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—Whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on 
him sevenfold. Gen. 
SEVENHAMPTON, a hamlet of England, in Wiltshire; 
1J mile south-east of Highworth. 
SEVENHAMPTON, a parish of England, in Gloucester¬ 
shire ; 4 miles soulh-by-east of Winchcombe. 
SEVEN HEADS, rocks on the south coast of Ireland, 
and county of Cork j 7 miles south-west from the Old Head 
of Kinsale. 
SEVEN ISLANDS, a cluster of small islands on the 
north-west coast of France, department of the Cotes du 
Nord, opposite to Treguier, between Brest and St. Maloe. 
Lat. 48. 54. N. long. 3. 23. W. 
SEVEN ISLANDS, a cluster of very small isles, in the 
Eastern seas, extending along the north coast of the island of 
Banca, from which they are separated by a navigable 
channel. Lat. 1. 10. S. long. 105. 20. E. 
SEVEN ISLANDS, a cluster of islands near the west 
coast of Sumatra, lying off Padang. 
SEVEN ISLANDS, a cluster of small islands in the 
English channel, near the coast of France. Lat. 48. 54. N. 
long. 3. 23. W. 
SEVEN ISLANDS, small islands of Virginia, in James 
river. Lat. 37. 40. N. long. 78. 32. W. 
SEVEN ISLANDS, a cluster of small islands near the 
coast of Canada, in the gulf of St. Lawrence. Lat. 50. 10. 
N. long. 66. 5. W. 
SEVEN ISLANDS BAY, a bay of Canada, on the 
north side of the river St. Lawrence. Lat. 50. 5. N. long. 
66. 25. W. 
SEVENNES, a chain of mountains in the south of 
France, extending over the departments of the Upper Loire, 
Ardeche, and Gard, and connected with the mountains of 
the Vivarais and Gevandan. Though not so lofty as the 
mountains of Auvergne, they are as rugged, and almost as 
cold. They are remarkable in French history as the retreat 
of the Protestants in the end of the 17th and beginning of 
the 18th century. 
SEVENNIGHT, s. A week.—-Rome was either more 
grateful to the beholders, or more noble in itself, than justs 
with the sword and lance, maintained for a sevennight to¬ 
gether. Sidney. —We use still the word sevennight or 
se'nnight in computing time: as, it happened on Monday 
was sevennight, that is, on the Monday before last Mon¬ 
day ; it will be done on Monday sevennight, that is, on 
the Monday after next Monday. —This comes from one 
of those untucker’d ladies whom you were so sharp upon on 
Monday was se'nnight. Addison. 
SEVEN OAKS, a market town of England, in the 
county of Kent, so named from seven large oak trees which 
stood near it when it was first built. It is situated near the 
river Darent, and is a great thoroughfare on the road to 
Rye. The town consists chiefly of two -wide streets, in one 
of which stands the ancient market-house, where the assizes 
were frequently held during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, 
and where the petty sessions for the lathe of Sutton-at-Hone 
are still held. The houses are well-built, and many of them 
are large and respectable mansions, inhabited by independent 
families. The principal public building is the church, 
which forms a conspicuous object for several miles round 
the country. Here is also an hospital for the maintenance of 
aged people, with a free-school, founded by William Seven 
Oaks, lord mayor of London, in 1418, who is said to have 
been a foundling, charitably educated by a person of this 
town. It possesses six exhibitions to either university. The 
school-house was re-built in 1727, at which period the hos¬ 
pital was also substantially repaired. The latter affords an 
asylum to 32 elderly trades-people, who have a weekly 
allowance in money. Seven Oaks town and parish con¬ 
stitute a liberty, governed by a warden or bailiff, and four 
assistants, who are not empowered, however, to hold any 
court of record for pleas. By the returns of 1811, this 
liberty contained 638 houses, and 3444 inhabitants, of 
whom about 1500 reside in town. Market on Saturday. 
Fairs July 10th and October 12th ; 16 miles west-by north 
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of Maidstone, and 33 south-east of London. Lat. 51. 16. 
N. long. 0. 11. E. 
SEVEN PAGODAS, a collection of very large Hindoo 
temples on the Coromandel coast, situated near Sadras, about 
30 miles south of Madras. 
SE'VENSCORE, adj. Seventimes twenty; an hundred 
and forty.—The old countess of Desmond, who lived till 
she was sevenscore years old, did dentize twice or thrice; 
casting her old teeth, and others coming in their place. 
Bacon. 1 
SE'VENTEEN, adj. [peoponcyne, Saxon.] Seven 
and ten; seven added to ten. 
SEVENTEENTH, adj. [peoponceoSa, Saxon.] The 
seventh after the tenth; the ordinal of seventeen.—The con¬ 
quest of Ireland was perfected by the king in the seventeeth 
year of his reign. Judge Hale. 
SE'VENTH, adj. [peopoftan, Saxon.] The ordinal of 
seven; the first after the sixth.—The child born in the 
seventh month dotffcommonly well. Bacon .—Containing 
one part in seven. 
SEVENTHLY, adv. In the seventh place; an ordinal 
adverb.-— Seventhly, living bodies have sense, which plants 
have not. Bacon. 
SE'VENTIETH, adj. The tenth seven times repeated; 
the ordinal of seventy. 
SE'VENTY, adj. [hanbpeopontig, Saxon-.] Seven times 
ten. 
Worthy Marcius, 
Had we no quarrel else to Rome, hut that 
Thou art thence banish’d, we would muster all, 
From twelve to seventy. Shahspeare. 
The weight of seventy winters prest him down. 
He bent beneath the burthen of a crown. Dry den. 
To SEVER, v. a. [severer, Fr., separo, Lat.] To part 
by violence from the rest. 
Forgetful queen, who sever'd that bright head, 
Which charm'd two mighty monarchs to her bed. 
Granville. 
To divide; to part; to force asunder. 
Our force by land 
Hath nobly held ; our sever'd navy too 
Have knit again, and float. Shahspeare. 
To separate; to segregate; to put in different orders or 
places. 
He, with his guide, the farther fields attain’d; 
Where sever'd from the rest the warrior souls remain’d. 
Dry den. 
To separate by chemical operation. To divide by dis¬ 
tinctions.—This axiom is of large extent, and would be 
severed and refined by trial. Bacon. —-To disjoin ; to 
disunite. 
How stiff is my vile sense. 
That I stand up and have ingenious feeling 
Of my huge sorrows l better I were distract. 
So should my thoughts be sever'd from my griefs; 
And woes by wrong imaginations, lose 
The knowledge of themselves. - Shahspeare. 
To keep distinct; to keep apart. 
Three glorious suns, each one a perfect sun; 
Not separated with the racking clouds. 
But sever'd in a pale clear shining sky. Shahspeare . 
I will sever Goshen, that no swarms of flies shall be there. 
Exod. 
To SE'VER, v. n. To make a separation; to make a 
partition.—-Better from me thou sever not. Milton .— 
To suffer disjunction. 
Fortune, divorce 
Pomp from the bearer, 'tis a sufferance panging, 
As soul and body’s severing. Shahspeare. 
SEVER, St., a considerable town in the south-west of 
France, the chief place of an arrondissement in the thinly 
peopled 
