Serum
in anatomy, a pale yellowish liquid obtained by drawing blood from the vessels and allowing it to separate into a thicker and a thinner portion. The thinner one is the serum. It consists of proteid substances, fats, extractives, and saline matter. The solid contents of the serum is 9.22 in males, and 8.29 in females; the rest is water. There is also a serum of chyle and one of lymph. In chemistry, the opalescent liquid, containing milk-sugar and various salts, which separates when milk is curdled by the action of acids, rennet, etc.
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Serval
the Felis serval. the bush cat, or African tiger-cat, distributed over Africa, Africa, abounding in in the S. Its body is proportionately longer, and its tail shorter than those of the true cats, in this respect approaching the lynxes, from which it is differentiated by the absence of ear tufts. Body about 40 inches, tail 16 inches, fur tawny, spotted with black. It is found in the extensive grassy plains , where it preys on antelopes and other small game.
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Serverus
2026 Editor's Note: This page uses language about other peoples, religions, or nationalities that was commonplace when the book was published and is offensive by today's standards. The text has been left exactly as it was printed, rather than cut or softened, so that the historical record — including how ordinary such language once was — is preserved. (Ed: ET 2026-07-22) an emperor of Rome (193-211). He was born in Africa and died at what is now York, England. He passed the years 208-11 in Britain, and caused the Wall of Serverus to be built from the Tyne to Solway as a defense against the inroads of the barbarians.
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Servetus
MICHAEL (properly MIGUEL SERVEDE ), a learned Spaniard , memorable as a victim of religious intolerance; born in Villa Nueva, Arragon, Spain, in 1511; was the son of a notary , who sent him to Toulouse to study civil law. Here he began to give his attention to theology, and having formed views of the Trinity antagonistic to the orthodox doctrine he removed to Germany , where いいし MICHAEL SERVETUS Calvin was especially urgent and emphatic as to the necessity of putting him to death. As he refused to retract his opinions he was burnt at the stake in Geneva, Switzerland, Oct. 27, 1553. Servetus is numbered among the anatomists who made the nearest approach to the doctrine of the circulation of the blood.
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Service Tree
the Pyrus sorbus or domestica, a native of Continental Europe and western Asia. It has serrate leaves, unequally pinnate, and creamcolored flowers. It is from 20 to 60 feet high. Two varieties, the pear-shaped, P. S. pyriformis, and the apple-shaped, P. S. maliformis, are cultivated in parts of France and near Genoa for their fruit. Also Pyrus (sorbus) torminalis, the wild service tree. It is a small tree growing in woods and hedges, but rare and local. Flowers numerous, white, appearing in April and May. The fruit pyriform or sub-globose, greenish-brown, dotted. It is eatable, and is sold in parts of Europe.
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Serviss
GARRETT PUTMAN, an American writer, born at Sharon Springs, N. Y., in 1851. He graduated from Cornell University in 1872 and from the Columbia School of Law in 1874. Until 1892 he was an editorial writer on the New York "Sun," and from that time lectured on travel, history and astronomy. His books include "Astronomy with an Opera Glass" (1888); "Pleasures of the Telescope" (1901); "Other Worlds" (1902); "Astronomy with the Naked Eye" (1908); "Round the Year with the Stars" (1910); "The Moon Maiden," a story, (1915).
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Servites
the name commonly given to a monastic order, the Religious Servants of the Holy Virgin, founded in 1233 by seven Florentine merchants at Mount Senario, near Florence. St. Philip Benoit, the fifth general, saved the order from suppressi in 1276, and in 1487 Pope Innocent VIII. bestowed on the Servites the privileges of the four great mendicant orders. The life is one of austerity and continual prayer; the habit is black, with a leather girdle, a scapular, and a cloak, and the rule is a modification of that of St. Augustine. The strength of the order lay chiefly in Italy and Germany. Since the French Revolution many houses have been founded in different countries. There are several houses of the order in the United States.
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Servitude
a state or condition of a serf, slave, or bondman; state of voluntary or involuntary subjection to a master or employer; service; slavery; bondage; position in life of a servant; hencer a state or condition of slavish or helpless dependence. In civil law, the right to the use of a thing, without property in the same, for all or for some particular purposes. It consists either in the right to do some act, as to gather fruit from the estate, or to prevent the owner of the property from doing certain acts, as building walls beyond a certain height, blocking up a window, etc.
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Servius Tullius
the 6th king of Rome. According to the tradition he was the son of a slave given by the elder Tarquin to Tanaquil, his wife. He married Tarquin's daughter, and on the death of his father-in-law (578 b. c. according to the usual chronology) he was raised to the throne. He defeated the Veientines and the Etruscans, and divided the population of Rome into tribes, instituting at the same time the comitia centuriata and tributa; he also beautified the city, and built several temples. According to the common story Servius married his two daughters to the grandsons of his fatherin-law; the elder to Tarquin, and the younger to Aruns. The wife of Aruns murdered her own husband to unite herself to Tarquin, who had assassinated his wife. Servius was murdered by Tarquin, and his own daughter Tullia ordered her chariot to be driven over the mangled body of her father (534 b. c.).
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Sesamoid Bones
the name given to certain rounded bodies, at first cartilaginous and then bony, found in the tendons of muscles. The patella or knee cap is a sesamoid bone. Another is developed in the upper joint of the thumb, and at the corresponding joint of the great toe. These bones are said to occur most frequently in males, and in persons of robust and muscular build.
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