Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 53
Seraphicism (n.) The character, quality, or state of a seraph; seraphicalness.
Seraphim (n.) The Hebrew plural of Seraph. Cf. Cherubim.
Seraphina (n.) A seraphine.
Seraphine (n.) 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.
Serapis (n.) 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
Seraskier (n.) A general or commander of land forces in the Turkish empire; especially, the commander-in-chief of minister of war.
Seraskierate (n.) The office or authority of a seraskier.
Serbia (n.) 塞爾維亞 Serbia officially the Republic of Serbia is a landlocked country situated at the crossroads of Central [6] and Southeast Europe in the southern Pannonian Plain and the central Balkans. [7] It borders Hungary to the north; Romania and Bulgaria to the east; Macedonia to the south; Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro to the west and claims a border with Albania through the disputed territory of Kosovo. Serbia numbers around 7 million residents;[8] its capital, Belgrade, ranks among the oldest [9] [7] and largest cities in Europe.
Following the Slavic migrations to the Balkans postdating the 6th century, Serbs established several states in the early Middle Ages. The Serbian Kingdom obtained recognition by Rome and the Byzantine Empire in 1217, reaching its peak in 1346 as a relatively short-lived Serbian Empire. By the mid-16th century, the entire modern-day Serbia was annexed by the Ottomans, at times interrupted by the Habsburg Empire, which started expanding towards Central Serbia from the end of the 17th century, while maintaining a foothold in modern-day Vojvodina. In the early 19th century, the Serbian Revolution established the nation-state as the region's first constitutional monarchy, which subsequently expanded its territory. [10] Following disastrous casualties in World War I, and the subsequent unification of the former Habsburg crownland of Vojvodina (and other territories) with Serbia, the country co-founded Yugoslavia with other South Slavic peoples, which would exist in various political formations until the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s. During the breakup of Yugoslavia, Serbia formed a union with Montenegro which dissolved peacefully in 2006, when Serbia reestablished its independence. In 2008, the parliament of the province of Kosovo unilaterally declared independence, with mixed responses from the international community.
Serbia is a member of numerous organizations such as the UN, CoE, OSCE, PfP, BSEC, and CEFTA. An EU membership candidate since 2012, [11] Serbia has been negotiating its EU accession since January 2014. The country is acceding to the WTO [12] and is a militarily neutral state. Serbia is an upper-middle income economy [13] with a dominant service sector, followed by the industrial sector and agriculture. The country ranks high on the Human Development Index (66th), [14] Social Progress Index (47th) [15] as well as the Global Peace Index (56th). [16]
Serbonian (a.) Relating to the
Sere (a.) Dry; withered. Same as Sear.
Sere (n.) Claw; talon.
Serein (n.) A mist, or very fine rain, which sometimes falls from a clear sky a few moments after sunset.
Serenade (n.) Music sung or performed in the open air at nights; -- usually applied to musical entertainments given in the open air at night, especially by gentlemen, in a spirit of gallantry, under the windows of ladies.
Serenade (n.) A piece of music suitable to be performed at such times.
Serenaded (imp. & p. p.) of Serenade.
Serenading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Serenade.
Serenade (v. t.) To entertain with a serenade.
Serenade (v. i.) To perform a serenade.
Serenader (n.) One who serenades.
Serenata (n.) Alt. of Serenate.
Serenate (n.) A piece of vocal music, especially one on an amoreus subject; a serenade.
Serendipity (n.) [ U ] (Formal) （偶然發現有趣或珍貴之物的）機緣，幸運 The fact of finding interesting or valuable things by chance.
Serene (a.) Bright; clear; unabscured; as, a serene sky.
Serene (a.) Calm; placid; undisturbed; unruffled; as, a serene aspect; a serene soul.
Serene (n.) Serenity; clearness; calmness.
Serene (n.) Evening air; night chill.
Serene (v. t.) To make serene.
Serenely (adv.) In a serene manner; clearly.
Serenely (adv.) With unruffled temper; coolly; calmly.
Sereneness (n.) Serenity.
Serenitude (n.) Serenity.
Serenity (n.) The quality or state of being serene; clearness and calmness; quietness; stillness; peace.
Serenity (n.) Calmness of mind; eveness of temper; undisturbed state; coolness; composure.
Serf (v. t.) A servant or slave employed in husbandry, and in some countries attached to the soil and transferred with it, as formerly in Russia.
Serfage (n.) Alt. of Serfdom.
Serfdom (n.) The state or condition of a serf.
Serfhood (n.) Alt. of Serfism.
Serfism (n.) Serfage.
Serge (n.) A woolen twilled stuff, much used as material for clothing for both sexes.
Serge (n.) A large wax candle used in the ceremonies of various churches.
Sergeancies (n. pl. ) of Sergeancy.
Sergeancy (n.) The office of a sergeant; sergeantship.
Sergeant (n.) Formerly, in England, an officer nearly answering to the more modern bailiff of the hundred; also, an officer whose duty was to attend on the king, and on the lord high steward in court, to arrest traitors and other offenders. He is now called sergeant-at-arms, and two of these officers, by allowance of the sovereign, attend on the houses of Parliament (one for each house) to execute their commands, and another attends the Court Chancery.
Sergeant (n.) In a company, battery, or troop, a noncommissioned officer next in rank above a corporal, whose duty is to instruct recruits in discipline, to form the ranks, etc.
Sergeant (n.) A lawyer of the highest rank, answering to the doctor of the civil law; -- called also serjeant at law.
Sergeant (n.) A title sometimes given to the servants of the sovereign; as, sergeant surgeon, that is, a servant, or attendant, surgeon.
Sergeant (n.) The cobia.
Sergeantcy (n.) Same as Sergeancy.
Sergeantry (n.) See Sergeanty.
Sergeantship (n.) The office of sergeant.
Sergeanty (n.) Tenure of lands of the crown by an honorary kind of service not due to any lord, but to the king only.
Sergio Mattarella (n.) 塞爾焦·馬達雷拉（義大利語：Sergio Mattarella，義大利語發音：[ˈsɛrdʒo mattaˈrɛlla]，1941年7月23日－） 義大利政治家，2015年2月3日就任第12任義大利總統。他1983年至2008年是議員，1989年至1990年擔任過教育部長，1999年至2001年任國防部長。2011年出任義大利憲法法院法官。[1]
OMRI OMCA K.U.O.M. GColL RSerafO KBE (Italian pronunciation: [ˈsɛrdʒo mattaˈrɛlla]; born 23 July 1941) is an Italian politician, lawyer and academic serving as the 12th and current President of Italy since 2015. He was previously Minister for Parliamentary Relations from 1987 to 1989, Minister of Public Education from 1989 to 1990, Deputy Prime Minister of Italy from 1998 to 1999 and Minister of Defence from 1999 to 2001. In 2011, he became an elected judge on the Constitutional Court. On 31 January 2015, he was elected by the Italian Parliament to serve as President of the Italian Republic.
Serial (a.) Of or pertaining to a series; consisting of a series; appearing in successive parts or numbers; as, a serial work or publication.
Serial (a.) Of or pertaining to rows.
Serial (n.) A publication appearing in a series or succession of part; a tale, or other writing, published in successive numbers of a periodical.
Seriality (n.) The quality or state of succession in a series; sequence.
Serially (adv.) In a series, or regular order; in a serial manner; as, arranged serially; published serially.
Seriate (a.) Arranged in a series or succession; pertaining to a series.
Seriatim (adv.) In regular order; one after the other; severally.
Seriation (n.) Arrangement or position in a series.
Sericeous (a.) Of or pertaining to silk; consisting of silk; silky.
Sericeous (a.) Covered with very soft hairs pressed close to the surface; as, a sericeous leaf.
Sericeous (a.) Having a silklike luster, usually due to fine, close hairs.
Sericin (n.) A gelatinous nitrogenous material extracted from crude silk and other similar fiber by boiling water; -- called also silk gelatin.
Sericite (n.) A kind of muscovite occuring in silky scales having a fibrous structure. It is characteristic of sericite schist.
Sericterium (n.) A silk gland, as in the silkworms.
Sericulture (n.) The raising of silkworms.
Serie (n.) Series.
Seriema (n.) A large South American bird (Dicholophus, / Cariama cristata) related to the cranes. It is often domesticated. Called also cariama.
Series (n.) [C] [M] 連續；系列 [（+of）]；（郵票）套；叢書；輯；組 A number of things or events standing or succeeding in order, and connected by a like relation; sequence; order; course; a succession of things; as, a continuous series of calamitous events.
During some years his life a series of triumphs. -- Macaulay.
Series (n.) (Biol.) Any comprehensive group of animals or plants including several subordinate related groups.
Note: Sometimes a series includes several classes; sometimes only orders or families; in other cases only species.
Series (n.) (Bot.) In Engler's system of plant classification, a group of families showing certain structural or morphological relationships. It corresponds to the cohort of some writers, and to the order of many modern systematists.
Series (n.) (Math.) An indefinite number of terms succeeding one another, each of which is derived from one or more of the preceding by a fixed law, called the law of the series; as, an arithmetical series; a geometrical series.
Series (n.) (Elec.) A mode of arranging the separate parts of a circuit by connecting them successively end to end to form a single path for the current; -- opposed to parallel.
The parts so arranged are said to be in series.
In series (a.) Of or relating to the sequential performance of multiple operations; "serial processing" [syn: serial, in series(p), nonparallel].
Series (n.) (Com.) A parcel of rough diamonds of assorted qualities.
Series (n.) Similar things placed in order or happening one after another; "they were investigating a series of bank robberies."
Series (n.) A serialized set of programs; "a comedy series"; "the Masterworks concert series" [syn: serial, series].
Series (n.) A periodical that appears at scheduled times [syn: series, serial, serial publication].
Series (n.) (Sports) Several contests played successively by the same teams; "the visiting team swept the series."
Series (n.) (Electronics) Connection of components in such a manner that current flows first through one and then through the other; "the voltage divider consisted of a series of fixed resistors."
Series (n.) A group of postage stamps having a common theme or a group of coins or currency selected as a group for study or collection; "the Post Office issued a series commemorating famous American entertainers"; "his coin collection included the complete series of Indian-head pennies."
Series (n.) (Mathematics) The sum of a finite or infinite sequence of expressions.
Serin (n.) (Zool.) A European finch ({Serinus hortulanus) closely related to the canary.
Serin (n.) Any of various brown and yellow finches of parts of Europe.
Serine (n.) [L. sericus silken.] (Chem.) One of the natural L-amino acids, obtainable as a white crystalline nitrogenous substance by the action of dilute sulphuric acid on silk gelatin. It is found in many proteins, and, having a free primary hydroxyl group on the side chain, is involved in the catalytic action at the active site of some enzymes, such as proteases. The IUPAC abbreviation for serine in protein sequences is Ser. Chemically it is 2-amino-3-hydroxy-propanoic acid ({C3H7NO3), HO.CH2.CH(NH2).COOH. Serio-comic
Serine (n.) A sweetish crystalline amino acid involved in the synthesis by the body of cysteine.
Serio-comic (a.) Alt. of Serio-comical.
Serio-comical (a.) Having a mixture of seriousness and sport; serious and comical.
Serious (a.) Grave in manner or disposition; earnest; thoughtful; solemn; not light, gay, or volatile.
He is always serious, yet there is about his manner a graceful ease. -- Macaulay.
Serious (a.) Really intending what is said; being in earnest; not jesting or deceiving. -- Beaconsfield.
Serious (a.) Important; weighty; not trifling; grave.
The holy Scriptures bring to our ears the most serious things in the world. -- Young.
Serious (a.) Hence, giving rise to apprehension; attended with danger; as, a serious injury.
Syn: Grave; solemn; earnest; sedate; important; weighty. See Grave. -- Se"ri*ous*ly, adv. -- Se"ri*ous*ness, n.
Serious (a.) Concerned with work or important matters rather than play or trivialities; "a serious student of history"; "a serious attempt to learn to ski"; "gave me a serious look"; "a serious young man"; "are you serious or joking?"; "Don't be so serious!" [ant: frivolous].
Serious (a.) Of great consequence; "marriage is a serious matter."
Serious (a.) Causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm; "a dangerous operation"; "a grave situation"; "a grave illness"; "grievous bodily harm"; "a serious wound"; "a serious turn of events"; "a severe case of pneumonia"; "a life-threatening disease" [syn: dangerous, grave, grievous, serious, severe, life-threatening].
Serious (a.) Appealing to the mind; "good music"; "a serious book" [syn: good, serious].
Serious (a.) Completely lacking in playfulness [syn: unplayful, serious, sober] [ant: playful].
Serious (a.) Requiring effort or concentration; complex and not easy to answer or solve; "raised serious objections to the proposal"; "the plan has a serious flaw."
Seriph (n.) See Ceriph.
Serjeant () Alt. of Serjeantcy.
Serjeantcy () See Sergeant, Sergeantcy, etc.
Sermocination (n.) The making of speeches or sermons; sermonizing.
Sermocinator (n.) One who makes sermons or speeches.
Sermon (n.) A discourse or address; a talk; a writing; as, the sermons of Chaucer.
Sermon (n.) Specifically, a discourse delivered in public, usually by a clergyman, for the purpose of religious instruction and grounded on some text or passage of Scripture.
Sermon (n.) Hence, a serious address; a lecture on one's conduct or duty; an exhortation or reproof; a homily; -- often in a depreciatory sense.
Sermon (v. i.) To speak; to discourse; to compose or deliver a sermon.
Sermon (v. t.) To discourse to or of, as in a sermon.
Sermon (v. t.) To tutor; to lecture.
Sermoneer (n.) A sermonizer.
Sermoner (n.) A preacher; a sermonizer.
Sermonet (n.) A short sermon.
Sermonic (a.) Alt. of Sermonical.
Sermonical (a.) Like, or appropriate to, a sermon; grave and didactic.
Sermoning (n.) The act of discoursing; discourse; instruction; preaching.
Sermonish (a.) Resembling a sermon. [R.]
Sermonist (n.) See Sermonizer.
Sermonized (imp. & p. p.) of Sermonize.
Sermonizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sermonize.
Sermonize (v. i.) To compose or write a sermon or sermons; to preach.
Sermonize (v. i.) To inculcate rigid rules. [R.] -- Chesterfield.