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Seneca

Senecas \Sen"e*cas\, n. pl.; sing. Seneca. (Ethnol.) A tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited a part of Western New York. This tribe was the most numerous and most warlike of the Five Nations.

Seneca grass(Bot.), holy grass. See under Holy.

Seneca eil, petroleum or naphtha.

Seneca root, or Seneca snakeroot (Bot.), the rootstock of an American species of milkworth ( Polygala Senega) having an aromatic but bitter taste. It is often used medicinally as an expectorant and diuretic, and, in large doses, as an emetic and cathartic. [Written also Senega root, and Seneka root.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Seneca

1610s, from Dutch Sennecas, collective name for the Iroquois tribes of what became upper New York, of uncertain origin, perhaps from a Mahican name for the Oneida or their village. Earlier sinnekens, senakees; form probably influenced by the name of the ancient Roman philosopher.

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Seneca, MO -- U.S. city in Missouri
Population (2000): 2135
Housing Units (2000): 876
Land area (2000): 1.734021 sq. miles (4.491094 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.734021 sq. miles (4.491094 sq. km)
FIPS code: 66674
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 36.840318 N, 94.609918 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 64865
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Seneca, MO
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Seneca, NE -- U.S. village in Nebraska
Population (2000): 51
Housing Units (2000): 52
Land area (2000): 0.120623 sq. miles (0.312411 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.120623 sq. miles (0.312411 sq. km)
FIPS code: 44385
Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location: 42.042717 N, 100.831763 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 69161
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Seneca, NE
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Seneca, OR -- U.S. city in Oregon
Population (2000): 223
Housing Units (2000): 115
Land area (2000): 0.832671 sq. miles (2.156607 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.832671 sq. miles (2.156607 sq. km)
FIPS code: 66200
Located within: Oregon (OR), FIPS 41
Location: 44.135605 N, 118.971854 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 97873
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Seneca, OR
Seneca
Seneca, IL -- U.S. village in Illinois
Population (2000): 2053
Housing Units (2000): 786
Land area (2000): 3.307397 sq. miles (8.566118 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.258224 sq. miles (0.668796 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.565621 sq. miles (9.234914 sq. km)
FIPS code: 68640
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 41.308618 N, 88.607010 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 61360
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Seneca, IL
Seneca
Seneca, PA -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Pennsylvania
Population (2000): 966
Housing Units (2000): 432
Land area (2000): 2.242412 sq. miles (5.807819 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.242412 sq. miles (5.807819 sq. km)
FIPS code: 69272
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location: 41.377828 N, 79.703224 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 16346
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Headwords:
Seneca, PA
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Seneca, KS -- U.S. city in Kansas
Population (2000): 2122
Housing Units (2000): 978
Land area (2000): 1.543272 sq. miles (3.997055 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.543272 sq. miles (3.997055 sq. km)
FIPS code: 63950
Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location: 39.835693 N, 96.066054 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Seneca, SC -- U.S. city in South Carolina
Population (2000): 7652
Housing Units (2000): 3677
Land area (2000): 7.055264 sq. miles (18.273048 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.038215 sq. miles (0.098976 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 7.093479 sq. miles (18.372024 sq. km)
FIPS code: 65095
Located within: South Carolina (SC), FIPS 45
Location: 34.684145 N, 82.955778 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 29678
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Seneca, SC
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Seneca, SD -- U.S. town in South Dakota
Population (2000): 58
Housing Units (2000): 36
Land area (2000): 0.411362 sq. miles (1.065423 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.411362 sq. miles (1.065423 sq. km)
FIPS code: 58180
Located within: South Dakota (SD), FIPS 46
Location: 45.060962 N, 99.509911 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 57473
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Headwords:
Seneca, SD
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Seneca -- U.S. County in Ohio
Population (2000): 58683
Housing Units (2000): 23692
Land area (2000): 550.587565 sq. miles (1426.015186 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.781014 sq. miles (4.612806 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 552.368579 sq. miles (1430.627992 sq. km)
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 41.128917 N, 83.173728 W
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Seneca, OH
Seneca County
Seneca County, OH
Seneca -- U.S. County in New York
Population (2000): 33342
Housing Units (2000): 14794
Land area (2000): 324.912952 sq. miles (841.520646 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 65.600825 sq. miles (169.905350 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 390.513777 sq. miles (1011.425996 sq. km)
Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36
Location: 42.801104 N, 76.827879 W
Headwords:
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Seneca, NY
Seneca County
Seneca County, NY
Wikipedia
Seneca

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Seneca (name)

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Seneca (1812 ship)

Seneca was a merchant schooner that the Provincial Marine commandeered at the outbreak of the War of 1812. She belonged to a Mr. Ebeneezer Hubbard and the British seized her at Kingston, Ontario on 25 June 1812. She may have been armed with two guns, and Commodore Isaac Chauncey at one point reported that she was armed with 4 guns and had a crew of 40 men. On 2 November she was York undergoing a survey of her stores. On 21 November cannon fire from Fort Niagara sank her as she lay in the Niagara River under Navy Hall.

Seneca (crater)

Seneca is a lunar crater that is located towards the east-northeastern limb, less than one crater diameter to the north of Plutarch. To the northwest is the crater Hahn, and due north lies the large walled plain Gauss.

This crater has been heavily eroded by impacts, with an outer rim that has been distorted and overlain by several small craters. It appears roughly diamond-shaped as viewed from above, although it is heavily foreshortened when seen from the Earth. A small crater lies along the western rim and inner wall. The small crater Seneca D is attached to the eastern exterior. There is also a smaller crater across the northern apex of the rim. The interior floor is somewhat irregular, particularly in the southern half.

Seneca (Metro Rail)

Seneca is a Buffalo Metro Rail station located in the 200 block of Main Street between Seneca and Swan Streets in the Free Fare Zone, which allows passengers free travel between Erie Canal Harbor Station and Fountain Plaza Station. Passengers continuing northbound past Fountain Plaza are required to provide proof-of-payment. Seneca Station is one of only two stations that are the closest to the Amtrak Exchange Street Station located on Exchange Street (just east of Washington Street) beneath Interstate 190 (the other being Erie Canal Harbor Station, located 1,584 feet south).

Seneca (cigarette)

Seneca cigarettes are a popular brand of additive-free cigarettes manufactured by Grand River Enterprises in Six Nations, Ontario, Canada.Seneca Cigarettes come in a variety of flavors, such as regular, menthol, menthol smooth, lights, ultra lights, non-filters, and a variety of options from kings to 100s, and a 120-size line. The regular flavor box features a distinctive red color, with a logo of a mountain range and a Seneca male with a Gustoweh headdress, which is exemplary of the traditional Seneca Culture.

In August 2010 the Seneca Free Trade association won an injunction allowing them to continue postal deliveries of purchased cigarettes (the March 2010 Prevent All Cigarette Trafficking Act had previously legislated against such trade).

In May 2013, Seneca also announced and introduced a disposable E-cig line featuring three flavors, regular, menthol, and bold. These e-cigs are estimated to have 300 puffs, and come in packaging similar to the normal cigarette line, except distributed in single size and carton size packs. In June 2013, ESenecacigs.com was the first to announce the distribution of the E-Seneca cigarette.

Usage examples of "seneca".

Indian terms taken directly into English by the first colonists come from the two eastern families: the Iroquois confederacy, whose members included the Mohawk, Cherokee, Oneida, Seneca, Delaware and Huron tribes, and the even larger Algonquian group, which included Algonquin, Arapaho, Cree, Delaware, Illinois, Kickapoo, Narragansett, Ojibwa, Penobscot, Pequot and Sac and Fox, among many others.

The Seneca had made their canoes from the bark of a red elm or a bitternut hickory, stripped from the tree in one piece, stretched over a frame of white ash, and sewn at the bow and stern.

Seneca chuckled briefly, then returned to their task of consoling Sabinus over the loss of his position.

His two preceptors, Seneca and Burrus, controlled his mind, and restrained for a time the constitutional insanity of the Claudian race.

Her words betrayed her intimacy with the Dakotan leader, and too much scrutiny of Seneca.

For this help, Seneca knew his enemies would call him a pander, but, given a lusty young emperor whose passion would not be bridled, it was better to let him indulge in an affair with a harmless freedwoman than risk worse scandals with some of the powerful and ambitious women of Rome.

Senator Lucius Junius Gallio, the brother of our esteemed Annaeus Seneca.

Seneca did, in fact, serve frequently as assessor, and it was his brother Gallio who judged Paul in Corinth.

He is a mild and decent man, who, unlike his brothers Seneca and Gallio, is totally without ambition.

Three lemonwood tables were covered with open scrolls, while the fourth, with inkstand, contained pages of papyrus on which Seneca had been working.

Divine or human, inspired or only a reforming Essene, it must be agreed that His teachings are far nobler, far purer, far less alloyed with error and imperfection, far less of the earth earthly, than those of Socrates, Plato, Seneca, or Mahomet, or any other of the great moralists and Reformers of the world.

The chests of the Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca head chiefs were also bared to the glow.

Old Skanawati, the Onondaga, old Atotarho, Onondaga, too, Satekariwate, the Mohawk, Kanokarih, the Seneca, and others, head chiefs though they were of the three senior tribes, did not hesitate to eat as the rich Romans of the Empire ate, swallowing immense quantities of all kinds of meat, and drinking a sort of cider that the women made.

Seneca women met at Tonawanda one evening at dusk to sing the Ohgiwe, the Dance for the Dead.

Meanwhile, the philosopher Seneca was giving Nero the best education available in Rome, while Agrippina launched rumors that Britannicus was an epileptic and slowly going insane.