Service, Foreign. See [Foreign Service].
Service, Home. See [Home Service].
Service, Secret. Any service performed by an individual in a clandestine secret manner. It likewise means intelligence or information, given by spies when countries are engaged in war, for which they receive pecuniary compensation.
Serviceable. Capable of performing all military duty, or of being used in the military service.
Servile or Slave War. See [Rome].
Session. The actual sitting of a court, council, etc., or the actual assembly of the members of such a body for the transaction of business. Hence, also the time, period, or term during which a court, council, and the like, meet daily for business; or the space of time between the first meeting and prorogation or adjournment.
Sestus. A town in Thrace, situated at the narrowest part of the Hellespont, opposite Abydos in Asia, from which it was only seven stadia distant. It was always reckoned a place of importance in consequence of its commanding, to a great extent, the passage of the Hellespont. It was for some time in possession of the Persians, but was retaken by the Greeks, 478 B.C., after a long siege. It subsequently formed part of the Athenian empire.
Set. A word used in a military sense in various combinations; as, to set a sentinel, is to place a soldier at any particular spot for its security. To set on, is to attack. To set at defiance, is to defy, to dare to combat, etc. To set up, is to make a man fit for military movements and parade.
Seteef, or Setif (anc. Sitipha, or Sitifi). A town of Algeria, distinguished by the obstinate resistance it made against the Saracens, when Northern Africa was overrun by that fierce and warlike people. The old city is now in ruins.
Setendy. In the East Indies, the militia is so called.