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To cut deeper, as engraved lines on a plate of metal, when the engraving has not been deep enough, or the plate has become worn in printing.

The process of applying additional colors, by applications of printing blocks, to patterns already partly colored.

To enthrone again; to replace on a throne.

A second enthroning.

The act entereing again; re Hooker.

Reëntering; pointing or directed inwardds; as, a re angle.

A second or new entry; as, a reëntry into public life.

Sea-green in color. Shak.

A kind of dress goods made of cotton or woolen, with a glossy surface resembling satin.

See under Green.

danger; that which shelters or conceals from view; a shield or protection; as, a fire screen. Your leavy screens throw down. Shak. Some ambitious men seem as screens to princes in matters of danger and envy. Bacon.

The refuse left after screening sand, coal, ashes, etc.

The green color of sea water.

Of a beautiful bluish green color, like sea water on soundings.

Versed; skilled; accomplished. [Obs.] Well seen in every science that mote be. Spenser. Noble Boyle, not less in nature seen, Than his great brother read in states and men. Dryden.

Seldom seen. [Obs.] Drayton.

The houseleek.

One more than sixteen; ten and seven added; as, seventeen years.

Next in order after the sixteenth; coming after sixteen others. In . . . the seventeenth day of the month . . . were all the fountains of the great deep broken up. Gen. vii. 11.

ain or hair side when moist, and afterward, when dry, scraping off the roughness left between them, and then, by soaking, causing the portions of the skin which had been compressed or indented by the seeds to swell up into relief. It is used for covering small cases and boxes.