Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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.