Seraphicism (n.) The character, quality, or state of a seraph; seraphicalness.
Seraphim (n.) The Hebrew plural of Seraph. Cf. Cherubim.
Seraphina (n.) A seraphine.
Seraphine (n.) 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 (n.) 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 (n.) A general or commander of land forces in the Turkish empire; especially, the commander-in-chief of minister of war.
Seraskierate (n.) The office or authority of a seraskier.
Serbonian (a.) 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 (a.) Dry; withered. Same as Sear.
Sere (n.) Claw; talon.
Serein (n.) A mist, or very fine rain, which sometimes falls from a clear sky a few moments after sunset.
Serenade (n.) 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.
Serenade (n.) A piece of music suitable to be performed at such times.
Serenaded (imp. & p. p.) of Serenade
Serenading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Serenade
Serenade (v. t.) To entertain with a serenade.
Serenade (v. i.) To perform a serenade.
Serenader (n.) One who serenades.
Serenata (n.) Alt. of Serenate
Serenate (n.) A piece of vocal music, especially one on an amoreus subject; a serenade.
Serene (a.) Bright; clear; unabscured; as, a serene sky.
Serene (a.) Calm; placid; undisturbed; unruffled; as, a serene aspect; a serene soul.
Serene (n.) Serenity; clearness; calmness.
Serene (n.) Evening air; night chill.
Serene (v. t.) To make serene.
Serenely (adv.) In a serene manner; clearly.
Serenely (adv.) With unruffled temper; coolly; calmly.
Sereneness (n.) Serenity.
Serenitude (n.) Serenity.
Serenity (n.) The quality or state of being serene; clearness and calmness; quietness; stillness; peace.
Serenity (n.) Calmness of mind; eveness of temper; undisturbed state; coolness; composure.
Serf (v. t.) A servant or slave employed in husbandry, and in some countries attached to the soil and transferred with it, as formerly in Russia.
Serfage (n.) Alt. of Serfdom
Serfdom (n.) The state or condition of a serf.
Serfhood (n.) Alt. of Serfism
Serfism (n.) Serfage.
Serge (n.) A woolen twilled stuff, much used as material for clothing for both sexes.
Serge (n.) A large wax candle used in the ceremonies of various churches.
Sergeancies (pl. ) of Sergeancy
Sergeancy (n.) The office of a sergeant; sergeantship.
Sergeant (n.) 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.
Sergeant (n.) 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.
Sergeant (n.) A lawyer of the highest rank, answering to the doctor of the civil law; -- called also serjeant at law.
Sergeant (n.) A title sometimes given to the servants of the sovereign; as, sergeant surgeon, that is, a servant, or attendant, surgeon.
Sergeant (n.) The cobia.
Sergeantcy (n.) Same as Sergeancy.
Sergeantry (n.) See Sergeanty.
Sergeantship (n.) The office of sergeant.
Sergeanty (n.) Tenure of lands of the crown by an honorary kind of service not due to any lord, but to the king only.
Serial (a.) Of or pertaining to a series; consisting of a series; appearing in successive parts or numbers; as, a serial work or publication.
Serial (a.) Of or pertaining to rows.
Serial (n.) A publication appearing in a series or succession of part; a tale, or other writing, published in successive numbers of a periodical.
Seriality (n.) The quality or state of succession in a series; sequence.
Serially (adv.) In a series, or regular order; in a serial manner; as, arranged serially; published serially.
Seriate (a.) Arranged in a series or succession; pertaining to a series.
Seriatim (adv.) In regular order; one after the other; severally.
Seriation (n.) Arrangement or position in a series.
Sericeous (a.) Of or pertaining to silk; consisting of silk; silky.
Sericeous (a.) Covered with very soft hairs pressed close to the surface; as, a sericeous leaf.
Sericeous (a.) Having a silklike luster, usually due to fine, close hairs.
Sericin (n.) A gelatinous nitrogenous material extracted from crude silk and other similar fiber by boiling water; -- called also silk gelatin.
Sericite (n.) A kind of muscovite occuring in silky scales having a fibrous structure. It is characteristic of sericite schist.
Sericterium (n.) A silk gland, as in the silkworms.
Sericulture (n.) The raising of silkworms.
Serie (n.) Series.
Seriema (n.) A large South American bird (Dicholophus, / Cariama cristata) related to the cranes. It is often domesticated. Called also cariama.
Series (n.) 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.
Series (n.) Any comprehensive group of animals or plants including several subordinate related groups.
Series (n.) 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 (n.) A European finch (Serinus hortulanus) closely related to the canary.
Serine (n.) A white crystalline nitrogenous substance obtained by the action of dilute sulphuric acid on silk gelatin.
Serio-comic (a.) Alt. of Serio-comical
Serio-comical (a.) Having a mixture of seriousness and sport; serious and comical.
Serious (a.) Grave in manner or disposition; earnest; thoughtful; solemn; not light, gay, or volatile.
Serious (a.) Really intending what is said; being in earnest; not jesting or deceiving.
Serious (a.) Important; weighty; not trifling; grave.
Serious (a.) Hence, giving rise to apprehension; attended with danger; as, a serious injury.
Seriph (n.) See Ceriph.
Serjeant () Alt. of Serjeantcy
Serjeantcy () See Sergeant, Sergeantcy, etc.
Sermocination (n.) The making of speeches or sermons; sermonizing.
Sermocinator (n.) One who makes sermons or speeches.
Sermon (n.) A discourse or address; a talk; a writing; as, the sermons of Chaucer.
Sermon (n.) 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.
Sermon (n.) Hence, a serious address; a lecture on one's conduct or duty; an exhortation or reproof; a homily; -- often in a depreciatory sense.
Sermon (v. i.) To speak; to discourse; to compose or deliver a sermon.
Sermon (v. t.) To discourse to or of, as in a sermon.
Sermon (v. t.) To tutor; to lecture.
Sermoneer (n.) A sermonizer.
Sermoner (n.) A preacher; a sermonizer.
Sermonet (n.) A short sermon.
Sermonic (a.) Alt. of Sermonical
Sermonical (a.) Like, or appropriate to, a sermon; grave and didactic.
Sermoning (n.) The act of discoursing; discourse; instruction; preaching.
Sermonish (a.) Resembling a sermon.
Sermonist (n.) See Sermonizer.
Sermonized (imp. & p. p.) of Sermonize
Sermonizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sermonize
Sermonize (v. i.) To compose or write a sermon or sermons; to preach.
Sermonize (v. i.) To inculcate rigid rules.