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shire, 4 miles S. of Wolverhampton, and 124 N. W. of Lon-don .

SEDITION, in the civil law, is used for a factious commo-tion of the people, or an assembly of a number of citizens withoutlawful authority, tending to disturb the peace and order of so-ciety.

SEDR, or SEDRE, the high priest of the sect of Ali amongthe Persians. The s'edre is appointed by the emperor of Persia ,who usually confers the dignity on his nearest relation.

SEDUCTION, is the act of tempting and d rawing aside fromthe right path, and comprehends every endeavour to corrupt anyindividual of the human race. This is the import of the word inits largest and most general sense ; but it is commonly employedto express the act of tempting a virtuous woman to part with herchastity.

SEDUM , Orpine, or Less House-Leek; in botany, agenus of the pentagynia order, and decandria class of plants; na-tural order, Succulentre. Calyx live-cleft; corolla five-petaled;scales nectariferous, live, at the base of the germ ; capsules live.There are thirty species, all of which are hardy, herbaceous,succulent perennials, durable in root, but mostly annual instalk, &c.

SEED, in physiology, a substance prepared by nature for thereproduction and conservation of the species both in animals andplants. See Botany , Physiology, and Plants. A seed, inbotany, consists of three parts ; namely, the cotyledons, the radi-cle, and the plumula.

SEEDLINGS, among gardeners, denote such roots of gilli-flowers, &c. as come from seed sown.

SEEDY, in the brandy-trade, a term used by the dealers todenote a fault that is found” in the several parcels of French bran-dy, which renders them unsaleable. The French suppose thatthese brandies obtain the flavour which they express by this name,from weeds that grow among the vines from whence the wine ofwhich this brandy is pressed was made.

SEEING, the perceiving of external objects by means of the*ye. For an account of the organ of sight, and the nature of vi-sion, see Anatomy , and Optics.

SEEKS, a religious sect settled at Patna , and so called from aWord contained in one of the commandments of their founder,which signifies learn thou. In books giving an account of orientalsects and oriental customs, we find mention made both of Seeksand Seiks; and some think that the same tribe is meant by bothnames. If so, different authors write very differently of theirPrinciples and manners.

. SEELING, at sea, is used in the same sense nearly with heel-jng: when a ship lies down constantly, or steadily on one side,me seamen say, she heels; and they call it seeling when she tum-bles violently and suddenly, by the sea forsaking her, as theyGa " it, that is, the waves leaving her for a time in a bowling

Seeling. In the manege, a horse is said to seel when he beginsto have white eyebrows, that is, when there grows on that part?. °ut the breadth of a farthing of white hairs, mixed with those ofj ,s natural colour, which is a mark of old age. It is said that a°rse never seels till he is fourteen years old, and always does be-or ® he is sixteen years.

oEER, i n geography, a city of Arabia, in the province ofman, capital of Julfar, or Dsjulfar. Lon. 54. 38. E. Lat.0 . N t

b a city of France, in the department of Orne , and

S °V r }p e °f Normandy , 12 miles N. of Alen^on, and 102 W. by° e ° ar ' s -

f ^GALIEN, a large island separated by a narrow channelTch cnast °f Chinese Tartary, and called by the nativesand ’ anc ^ ky the Chinese Oku-Jesso. It lies between Lat. 46°N. but its breadth from E. to W. is not known,duch EBERG ’ or SEGEBORG, a town of Germany , in thego Holstein, and in Wagria, 22 miles S. of Kiel , and

s V r °f Hamburgh. Lon. 10. 9. E. Lat. 54. 0. N.

0 r P GLDIN, a strong town of Lower Hungary, in the county46^-1, 50 miles S. E. of Colocza. Lon. 20. 35. E. Lat.

Ch n E< f EST AN, a province of Persia , bounded on the N. byail and Balch; E. by Candahar and Zablestan; S. by Me-

cran ; S. W. by Kerman ;' and W. by Kerman, Chusistan, andFarsistan . It was anciently called Drangiana. It is mountain-ous ; the plains are barren, and covered with loose sand, which issometime, raised by whirlwinds in such quantities as to overwhelmwhole caravans. The valleys are the only habitable parts. Za-reng is the capital.

SEGESWAR, a town of Transylvania, capital of a county sonamed, 47 miles N. of Hermanstadt . Lon. 24. 55. E. Lat47. 4. N.

SEGMENT OF A CIRCLE, in geometry, that part of thecircle contained between a chord and an arch of the same circle.See Circle, Geometry, and Chord .

Segment of a Sphere, is a part of a sphere terminated bya portion of its surface, and a plane w hich cuts it off, passing some-where out of the centre ; being more properly called the sectionof a sphere. See Mensuration.

SEGNA, or SEGNI, a city of Croatia , on the coast of theGulph of Venice, 100 miles N. W. of Spolatro. Lon. 15. 21. E.Lat. 45. 22. N.

SEGNI, an ancient town of Italy, in the Campagna of Rome .Lon. 13. 15. E. Lat. 41. 50. N.

SEGO, the capital of the kingdom of Bambarra, in Africa ,is situated on the banks of the Niger . Lon. 2. 1. W. Lat. 14,

4. N.

SEGOVIA, a town of America , in Terra Firma, and in theprovince of Venezuela . Lon. 65. 30. W. Lat. 8. 20. N.

Segovia, a town of Asia, in the island of Manilla , and one of! the largest of the Philippines, 240 miles N. of Manilla . Lon. 120.59. E. Lat. 18. 36. N.

Segovia, an ancient city of Spain , of great power in the timeof the Caesars, 45 miles N. W. of Madrid , and 67 E. by S. of Sa-lamanca. Lon. 3. 48. W. Lat. 41.0. N.

Segovia, a river of Mexico, in Nicaragua , which runs into theAtlantic, in Lon. 62. 4. W. Lat. 13. 12. N.

Segovia, New, a town of Mexico , in the audience of Guati-mala. Lon. 84. 30. W. Lat. 13, 25. N.

SEG'UIERIA, in bolany, a plant of the class polyandria, andorder monogynia. Calyx five-leaved; no corolla; capsule ob-long, one-seeded, the large ala terminating in small lateral alse.There are two species.

SEGURA, a river of Spain , which rises in the mountains ofMurcia , 10 miles S. S. E. of Segura.

Segura, a town of Portugal , in the province of Beira, 8 mile*

5. E. of Castel-Branco , and SON. \V. of Alcantara.

SEHARANPOUR, a town of Hindostan, in Delhi , be-tween the Jumnah and the Ganges, 80 miles S. S. W. of Siri-nagur.

SEJANT is used when a lion, or other beast, is drawn in anescutcheon, sitting like a cat with bis fore-feet straight.

SEIGNIOR is particularly used for the lord of the fee as of amanor, as seigneur among the feudists is he who grants a fee orbenefit out of the land to another ; the reason is, because havinggranted away the use and profit of the land, the property or domi-nion he still retains in himself.

SEIGNORAGE is a prerogative of the king, whereby heclaims an allowance of gold and silver bought in the mass to beexchanged for coin. As seignorage, out of every pound weightof gold, the king had for his coin 5s. of w hich he paid to the mas-ter of the mint sometimes Is. and sometimes Is. 6 a. Upon everypound weight of silver, the seignorage answered to the king in thetime of Edward III . was 18 penny-weights, which then amountedto about Is. of which he sometimes paid 3d. at others 9 d. to themaster.

SEIGNORY is borrowed from the French seigneurie, i. e. do-minatus, imperium, principatus; and signifies a manor or lord-ship.

SEIKS, a numerous and powerful nation of Hindoostan Proper,consisting of several small independent states, who have formedthemselves into a kind of federal union. They possess the wholecountry of Lahore , the principal part of Moultan, and the W. partof Delhi . Like the other Hindoos they are very tolerant in mat-ters of religion, and require only a conformity in certain signs andceremonies; but they are more liberal than the other Hindoos, asthey admit proselytes; although those from the Mohammedansystem are not much esteemed.

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