Defn: Any plant of the genus Carex, perennial, endogenous 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.
Note: 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.)
Defn: A flock of herons. Sedge ken (Zoöl.), the clapper rail. See under 5th Rail. — Sedge warbler (Zoöl.), a small European singing bird (Acrocephalus phragmitis). It often builds its nest among reeds; — called also sedge bird, sedge wren, night warbler, and Scotch nightingale.
SEDGED
Sedged, a.
Defn: Made or composed of sedge.
With your sedged crowns and ever-harmless looks. Shak.
SEDGY
Sedg"y, a.
Defn: Overgrown with sedge.
On the gentle Severn''s sedgy bank. Shak.
SEDILIA
Se*dil"i*a, n. pl.; sing. Sedile (. Etym: [L. sedile a seat.] (Arch.)
Defn: Seats in the chancel of a church near the altar for the officiating clergy during intervals of service. Hook.