| Sen |
n. |
A Japanese coin, worth about one half of a cent. |
| Sen |
adv., prep., & conj. |
Since. |
| Senary |
a. |
Of six; belonging to six; containing six. |
| Senate |
n. |
An assembly or council having the highest deliberative and legislative functions. |
| Senate |
n. |
A body of elders appointed or elected from among the nobles of the nation, and having supreme legislative authority. |
| Senate |
n. |
The upper and less numerous branch of a legislature in various countries, as in France, in the United States, in most of the separate States of the United States, and in some Swiss cantons. |
| Senate |
n. |
In general, a legislative body; a state council; the legislative department of government. |
| Senate |
n. |
The governing body of the Universities of Cambridge and London. |
| Senate |
n. |
In some American colleges, a council of elected students, presided over by the president of the college, to which are referred cases of discipline and matters of general concern affecting the students. |
| Senator |
n. |
A member of a senate. |
| Senator |
n. |
A member of the king's council; a king's councilor. |
| Senatorial |
a. |
Of or pertaining to a senator, or a senate; becoming to a senator, or a senate; as, senatorial duties; senatorial dignity. |
| Senatorial |
a. |
Entitled to elect a senator, or by senators; as, the senatorial districts of a State. |
| Senatorially |
adv. |
In a senatorial manner. |
| Senatorian |
a. |
Senatorial. |
| Senatorious |
a. |
Senatorial. |
| Senatorship |
n. |
The office or dignity of a senator. |
| Senatusconsult |
n. |
A decree of the Roman senate. |
| Send |
v. t. |
To cause to go in any manner; to dispatch; to commission or direct to go; as, to send a messenger. |
| Send |
v. t. |
To give motion to; to cause to be borne or carried; to procure the going, transmission, or delivery of; as, to send a message. |
| Send |
v. t. |
To emit; to impel; to cast; to throw; to hurl; as, to send a ball, an arrow, or the like. |
| Send |
v. t. |
To cause to be or to happen; to bestow; to inflict; to grant;
sometimes followed by a dependent proposition. |
| Send |
v. i. |
To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message, or to do an errand. |
| Send |
v. i. |
To pitch; as, the ship sends forward so violently as to endanger her masts. |
| Send |
n. |
The impulse of a wave by which a vessel is carried bodily. |
| Sendal |
n. |
A light thin stuff of silk. |
| Sender |
n. |
One who sends. |
| Sending |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Send |
| Senecas |
n. pl. |
A tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited a part of Western New York. This tribe was the most numerous and most warlike of the Five Nations. |
| Senecio |
n. |
A very large genus of composite plants including the groundsel and the golden ragwort. |
| Senectitude |
n. |
Old age. |
| Senega |
n. |
Seneca root. |
| Senegal |
n. |
Gum senegal. See under Gum. |
| Senegin |
n. |
A substance extracted from the rootstock of the Polygala Senega (Seneca root), and probably identical with polygalic acid. |
| Senescence |
n. |
The state of growing old; decay by time. |
| Senescent |
a. |
Growing old; decaying with the lapse of time. |
| Seneschal |
n. |
An officer in the houses of princes and dignitaries, in the Middle Ages, who had the superintendence of feasts and domestic ceremonies; a steward. Sometimes the seneschal had the dispensing of justice, and was given high military commands. |
| Seneschalship |
n. |
The office, dignity, or jurisdiction of a seneschal. |
| Senge |
v. t. |
To singe. |
| Sengreen |
n. |
The houseleek. |
| Senhor |
n. |
A Portuguese title of courtesy corresponding to the Spanish se–or or the English Mr. or sir; also, a gentleman. |
| Senhora |
n. |
A Portuguese title of courtesy given to a lady; Mrs.; Madam; also, a lady. |
| Senile |
a. |
Of or pertaining to old age; proceeding from, or characteristic of, old age; affected with the infirmities of old age; as, senile weakness. |
| Senility |
n. |
The quality or state of being senile; old age. |
| Senior |
a. |
More advanced than another in age; prior in age; elder; hence, more advanced in dignity, rank, or office; superior; as, senior member; senior counsel. |
| Senior |
a. |
Belonging to the final year of the regular course in American colleges, or in professional schools. |
| Senior |
n. |
A person who is older than another; one more advanced in life. |
| Senior |
n. |
One older in office, or whose entrance upon office was anterior to that of another; one prior in grade. |
| Senior |
n. |
An aged person; an older. |
| Senior |
n. |
One in the fourth or final year of his collegiate course at an American college;
originally called senior sophister; also, one in the last year of the course at a professional schools or at a seminary. |
| Seniority |
n. |
The quality or state of being senior. |
| Seniorize |
v. i. |
To exercise authority; to rule; to lord it. |
| Seniory |
n. |
Seniority. |
| Senna |
n. |
The leaves of several leguminous plants of the genus Cassia. (C. acutifolia, C. angustifolia, etc.). They constitute a valuable but nauseous cathartic medicine. |
| Senna |
n. |
The plants themselves, native to the East, but now cultivated largely in the south of Europe and in the West Indies. |
| Sennachy |
n. |
See Seannachie. |
| Sennet |
n. |
A signal call on a trumpet or cornet for entrance or exit on the stage. |
| Sennet |
n. |
The barracuda. |
| Sennight |
n. |
The space of seven nights and days; a week. |
| Sennit |
n. |
A braided cord or fabric formed by plaiting together rope yarns or other small stuff. |
| Sennit |
n. |
Plaited straw or palm leaves for making hats. |
| Senocular |
a. |
Having six eyes. |
| Senonian |
a. |
In european geology, a name given to the middle division of the Upper Cretaceous formation. |
| Sens |
adv. |
Since. |
| Sensate |
v. t. |
To feel or apprehend more or less distinctly through a sense, or the senses; as, to sensate light, or an odor. |
| Sensate |
a. |
Alt. of Sensated |
| Sensated |
imp. & p. p. |
of Sensate |
| Sensated |
a. |
Felt or apprehended through a sense, or the senses. |
| Sensating |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Sensate |
| Sensation |
n. |
An impression, or the consciousness of an impression, made upon the central nervous organ, through the medium of a sensory or afferent nerve or one of the organs of sense; a feeling, or state of consciousness, whether agreeable or disagreeable, produced either by an external object (stimulus), or by some change in the internal state of the body. |
| Sensation |
n. |
A purely spiritual or psychical affection; agreeable or disagreeable feelings occasioned by objects that are not corporeal or material. |
| Sensation |
n. |
A state of excited interest or feeling, or that which causes it. |
| Sensational |
a. |
Of or pertaining to sensation; as, sensational nerves. |
| Sensational |
a. |
Of or pertaining to sensationalism, or the doctrine that sensation is the sole origin of knowledge. |
| Sensational |
a. |
Suited or intended to excite temporarily great interest or emotion; melodramatic; emotional; as, sensational plays or novels; sensational preaching; sensational journalism; a sensational report. |
| Sensationalism |
n. |
The doctrine held by Condillac, and by some ascribed to Locke, that our ideas originate solely in sensation, and consist of sensations transformed; sensualism;
opposed to intuitionalism, and rationalism. |
| Sensationalism |
n. |
The practice or methods of sensational writing or speaking; as, the sensationalism of a novel. |
| Sensationalist |
n. |
An advocate of, or believer in, philosophical sensationalism. |
| Sensationalist |
n. |
One who practices sensational writing or speaking. |
| Sense |
v. t. |
A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch. See Muscular sense, under Muscular, and Temperature sense, under Temperature. |
| Sense |
v. t. |
Perception by the sensory organs of the body; sensation; sensibility; feeling. |
| Sense |
v. t. |
Perception through the intellect; apprehension; recognition; understanding; discernment; appreciation. |
| Sense |
v. t. |
Sound perception and reasoning; correct judgment; good mental capacity; understanding; also, that which is sound, true, or reasonable; rational meaning. |
| Sense |
v. t. |
That which is felt or is held as a sentiment, view, or opinion; judgment; notion; opinion. |
| Sense |
v. t. |
Meaning; import; signification; as, the true sense of words or phrases; the sense of a remark. |
| Sense |
v. t. |
Moral perception or appreciation. |
| Sense |
v. t. |
One of two opposite directions in which a line, surface, or volume, may be supposed to be described by the motion of a point, line, or surface. |
| Sense |
v. t. |
To perceive by the senses; to recognize. |
| Sensed |
imp. & p. p. |
of Sense |
| Senseful |
a. |
Full of sense, meaning, or reason; reasonable; judicious. |
| Senseless |
a. |
Destitute of, deficient in, or contrary to, sense; without sensibility or feeling; unconscious; stupid; foolish; unwise; unreasonable. |
| Sensery |
n. |
Same as Sensorium. |
| Sensibilities |
pl. |
of Sensibility |
| Sensibility |
n. |
The quality or state of being sensible, or capable of sensation; capacity to feel or perceive. |
| Sensibility |
n. |
The capacity of emotion or feeling, as distinguished from the intellect and the will; peculiar susceptibility of impression, pleasurable or painful; delicacy of feeling; quick emotion or sympathy; as, sensibility to pleasure or pain; sensibility to shame or praise; exquisite sensibility;
often used in the plural. |
| Sensibility |
n. |
Experience of sensation; actual feeling. |
| Sensibility |
n. |
That quality of an instrument which makes it indicate very slight changes of condition; delicacy; as, the sensibility of a balance, or of a thermometer. |
| Sensible |
a. |
Capable of being perceived by the senses; apprehensible through the bodily organs; hence, also, perceptible to the mind; making an impression upon the sense, reason, or understanding; ////// heat; sensible resistance. |
| Sensible |
a. |
Having the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; capable of perceiving by the instrumentality of the proper organs; liable to be affected physsically or mentally; impressible. |
| Sensible |
a. |
Hence: Liable to impression from without; easily affected; having nice perception or acute feeling; sensitive; also, readily moved or affected by natural agents; delicate; as, a sensible thermometer. |
