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Seditiousness

SEDI''TIOUSNESS, noun. The disposition to excite popular commotion in opposition to law; or the act of exciting such commotion.

Seduce

SEDU'CE, v. t. [Latin seduco; se, from, and duco, to lead.]

1. To draw aside or entice from the path of rectitude and duty in any manner, by flattery,

promises, bribes or otherwise; to tempt and lead to iniquity; to corrupt; to deprave.

Me the gold of France did not seduce. Shak.

In the latter times, some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits.

Tim. 4.

2. To entice to a surrender of chastity. He that can seduce a female is base enough to betray her.

Seducement

SEDU'CEMENT, noun.

1. The act of seducing; seduction.

2. The means employed to seduce; the arts of flattery, falsehood and deception.

Seducer

SEDU'CER, noun.

1. One that seduces; one that by temptation or arts, entices another to depart from the path of rectitude and duty; pre-eminently, one that by flattery, promises or falsehood, persuades a female to surrender her chastity. The seducer of a female is little less criminal than the murderer.

2. That which leads astray; that which entices to evil.

He whose firm faith no reason could remove,

Will mest before that soft seducer, love. Dryden.

Seducible

SEDU'CIBLE, adjective. Capable of being drawn aside from the path of rectitude; corruptible.

Seducing

SEDU'CING, ppr. Enticing from the path of virtue or chastity.

Seduction

SEDU'CTION, noun. [Latin seductio.]

1. The act of seducing or of enticing from the path of duty.

2. Appropriately, the act or crime of persuading a female, by flattery or deception, to surrender her chastity. A woman who is above flattery, is least liable to seduction; but the best safeguard is principle, the love and purity of holiness, the fear of God and reverence forHis commandments.

Seductive

SEDUC'TIVE, adjective. Tending to lead astray; apt to mislead by flattering appearances.

Sedulity

SEDU'LITY, noun. [Latin sedulitas. See Sedulous.] Diligent and assiduous application to business; constant attention; unremitting industry in any pursuit. It denotes constancy and perseverance rather than intenseness of application.

Let there be but the same propensity and bent of will to religion, and there will be the same sedulity and indefatigable industry in men's inquiries into it. South.

Sedulous

SED'ULOUS, adjective. [Latin sedulus, from the root of sedeo, to sit; as assiduous from assideo.] Literally, sitting close to an employment; hence, assiduous; diligent in application or pursuit; constant, steady and persevering in business or endeavors to effect an object; steadily industrious; as the sedulous bee.

What signifies the sound of words in prayer, without the affection of heart, and a sedulous application of the proper means that may lead to such an end? L'Estrange.

Sedulously

SED'ULOUSLY, adv. Assiduously; industriously; diligently; with constant or continued application.

Sedulousness

SED'ULOUSNESS, noun. Assiduity; assiduousness; steady diligence; continued industry or effort.

Sedused

SEDU'SED, pp. Drawn or enticed from virtue; corrupted; depraved.

See

SEE, noun.

1. The seat of episcopal power; a diocese; the jurisdiction of a bishop.

2. The seat of an archbishop; a province or jurisdiction of an archbishop; as an archiepiscopal see.

3. The seat, place or office of the pope or Roman pontif; as the papal see.

4. The authority of the pope or court of Rome; as, to appeal to the see of Rome.

SEE, v. t. [Latin sequor, and Eng. essay, are all from the same radix. The primary sense of the root is to strain, stretch, extend; and as applied to see, the sense is to extend to, to reach, to strike with the eye or sight.]

1. To perceive by the eye; to have knowledge of the existence and the apparent qualities of objects by the organs of sight; to behold.

I will now turn aside and see this great sight. Exodus 3:3.

We have seen the land, and behold, it is very good. Judges 18:1.

2. To observe; to note or notice; to know; to regard or look to; to take care; to attend, as to

the execution of some order, or to the performance of something.

Give them the first one simple idea, and see that they fully comprehend before you go any farther. Locke.

See that ye fall not out by the way. Genesis 45:12.

3. To discover; to descry; to understand. Who so dull as not to see the device or strategem?

very notable actions often lose much of their excellence when the motives are seen.

4. To converse or have intercourse with. We improve by seeing men of different habits and tempers.

5. To visit; as, to call and see a friend. The physician sees his patient twice a day.

6. To attend; to remark or notice.

I had a mind to see him out, and therefore did not care to contradict him. Addison.

7. To behold with patience or sufferance; to endure.

It was not meet for us to see the king's dishonor. Ezra 4:14.

8. In Scripture, to hear or attend to.

I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. Revelation 1:7.

9. To feel; to suffer; to experience.

Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years in which we have seen evil. Psalms 90:1.

If a man shall keep my saying, he shall never see death. John 8:51. Luke 2:15.

10. To know; to learn.

Go, I pray thee, see whether it be well with thy brethren. Genesis 37:14.

11. To perceive; to understand; to comprehend. I see the train of argument; I see his motives.

12. To perceive; to understand experimentally.

I see another law in my members. Romans 7:23.

13. To beware.

See thou do it not. Revelation 1:79.

14. To know by revelation.

The word that Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. Isaiah 2:8.

15. To have faith in and reliance on.

Seeing him who is invisible. Hebrews 11:5.

16. To enjoy; to have fruition of.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. Matthew 5:8.

SEE, verb intransitive

1. To have the power of perceiving by the proper organs, or the power of sight. Som animals, it is said, are able to see best in the night.

2. To discern; to have intellectual seght; to penetrate; to understand; with through or into; as, to see through the plans or policy of another; to see into artful schemes and pretensions.

3. To eximane or inquere. See wether the estimate is correct.

4. To be attentive.

5. To have full understanding.

But now ye say, we see, therefore your sin remaineth. John 9:41.

Let me see let us see are used to express consideration, or to introduce the particular consideration of a subject, or some scheme or calculation.

See is used imperatively, to call the attention of others to an object or a subject. See, see, how the balloon ascends.

See what it is to habe a poet in your house. Pope.

Seed

SEED, noun

1. The substance, animal or vegetable, which nature prepares for the reproduction and conservation of the species. The seeds of plants are a deciduous part, containing the rudiments of a new vegetable. In some cases, the seeds costitute the fruit or valuable part of plants, as in the case of wheat and other esculent grain; sometimes the seeds are inclosed in fruit, as in apples and melons. When applied to animal matter, it has no plural.

2. That from which any thing springs; first principle; original; as the seeds of virtue or vice.

3. Principle of production.

Praise of great acts he scatters as a seed. Waller.

4. Progeny; offspring; children; descendants; as the seed of Abraham; the seed of David. In this sense, the word is applied to one person, or to any number collectively, and admits of the plural form; but rarely used in the plural.

5. Race; generation; birth.

Of mortal seed they were not held. Waller.

SEED, verb intransitive

1. To grow to maturity, so as to produce seed. Maiz will not seed in a cool climate.

2. To shed the seed

SEED, verb transitive To sow; to sprinkle with seed which germinates and takes root.

Seed-Bud

SEE'D-BUD, noun [seed and bud.] The germ, germen or rudiment of the fruit in embryo.

Seed-Cake

SEE'D-CAKE, noun [seed and cake.] A sweet cake containing aromatic seeds.

Seed-Coat

SEE'D-COAT, noun In botany, the aril or outer coat of a seed.

Seed-Leaf

SEE'D-LEAF, noun In botany, the primary leaf. The seed-leaves are the cotyledons or lobes of a seed expanded and in the vegetation.

Seed-Lip

SEE'D-LIP, noun A vessle in which a sower carries the seed to be dispersed.

Seed-Lobe

SEE'D-LOBE, noun The lobe of a seed; a cotyledon, which see.

Seed-Lop

SEE'D-LOP,

Seed-Pearl

SEE'D-PEARL, noun [seed and pearl.] Small grains of pearl.

Seed-Plat

SEE'D-PLAT, noun [seed and plat.]

SEE'D-PLOT,

1. The ground on which seeds are sown to produce plants for transplanting; hence,

2. A nursery; a place where any thing is sown or planted for cultivation.

Seed-Time

SEE'D-TIME, noun [seed and time] The season proper for sowing.

While the earth remaineth, seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and winter, and day and night, shall not cease. Genesis 8:1.

Seed-Vessel

SEE'D-VESSEL, noun In botany, the pericarp which contains the seeds.

Seedling

SEE'DLING, noun A young plant or root just sprung from the seed.

Seedness

SEE'DNESS, noun Seed-time. [Not in use.]

Seedsman

SEE'DSMAN, noun [seed and man.] A person who deals in seeds; also, a sower.

Seedy

SEE'DY, adjective [from seed.]

1. Abounding with seeds.

2. Having a peculiar flavor, supposed to be derived from the weeds growing amoung vines; applied to French brandy.

Seeing

SEE'ING, participle present tense [from see.] Perceiving by the eye; knowing; understanding; observing; beholding.

[Note. This participle appears to be used indefinitely, or without direct reference to a person or persons. 'Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me.?' Genesis 26:27. That is, since, or the fact being that or thus; because that. In this form of phraseology, that is understood or implied after seeing; why come ye to me, seeing that, ye hate me? The resolution of the phrase or sentence is, ye hate me; that fact being seen or known by you, why come ye to me? or why come you to me, ye seeing [knowing] that fact which follows, viz. ye hate me. In this case, seeing retains its participial character, although its relation to the pronoun is somewhat obscured. Originally, seeing, in this use, had direct relation to the speaker or to some other person. 'Mow I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not witheld thy son.' Genesis 22:12. Here seeing refers to I, or according to the language of syntax, agrees or accords with I. I know thou fearest God, for I see thou hast not withheld thine only son; I know thou fearest God by seeing, in consequence of seeing this fact, thou hast not withheld thine only son. But the use of seeing is extended to cases in which it cannot be referred to a specifec person or persons, in which cases it expresses the notoriety or admission of a fact in general, and is left, like the French on, in the phrases on dit, on voit, without application to any particular person.]

Seek

SEEK, verb transitive pret and participle passive sought, pronounced sawt. [L. sequor, to follow; for to seek is to go after, and the primary sense is to advance, to press, to drive forward, as in the L. peto.]

1. To go in searh or quest of; to look for; to search for by going from place to place.

The man asked him, saying, what seekest thou? And he said, I seek my brethen.

Genesis 37:16.

2. To inquire for; to ask for; to solicit; to endeavor to find or gain by any means.

The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God. Psalms 104:21.

He found no place for repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears. Hebrews 12:1

Others tempting him, sought of him a sign. Luke 11:9.

3.Seek is followed sometimes by out or after. To seek out, properly implies to look for a specific thing among a number. But in general, the use of out and after with seek, is unnecessary and inelegant.

To seek God, his name, or his face, in Scripture, to ask for his favor, direction and assistance. Psalms 83:16.

God seeks men, when he fixes his love on them, and by his word and Spirit, and the righteousness of Christ, reclaims and recovers them from their miserable condition as sinners.

Ezekiel 34:6. Psa 119. Luke 15:8.

To seek after the life, or soul, to attempt by arts or machinations; or to attempt to destroy or ruin. Psa 35.

To seek peace, or judgement, to endeavor to promote it; or to practice it.

Psa 34. Isaiah 1:17.

To seek an altar, temple, or habitation, to frequent it; to restore to it often.

2 Chronicles 1:1. Amos 5:4.

To seek out God's works, to endeavor to understand them. Psa 111.

SEEK, v. i.

1. To make search or inquiry; to endeavor to make discovery.

Seek ye out of the book of the Lord. Isaiah 34:16.

2. To endeavor.

Ask not what pains, nor further seek to know

Their process, or the forms of law below. Dryden.

To seek after, to make pursuit; to attempt to find or take. [See No. 3 supra.]

To seek for, to endeavor to find. Knolles.

To seek to, to apply to; to resort to. 1 Kings 10:1.

To seek, at a loss; without knowledge, measures or experience.

Unpractic'd, unprepar'd and still to seek. Milton. [This phrase, I believe, is wholly obsolete.]

Seek-Sorrow

SEE'K-SORROW, noun. [seek and sorrow.] One that contrives to give himself vexation. [Little used.]

Seeker

SEEKER, noun.

1. One that seeks; an inquirer; as a seeker of truth.

2. One of a sect that profess no determinate religion.

Seel

SEEL, v. t. To close the eyes; a term of falconry, from the practice of the closing the eyes of a wild hawk.

SEEL, v. i. [See Sell.] To lean ; to incline to one side. Obs.

SEEL, noun. The rolling or agitation of a ship in a storm. Obs.

Seelily

SEE'LILY, adv. In a silly manner. Obs.

Seeling

SEE'LING,

SEEL, noun. Time; opportunity; season. Obs.

Seely

SEE'LY, adjective. [from seel.]

1. Lucky; fortunate. Obs.

2. Silly; foolish; simple. Obs. [See Silly.]

Seem

SEEM, v. i.

1. To appear; to make or have a show or semblance.

Thou art not what thou seems't. Shak.

All seem'd well pleased; all seem'd, but were not all. Milton.

2. To have the appearance of truth or fact; to be understood as true. It seems that the Turkish power is on the decline.

A prince of Italy, it seems, entertained his mistress on a great lake. Addison.

SEEM, v. t. To become; to befit. Obs.

Seemer

SEE'MER, noun. One that carries an appearance or semblance.

Hence we shall see

If pow'r change purpose, what our seemers be. Shak.

Seeming

SEE'MING, ppr.

1. Appearing; having the appearance or semblance, whether real or not.

2. adjective. Specious.

SEE'MING, noun.

1. Appearance; show; semblance.

2. Fair appearance.

These keep

Seeming and and savor all the winter long. Shak.

3. Opinion or liking; favorable opinion.

Nothing more clear to their seeming. Hooker.

His persuasive words impregn'd

with reason to her seeming. Obs. Milton.

Seemingly

SEE'MINGLY, adv. In appearance; in show; in semblance.

This the father seemingly complied with. Addison.

they depend often on remote and seemingly disproportioned causes. Atterbury.

Seemingness

SEE'MINGNESS, noun. Fair appearance; plausibility.

Seemless

SEE'MLESS, adjective. Unseemly; unfit; indecorous. Obs.

Seemliness

SEE'MLINESS, noun. [from seemly.] Comliness; grace; fitness; propriety; decency; decorum.

When seemliness combines with portliness. Camden.

Seemly

SEE'MLY, adjective. Becoming; fit; suited to the object, occasion, purpose or character; suitable.

Suspense of judgement and excercise of charity were safer and seemlier for christian men, than the hot pursuit of these controversies. Hooker.

Honor is not seemly for a fool. Proverbs 26:1.

SEE'MLY, adv. In a decent or suitable manner.

Seemlyhead

SEE'MLYHEAD, [See Head and Hood.] Comely or decent appearance. Obs.

Seen

SEEN, pp. of see.

1. Beheld; observed; understood.

2. adjective. Versed; skilled.

Noble Boyle, not less in nature seen- Obs. Dryden.

Seer

SEER, noun. [from see.]

1. One who sees; as a seer of visions.

2. A prophet; a person who forsees future events.

Seer-Wood

SEER-WOOD, [See Sear, and Sear-wood, dry wood.]

SEE'-SAW, noun. [Qu. saw and saw, or sea and saw.] A vibrating or reciprocating motion.

SEE'-SAW, v. i. To move with reciprocating motion; to move backward and forward, or upward and downward.

Seethe

SEETHE, v. t. preterit tense seethed, sod; participle passive seethed, sodden. [Heb. to seethe to boil, to swell, to be inflated.] To boil; to decoct or prepare for food in hot liquor; as, to seethe flesh.

Thou shalt not seethe a kid in its mother's milk. Exodus 23:19.

SEETHE, v. i. To be in a state of ebullition; to be hot. [This word is rarely used in the common concerns of life.]

Seethed

SEE'THED, pp. Boiled; decoated.

Seether

SEE'THER, noun. A boiler; a pot for boiling things.

Seething

SEE'THING, ppr. Boiling; decoating.

Seg

SEG, noun. Sedge. [Not in use.]

Seghol

SEG'HOL, noun. a Hebrew vowel-point, or short vowel.

Segholate

SEG'HOLATE, adjective. Marked with a seghol.

Segment

SEG'MENT, noun. [Latin segmentum, from seco, to cut off.]

1. In geometry, that part of the circle contained between a chord and an arch of that circle, or so much of the circle as is cut off by the chord.

2. In general, a part cut off or divided; as the segments of a calyx.

Segnity

SEG'NITY, noun. [from Latin segnis.] Sluggishness; dullness; inactivity. [Not used.]

Segregate

SEG'REGATE, v. t. [Latin segrego; se, from, and grex, flock.] To separate from others; to set apart.

SEG'REGATE, adjective. Select. [Little used.]

Segregate polygamy, (Polygamia segregata, Linne, ) a mode of inflorescence, when several florets comprehended within a common calyx, are furnished also with their proper perianths.

Martyn.

Segregated

SEG'REGATED, pp. Separated; parted from others.

Segregating

SEG'REGATING, ppr. Separating.

Segregation

SEGREGA'TION, noun. Separation from others; a parting.

Sehat-Fish

SEH'AT-FISH, noun A fish, a species of Silurus, having a long slimy body destitute of scales, and the back dusky, like that of an eel.

Seigneurial

SEIGNEURIAL, adjective

1. Pertaining to the lord of a manor; manorial.

2. Vested with large powers; independent.

Seignior

SEIGNIOR, noun [L. senior, elder.] A lord; the lord of a manor; but used also in the sout of Europe as a title of honor. The sultan of Turkey is called Grand Seignior.

Seigniorage

SEIGNIORAGE, noun A royal right or prerogative of the king of England, by which he claims an allowance of gold and silver brought in the mass to be exchanged for coin.

Seigniorial

SEIGNIO'RIAL, the same as seigneurial.

Seigniorize

SEIGNIORIZE, verb transitive To lord it over. [Little used.]

Seigniory

SEIGNIORY, noun

1. A lordship; a manor.

2. The power or authority of a lord; dominion.

O'Neal never had any seignory over that country, but what he got by encroachment upon the English.

Sein

SEIN, noun [L. sagena.] A large net for catching fish. The seins used for taking shad in the Connecticut, sometimes sweep nearly the whole breadth of the river.

Seiner

SE'INER, noun A fisher with a sein or net. [Not much used.]

Seity

SE'ITY, noun [L. se, one's self.] Something peculiar to a man's self. [Not well authorized.]

Seize

SEIZE, verb transitive

1. To fall or rush upon suddenly and lay hold on; or to gripe or grasp suddenly. The tiger rushes from the thicket and seizes his prey. A dog seizes an animal by the throat. The hawk seizes a chicken with his claws. The officer seizes a theif.

2. To take possession by force, with or without right.

At last they seize The scepter, and regard not David's son. Milton.

3. To invade suddenly; to take hold of; to come upon suddenly; as, a fever seizes a patient

And hope and doubt alternate seize her soul. Pope.

4. To take possession by virtue of a warrant or legal authority. The sherif seized the debtor's goods; the whole estate was seized and cofiscated. We say, to arrest a person, to seize goods.

5. To fasten; to fix. In seaman's language, to fasten two ropes or different parts oof one rope together with a cord.

To be seized of, to have possession; as a griffin seized of his prey. A B was seized and possessed of the manor of Dale.

To seize on or upon, is to fall on and grasp; to take hold on; to take possession.

Seized

SE'IZED, pp. Suddenly caught or grasped; taken by force; invaded suddenly; taken possession of; fastened with a cord; having possession.

Seizer

SE'IZER, noun. One that seizes.

Seizing

SE'IZING, ppr. Falling on and grasping suddenly; laying hold on suddenly; taking possession by force, or taking by warrant; fastening.

SE'IZING, noun.

1. The act of taking or grasping suddenly.

2. In seamen's language, the operation of fastening together ropes with a cord; also, the cord or cords used for such fastening.

Seizor

SE'IZOR, noun. One who seizes.

Seizure

SE'IZURE, noun.

1. The act of seizing; the act of laying hold on suddenly; as the seizure of a thief.

2. The act of taking possession by force; as the seizure of lands or goods; the seizureof a town by an enemy; the seizure of a throne by a usurper.

3. The act of taking by warrant; as the seizure of contraband goods.

4. The thing taken or seized.

5. Gripe; grasp; possession.

And give me seizure of the mighty wealth. Dryden.

6. Catch; a catching.

let there be no sudden seizure of a lapsed syllable, to play upon it. Watts.

Sejant

SE'JANT, adjective. In heraldry, sitting, like a great cat with the fore feet straight; applied to a lion or other beast.

Sejugous

SEJU'GOUS, adjective. [Latin sejigus; sex, six, and jugum, yoke.] In botany, a sejugous leaf is a pinnate leaf having six pairs of leaflets.

Sejunction

SEJUNC'TION, noun. [Latin sejunctio; se, from, and jungo, to join.] The act of disjoining; a disuniting; separation. [Little used.]

Sejungible

SEJUNG'IBLE, adjective. [supra.] That may be disjoined. [Little used.]

Seke

SEKE, for sick, oblolete. [See Sick.]

Selcouth

SEL'COUTH, adjective. Rarely known; unusual; uncommon. Obs.

Seldom

SEL'DOM, adv. [Sel probably signifies separate, distinct, coinciding with Latin solus.] Rarely; not often; not frequently.

Wisdom and youth are seldom joined in one. Hooker.

SEL'DOM, adjective. Rare; unfrequent. [Little used.]

Seldomness

SEL'DOMNESS, noun. Rareness; uncommonness; infrequency.

Seldshown

SELD'SHOWN, adjective. Rarely shown or exhibited. [Not in use.]

Select

SELECT', v. t. [Latin selectus, from seligo; se, from, and lego, to pick, cull or gather.] to choose and take from a number; to take by preference from among others; to pick out; to cull; as, to select the best authors for persual; to select the most interesting and virtuous men for associates.

SELECT', adjective. Nicely chosen; taken from a number by preference; choice; whence, preferable; more valuable or excellent than others; as a body of select troops; a select company or society; a library consisted of select authors.

Selected

SELECT'ED, pp. Chosen and taken by preference from among a number; picked; culled.

Selectedly

SELECT'EDLY, adv. With care in selection.

Selecting

SELECT'ING, ppr. Choosing and taking from a number; picked; culled.

Selection

SELEC'TION, noun. [Latin selectio.]

1. The act of choosing and taking from among a number; a taking from a number by preference.

2. A numbers of things selected or taken from others by preference. I have a small but valuable selection of books.

Selective

SELECT'IVE, adjective. Selecting; tending to select. [Unusual.]

Selectman

SELECT'MAN, noun. [select and man.] In New England, a town officer chosen anually to manage the concerns of the town, provide for the poor, etc. Their number is usually from three to seven in each town, and these constitute a kind of executive authority.

Selectness

SELECT'NESS, noun. The state of being select or well chosen.

Selector

SELECT'OR, noun. [Latin] One that selects or chooses from among a number.

Seleniate

SELE'NIATE, noun. a compound of selenic acid with a base.

Selenic

SELEN'IC, adjective. Pertaining to selenium, or extracted from it; as selenic acid.

Selenite

SEL'ENITE, noun. [Gr. the moon; so called on account of its reflecting the the moon's light with brilliancy.] Foliated or crystalized sulphate of lime. selenite is a subspecies of sulphate of lime, of two varieties, massive and acicular.

Selenitic

SELENIT'IC, adjective. Pertaining to selenite; resembling it, or partaking of its nature or properties.

Selenitical

SELENIT'ICAL,

Selenium

SELE'NIUM, noun. [supra.] A new elementary body or substance, extracted from the pyrite of Fahlun in Sweden. It is of a gray dark brown color, with a brilliant metallic luster, and slighty translucent. It is doubted whether it ought to be classified with the metals.

Seleniuret

SELENIU'RET, noun. A newly discovered mineral, of a shining lead gray color, with granular SELENU'RET, texture. It is composed chiefly of selenium, silver and copper.

Selenographic

SELENOGRAPH'IC, adjective. [infra.] Belonging to selenography.

Selenographical

SELENOGRAPH'ICAL,

Selenography

SELENOG'RAPHY, noun. [Gr. the moon; to describe.] A desciption of the moon and its phenomena; a branch of cosmography.

Self

SELF, adjective. or pron. plural selves; used chiefly in composition.

1. In old authors, this sometimes signifies particular, very, or same. 'And on tham sylfan geare; ' in that same year, that very year. Sax. Chron. adjective D. 1052, 1061.

Shoot another arrow that self way. Shak.

On these self hills. Raleigh.

At that self moment enters Palamon. Dryden.

In this sense, self is an adjective, and is now obsolete, except when followed by same; as on the self-same day; the self-same hour; the self-same thing; which is tautology.

2. In present usage, selfis united to certain personal pronouns and pronominal adjectives, to express emphasis or distinction; also when the pronoun is used reciprocally. thus, for emphasis, I myself will write; I will examine for myself; Thou thyself shalt go; thou shalt see for thyself; You yourself shall write; you shall see for yourself. He himself shall write; he shall examine for himself. She herself shall write; she shall examine for herself. The child itself shall be carried; it shall be present itself.

Reciprocally, I abhor myself; thou enrichest thyself; he loves himself; she admires herself; it pleases itself; we value ourselves; ye hurry yourselves; they see themselves. I did not hurt him, he hurt himself; he did not hurt me, I hurt myself.

Except when added to pronouns used reciprocally, self serves to give emphasis to the pronoun, or to render the distinction expressed by it more emphatical. 'I myself will decide, ' not only expresses my determination to decide, but the determination that no other shall decide.

Himself, herself, themselves, are used in the nomnative case, as well as in the objective.

Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples. See Matthew 23:4.

3. Self is sometimes as a noun, noting the individual subject to his own contemplation or action, or noting identity of person. Consciousness makes everyone to be what he call self.

A man's self may be the worst fellow to converse with in the world. Pope.

4. It also signifies personal interest, or love of private interest; selfishness.

The fondness we have for self- furnishes anothe long rank of prejudices. Watts.

Self is much used in composition.

Self-Abased

SELF-ABA'SED, adjective. [self and abase.] Humbled by conscious guilt or shame.

Self-Abasement

SELF-ABA'SEMENT, noun. Humiliation or abasement proceeding from consciouness of inferiority, guilt or shame.

Self-Abasing

SELF-ABA'SING, adjective. Humbling by the consciouness of guilt or by shame.

Self-Abuse

SELF-ABU'SE, noun. [selfand abuse.] The abuse of one's own person or powers.

Self-Accusing

SELF-ACCU'SING, adjective. [self and accuse.] Accusing one's self; as a self-accusing look.

Self-Activity

SELF-ACTIV'ITY, noun. [self and activity.] Self-motion, or the power of moving one's self without foreign aid.

Self-Admiration

SELF-ADMIRA'TION, noun. Admiration of one's self.

Self-Admiring

SELF-ADMI'RING, adjective. Admiring one's self.

Self-Affairs

SELF-AFFA'IRS, n. plu. [self and affair.] One's own private business.

Self-Affrighted

SELF-AFFRIGHTED, adjective. [self and affright.] Frightened at one's self.

Self-Applause

SELF-APPLAUSE, noun. self-applauz'. Applause of one's self.

Self-Approving

SELF-APPROVING, adjective. That approves of one's own conduct.

Self-Assumed

SELF-ASSU'MED, adjective. Assumed by one's own act and without authority.

Self-Banished

SELF-BAN'ISHED, adjective. [self and banish.] Exiled voluntarily.

Self-Begotten

SELF-BEGOT'TEN, adjective. [self and beget.] Begotten by one's own powers.

SELF'-BORN, adjective. [self and born.] Born or produced by one's self.

Self-Cenceited

SELF-CENCE'ITED, adjective. Vain; having a high or overweening opinion of one's own person or merits.

Self-Centered

SELF-CEN'TERED, adjective. [self and center.] Centered in itself.

The earth self-center'd and unmoved. Dryden.

Self-Charity

SELF-CHAR'ITY, noun. [self and charity.] Love of one's self.

Self-Communicative

SELF-COMMU'NICATIVE, adjective. [self and communicative.] Imparted or communicated by its own powers.

Self-Conceit

SELF-CONCE'IT, noun. [self and conceit.] A high opinion of one's self; vanity.

Self-Conceitedness

SELF-CONCE'ITEDNESS, noun. Vanity; an overweening opinion of one's own person or accomplishments.

Self-Confidence

SELF-CON'FIDENCE, noun. [self and confidence.] Confidence in one's own judgement or ability; reliance on one's own opinion or powers, without other aid.

Self-Confident

SELF-CON'FIDENT, adjective. Confident of one's own strength or powers; relying on the correctness of one's own judgement, or the competence of one's own powers, without other aid.

Self-Confiding

SELF-CONFI'DING, adjective. Confiding in one's own judgement or powers, without other aid.

Self-Conscious

SELF-CON'SCIOUS, adjective. [self and conscious.] Conscious in one's self.

Self-Considering

SELF-CONSID'ERING, adjective. [self and consider.] Considering in one's own mind; deliberating.

Self-Consuming

SELF-CONSU'MING, adjective. [self and consume.] That consumes itself.

Self-Contradiction

SELF-CONTRADIC'TION, noun. [self and contradiction.] the art of contradicting itself; repugnancy in terms. To be and not to be at the same time, is a self-contradiction; a proposition consisting of two members, one of which contradicts the other.

Self-Contradictory

SELF-CONTRADICT'ORY, adjective. Contradicting itself.

Self-Convicted

SELF-CONVICT'ED, adjective. [self and convict.] Convited by one's own consciouness, knowledge or avowal.

Self-Conviction

SELF-CONVIC'TION, noun. Conviction proceeding from one's own consciouness, knowledge or confession.

Self-Created

SELF-CREA'TED, adjective. Created by one's self; not formed or constituted by another.

Self-Deceit

SELF-DECE'IT, noun. [self and deceit.] Deception respecting one's self, or that originates from one's own mistake; self-deception.

Self-Deceived

SELF-DECE'IVED, adjective. [self and deceive.] Deceived or mislead respecting one's self by one's own mistake or error.

Self-Deception

SELF-DECEP'TION, noun. [supra.] Deception concerning one's self proceeding from one's own mistake.

Self-Deceving

SELF-DECE'VING, adjective. Deceiving one's self.

Self-Defense

SELF-DEFENSE, noun. self-defens'. [self and defense.] The act of defending one's own person, property or reputation. A man may be justifiable in killing another in self-defense.

Self-Delusion

SELF-DELU'SION, noun. [self and delusion.] The delusion of one's self; or respesting one'self.

Self-Denial

SELF-DENI'AL, noun. [self and denial.] The denial of one's self; the forbearing to gratify one's own appetites or desires.

Self-Dependent

SELF-DEPEND'ENT, adjective. Depending on one's self.

Self-Depending

SELF-DEPEND'ING,

Self-Destruction

SELF-DESTRUC'TION, noun. [self and destruction.] The desruction of one's self; voluntary destruction.

Self-Destructive

SELF-DESTRUC'TIVE, adjective. Tending to the destruction of one's self.

Self-Determination

SELF-DETERMINA'TION, noun. [self and determination.] Determination by one's own mind; or determination by its own powers, without extraneous impulse or influnce.

Self-Determining

SELF-DETERM'INING, adjective. Determining by or of itself; determining or deciding without extraneous power or influence; As the self-determining power of the will.

Self-Devoted

SELF-DEVO'TED, adjective. [self and devote.] Devoted in person, or voluntarily devoted in person.

Self-Devotement

SELF-DEVO'TEMENT, noun. The devoting of one's person and services voluntarily to any difficult or hazardous employment.

Self-Devouring

SELF-DEVOUR'ING, adjective. [self and devour.] Devouring one's self and itself.

Self-Diffusive

SELF-DIFFU'SIVE, adjective. [self and diffusive.] Having power to diffuse itself; that diffuses itself.

Self-Enjoyment

SELF-ENJOY'MENT, noun [self and enjoyment.] Internal satisfaction or pleasure.

Self-Esteem

SELF-ESTEE'M, noun [self and esteem.] The esteem or good opinion of one's self.

Self-Estimation

SELF-ESTIMA'TION, noun The esteem or good opinion of one's self.

Self-Evidence

SELF-EV'IDENCE, noun [self and evidence.] Evidence or certainty resulting from a proposition without proof; evidence that ideas offer to the mind upon bare statement.

Self-Evident

SELF-EV'IDENT, adjective Evident without proof or reasoning; that produces certainty or clear conviction upon a bare presentation to the mind; as a self-evident propostion or truth. That two and three make five, is self-evident.

Self-Evidently

SELF-EV'IDENTLY, adverb By means of self-evidence.

Self-Exaltation

SELF-EXALTA'TION, noun The exaltation of one's self.

Self-Exalting

SELF-EXALT'ING, adjective Exalting one's self.

Self-Examination

SELF-EXAMINA'TION, noun [self and examination.] An examination or scrutiny into one's own state, conduct or motives, particularly in regard to religious affections and duties.

Self-Existence

SELF-EXIST'ENCE, noun [self and existence.] Inherent existence; the existence possossed by virtue of a being's own nature, and independent of any other being or cause; an attribute peculiar to God.

Self-Existent

SELF-EXIST'ENT, adjective Existing by its own nature or essense, independent of any other cause. God is the only self-existent being.

Self-Exusing

SELF-EXU'SING, adjective Excusing one's self.

Self-Flattering

SELF-FLAT'TERING, adjective [self and flatter.] Flattering one's self.

Self-Flattery

SELF-FLAT'TERY, noun Flattery of one's self.

Self-Glorious

SELF-GLORIOUS, adjective [self and glorious.] Springing from vain glory or vanity; vain; boastful.

Self-Harming

SELF-H'ARMING, adjective [self and harm.] Injuring or hurting one's self or itself.

Self-Heal

SELF'-HEAL, noun [self and heal.] A plant of the genus Sanicula, and another of the genus Prunella.

Self-Healing

SELF-HE'ALING, adjective Having the power or property of healing itself. The self-healing power of living animals and vegetables is a property as wonderful as it is indicative of divine goodness.

Self-Homicide

SELF-HOM'ICIDE, noun [self and homicide.] The killing of one's self.

Self-Idolized

SELF-I'DOLIZED, adjective Idolized by one's self.

Self-Imparting

SELF-IMP'ARTING, adjective [self and impart.] Inparting by its own powers and will.

Self-Imposture

SELF-IMPOS'TURE, noun [self and imposture.] Imposture practiced on one's self.

Self-Interest

SELF-IN'TEREST, noun [self and interest.] Private interest; the interest or advantage of one's self.

Self-Interested

SELF-IN'TERESTED, adjective Having self-interest; particularly concerned for one's self.

Self-Justifier

SELF-JUS'TIFIER, noun One who excuses or justifies himself.

Self-Kindled

SELF-KIN'DLED, adjective [self and kindle.] Kindled of itself, or without extraneous aid or power.

Self-Knowing

SELF-KNOWING, adjective [self and know.] Knowing of itself, or without communication from another.

Self-Knowledge

SELF-KNOWL'EDGE, noun The knowledge of one's own real character, abilities, worth or demerit.

Self-Love

SELF-LOVE, noun [self and love.] The love of one's own person or happiness.

Self-love, the spring motion, acts the soul. Pope.

Self-Loving

SELF-LOV'ING, adjective Loving one's self.

SELF'-METAL, noun [self and metal.] The same metal.

Self-Motion

SELF-MO'TION, noun [self and motion.] Motion given by inherent powers, without external impulse; spontaneous motion.

Matter is not indued with self-motion. Cheyne.

Self-Moved

SELF-MOVED, adjective [self and move.] Moved by inherent power without the aid of extraneous influence.

Self-Moving

SELF-MOVING, adjective Moving or exiting to action by ingerent power, without the impulse of another body or extraneous ingluence.

Self-Murder

SELF-MUR'DER, noun [self and murder.] The murder of one's self; suicide.

Self-Neglecting

SELF-NEGLECT'ING, noun [self and neglect.] A neglecting of one's self.

Self-love is not so great a sin as self-neglecting. Shak.

Self-Opinion

SELF-OPIN'ION, noun [self and opinion.] One's own opinion.

Self-Opinioned

SELF-OPIN'IONED, adjective Valuing one's own opinion highly.

Self-Pleasing

SELF-PLE'ASING, adjective [self and please.] Pleasing one's self; gratifying one's own wishes.

Self-Praise

SELF-PRAISE, noun [self and praise.] The praise of one's self; self-applause.

Self-Preference

SELF-PREF'ERENCE, noun [self and preference.] The preference of one's self to others.

Self-Preservation

SELF-PRESERVA'TION, noun [self and preservation.] The preservation of one's self from destruction or injury.

Self-Repellency

SELF-REPEL'LENCY, noun [self and repellency.] The inherent power of repulsion in a body.

Self-Repelling

SELF-REPEL'LING, adjective [self and repel.] Repelling by its own inherent power.

Self-Reproved

SELF-REPROVED, adjective [self and reprove.] Reproved by consciousness or one's own sense of guilt.

Self-Reproving

SELF-REPROVING, adjective Reproving by consciouness.

SELF-REPROVING, noun The act of reproving by a conscious sense of guilt.

Self-Restrained

SELF-RESTRA'INED, adjective [self an restrain.] Restrained by itself, or by one's own power or will; not controlled by external force or authority.

Self-Restraining

SELF-RESTRA'INING, adjective Restraining or controlling itself.

Self-Same

SELF'-SAME, adjective [self and same.] Numerically the same; the very same; identical.

SELF'-SEEKING, adjective [self and seek.] Seeking one's own interest or happiness; selfish.

Self-Slaughter

SELF-SLAUGHTER, noun self-slau'ter. [self and slaughter.] The slaughter of one's self.

Self-Subdued

SELF-SUBDU'ED, adjective [self and subdue.] Subdued by one's own power or means.

Self-Subversive

SELF-SUBVER'SIVE, adjective Overturning or subverting itself.

Self-Sufficiency

SELF-SUFFI''CIENCY, noun [self and sufficiency.] An overweening opinion of one's own strength or worth; excessive confidence in one's own competence or sufficiency.

Self-Sufficient

SELF-SUFFI''CIENT, adjective Having full confidence in one's own strength, abilities or endowments; whence, haughty; overbearing.

Self-Tormenter

SELF-TORMENT'ER, noun One who torments himself.

Self-Tormenting

SELF-TORMENT'ING, adjective [self and torment.] Tormenting one's self; as self-tormenting sin.

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 purposes to the advancement of his own interest, power or happiness, without regarding the interest of others. Selfishness, in its worst or unqualified sense, is the ver essence of human depravity, and it stands in direct opposition to benevolence, which is the essence of the divine character. As God is love, so man, in his natural state, is selfishness.

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 transitive preterit tense and participle passive sold. [

1. To transfer property or the exclusive right of possession to another for an equivalent in money. It is correlative to buy, as one party buys what the other sells. It is distinguished from exchange or barter, in which one commodity is given for another; wheras in selling the consideration is money, or its representative in current notes. To this distinction there may be certain exceptions. 'Esau sold his birthright to Jacob for a mess of pottage.' But this is unusual. 'Let us sell Joseph to the Ishmaelites- And they sold him for twenty pieces of silver.' Genesis 37:27.

Among the Hebrews, parents had power to sell their children.

2. To betray; to deliver or surrender for money or reward; as, to sell one's country.

3. To yield or give for a certain consideration. the troops fought like lions, and sold their lives dearly. that is, they yielded their lives, but first destroyed many, which made it a dear purchase for their enemies.

4. In Scripture, to give up to be harassed and made slaves.

He sold them into the hands of their enemies. Judges 2:1.

5. To part with; to renounce or forsake.

Buy the truth and sell it not. Proverbs 23:23.

To sell one's self to do evil, to give up one's self to be the slave of sin, and to work wickedness without restraint.

SELL, verb intransitive

1. To have commerce; to practice selling.

2. To be sold. Corn sells at a good price.

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 tense

1. 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, noun

1. Likeness; resemblance; actual similitude; as the semblance of worth; semblance of virtue.

The semblance and initations of shells. Woodward.

2. Appearance; show; figure; form.

Their semblance kind, and mild their gestures where. Fairfax.

Semblant

SEM'BLANT, noun Show; figure; resemblance. [Not in use.]

SEM'BLANT, adjective Like; resembling. [Not in use.]