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beck on the east side, at Windsor. It passes through a large 
pond in Harmony, and receives a considerable eastern branch 
in Palmyra; its whole length is 70 or 80 miles. 
SEBASTICOOK, a township of the United States, in 
Somerset county, Maine, Population 105. 
SEBASTOCRATOR, a title of honour given to some 
distinguished person of the imperial family of Rome. It 
was introduced by Alexius Commenus, in order to reward 
the piety of his brother Isaac, without giving himself an 
equal. The happy flexibility of the Greek tongue allowed 
him to compound the names of Augustus and emperor (Se- 
bastos and Autocrator), and the union produced the so¬ 
norous title of Sebastocrator. He was exalted above the 
Ceesar on the first step of the throne; the public acclama¬ 
tions repeated his name; and he was only distinguished from 
the sovereign by some peculiar ornaments of the head and 
feet. The emperor alone could assume the purple or red 
buskins, and the close diadem, or tiara, which imitated the 
fashion of the Persian kings; instead of red, the buskins of 
the Sebastocrator and Csesar were green, and on their open 
coronets or crowns the precious gems were more sparingly 
distributed. The five titles of Despot, Sebastocrator, Caesar, 
Panhypersebastos, and Protosebastos, were usually confined 
to the princes of the emperor’s blood ; they were the emana¬ 
tions of his majesty; but as they exercised no regular func¬ 
tions, their existence was useless, and their authority pre¬ 
carious. 
SEBATS, in Chemistry, a genus of salts, formed by 
the union of the sebacic acid with the different saline bases. 
SEBAYES, a small port on the north-north-east coast of 
the island of Cuba/ 
SERB A ROUS, or the Seven Capes, a cape of Algiers, 
the country round which is rugged, inhospitable and inha¬ 
bited by a brutal and ferocious race, living in caves scooped 
out of the rocks. When any .vessel, either in course of 
sailing, or by stress of weather,, approaches their coast, these 
Kabyles immediately start out of their holes, and running 
down to the cliffs on the shore, throw out execrable wishes 
that God would deliver it into their hands. Lat. 37. 8. N. 
long. 6. 32. E. 
SEBBAH, a considerable town of Fezzan, situated in a 
fertile country, and containing in its vicinity extensive ruins; 
GO miles north of Mourzouk. 
SEBEN, or Saben, a castle and village of Austria, in 
Tyrol; 8 miles south-west of Brixen, which stands on 
the site of the ancient .town of Sabiona, destroyed by 
Attila. 
SEBENICO, a town of Austrian Dalmatia, near the mouth 
of the river Kerka. It stands on the slope of a rocky hill, 
extends to the edge of the w'ater, and is surrounded by for¬ 
tifications of very old date. The Kerka here expands into 
a lake, which forms an excellent harbour, capable of contain¬ 
ing a large fleet, and communicating with the Adriatic by 
means of a short and narrow strait. Its entrance is protected 
by a fort, and the town is defended by two forts oil the top 
of the hill. Sebenico contains 6300 inhabitants, is most ro¬ 
mantically situated of any town in Dalmatia, and, next to 
Zara, the best built. It is said to have been more consider¬ 
able in the 16th century. It has long been a bishop’s see, 
and has a cathedral in the Gothic taste, admired particularly 
for the bold construction of its roof, which is formed of 
marble slabs joined together. The environs are fertile; 37 
miles south-east of Zara, and 143 north-west of Ragousa. 
SEBER (Wolfang), a German philologist, of the 16th 
century, who published an “ Index omnium in Homero 
verborum,” which has several times been reprinted. 
’SEBES, Also, a small town in the north of Hungary; 
3 miles north-east of Eperies. 
SEBES, Boros, a small town in the east of Hungary, 
in the county of Arad, on the river Sebes. Lat. 46. 57. 15. 
N. long. 22. 17. 30. E. 
SEBESE, or Pulo Bicie, a small island in the straits of 
Suada. Lat. 5. 50. S. long. 105. 27. E. 
SEBESTIN, or Sebestina, the Arabic name, and the 
generic term adopted by Gaertner, of Cordia. See Cordia. 
SEBEZ, a town in the west of European Russia, in the 
government of Vitepsk, situated near a lake; 48 miles north 
of Vitepsk. 
SEBIFERA [named by Loureiro, from sebum, tallow, 
because it produces a similar substance, used for making 
candles], in Botany, a genus of the class dioecia, order po- 
lyadelphia, natural order of tiliaceae (Juss.J —Generic Cha¬ 
racter. Male—Calyx: perianth of four roundish, concave, 
hairy, spreading leaves. Corolla none. Stamina: filaments 
about one hundred, capillary, longer than the calyx, distri¬ 
buted into ten sets; anthers ovate, of two cells. Female on 
a separate plant. Calyx as in the male. Corolla none. 
Pistil: germens about ten, superior, stalked, roundish ; style 
scarcely any; stigmas solitary, obtuse, undivided. Pericarp: 
berries about ten, globose, of one ceil. Seeds solitary, 
globose.— Essential Character. Male—Calyx of four leaves. 
Corolla none. Stamens an hundred, in ten sets. Female 
calyx of four leaves. Corolla none. Pistils ten, stalked. 
Berries as many. Seeds solitary. 
Sebifera glutinosa. Bay loi nhot of the inhabitants of 
Cochin-china. Clcn ham xu of the Chinese.—Native of the 
woods of China and Cochin-china. A large tree, with 
spreading branches. Leaves alternate, stalked, ovate-oblong, 
entire, smooth. Male as well as female flowers lateral, or 
somewhat terminal ; their stalks two or three together. 
Berries small, smooth, blackish. 
The wood is light, pale, easily wrought, used for posts 
and beams in houses. The branches and leaves exude a glu¬ 
tinous fluid; aqd being bruised and macerated in water, they 
make a sort of gum, used for mixing with plaster or stucco, 
in order to render it more tenacious and durable. A great 
quantity of thick, white, fatty oil is extracted from the 
berries, of which the vulgar make candles, resembling those 
of tallow or wax, but of a disagreeable smell. 
SEBIZIUS, or Sebisch, the name of a family which 
was distinguished at Strasburg by the celebrity of the 
physicians whom it produced, and who successively adorned 
the professorial chair in that city for the space of 134 
years, without interruption, in the persons of four indivi¬ 
duals only. The first, second, and fourth of these pro¬ 
fessors were named Melc/ioir ; the third, John Albert ; and 
all, with the exception of the first, succeeded their fathers in 
the chair. • They enjoyed extensive practice and high repu¬ 
tation at the time they lived. But their names have nearly 
perished; and of the greatest of them, who was a count 
palatine, and who had “ examined one hundred and sixty- 
three candidates, and imposed the doctorial cap on fifty-five 
physicians” Haller says that he was “ eruditus vir, parum 
usus propriis experimentis.” 
SEBNITZ, a small town of Germany, in Saxony, situated 
in a valley surrounded on every side by lofty mountains; 
10 miles east-by-north of Konigstein, and 22 east-south-east 
of Dresden. It contains 2400 inhabitants, mostly descen¬ 
dants of Bohemian refugees, and employed in the manufac¬ 
ture of silk, cotton, stuffs and linen. 
SEBOO, or Sabu, a considerable river of Morocco, 
which rises in the Atlas, near the frontier of Algiers, tra¬ 
verses the province of Fez, passing a little to the north of 
the capital, and falls into the sea. The mouth, however, is 
now so blocked up with banks and bars of sand, as to render 
it of scarcely any use for the purposes of navigation. 
SEBOU, or Sibou, small islands on the coast of Cape 
Breton island, off the south point of Port Dauphin. 
SEBSVAR, a town of Korassan, in Persia, taken in 1381, 
by Timur, who, after a subsequent revolt, caused 10,000 of 
the inhabitants to be buried alive; and it has never reco¬ 
vered its former importance ; 180 miles north-west of Herat. 
SEBUiEI, a sect among the ancient Samaritans, whom 
St. Epiphanius accuses of changing the time expressed in 
the law, for the celebration of the great annual feasts of the 
Jews. 
SEBURAI, or SEBURiEi.a name which the Jews give to 
such of their rabbins or doctors, as lived and taught some 
time after the finishing of the Taimud. 
The word is derived from saber, I think, whence sabura, 
_ opinion. 
