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same, and gives him the same counter-sign, taking care that no one hears it.See Rounds.
A running SENTINEL, a sentrywho is upon the look out, at an ad-vanced post, or near the gates of a for-tified place, and is not confined to aparticular spot.
SENTINEI.LE, Fr. sentinel; sen-try. This word is likewise used to ex-press the duty done by a sentinel.Faire sentincllc, to stand sentry.
Sentineli.e perdue, Fr. a sentryposted in a very advanced situation, soas to he in continual danger of surprizefrom the enemy.
SEPTANGULAR, having seven an-
b SEPTENTRION, Fr. the north.
SEPADAR, Ind. an ollicer of therank of brigadier general.
SEPAIIE, Ind. a feudatory chief, ormilitary tenant.
SEPIIARIIY, Ind. afternoon.
SEPOYS, Ind. derived from Sepahe,natives who have enlisted themselvesinto the service of the East India Com-
any, and are attached to the infantry.
'hese troops have both native and Eu-ropean officers; but the Europeans atall times command. The Sepoys makeexcellent soldiers, are remarkably clean,and feel a natural predilection for arms.
. SEPTEMBRISADE, Fr. a termused to express the general massacrewhich took place in Paris on the 2dand 3d of September, 1792.
SEPTEM BIUSER, Fr. to septem-brise; to massacre; to kill withoutjudge or jury.
SEPTEMBRISEURS, Fr. a namegiven to those who were concerned inthe French massacres of September, in1792, and to those who were suspectedof having aided and abetted the perpe-trators of those horrid acts. The latterWere also called Septembristes.
SEPTIDI, Fr. the seventh day inthe French Republican decade.
SEPTILATERAL,having seven sides.
SEPTUPLE, seven fold.
SERAKHUR, Ind. ) native officers
SERANG, j who are em-
ployed in the artillery, and on boardships of war, to command the Lascars.
SERASKIER, (serasquier, Fr.) a-mong the Turks, the next in rank tothe Vizier , in whose absence he com-mands, but to whose orders he is con-stantly subservient.
SER
SERASKUR, Ind. This worcF t#sometimes written Seraskier, and sig-nifies the commander in chief of aTurkish army,
SERDANS, colonels in the Turkish service.
SERF , SERVE, Fr. a bond-man,bond-woman. Formerly those only werecalled boud-men and bond-women whosepersons and property belonged, uncon-ditionally, to some lord of a manor, towhom the property devolved in defaultof lineal inheritance. A bond-man, orserf, was, in fact, a slave. All the pea-sants in Poland are of this class, as wellas those of Russia .
SERGENS d'annes , Fr. a distinguish-ed class of military men, that constitutedthe body guard of Philipe Auguste ofFrance . Under Philipe-le-bcl, they onlydid duty every quarter, at the palace.Their weapons consisted of the ?nassed'annes , or mace, and the arc or bow.The company of sergens d'annes was, atfirst, composed of two hundred men;afterwards it was reduced to one hun-dred and fifty, and then again to on©hundred. During the absence of his fa-ther John, who was a prisoner in Eng-land, Charles the Fifth, regent of France ,reduced them to six individuals. Andsince the reign of Charles the Seventh,the sergens d'armes have not been spo-ken of.
SERGENT, Fr. See Serjeant. ■
Sergent noble, Fr. a post of honourwhich existed during the first periods ofthe French monarchy. The French compiler, from whose work we haveoccasionally translated much matter re-lative to the military history, &c. ofFrance , has the following passage.con-cerning the term itself. We shall givehis words literally:—“ This term doesnot come from serviens , as 1 ima-gined, in common with many other ety-mologists. Monsieur Beneton, in hisllistoire de la Guerre , says, that theserjeant was a gentleman by birth,who during the prevalence of militaryfiefs, was liable to do military service,in consequence of the feudal tenure,called fief de sergenterie , by which heheld his land. Iiis superior officer vvas vcalled Suzerain , the functions of whosesituation corresponded with those of amodern adjutant general. It was thebusiness of the sejgent noble , or gentle-man serjeant, to assemble all the vassalsof the Suzerain, for the purpose of iucor-
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