENSITIVE-PLANT
SENS'ITIVE-PLANT, noun A plant of the genus Mimosa [mimic,] so called from the sensibility of its leaves and footstalks, which shrink, contract and fall on being slightly touched.
SENSITIVELY
SENS'ITIVELY, adverb In a sensitive manner.
SENSORIAL
SENS'ORIAL, adjective Pertaining to the sensory or sensorium; as sensorial faculties; sensorial motion or powers.
SENSORIUM
SENSO'RIUM, noun [from Latin senus, sentio.]
SENSORY
SENS'ORY,1. The seat of sense; Darwin uses sensorium to express not only the medullary part of the brain, spinal marrow, nerves, organs of sense and the muscles, but also that l...
SENSUAL
SENSUAL, adjective [from Latin sensus.]Pertaining to the senses, as distinct from the mind or soul.Far as creation's ample range extends.The scale of sensual, mental pow'rs asce...