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A Japanese coin, worth about one half of a cent.

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

lected from among the nobles of the nation, and having supreme legislative authority. The senate was thus the medium through which all affairs of the whole government had to pass. Dr. W. Smith.

A member of a senate. The duke and senators of Venice greet you. Shak.

Of or pertaining to a senator, or a senate; becoming to a senator, or a senate; as, senatorial duties; senatorial dignity.

In a senatorial manner.

Senatorial. [R.] De Quincey.

Senatorial. [Obs.]

The office or dignity of a senator. Carew.

A decree of the Roman senate.

To cause to go in any manner; to dispatch; to commission or direct to go; as, to send a messenger. I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran. Jer. xxiii. 21. I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me. John viii. 42. Servants, sent on messages, stay out somewhat longer than the mes…

A light thin stuff of silk. [Written also cendal, and sendal.] Chaucer. Wore she not a veil of twisted sendal embroidered with silver Sir W. Scott.

One who sends. Shak.

Western New York. This tribe was the most numerous and most warlike of the Five Nations. Seneca grass(Bot.), holy grass. See under Holy. -- Seneca eil, petroleum or naphtha. -- Seneca root, or Seneca snakeroot (Bot.), the rootstock of an American species of milkworth (Polygala Senega) having an aromatic but bitter t…

A very large genus of composite plants including the groundsel and the golden ragwort.

Old age. [R.] "Senectitude, weary of its toils." H. Miller.

Seneca root.

Gum senegal. See under Gum.

A substance extracted from the rootstock of the Polygala Senega (Seneca root), and probably identical with polygalic acid.

The state of growing old; decay by time.