ret Hill= (_The_). Ossian said to Oscar, when he resigned to him the
command of the morrow's battle, "Be thine the secret hill to-night,"
referring to the Gaelic custom of the commander of an army retiring to a
secret hill the night before a battle, to hold communion with the ghosts
of departed heroes.--Ossian, _Cathlin of Clutha_.

=Secret Tribunal= (_The_), the count of the Holy Vehme.--Sir W. Scott,
_Anne of Geierstein_ (time, Edward IV.).

=Sedgwick= (_Doomsday_), William Sedgwick, a fanatical "prophet" in the
Commonwealth, who pretended that it had been revealed to him in a vision
that the day of doom was at hand.

=Sedillo=, the licentiate, with whom Gil Blas took service as a footman.
Sedillo was a gouty old gourmand of 69. Being ill, he sent for Dr.
Sangrado, who took from him six porringers of blood every day, and dosed
him incessantly with warm water, giving him two or three pints at a
time, saying, "a patient cannot be blooded too much; for it is a great
error to suppose that blood is needful for the preservation of life.
Warm water," he maintained, "drunk in abundance, is the true specific in
all distempers." When the licentiate died under this treatment, the
doctor insisted it was because his patient had neither lost blood enough
nor drunk enough warm water.--Lesage, _Gil Blas_, ii. 1, 2 (1715).

=Sedley= (_Mr._), a wealthy London stock-broker, brought to ruin by the
fall of the Funds just prior to the battle of Waterloo. The old merchant
then tried to earn a meagre pittance by selling wine, coals, or
lottery-tickets by commission, but his bad wine and cheap coals found
but few customers.

_Mrs. Sedley_, wife of Mr. Sedley. A homely, kind-hearted motherly woman
in her prosperous days, but soured by adversity, and quick to take
offence.

_Amelia Sedley_, daughter of the stock-broker, educated at Miss
Pinkerton's academy, Chiswick Mall, and engaged to Captain George
Osborne, son of a rich London merchant. After the ruin of old Sedley,
George married Amelia, and was disinherited by his father. He was adored
by his young wife, but fell on the field of Waterloo. Amelia then
returned to her father, and lived in great indigence, but Captain Dobbin
greatly loved her, and did much to relieve her worst wants. Captain
Dobbin rose in his profession to the rank of colonel, and married the
young widow.

_Joseph Sedley_, a collector, of Boggley Wollah; a fat, sensual,
conceited dandy, vain, shy, and vulgar