Words |
Parts of Speech |
Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
senator |
noun |
A member of a senate., A member of the king’s council; a king’s councilor. |
sending |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Send |
senecas |
noun pl. |
A tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited a part of Western New York. This tribe was the most numerous and most warlike of the Five Nations. |
senecio |
noun |
A very large genus of composite plants including the groundsel and the golden ragwort. |
senegal |
noun |
Gum senegal. See under Gum. |
senegin |
noun |
A substance extracted from the rootstock of the Polygala Senega (Seneca root), and probably identical with polygalic acid. |
seniory |
noun |
Seniority. |
sensate |
verb t. |
To feel or apprehend more or less distinctly through a sense, or the senses; as, to sensate light, or an odor., Alt. of Sensated |
sensing |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Sense |
sensism |
noun |
Same as Sensualism, 2 & 3. |
sensist |
noun |
One who, in philosophy, holds to sensism. |
sensive |
adjective |
Having sense or sensibility; sensitive. |
sensery |
noun |
Same as Sensorium. |
sensory |
adjective |
Of or pertaining to the sensorium or sensation; as, sensory impulses; — especially applied to those nerves and nerve fibers which convey to a nerve center impulses resulting in sensation; also sometimes loosely employed in the sense of afferent, to indicate nerve fibers which convey impressions of any kind to a nerve center. |
sensual |
adjective |
Pertaining to, consisting in, or affecting, the sense, or bodily organs of perception; relating to, or concerning, the body, in distinction from the spirit., Hence, not spiritual or intellectual; carnal; fleshly; pertaining to, or consisting in, the gratification of the senses, or the indulgence of appetites; wordly., Devoted to the pleasures of sense and appetite; luxurious; voluptuous; lewd; libidinous., Pertaining or peculiar to the philosophical doctrine of sensualism. |
sentery |
noun |
A sentry. |
senteur |
noun |
Scent. |
sentine |
noun |
A place for dregs and dirt; a sink; a sewer. |