senhor (senyor)

[Pg.: see senior, señor, signor, sir.] The Portuguese form corresponding to the Spanish señor and Italian signor. See señor, signor. 5491 elderly person, old man, eccl. an elder, ML. a lord, chief; compar. of senex (sen-), old: see senate. From the L. senior are also ult. seignior, signor, señor, senhor, sire, sir; also the second element in monsieur and monsignor.] I. a. 1. Older; elder: when following a personal name, as John Smith, senior (usually abbreviated Sr. or Sen. ), it denotes the older of two persons in one family or community of that name. - 2. Older in office or service: as, a senior judge, colonel, etc.-3. Belonging or pertaining to the fourth or last year of the curriculum of an American college, seminary, or other institution: as, the senior cla . - Senior optime. See optime.-Senior soph. See sophister, 3.- Senior wrangler. See wrangler. II. n. 1. A person who is older than another; one more advanced in life; an elder. Excepte they was he their handes ofte, eate not, observinge the trad i cions of the seniours . Tyndale , Mark vii. 3. He [Pope] died in May, 1744, about a year and a half before his friend Swift, who, more than twenty years his se nior , had naturally anticipated that he should be the first to depart. Craik, Hist. Eng. Lit., II. 241. 2. One who is older in office or service, or whose first entrance upon such office or service was anterior to that of another.-3. An aged per son; one of the older inhabitants. A senior of the place replies, Well read, and curious of antiquities. Dryden, señor drian, the latter as Indian senna. The product of some other species is more or le used. (See names below.) Senna is a prompt, efficient, and very safe purgative, espe cially suited to fevers and febrile complaints. It was introduced into medicine by the Arabs. 2. Any species of Ca ia yielding the above drug. The name is extended more or le to other species of Ca ia, and to a few similar plants. - Aleppo senna, the product of Ca ia obovata, an inferior kind, wild in Syria, Egypt, and Sene gambia, formerly cultivated in Italy, etc., but now out of commerce except as an adulterant. The same plant is called Italian and Senegal senna. - Alexandrian senna, one of the officinal sennas exported by way of Alexandria, derived from Ca ia a cut i folia, a species which grows wild abundantly in Upper Egypt, Nubia, etc. - American senna, Ca ia Marilandica, an erect herb 3 or 4 feet high, with from six to nine pairs of leaflets and yellow flowers, abounding southward in the eastern United States. Its leaves are a safe and efficient cathartic, but le active than the Oriental kinds. Also wild senna.-Bastard senna. Same as bladder-senna. - India or Indian senna, the product of Ca ia an gust i folia (C. elongata, etc.), obtained chiefly in Arabia, but reaching western lands by way of Bombay and other Indian ports. Sometimes also called Mocha senna, as originally from that port. The same plant in cultivation yields Tinnevelly senna.- Mecca senna, the product of Ca ia an gust i folia exported through Mecca. - Mocha senna. See India senna.- Scorpion-senna. See Coronilla2. - Senegal senna. See Aleppo senna, above. - Tinnevelly senna. See India senna , above. Tripoli senna, an article as cribed to Ca ia Æthiopica, and thought to be obtained in Fezzan.-Wild senna. See American senna, above.