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- English Word Seraglio Definition The palace of the Grand Seignior, or Turkish sultan, at Constantinople, inhabited by the sultan himself, and all the officers and dependents of his court. In it are also kept the females of the harem.
- English Word Seraglio Definition A harem; a place for keeping wives or concubines; sometimes, loosely, a place of licentious pleasure; a house of debauchery.
- English Word Serai Definition A palace; a seraglio; also, in the East, a place for the accommodation of travelers; a caravansary, or rest house.
- English Word Seralbumen Definition Serum albumin.
- English Word Serang Definition The boatswain of a Lascar or East Ondian crew.
- English Word Serape Definition A blanket or shawl worn as an outer garment by the Spanish Americans, as in Mexico.
- English Word Seraph Definition One of an order of celestial beings, each having three pairs of wings. In ecclesiastical art and in poetry, a seraph is represented as one of a class of angels.
- English Word Seraphic Definition Alt. of Seraphical
- English Word Seraphical Definition Of or pertaining to a seraph; becoming, or suitable to, a seraph; angelic; sublime; pure; refined.
- English Word Seraphicism Definition The character, quality, or state of a seraph; seraphicalness.
- English Word Seraphim Definition of Seraph
- English Word Seraphim Definition The Hebrew plural of Seraph. Cf. Cherubim.
- English Word Seraphina Definition A seraphine.
- English Word Seraphine Definition A wind instrument whose sounding parts are reeds, consisting of a thin tongue of brass playing freely through a slot in a plate. It has a case, like a piano, and is played by means of a similar keybord, the bellows being worked by the foot. The melodeon is a portable variety of this instrument.
- English Word Seraphs Definition of Seraph
- English Word Serapis Definition An Egyptian deity, at first a symbol of the Nile, and so of fertility; later, one of the divinities of the lower world. His worship was introduced into Greece and Rome.
- English Word Seraskier Definition A general or commander of land forces in the Turkish empire; especially, the commander-in-chief of minister of war.
- English Word Seraskierate Definition The office or authority of a seraskier.
- English Word Serbonian Definition Relating to the lake of Serbonis in Egypt, which by reason of the sand blowing into it had a deceptive appearance of being solid land, but was a bog.
- English Word Sere Definition Dry; withered. Same as Sear.
- English Word Sere Definition Claw; talon.
- English Word Sere Definition [OE. seer, AS. sear (assumed) fr. searian to wither; akin to D. zoor dry, LG. soor, OHG. sor/n to to wither, Gr. a"y`ein to parch, to dry, Skr. /ush (for sush) to dry, to wither, Zend hush to dry. Ã152. Cf. Austere, Sorrel, a.] Dry; withered; no longer green; -- applied to leaves.
- English Word Serein Definition A mist, or very fine rain, which sometimes falls from a clear sky a few moments after sunset.
- English Word Serenade Definition Music sung or performed in the open air at nights; -- usually applied to musical entertainments given in the open air at night, especially by gentlemen, in a spirit of gallantry, under the windows of ladies.
- English Word Serenade Definition A piece of music suitable to be performed at such times.
- English Word Serenade Definition To entertain with a serenade.
- English Word Serenade Definition To perform a serenade.
- English Word Serenaded Definition of Serenade
- English Word Serenader Definition One who serenades.
- English Word Serenading Definition of Serenade