Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SEEM-LY, a. [G. ziemlich; D. taamelyk; Dan. sömmelig.]

Becoming; fit; suited to the object, occasion, purpose or character; suitable. Suspense of judgment and exercise of charity were safer and seemlier for Christian men, than the hot pursuit of these controversies. – Hooker. Honor is not seemly for a fool. Prov. xxvi.

SEEM-LY, adv.

In a decent or suitable manner. – Pope.

SEEM-LY-HED, n. [See Head and Hood.]

Comely or decent appearance. [Obs.] – Chaucer.

SEEN, pp. [of See.]

1. Beheld; observed; understood.
2. adj. Versed; skilled. Noble Boyle, not less in nature seen. [Obs.] – Dryden.

SEER, n. [from see.]

1. One who sees; as, a seer of visions. – Spectator.
2. A prophet; a person who foresees future events. – 1 Sam. ix.

SEER-WOOD, [See Sear, and Sear-wood, dry wood.]

SEE'-SAW, n. [Qu. saw and saw, or sea and saw.]

A vibratory or reciprocating motion. – Pope.

SEE'-SAW, v.i.

To move with a reciprocating motion; to move backward and forward, or upward and downward. – Arbuthnot.

SEETHE, v.i.

To be in a state of ebullition; to be hot. Spenser. [This word is rarely used in the common concerns of life.]

SEETHE, v.t. [pret. seethed, sod; pp. seethed, sodden. Sax. seathan, seothan, sythan; D. zieden; G. sieden; Sw. siuda; Dan. syder; Gr. ζεω, contracted from ζεθω; Heb. זוד, to seethe, to boil, to swell, to be inflated. Class Sd, No. 4.]

To boil; to decoct or prepare for food in hot liquor, as, to seethe flesh. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in its mother's milk. – Exod. xxiii.

SEETH-ED, pp.

Boiled; decocted.

SEETH-ER, n.

A boiler; a pot for boiling things. – Dryden.

SEETH-ING, pp.

Boiling; decocting.

SEG, n.

Sedge. [Not in use.]

SEG'HOL, n.

A Hebrew vowel-point, or short vowel, thus ֶ indicating the sound of the English e, in men. – M. Stuart.

SEG'HOL-ATE, a.

Marked with a seghol.

SEG'MENT, n. [Fr. from L. segmentum, from seco, to cut off. We observe here the Latin has seg, for sec, like the It. segare, Sp. segar, and like the Teutonic sagen, zaagen, to saw; properly, a piece cut off.]

1. In geometry, that part of the circle contained between a chord and an arch of that circle, or so much of the circle as is cut off by the chord. Newton.
2. In general, a part cut off or divided; as, the segments of a calyx.

SEG'NI-TY, n. [from L. segnis.]

Sluggishness; dullness; inactivity. [Not used.] – Dict.

SEG'RE-GATE, a.

Select. [Little used.] Segregate polygamy, [Polygamia segregata, Linn.,] a mode of inflorescence, when several florets comprehended within an anthodium, or a common calyx, are furnished also with proper perianths. – Martyn.

SEG'RE-GATE, v.t. [L. segrego; se, from, and grex, flock.]

To separate from others; to set apart. – Sherwood.

SEG'RE-GA-TED, pp.

Separated; parted from others.

SEG'RE-GA-TING, ppr.

Separating.

SEG'RE-GA-TION, n. [Fr.]

Separation from others; a parting. – Shak.

SEIGN-EU-RI-AL, a. [senu'rial; Fr. See Seignior.]

1. Pertaining to the lord of a manor; manorial.
2. Vested with large powers; independent. – Temple.

SEIGN-IOR, n. [see'nyor; Fr. seigneur; It. signore; Sp. señor; Port. senhor; from L. senior, elder; senex, old; Ir. sean.]

A lord; the lord of a manor; but used also in the south of Europe as a title of honor. The Sultan of Turkey is called the Grand Seignior.