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The quality or state of being secular; worldliness; worldly- minded-ness.

Having the figure of a half circle; forming a semicircle. Grew.

Having the form of half of a circle. Addison. Semicircular canals (Anat.), certain canals of the inner ear. See under Ear.

Semiflosculous.

Half lenticular or convex; imperfectly resembling a lens. Kirwan.

Having the shape of a half orb or sphere.

Having six eyes. [R.] Derham.

Heptagonal.

Consisting of seven islands; as, the septinsular republic of the Ionian Isles.

Of or pertaining to the nasal septum and the maxilla; situated in the region of these parts. -- n.

A genus of delicate branching hydroids having small sessile hydrothecæ along the sides of the branches.

Any species of Sertularia, or of Sertularidæ, a family of hydroids having branched chitinous stems and simple sessile hydrothecæ. Also used adjectively.

Having six angles; hexagonal. [R.] Dryden.

Hexagonally. [R.]

Having six cells for seeds; six-celled; as, a sexlocular pericarp.

Shoveler. [Prov. Eng.]

Little images or figures of earthenware exposed for sale, or given as presents, on the last two days of the Saturnalia; hence, the last two, or the sixth and seventh, days of the Saturnalia.

One of an extinct family of cryptagamous trees, including the genus Sigillaria and its allies.

Homogenous; uniform. [R.] Boyle. Similar figures (Geom.), figures which differ from each other only in magnitude, being made up of the same number of like parts similarly situated. -- Similar rectilineal figures, such as have their several angles respectively equal, each to each, and their sides about the equal angles…

The quality or state of being similar; likeness; resemblance; as, a similarity of features. Hardly is there a similarity detected between two or three facts, than men hasten to extend it to all. Sir W. Hamilton.