AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
septicaemia: a poisoned condition of the blood produced by the absorption into it of septic or putrescent material; blood poisoning.  it is marked by chills, fever, prostration, and inflammation of the different serous membranes and of the lungs, kidneys, and other organs.
septicidal: dividing the partitions; -- said of a method of dehiscence in which a pod splits through the partitions and is divided into its component carpels.
septiferous: bearing a partition; -- said of the valves of a capsule.-conveying putrid poison; as, the virulence of septiferous matter.
septifragal: breaking from the partitions; -- said of a method of dehiscence in which the valves of a pod break away from the partitions, and these remain attached to the common axis.
septillion: according to the french method of numeration (which is followed also in the united states), the number expressed by a unit with twenty-four ciphers annexed. according to the english method, the number expressed by a unit with forty-two ciphers annexed. see numeration.
septinsular: consisting of seven islands; as, the septinsular republic of the ionian isles.
septomaxillary: of or pertaining to the nasal septum and the maxilla; situated in the region of these parts.-a small bone between the nasal septum and the maxilla in many reptiles and amphibians.
septuagenarian: a person who is seventy years of age; a septuagenary.
septuagenary: consisting of seventy; also, seventy years old.-a septuagenarian.
septuagesima: the third sunday before lent; -- so called because it is about seventy days before easter.
septuagesimal: consisting of seventy days, years, etc.; reckoned by seventies.
septuagint: a greek version of the old testament; -- so called because it was believed to be the work of seventy (or rather of seventy-two) translators.
septum: a wall separating two cavities; a partition; as, the nasal septum.-a partition that separates the cells of a fruit.-one of the radial calcareous plates of a coral.-one of the transverse partitions dividing the shell of a mollusk, or of a rhizopod, into several chambers. see illust. under nautilus.-one of the transverse partitions dividing the body cavity of an annelid.
septuple: seven times as much; multiplied by seven; sevenfold.-to multiply by seven; to make sevenfold.
sepulchral: of or pertaining to burial, to the grave, or to monuments erected to the memory of the dead; as, a sepulchral stone; a sepulchral inscription.-unnaturally low and grave; hollow in tone; -- said of sound, especially of the voice.
sepulchre: the place in which the dead body of a human being is interred, or a place set apart for that purpose; a grave; a tomb.-to bury; to inter; to entomb; as, obscurely sepulchered.
sepulture: the act of depositing the dead body of a human being in the grave; burial; interment.-a sepulcher; a grave; a place of burial.
sequacious: inclined to follow a leader; following; attendant.-hence, ductile; malleable; pliant; manageable.-having or observing logical sequence; logically consistent and rigorous; consecutive in development or transition of thought.
sequel: that which follows; a succeeding part; continuation; as, the sequel of a man's advantures or history.-consequence; event; effect; result; as, let the sun cease, fail, or swerve, and the sequel would be ruin.-conclusion; inference.
sequela: one who, or that which, follows.-an adherent, or a band or sect of adherents.-that which follows as the logical result of reasoning; inference; conclusion; suggestion.-a morbid phenomenon left as the result of a disease; a disease resulting from another.
sequence: the state of being sequent; succession; order of following; arrangement.-that which follows or succeeds as an effect; sequel; consequence; result.-simple succession, or the coming after in time, without asserting or implying causative energy; as, the reactions of chemical agents may be conceived as merely invariable sequences.-any succession of chords (or harmonic phrase) rising or falling by the regular diatonic degrees in the same scale; a succession of similar harmonic steps.-a melodic phrase or passage successively repeated one tone higher; a rosalia.-a hymn introduced in the mass on certain festival days, and recited or sung immediately before the gospel, and after the gradual or introit, whence the name.-three or more cards of the same suit in immediately consecutive order of value; as, ace, king, and queen; or knave, ten, nine, and eight.-all five cards, of a hand, in consecutive order as to value, but not necessarily of the same suit; when of one suit, it is called a sequence flush.
sequent: following; succeeding; in continuance.-following as an effect; consequent.-a follower.-that which follows as a result; a sequence.
sequester: to separate from the owner for a time; to take from parties in controversy and put into the possession of an indifferent person; to seize or take possession of, as property belonging to another, and hold it till the profits have paid the demand for which it is taken, or till the owner has performed the decree of court, or clears himself of contempt; in international law, to confiscate.-to cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc.-to set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.-to cause to retire or withdraw into obscurity; to seclude; to withdraw; -- often used reflexively.-to withdraw; to retire.-to renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.-sequestration; separation.-a person with whom two or more contending parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy; one who mediates between two parties; a mediator; an umpire or referee.-same as sequestrum.
sequestrator: one who sequesters property, or takes the possession of it for a time, to satisfy a demand out of its rents or profits.-one to whom the keeping of sequestered property is committed.
sequestrum: a portion of dead bone which becomes separated from the sound portion, as in necrosis.
sequin: an old gold coin of italy and turkey. it was first struck at venice about the end of the 13th century, and afterward in the other italian cities, and by the levant trade was introduced into turkey. it is worth about 9s. 3d. sterling, or about $2.25. the different kinds vary somewhat in value.
sequoia: a genus of coniferous trees, consisting of two species, sequoia washingtoniana, syn. s. gigantea, the "big tree" of california, and s. sempervirens, the redwood, both of which attain an immense height.
sequoiene: a hydrocarbon (c13h10) obtained in white fluorescent crystals, in the distillation products of the needles of the california "big tree" (sequoia gigantea).
seraglio: an inclosure; a place of separation.-the palace of the grand seignior, or turkish sultan, at constantinople, inhabited by the sultan himself, and all the officers and dependents of his court. in it are also kept the females of the harem.-a harem; a place for keeping wives or concubines; sometimes, loosely, a place of licentious pleasure; a house of debauchery.
serai: a palace; a seraglio; also, in the east, a place for the accommodation of travelers; a caravansary, or rest house.
serape: a blanket or shawl worn as an outer garment by the spanish americans, as in mexico.
seraph: one of an order of celestial beings, each having three pairs of wings. in ecclesiastical art and in poetry, a seraph is represented as one of a class of angels.
seraphical: of or pertaining to a seraph; becoming, or suitable to, a seraph; angelic; sublime; pure; refined.
seraphicism: the character, quality, or state of a seraph; seraphicalness.
seraphim: of seraph-the hebrew plural of seraph.  cf. cherubim.
seraphine: a wind instrument whose sounding parts are reeds, consisting of a thin tongue of brass playing freely through a slot in a plate. it has a case, like a piano, and is played by means of a similar keybord, the bellows being worked by the foot. the melodeon is a portable variety of this instrument.
serapis: an egyptian deity, at first a symbol of the nile, and so of fertility; later, one of the divinities of the lower world. his worship was introduced into greece and rome.
seraskier: a general or commander of land forces in the turkish empire; especially, the commander-in-chief of minister of war.
serbonian: relating to the lake of serbonis in egypt, which by reason of the sand blowing into it had a deceptive appearance of being solid land, but was a bog.
sere: [oe. seer, as. sear (assumed) fr. searian to wither; akin to d. zoor dry, lg. soor, ohg. sor/n to to wither, gr. a"y`ein to parch, to dry, skr. /ush (for sush) to dry, to wither, zend hush to dry. ã152.  cf. austere, sorrel, a.] dry; withered; no longer green; -- applied to leaves.-dry; withered. same as sear.-claw; talon.
serein: a mist, or very fine rain, which sometimes falls from a clear sky a few moments after sunset.
serenade: music sung or performed in the open air at nights; -- usually applied to musical entertainments given in the open air at night, especially by gentlemen, in a spirit of gallantry, under the windows of ladies.-a piece of music suitable to be performed at such times.-to entertain with a serenade.-to perform a serenade.
serenate: a piece of vocal music, especially one on an amoreus subject; a serenade.
serene: bright; clear; unabscured; as, a serene sky.-calm; placid; undisturbed; unruffled; as, a serene aspect; a serene soul.-serenity; clearness; calmness.-evening air; night chill.-to make serene.
serenely: in a serene manner; clearly.-with unruffled temper; coolly; calmly.
serenity: the quality or state of being serene; clearness and calmness; quietness; stillness; peace.-calmness of mind; eveness of temper; undisturbed state; coolness; composure.
serf: a servant or slave employed in husbandry, and in some countries attached to the soil and transferred with it, as formerly in russia.
serge: a woolen twilled stuff, much used as material for clothing for both sexes.-a large wax candle used in the ceremonies of various churches.
sergeant: formerly, in england, an officer nearly answering to the more modern bailiff of the hundred; also, an officer whose duty was to attend on the king, and on the lord high steward in court, to arrest traitors and other offenders. he is now called sergeant-at-arms, and two of these officers, by allowance of the sovereign, attend on the houses of parliament (one for each house) to execute their commands, and another attends the court chancery.-in a company, battery, or troop, a noncommissioned officer next in rank above a corporal, whose duty is to instruct recruits in discipline, to form the ranks, etc.-a lawyer of the highest rank, answering to the doctor of the civil law; -- called also serjeant at law.-a title sometimes given to the servants of the sovereign; as, sergeant surgeon, that is, a servant, or attendant, surgeon.-the cobia.
sergeanty: tenure of lands of the crown by an honorary kind of service not due to any lord, but to the king only.
serial: of or pertaining to a series; consisting of a series; appearing in successive parts or numbers; as, a serial work or publication.-of or pertaining to rows.-a publication appearing in a series or succession of part; a tale, or other writing, published in successive numbers of a periodical.
serially: in a series, or regular order; in a serial manner; as, arranged serially; published serially.
sericeous: of or pertaining to silk; consisting of silk; silky.-covered with very soft hairs pressed close to the surface; as, a sericeous leaf.-having a silklike luster, usually due to fine, close hairs.
sericin: a gelatinous nitrogenous material extracted from crude silk and other similar fiber by boiling water; -- called also silk gelatin.
sericite: a kind of muscovite occuring in silky scales having a fibrous structure. it is characteristic of sericite schist.
seriema: a large south american bird (dicholophus, / cariama cristata) related to the cranes. it is often domesticated. called also cariama.
series: a number of things or events standing or succeeding in order, and connected by a like relation; sequence; order; course; a succession of things; as, a continuous series of calamitous events.-any comprehensive group of animals or plants including several subordinate related groups.-an indefinite number of terms succeeding one another, each of which is derived from one or more of the preceding by a fixed law, called the law of the series; as, an arithmetical series; a geometrical series.
serin: a european finch (serinus hortulanus) closely related to the canary.
serine: a white crystalline nitrogenous substance obtained by the action of dilute sulphuric acid on silk gelatin.
serio-comical: having a mixture of seriousness and sport; serious and comical.
serious: grave in manner or disposition; earnest; thoughtful; solemn; not light, gay, or volatile.-really intending what is said; being in earnest; not jesting or deceiving.-important; weighty; not trifling; grave.-hence, giving rise to apprehension; attended with danger; as, a serious injury.
sermon: a discourse or address; a talk; a writing; as, the sermons of chaucer.-specifically, a discourse delivered in public, usually by a clergyman, for the purpose of religious instruction and grounded on some text or passage of scripture.-hence, a serious address; a lecture on one's conduct or duty; an exhortation or reproof; a homily; -- often in a depreciatory sense.-to speak; to discourse; to compose or deliver a sermon.-to discourse to or of, as in a sermon.-to tutor; to lecture.
sermonize: to compose or write a sermon or sermons; to preach.-to inculcate rigid rules.-to preach or discourse to; to affect or influence by means of a sermon or of sermons.
serolin: a peculiar fatty substance found in the blood, probably a mixture of fats, cholesterin, etc.-a body found in fecal matter and thought to be formed in the intestines from the cholesterin of the bile; -- called also stercorin, and stercolin.
serosity: the quality or state of being serous.-a thin watery animal fluid, as synovial fluid and pericardial fluid.
serotinous: appearing or blossoming later in the season than is customary with allied species.
serous: thin; watery; like serum; as the serous fluids.-of or pertaining to serum; as, the serous glands, membranes, layers. see serum.
serpent: any reptile of the order ophidia; a snake, especially a large snake. see illust. under ophidia.-fig.: a subtle, treacherous, malicious person.-a species of firework having a serpentine motion as it passess through the air or along the ground.-the constellation serpens.-a bass wind instrument, of a loud and coarse tone, formerly much used in military bands, and sometimes introduced into the orchestra; -- so called from its form.-to wind like a serpent; to crook about; to meander.-to wind; to encircle.
serpentaria: the fibrous aromatic root of the virginia snakeroot (aristolochia serpentaria).
serpentarius: a constellation on the equator, lying between scorpio and hercules; -- called also ophiuchus.
serpentine: resembling a serpent; having the shape or qualities of a serpent; subtle; winding or turning one way and the other, like a moving serpent; anfractuous; meandering; sinuous; zigzag; as, serpentine braid.-a mineral or rock consisting chiefly of the hydrous silicate of magnesia. it is usually of an obscure green color, often with a spotted or mottled appearance resembling a serpent's skin. precious, or noble, serpentine is translucent and of a rich oil-green color.-a kind of ancient cannon.-to serpentize.
serpentinous: relating to, or like, serpentine; as, a rock serpentinous in character.
serpentize: to turn or bend like a serpent, first in one direction and then in the opposite; to meander; to wind; to serpentine.
serpentry: a winding like a serpent's.-a place inhabited or infested by serpents.
serpiginous: creeping; -- said of lesions which heal over one portion while continuing to advance at another.
serpigo: a dry, scaly eruption on the skin; especially, a ringworm.
serpula: any one of numerous species of tubicolous annelids of the genus serpula and allied genera of the family serpulidae. they secrete a calcareous tube, which is usually irregularly contorted, but is sometimes spirally coiled. the worm has a wreath of plumelike and often bright-colored gills around its head, and usually an operculum to close the aperture of its tube when it retracts.
serranoid: any fish of the family serranidae, which includes the striped bass, the black sea bass, and many other food fishes.-of or pertaining to the serranidae.
serrated: notched on the edge, like a saw.-beset with teeth pointing forwards or upwards; as, serrate leaves.
serration: condition of being serrate; formation in the shape of a saw.-one of the teeth in a serrate or serrulate margin.
serrature: a notching, like that between the teeth of a saw, in the edge of anything.-one of the teeth in a serrated edge; a serration.
serricorn: having serrated antenn/.-any one of a numerous tribe of beetles (serricornia). the joints of the antennae are prominent, thus producing a serrate appearance. see illust. under antenna.
serrulation: the state of being notched minutely, like a fine saw.-one of the teeth in a serrulate margin.
sertularia: a genus of delicate branching hydroids having small sessile hydrothecae along the sides of the branches.
sertularian: any species of sertularia, or of sertularidae, a family of hydroids having branched chitinous stems and simple sessile hydrothecae. also used adjectively.
serum: the watery portion of certain animal fluids, as blood, milk, etc.-a thin watery fluid, containing more or less albumin, secreted by the serous membranes of the body, such as the pericardium and peritoneum.
serval: an african wild cat (felis serval) of moderate size. it has rather long legs and a tail of moderate length. its color is tawny, with black spots on the body and rings of black on the tail.
servant: one who serves, or does services, voluntarily or on compulsion; a person who is employed by another for menial offices, or for other labor, and is subject to his command; a person who labors or exerts himself for the benefit of another, his master or employer; a subordinate helper.-one in a state of subjection or bondage.-a professed lover or suitor; a gallant.-to subject.
serve: to work for; to labor in behalf of; to exert one's self continuously or statedly for the benefit of; to do service for; to be in the employment of, as an inferior, domestic, serf, slave, hired assistant, official helper, etc.; specifically, in a religious sense, to obey and worship.-to be subordinate to; to act a secondary part under; to appear as the inferior of; to minister to.-to be suitor to; to profess love to.-to wait upon; to supply the wants of; to attend; specifically, to wait upon at table; to attend at meals; to supply with food; as, to serve customers in a shop.-hence, to bring forward, arrange, deal, or distribute, as a portion of anything, especially of food prepared for eating; -- often with up; formerly with in.-to perform the duties belonging to, or required in or for; hence, to be of use to; as, a curate may serve two churches; to serve one's country.-to contribute or conduce to; to promote; to be sufficient for; to satisfy; as, to serve one's turn.-to answer or be (in the place of something) to; as, a sofa serves one for a seat and a couch.-to treat; to behave one's self to; to requite; to act toward; as, he served me very ill.-to work; to operate; as, to serve the guns.-to bring to notice, deliver, or execute, either actually or constructively, in such manner as the law requires; as, to serve a summons.-to make legal service opon (a person named in a writ, summons, etc.); as, to serve a witness with a subp/na.-to pass or spend, as time, esp. time of punishment; as, to serve a term in prison.-to copulate with; to cover; as, a horse serves a mare; -- said of the male.-to lead off in delivering (the ball).-to wind spun yarn, or the like, tightly around (a rope or cable, etc.) so as to protect it from chafing or from the weather. see under serving.-to be a servant or a slave; to be employed in labor or other business for another; to be in subjection or bondage; to render menial service.-to perform domestic offices; to be occupied with household affairs; to prepare and dish up food, etc.-to be in service; to do duty; to discharge the requirements of an office or employment. specifically, to act in the public service, as a soldier, seaman. etc.-to be of use; to answer a purpose; to suffice; to suit; to be convenient or favorable.-to lead off in delivering the ball.
servian: of or pertaining to servia, a kingdom of southern europe.-a native or inhabitant of servia.
service: alt. of service-a name given to several trees and shrubs of the genus pyrus, as pyrus domestica and p. torminalis of europe, the various species of mountain ash or rowan tree, and the american shad bush (see shad bush, under shad). they have clusters of small, edible, applelike berries.-the act of serving; the occupation of a servant; the performance of labor for the benefit of another, or at another's command; attendance of an inferior, hired helper, slave, etc., on a superior, employer, master, or the like; also, spiritual obedience and love.-the deed of one who serves; labor performed for another; duty done or required; office.-office of devotion; official religious duty performed; religious rites appropriate to any event or ceremonial; as, a burial service.-hence, a musical composition for use in churches.-duty performed in, or appropriate to, any office or charge; official function; hence, specifically, military or naval duty; performance of the duties of a soldier.-useful office; advantage conferred; that which promotes interest or happiness; benefit; avail.-profession of respect; acknowledgment of duty owed.-the act and manner of bringing food to the persons who eat it; order of dishes at table; also, a set or number of vessels ordinarily used at table; as, the service was tardy and awkward; a service of plate or glass.-the act of bringing to notice, either actually or constructively, in such manner as is prescribed by law; as, the service of a subp/na or an attachment.-the materials used for serving a rope, etc., as spun yarn, small lines, etc.-the act of serving the ball.-act of serving or covering. see serve, v. t., 13.
serviceable: doing service; promoting happiness, interest, advantage, or any good; useful to any end; adapted to any good end use; beneficial; advantageous.-prepared for rendering service; capable of, or fit for, the performance of duty; hence, active; diligent.
servifor: one who serves; a servant; an attendant; one who acts under another; a follower or adherent.-an undergraduate, partly supported by the college funds, whose duty it formerly was to wait at table. a servitor corresponded to a sizar in cambridge and dublin universities.
servile: of or pertaining to a servant or slave; befitting a servant or a slave; proceeding from dependence; hence, meanly submissive; slavish; mean; cringing; fawning; as, servile flattery; servile fear; servile obedience.-held in subjection; dependent; enslaved.-not belonging to the original root; as, a servile letter.-not itself sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceeding vowel, as e in tune.-an element which forms no part of the original root; -- opposed to radical.
servite: one of the order of the religious servants of the holy virgin, founded in florence in 1223.
servitude: the state of voluntary or compulsory subjection to a master; the condition of being bound to service; the condition of a slave; slavery; bondage; hence, a state of slavish dependence.-servants, collectively.-a right whereby one thing is subject to another thing or person for use or convenience, contrary to the common right.
sesame: either of two annual herbaceous plants of the genus sesamum (s. indicum, and s. orientale), from the seeds of which an oil is expressed; also, the small obovate, flattish seeds of these plants, sometimes used as food. see benne.
sesamoid: resembling in shape the seeds of sesame.-of or pertaining to the sesamoid bones or cartilages; sesamoidal.-a sesamoid bone or cartilage.
sesban: a leguminous shrub (sesbania aculeata) which furnishes a fiber used for making ropes.