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`CENTURY DICTIONARY
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`I.
`; superl. seediest
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`:3.
`die-rag, this orange 55' too
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`{sir'nall bubbles: said of glass.
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`d ssod, etc.
`fibiiiii’g Illiysically bad or low
`loo
`llOCl-l
`a fish.
`Wu: said of
`the sense or power of sight;
`using the eyes to see.
`of sea] having the Sense of
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`rice; inasmuch as; considering.
`) an institution near Morris-
`eI‘SEY, which breeds and trains
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`Eye dogs) as guides and compan-
`people.
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`'ght‘ (set). 105.. Ma seeking. PP?-
`" " n. to see.
`“fails; to search for; look for.
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`, to resort to; as. he sought the
`eace.
`- to explore.
`or inquire for; to try to learn or
`as 'he sought the answer in many
`get or acquire; to aim at; pur-
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`to attempt: used with an infini— A
`bugbl to appease his enemies.
`try to find someone or some-
`' e a search or investigation.
`esort; to pay a Visit (to). [0135.]
`to make pursuit; to attempt to
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`seicento
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`in zoology, (a) any of the sections that
`5.
`form the body of an arthropod; (b) a section
`of a limb between two joints.
`aeg’ment, 9.3. and 9.12; segmented, 191.. pp.-
`segmenting, flit". to divide or become divide
`or split up into segments.
`aeg-men’tdl; a.
`1. having the form of a seg-
`ment of a. Circle.
`,2. of, or having the nature of, a segment or
`segments.
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`3. composed of segments.
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`segmental duct; in anatomy, the primitive
`duct in the excretory organs of the embryo.
`segmental organs; certain organs placed at
`the sides of the body in annelids and con-
`nected with excretion;
`those organs from
`which the kidneys and genital ducts are de-
`veloped in vertebrates.
`segmental tube; a primitive tubule which de-
`velops into a urinary or a. genital tube.
`seg-men'tdl-ly, ads. in or by segments.
`aeg'men-tfir-y, a. segmented.
`so -men-ta‘.’tion, n.
`1. the act of dividing or
`t e state of being divided into segments.
`2. in biology,
`a. progressive growth and
`cleavage of a single cell into many others to
`form a new organism.
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`segmentation of the ovum; the first process of
`germination of the ovum in higher plants and
`animals; that procass by which the original
`cell becomes conVerted wholly or in part into
`a. mass of; smailer cells.
`total segmentation; segmentation in which
`the entire ovum undergoes segmentation:
`also called holoblastic segmentation.
`segomen-ta’tion cav’i-ty, the central cavity
`of a blastula; the blastocoele.
`segimenvta’tion nfi’glé-us, the nucleus formed
`in an impregnated ovum by fusion of the
`male and female pronuclei.
`seg-men-tfi’tion sphére,
`1. the morula; the
`mass of cells formed by the segmentation of
`the nucleus of an ovum.
`2. a blastomere; one of the cells formed by
`the segmentation of the ovum.
`oeg"ment-ed, a. arranged in segments or joints;
`articulated; jointed.
`eeg’rnent giar, in mechanics, a curved cogged
`surface or gear occupying but an arc of a
`circle.
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`standards of conduct or good taste; decent;
`decorous.
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`Sym—becoming, fit. suitable, appropriate,
`congruous. meet, decorous.
`properly.
`seem’ly, min. in a seemly manner;
`fittingly, etc.
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`seen. it. past participle of see.
`seen, a.
`i. manifest; understood; evident.
`2. versed; skilled. [0135.]
`r.
`.‘see in .
`seep. v.11; seeped sé t),
`t.,
`{AS. sipz'rm. to dosh] tr}: flog: throupghgpégs;
`to ooze gently.
`seep, 11. a place Where water or petroleum oozes
`from the ground to form a. pool.
`seepffige, n. the act or process of seeping; an
`oozing; also, the liquid that seeps.
`seepfy, a. cozy; soggy: said especially of poorly
`drained land.
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`' seer (or sE’ér), n. 1. one who sees; an onlooker.
`2. a foresaer; a. prophet; one who foreteils;
`a soothsayer.
`seer, n. a ser.
`seer’ess, n. a prephetess.
`seer'fish, n. a scombroid fish of the East Indian
`seas resembling the mackerel.
`seer’hand, n. a kind of muslin.
`a seer.
`seer’shlp, n. the office, character, or quality of
`seerfsuck”6r, n.‘ {Hind shirshakar, from Per.
`shtr at shaker. lit... milk and sugar, also a kind
`of striped linen cloth] a light. crinkled fabric
`ern.
`3f linen or cotton, usually with a striped pat~
`see’sgw, n. [a reduplicated form of saw, from
`the action of sawing}
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`1. a plank balanced on a support at the
`middle, used by children at play one sitting
`at either end and causing his an to rise and
`fall alternately with the other.
`2. the act of playing in this way.
`3. any back-and—forth or up-and-down mo-
`tion. action, or tendency. likened to that of a
`seesaw; as, the seesaw of pitched battle.
`4. in whist, a crossruff.
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`see’sgw, ml; seesawad, pt” pp; seesawing, ppr.
`to move with a. reciprocating motion;
`to
`cater.
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`itnove back and forth or up and dOWn; to
`see'sgw, at. to cause to move in a seesaw man-
`ner.
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`urge who seeks; an 1nqu1rer; as.
`mber of an English soot in the
`century who claimed to be seek-
`Church.
`’t'h"r, n. a winter ap le of a red- ‘
`V; g a slightly acid ever.
`filed. ipt., pf; seeling, p1». [OFL
`irom cit;
`. ctfim‘m, anEeErelashJ
`filcour , to 0 use t 6 eyes 0
`a. young
`piling a tgiread throughthe 11d5.
`the eyes .
`has
`_ (or hoodwink.
`ca ; to incline to one side; to roll.
`"a storm. [Obs.]
`ing or pitching of_ a. ship in a.
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`sg’gno (:nyolma 151.9’gni (-ny1). [It.. a sigm]
`in music. a Sign or mark used especmlly to indi-
`cate repetition: abbreviated :S:.
`stage, 11. [Arm Ind] a perennial bulb plant of
`the lily family, Catockortus nuttatii, which
`grows in the western part of North America
`and has an edible root and a trumpet-shaped
`flower: also saga My.
`so ’ré- site, a. [L. sagregatus. pp. of sagregare.
`tgo setgapart, lit., to set apart from the flock;
`se-, apart, and grex, gregt's, fleck] set apart
`from others; separate; segregated.
`_
`segregate poly army; in botany, a mode of in-
`florescence, when several
`florets
`included
`within an anthodiurn or a common calyx are
`furnished also with proper perianths.
`segregate, 11.3.; segregated. pt” 1515.; segregat-
`ing, 3513?. to set apart from others or from the
`main mass or group; to isolate.
`seg’ré-gfite, at.
`1. to separate from the main
`mass and collect together in a new body: said
`of crystals.
`2. to separate from others; to be segregated.
`3, in biglogy, to separate in accordance
`With Mendel's law; to undergo segregation.
`se ’ré-gfit-ed, adj. conforming to a system
`i; at segregates racial groups.
`seg‘ré-gfi’tion, n.
`1. a segregating or being
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`Segregated.
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`2. a segregated part, group, number, etc.
`3. inbiology. the separationof allelomorphic
`genes or characters, as in meiosis.
`seg’ré-gfi-tive, a.
`1. tending to segregate.
`2. characterized by unsociability or dis-
`unity.
`sg’gufi (-gwe), 9.13. [It.] in music, to perform a
`part of a. work in the manner of a preceding
`part.
`seg‘ui-di‘l’la (-i-delfya), n. {Sp} 1. afast Span-
`ish dance, danced and sung to the accompani-
`ment of castanets.
`2. the music for this dance, in 3/4 time.
`3. a stanza, of four to seven short lines.
`partly aSSOnant. with a distinctive rhythm,
`sung to this music.
`sei-cen’tfi (si—chen’ta}. n. [It.] the seventeenth
`century, with reference to the Italian art and
`literature produced then.
`mm: “P: Cry, myth; cat, machine, ace, church. chord: gem, afiger, (Fr.) homes; fins, thin; aaure
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`at. having a motion like a seesaw;
`ee'saw,
`moving back and forth or up and do
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`aee’see, n. a small bird, Ammoperdix bonhami.
`the sand partridge of western Asia.
`Sect, :1. obsolete past tense of sit.
`seethe, at; seethed or obs: sod, pt; soothed or
`obs. sudden. pix; seething, 1519?. [ME semen;
`AS. siathanJ
`1. to boil; to cook by boiling.
`2. to saturate. soak, or steep in’ liquid.
`soothe, m'.
`1. to boil- to be boiling hot.
`gqul
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`1‘30 surge. bubb e, or foam, as boiling
`3. to be violently agitated. exoited. or dis~
`turbed.
`s.
`at;%tg1’t?r, n. a boiler; a pot for boiling things.
`aeg, n.
`1. sedge. [Brit Dial]
`72. the yellow flower~de-Iuce. [Brit Dial]
`Beg, n. a castrated animal. [Scot.]
`sé'gtir’, n. a cigar.
`seg’gd‘r, 11. and at. same as stagger.
`1
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`engD’gi-pm, seg’gru .1, n. the ragwort. [Bi-it.
`se‘ghfil’ (-gfii’). n. [Heb.]' in Hebrew, a. vowel
`paint. or short vowel
`(‘.‘).
`indicating the
`sound equivalent to English c in men: also
`Written segol.
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`ae’ghfi-ldte, a. marked with a seghol: also
`written regulate.
`seg’ment, n. [L. regmentum, a
`from secure. to cut]
`'1. any of the parts into
`which a. body is separated or
`divided; a division;
`3. sec-
`tion.
`2. in geometry, (a) a part
`out OE from a
`e. espe-
`cially of a circle or sphere, by
`A)“;
`a line or plane as the part of
`a circle contained between sthNTDrAmcu
`an arc and its chord; (b) any
`of the finite sections of a line.
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`3.
`in machinery, any working part in the
`shape of a segment of a circle.
`4-. in biology, any of the divisions formed
`by segmentation.
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`piece cut off,
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`__Lnie; opportunity; season, in r_e-
`rops; as. hay seat. [Obs or Bnt.
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`'s; felicity. [Obs. or Brit. Dial.]
`in a sill;r manner. [Obs]
`oolish; simple. [Obs]
`med. rt. 259-; seeming. rrr- [ME-
`1:; to bring to agreement}
`be; to give the impression of
`he seems glad to see us.
`to one's own mind; as, I seem
`toiexist; as, there seems no
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`parently true; as. it seems he was
`pear. look.
`'beeome; to befit. [0bs.]
`who assumes an appearance or
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`apparent. especially. as distin-
`_ actual; having the appearance or
`, reality; specious; as, seeming
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`outward form or appearance;
`d1‘03: ESPECIally, a false appear~
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`[iii- aPParently; so far as can be
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`, n. the quality or state of seem-
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`,- unseemly;
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`indecorous.
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`418d). 11. seemiiness. [Anaheim]
`the quality of being seemly;
`y,
`ecency; decorum.
`Seemlier; superl. seemliest,
`.lsa’mdigr, seemly, becom—
`__fitt1ng.]
`EH1; 31ppfiarance; fair; handsome.
`damper! fitting. or becoming,
`reference to conventional
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