Sedge hen (Zoöl.), the clapper rail. See under 5th Rail. -- Sedge
warbler (Zoöl.), a small European singing bird (Acrocephalus
phragmitis). It often builds its nest among reeds; -- called also sedge
bird, sedge wren, night warbler, and Scotch nightingale.
Sedged (?), a. Made or composed of sedge.
With your sedged crowns and ever-harmless looks.
Shak.
Sedg"y (?), a. Overgrown with sedge.
On the gentle Severn\'b6s sedgy bank.
Shak.
||Se*dil"i*a (?), n. pl.; sing. Sedile (&?;). [L. sedile a seat.]
||(Arch.) Seats in the chancel of a church near the altar for the
||officiating clergy during intervals of service. Hook.
Sed"i*ment (?), n. [F. sédiment, L. sedimentum a settling, fr. sedere
to sit, to settle. See Sit.] 1. The matter which subsides to the
bottom, from water or any other liquid; settlings; lees; dregs.