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f; to gripe or grasp suddenly; to reach and grasp. For by no means the high bank he could seize. Spenser. Seek you to seize and gripe into your hands The royalties and rights of banished Hereford Shak.

One who, or that which, seizes.

ess or oust wrongfully (one in freehold possession of land); -- followed by of; as, to disseize a tenant of his freehold. [Written also disseise.] Which savage beasts strive as eagerly to keep and hold those golden mines, as the Arimaspians to disseize them thereof. Holland.

A person disseized, or put out of possession of an estate unlawfully; -- correlative to disseizor. [Written also disseisee.]

To seize beforehand.

To disseize anew, or a second time. [Written also redisseise.]

To seize again, or a second time.

One who seizes again.

s Amazon ant (Zoöl.), a species of ant (Polyergus rufescens), of Europe and America. They seize by conquest the larvæ and nymphs other species and make slaves of them in their own nests.

To take or seize; to take hold of. [Archaic] We have two hands to apprehended it. Jer. Taylor.

Obtained; seized. Spenser.

Snatched away; seized or possessed, as a demoniac; raving; mad; crack-brained. [Obs.] Odd, arreptitious, frantic extravagances. Howell.

To take, seize, or apprehend by authority of law; as, to arrest one for debt, or for a crime.

To take, seize, or lay hold of. [Obs.] Shak.

ainst a stranger who had dispossessed the demandant of land of which his grandfather died seized.

To seize, capture, or entrap; as, to bag an army; to bag game.

acts to convey the lands to the bargainee, and becomes by such contract a trustee for and seized to the use of the bargainee. The statute then completes the purchase; i.e., the bargain vests the use, and the statute vests the possession. Blackstone. -- Into the bargain, over and above what is stipulated; besides. --…

To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.

A kind of writ which formerly lay where a great-grandfather died seized of lands in fee simple, and on the day of his death a stranger abated or entered and kept the heir out. This is now abolished. Blackstone.

To take or seize. [Obs.] Spenser.