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Of or pertaining to a seignior; seigneurial. "Kingly or seignioral patronage." Burke.

The territory or authority of a seignior, or lord. Milman.

Ignorance of one's own character, powers, and limitations.

Ignorant of one's self.

Half-hourly.

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

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

Duty paid for goods brought on shore. Grabb.

Madam; Mrs; -- a title of address or respect among the Italians.

An order of pelagic Hydrozoa including species which form complex free-swimming communities composed of numerous zooids of various kinds, some of which act as floats or as swimming organs, others as feeding or nutritive zooids, and others as reproductive zooids. See Illust. under Physallia, and Porpita.…

Belonging to the Siphonophora. -- n.

er parts of the western United States and central Mexico. It is divided into the Upper Sonoran, which lies next to the Transition zone, and the Lower Sonoran, next to the Tropical.

A tree (Sophora Japonica) of Eastern Asia, resembling the common locust; occasionally planted in the United States.

To lay or put to sleep; to stupefy. [Obs.] Cudworth.

ck slate-colored. Called also American rail, Carolina rail, Carolina crake, common rail, sora rail, soree, meadow chicken, and orto. King sora, the Florida gallinule.

Soreness. [Obs.]

Relating to a sister; sisterly. [R.]

Stars not included in any constellation; -- called also informed, or unformed, stars.

Sporadic. [R.]

from other things of the same kind, or in scattered instances; separate; single; as, a sporadic fireball; a sporadic case of disease; a sporadic example of a flower. Sporadic disease (Med.), a disease which occurs in single and scattered cases. See the Note under Endemic, a.