Search the Dictionary

One who sees. Addison.

A female seer; a prophetess.

A scombroid food fish of Maderia (Cybium Commersonii).

A kind of muslin of a texture between nainsook and mull.

The office or quality of a seer.

A light fabric, originally made in the East Indies, of silk and linen, usually having alternating stripes, and a slightly craped or puckered surface; also, a cotton fabric of similar appearance.

Dry wood. [Written also searwood.] [Obs.] Dryden.

A vibratory or reciprocating motion. He has been arguing in a circle; there is thus a seesaw between the hypothesis and fact. Sir W. Hamilton.

Sate; sat. Chaucer.

imp. of Seethe. Chaucer.

To decoct or prepare for food in hot liquid; to boil; as, to seethe flesh. [Written also seeth.] Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets. 2 Kings iv. 38.

A pot for boiling things; a boiler. Like burnished gold the little seether shone. Dryden.

One to whom anything is addressed.

Seed of the Hibiscus abelmoschus, somewhat resembling millet, brought from Egypt and the West Indies, and having a flavor like that of musk; musk seed. Chambers.

The seed of the anise; also, a cordial prepared from it. "Oil of aniseed." Brande & C.

One who is assessed.

An Egyptian clover (Trifolium alexandrinum) extensively cultivated as a forage plant and soil-renewing crop in the alkaline soils of the Nile valley, and now introduced into the southwestern United States. It is more succulent than other clovers or than alfalfa. Called also Egyptian clover.

To see; to look; to mind. [Obs.] Wyclif.

To ask or entreat with urgency; to supplicate; to implore. I beseech you, punish me not with your hard thoughts. Shak. But Eve . . . besought his peace. Milton.

One who beseeches.