sec am one

[ Arab.sakmoinga.] Bot.: The typical genus of Secamonese (q. v.). Erect or climbing smooth shrubs, with opposite leaves, a cymose inflorescence and small flowers, with a five-leaved stamineous crown, and twenty pollen ma es. The root of Sec am one emetic a , a climbing shrub common in India, acts as an emetic. sěc-a-mō-ně-æ, s. pl . [Mod. Lat. secamon(e); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff.-eœ.] Bot.: A tribe of Asclepiad aceæ. *se-can-çỹ, s . [Eng. sec an(t); -cy.] A cutting or intersection; as, the secancy of one line with another. se-cant, a. & s. [ Lat.secans, pr. par. of seco =to cut.] A. As adj.: Cutting or dividing into two parts. B As substantive: 1. Geom.: A straight line cutting a curve in two or more points. If a secant line be revolved about one of its points of secancy until the other point of secancy coincides with it, the secant becomes a tangent. If it be still further revolved, it again becomes a secant on the other side; hence, a tangent to a curve, at any point, is a limit of all secants through that point. A secant plane is one which intersects a surface or solid. 2. Trig .: A straight line drawn from the center of a circle through the second extremity of an arc, and terminating in a tangent to the first extremity of the arc. sec-cō, s . [Ital., from Lat.siccus =dry.] Paint .: A term applied to that kind of fresco painting which absorbs the colors into the plaster and gives them a dry, sunken appearance.