an arrondissement of the department of the Maine and Loire, in France, extending over 408 square miles. It is divided into six cantons, and these into seventy-seven communes, and in 1836 contained 58,109 inhabitants. The capital is a small town of the same name, with some trade in linen goods. Its population in 1836 amounted to 2130.

SEGHEANT is the herald's word for a griffin when drawn in a leaping position, and displaying his wings as if ready to fly.