Sector
A mathematical instrument, consisting of two rulers connected at one end by a joint; mostly used for measuring wheels and pinions.
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These 13 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Sector, Secular, Secular Games.
Secular
occurring or observed once in an age, century, or cycle; as a secular year. Also pertaining or relating to an age, generation, or period of time; as secular inequality. Or pertaining or having reference to this present world, or to things not spiritual or holy; relating relating to things not primarily or immediately affecting the soul; worldly; temporal; as, secular power, secular affairs. In the Roman Catholic Church, not regular, not bound by monastic vows or rules; not confined to a religious house or subject to the rules of a clerical community; as, a secular priest; an ecclesiastic not bound by monastic rules; hence a layman.
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Secular Games
a great festival, probably of Etruscan origin, anciently celebrated at Rome to mark the commencement of a new sæculum or generation. In 249 b. c. it was decreed that the secular games should be celebrated every date; but this hundredth year after that decree was frequently disregarded, and they were celebrated at very irregular intervals.
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Secularism
the name given, about to an ethical 1846, by George J. Holyoake system founded on natural morality.
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Sedalia
a city and county-seat of , Pettis co., Mo.; on the Missouri Pacific and the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas railroads; 95 miles E. of Kansas City. Here are the Convent of St. Joseph, United States government building, hospital, Convention Hall, street railroad and electric light plants, National and State banks, and daily, weekly, and monthly periodicals. The city has besides large locomotive and car shops, flouring mills, grain elevators, iron foundries, manufactories of farming implements, etc. During most of the Civil War the city was a United States military post. Pop. (1910) 17,822; (1920) 21,144.
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Sedan Chair
a portable covered vehicle for carrying a single person, borne on two poles by two men. The name is derived from the town of Sedan, where this species of conveyance is said to have been invented. The Duke of Buckingham used one in the reign of James I., a proceeding which gave general offense, it being made matter of public remark that this loyal favorite used his fellow-countryman to do the work of beasts. In September, 1634, Sir Francis Duncombe got a letter patent, granting for 14 him the sole right and privilege privilege years to use and let for hire within London and Westminster "covered chairs" to prevent the unnecessary use of coaches; according to Evelyn he go got the notion from Naples. Sedan chairs were largely used during the greater part of the 18th century, being found very well adapted for transporting persons in full dress to public and private entertainments.
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Sedative
in medicine a remedy which allays irritability and irritation, and which assuages pain. Sedatives are divided according to the parts on which they act into external or local.
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Seddon
RICHARD JOHN, a New Zealand public official, born at Eccleston, England, in 1845. He went to Australia as a mechanical engineer in 1863, and thereafter removed to New Zealand, where he took an active part in politics. He entered the colonial parliament in 1879, and was Minister of Mines from 1891' to 1893. In the latter year he was appointed Premier. He retained that office until his death, in 1906. He was a strong advocate of the policy of state socialism. SEDGE (Carex; natural order, Cyperacea), an extensive genus of grasslike plants containing thousands of species, mostly inhabiting the N. and temperate parts of the globe. The greater portion of the species are marsh plants. They furnish coarse fodder, which is rejected by most of the domestic quadrupeds. marshy tract in
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Sedge
sej, a large family of grass-like plants. The most important genus is known to the botanist as carex. A grass stem is usually round and hollow. A carex, or sedge, may usually be told from a grass by having a triangular solid stem. The seeds or nutlets are frequently flat or triangular. They are not inclosed by chaff, but by a bladder, or else a closely adherent sac. There are about 2,500 species in the world; about 300 in the United States . The larger sedges grow chiefly in the swamps. Some are taller than a man's head; others, especially the wood-carex, grow in soft tufts underfoot. The seed of this sedge is borne on a stalk so short that it must be sought at the very roots, often half buried in leaf mold. The genus is not a valuable one, though many species may be made into hay. The salt marsh hay of the coasts is a sedge. The umbrella plant and the Egyptian paper plant or papyrus are members of the sedge family. See Grass
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Sedge Warbler
the Acrocephalus schænobænus, a small European singing bird. Its total length is rather less than five inches; tail comparatively short; upper surface rufous-brown, clouded with a darker shade; breast, belly, and lower tail coverts pale buff. The eggs are five or six in number, pale yellowish-brown.
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Sedgemoor
a Somersetshire, England, about 5 miles S. E. of Bridgewater. In 1685 it was the scene of the battle in which the Duke of Monmouth was defeated by the troops of James II.
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Sedgwick
ANNE DOUGLAS (Mrs. Basil de Selincourt), an American novelist, born in Englewood, N. J., in 1873. While still a child, she was taken abroad by her parents, where she remained for the greater part of her life. For several years she was a student of painting, and her pictures were shown at several exhibitions. Her novels include "The Dull Miss Archinard" (1898); "The Rescue" " (1902); Franklin Winslow Kane" (1910); "Tante " (1911); "The Encoun- " ( 4). She ter 1914). contributed many short stories to magazines.
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Sedgwick (ADAM an English geologist born)
ADAM, an English geologist; born in Dent, Yorkshire, England, 1, in 1785. He was educated at Sedberg and at Cambridge University and in 1818 was app appointed Woodwardian Professor of Geology in the latter; this chair he held till within a short time of his death. His chief services to geology consisted in the determination of the geological relations of the palæozoic strata of Devon and Cornwall, and of those strata afterward called Permian in the N. E. and N. W. of England, in the explanation of the geological character of north Wales, and not less in the enlargement of the geological museum at Cambridge. dge. The only considerable work of Professor Sedgwick's is a "Discourse on the Studies of the University of Cambridge," which had a wide circulation. He died in Trinity College, Cambridge, Jan. 27, 1873.
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