sequestra

Plural of sequestrum. sequestrable (se-kwestra-bl), a. [ Around the sequestral tube the bone has the involucral thickening which has been felt in the stump. Buck's Handbook of Med . Sciences, V. 128. sequestrate (se-kwestrāt), v . t .; pret. and pp. sequestrated , ppr. sequestrating. [ trat us , pp. of sequestrare , surrender, lay aside: see sequester .] 1. To set apart from others; seclude. In general contagions more perish for want of nece aries than by the malignity of the disease, they being se quest rated from mankind. Arbuthnot, Effects of Air. 2. In law, to sequester. Especially - (a) In Scots law, to take po e ion of, as of the estate of a bankrupt, with the view of realizing it and distributing it equitably among the creditors. (6) To seize for the use of the state. See sequestration, 1 (f). out of its rents or profits. He is scared with the menaces of some prating Seques trat or. Bp . Gauden , Tears of the Church, p. 238. I am fallen into the hands of publicans and sequestrators, and they have taken all from me. Jer. Taylor, Holy Living, ii. 6. 2. One to whom the keeping of sequestered property is committed. A sequestration is usually directed to four sequestrators , and care ought to be taken that the persons named be such as are able to answer for what shall come to their hands, in case they should be called upon to account. E. R. Daniell , Chancery Pleading and Practice, § 1256. sequestrotomy (sē-kwes-trot'ō-mi), n. [ sequestrum + Gr. -τομία , τέμνειν , ταμεῖν , cut.] A cutting operation for the removal of a sequestrum. sequestrum (sē-kwestrum), n.; pl. sequestra (-tra). [NL., sequin (sē'kwin, formerly and better sek'in), n. [Also zechin, chequin, secchin, sechino (= G. zechine, sequestration (sek-wesor se-kwes-tra's hon), republice in was worth rather more n. [ sequestration , F. séquest ration = Sp . secuestracion = Pg. sequestração = It. sequestra zione , sequestratio (n-), a sequestration: see sequestrate , sequester .] 1. The act of sequestering, or the state of being sequestered or set aside; separation; retirement; seclusion from society. Our comfort and delight expre ed by... sequestration from ordinary labours, the toils and cares whereof are not meet to be companions of such gladne . Hooker, Eccles. Polity, v. 70. The sacred Book, In dusty sequestration wrapt too long. Words worth, Eccles. Sonnets, ii. 29. There is much that tends to give them [women] a religious height which men do not attain. Their sequestra tion from affairs, and from the injury to the moral sense which affairs often inflict, aids this. Emerson , Woman. 21. Disunion; disjunction; division; rupture. [Some commentators are of opinion that in the quotati quotation from Shakspere the word means 'sequel.'] It was a violent commencement [i. e., the love of Des demon a for Othello], and thou shalt see an answerable se quest ration. Shak., Othello, i. 3. 351. Without any sequestration of elementary principles. Boyle . 3. In law: (a) The separation of a thing in controversy from the po e ion of those who contend for it. (b) The setting apart of the and chattels of a deceased person to whom no one was willing to take out administration. (c) A writ directed by the Court of Chancery to commi ioners or to the sheriff, commanding them or him to enter the lands and seize the goods of the person against whom it is directed. It might be i ued against a defendant who is in contempt by reason of neglect or refusal to appear or answer or to obey a decree of court. (d) The act of taking property from the owner for a time till the rents, i ues, and profits satisfy IMG:content-0643.png:[merged small][merged small][merged small][graphic][merged small] Sequoia ped apex. The flowers are monœcio us, terminal or axillary on young shoots, with their scales spirally set. The small and involucrate staminate flower consists of an oblong column of united stamens, bearing crowded ovate connective scales, each with three to five anthers. The compre ed seed bears a thick spongy margin, and contains four to six seed-leaves. There are but two species, both Californian, and ranking among the most remarkable of trees, growing straight, tall, and columnar, with short densely spreading branches, soft red wood, and very thick fibrous and spongy bark. They bear acute, compre ed, and keeled decurrent narrow leaves, which are alternate and spirally inserted, or spread in two ranks on the younger branches. Their small cones ripen in the second year. For S. sempervi rens, discovered by Menzies about 1794, see redwood. The other species, S. gigantea, by some formerly separated as a genus, Washingtonia (Winslow, 1854), and the Welling to nia of English gardens, is the mammoth tree or big tree of California. It is a le graceful tree, with shorter branches, pendulous branchlets, paler appre ed leaves, its wood a duller red, with thin white sapwood, its bark near the ground 1 to 2 feet thick, and its cones much larger (2 or 3 inches long). It forms a series of forests in Tulare county, California, isolated groves extending 260 miles northward, and it has been recently reported from southern Oregon. The tallest tree now known, one of the Calaveras grove, is 325 feet high; one in the King's River forest is 35 feet 8 inches in diameter inside the bark 4 feet from the ground, and its age is estimated at over 4,000 years. Both species were early cla ed under Taxodium (which see), their nearest American living relative; a closer ally, however, is A thro tar is (Don, 1839), a genus of three Tasmanian trees distinguished by a cone with mucronate or umbonate scales; their other living relatives are a few distant and mostly monotypic genera of Japan and China. (Compare Tazodina.) A very large number of fo il species are known with certainty, showing that the genus was much more abundant in late Cretaceous and Tertiary time than at present. IMG:content-0644.png:[blocks in formation]