| serape | (n) a long brightly colored shawl; worn mainly by Mexican men, Syn. sarape | | seraph | (n) an angel of the first order; usually portrayed as the winged head of a child | | seraphic | (adj) of or relating to an angel of the first order, Syn. seraphical, Example: he imagined a seraphic presence in the room | | serbia | (n) a historical region in central and northern Yugoslavia; Serbs settled the region in the 6th and 7th centuries, Syn. Srbija | | serbia and montenegro | (n) a mountainous republic in southeastern Europe bordering on the Adriatic Sea; formed from two of the six republics that made up Yugoslavia until 1992; Serbia and Montenegro were known as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia until 2003 when they adopted the name of the Union of Serbia and Montenegro, Syn. Union of Serbia and Montenegro, Yugoslavia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Jugoslavija | | serbian | (n) a member of a Slavic people who settled in Serbia and neighboring areas in the 6th and 7th centuries, Syn. Serb | | serbian | (adj) of or relating to the people or language or culture of the region of Serbia | | serbo-croat | (n) the Slavic language of the Serbs and Croats; the Serbian dialect is usually written in the Cyrillic alphabet and the Croatian dialect is usually written in the Roman alphabet, Syn. Serbo-Croatian | | serenade | (n) a song characteristically played outside the house of a woman | | serenade | (v) sing and play for somebody, Example: She was serenaded by her admirers |
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| Serac | ‖n. [ F. (in the Alps), orig., a kind of solid cheese. ] A pinnacle of ice among the crevasses of a glacier; also, one of the blocks into which a glacier breaks on a steep grade. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ] | | Seraglio | n. [ It. serraglio, originally, an inclosure of palisades, afterwards also, a palace, seraglio (by confusion with Per. serāïa a palace, an entirely different word), fr. serrare to shut, fr. LL. serra a bar for fastening doors, L. sera. See Serry, Series. ] 1. An inclosure; a place of separation. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ] I went to the Ghetto, where the Jews dwell as in a suburb, by themselves. I passed by the piazza Judea, where their seraglio begins. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. The palace of the Grand Seignior, or Turkish sultan, at Constantinople, inhabited by the sultan himself, and all the officers and dependents of his court. In it are also kept the females of the harem. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. A harem; a place for keeping wives or concubines; sometimes, loosely, a place of licentious pleasure; a house of debauchery. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Serai | ‖n. [ Per. serāï, or sarāï, a palace, a king's court, a seraglio, an inn. Cf. Caravansary. ] A palace; a seraglio; also, in the East, a place for the accommodation of travelers; a caravansary, or rest house. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Seralbumen | n. (Physiol. CHem.) Serum albumin. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Serang | ‖n. [ Per. sarhang a commander. ] The boatswain of a Lascar or East Ondian crew. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Serape | ‖n. [ Sp. Amer. sarape. ] A blanket or shawl worn as an outer garment by the Spanish Americans, as in Mexico. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Seraph | n.; pl. E. Seraphs Heb. Seraphim [ Heb. serāphim, pl. ] One of an order of celestial beings, each having three pairs of wings. In ecclesiastical art and in poetry, a seraph is represented as one of a class of angels. Isa. vi. 2. [ 1913 Webster ] As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns,
As the rapt seraph that adores and burns. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]
Seraph moth (Zool.), any one of numerous species of geometrid moths of the genus Lobophora, having the hind wings deeply bilobed, so that they seem to have six wings. [ 1913 Webster ]
| | Seraphical | { } a. [ Cf. F. séraphique. ] Of or pertaining to a seraph; becoming, or suitable to, a seraph; angelic; sublime; pure; refined. “Seraphic arms and trophies.” Milton. “Seraphical fervor.” Jer. Taylor. -- Se*raph"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Se*raph"ic*al*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ] Variants: Seraphic | | Seraphicism | n. The character, quality, or state of a seraph; seraphicalness. [ R. ] Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Seraphim | n. The Hebrew plural of Seraph. Cf. Cherubim. [ 1913 Webster ] ☞ The double plural form seraphims is sometimes used, as in the King James version of the Bible, Isa. vi. 2 and 6. [ 1913 Webster ] |
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