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SET, verb transitive preterit tense participle passive set. [Latin sedo; to compose, as a book, to dispose or put in order, to establish, found or institute, to possess, to cease; Latin sedo, sedeo and sido, coinciding with sit, but all of one family. From the Norman orthography of this word, we have assess, assise. See Assess. Heb. Ch. to set to place.]
1. To put or place; to fix or cause to rest in a standing posture. We set a house on a wass of stone; we set a book on a shelf. In this use, set differs from lay; we set a thing on its end or basis; we lay it on its side.
2. To put or place in its proper or natural posture. We set a chest or trunk on its bottom, not its end; we set a bedstead or a table on its feet or laeg.
3. To put, place or fix in any situation. God set the sun, moon and stars in the firmament.
I do set my bow in the cloud. .
4. To put into any condition or state.
The Lord the God will set thee on high. Duet. 28.
I am come to set a man at variance against his father. .
So we say, to set in order, to set at ease, to set to work, or at work.
5. To put; to fix; to attach to.
The Lord set a mark upon Cain. .
So we say, to set a label on a vial or a bale.
6. To fix; to render motionless; as, the eyes are set, the jaws are set.
7. To put or fix, as a price. We set a price on a house, farm or horse.
8. To fix; to state by some rule.
The gentleman spoke with a set gesture and countenance. Carew.
The town of Berne has handsome fountains planted and set distances from one end of the street to the other. Addison.
9. To regulate or adjust; as, to set a timepiece by the sun.
He sets judgement by his passion. Prior.
10. To fit to music; to adapt with notes; as, to set the words of a psalm to music.
Set thy own songs, and sing them to they lute. Dryden.
11. To pitch; to begin to sing in public.
He set the hundredth psalm. Spectator.
12. To plant, as a shrub, tree or vegetable.
13. To variegate, intersperse or adorn with something fixed; to stud; as, to set any thing with diamonds or pearls.
High on their heads, with jewels richly set,
Each lady wore a radiant coronet. Dryden.
14. To return to its proper place or state; to replace; to reduce from dislocated or fractured state; as, to set a bone or a leg.
15. To fix; to place; as the heart or affections.
Set your affections on things above. .
-Minds altogether set on trade and profit. Addison.
16. To fix firmly; to predetermine.
The heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. .
Hence we say, a thing is done of set purpose; a man is set, that is, firm or obstinate in his opinion or way.
17. To fix by appointment; to appoint; to assign; as, to set a time for meeting; to set an hour or day.
18. To place or station; to appoint to a particular duty.
Am I a sea or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me.
19. To stake at play. [Little used.]
20. To offer a wager at dice to another. [Little used.]
21. To fix in metal.
And him to rich a jewel to be set
In vulgar metal for a vulgar use. Dryden.
22. To fix; to cause to stop; to obstruct; as, to set a coach in the mire. The wagon or the team was set at the hill. In some of the states, stall is used in a like sense.
23. To embarrass; to perplex.
They are hard set to represent the bill as a grievance. Addison.
24. To put in good order; to fix for use; to bring to a fine edge; as, to set a razor.
25. To loose and extend; to spread; as, to set the sails of a ship.
26. To point out without noise or disturbance; as, a dog sets birds.
27. To oppose.
Will you set your wit to a fool's? Shak.
28. To prepare with runnet for cheese; as, to set milk.
29. To dim; to darken or extinguish.
Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age. .
To set by the compass, among seamen, to observe the bearing or situation of a distant object by the compass.
To set about, to begin, as an action or enterprise; to apply to. He has planned his enterprise, and he will soon setabout it.
To set one's self against, to place in a state of emnity or opposition.
The king of Babylon set himself against Jerusalem this same day. .
To set against, to oppose, to set in comparison, or to oppose as an equivalent in exchange; as, to set one thing against another; or to set off one thing against another.
To set aside, to omit for the present; to lay out of the question.
Setting aside all other considerations, I will endeavor to know the truth and yield to that. Tillotson.
2. To reject.
I embrace that of the deluge, and set aside all the rest. Woodward.
3. To annul; to vacate. The court set aside the verdict or the judgement.
To set abroach, to spread.
To set a-going, to cause to begin to move.
To set by, to set apart or on on side; to reject. [In this sense, by is emphatical.]
2. To esteem; to regard; to value. [In this sense, set is pronounced with more emphasis than by.]
To set down, to place upon the ground or floor.
2. To enter in writing; to register.
Some rules were to be set down for the government of the army. Clarendon.
3. To explain or relate in writing.
4. To fix on a resolve. [Little used.]
5. To fix; to establish; to ordain.
This law we may name eternal, being that order which God hathset down with himself for himself to do all things by. Hooker.
To set forth, to manifest; to offer our present to view.
2. To publish; to promulgate; to make appear.
3. To send out; to prepare and send.
The Venetian admiral had a fleet of sixty galleys, set forth by the Venetians.
Obs. Knolles.
4. To display; to exhibit; to present to view; to show.
To set forward, to advance; to move on; also, to promote.
To set in, to put in the way to begin.
If you please to assist and set me in, I will recollect myself. Collier.
To set off, to adorn; to decorate; to embellish.
They set off the worst faces with the best airs. Addison.
2. To give a pompus or flattering description of; to eulogize; to recommend; as, to set off a character.
3. To place against as an equivalent; as, to set off one man's services against another's.
4. To separate or assign for a particular purpose; as, to set off a portion of an estate.
To set on or upon, to incite; to instigate; to animate to action.
Thou, traitor, hast set on thy wife to this. Shak.
2. To assault or attack; seldom used transitively, but the passive form is often used.
Alphonsus- was set upon by a Turkish pirate and taken. Knolles.
3. To employ, as in a task.
Set on thy wife to observe. Shak.
4. To fix the attention; to determine to any thing withsettled purpose.
It becomes a true lover to have your own heart more set upon her good than your own. Sidney.
To set out, to assign; to allot; as, to set out the share of each proprietor or heir of an estate; to set out the widow's thirds.
2. To publish. [Not elegant nor common.]
3. To mark by boundaries or distinctions of space.
-Determinate portions of those infinite abysses of space and duration, set out, or supposed to be distinguished from all the rest by known boundaries. Locke.
4. To adorn; to embellish.
An ugly woman in a rich habit, set out with jewels, nothing can become.
Dryden.
5. To raise, equip and send forth; to furnish.
The Venetians pretend they could set out, in case of great necessity, thirty men of war. [Not elegant and little used.] Addison.
6. To show; to display; to recommend; to set off.
I could set out that best side of Luther. Atterbury.
7. To show; to prove.
Those very reasons set out how hainous his sin was. [Little used and not elegant.] Atterbury.
8. In law, to recite; to state at large.
To set up, to erect; as, to set up a building; to set up a post, a wall a pillar.
2. To begin a new institution; to institute; to establish; to found; as, to set up a manufactory; to set up a school.
3. To enable to commence a new business; as, to set up a son in trade.
4. To raise; to exalt; to put in power; as, to set up the throne of David over Israel.
5. To place in view; as, to set up a mark.
6. To raise; to utter loudly; as, to set up the voice.
I'll set up such a note as she shall hear. Dryden.
7. To advance; to propose as truth or for reception; as, to set up a new opinion or doctrine.
8. To raise from depression or to a sufficient fortune. This good fortune quite set him up.
9. In seamen's language, to extend, as the shrouds, stays, etc.
To set at naught, to undervalue; to contemn; to despise.
Ye have set at naught all my counsel. .
To set in order, to adjust or arrange; to reduce to method.
The rest will I set in order when I come. .
To set eyes on, to see; to behold; or to fix the eyes in looking on.
To set the teeth on edge, to affect the teeth with painful sensation.
To set over, to appoint or constitute supervisor, inspector, ruler or commander.
2. To assign; to transfer; to convey.
To set right, to correct; to put in order.
To set at ease, to quiet; to tranquilize; as, to set the heart at ease.
To set free, to release from confinement, imprisonment or bondage; to liberate; to emancipate.
To set at work, to cause to enter on work or action; or to direct how to enter on work.
To set on fire, to communicate fire to; to inflame; and figuratively, to enkindle the passions; to make rage; to irritate; to fill with disorder.
To set before, to offer; to propose; to present to view.
To set a trap, snare or gin, to place in a situation to catch prey; to spread; figuratively, to lay a plan to deceive and draw into the power of another.
SET, verb intransitive
1. To decline; to go down; to pass below the horizin; as, the sun sets; the stars set.
2. To be fixed hard; to be close or firm.
3. To fit music to words.
4. To congeal or concrete.
That fluid in a few minutes begins to set. Boyle.
5. To begin a journey. The king is set from London. [This is obsolete. We now say, to set out.]
6. To plant; as, 'to sow dry, and to set wet.'
7. To flow; to have a certain direction in motion; as, the tide sets to the east or north; the current sets westward.
8. To catch birds with a dog that sets them, that is, one that lies down and points them out, and with a large net.
To set one's self about, to begin; to enter upon; to take the first steps.
To set one's self, to apply one's self.
To set about, to fall on; to begin; to take the first steps in a business or enterprise.
To set in, to begin. Winter in New England, usually sets in
2. To become settled in a particular state.
When the weather was set in to be very bad. Addison.
To set forward, to move or march; to begin to march; to advance.
The sons of Aaron and the sons of Merari set forward. .
To set on, or upon, to begin a journey or an enterprise.
He that would seriously set upon the search of truth- Locke.
2. To assault; to make an attack.
To set out, to begin a journey or course; as, to set out for London or from London; to set out in business; to set out in life or in the world.
2. To have a beginning.
To set to, to apply one's self to.
To set up, to begin business or a scheme of life; as, to set up in trade; to set up for one's self.
2. To profess openly; to make pretensions. He sets up for a man of wit; he sets up to teach morality.
SET, participle passive
1. Placed; put; located; fixed; adjusted; composed; studded or adorned; reduced, as a dislocated or broken bone.
2. adjective Regular; uniform; formal; as a set speech or phrase; a set discourse; a set battle.
3. Fixed in opinion; determined; firm; obstinate; as a man set in his opinions or way.
4. Established; prescribed; as set forms of prayer.
SET, noun
1. A number or collection of things of the same kind and of similar form, which are ordinarily used together; as a set of chairs; a set of tea cups; a set of China or other ware.
2. A number of things fitted to be used together, though different in form; as a set of dining tables.
3. A number of persons customarily or officialy associated, as a set of men, a set of officers; or a number of persons having a simlitude of character, or of things which have some resemblance or relation to each other. Hence our common phrase, a set of opinions.
This falls into different divisions or sets of nations connected under particular religions, etc. Ward's Law of Nations.
4. A number of particular things that are united in the formation of a whole; as a set of features.
5. A young plant for growth; as sets of white thorn or other shrub.
6. The descent of the sun or other other below the horizon; as the set of the sun.
7. A wager at dice.
That was but civil war, an equal set. Dryden.
8. A game.
We will, in france, play a set
Shall strike his father's crown into the hazard. Shak.
Set-Foil
SET-FOIL. [See Sept-foil.]
Set-Off
SET'-OFF, noun [set and off.] The act of admitting one claim to counterbalance another. In a set-off the defendant acknowledges the justice of the plantif's demand, but sets up a demand of his own to counter balance it in whole or in part.
The right of pleading a set-off depends on statute. Blackstone.
NOTE.- In new England, offset is sometimes used for set-off. But offset has a different sense, and it is desirable that the practice should be uniform, Wherever the English is spoken.
Setaceous
SETA'CEOUS, adjective [Latin seta, a bristle.]
1. Bristly; set with strong hairs; consisting of strong hairs; as a stiff setaceous tail.
2. In botany, bristle-shaped; having the thickness and length of a bristle; as a setaceous seaf or leaflet.
Setaceous worm, a name given to a water worm that resembles a horse hair, vulgarly supposed to be an animated hair. But this is a mistake.
Setiform
SE'TIFORM, adjective [Latin seta, a bristle, and form.] Having the form of a bristle.
Seton
SE'TON, noun [Latin seta, a bristle.] In surgery, a few horsehairs or small threads, or a twist of silk, drawn through the skin by a large needle, by which a small opening is made and which is continued for the discharge of humors.
Setous
SE'TOUS, adjective [Latin setosus, from seta, a bristle.] In botany, bristly; having the surface set with bristles; as a setous seaf or receptacle.
Settee
SETTEE', noun [from set.]
1. A long seat with a back to it.
A vessel with one deck and a very long sharp prow, carrying two or three masts with lateen sails; used in the Mediterranean.
Setter
SET'TER, noun
1. One that sets; as a setter on, or inciter; a setter up; a setter forth, etc.
2. A dogs that beats the field and starts birds for sportsmen.
3. A man that performs the office of a setting dogor finds persons to be plundered.
4. One that adapts words to music in composition.
5. Whatever sets off, adorns or recommendws. [Not used.]
Setter-Wort
SET'TER-WORT, noun A plant, a species of Helleborus.
Setting
SET'TING, participle present tense Placing; putting; fixing; studding; appointing; sinking below the horizon, etc.
SET'TING, noun
1. The act of putting, placing, fixing or establishing.
2. The act of sinking below the horizon. The setting of stars is of three kinds, cosmical, acronical, and heliacal. [See these words.]
3. The act or manner of taking birds by a setting dog.
4. Inclosure; as settings of stones.
5. The direction of a current at sea.
Setting-Dog
SET'TING-DOG, noun A setter; a dog trained to find and start birds for sportsmen.
Settle
SET'TLE, noun [Latin sedile. See Set.] A seat or bench; something to sit on.
SET'TLE, verb transitive [from set.]
1. To place in a permanent condition after wandering or fluctuation.
I will settle you after your old estates. .
2. To fix; to establish; to make permanent in any place.
I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom forever. .
3. To establish in business or way of life; as, to settle a son in trade.
4. To marry; as, to settle a daughter.
5. To establish; to confirm.
Her will alone could settle or revoke. Prior.
6. To determine what is uncertain; to establish; to free from doubt; as, to settle questions or points of law. The supreme court have settled the question.
7. To fix; to establish; to make certain or permanent; as, to settle the succession to the throne in a particular family. So we speak of settled habits and settled opinions.
8. To fix or establish; not to suffer to doubt or waver.
It will settle the wavering and confirm the doubtful. Swift.
9. To make close or compact.
Cover ant-hills up that the rain may settle the turf before the spring.
Mortimer.
10. To cause to subside after being heaved and loosened by frost; or to dry and harden after rain. Thus clear weather settles the roads.
11. To fix or establish by gift, grant or any legal act; as, to settle a pension on an officer, or an annuity on a child.
12. To fix firmly. Settle your mind on valuable objects.
13. To cause to sink or subside, as extraneous matters in liquors. In fining wine, we add something to settle the lees.
14. To compose; to tranquilize what is disturbed; as, to settle the thoughts or mind when agitated.
15. To establish in the pastoral office; to ordain over a church and society, or parish; as, to settle a minister.
16. To plant with inhabitants; to colonize. The French first settled Canada; the Puritans settled New England. Plymouth was settled in 1620. Hartford was settled in 1636. Wethersfield was the first settled town in Connecticut.
17. To adjust; to close by amicable agreement or otherwise; as, to settle a controversy or dispute by agreement; treaty or by force.
18. To adjust; to liquidate; to cause it to sink or appear lower by receding from it.
To settle the land, among seamen, to cause it to sink or appear lower by receding from it.
SET'TLE, verb intransitive
1. To fall to the bottom of liquor; to subside; to sink and rest on the bottom; as, lees or dregs settle. Slimy particles in water settle and form mud at the bottom of rivers.
This word is used of the extraneous matter of liquors, when it subsides spontaneously. But in chemical operations, when substances mixed or in solution are decomposed, and one component part subsides, it is said to be precipitated. But may also be said to settle.
2. To lose motion or fermentation; to deposit, as feces.
A government on such occasions, is always thick before it settles. Addison.
3. To fix one's habitation or residence. Belgians had settled on the southern coast of Britain, before the Romans invaded the isle.
4. To marry and establish a domestic state. Where subsistence is easily obtained, children settle at an early period of life.
5. To become fixed after change or fluctuation; as, the wind came about and settled in the west.
6. To become stationary; To quit a rambling or irregular course for a permanent or methodical one.
7. To become fixed or permanent; to take a lasting form or state; as a settled conviction.
Chyle- runs through the intermediate colors till it settles in an intense red. Arbuthnot.
8. To rest; to repose.
When time hath worn out their natural vanity, and taught them discretion, their fondness settles on a proper object. Spectator.
9. To become calm; to cease from agitation.
Till the fury of his highness settle, Come not before him. Shak..
10. To make a jointure for a wife.
He sighs with most success that settles well. Garth.
11. To sink by its weight; and in loose bodies, to become more compact. We say, a wall settles; A house settles upon its foundation; a mass of sand settles and becomes more firm.
12. To sink after being heaved, and to dry; as, roads settle in spring after frost and rain.
13. To be ordained and installed over a parish, church or congregation. AB was invited to settle in the first society of New Haven. ND settled in the ministry when very young.
14. To adjust differences or accounts; to come to an agreement. He has settled with his creditors.
15. To make a jointure for a wife. Garth.
Settled
SET'TLED, participle passive Placed; established; determined; composed; adjusted.
Settledness
SET'TLEDNESS, noun The state of being settled; confirmed state. [Little used.]
Settlement
SET'TLEMENT, noun
1. The act of settling, the state of being settled.
2. The falling of the foul of foreign matter of liquors to the bottom; subsidence.
3. The matter that subsides; lees; dregs. [Not used. For this we use settlings.]
4. The act of giving possession by legal sanction.
My flocks, my fields, my woods, my pastures take,
With settlement as good as law can make. Dryden.
5. A jointure granted to a wife, or the act of granting it. We say, the wife has a competent settlement for her maintenance; or she has provision made for her by the settlement of a jointure.
6. The act of taking a domestic state; the act of marrying and going to housekeeping .
7. A becoming stationary, or taking permanent residence after a roving course of life.
8. The act of planting or establishing, as a colony; also, to place, or the colony established; as the British settlements in America or India.
9. Adjustment; liquidation; the ascertainment of just claims, or payment of the balance of a account.
10. Akjustment of differences; pacification; reconcisiation; as the settlement of disputes or controversies.
11. The ordaining or installment of a clergyman over a parish or a congregation.
12. A sum of money or other property granted to a minister on his ordination, exclusive of his salary.
13. Legal residence or establishment of a person in a particular parish or town, which entitles him to maintenance if a pauper, and subjects the parish or town to his support. In England, the poor are supported by the parish where they have a settlement. In New England they are supported by the town. In England, the statutes 12 Richard II. and 19 Henry VII. seem to be the first rudiments of parish settlements. By statute 13 and 14 Ch. II. a legal settlement is declared to be gained by birth, by inhabitancy, by apprenticeship, or by service for forty days. But the gaining of a settlement by so short a residence produced great evils, which were remedied by statute 1 James II.
14. Act of settlement, in British history, the statute of 12 and 13 William III. by which the crowd was limited to his present majesty's house, or the house of Orange.
Settling
SET'TLING, participle present tense Placing; fixing; establishing; regulating; adjusting; planting or colonizing; subsiding; composing; ordaining or installing; becoming the pastor of a church or parish.
SET'TLING, noun
1. The act of making a settlement; a planting or coloninzing.
2. The act of subsiding, as lees.
3. The adjustment of differences.
4. Settlings, plural lees; dregs; sediment.
Setwall
SET'WALL, noun [set and wall.] A plant. The garden setwall is a species of Valeriana.
Seven
SEVEN, adjective sev'n [L. septem.] Four and three; one more than six or less than eight. Seven days constitute a week. We read in Scripture of seven years of plenty, and seven years of famine, seven trumpets, seven seals, seven vials, etc.
Sevenfold
SEV'ENFOLD, adjective [seven and fold.] Repeated seven times; doubled seven times; increased to seven times the size or amount; as the sevenfold shield of Ajax; sevenfold rage.
SEV'ENFOLD, adverb Seven times as much or often.
Whoever slayeth Cain, vengence shall be taken on him sevenfold. .
Sevennight
SEV'ENNIGHT, noun [seven and night.] A week; the period of seven days and nights; or the time from one day of the week to the next day of the same denomination preceding or following. Our ancestors numbered the diurnal rebolutions of the earth by nights, as they reckoned the annual revolutions by winters. Sevennight is now contracted into sennight, which see.
Sevenscore
SEV'ENSCORE, noun [seven and score, twenty notches or marks.] Seven times twenty, that is, a hundred and forty.
The old countess of Desmond, who lived sevenscore years, dentized twice or thrice. Bacon.
Seventeen
SEV'ENTEEN, adjective [seven-ten.] Seven and ten.
Seventeenth
SEV'ENTEENTH, adjective [from seventeen.] The ordinal of seventeen; the seventh after the tenth.
On the seventeenth day of the second month- all the fountains of the great deep were broken up. .
Seventh
SEV'ENTH, adjective
1. The ordinal of seven; the first after the sixth.
On the seventh day God ended his work which he had made, and he rested on the seventh day from all the work which he had made. .
2. Containing or being one part in seven; as the seventh part.
SEV'ENTH, noun
1. The seventh part; one part in seven.
2. In music, a dissonat interval or heptachord. An interval consisting of four tones and two major semitones, is called a seventh minor. An interval composed of five tones and a major semitone, is called a seventh major.
Seventhly
SEV'ENTHLY, adverb In the seventh place.
Seventieth
SEV'ENTIETH, adjective [from seventy.] The ordinal of seventy; as a man in the seventieth year of his age. The seventieth year begins immediately after the close of the sixth-ninth.
Seventy
SEV'ENTY, adjective [Gr. ten.] Seven times ten.
That he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.
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SEV'ENTY, noun The Septuagint or seventy translators of the Old Testament into the Greek language.
Sever
SEV'ER, verb transitive [There may be a doubt whether sever is derived from the Latin separo. Heb. Ch. Syr. Ar. to break.]
1. To part or divide by violence; to separate by parting or rending; as, to sever the body or the arm at a single stroke.
2. To part from the rest by violence; as, to sever the head from the body.
3. To separate; to disjoin; as distinct things, but united; as the dearest friends severed by cruel necessity.
4. To separate and put in different places or orders.
The angels shall come forth and sever the wicked from among the just.
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5. To disjoin; to disunite; in a general sense, but usually applying violence.
6. To keep distinct or apart.
7. In law, to disunite; to disconnect; to part possession; as, to sever a state in joint-tenacy.
SEV'ER, verb intransitive
1. To make a separation or distinction; to distinguish.
The Lord will sever between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt.
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2. To suffer disjunction; to be parted or rent assunder.
Several
SEV'ERAL, adjective [from several.]
1. Separate; distinct; not common to two or more; as a several fishery; a several estate. A several fishery is one held by the owner of the soil, or by title derived from the owner. A several estate is one held by a tenant in his own right, or a distinct estate unconnected with any other person.
2. Separate; different; distinct.
Divers sorts of beasts came from several parts to drink. Bacon.
Four several armies to the field are lead. Dryden.
3. Divers; consisting of a number; more than two, but not very many. Several persons were present when the event took place.
4. Separate; single; particular.
Each several ship a victory did gain. Dryden.
5. Distinct; appropriate.
Each might his several province well command,
Would all but stoop to what they understand. Pope.
A joint and several note or bond, is one executed by two or more persons, each of whom is bound to pay the whole, in case the others prove to be insolvent.
SEV'ERAL, noun
1. Each particular, or small number, singly taken.
Several of them neither rose from any conspicuous family, nor left any behing them. Addison.
There was not time enough to hear
The severals- Shak.
[This latter use, in the plural, is now infrequent or obsolete.]
2. An inclosed or separate place; inclosed ground; as, they had their several for the heathen, their several for their own people; put a beast into a several. [These applications are nearly or wholly obsolete.]
In several, in a state of separation.
Where pastures in several be. [Little used.] Tusser.
Severality
SEVERAL'ITY, noun Each particular singly taken; distinction. [Not in use.]
Severalize
SEV'ERALIZE, verb transitive To distinguish. [Not in use.]
Severally
SEV'ERALLY, adverb Separately; distinctly; apart from others. Call the men severally by name.
I could not keep my eye steady on them severally so as to number them.
Newton.
To be jointly and severally bound in a contract, is for each obligor to be liable to pay the whole demand, in case the other or others are not able.
Severalty
SEV'ERALTY, noun A state of separation from the rest, or from all others. An estate in severalty, is that which the tenant holds in his own right, without being joined in interest with any other person. It is distinguished from joint-tenacy, coparcenary and common.
Severance
SEV'ERANCE, noun Separation; the act of dividing or disuniting. The sevrance of a jointure is make by destroying the unity of interest. Thus when there are two joint-tenants for life, and the inheritance is purchased by or descends upon either, it is a servrance.
So also when two persons are joined in a writ, and one is nonsuited; in this case sevrance is permitted, and the other plantif may proceed in the suit. So also in assize, when two or more disseizees appear upon the writ, and not the other, sevrance is permitted.
Severe
SEVE'RE, adjective [Latin severus.]
1. Rigid; harsh; not mild or indulgent; as severe words; severe treatment; severe wrath.
2. Sharp; hard rigorous.
Let your zeal-be more severe against thyself than against others. Taylor.
3. Very strict; or sometimes perhaps, unreasonably strict or exact; giving no indulgence to faults or errors; as severe government; severe criticism.
4. Rigorous, perhaps cruel; as severe punishment; severe justice.
5. Grave; sober; sedate to an extreme; opposed to cheerful, gay, light, lively.
Your looks must alter, as your subject does,
From kind to fierce, from wanton to severe. Waller.
6. Rigidly exact; strictly methodical; not lax or airy. I will not venture on on so nice a subject with my severe style.
7. Sharp; afflictive; distressing; violent; as severe pain, anguish, torture, etc.
8. Sharp; biting; extreme; as severe cold.
9. Close; concise; not luxuriant.
The Latin, a most severe and compendious language- Dryden.
10. Exact; critical; nice; as a sever test.
Severely
SEVE'RELY, adverb
1. Harshly; sharply; as, the chide one severely.
2. Strictly; rigorously; as, to judge one severely.
To be or fondly or severely kind. Savage.
3. With extreme rigor; as, to punish severely.
4. Painfully; effectively; greatly; as, to be severely afflicted the gout.
5. Fiercely; ferociously.
More formidable Hydra stands within,
Whose jaws with iron teeth severely grin. Dryden.
Severite
SEV'ERITE, noun A mineral found near St. Sever, in France, occurring in small masses, white without luster, a little harder than lithomarge.
Severity
SEVER'ITY, noun [Latin sveritas.]
1. Harshness; rigor; austerity; want of mildness or indulgence; as the severity of a reprimand or reproof.
2. Rigor; extreme strictness; as the severity of discipline or government.
3. Excessive figor; extreme degree or amount. Severity of penalties or punishments often defeats the object by exciting pity.
4. Extremity; quality or power of distressing; as the severity of pain or anguish.
5. Extreme degree; as the severity of cold or heat.
6. Extreme coldness or inclemency; as the severity of the winter.
7. Harshness; cruel treatment; sharpness of punishment; as severity practiced on prisoners of war.
8. Exactness; rigor; niceness; as the severity of a test.
9. Strictness; rigid accuracy.
Confining myself to the severity of truth. Dryden.
Sevruga
SEVRU'GA, noun A fish, the accipenser stellatus.
Sew
SEW, To follow. [Not used. See Sue.]
SEW, verb transitive pronounced so, and better written soe. To unite or fasten together with a needle and thread.
They sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons. .
To sew up, to inclose by sewing; to inclose in anything sewed.
Thou sewest up my iniquity. .
Sew me up the sdirts of the gown. Shak.
SEW, verb intransitive To practice sewing; to join things with stitches.
SEW, verb transitive [Latin sicco, to dry.] To drain a pond for taking the fish. Obs.
Sewed
SEW'ED, participle passive United by stitches.
Sewel
SEW'EL, noun Among huntsmen, something hung up to prevent deer entering a place.
Sewer
SEW'ER, noun [Latin sicco.] A drain or passage to cnvey off waterunder ground; a subterraneous canal, particularly in cities; corruptly pronounced Shore or soer.
SEW'ER, noun An officer who serves up the feast and arranges the dishes. Obs.
SEW'ER, noun One who sews, or uses the needle.
Sewing
SEW'ING, participle present tense Joining with the needle or with stitches.
Sewster
SEW'STER, noun A woman that sews or spins. Obs.
Sex
SEX, noun [L. sexus; from L. seco, to divide.]
1. The distinction between male and female; or the property or character by which an animal is male or female. The male sex is usually characterized by muscular strength, boldness and firmness. The female sex is characterized by softness, sensibility and modesty.
In botany, the property of plants which corresponds to sex in animals. The Linnean system of botany is formed on the doctrine of sexes in plants.
2. By way of emphasis, womankind; females.
Unhappy sex! whose beauty is your snare. Dryden.
The sex, whose presence civilizes ours. Milne.
Sexagenarian
SEXAGENA'RIAN, noun [infra.] A person who has arrived at the age of sixty years.
Sexagenary
SEX'AGENARY, adjective [L. sexagenarius, from sex, six, and a word signifying ten, seen in viginti; bis-genti.] Designating the number sixty; as a noun, a person sixty years of age; also, something composed of sixty.
Sexagesima
SEXAGES'IMA, noun [L. sexagesimus, sextieth.] The second Sunday before Lent, the next to Shrove-Sunday, so called as being the 60th day before Easter.
Sexagesimal
SEXAGES'IMAL, adjective Sixtieth; pertaining to the number sexty. Sexagenary or sexgesimal arithmetic, is a method of comutation by sexties, as that which is used in dividing minutes into seconds
Sexagesimals, or sexagesimal fractions, are those whose denominators proceed in the ratio of sixty; as 1/60, 1/3600, 1/21600. The denominator is sixty, or its multiple. These fractions are called also astonomical fractions, because formerly there were no others used in astronomical calculations.
Sexangled
SEXAN'GLED, adjective [L. sex, six, and angulus, angle.] Having six angles; hexagonal.
Sexangular
SEXAN'GULAR,
Sexdecimal
SEXDEC'IMAL, adjective [L. sex, six, and decem, ten.] In crystalography, when a prism or the middle part of a crystal has six faces and two summits, and taken together, ten faces, or the reverse.
Sexennial
SEXEN'NIAL, adjective [L. sex, six, and annus, year.] Lasting six years, or happening once in six years.
Sexfid
SEX'FID, adjective [L. sex, six, and findo, to divide.] In botany, six-cleft; as a sexfid calyx or nectary.
Sexinnially
SEXIN'NIALLY, adverb Once in six years.
Sexlocular
SEXLOC'ULAR, adjective [Latin sex, six, and loculus, cell.] In botany, six-celled; having six cells for seeds; as a sexlocular pericarp.
Sextain
SEX'TAIN, noun [Latin sextans, a sixth, from sex, six.] A stanza of six lines.
Sextant
SEX'TANT, noun [Latin sextans, a sixth. the Romans divided the as into 12 ounces; a sixth, or two ounces, was the sextans.]
1. In mathematics, the sixth part of a circle. Hence,
2. An instrument formed like a quadrant, excepting that its limb comprehends only 60 degrees, or the sixth part of a circle.
3. In astronomy, a constellation of the southern hemisphere which, according to the British catalogue, contains 41 stars.
Sextary
SEX'TARY, noun [L. sextarius.] A measure of a pint and a half.
SEX'TARY, noun The same as sacristan. [Not used. ]
Sextile
SEX'TILE, noun [L. sextilis, from sex, six.] Denoting the aspect or position of two planets, when distant from each other 60 degrees or two signs. This position is marked thus*.
Sexton
SEX'TON, noun [contracted from sacristan, which see.] An under officer of the church, whose buiness is to take care of the vessels, vestments, etc. belonging to the church, to attend on the officiating clergyman and perform other duties pertaining to the church, to dig graves, etc.
Sextonship
SEX'TONSHIP, noun The office of a sexton.
Sextry
SEX'TRY,
Sextuple
SEX'TUPLE, adjective [Low Latin sextuplus; sex, six, and duplus, double.]
1. Sixfold; six times as much.
2. In music, denoting a mixed sort of triple, beaten in double time, or a measure of two times composed of six equal notes, three for each time.
Sexual
SEX'UAL, adjective [from sex.]
1. Pertaining to sex or the sexes; distinguishing the sex; denoting what is particular to the distinction and office of male and female; as sexual characteristics; sexual intercourse, connection or commerce.
2. Sexual systemm in botany, the system which ascribes to vegetables the distinction of sexes, suppose that plants are male and female, each sex furnished with the appropriate organs or parts; the male producing a pollen or dust which fecundates the stigma of the pistil or female organ, and is necessary to render it prolific. It is found however that most plants are hermaphrodite, the male and female organs being contained in the same flower. This doctrine was taught to a certain extent by Theophrastus, Dioscorides and Pliny among the ancients, but has been more fully illustrated by Caesalpinus, Grew, Camerarius, Linne and many others among the moderns.
Sexualist
SEX'UALIST, noun One who believes and maintains the doctrine of sexes in plants; or onw who classifies the differences of the sexes and parts of fructification.
Sexuality
SEXUAL'ITY, noun The state of being distinguished by sex.
Sezin
SE'ZIN, noun.
1. In law, possession. Seizin is of two sorts, seizin in deed or fact, and seizin in law. Seizin in fact or deed, is actual or corporal possession; seizin in law, is when something is done in which the law accounts possession or seizin, as enrollment, or when lands decend to an heir, but he has not yet entered on them. In this case, the law considers the heir as seized of the setate, and the person who wrongfully enters on the land is accounted a disseizor.
2. The act of taking possession. [Not used except in law.]
3. The thing possessed; possession.
Livery of seizin. [See Livery.]
Primer of seizin. [See Seizin.]
Shab
SHAB verb intransitive To play mean tricks. In some parts of New England, it signifies to reject or dismiss; as, a woman who shabs her suitor. It is however very vulgar and very obsolete.
Shabbily
SHAB'BILY, adverb [from shabby.]
1. Raggedly; with rent or ragged clothes; as, to be clothed shabbily.
2. Maenly; in a despicable manner.
Shabbiness
SHAB'BINESS, noun
1. Raggedness; as the shabbiness of a garment.
2. Meanness; paltriness.
Shabby
SHAB'BY, adjective
1. Ragged; torn or worn to rags; as a shabby coat; shabby clothes.
2. Clothed with ragged garments.
The dean was so shabby- Swift.
3. Mean; paltry; despicable; as a shabby fellow; shabby treatment. [For the idea expressed by shabby, there is not a better word in the language.]
Shack
SHACK, noun In ancient customs of England, a liberty of witer pasturage. In Norfolk and Suffolk, the lord of the manot has a shack, that is, liberty of feeding his sheep at pleasure on his tenants' lands during the dix winter months. In Norfolk, shack extends to the common for hogs, in all men's grounds, from harvest to seed time; whence to go a-shack, is to feed at large.
In New England, shack is used in a somewhat similar sense for mast or the food of swine, and for feeding at large or in the forest, [for we have no manors, ] and I have heard a shiftless fellow, a vagabond, called a shack.
SHACK, verb intransitive
1. To shed, as corn at harvest. [Local.]
2. To feed in stubble, or upon the waste corn of the field. [Local.]
Shackle
SHACK'LE, noun Stubble. [In Scotish, shag is the refuse of barley, or that which is not well filled, and is given to horses. The word shack then is probably from a root which signifies to break, to reject, or to waste, or it may be allied to shag and shake.]
SHACK'LE, verb transitive
1. To chain; to fetter; to tie or confine the limbs so as to prevent free motion.
So the stretch'd cord the shackled dancer tries,
As prone to fall as impotent to rise. Smith.
2. To bind or confine so as to obstruct or embarrass action.
You must not shackle him with the rules about indifferent matter. Locke.
SHACK'LE, noun [generally used in the plural.]
Shackled
SHACK'LED, participle passive Tied; confined; embarrassed.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828); edition by akaitsurugi (github.com/akaitsurugi/webster1828). Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text from the CrossWire Bible Society.