Index of English words, starting with "se"

(1) - Sessile (a.) Permanently attached; -- said of the gonophores of certain hydroids which never became detached.
(2) - Sessile (a.) Resting directly upon the main stem or branch, without a petiole or footstalk; as, a sessile leaf or blossom.
(3) - Sessile (a.) Attached without any sensible projecting support.

(1) - Session (n.) Hence, also, the time, period, or term during which a court, council, legislature, etc., meets daily for business; or, the space of time between the first meeting and the prorogation or adjournment; thus, a session of Parliaments is opened with a speech from the throne, and closed by prorogation. The session of a judicial court is called a term.
(2) - Session (n.) The actual sitting of a court, council, legislature, etc., or the actual assembly of the members of such a body, for the transaction of business.
(3) - Session (n.) The act of sitting, or the state of being seated.

(1) - Sessional (a.) Of or pertaining to a session or sessions.

(1) - Sesterce (n.) A Roman coin or denomination of money, in value the fourth part of a denarius, and originally containing two asses and a half, afterward four asses, -- equal to about two pence sterling, or four cents.