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To render heavy or cohesive. [Obs.] Marl is binding, and saddening of land is the great prejudice it doth to clay lands. Mortimer.

Climbing.

Sitting; inactive; quiet. [R.]

In a sedentary manner.

Quality of being sedentary.

Accustomed to sit much or long; as, a sedentary man. "Sedentary, scholastic sophists." Bp. Warburton.

Seldom. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The quality or state of being self-confident; self-reliance. A feeling of self-confidence which supported and sustained him. Beaconsfield.

Confident of one's own strength or powers; relying on one's judgment or ability; self-reliant. -- Self`-con"fi*dent*ly, adv.

The denial of one's self; forbearing to gratify one's own desires; self-sacrifice.

Refusing to gratify one's self; self-sacrificing. -- Self`-de*ny"ing*ly, adv.

Dependent on one's self; self-depending; self-reliant.

The quality or state of being self-evident. Locke.

Evident without proof or reasoning; producing certainty or conviction upon a bare presentation to the mind; as, a self-evident proposition or truth. -- Self`-ev"i*dent*ly, adv.

Designating, or pert. to, any of various steels that harden when heated to above a red heat and cooled in air, usually in a blast of cold air with moderate rapidity, without quenching. Such steels are alloys of iron and carbon with manganese, tungsten and manganese, chromium, molybdenum and manganese, etc. They are chi…

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Boiled; seethed; also, soaked; heavy with moisture; saturated; as, sodden beef; sodden bread; sodden fields.

Heavy; dull. Shak.

Shining; glossy; beaming with light; lustrous; as, splendent planets; splendent metals. See the Note under 3d Luster, 4.

Having the teeth bent out of the plane of the lamina; -- said of a leaf.