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The act of seducing.

sumes an appearance or semblance. Hence shall we see, If power change purpose, what our seemers be. Shak.

Humiliation or abasement proceeding from consciousness of inferiority, guilt, or shame.

The aggrandizement of one's self.

Self-devotion. [R.]

Sprinkled or sown; -- said of field, or a charge, when strewed or covered with small charges.

A description of the signs of disease.

Of or pertaining to the science of signs, or the systematic use of signs; as, a semeiological classification of the signs or symptoms of disease; a semeiological arrangement of signs used as signals.

The science or art of signs. Specifically:

Relating to signs or indications; pertaining to the language of signs, or to language generally as indicating thought.

Semeiology.

A daughter of Cadmus, and by Zeus mother of Bacchus.

s, characterized by the presence of spermatozoids to which it owes its generative power. Semen contra, or Semen cinæ or cynæ, a strong aromatic, bitter drug, imported from Aleppo and Barbary, said to consist of the leaves, peduncles, and unexpanded flowers of various species of Artemisia; wormseed.

Seminiferous.

A period of six months; especially, a term in a college or uneversity which divides the year into two terms.

A swimming leg (of an insect) having a fringe of hairs on the margin.

tallation as pastor. Every man living has a design in his head upon wealth power, or settlement in the world. L'Estrange.

See Open-hearth process, etc., under Open.

See Open-hearth steel, under Open.

The act of whistling or hissing; a whistling sound; sibilation. [Obs.] A. Brewer.