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Ireland. The chief, struck by the illustration, asked at once to be baptized, and all his sept followed his example. S. Lover.

Septicæmia.

Of or pertaining to a septum or septa, as of a coral or a shell.

See Heptane. [R.]

A figure which has seven angles; a heptagon. [R.]

Heptagonal.

A flattened concretionary nodule, usually of limestone, intersected within by cracks which are often filled with calcite, barite, or other minerals.

Divided by partition or partitions; having septa; as, a septate pod or shell.

The ninth month of the year, containing thurty days.

A Setembrist. Carlyle.

An agent in the massacres in Paris, committed in patriotic frenzy, on the 22d of September, 1792.

Flowing sevenfold; divided into seven streams or currents. [R.] Fuller.

Divided nearly to the base into seven parts; as, a septempartite leaf.

Septentrion. [Obs.]

One of a board of seven men associated in some office.

The office of septemvir; a government by septimvirs.

Consisting of, or relating to, seven; as, a septenary number. I. Watts.

Having parts in sevens; heptamerous.

A period of seven years; as, the septennate during which the President of the French Republic holds office.

Lasting or continuing seven years; as, septennial parliaments.