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- English Word Seldomness Definition Rareness.
- English Word Seldseen Definition Seldom seen.
- English Word Seldshewn Definition Rarely shown or exhibited.
- English Word Select Definition Taken from a number by preferance; picked out as more valuable or exellent than others; of special value or exellence; nicely chosen; selected; choice.
- English Word Select Definition To choose and take from a number; to take by preference from among others; to pick out; to cull; as, to select the best authors for perusal.
- English Word Selected Definition of Select
- English Word Selectedly Definition With care and selection.
- English Word Selecting Definition of Select
- English Word Selection Definition The act of selecting, or the state of being selected; choice, by preference.
- English Word Selection Definition That which is selected; a collection of things chosen; as, a choice selection of books.
- English Word Selective Definition Selecting; tending to select.
- English Word Selectman Definition One of a board of town officers chosen annually in the New England States to transact the general public business of the town, and have a kind of executive authority. The number is usually from three to seven in each town.
- English Word Selectmen Definition of Selectman
- English Word Selectness Definition The quality or state of being select.
- English Word Selector Definition One who selects.
- English Word Selenate Definition A salt of selenic acid; -- formerly called also seleniate.
- English Word Selenecentric Definition As seen or estimated from the center of the moon; with the moon central.
- English Word Selenhydric Definition Of, pertaining to, or designating, hydrogen selenide, H2Se, regarded as an acid analogous to sulphydric acid.
- English Word Selenic Definition Of or pertaining to selenium; derived from, or containing, selenium; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a higher valence as contrasted with selenious compounds.
- English Word Selenide Definition A binary compound of selenium, or a compound regarded as binary; as, ethyl selenide.
- English Word Seleniferous Definition Containing, or impregnated with, selenium; as, seleniferous pyrites.
- English Word Selenio- Definition A combining form (also used adjectively) denoting the presence of selenium or its compounds; as, selenio-phosphate, a phosphate having selenium in place of all, or a part, of the oxygen.
- English Word Selenious Definition Of, pertaining to, or containing, selenium; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a lower valence as contrasted with selenic compounds.
- English Word Selenite Definition A salt of selenious acid.
- English Word Selenite Definition A variety of gypsum, occuring in transparent crystals or crystalline masses.
- English Word Selenitic Definition Alt. of Selenitical
- English Word Selenitical Definition Of or pertaining to selenite; resembling or containing selenite.
- English Word Selenium Definition A nonmetallic element of the sulphur group, and analogous to sulphur in its compounds. It is found in small quantities with sulphur and some sulphur ores, and obtained in the free state as a dark reddish powder or crystalline mass, or as a dark metallic-looking substance. It exhibits under the action of light a remarkable variation in electric conductivity, and is used in certain electric apparatus. Symbol Se. Atomic weight 78.9.
- English Word Seleniuret Definition A selenide.
- English Word Seleniureted Definition Combined with selenium as in a selenide; as, seleniureted hydrogen.