3. (Zoöl.) (a) One of the radial calcareous plates of a coral. (b) One
of the transverse partitions dividing the shell of a mollusk, or of a
rhizopod, into several chambers. See Illust. under Nautilus. (c) One of
the transverse partitions dividing the body cavity of an annelid.
Sep"tu*or (?), n. [F.] (Mus.) A septet.
Sep"tu*ple (?), a. [LL. septuplus; cf. Gr. &?;&?;&?;&?;&?;:cf. F.
septuple. Cf. Double, Quadruple.] Seven times as much; multiplied by
seven; sevenfold.
Sep"tu*ple, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Septupled (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Septupling (?).] To multiply by seven; to make sevenfold. Sir J.
Herschel.
{ Sep"ul*cher, Sep"ul*chre } (?), n. [OE. sepulcre, OF. sepulcre, F.
sépulcre, fr. L. sepulcrum, sepulchrum, fr. sepelire to bury.] The
place in which the dead body of a human being is interred, or a place
set apart for that purpose; a grave; a tomb.
The stony entrance of this sepulcher.
Shak.
The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was
yet dark, unto the sepulcher.
John xx. 1.
A whited sepulcher. Fig.: Any person who is fair outwardly but unclean
or vile within. See Matt. xxiii. 27.
{ Sep"ul*cher, Sep"ul*chre } (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sepulchered (?)
or Sepulchred (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. Sepulchering (?) or Sepulchring
(&?;).] To bury; to inter; to entomb; as, obscurely sepulchered.
And so sepulchered in such pomp dost lie That kings for such a tomb
would wish to die.
Milton.
Se*pul"chral (?), a. [L. sepulcralis: cf. F. sépulcral.] 1. Of or
pertaining to burial, to the grave, or to monuments erected to the
memory of the dead; as, a sepulchral stone; a sepulchral inscription.
2. Unnaturally low and grave; hollow in tone; -- said of sound,
especially of the voice.
This exaggerated dulling of the voice . . . giving what is commonly
called a sepulchral tone.
H. Sweet.
Sep"ul*ture (?), n. [F. sépulture, L. sepultura, fr. sepelire,
sepultum, to bury.] 1. The act of depositing the dead body of a human
being in the grave; burial; interment.
Where we may royal sepulture prepare.
Dryden.