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Crying for mercy, as a combatant in the trial by battle; yielding; cowardly; mean-spirited; craven. "This recreant knight." Spenser.

To give meaning to; to explain the meaning of; to interpret. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Coming back; returning. [R.] "Like the remeant sun." C. Kingsley.

Vengeance; revenge. [Obs.]

Made of oak. [Obs.]

Same as Sabianism.

Same as Sabianism.

Same as Sabian.

Same as Florida bean.

A seine. See Seine. [Prov. Eng.]

A session, as of some public body; especially, a meeting of spiritualists to receive spirit communication, so called.

A bard among the Highlanders of Scotland, who preserved and repeated the traditions of the tribes; also, a genealogist. [Written also senachy.] [Scot.]

Sitting, as a lion or other beast. Sejant rampant, sitting with the forefeet lifted up. Wright.

The office of a sergeant; sergeantship. [Written also serjeancy.]

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. The sergeant of the town of Rome th…

Same as Sergeancy.

See Sergeanty. [R.] [Written also serjeantry.]

The office of sergeant.

an honorary kind of service not due to any lord, but to the king only. [Written also serjeanty.] Grand sergeanty, a particular kind of tenure by which the tenant was bound to do some special honorary service to the king in person, as to carry his banner, his sword, or the like. Tomlins. Cowell. Blackstone. -- Petit s…

See Sergeant, Sergeantcy, etc. Serjeant-at-arms. See Sergeant- at-arms, under Sergeant.