<B>seating, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act of providing with a seat or seats. <DD><B> 2a. </B>the arrangement of seats, as in a building or for a party. <DD><B> b. </B>the seats themselves. <DD><B> 3. </B>material for the seats, as of chairs. <DD><B> 4a. </B>a support. <DD><B> b. </B>a part resting on a support. </DL>
<A NAME="seatmate">
<B>seatmate, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person sitting next to one on a bus, train, aircraft, or the like. </DL>
<A NAME="seatmile">
<B>seat-mile, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> one mile multiplied by the number of seats in a plane, used as a unit in determining costs, profits, or the like, in air transportation. <BR> <I>Ex. A fifty-seat plane flying a 1,000 mile trip flies 50,000 seat-miles.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="seato">
<B>SEATO</B> or <B>Seato, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (group of seven nations, consisting of Australia, France, Great Britain, New Zealand, the Philippines, Thailand, and the United States, that signed a treaty in 1954 for common defense in southeastern Asia; it was abolished in 1977). </DL>
<A NAME="seatofthepants">
<B>seat-of-the-pants, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Slang.) <DD><B> 1. </B>experienced in navigating without instruments. <BR> <I>Ex. a seat-of-the-pants bush flier.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>based upon accumulated experience. <BR> <I>Ex. The architect ... must still have the capacity for a fair measure of seat-of-the-pants design (New Scientist).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="seatpack">
<B>seat pack,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a parachute attached to the wearer's seat instead of his back or chest. </DL>
<A NAME="seatrain">
<B>sea train,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a seagoing vessel, with tracks on its deck, for the transport of railroad cars, used especially in coastal traffic. </DL>
<A NAME="seatrout">
<B>sea trout,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>any one of various species of trout which spend part of their life in salt water, such as the brown trout of Europe. <DD><B> 2. </B>any one of several weakfishes. </DL>
<A NAME="seaturn">
<B>sea turn,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a gale or breeze coming from the sea, generally accompanied by mists. </DL>
<A NAME="seaturtle">
<B>sea turtle,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of various large turtles or tortoises living in the sea; any marine chelonian, having the limbs formed as flippers, such as the green turtle, leatherback, and loggerhead. </DL>
<A NAME="seatwork">
<B>seatwork, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> work or assignments that a child does at his seat in the classroom. </DL>
<A NAME="seaunicorn">
<B>sea unicorn,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the narwhal, so called from the single hornlike tusk of the male. </DL>
<A NAME="seaurchin">
<B>sea urchin,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>any one of a group of small, round sea animals with hard shells formed of calcareous plates bearing many movable spines; echinoid; echinus. Sea urchins are echinoderms. <DD><B> 2. </B>a tall shrub of western Australia with globular clusters of crimson flowers whose yellow styles project beyond the perianth. </DL>
<A NAME="seaview">
<B>seaview, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a view or prospect of the sea, or at sea. <BR> <I>Ex. a room with a seaview.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a picture representing a scene at sea; seascape. </DL>
<A NAME="seawall">
<B>sea wall,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a strong wall or embankment made especially to keep the waves from wearing away the shore or to act as a breakwater. <BR> <I>Ex. Sea walls to protect the Netherlands against flooding from the sea were the unanimous recommendation of the Government's Delta Commission (Warren E. Howland).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="seawalnut">
<B>sea walnut,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of various ctenophores resembling a walnut in shape. </DL>
<A NAME="seawan">
<B>seawan, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> loose or unstrung beads made from shells, once used by certain tribes of North American Indians as money. Also, <B>sewan.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="seawant">
<B>seawant, </B>noun. <B>=seawan.</B></DL>
<A NAME="seaward">
<B>seaward, </B>adverb, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adv., adj. </I> toward the sea. <BR> <I>Ex. a seaward breeze (adj.). Our house faces seaward. The river glided seaward (Robert Louis Stevenson) (adv.).</I> <DD><I>noun </I> the direction toward the sea or away from land. <BR> <I>Ex. The island lies a mile to seaward.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="seawards">
<B>seawards, </B>adverb. <B>=seaward.</B></DL>
<A NAME="seaware">
<B>seaware, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> seaweed, especially coarse seaweed used as manure. </DL>
<A NAME="seawasp">
<B>sea wasp,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a large jellyfish of the South Pacific and Indian oceans whose sting is very painful and often fatal. </DL>
<A NAME="seawater">
<B>seawater, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the salt water of the sea or ocean. <BR> <I>Ex. Seawater can get as cold as 28 degrees without freezing because of the salt in solution (Science News Letter).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="seaway">
<B>seaway, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an inland waterway that connects with the open sea and is deep enough to permit ocean shipping. <BR> <I>Ex. Ocean-going freighters reach Detroit and Chicago by passing through the St. Lawrence Seaway.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a way over the sea, especially a regular shipping lane. <DD><B> 3. </B>the sea as a means of communication; the open sea. <DD><B> 4. </B>the progress of a ship through the waves; headway. <BR> <I>Ex. to lose seaway.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>a rough sea. <BR> <I>Ex. a very safe boat ... buoyant and clever in a seaway (Robert Louis Stevenson).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="seaweed">
<B>seaweed, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any plant or plants growing in the sea, especially any one of various algae growing in the sea. </DL>
<A NAME="seawhip">
<B>sea whip,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a gorgonian coral of slender, straight, or spiral shape that has small branches or is branchless. </DL>
<A NAME="seawind">
<B>sea wind,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a wind blowing from the sea toward the land. </DL>
<B>sea worm,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any free-moving worm living in salt water; marine annelid. </DL>
<A NAME="seaworthiness">
<B>seaworthiness, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the quality or condition of being seaworthy. </DL>
<A NAME="seaworthy">
<B>seaworthy, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> fit for sailing on the sea; able to stand storms at sea. <BR> <I>Ex. a seaworthy ship or hull.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="seawrack">
<B>sea wrack,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> seaweed, especially any of the large, coarse kinds cast upon the shore. </DL>
<A NAME="seb">
<B>Seb, </B>noun. <B>=Geb.</B></DL>
<A NAME="sebaceous">
<B>sebaceous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>having to do with fat; fatty; greasy. (SYN) oily, oleaginous. <DD><B> 2. </B>secreting a fatty or oily substance. </DL>
<A NAME="sebaceousgland">
<B>sebaceous gland,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a gland in the inner layer of the skin that supplies oil to the skin and hair; oil gland. </DL>
<A NAME="sebacicacid">
<B>sebacic acid,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a white crystallineacid obtained by the distillation of castor oil, used especially to make fruit flavors, perfumes, and lubricants. </DL>
<A NAME="sebesten">
<B>sebesten</B> or <B>sebestan, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a plumlike fruit borne by an East Indian tree of the borage family, used in the East, and formerly in Europe, for medicinal purposes. <DD><B> 2. </B>the tree it grows on. <DD><B> 3. </B>the fruit of a related species or the tree it grows on. </DL>
<A NAME="sebiferous">
<B>sebiferous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>producing or secreting fat, as certain glands. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Botany.) producing vegetable wax or tallow. </DL>
<A NAME="seborrhea">
<B>seborrhea</B> or <B>seborrhoea, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an abnormal discharge from the sebaceous glands, forming an oily coating on the skin. </DL>
<A NAME="seborrheic">
<B>seborrheic</B> or <B>seborrhoeic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with seborrhea. </DL>
<A NAME="sebum">
<B>sebum, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the fatty secretion of the sebaceous glands. </DL>
<A NAME="sec">
<B>sec, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> dry; not sweet (applied originally and still especially to champagne). </DL>
<A NAME="sec">
<B>sec</B> (no period),<DL COMPACT><DD> secant. </DL>
<A NAME="sec">
<B>sec.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an abbreviation for the following: <DD><B> 1. </B>according to (Latin,) secundum). <DD><B> 2. </B>secant. <DD><B> 3. </B>second or seconds. <DD><B> 4. </B>secondary. <DD><B> 5. </B>secretary. <DD><B> 6. </B>section or sections. <DD><B> 7. </B>sector. </DL>
<A NAME="sec">
<B>SEC</B> (no periods) or <B>S.E.C.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> Securities and Exchange Commission. </DL>
<A NAME="secant">
<B>secant, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>(Geometry.) a straight line that intersects a curve at two or more points. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Trigonometry.) <DD><B> a. </B>the ratio of the length of a hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle to the length of the side adjacent to an acute angle. It is the reciprocal of the cosine. <DD><B> b. </B>a straight line drawn from the center of a circle through one extremity of an arc to the tangent from the other extremity of the same arc. <DD><B> c. </B>the ratio of the length of this line to the length of the radius of the circle. (Abbr:) sec (no period). <DD><I>adj. </I> (Geometry.) intersecting. <BR> <I>Ex. a secant plane.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="secateurs">
<B>secateurs, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Especially British.) pruning shears. <BR> <I>Ex. She snipped at the roses with her secateurs (Punch).</I> </DL>
<B>secco painting,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> painting on dry plaster with water colors. </DL>
<A NAME="secede">
<B>secede, </B>intransitive verb, <B>-ceded,</B> <B>-ceding.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to withdraw formally from an organization. <BR> <I>Ex. [President] Buchanan reiterated that the South had no right to secede (Herbert Agar).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="seceder">
<B>seceder, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> one who withdraws formally from association with an organization. </DL>
