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Sealed

SE'ALED, participle passive Furnished with a seal; fastened with a seal; confirmed; closed.

Sealer

SE'ALER, noun

1. One who seals; an officer in chancery who seals writs and instruments.

2. In New England, an officer appointed by the town or other proper authority, to examine and try weithts and measures, and set a stamp on such as are according to the standards established by the state; also, an officer who inspects lether and stamps such as is good. These are called sealers of weights and measures, and sealers of lethers.

Sealing

SE'ALING, participle present tense Fixing a seal; fastening with a seal; confirming; closing; keeping secret; fixing a piece of wood or iron in a wall with cement.

SE'ALING, noun [from seal, the animal] The operation of taking seals and curing their skins.

Sealing-Voyage

SE'ALING-VOYAGE, noun A voyage for the purpose of killing seals and obtaining their skins.

Sealing-Wax

SE'ALING-WAX, noun [seal and wax.] A compound of gum lac and the red oxyd of mercury; used for fastening a folded letter and thus consealing the writing, and for receiving impressions of seals set to instruments. Sealing wax is hard or soft, and may be of any color.

Seam

SEAM, noun

1. The suture or uniting of two edges of cloth by the needle.

The coat was without seam , woven from the top throughout. John 19:23.

2. The joint or juncture of planks in a ship's side or deck; or rather the intervals between the edges of boards or planks in a floor, etc. The seams of the ships are filled with oakum, and covered with pitch.

3. In mines, a vein or stratum of metal, ore, coal and the like.

4. A cicatrix or scar.

5. A measure of eight bushels of corn; or the vessel that contains it. [Not used in America.]

A seam of glass, the quanity of 120 pounds, or 24 stones of five pounds each. [Not used in America.]

SEAM, noun Tallow; grease; lard. [Not in use.]

SEAM, verb transitive

1. To form a seam; to sew or otherwise unite.

2. To mark with a cicatrix; to scar; as seamed with wounds.

Seam-Rent

SE'AM-RENT, noun [seam and rent.] The rent of a seam; the separation of a suture.

Seaman

SEAMAN. [See under Sea.]

Seamanship

SE'AMANSHIP, noun The skill of a good seaman; an acquaintance with the art of managing and navigating a ship; applicable both to officers and to men. Naval skill, is the art of managing a fleet, particularly in an engagement; a very different thing from seamanship.

Seamed

SE'AMED, participle passive Marked with seams; having seams or scars.

Seaming

SE'AMING, participle present tense Marking with scars; making seams.

Seamless

SE'AMLESS, adjective Having mo seam; as the seamless garment of Christ.

Seamouse

SE'AMOUSE, noun [sea and mouse.] A marine animal of the genus Aphrodita.

Seamster

SE'AMSTER, noun One that sews well, or whose occupation is to sew.

Seamstress

SE'AMSTRESS, noun A woman whose occupation is sewing.

Seamy

SE'AMY, adjective Having a seam; containing seams or showing them.

Sean

SEAN, noun a met. [See Seine.]

Seaport

SE'APORT, noun [sea and port.]

1. A harbor near the sea, formed by an arm of the sea or by a bay.

2. A city or town situated on a harbor, on or near the sea. We call a town a seaport, instead fo a seaport town.

Seapoy

SE'APOY, noun A native of India in the military service of an European power, and disceplined SE'POY, after the European maner.

Sear

SEAR, verb transitive [Gr. to dry; to parch; dry. L. torreo, in a diffrent dialect.]

1. To burn to dryness and hardness the surface of any thing; to cauterize; to expose to a degree of heat that changes the color of the surface, ar makes it hard; as, to sear the skin or flesh.

I'm sear'd with burning steel. Rowe.

Sear is allied to scorch in signification; cut it is applied primarily to animal flesh, and has special reference to the effect of heat in making the surface hard. Scorch is applied to flesh, sloth or any other substance, and has mo reference to the effect of hardness.

2. To wither; to dry.

3. To make callous or insensible.

Having their conscience seared with a hot iron. 1 Timothy 4:2.

To sear up, to close by searing or cauterizing; to stop.

Cherish veins of good humor, and sear up those of ill. Temple.

SEAR, adjective. Dry; withered

Sear-Cloth

SE'AR-CLOTH, noun A cloth to cover a sore; a plaster.

Searce

SEARCE, verb transitive sers. To shift; to bolt; to separate the fine part of meal from the coarse. [Little used.]

SEARCE, n. sers. A sieve; a bolter. [Little used.]

Searcer

SEARCER, n. sers'er. One that sifts or bolts. [Little used.]

Search

SEARCH, verb transitive serch

1. To look over or through for the purpose of finding something; to explore; to examine by inspection; as, to search the house for a book; to search the wood for a thief.

Send though men, that they may search the land of Canaan. Numbers 13:2.

2. To inquire; to seek for.

Enough is left besides to search and know. Milton.

3. To probe; to seek the knowledge of by feeling with instrument; as to search a wound.

4. To examine; to try. Psalms 139:23S

To search out, to seek till found, or to find by seeking; as, to search out truth.

Watts.

SEARCH, verb intransitive serch.

1. To seek; to look for; to make search

Once more search with me. Shak.

2. To make inquiry; to inquire.

It suffices that they have once with care sifted the matter, and searched into all the particulars. Locke.

To search for, to look for; to seek; to find; as, to search for a gentleman now in the house. Shak.

SEARCH, noun serch.

1. A seeking or looking for something that is lost, or the place of which us unknown; with for or after; as a search for lost money; a search for mines of gold and silver; a search after happiness or knowledge.

2. Inquiry; a seeking. He spent his life in search of truth.

3. Quest; pursuit for finding.

Nor did my search of liberty begin, Till my black hairs were chang'd upon my chin. Dryden.

Searchable

SEARCHABLE, adjective serch'able. That may be searched or explored.

Searched

SEARCHED, participle passive serch'ed. Looked over carefully; explored; examined.

Searcher

SEARCHER, noun serch'er.

1. One who searches, explores or examines for the prupose of finding something.

2. A seeker; an inquirer.

3. An examiner; a trier; as the Seacher of hearts.

4. An officer in London, appointed to examine the bodies of the dead, and report the cause of their death.

5. An officer of the customs, whose business is to search and examine ships outward bound, to ascertain whether they have prohibited goods on board, also baggage, goods, etc.

6. An inspector of lether.

7. In military affairs, an instrument for examining ordnance, to ascertain whether guns have any cavities in them.

8. An instrument used in the inspection of butter, etc. to ascertain the quality of that which is contained in firkins.

Searching

SEARCHING, participle passive serch'ing.

1. Looking into or over; exploring; examining; inquiring; seeking; investigating.

2. adjective Penetrating; trying; close; as a searching discourse.

SEARCHING, noun search'ing. Exanination; severe inquisition. Judges 5:16.

Searchless

SEARCHLESS, noun serch'less. Inscrutable; eluding search or investigation.

Seared

SE'ARED, participle passive [from sear.] Burnt on the furface; cauterized; hardened;

Searedness

SE'AREDNESS, noun The state of being seared, cauterized or hardened; hardness; hence insensibility.

Season

SE'ASON. noun se'zn.Season literally signifies that which comes or arrives; and in this general sense, is synonymous with time. Hence,

1. A fit or suitable time; the convenient time; the usual or appointed time; as, the messenger arrived in season; in good season. This fruit is out of season.

2. Any time, as distinguished from others.

The season prime for sweetest scents and airs. Milton.

3. A time of some continuance, but not long.

Thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. Acts 13:11.

4. One of the four divisions of the year, spring, summer, autumn, winter. The season is mild; it is cold for the season.

We saw in six days' traveling, the several seasons of the year n their beauty.

Addison.

We distinguish the season by prefixing its appropriate name, as the spring-season, summer-seacon, etc.

To be in season, to be in good time, or sufficiently early for the prupose.

To be out of season, to be too late, beyoun the proper time, or beyond the

usually appointed time.

From the sense of convenience, is derived the following.

5. That which matures or prepares for the taste; that which gives a relish.

You lack the season of all nature, sleep. Shak.

But in this sense, we now use seasoning.

SE'ASON, verb transitive

1. To render palatable, or to give a higher relish to, by the addition or mixture of another substance more pungent or pleasant; as, to season meat with salt; to season any thing with spices. Leviticus 2:13.

2. To render more agreeable, pleasant or delightful; to give relish or zest to by something that excites, animates or exhilarates.

You season still with sports your serious hours. Dryden.

The proper use of wit is to season conversation. Tillotson.

3. To render more agreeable, or less rigorous and severe; to temper; to moderate; to qualify by admixture.

When mercy seasons justice. Shak.

4. To imbue; to tinge or taint.

Season their younger years with prudent and pious principles. Taylor.

5. To fit any use by time or habit; to mature; to prepare.

Who in want a hollow friend doth try, Directly seasons him an enemy. Shak.

6. To prepare for use by drying or hardening; to take out or suffer to escape the natural juices; as, to season timber.

7. To prepare or mature for a climate; to accustom to and enable to endure; as, to season the body to a particular climate. Long residence in the West Indies, or a fever, may season strangers.

SE'ASON, verb intransitive

1. To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate, as the human body.

2. To become dry and hard by the escape of natural juices, or by being penetrated with other substances. Timber seasons well under cover in the air, and ship timber seasons in salt water.

3. To betoken; to savor.

Seasonable

SE'ASONABLE, adjective Opportune; that comes, happens or is done in good time, in due season or in proper time for the purpose; as a seasonable supply of rain.

Mercy is seasonable in the time of affliction. Ecclus.

Seasonableness

SE'ASONABLENESS, noun Opportuneness of time; that state of being in good time, or in time convenient for the prupose or sufficiently early.

Seasonably

SE'ASONABLY, adverb In due time; in time convenient; sufficiently early; as, to sow or plant seasonably.

Seasonage

SE'ASONAGE, noun Seasoning; sauce. [Not used.]

Seasoned

SE'ASONED, participle passive Mixed or sprinkled with something that gives a relish; tempered; moderated; qualified; matured; dried and hardened.

Seasoner

SE'ASONER, noun He that seasons; that which seasons, matures or gives a relish.

Seasoning

SE'ASONING, participle present tense Giving a relish by something added; moderating; qualifying; maturing; drying and hardening; fitting by habit.

SE'ASONING, noun

1. That which is added to any species of food to give it a higher relish; usually, something pungent or aromatic; as salt, spices or other aromatic herbs, acids, sugar, or a mixture of several things.

2. Something added or mixed to enhance the pleasure of enjoyment; as, with or humor may serve as a seasoning to eloquence.

Political speculations are of so dry and asutere a nature, that they will not go down with the public without frequent seasoning. Addison.

Seat

SEAT, noun [L. sedes, situs.]

1. That on which one sits; a chair, bench, stool or any other thing on which a person sits.

Christ--overthrew the tables of the money changers and the seats of them that sold doves. Matthew 21:12.

2. The place of sitting; throne; chair of state; tribunal; post of authority; as the seat of justice; judgment-seat.

3. Mansion; residence; dwelling; abode; as Italy the seat of empire. The Greeks sent colonies to seek a new seat in Gaul.

In Albe he shall fix his royal seat. Dryden.

4. Site; situation. The seat of Eden has never been incontrovertibly ascertained.

5. That part of a saddle on which a person sits.

6. In horsemanship, posture or situation of a perosn on horseback.

7. A pew or slip in a chruch; a place to sit in.

8. The place where a thing is settled or established. London is the seat of business and opulence. So we say, the seat of the muses, the seat of arts, the seat of commerce.

SEAT, verb transitive

1. To place on a seat; to cause to sit down. We seat ourselves; we seat our guests.

The guests were no sooner seated but they entered into a warm debate.

Arbuthnot.

2. To place in a post of authority, in office or a place of distinction. He seated his son in the professor's chair.

Then high was king Richard seated. Shak.

3. To settle; to fix in a particular place or country. A colony of Greeks seated themselves in the south of Italy; another at Massilia in Gaul.

4. To fix; to set firm.

From their foundations, loosening to and fro, They pluck'd the seated hills. Milton.

5. To place in a chruch; to assign seats to. In New England, where the pews in churches are not private property, it is customary to seat families for a year or longer time; that is, assign and appropriate seats to their use.

6. To appropriate the pews in, to particular families; as, to seat a church.

7. To repair by making the seat new; as, to seat a garment.

8. To settle; to plant with inhabitants; as, to seat a country. [Not used much.]

SEAT, verb intransitive To rest; to lie down. [Not in use.]

Seated

SE'ATED, participle passive Placed in a chair or on a bench, etc.; set; fixed; settled; established; furnished with a seat.

Seating

SE'ATING, participle present tense Placing on a seat; setting; settling; furnishing with a seat; having its seats assigned to individuals, as a church.

Seaves

SEAVES, noun plu. [Heb. suf.] Rushes.

Seavy

SE'AVY, adjective Overgrown with rushes.

Seaward

SE'AWARD, adjective [sea and ward.] Directed towards the sea.

SE'AWARD, adverb Towards the sea.

Seaworthy

SE'AWORTHY, adjective [sea and worthy.] Fit for a voyage; worthy of being trusted to transport a cargo with safety; as a seaworthy ship.

Sebaceous

SEBA'CEOUS, adjective [Low L. sebaceus, from sebum, sevum, tallow.] Made of tallow or fat; pretaining to fat.

Sebaceous humor, a suet-like or glutinous matter secreted by the sebaceous glands, which serves to defent the skin and keep it soft. Coxe. Parr.

Sebaceous glands, small glands seated in the cellular membrane under the skin, which secrete the sebaceous humor. Parr.

Sebacic

SEBAC'IC, adjective [supra.] In chimistry, pretaining to fat; obtained fro fat; as the sebacic acid.

Sebate

SE'BATE, noun [supra.] In chimistry, a salt formed by the sebacic acid and a base.

Sebesten

SEBES'TEN, noun The Assyrian plum, a plant of the genus Cordia, a species of jujube.

Secant

SE'CANT, adjective [L. secans, seco, to cut or cut off, coinciding with Eng. saw.] Cutting; dividing into two parts.

SE'CANT, noun

1. In geometry, a line that cuts another, or divides it into parts. The secant of a circle is a line drawn from the circumference on one side, to a point without the circumference on the other, In trigonometry, a secant is a right line drawn from the center of a circle, which, cutting the circumference, proceeds till it meets with a tangent to the same circle.

2. In trigonometry, the secant of an arc is a right line drawn from the center through one end of the arc, and terminated by a tangent drawn through the other end.

Secede

SECE'DE, verb intransitive [L. secedo; se, from, and cedo, to move. Se is an inseparable preposition or prefix in Latin, but denoting departure or separation.] To withdraw from fellowship, communion or association; to separate ones's self; as, certain ministers seceded from the church of Scotland about the year 1733.

Seceder

SECE'DER, noun One who secedes. In Scotland, the seceders are a numerous body of presbyterians who seceded from the communion of the established church, about the year 1733.

Seceding

SECE'DING, participle present tense Withdrawing from fellowship or communion.

Secern

SECERN', verb transitive [L. secerno; se and cerno, to separate.] In the animal economy, to secrete.

The mucus secerned in the nose--is a laudable humor. Arbuthnot.

Secerned

SECERN'ED, participle passive Separated; secreted.

Secernent

SECERN'ENT, noun That which promotes secretion; that which increases the irritative motions, which constitute secretion.

Secerning

SECERN'ING, participle present tense Separating; secreting; as secerning vessels.

Seclude

SECLU'DE, verb transitive [L. secludo; se and claudo, cludo, to shut.]

1. To separate, as from company or society, and usually to keep apart for some length of tome, or to confine in a separate state; as persons in low spirits seclude themselves from society.

Let eastern tyrants from the light of heav'n Seclude their bosom slaves. Thomson.

2. To shut out; to prevent from entering; to preclude.

Inclose your tender plants in your conservatory, secluding all entrance of cold.

Evelyn.

Secluded

SECLU'DED, participle passive Separated from others; living in retirement; shut out.

Secluding

SECLU'DING, participle present tense Separating from others; confining in solitude or in a separate state; preventing entrance.

Seclusion

SECLU'SION, noun s as z. The act of separating from society or connection; the state of being separate or apart; separation; a shutting out; as to live in seclusion.

Second

SEC'OND, adjective [L. secundus; L. sequor, to follow. See Seek.]

1. That immediately follows the first; the mext following the first in order of place or time; the ordinal of two. Take the second book from the shelf. Enter the second house.

And he slept and dreamed the second time. Gen. 41.

2. Next in value, power, excellence, dignity or rank; inferior. The silks of China are second to none. Lord Chatham was second to none in eloquence. Dr. Johnson was second to none in itellecual powers, but second to many in research and erudition.

Second terms, in algebra, those where the unknown quantity has a degree of power less than it has in the term where it is raised to the highest.

At second-hand, in the sicond place of order; not in first place, orby or from the first; by transmission; not primarily; not originally; as a report received at second hand.

In imitation of preachers at second hand, I shall transcribe from Bruyere a piece of raillery. Tatler.

SEC'OND, noun

1. One who attends another in a duel, to aid him, mark out the ground or destance, and see that all proceedings between the parties are fair.

2. One that supports or maintains another; that which supports

Being sure enough of seconds after the first onset. Wotton.

3. The sixtieth part of a minute or of a degree, that is, the second minute or small division next to the hour. Sound moves above 1140 English feet in a second.

4. In music, an interval of a conjoint degree, being the difference between any sound and the next nearest sound above ar below it.

SEC'OND, verb transitive [L. secundo.]

1. To follow in the next place.

Sin is seconded with sin. [Little used.] South.

2. To support; to lend aid to the attempt of another; to assist' to forward; to promote; to encourage; to act as the maintainer.

We have supplies to second our attempt. Shak.

The attempts of Austria to circumscribe the conquests of Buonaparte, were seconded by Russia. Anon.

In God's, one single can its end produce,

Yet serves second too some other use. Pope.

3. In legislation, to support, as a motion or the mover. We say, to second a motion or proposition, or to second the mover.

Second-Hand

SEC'OND-HAND, noun. Possession received from the first possessor.

SEC'OND-HAND, adjective.

1. Not original or primary; received from another.

The have but a second-hand or implicit knowledge. Locke.

2. Not new; that has been used by another; as a second-hand book.

Second-Rate

SEC'OND-RATE, noun. [second and rate.] The second order in size, dignity, or value.

They call it thunder of the second-rate. Addison.

So we say, a ship of the second-rate.

SEC'OND-RATE, adjective. Of the second size, rank, quality or value; as a second-rate ship; a second-rate cloth; a second-rate champion.

Second-Sight

SEC'OND-SIGHT, noun. The power of seeing things future or distant; a power claimed by some of the highlanders in Scotland.

Nor less avail'd his optic sleight,

And Scottish gift of second-sight. Trubbull's M'Fingal.

Second-Sighted

SEC'OND-SIGHTED, adjective. Having the power of second-sight.

Secondarily

SEC'ONDARILY, adv. [from secondary.] In second degree or second order; not primarily or originally; not the first intention. Duties on imports serve primarily to raise a revenue, and secondarily to encourage domestic manufactures and industry.

Secondariness

SEC'ONDARINESS, noun. The state of being secondary.

Secondary

SEC'ONDARY, adjective. [L. secundarius, from secundus.]

1. Succeeding next in order to the first; subordinate.

Where there is moral right on the one hand, not secondary right can discharge it.

L' Estrange.

2. Not primary; not of the first intention.

Two are racial differences; the secondary differences are as four. Bacon.

3. Not of the first order or rate; revolving about a primary planet. Primary planets revolve about the sun; secondary planets revolve about the primary.

4. Acting by deputation or delegated authority; as the work of secondary hands.

5. Acting in subordination, or second to another; as a secondary officer.

Secondary rocks, in geology, are those which were formed after the primary. they are always situated over or above the primitive and transition rocks; they abound with organic remains or petrifications, and are supposed to be mechanical deposits from water. Cleaveland.

A secondary fever, is that which arises after a crisis, or the discharge of some morbid matter, as after the declension of the small pox or measles. Quincy.

Secondary circles, or secondaries, in astronomy, circles passing through the poles of any of the great circles of the sphere, perpendicular to the planes of those circles.

Secondary qualities, are the qualities of bodies which are not inseparable from them, but which is proceed from casual circumstances, such as color, taste, odor, etc.

Secondary formations, in geology, formations of substances, subsequent to the primitive.

SEC'ONDARY, noun.

1. A delegate or deputy; one who acts in subordination to another; as the secondaries of the court of king's bench and common pleas.

2. A fether growing on the second bone of a fowl's wing.

Seconded

SEC'ONDED, participle passive Supported; aided.

Seconder

SEC'ONDER, noun One that supported what another attempts, or what he affirms, or hat he moves or proposes; as the seconder of an enterprise or of a motion.

Secondly

SEC'ONDLY, adv. In the second place.

Secrecy

SE'CRECY, noun. [from secret.]

1. Properly, a state of separation; hence, concealment from the observation of others, or from the notice of any persons not concerned; privacy; a state of being bid from view. When used of an individual, secrecy implies concealment from all others; when used of two or more, it implies concealment from all persons except those concerned. thus a company of counterfeiters carry on their villainy in secrecy.

The Lady Anne, Whom the king in secrecy hath long married. Shak.

2. Solitude; retirement; seclusion from the view of others.

3. Forbearance of disclosure or discovery.

It is not with public as with private prayer; in this, rather secrecy is commanded than outward show. Hooker.

4. Fidelity to a secret; the act or habit of keeping secrets.

For secrecy no lady closer.

Secret

SE'CRET, adjective. [Latin secretus. This is given as the participle of secerno, but is radically a different word. The radical sense of seg is to separate, as in Latin seco, to cut off; and not improbably this word is contracted into the Latin se, a prefix in segrego, separo, etc.]

1. Properly, separate; hence, hid; concealed from the notice or knowledge of all persons except the individual or individuals concerned.

I have a secret errand to thee, O king. Judges 3:19.

2. Unseen; private; secluded; being in retirement.

There secret in her sapphire cell,

He with the Nais wont to dwell. Fenton.

3. Removed from sight; private; unknown.

Abide in a secret place, and hide thyself. I Sam. 19.

4. Keeping secrets; faithful to secrets entrusted; as secret Romans. [Unusual.]

5. Private; affording privacy.

6. Occult; not seen; not apparent; as the secret operations of physical causes.

7. Known to God only.

Secret things belong to the Lord our God. Deuteronomy 29:29.

Not proper to be seen; kept or such as ought to be kept from observation.

SE'CRET, noun. [Latin secretum]

1. Something studiously concealed. A man who cannot keep his own secrets, will hardly keep the secrets of others.

To tell our own secrets is often folly; to communicate those of others is treachery.

Rambler.

A talebearer revealeth secrets. Proverbs 11:13

2. A thing not discovered and therefore not known.

All secrets of the deep, all nature's works. Milton.

Hast thou heard the secret of God? Job 15:8.

3. Secrets, plural , The parts which modesty and propriety require to be concealed. In secret, in a private place; in privacy or secrecy; in a state or place not seen; privately.

Bread eaten in secret is pleasant. Proverbs 9:17.

SE'CRET, v. t. To keep private. [Little used.]

Secretariship

SEC'RETARISHIP, noun. The office of a secretary.

Secretary

SEC'RETARY, noun. [Latin secretus, secret; originally a confident, one entrusted with secrets.]

1. A person employed by a public body, by a company or by an individual, to write orders, letters, dispatches, public or private papers, and the like. Thus ligislative bodies have secretaries, whose business is to record all their laws and resolves. Embassadors have secretaries.

2. An officer whose business is to superintend and manage the affairs of a particular department of government; as the secretary of state, who conducts correspondence of a state with foreign courts: the secretary of the treasury, who manages the department of finance; the secretary of war, of the navy, etc.

Secrete

SECRE'TE, verb transitive

1. To hide; to conceal; to remove from observation or the knowledge of others; as to secrete stolen goods.

2. To secrete one's self; to retire from notice into a private place; to abscend.

3. In the animal economy, to produce from the blood substances different from the blood itself, or from any of its constituents; as the glands. The liver secretes bile; the salivary glands secrete saliva.

Secreted

SECRE'TED, pp. Concealed; secerned.

Secreting

SECRE'TING, ppr. Hiding; secerning.

Secretion

SECRE'TION, noun.

1. The act of secerning; the act of the producing from the blood substances different from the blood itself, or from any of its constituents, as bile, saliva, mucus, urine, etc. This was considered 0by the older physiologists as merely separation from the blood of certain substances previously contained in it; the literal meaning of secretion. But this opinion is generally exploded. The organs of secretion are of very various form and structure, but the most general are called glands.

2. The matter secreted, as mucus, perspirable matter, etc.

Secretist

SE'CRETIST, noun. A dealer in secrets. [Not in use.]

Secretitious

SECRETI'TIOUS, adjective. Parted by an animal in secretion.

Secretly

SE'CRETLY, adv.

1. Privately; privily; not openly; without the knowledge of others; as, to dispatch a messenger secretly.

2. Inwardly; not apparently or visibly; latently.

Now secretly with inward grief she pin'd. Addison.

Secretness

SE'CRETNESS, noun.

1. The state of being hid or concealed.

2. The quality of keeping a secret.

Sect

SECT, noun. [Latin Sp. secta; from Latin seco, to cut off, to separate.]

1. A body or number of persons united in tenets, chiefly in philosophy or religion, but constituting a distinct party by holding sentiments different from those of other men. Most sects have originated in a particular person, who taught and propagated some peculiar notions in philosophy or religion, and who is considered to have been its founder. Among the jews, the principal sects were the Pharisees, Sadducees, and Essenes. In Greece were the Cynic sect, founded by Antisthenes; and the Academic sect, by Plato. The Academic sect gave birth to the Peripatetic, and a Cynic to the Stoic.

2. A cutting or coin. [Not used.]

Sectarian

SECTA'RIAN, adjective. [Latin secrarius.] Pertaining to a sect or sects; as sectarian principles or prejudices.

SECT'ARIAN, noun. One of a sect; one of a party in religion which has separated itself from the established church, or which holds tenets different from those of the prevailing denomination in a kingdom or state.

Sectarianism

SECTA'RIANISM, noun. The disposition to dissent from the established church or predominant religion, and to form new sects.

Sectarism

SECT'ARISM, noun. Sectarianism. [Little used.]

Sectarist

SECT'ARIST, noun. A secretary. [Not much used.]

Sectary

SECT'ARY, noun.

1. A person who separates from an established church, or from the prevailing denomination of christians; one that belongs to a sect; a dissenter.

2. a follower; a pupil. [Not in use.]

Sectator

SECTA'TOR, noun. A follower; a disciple; an adherent to a sect. [Not now used.]

Sectile

SECT'ILE, adjective. [Latin sectilus, from seco, to cut.] A sectile mineral is one that is midway between the briddle and the malleable, as soapstone and plumbago.

Section

SEC'TION, noun [L. sectio; seco, to cut off.]

1. The act of cutting or of separating by cutting; as the section of the bodies.

2. A part separated from the rest; a division.

3. In books and writings, a distinct part or portion; the subdivision of a chapter; the division of a law or other writing or instrument. In laws, a section is sometimes called a paragraph or article.

4. A distinct part of a city, town, country or people; a part of territory separated by geographecal lines, or of a people considered as distinct. Thus we say, the northern or eastern section of the United States, the middle section, the southern or western section.

5. In geometry, a side or surface of a body or figure cut off by another; or the place where lines, planes, etc. cut each other.

Sectional

SEC'TIONAL, adjective Pertaining to a section or distinct part of a larger body or territory.

Sector

SECT'OR, noun [L. seco, to cut.]

1. In geometry, a part of a circle comprehended between two radii and the arch; or a mixed triangle, formed by two radii and the arch of a circle.

2. A mathematical instrument so marked with lines of sines, tangents, secants, chords, etc. as to fit all radii and scales, and useful in finding the proportion between quantities of the same kind. The sector is founded on the fourth proposition of the sixth book of Euclid, where it is proved that similar triangles have their homologous sides proportional.

Secular

SEC'ULAR, adjective. [Latin secularis, from seculum, the world or an age.]

1. Pertaining to the present world, or to things not spiritual or holy; relating to things not immediately or primarily respecting the soul, but the body; worldly. The secular concerns of life respect making provision for the support of life, the preservation of health, the temporal prosperity of men, of states, etc. Secular power is that which superintends and governs the temporal affairs of men, the civil or political power; and is contradistinguished from spiritual or ecclsiastical power.

2. Among catholics, not regular; not bound by monastic vows or rules; not confines to a monastery or subject to the rules of a religious community. Thus we say, the secular clergy and the regular clergy.

3. Coming once in a century; as a secular year.

Secular games, in Rome, were games celebrated once in an age or century, which lasted three days and three nights, with sacrifices, theatrical shows, combats, sports, etc.

Valerius Maximus.

Secular music, any music or songs not adapted to sacred uses.

Secular song or poem, a song or poem composed for the secular games, or sung or rehearsed at those games.

SEC'ULAR, noun. A church officer or officiate whose functions are confines to the vocal department of the choir.

Secularity

SECULAR'ITY, noun. Worldiness; supreme attention to the things of the present life.

Secularization

SECULARIZA'TION, noun. [foom secularize.] the act of converting a regular person, place or benefice into a secular one. Most cathedral churchses were formerly regular, that is, the canons were of religious or monastic orders; but they have since been secularized. for the secularization of a regular church, there is wanted the authority of the pope, that of the prince, the bishop of the place, the patron, and even the consent of the people.

Secularize

SEC'ULARIZE, v. t.

1. To make secular; to convert from spiritual appropriation to scular or common use; to convert that which is regular or monastic into secular; as, the ancient regular cathedral churches were secularized.

At the reformation, the abbey was secularized. Coxe, Switz.

2. To make worldy.

Secularized

SEC'ULARIZED, pp. Converted from regular to secular.

Secularizing

SEC'ULARIZING, ppr. Converting from regular or monastic to secular.

Secularly

SEC'ULARLY, adv. In a worldy manner.

Secularness

SEC'ULARNESS, noun. A secular disposition; worldliness; worldly mindedness.

Secundine

SEC'UNDINE, noun. Secundines, in the plural, as generally used, are the several coats or membranes in which the fetus is wrapped in the womb; the after-birth.

Secure

SECU'RE, adjective. [Latin securus.]

1. Free from danger of being taken by an enemy; that may resist assault or attack. Teh place is well fortified and very secure. Gibraltar is a secure fortress. In this sense, secure is followed by against or from; as secure against attack, or from an enemy.

2. Free from danger; safe; applied to persons; with from.

3. Free from fear or apprehension of danger; not alarmed; not disturbed by fear; confident of safety; hence, careless of the means of defense. Men are often most in danger when they feel most secure.

Confidence then bore thee on, secure

To meet no danger. Milton.

4. Confident; not distrultful; with of.

But thou, secure of soul, unbent with woes. Dryden.

It concerns the most secure of his strength, to pray to God not to expose him to an enemy. Rogers.

5. Careless; wanting caution. [See No. 3.]

6. Certain; very confident. He is secure of a welcome reception.

SECU'RE, v. t.

1. To guard effectually from danger; to make safe. Fortifications may secure a city; ships of war may secure a harbor.

I spread a cloud before the victor's sight,

Sustain'd the vanquish'd, and secur'd his flight. Dryden.

2. To make certain; to put beyond hazard. Liberty and fixed laws secure to every citizen

due protection of person and property. the first duty of the highest interest of men is to secure the favor of God by repentance and faith, and thus secure to themselves future felicity.

3. To inclose or confine effectually; to guard effectually from escape; sometimes, to seize

and confine; as, to secure a prisoner. The sherif pursued the theif with a warrant, and secured him.

4. To made certain of payment; as, to secure a debt by mortgage.

5. To make certain of receiving a precarious debt by giving bond, mail, surety or other-wise; as, to secure a creditor.

6. To insure, as property.

7. To make fast; as, to secure a door; to secure a rafter to a plate; to secure the hatches of a ship.

Secured

SECU'RED, pp. Effectually guarded or protected; made certain; put beyond hazard; effectually confined; made fast.

Securely

SECU'RELY, adv.

1. Without danger; safely; as, to pass a river on ice securely. But safely is generally used.

2. Without fear or apprehension; carelessly; in an unguarded state; in confidence of safety.

His daring foe securely him defied. Milton.

Devise not evil against thy neighbor, seeing he dwelleth securely by thee. Proverbs 3:29.

Securement

SECU'REMENT, noun. Security; protection. [Not used.]

Secureness

SECU'RENESS, noun. Confidence of safety; exemption from fear; hence, want of vigilance or caution.

Securer

SECU'RER, noun. He or that which secures or protects.

Securiform

SECU'RIFORM, adjective. [Latin securis, an ax or hatchet, and form.] In botany, having the form of an ax or hatchet.

Security

SECU'RITY, noun. [Latin securitas.]

1. Protection; effectual defense or saftey from danger of any kind; as a chain of forts erected for the security of the frontiers.

2. That which protects or guards from danger. A navy constitutes the security of Great Britain from invasion.

3. Freedom from fear or apprehension; confidence of safety; whence, negligence in providing means of defense. Security is dangerous, for it exposes men to attack when unprepared. Security in sin is the worst condition of the sinner.

4. Safety; certainty. We have no security for peace with Algiers, but the dread of our navy.

5. Anything given or deposited to secure the payment of a debt, or the performance of a contract; as a bond with surety, a mortgage, the indorsement of a responsible man, a pledge, etc.

6. Something given or done to secure peace or good behavior. Violent and dangerous men are obliged to give security for their good behavior, or for keeping the peace. This security

in being bound with one or more sureties in a recognizance to the king or state.

Sedan

SEDAN', noun [L. sedeo; like L. esseda] A portable chair or cover vehicle for carrying a single person. It is borne on poles by two men.

Sedate

SEDA'TE, adjective [L. sedatus, from sedo, to calm or appease, that is, to set, to cause to subside.] Settled; composed; calm; quiet; tranquil; still; serene; unruffled by passion; udisturbed; as a sedate soul, mind or temper. So we say, a sedate look or countenance.

Sedately

SEDA'TELY, adverb Calmly; without agitation of mind.

Sedateness

SEDA'TENESS, noun Calmness of mind, manner or countenance; freedom from agitation; a settled state; composure; serenity; tranquillity; as sedateness of temper or soul; sedateness of countenance; sedateness of conversation.

Sedation

SEDA'TION, noun The act of calming. [Not in use.]

Sedative

SEDATIVE, adjective [L. sedo, to calm.] In medicine, moderating muscular action or animal energy.

SED'ATIVE, noun A midicine that moderates muscular action or animal energy. Se defendendo, in defending himself; the plea of a person charged with murder, who alledges that he committed the act in his own defense.

Sedentarily

SED'ENTARILY, adverb [from sedentary.] The state of being sedentary, or living without much action.

Sedentariness

SED'ENTARINESS, noun The state of being sedentary.

Sedentary

SED'ENTARY, adjective. [Latin sedentarius, from sedens, sedeo, to sit.]

1. Accustomed to sit much, or to pass most of the time in a sitting posture; as a sedentary man. Students, taylors and women are sedentary persons.

2. Requiring much sitting; as a sedentary occupation or employment.

3. Passed for the most part in sitting; as a sedentary life.

4. Inactive; motionless; sluggish; as the sedentary earth.

The soul, considered abstractly from its passions, is of a remiss sedentary nature.

Spectator.

Sedge

SEDGE, noun. [Latin seco, to cut; that is sword grass, like Latin gladiolus.]

1. A narrow flag, or growth of such flags; called in the north of England, seg or sag.

2. In New England, a species of very coarse grass growing in swamps, and forming bogs or clumps.

Sedged

SEDG'ED, adjective. Composed of flags or sedge.

Sedgy

SEDG'Y, adjective. Overgrown with sedge.

On the gentle Severn's sedgy bank. Shak.

Sediment

SED'IMENT, noun. [Latin sedimentum, from sedeo, to settle.] The matter which subsides to the bottom of liquors; settlings; lees; dregs.

Sedition

SEDI''TION, noun. [Latin seditio. The sense of this word is the contrary of that which is naturally deducible from sedo, or sedeo, denoting a rising or raging, rather than an appeasing. But to set is really to throw down, to drive, and sedition may be a setting or rushing together.] A factious commotion of the people, a tumultuous assembly of men rising in opposition to law or the administration of justice, and in disturbance of the public peace. sedition is a rising or commotion of less extent than an insurrection, and both are less than rebellion; but some kinds of sedition in Great Britain, amount to high treason. In general, sedition is a local or limited insurrection in opposition to civil authority, as mutiny is to military.

Seditionary

SEDI''TIONARY, noun. An inciter or promoter of sedition.

Seditious

SEDI''TIOUS, adjective. [Latin seditiosus.]

1. Pertaining to sedition; partaking of the nature of sedition; as seditious behavior; seditious strife.

2. Tending to excite sedition; as seditious words.

3. Disposed to excite violent or irregular opposition to law or lawful authority; turbulent; factious, or guilty of sedition; as seditious citizens.

Seditiously

SEDI''TIOUSLY, adv. With tumultious opposition to law; in a manner to violate the public peace.