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- English Word Segregating Definition of Segregate
- English Word Segregation Definition The act of segregating, or the state of being segregated; separation from others; a parting.
- English Word Segregation Definition Separation from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive attraction or the crystallizing process.
- English Word Seguestration Definition The act of separating, or setting aside, a thing in controversy from the possession of both the parties that contend for it, to be delivered to the one adjudged entitled to it. It may be voluntary or involuntary.
- English Word Seguestration Definition A prerogative process empowering certain commissioners to take and hold a defendant's property and receive the rents and profits thereof, until he clears himself of a contempt or performs a decree of the court.
- English Word Seguestration Definition A kind of execution for a rent, as in the case of a beneficed clerk, of the profits of a benefice, till he shall have satisfied some debt established by decree; the gathering up of the fruits of a benefice during a vacancy, for the use of the next incumbent; the disposing of the goods, by the ordinary, of one who is dead, whose estate no man will meddle with.
- English Word Seguestration Definition The seizure of the property of an individual for the use of the state; particularly applied to the seizure, by a belligerent power, of debts due from its subjects to the enemy.
- English Word Seguestration Definition The state of being separated or set aside; separation; retirement; seclusion from society.
- English Word Seguestration Definition Disunion; disjunction.
- English Word Seiches Definition Local oscillations in level observed in the case of some lakes, as Lake Geneva.
- English Word Seid Definition A descendant of Mohammed through his daughter Fatima and nephew Ali.
- English Word Seidlitz Definition Of or pertaining to Seidlitz, a village in Bohemia.
- English Word Seigh Definition obs. imp. sing. of See. Saw.
- English Word Seigneurial Definition Of or pertaining to the lord of a manor; manorial.
- English Word Seigneurial Definition Vested with large powers; independent.
- English Word Seignior Definition A lord; the lord of a manor.
- English Word Seignior Definition A title of honor or of address in the South of Europe, corresponding to Sir or Mr. in English.
- English Word Seigniorage Definition Something claimed or taken by virtue of sovereign prerogative; specifically, a charge or toll deducted from bullion brought to a mint to be coined; the difference between the cost of a mass of bullion and the value as money of the pieces coined from it.
- English Word Seigniorage Definition A share of the receipts of a business taken in payment for the use of a right, as a copyright or a patent.
- English Word Seignioral Definition Of or pertaining to a seignior; seigneurial.
- English Word Seignioralty Definition The territory or authority of a seignior, or lord.
- English Word Seigniorial Definition Same as Seigneurial.
- English Word Seigniorize Definition To lord it over.
- English Word Seigniory Definition The power or authority of a lord; dominion.
- English Word Seigniory Definition The territory over which a lord holds jurisdiction; a manor.
- English Word Seine Definition A large net, one edge of which is provided with sinkers, and the other with floats. It hangs vertically in the water, and when its ends are brought together or drawn ashore incloses the fish.
- English Word Seiner Definition One who fishes with a seine.
- English Word Seining Definition Fishing with a seine.
- English Word Seint Definition A girdle.
- English Word Seint Definition A saint.