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to confiscate. Formerly the goods of a defendant in chancery were, in the last resort, sequestered and detained to enforce the decrees of the court. And now the profits of a benefice are sequestered to pay the debts of ecclesiastics. Blackstone.

Retired; secluded. "Sequestered scenes." Cowper. Along the cool, sequestered vale of life. Gray.

Capable of being sequestered; subject or liable to sequestration.

Of or pertaining to a sequestrum. Quian.

To sequester.

seclusion from society. Since Henry Monmouth first began to reign, . . . This loathsome sequestration have I had. Shak.

One who sequesters property, or takes the possession of it for a time, to satisfy a demand out of its rents or profits.

A portion of dead bone which becomes separated from the sound portion, as in necrosis.

An oblong or elongated seed vessel, consisting of two valves with a dissepiment between, and opening by sutures at either margin. The seeds are attached to both edges of the dissepiment, alternately upon each side of it.

See Cinque. [Obs.] Beau & Fl.

e; a fanciful epithet or appellation; a nickname. [Sometimes less correctly written soubriquet.]

The act of talking in one's sleep; somniloquism.

See Sobriquet.

ill, a wagon wheel, a door; to creak. Who can endure to hear one of the rough old Romans squeaking through the mouth of an eunuch Addison. Zoilus calls the companions of Ulysses the "squeaking pigs" of Homer. Pope.

One who, or that which, squeaks.

In a squeaking manner.

To cry with a sharp, shrill, prolonged sound, as certain animals do, indicating want, displeasure, or pain.

One who, or that which, squeals.

ily disgusted; apt to be offended at trifling improprieties. Quoth he, that honor's very squeamish That takes a basting for a blemish. Hudibras. His muse is rustic, and perhaps too plain The men of squeamish taste to entertain. Southern. So ye grow squeamish, Gods, and sniff at heaven. M. Arnold.

Squeamish. [Obs.]