Volume 3

The imperial dictionary of the English language : a complete encyclopedic lexicon, literary, scientific, and technological / by John Ogilvie.

  • Ogilvie, John, 1797-1867.
Date:
1885
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    effectually from escape; sometimes, to seize anil conflne; as, to secure a prisoner.—4. To make certain of payment (as by a bond, surety, ifec); to warrant against loss; as, to secure a debt by mortgage; to secure a credi- tor.—5. To make fast or firm; as, to secure a door; to secitce the hatcliesof a sliip.—6. To obtain ; to get possession of; to malve one's self master of; as, to secure an estate.—To secure arms, to hold a rifle or muslcet with the muzzle down, and the loclcwell up under the arm, tlie object being to guard tlie wea- pon from the wet. Securely (se-kiir'li), adv. 1. In a secure manner; in security; safely; without danger; as, to dwell securely in a place; to pass a river on ice securely.—2. Witliout fear or apprehension ; carelessly; in an unguarded state; in confidence of safety. Devise not evil at^ainst thy neighbour, seeingf he dvvelleth securely by thee. Prov. iii. 29. Securement t (se-kur'ment), n. Security; protection. Sir T. Browne. Secureness (se-kiir'nes), n. 1. The feeling of security; confidence of safety; exemption from fear; hence, want of vigilance or cau- tion. 'A strange neglect and secureness.' Bacon.—2. The state of being secure or safe; safety; security. Securer (se-kiir'er), n. One who or that which secures or protects. Securifer (se-kii'ri-fer), n. One of the Securifera. Securifera (sek-u-rif'er-a), n. pi. [L. securis. a liatchet, and fero, to bear.] A family of hymen- opterous insects, of the section Terebrantia, comprehending those in which the females have a saw-shaped or hatchet - shaped terebra or ap- pendage to the posterior part of tlie abdomen, which not only serves for the purpose of de- positing the eggs in tlie stems and SacnrihTa-TeTi/h^eac ■!,tndts. other parts of plants, but for . =.Partof the abdonien.show. ^ ■ 1 ingf tlie saw a. 5, 1 he saw ex- prepanngaplace trScted, showiiig tlie two for tlieir recep- blades. tion. Securiform (se-kii'ri-form), a. [L. securis, an axe or hatcliet, and forma, form.] Hav- ing the form of an axe or hatcliet. Securitan t (se-kii'ri-tan), n. One who lives in fancied security. The sensual securitan pleases himself in the con- ceits of his own peace. Bp. Hail. Security (se-ku'ri-ti), n. [Fr. sicuriti, L. se- curitas. ,See SECURE.] 1. Tlie state or qua- lity of being secure; as, (o) freedom from care, anxiety, or appreliension; confidence of safety; hence, carelessness; heedlessness; over-confidence; negligence. And you all know, securily Is mortals' chiefest enemy. Sliak. He means, my lord, that we are too remiss; Whilst Bolingbroke, through our security. Grows strong and great in substance and in power. Shak. (6) Freedom from danger or risk; safety. Some . . , alleged that we should have no jf£:7^''?'0' for our trade while Spain was subject to a prince of the Bourbon family. Slui/t. (c) Certainty; assuredness; confidence. His trembling hand had lost the ease Which marks security to please. Sir IV. Scott. 2. Tliat wliicli secures or makes safe; protec- tion; defence; guard; hence, specifically, (a) sonietliing given or deposited to make cer- tain tlie fulfilment of a promise or obliga- tion, tlie observance of a provision, the pay- ment of a debt, or the like; surety; pledge. ' To lend money without security.' Shale. Those who lent him money lent it on no security but his bare word. Macaulay. (6) A person who engages himself for the per- formance of another's obligations; one who becomes surety for another.—3. An evidence of debt or of projierty, as a bond, a certificate of stock, or the like; as, goveruiiieut securi- ties. Exchequer bills have been generally reckoned the surest and most sacred of all securities. Sivift. Sedan, Sedan-Cliair (se-dan', se-dan'char), n. [From Sedan, a town in the north of France, where it is said to have been first used. ] A covered chair or vehicle for carry- ing one person, borne on poles by two men. They were introduced into this country about Sedan-chair, time of George II. the end of the sixteenth century, were largely used in the reigns of Anne and the first Georges, but are now seldom if ever em- ployed. ' Close mewed in their sedans.' Dryden. Sedate (se-daf), a. [L. sedatus, from sedo, to calm or appease, to cause to subside, cans, of sp(?eo, to sit. See SiT.] Composed; calm; quiet; tranquil; serene; unruffled by passion; undisturbed. 'Countenance calm and soul sedate.' Dryden. 'That calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to con- template truth.' Watts. Sedately (se-dat'li), adv. In a sedate manner; calmly; without agitation of mind. Locke. Sedateness (se-dat'nes), n. The state or quality of being sedate ; calmness of mind, manner, or countenance; freedom from agitation; a settled state; composure ; serenity; tranquillity; as, sedateness of temper or soul; sedateness of countenance. There is a particular in their conversation and behaviour that qualifies them for council. ^tcltiiseju. Sedation t (se-da'shon), n. The act of calm- ing. Felthain. Sedative (sed'a-tiv), a. [Fr. sMatif, from L. sedo, to calm. See SEDATE.] Tending to calm, moderate, or tranquillize; specifically, in med. allaying irritaliility and irritation; diniinisliing irritative activity; assuaging pain. Sedative (sed'a-tiv), n. A medicine which allays irritability and irritation, and irrita- tive activity, and which assuages pain. Sede.t v.i. 'i'o produce seed. Cliaucer. Se defendendo (se de-fen-den'do). [L.] In law, in defending himself, the plea of a person cliarged with slaying another tliat he committed tlie act in his own defence. Sedent(se'dent), a. Sitting; inactive; quiet. Sedentarily (sed'eu-ta-ri-li), ado. In a sedentary manner. Sedentariness (sed'en-ta-ri-nes), n. The state of being sedentary. Those that live in great towns . . . are inclined to paleness,which may be imputed to the\rsecie7ttariness or want of motion, for they seldom stir abroad. L. Addison. Sedentary (sed'en-ta-ri), a. [L. sedeiitarius, Uxmisedens, sedentis, ppr. oisedeo, to sit; Fr. sedentaire.] 1. Accustomed to sit much or to pass most of the time in a sitting posture; as, a sedentary man. ' Sedentary, scliolastie sophists.' \Va) hurton.—2. Reciuiring much sitting;as, a.st'Jc/i«((j!/occupation oremploy- ment.—3. Passed for'the most part in sitting; ss,&sedentary\\ie.—i. Inactive; motionless; sluggish. ' Till length of years and seden- tary numbness craze my limbs.' Milton. The soul, considered abstractly from its passions, is of a remiss, sedentary nature, slow in its resnh es. Addison. Sedentary (sed'en-ta-ri), 71. One of a sec- tion of spiders, which remain motionless till their prey is entangled in their web. Sederunt (se-de'runt). [Third pers. pi. perf. indie, of sedeo. to sit. Lit., tliey sat.] A term employed chiefly in minutes of the meetings of courts to indicate tliat such and such memliers were present and com- posed the meeting; thus, sederunt A. B., C. D., E. F., etc., signifies that tliese indi- viduals were present and composed the meeting. Tlie same term is also used as a noun to signify, specifically, a sitting or meeting of a court, but has been extended to signify a more or less formal meeting or sitting of any association, society, company, or body of men. 'Tis a pity we have not Burns's own account of that \ovi^ sederunt. Prof IFilson. An association . . . met at the Baron D'Holbarh's; there had its blue-light sederunts. Carlyle. —Acts of Sederunt, ordinances of the Court of Session, under authority of the stat. 1540, xciii., by which the court is empowered to make such regulations as may be neces- sary for the ordering of processes and tlie expediting of justice. The Acts of Sederunt are recorded in books called Books of Sede- ru at. Sedge (sej), n. [Softened form of A. Sax. seaj. Sc. scyy, L.G. segye, a reed, sedge; comp. Ir. and Gael, seisg, W. hesg, sedge. 'Tlie root is perhaps that of L. seco, to cut; tlie name would therefore signify origin- ally a plant with sword-like leaves; comp. gladiolus. ] The popular name of plants of the genus Carex, an extensive genus, containing about 1000 species of grass-like plants, mostly inhabiting the northern and temperate parts of the globe, nat. order Cyperaceae. They are easily distinguished from the grasses by having tlie stem desti- tute of joints. The culms are triangular, and the leaves rough upon the margins and keel. They grow mostly in marshes and swamps and on tlie banks of rivers. Up- wards of sixty species are enumerated Ijy British liotanists. Sedge-bird (sej'herd), n. Same as Sedge- warbler. Sedged (sejd), a. Composed of flags or sedge. ' Naiads of tlie wand'ring brooks, with your sedged a-owns,.' Sliak. Sedge-warbler (sej'war-bl-er), n. The Salicaria phragmitis of Selby, a species of Sedge-warbler {Salicaria thragtnitis). insessorial liird of tlie warbler family, which visits tills country about the middle of April and migrates in September. It frequents the sedgy banks of rivers. Sedgy (sej'i), a. Overgrown with sedge. ' Gentle .Severn's sedgy bank.' Shak. Sedigitated(se-dij'i-tat-ed), a. [L. sedigitus, having six fingers—sex, six, and digitus, a finger.] Having six fingers on one or on both hands. Darwin. Sedilia(se-dil'i-a). [L.sedile,asea.t.] In arch, stone seats for the priests in the soutli wall of the chancel of many churclies and cathedrals. Tliey are usually three in num- ber, for the use of the priest, tlie deacon, Helton Percy, Yorkshire. and subdeacon during part of the service of higli mass. Sediment (sed'i-nient), n. [Fr. sAdiment, from L. sedimentum, from sedeo, to settle. See Sedate.] The matter which subsides to tlie liottom of water or any other liquid; settlings; lees; dregs. It is not bare agitation, but the sediment at the bottom, that troubles and defiles the water. South.