Make o'er thy honor by a deed of trust, And give me seizure of the
mighty wealth.
Dryden.
3. That which is seized, or taken possession of; a thing laid hold of,
or possessed.
{ Se"jant, Se"jeant } (?), a. [F. séant, p. pr. of seoir to sit, L.
sedere.] (Her.) Sitting, as a lion or other beast.
Sejant rampant, sitting with the forefeet lifted up. Wright.
Se*jein" (?), v. t. [L. sejungere; pref. se- aside + jungere to join.
See Join.] To separate. [Obs.]
Se*junc"tion (?), n. [L. sejunctio. See Sejoin.] The act of disjoining,
or the state of being disjoined. [Obs.] Bp. Pearson.
Se*jun"gi*ble (?), a. [See Sejoin.] Capable of being disjoined. [Obs.]
Bp. Pearson.
Seke (?), a. Sick. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Seke (?), v. t. & i. To seek. [Obs.] Chaucer.
||Se"kes (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;&?;&?; a pen, a sacred inclosure, a
||shrine.] (Arch.) A place in a pagan temple in which the images of the
||deities were inclosed.
Se*la"chi*an (?), n. (Zoöl.) One of the Selachii. See Illustration in
Appendix.
||Se*la"chi*i (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;&?;&?; a fish having
||cartilages instead of bones.] (Zoöl.) An order of elasmobranchs
||including the sharks and rays; the Plagiostomi. Called also Selacha,
||Selache, and Selachoidei.
||Sel`a*choi"de*i (?), n. pl. [NL. See Selachii, and -oid.] (Zoöl.)
||Same as Selachii.
||Sel`a*chos"to*mi (?), n. pl. [NL. See Selachii, and Stoma.] (Zoöl.) A
||division of ganoid fishes which includes the paddlefish, in which the
||mouth is armed with small teeth.
||Sel`a*gi*nel"la (?), n. [NL., fr. L. selago, -inis, a kind of plant.]
||(Bot.) A genus of cryptogamous plants resembling Lycopodia, but
||producing two kinds of spores; also, any plant of this genus. Many
||species are cultivated in conservatories.
Se"lah (?), n. [Heb. selh.] (Script.) A word of doubtful meaning,
occuring frequently in the Psalms; by some, supposed to signify silence
or a pause in the musical performance of the song.
Beyond the fact that Selah is a musical term, we know absolutely
nothing about it.