self-sterile 
self-sterile (self-ster'il), o. In bot., unable to 
fertilize itself : said of certain flowers or plants. 
I have often found that plants which are self-sterile, un- 
less aided by insects, remained sterile when several plants 
of the same species were placed under the same net. 
Darurin, Cross and Self Fertilisation, p. 22. 
self-Sterility (self-ste-ril'i-ti), . In bot., the 
inability of a flower or plant to fertilize itself. 
But the strongest argument against the belief that self- 
sterility in plants has been acquired to prevent self-fertil- 
isation, is the immediate and powerful effect of changed 
conditions in either causing or in removing self -sterility. 
Daruin, Cross and Self Fertilisation, p. 346. 
self-Styled (self-stild'), a. Called or styled by 
one's self; pretended; would-be. 
You may with those self-styled our lords ally 
Your fortunes. Tennyson, Princess, ii. 
self-subdued (self-sub-dud'), a. Subdued by 
one's own power or means. 
He ... put upon him such a deal of man 
That worthied him, got praises of the king 
For him attempting who was self-subdued. 
Shak., Lear, iL 2. 129. 
self-substantial (self-sub-stan'shal), a. Com- 
posed of one's own substance. [Rare.] 
But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, 
Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel. 
Shak., Sonnets, i. 
self-sufficience (self-su-fish'ens), n. Same as 
self-sufficiency. 
self-sufficiency (self-su-fish'en-si), n . The state 
or quality of being self-sufficient, (o) Inherent 
fitness for all ends or purposes ; independence of others; 
capability of working out one's own ends. 
The philosophers, and even the Epicureans, maintained 
the self-sufficiency of the Godhead, and seldom or never 
sacrificed at all. Bentley. 
(b) An overweening opinion of one's own endowments or 
worth ; excessive confidence in one's own competence or 
sufficiency. 
Self-sufficiency proceeds from inexperience. Addison. 
self-sufficient (self-su-fish'ent), a. 1. Capable 
of effecting all one's own ends or fulfilling all 
one's own desires without the aid of others. 
It is well marked that in the holy book, wheresoever 
they have rendered Almighty, the word is self-sufficient. 
Donne, Letters, xxxvii. 
Neglect of friends can never be proved rational till we 
prove the person using it omnipotent and self-sufficient, 
and such as can never need mortal assistance. South. 
2. Having undue confidence in one's own 
strength, ability, or endowments; haughty; 
overbearing. 
This is not to be done in a rash and self-sufficient man- 
ner, but with an humble dependence on divine grace. 
Watts. 
self-sufficing (self-su-fi'zing), a. Sufficing for 
one's self or itself. 
He had to be self-sufficing : he could get no help from 
the multitude of subsidiary industries. Nature, XLII. 492. 
self-suggested (self-su-jes'ted), a. Due to self- 
suggestion. 
Whether such self suggested paralysis would be on the 
opposite side to the head-injury in a person familiar with 
the physiology of the central nervous system is an inter- 
esting point for observation. Alien, and Seurol., X. 444. 
self-suggestion (self-su-jes'chou), n. Deter- 
mination by causes inherent in the organism, 
as in idiopathic somnambulism, self-induced 
trance or self-mesmerization, etc. See sugges- 
tion. 
self-support (self-su-porf), n. The support or 
maintenance of one's self or of itself. 
self-supported (self-su-por'ted), a. Supported 
by itself without extraneous aid. 
Few self-supported flowers endure the wind. 
Cowper, Task, iii. 657. 
self-supporting (self-su-por'ting). . Support- 
ing or maintaining one's self or itself without 
extraneous help: as, the institution is now self- 
supporting. 
State-organised, self-supporting farms. 
Fortnightly Rev., N. S., XLIII. 146. 
The revenue derived from the increased sale of charts 
will finally result in making the [hydrographic] office self- 
supporting. Science, XIV. 301. 
self-surrender (self-su-ren'der), n. Surrender 
of one's self; the yielding up of one's will, affec- 
tions, or person to another. 
If Goddess, could she feel the blissful woe 
That women in their self-surrentler know? 
Lowell, Endymion, ii. 
self-sustained (self-sus-tand'), a. Sustainedby 
one's own efforts, inherent power, or strength 
of mind. 
self-sustaining (self-sus-ta'ning), a. Self-sup- 
porting. 
The strong and healthy yeomen and husbands of the 
land, the self-suntaining class of inventive and industri- 
ous men, fear no competition or superiority. 
Emerson, West Indian Emancipation. 
5480 
self-SUStenance (self-sus'te-nans), n. Self- 
support. 
Life, unless your father is a millionaire, and does not 
spend or lose his millions before he dies, sums up practi- 
cally in an activity in some profession an activity aiming 
at a decent self-sustenance. Pop. Set. Mo., XXXIII. 391. 
Self-SUStentation (self -sus- ten -ta'shon), . 
Self-support. 
There must be conformity to the law that benefits re- 
ceived shall be directly proportionate to merits possessed : 
merits being measured by power of self-sustentation. 
H. Spencer, Pop. Sci. Mo., XXXVII. 21. 
self-taught (self'tat), a. Taught by one's self 
only: as, a self-taught genius. 
self-thinking (self-thing'king), a. Thinking 
for one's self; forming one's own opinions, and 
not borrowing them ready-made from others, 
or merely following prevalent fashions of 
thought; of independent judgment. 
Our self-thinking Inhabitants agreed in their rational 
estimate of the new family. tin. S. C. Hall. 
self-torture (self-tor'tur), . Pain or torture 
inflicted on one's self: as, the self-torture of the 
heathen. 
self-trust (self-trust'), n. Trust or faith in 
one's self ; self -reliance. 
Then where is truth, if there be no self -trust ! 
Shale., Lucrece, 1. 158. 
self- view (self-vu'), n. 1. A view of one's self, 
or of one's own actions and character. 2. Re- 
gard or care for one's personal interests. 
self-violence (self-vl'o-lens), n. Violence in- 
flicted upon one's self. 
Exact your solemn oath that you'll abstain 
From all self-violence. 
Young, Works (ed. 1767), II. 153. (Jodrett.) 
self-Will (self-wil'). n. [< ME. selfwille, < AS. 
selfwill, self-will, adv. gen. selfwtlles, vilfwilles, 
sylfwilles, wilfully (OHG. selb-willo, self-will); 
as self+ ici'W 2 , w.] One's own will ; obstinate or 
perverse insistence on one's own will or wishes ; 
wilfulness; obstinacy. 
If ye haue sturdy Sampsons strength and want reason 
withall, 
It helpeth you nothing, this is playue, selfe-wM makes you 
to fall. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 95. 
A king like Henry VII., who would be a tyrant only in 
self-defence, to be succeeded by a son who would be a ty- 
rant in very self-will. 
Stubbs, Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 227. 
self- willed (self -wild'), n. Obstinately unmind- 
ful of the will or wishes of others; obstinate: 
as, a self-trilled man ; self-willed rulers. 
Presumptuous are they, self-uilled. 2 Pet. ii. 10. 
self-willedness (self-wild'nes), . Self-will; 
obstinacy. 
That is a fitter course for such as the Apostle calls wan- 
dring Starres and Meteors, without any certaine motion, 
hurryed about with tempests, bred of the Exhalations of 
their own pride and self-mllednesse. 
Jf. Ward, Simple Cobler, p. 21. 
And much more is it self-wtiUdness when men contra- 
dict the will of God, when Scripture saith one thing and 
they another. Baxter, .Self-Denial, xv. 
self-wlllinesst, n. Self-willedness. Cotgrave. 
self-willyt, a. [< self + will + -yi.] Self-willed. 
Cotf/rare. 
self-worship (self-wer'ship), n. The idolizing 
of one's self. 
self-worshiper (self-wer'ship-6r), . One who 
idolizes himself. 
self -wrong (self-rong'), n. Wrong done by a 
person to himself. 
But lest myself be guilty to self-wrong, 
I'll stop mine ears against the mermaid's song. 
Shak., C. of E., iii. 2. 168. 
selictar (se-lik'tar), H. [< Turk, silihdar, silah- 
dar, an armor-bearer, squire, < Pers. silahddr, 
an armed man, < Ar. silah, arms (pi. of silh, a 
weapon, arm) (>Turk.siZaA,aweapon), + Pers. 
-dar, having.] The sword-bearer of a Turkish 
chief. 
Selictar .' unsheathe then our chief's scimitar. 
Byron, Childe Harold, ii. 72 (song). 
selilyt, adv. A Middle English spelling of seelily. 
Chaucer. 
Selinum (se-li'num), n. [NL. (Linnaeus, 1737), 
< Gr. aiAivov, a kind of parsley, said to be Apium 
graveolens : see celery and parsley.] A genus of 
umbelliferous plants, type of the subtnbe Seli- 
nete in the tribe Seselinese. It is characterized by 
white flowers having broad or wedge-shaped petals with 
a slender infolded apex, short or moderately long styles 
from an entire, conical, or flattened base, and ovoid fruit 
slightly compressed on the back, with solitary oil-tubes, 
the ridges prominent or winged, the lateral broader than 
the dorsal. There are about 25 species, natives of the 
northern hemisphere, with one species in South Africa and 
one in the Colombian Andes. They are smooth and tall 
much-branched perennials, with pinnately decompound 
leaves, the flowers in many-rayed umbels with few or no 
sell 
involucral bracts, but numerous bractlets in the involu- 
cels. See milk-parsley. 
selion (sel'yon), n. [< ML. selio(n-), xellio(H-). 
seillum, a certain portion of land, a ridge, a 
furrow, prob. < OF. seillon, sillou, F. nillon, a 
ridge, furrow.] A ridge of land rising between 
two furrows: sometimes applied to the half- 
acre strips in the open-field system, which were 
separated by such ridges. 
Seljuk (sel-jok'), n. [Turk.] A member of a 
Turkish family which furnished several dynas- 
ties of rulers in central and western Asia, from 
the eleventh to the thirteenth century. The chief 
Seljuks were Toghrul Beg, who defeated the Abbasid califs 
of Bagdad in the eleventh century, and his successors Alp 
Arslan and Melik Shah. In distinction from the Ottoman 
Turks, often called Seljuk Turks. 
Seljukian (sel-jo'ki-an), . [< Seljuk + -taw.] 
Pertaining to the Seljuks. 
selkt, selket, " Middle English forms of silk. 
selkoutht, selkowtht, a. and n. Middle English 
forms of selcoulli. 
sell 1 (sel), v. ; pret. and pp. sold, ppr. selling. 
[< ME. sellen, sillen, sullen (pret. solde, salde, 
sealde, Sfelde, pp. sold, rarely selled), < AS. sel- 
lan, sillan, syllan (pret. sealde, pp. geseald), give, 
hand over, deliver, sell, = OS. sellutn = OFries. 
sella = OD. sellen = MLG. sellen = OHG. saljan, 
MHG. sellen = Icel. selja Sw. sdlja = Dan. 
sxlge, give, hand over, sell, = Goth, saljan, 
bring an offering, offer, sacrifice ; cf . Lith. su- 
lyti, proffer, offer, pa-sula, an offer: root un- 
known. Hence ult. sa/e 1 .] I. trans. If. To 
give; furnish. 
Dispitons Day, thyn be the pyne of helle ! . . . 
What ! profrestow thy light here for to sellef 
Go seUe it hem that smale seles grave, 
We wol the noght, us nedeth no day have. 
Chaucer, Troilus, iii. 1461. 
2f. To give over; give up; deliver. 3. To 
give up or make over to another for a consid- 
eration ; transfer ownership or exclusive right 
of possession in (something) to another for an 
equivalent; dispose of for something else, es- 
pecially for money : the correlative of buy, and 
usually distinguished from barter, in which one 
commodity is given for another. 
At Cayi-e, that I spak of before, sellen Men comounly 
bothe Men and Wommeu of other Lawe, as we don here 
Bestes in the Markat Mandemlle, Travels, p. 49. 
If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and 
give to the poor. Mat. xix. 21. 
Jack, how agrees the devil and thee about thy soul, that 
thou soldest him on Good-Friday last, for a cup of Madeira 
and a cold capon's leg? Shak., 1 Hen. IV., L 2. 127. 
4. To make a matter of bargain and sale ; ac- 
cept a price or reward for, as for a breach of 
duty or trust; take a bribe for; betray. 
Ne sule thu neuer so etheliche . . . his deorewurthe 
spuse that costnede him so deore. Ancren Riuie, p. 290. 
You would have sold your king to slaughter. 
Shak., Hen. V., ii 2. 170. 
Hence 5. To impose upon; cheat; deceive; 
disappoint. [Slang.] 
We could not but laugh quietly at the complete success 
of the Rajah's scheme; we were, to use a vulgar phrase, 
" regularly sold." W. B. Russell, Diary in India, xl. 
Sold notes. See bought note, under note'. To sell a 
bargain i. See bargain. To sell one's life dearly, to 
cause great loss to those who take one's life ; do great in- 
jury to the enemy before one is killed. To sell one up 
or out, to sell a debtor's goods to pay his creditors. To 
sell out. (o) To dispose entirely of : as, to sell out one's 
holding in a particular stock : sometimes with a view of 
closing business in a commodity or a place. (6) To betray 
by secret bargains : as, the leaders sold out their candidate 
for governor. (U. S. political slang. ] To sell the beart. 
See bear?, 5 (o). 
II. intrans. 1. To dispose of goods or prop- 
erty, usually for money. 
The mayster dyhjeres of peyntours in the Citee, that 
tweyje godmen and trewe be y-chose by commune assent, 
and y-swore to aseaye the chaffare of straunge chapmen 
that cometh in to the towne to sellt, and to don trewleche 
the assys to the sellere and to the byggere. 
English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 369. 
Men ete and drank, shortly to tell, 
Ilkan with other, and solde and boght. 
Hampole, Pricke of Conscience, 1. 4849. 
I will buy with you, sell with you, . . . but I will not 
eat with you. Shak., M. of V., i. 3. 36. 
2. To be in demand as an article of sale ; find 
purchasers; be sold. 
A turpentine drops from the fruit of this sort [of fir], 
which they call mastic, and setts dear, being used in sur- 
gery for wounds. 
Pococke, Description of the East, II. ii. 120. 
Few writings sell which are not filled with great names. 
Addisou, Spectator, So. 567. 
To sell out. (a) Formerly, in the British army, to sell 
one's commission and retire from the service, (b) To dis- 
pose of all one's shares in a company, all of one's interest 
in a business, or all of one's stock as of a given commodity. 
(c) In stock-broking, to dispose in open exchange of shares 
contracted to be sold, but not paid for at the time sped- 
