Selborne (sel'born), a parish in England, noted on account of Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne. semblance (sem'blans), likeness. seneschal (sen'e-shal), officer in a prince's house. Sennacherib (se-nak'er-ib), sensation (sen-sa'shun), feeling obtained through the senses; state of excited feeling or that which causes. sentiment (sen'ti-ment), opinion sentinel (sen'ti-nel), soldier set to guard an army or camp. sentry (sen'tri), guard. sepulchre (sep'ul-ker), grave; bury. seraglio (se-ral'yo), a harem. seraph (ser'af), an angel. serenity (se-ren'i-ti), calmness. serf (surf), a slave bound to work on a certain estate and sold with it. servile (sur'vil), like a slave; cringing. session (sesh'un), meeting. sesterce (ses'ters), an ancient Roman coin. settie (set''l), a high-backed bench. Sewel (su'al), William Sewel wrote a ponderous history of the Quakers. Sexagesima (sek'sa-jes'i-ma), the second Sunday before Lent. sever (sev'er), disjoin. shade (shad), ghost. shard (shard), a fragment of any hard substance. "sharps and trebles," musical notes. Shawnee (sho-ne'), a tribe of Indians. Their name means "Southerners." sheathe (sheth), cover with something which protects. sheen (shen), brightness. Sheik (shek), chief magistrate of an Arabian village. shelves (shelvz), slopes. shifty (shif'ti), changable. shingly (shm'gli), covered with gravel or pebbles. shoal (shol), a bar which makes the water shallow. shrew (shroo), a scold. shrewdness (shrood'nes), sharp-wittedness. shrive (shriv), to hear confession and pardon. shroud (shroud), set of ropes staying a ship's masts. shuffle (shuf'l), to rid one's self of. sicklied (sik'lid), made sickly. Sidney (sid'ni), Sir Philip, an English author and general of exceptionally fine feeling. Sienas saint (sye'na), St. Catherine, the patron saint of Siena. silhouette (sil'oo-et'), profile portrait in black. similitude (si-mil'i-tud), resemblance. Sinai (si'ni), the mountain near, which the Israelites encamped, and where the law was given to Moses. Sinbad (sin'bad), or Sindbad, a character in the "Arabian Nights," who made seven wonderful voyages. sinew (sin'u), that which supplies strength or power; a tendon or tissue. sinuous (sin'u-us), winding, curving in and out. sire (sir), a father. Siren (si'ren), one of the three fabled sea nymphs, whose singing lured mariners to destruction. site (sit), situation. Skarholm (skar'hom), skepticism (skep'ti-siz'm), doubt or uncertainty. skirt (skurt), surround. skulk (skulk), hide sneakingly. slack (slak), loosen; not pressing. sledge (slej), a sleigh. Sleepy Hollow, a locality in Tarrytown, New York. slip (slip), an inclined plane on which a vessel is built. sloth (sloth), slowness. smack (smak), small coasting vessel. smelt (smelt), melt ore so as to separate and refine metal. solace (sol'as), comfort in grief. solicitude (so-lis'i-tud), concern. Solidor (sol'i-dor), a fortress on the Rance river.