Diligent in application or pursuit; constant, steady, and persevering in business, or in endeavors to effect an object; steadily industrious; assiduous; as, the sedulous bee.

A genus of plants, mostly perennial, having succulent leaves and cymose flowers; orpine; stonecrop.

To have the power of sight, or of perceiving by the proper organs; to possess or employ the sense of vision; as, he sees distinctly.

A full-grown male fur seal.

To sprinkle with seed; to plant seeds in; to sow; as, to seed a field.

A species of lac. See the Note under Lac.

A capsule. A plant (Ludwigia alternifolia) which has somewhat cubical or box-shaped capsules.

A sweet cake or cooky containing aromatic seeds, as caraway.

A seedlip.

One who, or that which, sows or plants seed.

The quality or state of being seedy, shabby, or worn out; a state of wretchedness or exhaustion.

Without seed or seeds.

A plant reared from the seed, as distinguished from one propagated by layers, buds, or the like.

A vessel in which a sower carries the seed to be scattered.

Seedtime.

A sower; one who sows or scatters seed.

The season proper for sowing.

Abounding with seeds; bearing seeds; having run to seeds.

In view of the fact (that); considering; taking into account (that); insmuch as; since; because; -- followed by a dependent clause; as, he did well, seeing that he was so young.

To make search or inquiry; to endeavor to make discovery.

A kind of choice winter apple, having a subacid taste; -- formerly called go-no-further.

One who contrives to give himself vexation.

One who seeks; that which is used in seeking or searching.

Good fortune; favorable opportunity; prosperity. [Obs.] /So have I seel/.

In a silly manner.

The rolling or agitation of a ship in a storm.

See Silly.

To befit; to beseem.

One who seems; one who carries or assumes an appearance or semblance.

Appearance; show; semblance; fair appearance; speciousness.

In appearance; in show; in semblance; apparently; ostensibly.

Semblance; fair appearance; plausibility.

Unseemly.

In a seemly manner.

The quality or state of being seemly: comeliness; propriety.

In a decent or suitable manner; becomingly.

Comely or decent appearance.

Versed; skilled; accomplished.

The act or process of seeping; percolation.

A person who foresees events; a prophet.

A female seer; a prophetess.

A scombroid food fish of Madeira (Cybium Commersonii).

A kind of muslin of a texture between nainsook and mull.

The office or quality of a seer.

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, a cotton fabric of similar appearance.

Dry wood.

Moving up and down, or to and fro; having a reciprocating motion.

Sate; sat.

imp. of Seethe.

To be a state of ebullition or violent commotion; to be hot; to boil.

A pot for boiling things; a boiler.

A castrated bull.

See Cigar.

A case or holder made of fire clay, in which fine pottery is inclosed while baking in the kin.

The hedge sparrow.

To divide or separate into parts in growth; to undergo segmentation, or cleavage, as in the segmentation of the ovum.

Relating to, or being, a segment.

The act or process of dividing into segments; specifically (Biol.), a self-division into segments as a result of growth; cell cleavage; cell multiplication; endogenous cell formation.

Divided into segments or joints; articulated.

Sluggishness; dullness; inactivity.

A liliaceous plant (Calochortus Nuttallii) of Western North America, and its edible bulb; -- so called by the Ute Indians and the Mormons.

To separate from a mass, and collect together about centers or along lines of fracture, as in the process of crystallization or solidification.

The act of segregating, or the state of being segregated; separation from others; a parting.

Local oscillations in level observed in the case of some lakes, as Lake Geneva.

A descendant of Mohammed through his daughter Fatima and nephew Ali.

Of or pertaining to Seidlitz, a village in Bohemia.

Saw.

Of or pertaining to the lord of a manor; manorial.

A lord; the lord of a manor.

Something claimed or taken by virtue of sovereign prerogative; specifically, a charge or toll deducted from bullion brought to a mint to be coined; the difference between the cost of a mass of bullion and the value as money of the pieces coined from it.

Of or pertaining to a seignior; seigneurial.

The territory or authority of a seignior, or lord.

Same as Seigneurial.

To lord it over.

The power or authority of a lord; dominion.

A large net, one edge of which is provided with sinkers, and the other with floats. It hangs vertically in the water, and when its ends are brought together or drawn ashore incloses the fish.

One who fishes with a seine.

Fishing with a seine.

A saint.

Sanctuary.

Same as Seerfish.

One of several spores arranged in a chain as in certain algae of the genus Callithamnion.

See Seize.

See Seizin.

Of or pertaining to an earthquake; caused by an earthquake.

The trace or record of an earth tremor, made by means of a seismograph.

An apparatus for registering the shocks and undulatory motions of earthquakes.

Of or pertaining to a seismograph; indicated by a seismograph.

A writing about, or a description of, earthquakes.

Of or pertaining to seismology.

The science of earthquakes.

An instrument for measuring the direction, duration, and force of earthquakes and like concussions.

Of or pertaining to seismometry, or seismometer; as, seismometric instruments; seismometric measurements.

The mensuration of such phenomena of earthquakes as can be expressed in numbers, or by their relation to the coordinates of space.

A seismometer.

Something peculiar to one's self.

That may be seized.

To fall or rush upon suddenly and lay hold of; to gripe or grasp suddenly; to reach and grasp.

One who, or that which, seizes.

Possession; possession of an estate of froehold. It may be either in deed or in law; the former when there is actual possession, the latter when there is a right to such possession by construction of law. In some of the United States seizin means merely ownership.

The act of taking or grasping suddenly.

One who seizes, or takes possession.

The act of seizing, or the state of being seized; sudden and violent grasp or gripe; a taking into possession; as, the seizure of a thief, a property, a throne, etc.

Sitting, as a lion or other beast.

To separate.

The act of disjoining, or the state of being disjoined.

Capable of being disjoined.

To seek.

A place in a pagan temple in which the images of the deities were inclosed.

One of the Selachii. See Illustration in Appendix.

An order of elasmobranchs including the sharks and rays; the Plagiostomi. Called also Selacha, Selache, and Selachoidei.

Same as Selachii.

A division of ganoid fishes which includes the paddlefish, in which the mouth is armed with small teeth.

A genus of cryptogamous plants resembling Lycopodia, but producing two kinds of spores; also, any plant of this genus. Many species are cultivated in conservatories.

A word of doubtful meaning, occuring frequently in the Psalms; by some, supposed to signify silence or a pause in the musical performance of the song.

A seal.

Rarely known; unusual; strange.

Rarely; seldom.

Seldom.

Rare; infrequent.