seney

‖n. [ L., groundsel, lit., an old man. So called in allusion to the hoary appearance of the pappus. ] (Bot.) A very large genus of composite plants including the groundsel and the golden ragwort. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. senectus aged, old age, senex old. ] Old age. [ R. ] “Senectitude, weary of its toils.” H. Miller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) Seneca root. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Gum senegal. See under Gum. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med. Chem.) A substance extracted from the rootstock of the Polygala Senega (Seneca root), and probably identical with polygalic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Senescent. ] The state of growing old; decay by time. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. senescent, p. pr. of senescere to grow old, incho. fr. senere to be old. ] Growing old; decaying with the lapse of time. “The night was senescent.” Poe. “With too senescent air.” Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. seneschal, LL. seniscalcus, of Teutonic origin; cf. Goth. sineigs old, skalks, OHG. scalch, AS. scealc. Cf. Senior, Marshal. ] An officer in the houses of princes and dignitaries, in the Middle Ages, who had the superintendence of feasts and domestic ceremonies; a steward. Sometimes the seneschal had the dispensing of justice, and was given high military commands. [ 1913 Webster ]

Then marshaled feast
Served up in hall with sewers and seneschale. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Philip Augustus, by a famous ordinance in 1190, first established royal courts of justice, held by the officers called baitiffs, or seneschals, who acted as the king's lieutenants in his demains. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]