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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.

and saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners. Acts x. 10, 11. If I do die before thee, prithee, shroud me In one of those same sheets. Shak.

A large anchor stowed on shores outside the waist of a vessel; -- called also waist anchor. See the Note under Anchor.

The cable belonging to the sheet anchor.

A chain sheet cable.

Enough to fill a sheet; as much as a sheet can hold.

Cotton or linen cloth suitable for bed sheets. It is sometimes made of double width.

A scoop with a long handle, used to wash the sides of a vessel, and formerly to wet the sails or deck.

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

Mud or slime, such as that at the bottom of rivers. [Scot.]

The state of being sleety.

Of or pertaining to sleet; characterized by sleet; as, a sleety storm; sleety weather.

To smoke; to blacken with smoke; to rub with soot. [Obs.]

To stab. [Obs.] Gammer Gurton's Needle.

The Fissipedia.

age, bordered by dwellings or business houses. He removed [the body of] Amasa from the street unto the field. Coverdale. At home or through the high street passing. Milton.

A common prostitute who walks the streets to find customers.

An officer, or ward, having the care of the streets. [Obs.] Cowell.

taste or flavor such as that of sugar; saccharine; -- opposed to sour and bitter; as, a sweet beverage; sweet fruits; sweet oranges.