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Seedy

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

Seeing

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.

Seek

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

Seek-no-further

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

Seeker

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

Seel

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

Seem

To befit; to beseem.

Seemer

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

Seeming

Appearance; show; semblance; fair appearance; speciousness.

Seemingly

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

Seemliness

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

Seemly

In a decent or suitable manner; becomingly.

Seen

Versed; skilled; accomplished.

Seepage

The act or process of seeping; percolation.

Seer

A person who foresees events; a prophet.

Seeress

A female seer; a prophetess.

Seerfish

A scombroid food fish of Madeira (Cybium Commersonii).

Seerhand

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

Seership

The office or quality of a seer.

Seersucker

A light fabric, originally made in the East Indies, of silk and linen, usually having alternating stripes, and a slightly craped or puckered surface; also, a cotton fabric of similar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.

Seesaw

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

Seethe

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

Seether

A pot for boiling things; a boiler.

Seg

A castrated bull.

Seggar

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

Segment

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

Segmentation

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.

Segmented

Divided into segments or joints; articulated.

Segno

A sign. See Al segno, and Dal segno.

Sego

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

Segregate

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

Segregation

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

Seiches

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

Seid

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

Seidlitz

Of or pertaining to Seidlitz, a village in Bohemia.

Seigneurial

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

Seigniorage

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.

Seignioral

Of or pertaining to a seignior; seigneurial.

Seignioralty

The territory or authority of a seignior, or lord.

Seigniory

The power or authority of a lord; dominion.

Seine

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.

Seiner

One who fishes with a seine.

Seirospore

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

Seismogram

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

Seismograph

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

Seismographic

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

Seismography

A writing about, or a description of, earthquakes.

Seismometer

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

Seismometric

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

Seismometry

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

Seity

Something peculiar to one's self.

Seize

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

Seizer

One who, or that which, seizes.

Seizin

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.

Seizing

The act of taking or grasping suddenly.

Seizor

One who seizes, or takes possession.

Seizure

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.

Sejunction

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

Sekes

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

Selachian

One of the Selachii. See Illustration in Appendix.

Selachii

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

Selachostomi

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

Selaginella

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.

Selah

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.

Select

To choose and take from a number; to take by preference from among others; to pick out; to cull; as, to select the best authors for perusal.

Selection

The act of selecting, or the state of being selected; choice, by preference.

Selectman

One of a board of town officers chosen annually in the New England States to transact the general public business of the town, and have a kind of executive authority. The number is usually from three to seven in each town.

Selenate

A salt of selenic acid; -- formerly called also seleniate.

Selenhydric

Of, pertaining to, or designating, hydrogen selenide, H2Se, regarded as an acid analogous to sulphydric acid.

Selenic

Of or pertaining to selenium; derived from, or containing, selenium; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a higher valence as contrasted with selenious compounds.

Selenide

A binary compound of selenium, or a compound regarded as binary; as, ethyl selenide.

Seleniferous

Containing, or impregnated with, selenium; as, seleniferous pyrites.

Selenious

Of, pertaining to, or containing, selenium; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a lower valence as contrasted with selenic compounds.

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