selictar (seliktar)

[ Turk. silah, a weapon), + Pers. -dar, having.] The sword-bearer of a Turkish chief. Selictar ! unsheathe then our chief's scimitar. Byron, Childe Harold, ii. 72 (song). selilyt, adv . A Middle English spelling of seelily . Chaucer . Selinum (sē-linum), n . [NL. (Linnæus, 1737), σέλινον , a kind of parsley, said to be Apium graveolens: see celery and parsley .] A genus of umbelliferous plants, type of the subtribe Seli neæ in the tribe Sese lineæ . It is characterized by white flowers having broad or wedge-shaped petals with a slender infolded apex, short or moderately long styles from an entire, conical, or flattened base, and ovoid fruit slightly compre ed on the back, with solitary oil-tubes, the ridges prominent or winged, the lateral broader than the dorsal. There are about 25 species, natives of the northern hemisphere, with one species in South Africa and one in the Colombian Andes. They are smooth and tall much-branched perennials, with pinnately decompound leaves, the flowers in many-rayed umbels with few or no cels. See milk - parsley.