Her brow thus smooth, her look was thus sePrior.

rene.

SEMBLANT.N.s. Show; figure; reserblance; representation. Not in use. Her purpose was not such as she did feign, Ne yet her person such as it was seen;

But under simple shew, and semblant plain, Lurks false Duessa, secretly unseen. Fairy Queen. Full lively is the semblant, tho' the substance dead.

SE'MBLATIVE. adj. [from semblant.] Spenser. Suitable; accommodate ; fit; resembling.

Diana's lip Is not more smooth and ruby; thy small pipe Is as the maiden's organ, shrill and sound'; And all is semblative a woman's part. Shaksp. To SE'MBLE. v. n. [sembler, Fr.] To represent; to make a likeness. Little used.

Let Europe, sav'd, the column high erect, Than Trajan's higher, or than Antonine's, Where sembling art may carve the fair effect. And full achievement of thy great designs. Prier. SEMI. n. s. [Latin.] A word which, used in composition, signifies half: as, semicircle, half a circle.

SEMIA'NNULAR. adj. [semi and annulus, a ring.] Half round.

Greru,

Another boar tusk, somewhat slenderer, and of a semiannular figure. SE'MIBREF.n.s. [semibreve, Fr.]

Semibref is a note in musick relating to time, and is the last in augmentation. It is commonly called the master-note, or measure-note, or timenote, as being of a certain determinate measure or length of time by itself; and all the other notes of augmentation and diminution are adjusted to its value.

Harris.

He takes my hand, and as a still which stays A semibref, 'twixt each drop, he niggardly, As loth to enrich me, so tells many a lye. Donne. SEMICIRCLE.n.s. [semicirculus, Latin; semi and circle.] A half round; part of a circle divided by the diameter.

Black brows Become some women best, so they be in a semicircle,

Or a half-moon, made with a pen. Shakspeare.
Has he given the lye
In circle, or oblique, or semicircle,
Or direct parallel?

Shakspeare.

The chains that held my left leg gave me the liberty of walking backwards and forwards in a

semicircle.

Swift. SEMICIRCLED. ) adj. [semi and circuSEMICIRCULAR. lar. Half round.

The firm fixure of thy foot would give an excellent motion to thy gait, in a semicircled farthingale. Shakspeare.

The rainbow is caused by the rays of the sun falling upon a rorid and opposite cloud, whereof some reflected, others refracted, beget the semiCircular variety we call the rainbow. Brorun. The seas are inclosed between the two semicircular moles that surround it. Addison. SEMICO'LON.n. s. [semi and κῶλον.] Half a colon; a point made thus [;] to note a greater pause than that of a comma. SEMIDIA'METER. n. s. [semi and diameter.] Half the line which, drawn through the centre of a circle, divides it into two equal parts; a straight line

The force of this instrument consists in the disproportion of distance betwixt the semidiame ter of the cylinder and the semidiameter of the rundle with the spokes.

Wilkins.

SEMIDIAPHANE'ITY.n.s. [semi and diaphaneity.] Half transparency; imperfect transparency.

The transparency or semidiapbaneity of the superficial corpuscles of bigger bodies may have an interest in the production of their colours. Boyle. SEMIDIA'PHANOUS. adj. [semi and diaphanous.] Half transparent; imperfectly transparent.

Another plate, finely variegated with a semi diapbanous grey or sky, yellow and brown.

Woodward.

SE'MIDOUBLE. n. s. [semi and double.] In the Romish breviary, such offices and feasts as are celebrated with less solemnity than the double ones, but yet with SEMIFLO'SCULOUS. adj. [semi and floscumore than the single ones. Bailey. SE'MIFLORET. n. s. [semi and foret.] lus, Lat.] Having a semifloret. Bailey. Among florists, an half floret, which is tubulous at the beginning like a floret, and afterwards expanded in the form of a tongue. Bailey. SEMIFLUID. adj. [semi and Auid.] Imperfectly fluid.

Phlegm, or petuite, is a sort of semifluid; it being so far solid that one part draws along several other parts adhering to it, which doth not happen in a perfect fluid; and yet no part will draw the whole mass, as happens in a perfect solid. Arbuthnot.

SEMILU'NARY.

Hill.

Had our senses never presented us with those obvious seminal principles of apparent generations, we should never have suspected that a plant or animal would have proceeded from such unlikely materials.

Glanville.

As though there were a seminality in urine, or that, like the seed, it carried with it the idea of every part, they conceive we behold therein the Brown. anatomy of every particle.

2. The power of being produced. In the seeds of wheat there lieth obscurely the seminality of darnel. Brown. SEMINARY. n. S. [seminaire, Fr. seminarium, from semino, Lat.]

1. The ground where any thing is sown to be afterward transplanted; seedplot.

Some, at the first transplanting trees out of their seminaries, cut them off about an inch from the ground, and plant them like quickset.

Mortimer.

2. The place or original stock whence any thing is brought.

This stratum is expanded, serving for a common integument, and being the seminary or promptuary that furnisheth forth matter for the formation and increment of animal and vegetable bodies. Woodward.

We are made to believe, that in the fourteenth year males are seminifical and pubescent; but he that shall inquire into the generality, will rather adhere unto Aristotle.

Brown.

Hale.

SEMINIFICATION.n.s. Propagation from the seed or seminal parts. SEMIOPA'COUS. adj. [semi and opacus, Lat.) Half dark.

Semiopacous bodies are such as, looked upon in an ordinary light, and not held betwixt it and the eye, are not wont to be discriminated from the rest of the opacous bodies. Boyle. SEMIO'RDINATE. n. s. [In conick sections.] A line drawn at right angles to, and bissected by, the axis, and reaching from one side of the section to another; the half of which is properly the semiordinate, but is now called the ordinate. Harris.

SEMIPE'DAL. adj. [semi and pedis, Lat.] Containing half a foot. SEMIPELLUCID. adj. [semi and pellucidus, Latin.] Half clear; imperfectly transparent.

A light grey semipellucid flint, of much the same complexion with the common Indian agat. Woodward.

SEMIPERSPICUOUS. adj. [semi and perspicuus, Latin.] Half transparent; imperfectly clear.

A kind of amethystine flint, not composed of crystals or grains; but one entire massy stone, semiperspicuous, and of a pale blue, almost of the colour of some cows horns. Grew. SE'MIPROOF. n.s. [semi and proof.] The proof of a single evidence. Bailey. SEMIQUA'DRATE.) n.s. [In astronomy.] SEMIQUA'RTILE. An aspect of the planets when distant from each other forty-five degrees, or one sign and a half. Bailey. SEMIQUA'VER.n.s. [In musick.] A note containing half the quantity of a quaver. Bailey.

SEMIQUINTILE. n. s. [In astronomy.] An aspect of the planets when at the distance of thirty-six degrees from one another. Bailey. SEMISE'XTILE. n. s. [In astronomy.] A semisixth; an aspect of the planets when they are distant from each other one twelfth part of a circle, or thirty degrees. Bailey.

SEMISPHERICAL. adj. [semi and spherical.] Belonging to half a sphere. Bailey. SEMISPHERO'IDAL. adj. [semi and spheroidal.] Formed like a half spheroid. SEMITE'RTIAN. n. 5. [semi and tertian.] An ague compounded of a tertian and a quotidian. Bailey.

The natural product of such a cold moist year are tertians, semitertians, and some quartans. Arbuthnot.

SE'MITONE. n. 5. [semiton, Fr.] In musick, one of the degrees of concinuous intervals of concords. Bailey. SEMIVO'WEL. n. s. [semi and vowel.] A consonant which makes an imperfect sound, or does not demand a total occlusion of the mouth.

When Homer would represent any agreeable object, he makes use of the smoothest vowels and most flowing semivorvels. Broome. SEMPERVIVE.n.s. [semper and vivus, Lat. that is, always alive.] A plant. The greater sempervive will put out branches two or three years; but they wrap the root in an oil-cloth once in half a year.

Bacon.

SEMPITERNAL. adj. [sempiternel, Fr. sempiternus, from semper and æternus, Latin.]

1. Eternal in futurity; having beginning, but no end.

Those, though they suppose the world not to be eternal, à parte ante, are not contented to suppose it to be sempiternal, or eternal à parte post; but will carry up the creation of the world to an immense antiquity.

Hale.

2. In poetry it is used simply for eternal.
Should we the long-depending scale ascend
Of sons and fathers, will it never end?
If 't will, then must we through the order run
To some one man whose being ne'er begun ;
If that one man was sempiternal, why
Did he, since independent, ever die? Blackmore.
SEMPITE'RNITY. n. s. [sempiternitas,
Lat.] Future duration without end.

The future eternity or sempiternity of the world being admitted, though the eternity à parte ante be denied, there will be a future infinity for the emanation of the divine goodness. Hale.

There they shall found

Their government, and their great senate chuse. Milton.

He had not us'd excursions, spears, or darts, But counsel, order, and such aged arts; Which if our ancestors had not retain'd, The senate's name our council had not gain'd. Denbam.

Gallus was welcom'd to the sacred strand, The senate rising to salute their guest. Dryden. SE'NATEHOUSE. n. s. [senate and bouse.] Place of publick council.

The nobles in great earnestness are going All to the senatehouse; some news is come.

Sbakspeare,
SE'NATOR. N. s. [senator, Lat. senateur,
Fr.] A publick counsellor.
Most unwise patricians,

You grave but reckless senators. Shakspeare.
As if to ev'ry fop it might belong,
Like senators, to censure, right or wrong.

Granville.

But first, whom shall we send
In search of this new world? Here he had need
All circumspection, and we now no less
Choice in our suffrage; for on whom we send
The weight of all and our last hope relies. Milt.
3. To transmit by another; not to bring.
They sent it to the elders by the hands of
Barnabas.
Acts.

4. To dismiss another as agent; not to go.
God will deigrt
To visit oft the dwellings of just men
Delighted, and with frequent intercourse,
Thither will send his winged messengers
On errands of supernal grace.

Milton.

5. To grant as from a distant place; as, if

God send life.

I have made bold to send in to your wife: My suit is that she will to Desdemona Procure me some access.

Shakspeare.

This son of a murderer hath sent to take away my head.

Kings.

They could not attempt their perfect reformation in church and state, till those votes were utterly abolished; therefore they sent the same day again to the king.

Clarendon.

2. To SEND for. To require by message to come, or cause to be brought.

Go with me, some few of you, and see the place; and then you may send for your sick, which bring on land. Bacon.

He sent for me; and, while I rais'd his head, He threw his aged arms about my neck, And, seeing that I wept, he press'd me close. Dryden.

SE'NDER. n. s. [from send.) He that sends.

This was a merry message.
-We hope to make the sender blush at it.

Love that comes too late.

Shakspeare.

Like a remorseful pardon slowly carried,
To the great sender turns a sour offence.

Sbakspeare. Best with the best, the sender, not the sent. Milton. SENE SCENCE.n.s. [senesco, Lat.] The state of growing old; decay by time. The earth and all things will continue in the state wherein they now are, without the least

senescence or decay; without jarring, disorder, or invasion of one another. Woodward.

SE'NESCHAL. n. s. [seneschal, Fr. of uncertain original.]

1. One who had in great houses the care of feasts or domestick ceremonies.

John earl of Huntingdon, under his seal of arms, made sir John Arundel, of Trerice, seneschal of his household, as well in peace as in war. Carew.

Marshall'd feast, Serv'd up in hall with sewers and seneschals; The skill of artifice, or office, mean! Milton.

The seneschal rebuk'd, in haste withdrew; With equal haste a menial train pursue. Pope. 2. It afterward, came to signify other offices..

SE'NGREEN. n.s. [sedum.] A plant. SE'NILE. adj. [senilis, Lat.] Belonging to old age; consequent on old age.

My green youth made me very unripe for a task of that nature, whose difficulty requires that it should be handled by a person in whom nature, education, and time, have happily matched a senile maturity of judgment with youthful vigour of fancy.

Boyle.

SE'NIOR. n. s. [senior, Lat.] 1. One older than another; one who, on account of longer time, has some superiority.

How can you admit your seniors to the examination or allowing of them, not only being inferior in office and calling, but in gifts also? Whitgift.

tree.

Miller.

What rhubarb, senna, or what purgative drug, Would scour these English hence? Shakspeare. Senna tree is of two sorts: the bastard senna, and the scorpion senna; both which yield a pleasant leaf and flower. Mortimer. SL'NNIGHT.n.s. [contracted from sevennight.] The space of seven nights and days; a week. See FORTNIGHT.

If mention is made, on Monday, of Thursday sennight, the Thursday that follows the next Thursday is meant.

Time trots hard with a young maid between the contract of her marriage and the day it is solemnized if the interim be but a sennight, time's pace is so hard that it seems the length of

seven years.

Shakspeare. SENO'CULAR. adj. [seni and oculus, Lat.] Having six eyes.

Most animals are binocular, spiders octonocular, and some senocular.

Derbam. SENSATION.n.s. [sensation, Fr. sensatio, school Lat.] Perception by means of the

noise.

The brain, distempered by a cold, beating against the root of the auditory nerve, and protracted to the tympanum, causes the sensation of Harvey. This great source of most of the ideas we have, depending wholly upon our senses, and derived by them to the understanding, I call sensation. Locke.

When we are asleep, joy and sorrow give us more vigorous sensations of pain or pleasure than -at any other time. Addison.

The happiest, upon a fair estimate, have stronger sensations of pain than pleasure. Rogers.

SENSE. n. s. [sens, Fr. sensus, Lat.] I. Faculty or power by which external objects are perceived; the sight, touch, hearing, smell, taste.

The pow'r is sense, which from abroad doth bring

The colour, taste, and touch, and scent, and sound,

The quantity and shape of ev'ry thing Within earth's centre or heav'n's circle found: And though things sensible be numberless, But only five the sense's organs be;

And in those five all things their forms express, Which we can touch, taste, feel, or hear, or see. Davies

Then is the soul a nature, which contains The pow'r of sense within a greater pow'r, Which doth employ and use the sense's pains; But sits and rules within her private bow'r.

Both contain

Davies.

2. Perception by the senses; sensation. In a living creature, though never so great, the sense and the affects of any one part of the body instantly make a transcursion throughout the whole. Bacon.

If we had nought but sense, then only they Should have sound minds which have their senses

sound;

But wisdom grows when senses do decay, And folly most in quickest sense is found. Davies. Such is the mighty swiftness of your mind, That, like the earth's, it leaves the sense behind. Dryden.

3. Perception of intellect; apprehension of mind.

This Basilius, having the quick sense of a lover, took as though his mistress had given him a secret reprehension. Sidney.

God, to remove his ways from human sense, Plac'd heav'n from earth so far. Milton.

4. Sensibility; quickness or keenness of perception.

He should have liv'd, Save that his riotous youth, with dangerous sence, Might in the times to come have ta'en revenge. Shakspeare.

5. Understanding; soundness of faculties; strength of natural reason.

Opprest nature sleeps:

This rest might yet have balm'd thy broken senses.

Sbakspeare.

God hath endued mankind with powers and abilities which we call natural light and reason, and common sense.

Bentley. My hearty friends,

Tillotson.

When a word has been used in two or three senses, and has made a great inroad for error, drop one or two of those senses, and leave it only one remaining, and affix the other senses or ideas to other words.

Watts.

SE'NSED. part. [from sense.] Perceived by the senses. Not in use.

Let the sciolist tell me, why things must needs be so as his individual senses represent them: is he sure that objects are not otherwise sensed by others, than they are by him? And why must his sense be the infallible criterion? It may be, what is white to us, is black to negroes. Glanville. SE'NSEFUL. adj. [from sense and full.] Reasonable; judicious. Not used. Men, otherwise senseful and ingenious, quote such things out of an author as would never pass in conversation.

SE'NSELESS. adj. [from sense.]

Norris.

They would repent this their senseless perverseness when it would be too late, and when they found themselves under a power that would destroy them. Clarendon.

If we be not extremely foolish, thankless, or senseless, a great joy is more apt to cure sorrow than a great trouble is. The great design of this author's book is to Taylor. prove this, which I believe no man in the world was ever so senseless as to deny. Tillotson.

She saw her favour was misplac'd;
The fellows had a wretched taste:
She needs must tell them to their face,
They were a senseless stupid race.

Swift.

4. Contrary to true judgment; contrary

to reason.

It is a senseless thing, in reason, to think that one of these interests can stand without the other, when, in the very order of natural causes, government is preserved by religion.

South.

Other creatures, as well as monkies, little wiser than they, destroy their young by senseless fondness, and too much embracing.

Locke.

5. Wanting sensibility; wanting quickness or keenness of perception. Not in use. To draw Mars like a young Hippolitus, with an effeminate countenance, or that hot-spurred Harpalice in Virgil, proceedeth from a senseless and over-cold judgment. Peacham.

6. Wanting knowledge; unconscious: with of.

The wretch is drench'd too deep;
His soul is stupid, and his heart asleep,
Fatten'd in vice; so callous and so gross,
He sins and sees not, senseless of his loss. Dryd

Hear this,
You unhous'd, lawless, rambling, libertines,
Senseless of any charm in love, beyond
SE'NSELESSLY. adv. from senseless.] In
The prostitution of a common bed.
Southern.
a senseless manner; stupidly; unreason-
ably.

If any one should be found so senselessly arrogant as to suppose man alone knowing and wise, but yet the product of mere ignorance and chance, and that all the rest of the universe acted only by that blind hap-hazard, I shall leavé with him that very rational and emphatical res SE'NSELESSNESS. n. s. [from senseless. buke of Tully. Folly; unreasonableness; absurdity; stupidity.

Locke.

The senselessness of the tradition of the crocodile's moving his upper jaw is plain, from the articulation of the occiput with the neck, and the nether jaw with the upper. Grew.