SEND, send, _v.t._ to cause to go: to cause to be conveyed: to despatch: to
forward: to compel: to throw: to hurl: to authorise: to grant: to drive: to
dismiss: to commission: to diffuse: to bestow.--_v.i._ to despatch a
message or messenger: (_naut._) to pitch into the trough of the
sea:--_pa.t._ and _pa.p._ sent.--_n._ (_Scot._) a messenger, esp. one sent
for the bride: a present: the impulse of a wave on a ship.--_ns._ SEN'DER,
one who sends: (_teleg._) the instrument by which a message is transmitted;
SEN'DING, despatching: pitching bodily into the trough of the sea;
SEND'-OFF, a start as on a journey.--SEND FOR, to require by message to
come or be brought; SEND FORTH, or OUT, to give, put, or bring forth; SEND
TO COVENTRY, to cut: to exclude from society. [A.S. _sendan_; Ice. _senda_,
Goth. _sandjan_, Ger. _senden_.]
SENDAL, sen'dal, _n._ a thin silk or linen. [O. Fr.,--Low L. _cendalum_--L.
_sindon_--Gr. _sind[=o]n_.]
SENECA-OIL, sen'[=e]-kä-oil, _n._ crude petroleum.--SENECA'S MICROSCOPE, a
glass globe filled with water.
SENECIO, s[=e]-n[=e]'si-o, _n._ a genus of composite plants--ragwort,
&c.--_adj._ SEN[=E]'CIOID.
SENEGA, sen'[=e]-ga, _n._ the seneca snakeroot, the dried root of _Polygala
Senega_, good for snake-bites.
SENEGAL, sen'[=e]-gal, _n._ a small African blood-finch, the fire-bird.
SENESCENCE, s[=e]-nes'ens, _n._ the state of growing old or decaying: decay
by time.--_n._ SENEC'TITUDE.--_adj._ SENES'CENT, growing old: decaying with
the lapse of time. [L. _senescens_, _-entis_, pr.p. of _senesc[)e]re_, to
grow old--_senex_, old.]
SENESCHAL, sen'e-shal, _n._ a steward: a major-domo.--_n._ SEN'ESCHALSHIP.
[O. Fr., (Fr. _sénéchal_)--_sin-s_, old, _skalks_, a servant.]
SENEX, s[=e]'neks, _n._ a South American hawk: a Brazilian swift.
SENG-GUNG, seng'-gung, _n._ the teledu or Javan badger.
SENGREEN, sen'gr[=e]n, _n._ the house-leek: (_her._) a figure resembling
it. [A.S. _singrene_; Ger. _singrün_.]
SENHOR, se-ny[=o]r', _n._ the Portuguese form corresponding to the Spanish
_señor_ and Italian _signor_.
SENILE, s[=e]'nil, _adj._ pertaining to old age or attendant on it:
aged.--_n._ SENIL'ITY, old age: the imbecility of old age. [L.
_senilis_--_senex_, _senis_, old.]
SENIOR, s[=e]n'yor, _adj._ elder: older in office.--_n._ one older than
another, the elder of two persons in one family bearing the same name: one
older in office: an aged person: one of the older fellows of a college, a
student in the fourth year of the curriculum.--_v.i._ S[=E]'NIORISE, to
lord it over.--_n._ S[=E]NIOR'ITY, priority of birth, or of service: a body
of seniors--also S[=E]'NIORY (_Shak._). [L., comp. of _senex_.]
SENNA, sen'a, _n._ the purgative dried leaflets of several species of
cassia. [Fr.,--Ar. _sena_.]
SENNET, sen'et, _n._ (_Shak._) a particular set of notes on the trumpet or
cornet.