Seistan
Seistan, Called Also Segeetan, Ls A Province, Or Rather A Country, Situated In The Eastern Part Of The Tableland Of Iran, And Inclosed Within The Boundaries Of The Kingdom Of Afghanistan. Taken In The Larger Signification Which Is Sometimes Given To It., Seat= Compre Hends The Countries Between 30' And ...
Selenium
Selenium ) A Nonmetallic. Solid, Elementary Body, Discovered In Isis By Berzelius In The Iron Pyrites Of Fahlun ; The Sulphur Pro Cured From Which Was Used At Gripaholin In The Manufacture Of Sul Phuric Add. In The Latter A Deposit Was Formed Of A Red Colour, Which, En Account ...
Self Registering Instruments
Self-registering Instruments. In The Determination Of Scientific Data, It Is Of The Utmost Importance That The Instruments Of Observation Be As Free From Error As Possible, Or That The Sources And Amount Of Error Bo Accurately Known. It Is Further Necessary That The Means Of Observation Be Irreproachable, And, If ...
Seli3y
Seli3y, West Riding Of Yorkshire, A Market-town, And The Seat Of A Poor-law Union, In The Parish Of Selby, Is Situated On The Right Bank Of The River Ouse, In 53° 47' N. Lat., I° 6' 1v. Long., Distant 14 Miles S. By E. From York, 181 Miles N.n.w. From ...
Selina Huntingdon
Huntingdon, Selina, Countess Of, A Lady Distinguished In The Religious History Of The Century To Which She Belonged, Was Born In 1707, And Was One Of The Three Daughters And Coheirs Of Washington Shirley, Earl Perrera, The Other Two Being Lady Kihnorey And Lady Elizabeth Nightingale, The Lady For Whom ...
Selkirkshire
Selkirkshire, An Inland County In The South Of Scotland, Is Bounded N. By Edinburghshire, E. And S.e. By Roxburghshire, S. And S.w. By Dumfriesshire, And W. And N.w. By Peeblesshire. A Small Detached Part Of The County Lies Just Beyond The Eastern Boundary, Entirely Surrounded By Roxburghshire. Tho County Lies ...
Semitone
Semitone, An Interval In Music, Whose Ratio Is 16 : 15, As C C Z. Senatus, According To The Etymological Meaning Of The Word, Is "an Assembly Of Elders," And This Is The Sense Which The Roman Writers Attach To The Earliest Senate Of Rouse. The Number Of Senators In ...
Sen Na
Sen Na Is Prepared From Several Species Of Cassia [casset, In Nat. Hist. Div.], Of Which The Aetarfolia Grown In Egypt, Sennaar, And Abyssinia, And Shipped From Alexandria, Is Considered The Best. The Leaflets, Leaf Stalks, And Pods Are Frequently Present In The Senna Used In Medicine. The Pulp Of ...
Senegal
Senegal Is The Name Of A Large River In Western Africa, Which Enters The Atlantic By Two Embouchures Between 15° 50' And 16' 30 N. Lat. It Is The Largest River Of Senegambia, And With Its Tributaries Drains Nearly Half The Surface Of That Country. The Largest Of Its Branches ...
Senegambia
Senegambia Is A Term Adopted By Geographers To Indicates Part Of The Western Coast Of Northern Africa, But It Has Not Always Been Applied To The Same Extent Of Country. Originally It Was Only Used To Indicate The Countries Which Lie Between The Senegal And Gambia, From The Names Of ...
Senna
Senna Is A Country On The Eastern Coast Of Africa, And A Portion Of That Region Which On Our Maps Is Called Mouomotapa, And Has Acquired Some Fame On Account Of The Rich Mines Of Gold Which It Contains. It Is Situated Between 16' And 20° S. Lat., 30° And ...
Sennaar
Sennaar Is A Country Situated In The North-eastern Parts Of Africa, On The Banks Of The Nile, And At The Junction Of Its Two Great Branches, The Bahr-el-azrek (blue River) And The Bahr-el-abiad (white River). It Was Formerly An Independent State, And One Of The Most Powerful Iu That Part ...
Sens
Sens, An Archiepiscopal City In France, In The Department Of Yonne, The Chief Town Of The Fourth Arrondissement, Is Situated In 43°11' 54" N. Lat., 3° 17' 12" E. Long., On The Right Bank Of The Yonne, 250 Feet Above The Level Of The Sea, 70 Miles S.e. From Paris ...
Separate Property
Separate Property. By The Common Law- Of England The Husband Acquired By The Marriage A Freehold Interest In, And A Right To Dispose Of, The Rents And Profits, During The Joint Lives Of Himself And His Wife, Of All The Estates Of Inheritance Of Which She Was At That Time ...
Sequestration
Sequestration Is A Process By Which The Revenues Of An Ecele Aiaatical Benefice Are Received And Applied By Persons Other Than The Incumbent Of It. It Issues Immediately From The Bishop In All Cases, But It May Be Founded Upon Proceedings Commenced Either In His Own Court Or In The ...
Serapeum
Serapeum, The Name Given To Two Celebrated Egyptian Temples, One At Alexandria, The Other At Memphis, Dedicated To The God Seraphs. There Was Also A Temple Of The Same Name At Babylon, Where The Friends Of Alexander The Great Wished To Transport Lim During His Last Illness (arrian, Anab.; Vii. ...
Sergy Nikolaevich Gl1nka
Gl1nka, Sergy Nikolaevich, An Active And Voluminous Russian Author, The Particulars Of Whose Biography As Given By Grech In His 'history Of Russian Literature,' Bear A Striking Resemblance To Those Of Hie Namesake, Gregory Gliuka. Lie Was Born In The Govern Ment Of Smolensk In 1774, Entered The Army In ...
Series
Series. The Mathematical Of The Word Series Is, A Set Of Terms, Finite Or Infinite In Number, Connected By Addition Or Subtraction, And Formed Upon Some Distinct Law. If It Had Been The Plan Of This Work To Write Treatises On The Various Branches Of Pure Mathematics, The Present Article ...
Sermon
Sermon, A Form Of Time Latin Sernw, Which Denotes A Discourse Of Any Kind, And Even Common Talk Or Conversation. It Is Now However Applied Only To A Discourse Of A Particular Kind, Namely, One Delivered To An Assembly Of Persons Who Are Gathered Together For Purposes Of Devotion, Or ...
Servant
Servant, One Who Has Contracted To Serve Another. The Person Whom He Has Contracted To Serve Is Styled Master. Servants Are Of Various Kinds; Apprentices [arrss.rrics], Menial Or Domestic Servants Who Reside Within The House Of The Master, Servants In Husbandry, Workmen Or Artificers, And Clerks, Warehousemen, &c. From The ...
Servia
Servia (syrp, Serbie), Nominally An Eyelet Or Province Of European Turkey, In Reality A Tributary Principality Governed By An Hereditary Prince, Was An Integral Part Of European Turkey Till The Beginning Of The Present Century. It Is Bounded N. By The Danube And The Save, Which Separate It From Austria, ...
Servitudes
Servitudes (serritutes). A Servitus In The Roman Law Signifies That The Owner Of Some Particular Property Is Bound In Respect To Some Other Person, Simply As Such Person, Or As Being The Owner Of A Par Ticular Property, Either Not To Do Certain Acts To His Property, Or To Allow ...
Session
Session.] Thirdly, Dominion, As Taken With One Of Its Significations, Is Exactly Eo-extensive With Jus In Rem, And Applies To Every Right That Is Not Jus In Personam." The First Sense Of The Word Property Is Expounded By Determining, As Hereafter Explained, The Quantity And Quality Of An Estate As ...
Sessions
Sessions. A Session Is The Period During Which Any Court Of Law Sits For The Transaction Of Judicial Business ; But The Term Sessions Is Commonly Used To Denote The Meeting Of The Justices Of A County, Or Other District Which Has A Separate Commission Of The Peace, For The ...
Sesteilttus
Sesteilttus, A Lloman Coin, Which Originally Consisted Of 24 Aces, As The Name Implies, Uestertine Being A Contraction Of Semis Tertina, The Third A-half, Which Is The Roman Way Of Expressing Two And A-half. The Sestertius Belonged Both To The Brass And Silver Coinage; And In Both It Was Of ...
Set Off
Set-off, In Law, Is The Amount Of The Debt Due To A Defendant From A Plaintiff, Which The Defendant Is Entitled To Set Off In Answer Either To The Whole Or Part, As The Case May Be, Of The Plaintiff's Demand. At Common Law, If The Plaintiff Was Indebted To ...
Settlement
Settlement. A Settlement, In The Most General Sense Of The Word, Is A Disposition Of Property Of Any Kind Made For Certain Pur Poses By The Owner, Who, In Relation To Such Disposition, Is Called The Settler Or Grantor. A Settlement In This Case May Be Made Either By Deed ...
Sevenoaks
Sevenoaks, Kent, A Market-town, And The Seat Of A Poor-lew Union, In The Parish Of Sevenoaks, Is Situated In 51° 16' N. Lat., 0° 11' E. Long., Distant 17 Miles W. From Maidstone, And 23 Miles S.s.e. From London. The Population Of The Town Of Sevenoaks In 1851 Was 1850. ...
Severn
Severn. The Severn Is The Finest, And, Next To The Thames, The Largest And Most Important Of British Rivers. The Original Name Of The Severn Was Ilafren, Of Which Severn Is Only A Corruption. It Was Subsequently Called By The Romans Sabrina, A Name Given To It, As Is Said, ...
Sevilla
Sevilla, An Old Province Of Spain, Included In The Great Territorial Division Of Andalucia, Is Bounded N. By Estremadum, W. By Portugal, S.w. And S. By The Atlantic Ocean, 11 By The Province Of Granada, And N.e. By The Province Of Cordova. It Is Situated Between 36' 4' And 38' ...
Sevilla
Sevilla (written Seville By The English), A City Of Spain, Capital Of The Territorial Division Of Andalucia, Of The Ancieut Province Of Sevilla, And Of The Modern Province Of The Same Name, Is Situated In 37° 22' N. Let., 5° 48' W. Long., On The East Bank Of The Guadalquivir, ...
Sewers
Sewers. In Its Original Acceptation, The Word Sewers Meant Simply The Banks, Or Sea-weirs, Erected For The Purpose Of Protecting The Low Lands By The Sides Of Tidal Rivers, From The Effects Of Inunda Tions Or High Tides; But, By Extension, The Word Has Been Applied Firstly To All Artificial ...
Sexagesi31al
Sexagesi31al, A Name Given To The System Of Reckoning In Which Each Unit Is The Sixtieth Part Of The Preceding, To Which, In Our Day, We Are Only Accustomed By The Method Of Measuring Angles And Time. The Greeks, And Ptolemy In Particular, Brought This Method Into Use In Astronomical ...
Sextant
Sextant. The History Of The Sextant Was Involved In Some Doubt Until The Late Professor Rigaud Undertook To Investigate The Subject. The Result Will Be Found In The Nautical Magazine; Vol. I., P. 351, And No. Xxi. The Following Account Is A Brief Outline Of His Inquiry. The Early Modern ...
Sextus Julius Frontinus
Frontinus, Sextus Julius, Born Of A Patrician Family, Was Prmtor Of Rome A.d. 70, And About Five Years Later Was Sent By Vas Pasian To Britain, Where Be Seems To Have Remained Three Years, During Which He Conquered The Silures. (tacitus, 'agricola,' 17.) About .a.n. 78 He Was Succeeded By ...
Sextus Pompeius Festus
Festus, Sextus Pompe'ius, A Celebrated Latin Grammarian, Whose Age Is Not Clearly Ascertained, Though There Seems Reason To Believe That Be Lived In The Third Century Of Our Era. He Compiled An Epitome Of The Voluminous Work De Verborum Significatione' Of Marcus Verrius Flaccus, A Grammarian Of The Augustan Age, ...
Seychelles
Seychelles, A Group Of Islands In The Indian Ocean, Situated Between 3° 40' And 4* 50' S. Lat., 10' And 56° E. Long. These Islands Rest On A Bank Of Coral And Sand, Which Extends From North To South About 200 Miles, And From East To West From 30 To ...
Shakers
Shakers, A Religious Sect Which Arose In Lancashire About The Year 1747. Aa The Individuals Of Whom It At First Consisted Had Pre Viously Been Quakers, They Were Sometimes Called Shaking Quakers, But More Commonly Shakers, From The Violent Shaking Of Their Bodies In Their Religious Exercises. In 1758 They ...
Shannon
Shannon, A River Of Ireland, One Of Tho Largest In The Kingdom, Has A Course Of 220 Unites, And Affords A Navigable Line Of Communi Cation, Which Nearly Intersects Ireland From North To South. It Rises About 20 Miles East From Sligo, And Expanding At Intervals Into Lakes, Falls Into ...
Shawl Manufacture
Shawl Manufacture. The H Indeed Have Been The Instructors Of Our Manufacturers In The Production Of Shawls. There Are Two Modes Of Working The Pattern In An Indian Shawl; The One By Em Broidering It Upon The Material, And The Other By Working It Into The Web During The Process ...
Sheathing
Sheathing. Owing To The Great Expense Of Copper Sheathing, Which Has The Effect Of Limiting Its Use In Mercantile Shipping, Many Attempts Have Been Made To Substitute For It Either Other Metals, Or Alloys In Which It Is Mixed With Cheaper Metals, Or With Such As Might Increase Its Durability. ...
Sheerness
Sheerness, Kent, A Town In The Parish Of Minster-in-sheppey, Is Situated At The North-west Point Of The Tale Of Sheppey, On The Right Bank Of The River Medway, At Its Junction With The Thames, In 51' 27' N. Lat., 0' 44'e. Long., Distant 20 Miles N.n.e. From Maidstone, And 47 ...
Sheffield
Sheffield, West Riding Of Yorkshire, A Market-town, A Muni Cipal And Parliamentary Borough, And The Seat Of A Poor-law Union, In The Pariah Of Sheffield, Is Situated Near The Junction Of The River Sheaf (from Which The Town Is Named) And Three Other Rivers With The Don, In 53' 22' ...
Shekel
Shekel The Principal Weight And Coin Of The Hebrews. The Subject Of Hebrew Weights And Money Is Involved In Great Obscurity. The Almost Uniform Testimony Of Ancient Authors Is That The Shekel Was Equal To The Attic Tetradrachm, Or To The Stater, Or Half The Roman Ounce, That Is To ...
Shells
Shells, Economical Uses Of. Shells Are Applied To Several Usefu Purposes, And To Still More Of An Ornamental Character. Some Of Their Furnish Dyes And Pigments. The Purpune Contain An Intense Purph Dye, In A Few Drops Of Liquid Enclosed Within A Vein Or Sac In The Fish The Murex ...
Sherbourne
Sherbourne, Dorsetshire, A Market-town, And The Seat Of A Poor-law Unioo, In The Parish Of Shcrbourne, Is Situated On Rising Ground On The Right Bank Of The River Yeo, In 50° 53' N. Lat., 2° 30' W. Long., Distant 18 Miles S. By E. From Dorchester, And 117 Miles S.w. ...
Sheriff
Sheriff, The Shire-reve ( Scyr-gerefa), From The Saxon Word Reafan," To Levy, To Seize," Whence Also Greve. The German Word Is Graf. The Gerefa Seems To Have Been A Fiscal Officer. In The Saxon Period He Represented The Lord Of A District, Whether Township Or Hundred, At The Folkmote Of ...
Sheriff Scotland
Sheriff (scotland). In Scotland The Duties Of The Sheriff Are Not, As In England, Almost Entirely Executive. He Exercises An Extensive Judicial Authority, And A Large Portion Of The General Litiga Tion Of The Country Proceeds Before This Class Of Local Judges. In Earlier Times His Authority Appears To Have ...