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The number four. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

The quality or state of being queer.

d; -- used before the invention of windmills and watermills. Shak. They made him at the querne grind. Chaucer.

A speed regulator, as a water-wheel governor, embodying the relay principle. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

A building or place where salt is made by boiling or by evaporation; salt works.

A white wine made in the district of sauterne, France.

To discern; to perceive. [Obs.]

An American grape, a form of Vitis vulpina, found in the Southern Atlantic States, and often cultivated.

Any gorgonian which branches like a fern.

To separate; to distinguish. Averroes secerns a sense of titillation, and a sense of hunger and thirst. Sir W. Hamilton.

Secreting; secretory.

The act or process of secreting.

Concern for one's self.

The act of governing one's self, or the state of being governed by one's self; self-control; self-command.

Without beginning or end; eternal. Blackmore.

Sempiternal. [Obs.]

Future duration without end; the relation or state of being sempiternal. Sir M. Hale.

See Shearn. [Obs.]

The quality or state of being sicker, or certain. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.

See 2d Sicker, Sickerly, etc. [Obs.]