Se*bif"er*ous (?), a. [L. sebum tallow + -ferous.] 1. (Bot.) Producing
vegetable tallow.
2. (Physiol.) Producing fat; sebaceous; as, the sebiferous, or
sebaceous, glands.
Se*bip"a*rous (?), a. [L. sebum tallow + parere to bring forth.]
(Physiol.) Same as Sebiferous.
||Seb"or*rhe*a (?), n. [NL., fr. L. sebum tallow + Gr. &?; to flow.]
||(Med.) A morbidly increased discharge of sebaceous matter upon the
||skin; stearrhea.
||Se*ca"le (?), n. [L., a kind of grain.] (Bot.) A genus of cereal
||grasses including rye.
Se"can*cy (?), n. [See Secant.] A cutting; an intersection; as, the
point of secancy of one line by another. [R.] Davies & Peck (Math.
Dict. ).
Se"cant (s"knt), a. [L. secans, -antis, p. pr. of secare to cut. See
Section.] Cutting; dividing into two parts; as, a secant line.
Secant, n. [Cf. F. sécante. See Secant, a.] 1. (Geom.) A line that cuts
another; especially, a straight line cutting a curve in two or more
points.
2. (Trig.) A right line drawn from the center of a circle through one
end of a circular arc, and terminated by a tangent drawn from the other
end; the number expressing the ratio of this line to the radius of the
circle. See Trigonometrical function, under Function.
||Sec"co (?), a. [It.] Dry.
Secco painting, or Painting in secco, painting on dry plaster, as
distinguished from fresco painting, which is on wet or fresh plaster.
Se"cede" (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Seceded; p. pr. & vb. n. Seceding.]
[L. secedere, secessum; pref se- aside + cedere to go, move. See
Cede.] To withdraw from fellowship, communion, or association; to
separate one's self by a solemn act; to draw off; to retire;
especially, to withdraw from a political or religious body.
Se*ced"er (?), n. 1. One who secedes.
2. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a numerous body of Presbyterians in Scotland
who seceded from the communion of the Established Church, about the
year 1733, and formed the Secession Church, so called.
Se*cern" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Secerned (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Secerning.] [L. secernere. See Secrete.] 1. To separate; to
distinguish.
Averroes secerns a sense of titillation, and a sense of hunger and
thirst.
Sir W. Hamilton.