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A selenide. [Obs.]

Combined with selenium as in a selenide; as, seleniureted hydrogen. [Written also seleniuretted.] [Obsoles.]

Assured by or of one's self; self-reliant; complacent.

Culture, training, or education of one's self by one's own efforts.

The act of exposing one's self; the state of being so exposed.

Imposture practiced on one's self; self-deceit. South.

The act of inflicting pain on one's self; pain inflicted on one's self.

the dead body of a human being in the grave; burial; interment. Where we may royal sepulture prepare. Dryden.

The raising of silkworms.

A notching, like that between the teeth of a saw, in the edge of anything. Martyn.

Servants, collectively. [Obs.]

mark impressed, as by a seal. The brain, being well furnished with various traces, signatures, and images. I. Watts. The natural and indelible signature of God, which human souls . . . are supposed to be stamped with. Bentley.

Combined or impregnated with silicon. [Obsoles.] Siliciureted hydrogen. (Chem.) Hydrogen silicide. [Obs.]

A fish of the genus Silurus, as the sheatfish; a siluroid.

See Sylviculture.

Genuine; true; real; authentic; -- a term alluding to the comedy character Simon Pure, who is impersonated by another and is obliged to prove himself to be the "real Simon Pure."

uires or involves little or no responsibility, labor, or active service. A lucrative sinecure in the Excise. Macaulay.

Stain; pollution. Shak. Then fearing rust or soilure, fashioned for it A case of silk. Tennyson.

ochord, and from which the walls of the body and the amnion are developed. See Splanchopleure.

hich the walls of the enteric canal and the umbilical vesicle are developed. See Somatopleure. -- Splanch`no*pleu"ric, a.