2. (Naut.) To pitch; as, the ship sends forward so violently as to
endanger her masts. Totten.
To send for, to request or require by message to come or be brought.
Send, n. (Naut.) The impulse of a wave by which a vessel is carried
bodily. [Written also scend.] W. C. Russell. "The send of the sea".
Longfellow.
Sen"dal (?), n. [OF. cendal (cf. Pr. & Sp. cendal, It. zendale), LL.
cendallum, Gr. &?;&?;&?; a fine Indian cloth.] A light thin stuff of
silk. [Written also cendal, and sendal.] Chaucer.
Wore she not a veil of twisted sendal embroidered with silver?
Sir W. Scott.
Send"er (?), n. One who sends. Shak.
Sen"e*cas (?), n. pl.; sing. Seneca (&?;). (Ethnol.) A tribe of Indians
who formerly inhabited a part of Western New York. This tribe was the
most numerous and most warlike of the Five Nations.
Seneca grass(Bot.), holy grass. See under Holy. -- Seneca eil,
petroleum or naphtha. -- Seneca root, or Seneca snakeroot (Bot.), the
rootstock of an American species of milkworth (Polygala Senega) having
an aromatic but bitter taste. It is often used medicinally as an
expectorant and diuretic, and, in large doses, as an emetic and
cathartic. [Written also Senega root, and Seneka root.]
||Se*ne"ci*o (?), n. [L., groundsel, lit., an old man. So called in
||allusion to the hoary appearance of the pappus.] (Bot.) A very large
||genus of composite plants including the groundsel and the golden
||ragwort.
Se*nec"ti*tude (?), n. [L. senectus aged, old age, senex old.] Old age.
[R.] "Senectitude, weary of its toils." H. Miller.
Sen"e*ga (?), n. (Med.) Seneca root.
Sen"e*gal (?), n. Gum senegal. See under Gum.
Sen"e*gin (?), n. (Med. Chem.) A substance extracted from the rootstock
of the Polygala Senega (Seneca root), and probably identical with
polygalic acid.
Se*nes"cence (?), n. [See Senescent.] The state of growing old; decay
by time.
Se*nes"cent (?), a. [L. senescent, p. pr. of senescere to grow old,
incho. fr. senere to be old.] Growing old; decaying with the lapse of
time. "The night was senescent." Poe. "With too senescent air." Lowell.
Sen"es*chal (?), n. [OF. seneschal, LL. seniscalcus, of Teutonic
origin; cf. Goth. sineigs old, skalks, OHG. scalch, AS. scealc. Cf.
Senior, Marshal.] An officer in the houses of princes and dignitaries,
in the Middle Ages, who had the superintendence of feasts and domestic
ceremonies; a steward. Sometimes the seneschal had the dispensing of
justice, and was given high military commands.
Then marshaled feast Served up in hall with sewers and seneschale.
Milton.
Philip Augustus, by a famous ordinance in 1190, first established
royal courts of justice, held by the officers called baitiffs, or
seneschals, who acted as the king's lieutenants in his demains.
Hallam.
Sen"es*chal*ship, n. The office, dignity, or jurisdiction of a
seneschal.
Senge (?), v. t. To singe. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Sen"green (?), n.[AS. singr&?;ne, properly, evergreen, fr. sin (in
composition) always + grëne green; akin to OHG. sin- ever, L. semper.]
(Bot.) The houseleek.
Se"nile (?), a. [L. senilis, from senex, gen. senis, old, an old man:
cf. F. sénile. See Senior.] Of or pertaining to old age; proceeding
from, or characteristic of, old age; affected with the infirmities of
old age; as, senile weakness. "Senile maturity of judgment." Boyle.
Senile gangrene (Med.), a form of gangrene occuring particularly in old
people, and caused usually by insufficient blood supply due to
degeneration of the walls of the smaller arteries.
Se*nil"i*ty (?), n. [Cf. F. sénilité.] The quality or state of being
senile; old age.
Sen"ior (?), a. [L. senior, compar. of senex, gen. senis, old. See
Sir.] 1. More advanced than another in age; prior in age; elder; hence,
more advanced in dignity, rank, or office; superior; as, senior member;
senior counsel.
2. Belonging to the final year of the regular course in American
colleges, or in professional schools.
Sen"ior, n. 1. A person who is older than another; one more advanced in
life.
2. One older in office, or whose entrance upon office was anterior to
that of another; one prior in grade.