sennight (sen it)

[E. dial. sennet; early mod. E. senyght, sevenyght, I chanced to show you, most honorable audience, this day sennight , what I heard of a man that was slain. Latimer , 6th Sermon bef. Edw. VI., 1549. She shall never have a happy hour, unle she marry within this sen'night. B. Jonson, Bartholomew Fair, i. 1. We agreed to meet at Water town that day sen'night . Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 46. My love for Nature is as old as I; But thirty moons, one honeymoon to that, And three rich sennights more, my love for her. Tennyson, Edwin Morris. sennit1 (sen'it), n. [Also sinnet , formerly sin- nett ; said to be seven (contracted to senas in sennight ) + knit : see knit , and for the sense 'seven-knit- ted' cf. similar formations, as dimity ('two-threaded') and samite ('six- threaded').] Naut ., a sort of flat braided cordage used for various pur- poses, and formed by plaiting rope- Plaiting of yarns or spun yarn together; also, gra or straw plaited by seamen for making hats. Trene. A threefold rope, cord, string, or twist, called by Mariners a Sinnet . Cotgrave. The boys who could not sew well enough to make their own clothes laid up gra into sinnet for the men, who sewed for them in return. R. H. Dana , Two Years Before the Mast, p. 269. sennit2t, n. See sennet1 . sen ocular (sē-nok'ū-lär), a. [L. sen i , six each ( sex , six), + oculus , eye, + -ar3.] Having six eyes. Most animals are binocular, spiders for the most part octonocular, and some sen ocular . Derham, Physico-Theology, viii. 3, note. Senonian (sē-no'ni-an), n. [ Senones , a people in central Gaul, + -ian.] In geol., a division of the Upper Cretaceous in France and Belgium. The term is also used to some extent in English geology. The Senonian lies between the Tu IMG:content-0606.png:[blocks in formation] señor A gentleman; in addre , sir; as a title, Mr.: in Spanish use.