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One skilled in selenography. Wright.

Of or pertaining to selenography.

A selenographer.

ience that treats of the physical features of the moon; - - corresponding to physical geography in respect to the earth. "Accurate selenography, or description of the moon." Sir T. Browne.

A description of the signs of disease.

Same as Semeiography, Semeiology, Semeiological.

A blanket or shawl worn as an outer garment by the Spanish Americans, as in Mexico.

estial beings, each having three pairs of wings. In ecclesiastical art and in poetry, a seraph is represented as one of a class of angels. Isa. vi. 2. As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns. Pope. Seraph moth (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of geometrid moths of the…

Of or pertaining to a seraph; becoming, or suitable to, a seraph; angelic; sublime; pure; refined. "Seraphic arms and trophies." Milton. "Seraphical fervor." Jer. Taylor. -- Se*raph"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Se*raph"ic*al*ness, n.

The character, quality, or state of a seraph; seraphicalness. [R.] Cudworth.

The Hebrew plural of Seraph. Cf. Cherubim.

A seraphine.

A wind instrument whose sounding parts are reeds, consisting of a thin tongue of brass playing freely through a slot in a plate. It has a case, like a piano, and is played by means of a similar keybord, the bellows being worked by the foot. The melodeon is a portable variety of this instrument.

An Egyptian deity, at first a symbol of the Nile, and so of fertility; later, one of the divinities of the lower world. His worship was introduced into Greece and Rome.

An autographic device to test the strength of raw silk.

Serum-therapy.

The treatment of disease by the injection of blood serum from immune animals.

A place baited with chaff to entice birds. [Written also scrap.] [Obs.] Bp. Bedell.

Applied as an appellation to a kind of shell invented by Gen. H. Shrapnel of the British army. -- n.

Of or pertaining to siderography; executed by engraved plates of steel; as, siderographic art; siderographic impressions.