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a horse’s body, for the purpose of discharging matter from deepseated tumours or abscesses. See Farriery .

SETTEE, a vessel very common in the Mediterranean withone deck and a very long and sharp prow. They carry some twomasts, some three, without lop-masts. They have generally twomasts,-equipped with triangular sails, commonly called lateen sails.The least of them are of 60 tons burthen.

SETTIA, a town in the isle of Candia, 48 miles E. S. E. ofCandia.

SE TTING, in astronomy, the withdrawing of a star or planet,or'its sinking below the horizon. Astronomers and poets makethree different kinds of setting of the stars, viz. the Cosmical,Achronical, and HemaCal. See these articles.

Setting, in the sea-language. To set the land or the sun bythe compass, is to observe how the land bears on any point of thecompass, or on what point of the compass the sun is. Also, whentwo ships sail in sight of one another, to mark on what point thechased - bears, is termed setting the chase by the compass.

Setting, among sportsmen, a term used to express the man-ner of taking partridges by means of a dog peculiarly trained tothat purpose.

. SETTLE, in geography, a town of England, in the W. Ridingof Yorkshire , 28 miles E. by N. of Lancaster, 59 miles W. ofYork, and 235. N. N. W, of London . Lon. 2. 15. W. Lat.54.6 N.

SET TLEMENT, ACT OF', in British history, anamegivento the statute 12 and 13 W. Ill. cap. 2, whereby (he crown waslimited to Ins present majesty’s illustrious house ; and some newprevisions were added, at the same fortunate era, for better secu-ring our religion, laws and liberties; which the statute declares tobe the birthright of the people of England, according to the an-cient doctrine of the common law.

SETUAN, a province of China , bounded on the N. by ,Chansi, E. by Koei-tcheou and Yunnan ; and W. by Thibet.Setuan abounds with stags, deers, partridges, parrots, and a pe-culiar species of fowls, which are covered with wool instead offeathers.

SEVASTOPOL, a town of Russia , in the province of Tauris,80 miles S. of Perekop.

SEVEN ISLANDS, a cluster of seven islands near the coastof Canada, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence . Lon. 66. ,5. TV. Lat.50. 10. N.

Seven Islands, a cluster of seven islands, in the FrozenOcean; situated in Lon. 18. 48, E. Lat. 80. 31. N.

Seven Islands, a new republic so named, consisting of thoseislands in the Grecian Archipelago , which formerly belonged tothe republic of Venice, and which were ceded to the French by the treaty of Campo Forinio, on the J 7th Oct. 1797.

Seven Stars, a common denomination given to the cluster ofstars in (he neck of the sign Taurus, the bull, properly called thePleiades . T hey are so called from their number seven whichappear to the naked eye, though some eyes can discover only sixol them ; but by the help of telescopes, there appears to be agreat multitude of them ; but the brightest of them is of the thirdmagnitude, and is marked >, by Bayer.

SEVEN OAKS, a town of England, in Kent, so named fromseven large oaks, near which it was built, 7 miles N. VV. of Tun- Ibridge, and 23. S. E. of London . Lon. 0. 18. E. Lat. 51.19. N.

SEVENTH, in music, an interval called by the Greeks hepta-chordon. See IIeptachord, and Interval.

Seventh Major, Seventh Minor. See Music.

SEVEN TY, or LXXI1, in Biblical history. See Septua-

GINT.

SEVERAL LE CHATEAU, a town of France , in the de-partment of Aveiron ; 21 miles E. of Rhodez , and 30 N. ofLodeve .

SEVERANCE, in law, is the singling or severing two or morethat join or are joined in the same writ or action. As if two join ina writ, de libertate probandd, and the one be afterwards nonsuited ;here severance is permitted, so as notwithstanding the nonsuit ofIhe one, the other rnay severally proceed.

SEVEU1A, a province of the Russian empire, with the title»of a duchy, bounded on the N. by Smolensko and Muscovy, onths £. by \ orotinsbi and the country of the Cossacks , on the S.

by the same, and on the W. hy Zernegovia. It is over-run witnwoods.

SEVERINA, St. a town of Naples, in Calabria Ultra, 18miles S. of Cosenza, and 93 N. E. of Reggio . Lon. 17. 14. E.Lat 39. 15. N.

SEVER1NO, St. a town of Italy , in the territory of the church,and marquisate of Ancona , 6 miles N. W. of Tolentino. Lon.13. 6 E. Lat. 43. 16. N.

SEVERN, a river of England and Wales , which rises nearPlinlimmon Hill in Montgomeryshire, and before it entersShropshire receives about 30 streams. At Monford, it receivesthe river Mon, passing on to Shrewsbury , which it almost sur-rounds, then to Rridgenorth; afterwards it runs through theskirts of Staffordshire, enters Worcestershire, and passes by Wor-cester; then it runs to Tewkesbury , where it joins the Avon, andthence to Gloucester, keeping a N. W. course, till it falls into theBristol Channel .

SEVERO, or St. SEVIERO, a town of Naples, in Capitanata;75 miles N. E. of Naples. Lon. 15. 34. E. Lat. 41. 40. N.

SEVERUS, I. Lucius Septimius, a Roman emperor, whohas been so much admired for his military talents, that some havecalled him the most warlike of the Roman emperors. As a mo-narch he was cruel, and it has been observed, that he never per-formed an act of humanity, or forgave a fault. In his diet he wastemperate, and lie always shewed himself an open enemy to pompand splendor. He loved the appellation of a man of letters, and,he even composed an history of his own reign, which some havepraised for its correctness and veracity. However cruel Severusmay appear in bis punishments and in his revenge, many have en-deavoured to exculcate him, and observed that there was need ofseverity in an empire where the morals were so corrupted, andwhere no less than 3000 persons were accused of adultery duringthe space of 17 years. Of him as of Augustus , some say, that itwould have been better for the world lie had never been born, orhad never died.

SEVILLE, a large and populous city of Spain , the capital ofAndalusia, 45 miles N. of Cadiz, 112 W. of Grenada , and 212 S.by VV. of Madrid . Lon. 5. 22. W. Lat. 37. 20. N.

Seville is also a name given to the province of Andalusia , fromits capital.

SEVRES, LES DEUX, Sevres , The Two, a department ofFrance, containing part of the late province of Poitou . It isbounded on the N. by that of the Maine and Loire; E. by thatof Vienne ; S. by those of the Charente and the Lower Charente;and W. by that of the Vendde. Niort is the capital .

SEVSK, a town of Russia , in orel, on the Sev : 56 miles S. W.of Orel.

SEVUM, or SEBUM, [Lat.] fat- See Fat.

SEW AD, a province of Asia , in the country of Cabul, on theW. bank of the Indus. It is mountainous, and has many strongpasses, which render the inhabitants very independent; and theysometimes make incursions into Plindoostan.

SEWER, in the household, an officer who comes in before themeat of a king or nobleman, to place and range it on the table.

Sewer, is also a passage or gutter made to carry water into thesea or a river, whereby to preserve the land, &c. from inundationsand other annoyances. The business of the commissioners ofsewers, or their office in particular, is to repair sea-banks and walls,survey rivers, public streams, ditches, &c. and to make orders forthat purpose.

SEX, \sexus, Lat.] something in the body which distinguishesmale from female.

SEXAGENARY, something relating to the number sixty:thus sexagenary or sexagesimal arithmetic, is a method of com-putation proceeding by sixties; such is that used in the divisionof a degree into sixty minutes, of the minute into sixty seconds,of the second into sixty thirds, See. Also sexagenary tables aretables of proportional parts, shewing the product of two sexagena-ries that are to be multiplied, or the quotient of the two that areto be divided.

SEXAGESIMA, the second Sunday before Lent, or the nextto Shrove-Sunday, so called as being about the sixtieth day before

^SEXAGESIMALS, or SEXAGESIMAL FRACTIONS*,fractions whose denominators proceed in a sexagccuple ratio*