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right hand for decimals; but for imperial money, diminish 
the said product by one-eighth of itself. Phil. Trans, vol. 
lxi. part ii. art. 48. 
To be qualified for a Roman knight, an estate of .four 
hundred thousand sesterces was required ; and for a senator, 
of eight hundred thousand. 
Authors also mention a copper sesterce, worth about one- 
third of a penny English. 
Sesterce, Sestertius, was also used, in Antiquity, for 
a thing containing two wholes and a half of another : as as 
was taken for any whole, or integer. 
SESTINO and Sesto, two small towns of the grand 
duchy of Tuscany, in the Florentine territory. 
SESTO (Cesare), known by the name of Cesare Mi¬ 
lanese, was a native of Milan, and flourished about the year 
1500. He is one of those painters by whom probably were 
executed some of the many pictures attributed to Lionardo 
da Vinci; and in the Ambrosian library was a head by him 
often attributed to Lionardo. In some of his works he also 
imitated Raphael, to whom he was known. He died at 
Milan in 1524. 
SESTO, a small but fortified town of Austrian Italy, in 
the Milanese, situated on the Tcino, near where that river 
flows out of the Lake Maggiore. A number of inscriptions 
and other antiquities were found here in the 16th century ; 
28 miles west-north-west of Milan. 
SESTOLA, a small inland town of Italy, situated on a 
bill; 17 miles south of Modena. 
SESTOS, a fortress (formerly a town) of European Tur¬ 
key, opposite Abydos, at the narrowest part of the Helles¬ 
pont. Lat. 40. 6. N. long. 26. 25. E. 
SESTRA, a river of Russia, which separates Finland 
from the government of St. Petersburg, and falls into the 
gulf of Finland. 
SESTRABEK, a small town of European Russia, in the 
south of Finland, at the mouth of the Sestra ; 23 miles west- 
north-west of St. Petersburg. On the other side of the 
river there is a very large manufactory of arms of different 
kinds; also of anchors and other instruments, and articles of 
iron, the whole employing about 6000 persons. 
SESTRI DI LEVANTE, a small town of the north-west 
of Italy, situated on a peninsula in the gulf of Genoa. It is 
defended by a castle, and on the west side of the peninsula is 
a large bay, which forms a good roadstead. The Genoese 
have herea number of country houses, and the environs are 
delightful. Quarries of marble are wrought in the neigh¬ 
bourhood. Population 4000; 12 miles west of Brugnetto. 
SESTRI DI PONENTI, a small town of the north-west 
of Italy, situated on the coast of the gulf of Genoa. In the 
neighbourhood are mines of chalk and alabaster ; 4 miles 
west of Genoa. 
SESTRO, Cro, a large and beautiful village on the 
Grain coast of Africa, where good water may be procured. 
SESTRO, Great, one of the largest and most popu¬ 
lous towns on the Grain coast of Guinea, carrying on a 
great trade in Guinea pepper and ivory. The French 
had once a settlement there, which they have now aban- 
doned. 
SESTRO, Little, a .small town situated eight miles to 
the south of the Rio Sestro. 
SESTRO, Rio, a river of Western Africa, which crosses 
the Grain coast, and falls into the Atlantic, in Lat. 5. 30. N. 
about 20 miles north-west of the river Sangwin. It affords 
good anchorage, and its environs are very fertile but un¬ 
healthy. 
SESUVIUM, in Botany, a genus of the class icosandria, 
order trigynia, natural order of succulentae, ficoidese (Juss.) 
—Generic Character. Calyx: perianth one-leafed, bell¬ 
shaped, five-parted; segments ovate, acute, coloured within, 
shrivelling. Corolla none. Stamina: filaments very many, 
awl-shaped, inserted into the calyx below the segments, and 
shorter than the calyx. Anthers roundish. Pistil: germ 
oblong, in the bottom of the calyx, three-cornered above. 
Styles often three, capillary, erect, length of the stamens. 
Stigmas simple. Pericarp: capsule ovate, tliree-celled, cut 
round. .Seeds roundish, flatfish, having a beak at the mar¬ 
gin.— Essential Character. Calyx five-parted, coloured. 
Petals none. Capsule ovate, three-celled, cut round, many- 
seeded. 
Sesuvium Portulacastrum.—Root perennial. Stems her¬ 
baceous, four or five inches long, decumbent, succulent. 
Leaves wedge-shaped, on very short petioles, opposite, thick, 
smooth, bright green. Petioles sheathing, embracing, with 
membranaceous edges. Peduncles solitary, axillary, shorter 
than the leaves. Flowers green on the outside, white and 
blood-red within.—Native of the West Indies. 
To SET, v. a. preterite I set; part. pass. I am set. 
jjettan, paetan. Sax.] To place; to put in any situation 
or place; to put. 
Ere I could 
Give him that parting kiss which I had set 
Betwixt two charming words, comes in my father. Shahspeare. 
But that my admirable dexterity of wit, counterfeiting the 
action of an old woman, delivered me, the knave constable 
had set me i’ the common stocks for a witch. Shahspeare. 
—He that hath received his testimony, hath set to his seal 
that God is true. St. John. —They have set her in a 
bed in the midst of the slain. Ezelc. —To put into any 
condition, state or posture.—They thought the very dis¬ 
turbance of things established an hire sufficient to set them 
on work. Hooker. 
That, man that sits within a monarch’s heart, 
Would he abuse the count’nance of the king. 
Alack ! what mischiefs might he set abroach! Shahspeare. 
This present enterprize set off his head, 
I do not think a braver gentleman 
Is now alive. Shahspeare. 
The shipping might be set on work by fishing, by trans¬ 
portations Irom port to port. Bacon. 
By his aid aspiring 
To set himself in glory above his peers. Milton. 
Jove call'd in haste 
The son of Maia with severe decree. 
To kill the keeper, and to set her free. Dry den. 
This river. 
When Nature’s self lay ready to expire. 
Quench’d the dire flame that set the world on fire. Addison. 
To make motionless; to fix immovably. 
Struck with the sight, inanimate she seems, 
Set are her eyes, and motionless her limbs. Garth. 
To fix; to state by some rule.—The town of Bern has 
handsome fountains planted, at set distances, from one end 
of the streets to the other. Addison. —To regulate; toad- 
just.—In court they determine the king’s good by his de¬ 
sires, which is a kind of setting the sun by the dial Suck¬ 
ling. —Our palates grow into a liking of the seasoning and 
cookery, which by custom they are set to. Locke. 
He rules the church’s blest dominions, 
And sets men’s faith by his opinions. Prior. 
To fit to music; to adapt with notes.— Set thy own 
songs, and sing them to thy lute. Dry den. 
Grief he tames that fetters it in verse; 
But when I have done so. 
Some man, his heart or voice to show. 
Doth set and sing my pain; 
And by delighting many, frees again 
Grief, which verse did restrain. 
Donne. 
To plant, not sow. 
I prostrate fell, 
To shrubs and plants my vile devotion paid. 
And set the bearded leek to which I pray’d. 
Prior. 
To intersperse or variegate with any thing. 
As with stars, their bodies all 
And wings were set with eyes. 
Milton. 
High 
