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In English universities, an undergraduate who belongs to the foundation of a college, and receives support in part from its revenues.

A boy belonging to, or attending, a school.

A girl belonging to, or attending, a school.

Belonging to a sundial. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne. -- Sci`a*ther"ic*al*ly, adv. [Obs.] J. Gregory.

y tamed, and then serve as guardians for other poultry. The crested screamers, or chajas, belong to the genus Chauna. The horned screamer, or kamichi, is Palamedea cornuta.

Any one of numerous species of soft-bodied Anthozoa, belonging to the order Actrinaria; an actinian.

Any large holothurian, especially one of those belonging to the genus Pentacta, or Cucumaria, as the common American and European species. (P. frondosa).

A dorsibranchiate annelid, belonging to Aphrodite and allied genera, having long, slender, hairlike setæ on the sides.

dden; concealed; as, secret treasure; secret plans; a secret vow. Shak. The secret things belong unto the Lord our God; but those things which are revealed belong unto us. Deut. xxix. 29.

Belonging to the laity; lay; not clerical. I speak of folk in secular estate. Chaucer. Secular equation (Astron.), the algebraic or numerical expression of the magnitude of the inequalities in a planet's motion that remain after the inequalities of a short period have been allowed for. -- Secular games (Rom. Antiq.),…

A right of inheritance belonging to a second son; a property or possession so inherited. The kingdom of Naples . . . was constituted a secundo-geniture of Spain. Bancroft.

self, the I, is recognized in every act of intelligence as the subject to which that act belongs. It is I that perceive, I that imagine, I that remember, I that attend, I that compare, I that feel, I that will, I that am conscious. Sir W. Hamilton.

Conscious of one's acts or state as belonging to, or originating in, one's self. "My self-conscious worth." Dryden.

Belonging to seed; seminal. [R.]

A tribe of Indians who formerly occupied Florida, where some of them still remain. They belonged to the Creek Confideration.

lf Saxon; -- specifically applied to the language intermediate between Saxon and English, belonging to the period 1150- 1250.

One belonging to the Semitic race. Also used adjectively. [Written also Shemite.]

Of or pertaining to Shem or his descendants; belonging to that division of the Caucasian race which includes the Arabs, Jews, and related races. [Written also Shemitic.] Semitic language, a name used to designate a group of Asiatic and African languages, some living and some dead, namely: Hebrew and Phoenician, Aramaic…

Of six; belonging to six; containing six. Dr. H. More.

Belonging to the final year of the regular course in American colleges, or in professional schools.