seax

[AS. seax, a knife: see saxl.] 1. A curved one-edged sword or war-knife used by Germanic and Celtic peoples; specifically, the largest weapon of this sort, having a blade sometimes 20 inches in length. They invited the British to a parley and banquet on Salisbury Plain; where suddenly drawing out their seaxes, concealed under their long coats-being crooked swords, the emblem of their indirect proceedings-they made their innocent guests with their blood pay the shots of their entertainment. Fuller, Ch. Hist., I. v. 25. Their arms and weapons, helmet and mail-shirt, tall spear and javelin, sword and seax , the short, broad dagger that hung at each warrior's girdle, gathered to them much of the legend and the art which gave color and poetry to the life of English men. J. R. Green, Hist. Eng. People, I. i. 2. In her ., a bearing representing a weapon more or le like the above, but often approaching the form of a simitar, to distinguish it from which it is then engrailed at the back. sebaceous (sē-bā'shius), a. [= F. sebacé, IMG:content-0470.png:[blocks in formation] this being accompanied by overgrowth of the epithelial lining of the sac and the surrounding connective ti ue.Sebaceous gland, crypt, or follicle, a cutaneous acinose gland of small size, opening usually into a hair-follicle, and secreting a greasy substance which lubricates the hair and the skin. Such structures are almost universal among the higher vertebrates, and of many special kinds, though all of one general character. In man they are especially notable on the face, being represented by the pores in the skin, which when stopped with a morbidly consistent secretion produce the unsightly black specks called come dones. The Meibomian follicles of eyelids, the prepu to follicles of the pen the anal tubed a pouch of the badger, etc., are similar structures. The rump-gland of birds is an enormous sebaceous gland. (See elæodochon.) The mammary glands are allied structures, and apparently rio us animals, as the musk, beaver, civet, badger, etc., are all of like character. They serve to keep the skin in order, attract the sexes, repel enemies, etc. See castor2, civell, musk, and cut under hair. - Sebaceous humor, derived sebaceous glands. The scent-glands an oily matter secreted by the sebaceous glands, serves to lubricate the hairs and the skin. Also called sebum, sebum cutaneum, and smegma. - Sebaceous tumor. (a) A sebaceous cyst. See above. (b) Same as pearl-tumor, 2. sebacic (sē-bas'ik), a. [= F. sébacique; as se bac ( cous ) +-ic.] Of or pertaining to fat; obtained from fat: as, sebacic acid (C10H1804), an acid obtained from olein. It crystallizes in white, nacreous, very light needles or lamine resembling those of benzoic acid. Also sebic. Se-Baptist (se'baptist), n. [L. se, oneself, + LL. baptistes, baptist: see baptist.] One who baptizes himself; specifically, a member of a small religious body which separated from the Brownists early in the seventeenth century: said to have been founded by John Smyth, who first baptized himself and then his followers. Sebastes (se-bas'tez), n. [NL. (Cuvier, 1829), Rose-fish, or Norway Haddock ( Sebastes mar in us). næ. S. mar in us, of both coasts of the North Atlantic, is the redfish, rose-fish, red-snapper, Norway haddock, or hemdurgan, of a nearly uniform orange-red color.