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A small reddish brown sweet and juicy pear. It originated on a farm near Philadelphia, afterwards owned by a Mr. Seckel.

Suceeding next in order to the first; of second place, origin, rank, rank, etc.; not primary; subordinate; not of the first order or rate. Wheresoever there is normal right on the one hand, no secondary right can discharge it. L'Estrange. Two are the radical differences; the secondary differences are as four. Bacon.…

Not original or primary; received from another. They have but a secondhand or implicit knowledge. Locke.

That from which anything springs; first principle; original; source; as, the seeds of virtue or vice.

(but originally a present participle). In view of the fact (that); considering; taking into account (that); insmuch as; since; because; -- followed by a dependent clause; as, he did well, seeing that he was so young. Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me Gen. xxvi. 27.

A light fabric, originally made in the East Indies, of silk and linen, usually having alternating stripes, and a slightly craped or puckered surface; also, a cotton fabric of similar appearance.

Action by, or originating in, one's self or itself.

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

Beginning wwith, or springing from, one's self.

Perplexed by doubts originating in one's own mind.

Disposed or arranged by an action originating in one's self or in itself. These molecular blocks of salt are self-posited. Tyndall.

first place in a series of developed results or consequents; germinal; radical; primary; original; as, seminal principles of generation; seminal virtue. The idea of God is, beyond all question or comparison, the one great seminal principle. Hare. Seminal leaf (Bot.), a seed leaf, or cotyleden. -- Seminal receptacle.…

A group of students engaged, under the guidance of an instructor, in original research in a particular line of study, and in the exposition of the results by theses, lectures, etc.; -- called also seminary.

Hence, the place or original stock whence anything is brought or produced. [Obs.] Woodward.

A Semitic idiom; a word of Semitic origin. [Written also Shemitism.]

One in the fourth or final year of his collegiate course at an American college; -- originally called senior sophister; also, one in the last year of the course at a professional schools or at a seminary.

Of or pertaining to sensationalism, or the doctrine that sensation is the sole origin of knowledge.

The doctrine held by Condillac, and by some ascribed to Locke, that our ideas originate solely in sensation, and consist of sensations transformed; sensualism; -- opposed to intuitionalism, and rationalism.

The doctrine that all our ideas, or the operations of the understanding, not only originate in sensation, but are transformed sensations, copies or relics of sensations; sensationalism; sensism.