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n. a natural family of resinous or aromatic chiefly tropical shrubs or trees.
Syn. -- family Burseraceae, torchwood family. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Pitiable. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Commiserated; p. pr. & vb. n. Commiserating. ] [ L. commiseratus, p. p. of commiserari to commiserate; com- + miserari to pity. See Miserable. ] To feel sorrow, pain, or regret for; to pity. [ 1913 Webster ]

Then must we those, who groan, beneath the weight
Of age, disease, or want, commiserate. Denham. [ 1913 Webster ]

We should commiserate our mutual ignorance. Locke.

Syn. -- To pity; compassionate; lament; condole. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. commisération, fr. L. commiseratio a part of an oration intended to excite compassion. ] The act of commiserating; sorrow for the wants, afflictions, or distresses of another; pity; compassion. [ 1913 Webster ]

And pluck commiseration of his state
From brassy bosoms and rough hearts of flint. Shak.

Syn. -- See Sympathy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Feeling or expressing commiseration. Todd. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who pities. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. contesseratio, from contesserare to contract friendship by means of the tesserae (friendship tokens). ] An assemblage; a collection; harmonious union. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

That person of his [ George Herbert ], which afforded so unusual a contesseration of elegancies. Oley. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. drosero`s dewy. ] (Bot.) A genus of low perennial or biennial plants, the leaves of which are beset with gland-tipped bristles. See Sundew. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a natural family of carnivorous herbs and shrubs.
Syn. -- family Droseraceae, sundew family. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A genus of North American herbs: columbo; it includes some species sometimes placed in the genus Swertia.
Syn. -- genus Frasera. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A rake drawn by a horse. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Mesaraic. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. misérable, L. miserabilis, fr. miserari to lament, pity, fr. miser wretched. See Miser. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Very unhappy; wretched; living in misery. [ 1913 Webster ]

What hopes delude thee, miserable man? Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Causing unhappiness or misery. [ 1913 Webster ]

What 's more miserable than discontent? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Worthless; mean; despicable; as, a miserable fellow; a miserable dinner. [ 1913 Webster ]

Miserable comforters are ye all. Job xvi. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Avaricious; niggardly; miserly. [ Obs. ] Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Abject; forlorn; pitiable; wretched. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A miserable person. [ Obs. ] Sterne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being miserable. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a miserable; unhappily; calamitously; wretchedly; meanly. [ 1913 Webster ]

They were miserably entertained. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

The fifth was miserably stabbed to death. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Commiseration. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. reseratus, p. p. of reserare to unlock. ] To unlock; to open. [ Obs. ] Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. (in the Alps), orig., a kind of solid cheese. ] A pinnacle of ice among the crevasses of a glacier; also, one of the blocks into which a glacier breaks on a steep grade. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ It. serraglio, originally, an inclosure of palisades, afterwards also, a palace, seraglio (by confusion with Per. serāïa a palace, an entirely different word), fr. serrare to shut, fr. LL. serra a bar for fastening doors, L. sera. See Serry, Series. ] 1. An inclosure; a place of separation. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I went to the Ghetto, where the Jews dwell as in a suburb, by themselves. I passed by the piazza Judea, where their seraglio begins. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The palace of the Grand Seignior, or Turkish sultan, at Constantinople, inhabited by the sultan himself, and all the officers and dependents of his court. In it are also kept the females of the harem. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A harem; a place for keeping wives or concubines; sometimes, loosely, a place of licentious pleasure; a house of debauchery. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Per. serāï, or sarāï, a palace, a king's court, a seraglio, an inn. Cf. Caravansary. ] A palace; a seraglio; also, in the East, a place for the accommodation of travelers; a caravansary, or rest house. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Physiol. CHem.) Serum albumin. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Per. sarhang a commander. ] The boatswain of a Lascar or East Ondian crew. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Sp. Amer. sarape. ] A blanket or shawl worn as an outer garment by the Spanish Americans, as in Mexico. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. E. Seraphs Heb. Seraphim [ Heb. serāphim, pl. ] One of an order of celestial beings, each having three pairs of wings. In ecclesiastical art and in poetry, a seraph is represented as one of a class of angels. Isa. vi. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns,
As the rapt seraph that adores and burns. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Seraph moth (Zool.), any one of numerous species of geometrid moths of the genus Lobophora, having the hind wings deeply bilobed, so that they seem to have six wings. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Cf. F. séraphique. ] Of or pertaining to a seraph; becoming, or suitable to, a seraph; angelic; sublime; pure; refined. “Seraphic arms and trophies.” Milton. “Seraphical fervor.” Jer. Taylor. -- Se*raph"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Se*raph"ic*al*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The character, quality, or state of a seraph; seraphicalness. [ R. ] Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The Hebrew plural of Seraph. Cf. Cherubim. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The double plural form seraphims is sometimes used, as in the King James version of the Bible, Isa. vi. 2 and 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL. ] A seraphine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Seraph. ] (Mus.) A wind instrument whose sounding parts are reeds, consisting of a thin tongue of brass playing freely through a slot in a plate. It has a case, like a piano, and is played by means of a similar keybord, the bellows being worked by the foot. The melodeon is a portable variety of this instrument. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;, &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;. ] (Myth.) An Egyptian deity, at first a symbol of the Nile, and so of fertility; later, one of the divinities of the lower world. His worship was introduced into Greece and Rome. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Turk., fr. Per. ser head, chief + Ar. 'asker an army. ] A general or commander of land forces in the Turkish empire; especially, the commander-in-chief of minister of war. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office or authority of a seraskier. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. A hard blow. [ Prov. Eng. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Tesserae [ L., a square piece, a die. See Tessellar. ] A small piece of marble, glass, earthenware, or the like, having a square, or nearly square, face, used by the ancients for mosaic, as for making pavements, for ornamenting walls, and like purposes; also, a similar piece of ivory, bone, wood, etc., used as a ticket of admission to theaters, or as a certificate for successful gladiators, and as a token for various other purposes. Fairholt. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Diversified by squares; done in mosaic; tessellated. [ Obs. ] Sir R. Atkyns (1712). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Of, pertaining to, or containing, tesserae. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Crystallog.) Isometric. [ 1913 Webster ]