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nst or from, rarely with of; as, to secure a creditor against loss; to secure a debt by a mortgage. It secures its possessor of eternal happiness. T. Dick.

Race; generation; birth. Of mortal seed they were not held. Waller. Seed bag (Artesian well), a packing to prevent percolation of water down the bore hole. It consists of a bag encircling the tubing and filled with flax seed, which swells when wet and fills the space between the tubing and the sides of the hole. -- Se…

prove the person using it omnipotent and self-sufficient, and such as can never need any mortal assistance. South.

ere seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation; a nursery; a seed plat. [Obs.] Mortimer. But if you draw them [seedling] only for the thinning of your seminary, prick them into some empty beds. Evelyn.

t up for one's self. (b) To profess openly; to make pretensions. Those men who set up for mortality without regard to religion, are generally but virtuous in part. Swift.

ubsides; settlings; sediment; lees; dregs. [Obs.] Fuller's earth left a thick settlement. Mortimer.

vering or envelope. White oats are apt to shed most as they lie, and black as they stand. Mortimer.

A hollow projectile, of various shapes, adapted for a mortar or a cannon, and containing an explosive substance, ignited with a fuse or by percussion, by means of which the projectile is burst and its fragments scattered. See Bomb.

our pond should be six feet; and on the sides some shoals for the fish to lay their span. Mortimer. Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory, And sounded all the depths and shoals of honor. Shak.

oke. Shak. He sunk down in his chariot. 2 Kings ix. 24. Let not the fire sink or slacken. Mortimer.

A creator; a maker; an author; an originator. [He] was the sire of an immortal strain. Shelley.

Like sirup, or partaking of its qualities. Mortimer.

apply something to, in a hasty, careless, or rough manner; to roughcast; as, to slapdash mortar or paint on a wall, or to slapdash a wall. [Colloq.] Halliwell.

The part of a mortar extending from the chamber to the trunnions.

Bitumen. [Archaic] Slime had they for mortar. Gen. xi. 3.

of; as, to slip a piece of cloth or paper. The branches also may be slipped and planted. Mortimer.

Slippery. [Obs.] O! trustless state of earthly things, and slipper hope Of mortal men. Spenser.

The act or process of making slots, or mortises.

mass separating from a foul sore; the dead part which separates from the living tissue in mortification.

Mud; mire; soft mud; slush. Mortimer. Tennyson.