Sĕrtan, Arabic, the zodiacal sign Cancer.
Sésa, remainder, what is left, leavings, rest, remnant. Sésa and Sésha, C. 764, remainder, leavings, rest, balance, what is left. Rejected, omited.
Sésaté, meat chopped in small pieces and stuck on a skewer, and then grilled and so served up at table.
Sĕsawi, the mustard plant, Sinapis communis. It is always planted in the humahs, for the sake of the young and tender leaves to be eaten as a vegetable. Crawfurd says the word is Telinga. Probable etymon, Sawi, C. 720, strenght, force, muscular power.
Sĕsĕg, stuffed, crammed full, full up to the neck. Stuffing. Sĕsĕg anggĕl, the stuffing of a pillow.
Sĕsĕgan, to stuff, to cram full. Sung'ut na di sĕsĕgan ku kéjo, he stuffed his mouth full with boiled rice.
Sĕsĕgor, to grunt, to make a grunting noise in sleeping. To breathe heavily through the nose.
Sĕsĕk, close, not wide; crowded; not able to put in, a tight fit.
Sėsékélan, said when some part of the body, as the arm or leg is injured, or has a boil upon it, and a sore cramp is felt on the muscle at a distant part of that limb.
Sésél or Sésélan, to carefully collect and and cut off any small matter of flesh which may adhere to a hide in skinning an animal, as a buffaloe or cow. To shave clean.
Sĕsĕmbén, some small addition. Something made in addition to some other object on a larger scale.
Sĕsĕmon, longing for, but ashamed to ask; abashed. Ulah sĕsĕmon, don't be abashed; From Samu,C. 710, leave, permission.
Sĕsĕmplékan, to break off in small bits. Breaking in chips.
Sĕsĕpkĕn, to insert, to introduce. To put or thrust between.
Sĕsĕr, to move gently, to shove aside, to move by degrees. To remove with cultivation on to the adjoining bit of land, either in open country, or more generally in forest. To encroach upon. See Sĕr.
Sĕsĕr, the head stall of a bridle.
Sésér, heard only in Bang'o sésér, a variety of black and white stork common in the sawahs.
Sĕsompang, the outer side-gallery of a native house, open to the street, and outside the Tĕpas.
Sétan; Arabic, satan, the devil, a demon. Sétan-alas, a forest devil, a term of ignomony and reproach.
Sétra, perfect and accomplished. Possessing property and good birth. Most probably the word Kshatriya, C. 155, a man or woman of the royal or military race. Said also of eatables which are delicious and desirable.
Sétu, the same as Sitū which is more usual and which see.
