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Seed coat. Arillus. 14 
Seed lac.- Yid. Lac, Lacca, 
Seed leaves. Seminalia folia; Cotyledones, 
Seedling. Ein Spröfsling. 
Seed vefJel. Pericarpium. 
Seekeep. The horned grebe, known by this name 
at Hudfon’s bay. 
Secling. A horfe is faid to feel, when, upon 
his eye-brows, there grow white hairs, 
mixed with thofe of his ufual colour, which 
is a fure mark of old age. 
Seeling. The blioding a hawk juft taken. 
Seg. The fedge. 
Seg; Bullfeg. A caftrate bull, 
Seggrums. The common ragwort. 
Self heal. a) Prunella vulgaris; b) Sanicula. 
Sell beds. Some particularly rich parts of the 
vein of ore. Bel, 
Semet. Anthera. i 
Semi metals. Halbmetalle, 
Semper-vivie. The aloes plant. 
Senna or Sena of ihe Shops. Cassia senna. 
Senna. The Barbadoes flower-fence, fo called 
in Jamaica; In the Weft-Indies its leaves 
are made ufe of as a purge inftead of feuna. 
Senegaw rattlefnake root. Polygala fenega. 
Sengreen. a) Sempervivum; b) Saxifraga ni- 
valis. 
Senfes. Sensus. 
Senfitive fern. Onoclea sensibilis. 
Senfitive plant. a) Mimosa sensitiva; b) Aefchy- 
nomene; c) Cassia chamaecrista. 
Srparaters. Four teeth in a horfe’s mouth, one 
on each fide of. the middle -teeth. 
Septfoit. Tormentilla erecia, 
Serage. The fea (wallow. 
Serain garnet. The forane, 
Sercil feathers. The pinions of a hawk. 
Sere; Srar. The yellow part between the beak 
and the eyes ol ahawk; Cera. 
Serpent. Serpens. 
Serpent cucunder, Trichosanthes anguina. 
Serpents head. Anomia caput serpentis. 
Serpent mıelon or cucumber. Cucwmis flesuosns, 
Serprntine fone. Serpentinus lapis, 
Serpent flones. Ammonitae, 
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Serpents tail. Asterias ophiura, 
Serpen®’s tongue. Ophioglossum. 
S'erpent’s tongnes,; Glossopetra. 
Serval. Felis Serval. ur a 
Service tree. a) Sorbus;' b) Crataegus tormi.’ - 
nalis. ER 
Sets. Setzlinge. 
Setter; Setting dog. Ein Vorftehehund. 
To fetter. To cut the dewlap of an ox or cow, 
„and into the wound. to put the root of the 
Helleboraster (hence called the Setier-wor?), 
whereby an ifiue is made for ill humours 
to vent themfelves. % 
Sctter wort; Sciter grafs. Helleborus foetidas, 
Setwall. Zedoary. 
Garden Setwall; Setwell. Valeriana phu, - 
Set wort.; The bear’s foot. | 
Seven eyes. The river lamprey. 
Seven years cabbage. The indian cale. 
Seven year vine. Ipomea tuberosa. 
Seville orange. : Citrus  aurantium amara. . 
Sewel. That which is fet or hanged up to keep 
a deer out of any place. #) 
Sebum; Nierenfett. | 
Tbe grey. 
Seyms. The feams. 
Shackle. The wrift. 
Shad. a)Clupea alosaz' b)Mugil einereus. Walb. 
Shaddock. Citrus decumanus; The fruit was 
brought firft from the Eaft-Indies. by Captain 
Shaddock, from whom it derives its name 
Shaft. a) Stylus; b) Scapus. ”r 
Shaft. The bollow entrance or pafiage to a 
mine, funk or dug to come at the ore. In 
the tin-mines after this is funk 'about@a 
fathom, they leave a little, long, fquare 
place, which is called a Shamble. 
Shar; Shagge. ‚. Pelecanus graculus., 
Shag bark. Juglans cinerea. — “I am uncer. 
“tain whether tbis be the einerea of the 
“authors; If it be not the cinereafito which 
“the characters pretty well agree) it has 
“no Ipecific name.” Dr. Cutier (in Belknap’s 
hiflory of New-Hampfhire 1792) — Jug- 
lans alba, corlice squamoso, 8. Williams 
hiflory of D’ermont 1794. 
shagged dog. The water dog. 
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Scervek. 
Spwin. 
Shaggs 
