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Growing old; decaying with the lapse of time. "The night was senescent." Poe. "With too senescent air." Lowell.

, who had the superintendence of feasts and domestic ceremonies; a steward. Sometimes the seneschal had the dispensing of justice, and was given high military commands. Then marshaled feast Served up in hall with sewers and seneschale. Milton. Philip Augustus, by a famous ordinance in 1190, first established royal cour…

The office, dignity, or jurisdiction of a seneschal.

To singe. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The houseleek.

eeding from, or characteristic of, old age; affected with the infirmities of old age; as, senile weakness. "Senile maturity of judgment." Boyle. Senile gangrene (Med.), a form of gangrene occuring particularly in old people, and caused usually by insufficient blood supply due to degeneration of the walls of the smaller…

The quality or state of being senile; old age.

age; prior in age; elder; hence, more advanced in dignity, rank, or office; superior; as, senior member; senior counsel.

The quality or state of being senior.

To exercise authority; to rule; to lord it. [R.] Fairfax.

Seniority. [Obs.] Shak.

e East, but now cultivated largely in the south of Europe and in the West Indies. Bladder senna. (Bot.) See under Bladder. -- Wild senna (Bot.), the Cassia Marilandica, growing in the United States, the leaves of which are used medicinally, like those of the officinal senna.

See Seannachie.

A signal call on a trumpet or cornet for entrance or exit on the stage. [Obs.]

The space of seven nights and days; a week. [Written also se'nnight.] [Archaic.] Shak. Tennyson.

A braided cord or fabric formed by plaiting together rope yarns or other small stuff.

Having six eyes. [R.] Derham.

In european geology, a name given to the middle division of the Upper Cretaceous formation.

A Spanish title of courtesy corresponding to the English Mr. or Sir; also, a gentleman.

A Spanish title of courtesy given to a lady; Mrs.; Madam; also, a lady.