Seneca : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Seneca	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for Seneca
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Seneca n Roman statesman and philosopher who was an advisor to Nero; his nine extant tragedies are modeled on Greek tragedies (circa 4 BC - 65 AD) Synonym(s): Seneca, Lucius Annaeus Seneca a member of the Iroquoian people formerly living in New York State south of Lake Ontario the Iroquoian language spoken by the Seneca
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Senecas \Sen"ecas\, 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}.]
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Seneca, IL (village, FIPS 68640) Location: 41.30337 N, 88.61352 W Population (1990): 1878 (685 housing units) Area: 7.7 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 61360 Seneca, KS (city, FIPS 63950) Location: 39.83570 N, 96.06578 W Population (1990): 2027 (944 housing units) Area: 3.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Seneca, MO (city, FIPS 66674) Location: 36.83788 N, 94.60849 W Population (1990): 1885 (831 housing units) Area: 4.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 64865 Seneca, NE (village, FIPS 44385) Location: 42.04272 N, 100.83134 W Population (1990): 78 (44 housing units) Area: 0.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 69161 Seneca, NM Zip code(s): 88437 Seneca, OR (city, FIPS 66200) Location: 44.13470 N, 118.97564 W Population (1990): 191 (121 housing units) Area: 2.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 97873 Seneca, PA (CDP, FIPS 69272) Location: 41.37574 N, 79.70553 W Population (1990): 1029 (423 housing units) Area: 5.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 16346 Seneca, SC (town, FIPS 65095) Location: 34.68613 N, 82.95782 W Population (1990): 7726 (3367 housing units) Area: 16.4 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 29678 Seneca, SD (town, FIPS 58180) Location: 45.06097 N, 99.50808 W Population (1990): 81 (45 housing units) Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 57473
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Seneca {Oberon-V}