segregant 
segregantt (seg're-gant), a. [< L. segregan(t-)s. 
ppr. of xfi/rrgare, set apart: see segregate.] 
Separated; divisional ; sectarian. 
My heart hath naturally detested . . . tolerations of 
divers Religions, or of one Keligion in xeyreffant shapes. 
.V. Ward, Simple Cobler, p. 5. 
Segregatat (seg-re-ga'ta), . i>l. [NL., neut. 
pi. of L. wgrcgatux, i>[>. of xi-un-gii /<. set apart: 
see segregate.] In Cuvier's system of classifi- 
cation, the first family of his shell-less acephals ; 
the simple or solitary ascidians : distinguished 
from Agyreyatn. 
segregate (seg're-gat), v. ; pret. and pp. segre- 
!/iitcil, pin 1 . xfi/regating. [< L. net/regains, pp. 
of segregare (>' It. segregare = Sp. Pg. xegn-gar), 
set apart from a flock, separate, < KC-, apart, + 
grex (greg-), a flock: see gregarious. Of. aggre- 
gate, congregate.] I. trans. 1. To separate or 
detach from the others, or from the rest; cut 
off or separate from the main body ; separate. 
Such never came at all forward to better themselves, 
neither by reputations for vertues which they were care- 
lesse to possesse, nor for desire they had to purge or segre- 
gate themselves from the soft vices they were first infected 
withall. Kenelworth Par/ce (1594), p. 10. (Ilallmdl.) 
According to one account, he [Sir T, More] likened his 
predecessor [Wolsey] to a rotten sheep, and the King to 
the good shepherd who had judiciously xe<rrt'yated it. 
R. W. Dixoit, Hist. Church of Eng., i. 
Specifically 2. In fool., to set apart or dis- 
sociate (the members of a group): as. species 
segregated under another genus ; faunal regions 
of the sea segregated from those of the land 
in zoogeography. 3. In geol., to separate out 
from the mass of a rock, as in the case of cer- 
tain accumulations, pockets, or nodules of met- 
alliferous ore, or of mineral matter in general, 
which appear from the phenomena which they 
present to have been gradually separated out 
or segregated from the adjacent rock by molec- 
ular action Segregated vein. See vein. 
II. intrans. To separate or go apart; specifi- 
cally, in crystal., to separate from a mass and 
collect about centers or lines of fracture. 
segregate (seg're-gat), a. and n. [< L. segrega- 
tus, pp. of segregare, set apart : see segregate, 
v.] L. a. 1. Apart from others; separated; 
set apart ; separate ; select. 
Often saith he that he was an apostle segregate of God 
to preach the gospel. 
J. Bradford, Works (Parker Soc., 1853), II. 289. 
Human Philosophy, or Humanity, . . . hath two parts : 
the one considereth man segregate, or distributively; the 
other congregate, or in society. 
Bacon, Advancement of Learning, ii. 
2. In zool., simple or solitary; not aggregate, 
compound, colonial, or social; specifically, per- 
taining to the Segregata Segregate polygamy, 
in bot., a mode of inflorescence in which several florets 
comprehended within an anthodium or a common calyx 
are furnished also with proper perianths, as in the dande- 
lion. 
II. . In math., one of an asyzygetic system 
of covariants of a given degorder, capable of 
expressing in their linear functions with nu- 
merical coefficients all other covariants of the 
same degorder. 
segregation (seg-re-ga'shou), n. [< OF. segre- 
gation, F. segregation = Sp. segregacion = Pg. 
segregafuo, < LL. segregatio(n-), a separating, 
dividing, < L. segregare, pp. segregatus, separate : 
see segregate.] 1. The act of segregating, or 
the state of being segregated ; separation from 
others; a parting; a dispersion. 
A segregation of the Turkish fleet. 
Shat., Othello, ii. 1. 10. 
2. In crystal., separation from a mass and gath- 
ering about centers through crystallization. 
3. In geol. and mining, a separating out from 
a rock of a band or seam, or a nodular mass of 
some kind of mineral or metalliferous matter, 
differing more or less in texture or in composi- 
tion or in both respects from the material in 
which it is inclosed. Many important metalliferous 
deposits appear to be of the nature of segregations. See 
segregated rein, under vein. 
segregative (seg're-ga-tiv), . [= F. segrega- 
tif=S\>.scgregatiro; sis segregate + -ire.] Tend- 
ing to or characterized by segregation or sepa- 
ration into clusters. 
The influences of barbarism, beyond narrow limits, are 
prevailingly Uffreiative. 
Whitney, Life and Growth of Lang., p. 158. 
segue (sa'gwe), r. i. [It., it follows, 3d pers. 
sing. pres. ind. of segiiirc, follow, < L. sequi, fol- 
low: see sequent, sue.] In music, game as at- 
tacca. 
seguidilla (seg-i-del'ya), u. [= F. seguiditte, 
xi'i.tMitiUe, < Sp. seguidilla (= Pg. seguidilha), a 
kind of song with a refrain or recurring se- 
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quence, dim. of xrguida, a succession, continu- 
ation, < segnir. follow: see xn/nenl, suit, unite.'] 
1. A Spanish dance, usually of a lively char- 
acter, for two dancers. Three varieties are distin- 
guished, the manchcga, the bolera, and the gitana, the 
first being the most vivacious, and the last the most state- 
ly. A characteristic peculiarity of the dance is the sud- 
den cessation of the music after a number of figures, 
leaving the dancers standing in various picturesque atti- 
tudes. 
2. Music for such a dance or in its rhythm, 
which is triple and quick, resembling the bo- 
lero. 
From the same source he [Conde] derives much of the 
earlier rural minstrelsy of Spain, as well as the measures 
of its romances and seguidillas. 
Prescott, Ferd. and Isa., i. 8, note 40. 
segurt, a- An obsolete form of saggar. 
sen, seiet. A Middle English preterit and past 
participle of see 1 . Chaucer. 
sejant (se'ant), a. In her., same as sejant. 
seiche (sash), . [F. seche, fern, of sec, < L. 
siccus, dry.] A name given in Switzerland, 
and especially on the Lake of Geneva, to cer- 
tain irregular waves or fluctuations of the level 
of the water, which may be raised or lowered 
to the amount of several feet. The origin of these 
waves is generally considered to be sudden local variations 
in the barometric pressure, attended with the develop- 
ment of local cyclonic winds. A similar phenomenon on 
the shores of the Baltic is called (in German) see-Mr, as 
meaning a sudden and temporary oscillation or fluctua- 
tion of the water-level in a lake or nearly 'or quite land- 
locked parts of the sea : it has been (incorrectly) Englished 
sea-bear. 
Seidlitz powder. See powder. 
seigneur, . See seignior. 
seigneurial, a. See seigniorial. 
seigneuryt, An obsolete form of seigniory. 
seignior, seigneur (se'nyor), n. [Also signior, 
signor (after It.); < MIC. seignour, < OF. sei- 
giior, seignur, ftegnor, segnour, saignor, sain- 
gnor, seigneur, etc., senhor, senior, etc., F. sei- 
gneur = Pr. senhor, senher = Cat. senyor = Sp. 
seitor = Pg. senhor = It. signore, segnore, < L. 
senior, ace. seniorem, an elder lord; prop, adj., 
elder: see senior, also sir, sire, sieur, signor, 
senor, senhor. The word seignior also appears in 
comp. monseigneur, monsignor, etc.] 1. Alord; 
a gentleman ; used as a title of honor or custom- 
ary address, 'sir.' See sir, signor, seKor. 2. 
In feudal law, the lord of a fee or manor Grand 
seignior, (a) [caps.] A title sometimes given to the Sul- 
tan of Turkey. Hence (6) A great personage or digni- 
tary. 
Whenever you stumble on a grand seigneur, even one 
who was worth millions, you are sure to flnd his property 
a desert. The Academy, July 12, 1890, p. 25. 
Seignior in gross, a lord without a manor, simply enjoy- 
ing superiority and services. 
seigniorage (se'nyor-aj), n. [< OF. "seignorage, 
< ML. senioraticum , lordship, domination, < se- 
nior, lord: see seign tor.] 1. Something claimed 
by the sovereign or by a superior as a preroga- 
tive; specifically, an ancient royalty or pre- 
rogative of the crown, whereby it claimed a 
percentage upon bullion brought to the mint to 
be coined or to be exchanged for coin ; the dif- 
ference between the cost of a mass of bullion 
and the face- value of the pieces coined from it. 
If government, however, throws the expense of coin- 
age, as is reasonable, upon the holders, by making a 
charge to cover the expense (which is done by giving 
back rather less in coin than is received in bullion, and 
is called "levying a seigniorage"), the coin will rise to 
the extent of the seigniorage above the value of the bul- 
lion. J. s. Mill. 
2. A royalty; a share of profit ; especially, the 
money received by an author from his pub- 
lord of a manor. Milman. 
seigniorial (se-uyo'ri-al), a. [Also seigneurial, 
< F. xeigiirnriaJ; as seignior + -i-al.] 1. Per- 
taining to the lord of a manor; manorial. 
Those lands were seigneurial. Sir W. Temple. 
A century since, the English Manor Court was very much 
what it now is ; but the signorial court of France was a 
comparatively flourishing institution. 
Maim, Early Law and Custom, ix. 
He [the tenant] was required to bake his bread in the 
seigtieurial oven. Amer. Jour. Philol., VII. 163. 
2. Vested with large powers : independent, 
jeignioriet, . 
seigniorize (se 
xfinniiiri-fii. PAlsn ,, 
[Bare.] 
giiiin-i-nl, ppr. xcigiriorized. [Also signorise; < 
x<-igiiior + -fee.] To lord it over. [F 
As faire he was as Cithereas make, 
As proud as he that signoriselh hell. 
Fairfax, tr. of Tasso, iv. 4(>. 
seigniory (se'nyor-i), . ; pi. seigniories (-iz). 
[Formerly also seignory, seignorie, seigneury. 
seine 
, signory : < ME. xeigiiory, xcignorir, sei- 
gnnric, < ( >F. xi'ignrui'it; si ignorir, F. xeigneurie = 
Sp. xrnoria, also xcliorio = Pg. sciihiirin. xfiihoi-io 
= It. xigiioria. < ilL. senior/a (xcgiinrin, xenlio- 
ria, etc., after Rom.), < senior, lord: see senior, 
xeigaior.] 1. Lordship; power or authority as 
sovereign lord ; jurisdiction; power. 
She hath myght and i;/ // 
To kepe men from alle folye. 
Kom. of the Jlose, 1. 3213. 
The inextinguishable thirst for signiory. Kyd, Cornelia. 
The Earl into fair Eskdale came, 
Homage and seignory to claim. 
Scott, L. of L. M., iv. 10. 
2f. Preeminence ; precedence. 
And may thy floud haue seignorie 
Of all flouds else ; and to thy fame 
Meete greater springs, yet keep thy name. 
W. Broicne, Britannia's Pastorals, i. 2. 
3. A principality or province; a domain. 
Diuers other countreis and seigneuries belonging as well 
to the high and mighty prince, llakhtyt's Voyages, I. 208. 
Eating the bitter bread of banishment, 
Whilst you have fed upon my gignories. 
Shak., Eich. II., iii. 1. 22. 
Which Signiory [of Dolphinie and Viennois] was then 
newly created a County, being formerly a part of the 
kingdome of Burgundy. Coryat, Crudities, I. 45, sig. E. 
The commune of Venice, the ancient style of the com- 
monwealth, changed into the seigniory of Venice. 
Jincyc. Brit., XVII. 527. 
4. The elders who constituted the municipal 
council in a medieval Italian republic. 
Of the Seigniory there be about three hundreth, and 
about fourtie of the priuie Counsel! of Venice. 
Ilakluyl's Voyages, II. 151. 
The college [of Venice] called the signory was originally 
composed of the doge and six counsellors. 
J. Adams, Works, IV. 353. 
5. A lordship without a manor, or of a manor 
in which all the lands were held by free ten- 
ants: more specifically called a seigniory in 
gross. 
seignioryt, v. t. [ME. seignorien ; < seigniory, n.] 
To exercise lordship over; be lord of. [Bare.] 
Terry seignorted a full large contre, 
Hattyd of no man. 
Kom. ofPartenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 5090. 
Seik, . See SiM. 
seilH, n. and v. A Middle English form of sail 1 . 
seil 2 , . A Scotch form of seeP-. 
sell 3 , v. A Scotch form of sifel. 
seint. A Middle English form of the past par- 
ticiple of see 1 . 
seindet. A Middle English form of the past 
participle of singe 1 . 
seine 1 (san or sen), . [Formerly also sein, 
scan; early mod. E. sayne; < ME. seine, saine, 
partly (a) < AS. segue = OLG. segina, a seine, 
and partly (6) < OF. seine, seigne, earlier sayme, 
saime, F. seine = It. sagena, a seine ; < L. sageua, 
< Gr. aayi/vti, a fishing-net, a hunting-net. Cf. 
sagene*, from the same source.] A kind of net 
used in taking fish; one of the class of encir- 
cling nets, consisting of a webbing of network 
provided with corks or floats at the upper edge, 
and with leads of greater or less weight at the 
lower, and used to inclose a certain area of wa- 
ter, and by bringing the ends together, either 
in a boat or on the shore, to secure the fish that 
may be inclosed. Seines vary in size from one small 
enough to take a few minnows to the shad-seine of a mile 
or more in length, hauled by a windlass worked by horses 
or oxen or by a steam-engine. The largest known seine 
was used for shad at Stony Point on the Potomac in 1871 ; 
it measured 3.400 yards, or nearly 2 miles ; the lines and 
seine together had a linear extent of 5 miles, and swept 
1/JOO acres of river-bottom ; this net was drawn twice in 
24 hours. 
The sayne is a net, of about fortie fathonie in length, wit h 
which they encompasse a part of the sea, and drawe the 
same on land by two ropes fastned at his ends, together 
with such flsh as lighteth within his precinct 
S. Carew, Survey of Cornwall, fol. 30. 
They found John Oldham under an old seine, stark na- 
ked, his head cleft to the brains, and his hands and legs 
cut. Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 226. 
Cod-seine, a seine used to take codfish near the shore, 
where they follow the caplin. Drag-seine, a haul-ashore 
seine. Draw-seine, a seine which may be pursed or 
drawn into the shape of a bag. Haul-ashore seine, a 
seine that is hauled or dragged from the shore ; a drag- 
seine. Shad-seine, a seine specially adapted or used for 
taking shad, and generally of great size. See def. To 
blow up the seine, to press against the lead-line of a 
seine in the endeavor to escape, as fish. To boat a 
seine, to stow the seine aboard of the seine-boat in such 
a manner that it may lie paid out without entangling. A 
seine may be boated as it is hauled from the water, or 
after it has been hauled and piled on the beach. (See 
also purse-seine.) 
seine 1 (san or sen), v. t. ; pret. and pp. seined, 
ppr. seining. [< xeinei, n.] To catch with a 
seine : as, fish may be seined. 
