Webster's Dictionary 1913

2674

Seepage

{ Seep″age (?), orSip″age }, n. Water that seeped or oozed through a porous soil.

2675

Seepage (2)

Seep″age, n. The act or process of seeping; percolation.

2676

Seepy

{ Seep″y (?), orSip″y }, a. Oozy; — applied to land under cultivation that is not well drained.

2677

Seer

Seer (sēr), a. Sore; painful. Ray.

2678

Seer (2)

Se″er (sē″ẽr), n. One who sees. Addison.

2679

Seer (3)

Seer (sēr), n. [From See.] A person who foresees events; a prophet. Milton.

2680

Seeress

Seer″ess, n. A female seer; a prophetess.

2681

Seerfish

Seer″fish′ (–fĭsh), n.(Zoöl.) A scombroid food fish of Madeira (Cybium Commersonii).

2682

Seerhand

Seer″hand (?), n. A kind of muslin of a texture between nainsook and mull.

2683

Seership

Seer″ship, n. The office or quality of a seer.

2684

Seersucker

Seer″suck′er (?), n. A light fabric, originally made in the East Indies, of silk and linen, usually having alternating stripes, and a slightly craped or puckered surface; also, ...

2685

Seerwood

Seer″wood′ (?), n. [See Sear.] Dry wood. [Written also searwood.] Dryden.

2686

Seesaw

See″saw′ (?), n. [Probably a reduplication of saw, to express the alternate motion to and fro, as in the act of sawing.] 1. A play among children in which they are seated upon t...

2687

Seesaw (2)

See″saw′, v. i. [imp. & p. p.Seesawad (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Seesawing.] To move with a reciprocating motion; to move backward and forward, or upward and downward.

2688

Seesaw (3)

See″saw′, v. t. To cause to move backward and forward in seesaw fashion.He seesaws himself to and fro. Ld. Lytton.

2689

Seesaw (4)

See″saw′, a. Moving up and down, or to and fro; having a reciprocating motion.

2690

Seet

Seet (?), obs.imp. of Sit. Sate; sat. Chaucer.

2691

Seeth

Seeth (?), obs.imp. of Seethe. Chaucer.

2692

Seethe

Seethe (?), v. t. [imp.Seethed (?) (Sod (�), obs.); p. p.Seethed, Sodden (�); p. pr. & vb. n.Seething.] [OE. sethen, AS. seó�an; akin to D. sieden, OHG. siodan, G. sieden, Icel....

2693

Seethe (2)

Seethe, v. i. To be a state of ebullition or violent commotion; to be hot; to boil. 1 Sam. ii. 13.A long Pointe, round which the Mississippi used to whirl, and seethe, and foam....

2694

Seether

Seeth″er (?), n. A pot for boiling things; a boiler.Like burnished gold the little seether shone. Dryden.

2695

Seg

Seg (?), n. [See Sedge.] (Bot.) 1. Sedge.2. The gladen, and other species of Iris. Prior.

2696

Seg (2)

Seg, n. [Probably from the root of L. secare to cut.] A castrated bull. Halliwell.

2697

Segar

Se‐gar″ (?), n. See Cigar.

2698

Seggar

Seg″gar (?), n. [Prov. E. saggard a seggar, seggard a sort of riding surtout, contr. fr. safeguard.] A case or holder made of fire clay, in which fine pottery is inclosed while ...

2699

Segge

Segge (?), n.(Zoöl.) The hedge sparrow. Halliwell.

2700

Segment

Seg″ment (?), n. [L. segmentum, fr. secare to cut, cut off: cf. F. segment. See Saw a cutting instrument.] 1. One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divi...