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Se"pi*a, a. Of a dark brown color, with a little red in its composition; also, made of, or done in, sepia.

Se"pic (?), a. Of or pertaining to sepia; done in sepia; as, a sepic drawing.

Sep`i*da"ceous (?), a. (Zoöl.) Like or pertaining to the cuttlefishes of the genus Sepia.

Sep"i*ment (?), n. [L. sepimentum, saepimentum, from sepire, saepire, to hedge in.] Something that separates; a hedge; a fence. [R.] Bailey.

Se"pi*o*lite` (?), n. [Septa + -lite.] (Min.) Meerschaum. See Meerschaum.

Se"pi*o*stare` (?), n. [Sepia + Gr. &?;&?;&?; a bone.] (Zoöl.) The bone or shell of cuttlefish. See Illust. under Cuttlefish.

Se*pon" (#), n. See Supawn. [Local, U.S.]

Se*pose" (?), v. t. [L. pref se- aside + E. pose.] To set apart. [Obs.] Donne.

Se*pos"it (?), v. t. [L. sepositus, p. p. of seponere to set aside.] To set aside; to give up. [Obs.]

Sep`o*si"tion (&?;), n. [L. sepositio.] The act of setting aside, or of giving up. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

Se"poy (?), n. [Per. siph, fr. siph an army. Cf. Spahi.] A native of India employed as a soldier in the service of a European power, esp. of Great Britain; an Oriental soldier disciplined in the European manner.

||Sep*pu"ku (?), n. Same as Hara-kiri.

Seppuku, or hara-kiri, also came into vogue.

W. E. Griffis.

Sep"sin (?), n. [Gr. &?;&?;&?; putrefaction.] (Physiol. Chem.) A soluble poison (ptomaine) present in putrid blood. It is also formed in the putrefaction of proteid matter in general.

||Sep"sis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;&?;&?; putrefaction.] (Med.) The ||poisoning of the system by the introduction of putrescent material ||into the blood.

Sept (?), n. [A corruption of sect, n.] A clan, tribe, or family, proceeding from a common progenitor; -- used especially of the ancient clans in Ireland.

The chief, struck by the illustration, asked at once to be baptized, and all his sept followed his example.

S. Lover.

||Sep*tæ"mi*a (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;&?;&?; putrid + &?;&?;&?; ||blood.] (Med.) Septicæmia.

Sep"tal (?), a. Of or pertaining to a septum or septa, as of a coral or a shell.

Sep"tane (?), n. [L. septem seven.] (Chem.) See Heptane. [R.]

Sep"tan`gle (?), n. [Septi- + angle.] (Geom.) A figure which has seven angles; a heptagon. [R.]

Sep*tan"gu*lar (?), a. Heptagonal.

||Sep*ta"ri*um (?), n.;pl. Septaria (#). [NL., fr. L. septum, saeptum, ||an inclosure, a partition, fr. sepire, saepire, to inclose.] (Geol.) ||A flattened concretionary nodule, usually of limestone, intersected ||within by cracks which are often filled with calcite, barite, or ||other minerals.

Sep"tate (?), a. [L. septum, saeptum, partition.] Divided by partition or partitions; having septa; as, a septate pod or shell.

Sep*tem"ber (?), n. [L., fr. septem seven, as being the seventh month of the Roman year, which began with March: cf. F. septembre. See Seven.] The ninth month of the year, containing thurty days.

Sep*tem"ber*er (?), n. A Setembrist. Carlyle.