Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Sept \Sept\, n. [A corruption of sect, n.]
   A clan, tribe, or family, proceeding from a common
   progenitor; -- used especially of the ancient clans in
   Ireland.

         The chief, struck by the illustration, asked at once to
         be baptized, and all his sept followed his example.
                                                  --S. Lover.

Source : WordNet®

Sept
     n 1: the month following August and preceding October [syn: {September},
           {Sep}]
     2: people descended from a common ancestor; "his family has
        lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower" [syn: {family},
         {family line}, {folk}, {kinfolk}, {kinsfolk}, {phratry}]