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# Title: Lexicon Technicum: Or, An Universal English Dictionary Of Arts And Sciences (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 71; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 71)
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Phur: The ale ot ic is co be a Vchicle e0 the
Blood: And chis iS FHaE WaLEY PAVE FHAE SePCTATCS
trom che Bl0od in the Vessel, afrer any Person is ler
Biocd. A Sinall Flear will Congulare ic.
SE: AMOEID FA Ossa, arC 16, 19, 20, anc
Tomerimes more lictle Bones, (0 called From che
likeness chey trare eo Sesamum Sceds, Wrhich ar
Found in che foynes oFthe Flands and FCet.
SESOOTAL. TEK, in Musick. Sec Time.
SESOOTALTEKAL Proportion, is wrhen ar
NTumber Or Ouanciry contains another once and ar
hals, and the Number lo containcd in the Greater
IS Paiit eo be ro it in Subsequialteral Proportion.
SESOVIODADRATE, an Aspect Or POStIOS
Of the Planets, When ac che Distance oF 4 Sien
and an halF, Or 135 Degrees From each octier.
SELONVIODINTITE, on Alpect ot the Pla
necs, wrten 108 Degrees Distant trom cach 0.
CHeF.
SESOOTTERTLANAL Proporrion, is When
any Number or Ouancies contains anocher once
and onc chird.
SESSIOHIS, is a sutiris oF fustices in Courr upon
Commission, as che sessions of Oyer and Terminer,
Duartersessions, Ochervise called General-sessions
oppolire Wvhereto, are Lspecial, ochermise called
Prioy-sessions Which are procured upon lome speci
al occation, for che more spcedy dispareh o
Justice
Sessions of Parliament, is a Sessions which conri
nues cill ic be prorosued or dissolved.
SETACEOMI, is When the Skin OF the NecH
is caken up and run chronsh wich a Nccdle; anc
che Wound attermard kepe open by Bristles, 
Skean oF Silt, 590. Wrhich is atter mored re
and FrO, tO Sire venE rO che FTumOrS chac are il
disposed in Fhat Patt. Tis called al(o Seton anc
Setum.
SETON, Or Setum. Sec Setaceum.
SETT, When the Seamen obserre on wtra
Point oF che Compals, che sun, Land, (9c. bears
they call ic, Setrins che Sun, or Land, by cheis
Compals.
SFLTLE a Deck, is che Nord at Sea For Fak.
ins a Deck lorver chanic was ac tirst, Which ches
Call serrline a Deck.
SEVERAC caile, is thac Wherebr Land is giv.
en ox entailed severally, to tuvo Men and cheir
Nrires, and ro rhe FPeirs oftheir Bodies Degotten;
che Donces have jorne Fctare For cheir uvo Lives
and ret they have severat Tuheritance, becausc thic
TRuc oF the one Bai have his Moitr, and cho
TNue oF the orher, the orher Moirr.
SEVEKAL, Tenancy, is a PlCa OF FxCepriOn ta
kenco a Wrir chac is laid asainst rivo a5 joyB
Wtich are several.
SEVEHANCE, is che singlins or sererins oFtvo
Or more, thac are joined in one Wrir.
For Eixample: HF evo join in a Writ de libertare
probanda, and the one atrerrard B. Non suir.
Flere Severance ispermitted; Pochac norwichstand.
ins che Non-suir oF che one, che ocher maz sere.
rally proceed.
There is also severance oF che Tenants in an AI.
(izc, Whenas one oxtro, or more Disleilors appea
upon the Wric, and not thie other.
AS alto Sedan in Attaints, and Severance Ir
Debt, WVHere EVO OF OTC LXCCUTOrS are named
Plainciss, and eHe one refules to proseeure.
SEW, wten a Ship at Lou-water comesro lic
onthecround, and ro lie us, ces las siseh sen
ed; and  e De se e ). Ther laY, IC
SFZABELNAKL Lables, vere Tables contri-
ved (Formerty) ot Parrs proporrional, Where by In.
spection, rou may And the Produet ot tWO Sedd
senaries ro be mulriplied, or che Ouorient ot rvo
That are ro be divided, (90
SEZAGESTMAL Fractions, Or Sexacenaries, are
Tuch as hare alrvars 60 for their Denominator
Therc vere antiener no octers uled in Astronomi
cal Operations; and cher are sill rerained in manz
Cales: tho Decimal Arithmetick BeginS LO DrOW
in Dse nou in Astronomical Calcularions
In chese Fractions, wtrick some call Astronomi-
cals) ehe Denominator is usualls omiried, and che
Numerator ouly vrirten donn: Thus.
4, 59, 3311, 50111, 161111
Isto Beread, 4 Desrees, 59 Minutes, 32 Scconde
oF a Deoree, Or boch parrs ot a Minure, 50 Thirds,
16 Fourchs, (90
The Ancients, betore che introducing OF AIZO
rim by che Numeral Figures no in ule, (sindine
it cronblesome eo express and manase Fractions ob
divers Denominators, especially inhen cher areto
be expressed by great Numbers; and croublesome
also to express and manase Incegers, when chey
happen to be grear Numbers) choueht Ar to diride
an Integer into 60 Parrs, Which they calld ncnJa
wrhich no re call Minures, or Scruples; and
cach oF these into 60 Parrs, Wtich chey called Se-
conds, and sit there WVere veE necd OF ORCATeE RX
actnels) each ot chese inco 60 Thirds; and cach ot
these into as many FourtHs; and so onward, a5
Far as there vere occasion, wtich chey called Sexa-
Selms, Or Sexagestimal ParES.
And (20 aroid orear Numbers) a Collection oF
sixry Inregers pier called a Sexagene; and sIXLy
ot luch, 2 Second Sexagene; and sixey ot rhele, a
Third; and (0 onward, 25 chere WaS OCCA-
SOn.
FHUS, FOF Z, THC FOUEH PaFE OF an Integer, (be
it LTour, Day, Degree, Or Wwhaterer et(e) chey pur
15I (chacis, 15 Minures); FOr f, they pur 71. 301
(chatis, 7 Minures and 30 Scconds); Wvhich is ex
actlr che lame in Value: And For 7,) because chis
cannot be exactiy exprels d in Sexase(ins) they
rouldpur 8, (which is preuy near, buc somenhat
e0o licle) or g (which is vec nearer, buc lomentrac
t00 much) or (if thele be nor exaet enoush for che
Present purpo(e) 8 341, Or 8 341 X7III; OF ver
more accuratelr, it necd be, cill ther come 10 (0
much exactness, a5 char the sinall remainins disse
rence mighe Patelr be neglected.
lemy, (by ivhom cher leem co hare been hrst intro-
duced) and other Greck Wricers, but by the Arabs
also, (in imitation oF Prolemy) and are continued in
Dsc Wich us to his D ay.
Whereby the Arabic Tears otthe Fegira begin later
than our Accoune by che Lears ot our Lord) they
PUE TWI 31 31 358; thac is, 1 chird Sexagene,
3 seconds Sexagenes, 3 frst Sexagenes, and 35 Day5.
And chis secbune e meet wich in ehie Alphonsine
Tables, and (Ot lacer Limes) in thole ot Lansber-
Sius,
sers ro tuch a PaTE
And lucis Sexasens ere uled noc only by Pto-
50 for 227075, (wrtich is the NDet OL Dass
And For the Bectet expediting the Work oF MuI-
Severance OF Corn, is che currins and carrvins il
OA From che Grourd; and Cometimes the serrins
ouc ihe Lyche teom che terl d loc Cderu id called
Severance.
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