1. (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Carex, perennial, endogenous, innutritious herbs, often growing in
dense tufts in marshy places. They have triangular jointless stems, a spiked inflorescence, and long
grasslike leaves which are usually rough on the margins and midrib. There are several hundred species.
The name is sometimes given to any other plant of the order Cyperaceæ, which includes Carex, Cyperus,
Scirpus, and many other genera of rushlike plants.
2. (Zoöl.) A flock of herons.
Sedge hen (Zoöl.), the clapper rail. See under 5th Rail. — Sedge warbler (Zoöl.), a small European
singing bird It often builds its nest among reeds; — called also sedge bird, sedge wren, night warbler,
and Scotch nightingale.
Sedged
(Sedged) a. Made or composed of sedge.
With your sedged crowns and ever-harmless looks.
Shak. Sedgy
(Sedg"y) a. Overgrown with sedge.
On the gentle Severn'b6s sedgy bank.
Shak. Sedilia
(||Se*dil"i*a) n. pl.; sing. Sedile [L. sedile a seat.] (Arch.) Seats in the chancel of a church
near the altar for the officiating clergy during intervals of service. Hook.
Sediment
(Sed"i*ment) n. [F. sédiment, L. sedimentum a settling, fr. sedere to sit, to settle. See Sit.]
1. The matter which subsides to the bottom, from water or any other liquid; settlings; lees; dregs.
2. (Geol.) The material of which sedimentary rocks are formed.
Sedimental
(Sed`i*men"tal) a. Sedimentary.
Sedimentary
(Sed`i*men"ta*ry) a. [Cf. F. sédimentaire.] Of or pertaining to sediment; formed by sediment; containing
matter that has subsided.
Sedimentary rocks. (Geol.) See Aqueous rocks, under Aqueous.
