Seisura 
atile, restless, and doubtful thrmh, and it is known to the 
Anglo-Australians as iliah-imshcr and grinder. A second 
species is S. HU/HI. 
seity (se'i-ti), H. [< L. se, oneself, -t- -iti/.~\ 
Something peculiar to one's self. [Rare.] 
The learned Scotus, to distinguish the race of mankind, 
gives every individual of that species what he calls a ,sViV.. 
something peculiar to himself, which makes him different 
from all "(her persons in the world. This particularity 
renders him either venerable or ridiculous, according as 
he uses his talents. Steele, Tatler, No. 174. 
Seiurinae (si-u-ri'ne), . />'. [NL., < 
+ -ina?.] A subfamily of Kylrieolidie or Mnio- 
liltiilir. typified by the genus Seiunis. Also 
called Knii'ix-irliliiiif or HenicooieMina. 
Seinrus (si-u'rus), . [NL. (Swainson, 1827), 
more prop. Shims (Strickland, 1841), < Gr. aeieiv, 
slmko, + orpd, tail.] A genus of SylcicoUdae or 
Miiioliltiilx, giving name to the Seiuriiiae; the 
American wagtails or water-thrushes. Three spe- 
cies are common in the United States. S. auricapillus is 
the golden-crowned thrush or oven-bird. (See cut under 
5471 
3. To lay sudden or forcible hold of ; grasp ; 
clutch : either literally or figuratively. 
There is an hour in each man's life appointed 
To make his happiness, if then he seine it. 
Beau, and FL, Custom of the Country, ii. 3. 
To seize his papers, Curll, was next thy care ; 
His papers, light, fly diverse, toss'd in air. 
Pope, Dunciad, ii. 114. 
The predominance of horizontal lines . . . sufficiently 
proves that the Italians had never netted the true idea of 
Gothic or aspiring architecture. 
J. A. Symonds, Italy and Greece, p. 47. 
4. To come upon with sudden attack ; have a 
sudden and powerful effect upon : as, a panic 
seized the crowd ; a fever seized him. 
Such full Conviction sete'd th' astonish'd King 
As left no entrance for the least Demurr. 
J. Beaumont, Psyche, i. 247. 
seker 
lashing with several turns of a 
cord, or the fastening so made; 
also, the cord used for that pur- 
pose; seizing-stuff. See also cut 
under rose-lashing. 
Several sailors appeared, hearing among 
them two stout, apparently very heavy 
chests, which they set down upon the 
cabin floor, taking care to secure them 
by lashings and seizings to the stanchions. 
W. C. Russell, Death Ship, xxi. 
seizing-stuff (se'zing-stuf), w. 
Xaut., small tarred cord used for 
seizing. 
seizlingt (sez'ling), . The year- 
ling of the common carp. Holme, 
1688. 
Seizings, 2. 
. ; seizor (se'zor), n. [< seize + -od.] In law, one 
All men who are the least given to reflection are seized . oi,Aa m- tnkps nossBssion 
with an inclination that way Steele, Spectator, No. 388. who seizes or s p_osse non. 
A horror seized him as he went. 
William Murria, Earthly Paradise, II. 109. 
5t. 
, 
New York \Vater-tlirush (Seinrus nsevitts). 
oven-bird.) S. novcboracenxis or nseviitx is the New York 
water-thrush, dark olive-brown above with conspicuous 
superciliary stripe, and sulphury-yellow below with a pro- 
fusion of dusky spots in several chains. S. inotacilla or 
ludoricianus is the Louisiana water-thrush, like the last, 
but larger, with a longer bill and lighter coloration. Also 
called Emcocichla or Hemcoeiclda and Exochocichla. 
seive. . See seare. 
seizable (se'za-bl), a. [< seize + -able.] Pos- 
sible to be seined; liable to be taken posses- 
sion of. 
The carts, waggons, and every attainable or seizable 
vehicle were unremittingly in motion. 
Mme. D'Arblay, Diary, VII. 177. (Danes.) 
seize (sez), r. ; pret. and pp. seized, ppr. seizing. 
[Early mod. E. also (and still archaically in 
legal use) seine; < ME. seisen, seysen, sesen, 
ceesen, saisen, sayscn, < OF. saisir, seisir, put one 
in possession of, take possession of, seize, F. 
gaish; seize, = Pr. snzir, sai/zir = It. sitgire (not 
in Florio), < ML. satire (8th century), later sai- 
sire (after OF.), take possession of, lay hold of, 
seize (another's property), prob. < OHG. saz- 
zan, sezzan, G. setzen, set, put, place, =E. set, 
of which seize is thus a doublet: see set 1 , r. 
Cf. seizin, seizure.'] I. trans. 1. To put in pos- 
session; make possessed; possess: commonly 
with of before the thing possessed : as, A. B. 
was seized and possessed of the manor ; to seize 
one's self of an inheritance. 
He torned on his pilwes ofte, 
And wald of that he myssed han ben sesed. 
Chaucer, Troilus, iii. 445. 
& [he) sent his stiward as swithe to sese him ther-iune. 
William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 5391. 
They could scarcely understand the last words, for death 
began to seize himself of his heart. 
Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, iii. 
All those his lands 
Which he stood seized of. 
Shak., Hamlet, i. 1. 89. 
[He] standeth seized o/that inheritance 
Which thou that slowest the sire hast left the son. 
Tennyson, Gareth and Lynette. 
2. To take possession of (a) By virtue of a 
warrant or legal authority: as, to seize smug- 
gled goods; to seize a ship after libeling. 
It was judged, by the highest kind of judgment, that he 
should be banished, and his whole estate confiscated and 
seized. Bacon. 
(6) By force, with or without right. 
The Citie to sese in the same tyme. 
We shall found by my feith, or ellis fay worthe. 
Itrxtnictton of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1154. 
The peple of Claudas recouered, . . . and of fin force 
made hem forsake place, and the tentes and pavilouns that 
thei hadden take and sesfd. MerKn (E. E. T. S.), iii. 402. 
The grand Caraman, the Turcoman, ruler of Caramania. 
took the opportunity of these quarrels to seize Corycus, 
the last Frank stronghold of Armenia. 
Stubbs, Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 202. 
To fasten ; fix. 
So downe he fell before the cruell beast, 
Who on his neck his bloody clawes did seize. 
Spenser, F. Q., I. viii. 15. 
6. Naut., to bind, lash, or make fast, as one 
thing to another, with several turns of small 
rope, cord, or small line ; stop : as, to seize two 
fish-hooks back to back; to seize or stop one 
rope on to another. 
Sam, by this time, was seized up, as it is called that is, 
placed against the shrouds, with his wrists made fast to 
them, his jacket off, and his back exposed. 
R. H. Dana, Jr., Before the Mast, p. 113. 
Covenant to stand seized to uses, see covenant. = Syn. 
2 and 3. To snatch, catch, capture, apprehend, arrest, take, 
attach. 
II. intrans. 1. To lay hold in seizure, as by 
hands or claws: with on or upon. 
The mortall sting his angry needle shott 
Quite through his shield, and in his shoulder seasd. 
Spenser, F. Q., I. ii. 38. 
Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon. 
Shak., Lear, i. 1. 255. 
The Tartars in Turkeman vse to catch wilde horses with 
hawkes tamed to that purpose, which seising on the necke 
of the horse, with his beating, and the horses chafing, 
tireth him, and maketh him an easie prey to his Master. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 422. 
This last Ship had been at Merga a considerable time, 
having been seized on by the Siamites, and all the men 
imprisoned, for some difference that happened between 
the English and them. Dampier, Voyages, II. i. 151. 
The text which had "seized upon his heart with such 
comfort and strength " abode upon him for more than a 
year. SouOiey, Bunyan, p. xxi. 
2. In metallurgy, to cohere. 
seizer (se'zer), n. [< seize + -cr 1 .] One who 
or that which seizes. 
seizin, seisin (se'zin), . [Early mod. E. also 
xeasin, seysin; < ME. saisine, seisine, seysyne, 
sesyne, < OF. seisine, saisine, saisine, F. saisine 
(= Pr. sazina, saizina, sadina = It. sagina; ML. 
reflex saisina, seisina), seizin, possession, < 
saisir, seisir, seize : see seize.] In law : (a) 
seizure (se'zur), . [< seize + -are.] 1. The 
act of seizing ; the act of taking or laying hold ; 
a taking possession, either legally or by force : 
as, the seizure of smuggled goods by revenue 
officers; seizure of arms by a mob. 
All things that thou dost call thine 
Worth seizure do we seize Into our hands. 
Shalt., As you Like it, iii. 1. 10. 
First Guyne, next Pontien, and then Aquitain, 
To each of which he made his title known, 
Nor from their seizure longer would abstain. 
Draytm, Barons' Wars, iii. 28. 
After the victory of the appellants in 1388, royal letters 
were issued for the seizure of heretical books and the Im- 
prisonment of heretical teachers. 
Stubbs, Const. Hist., 404. 
Say, is not bliss within our perfect seizure ? 
Keats, Endymion, iv. 
2. The fact of being seized or in possession of 
anything; possession; hold. 
In your hands we leave the queen elected ; 
She hath seizure of the Tower. 
Webster and Deleter, Sir Thomas Wyatt 
If we had ten years agone taken seizure of our portion 
of dust, death had not taken us from good things, but 
from infinite evils. Jer. Taylor, Holy Dying, iii. 7. 
3. The thing seized; the thing taken hold or 
possession of. 
Sufficient that thy prayers are heard, and Death, 
Then due by sentence when thou didst transgress, 
Defeated of his seizure many days. 
Milton, P. L., xi. 254. 
4. A sudden onset or attack, as of some mal- 
ady, emotion, panic, or the like ; a spell ; a turn. 
Myself too had weird seizures, Heaven knows what. 
Tennyson, Princess, i. 
sejant, sejeant (se'jant), a. [Also seiant, se- 
dant; < OF. "seiant, seant, < L. seden(t-)s, sitting, 
pr. of sedereC>F.seoir),sit: see sedent, stance.] 
her., sitting, like a cat, 
with the fore legs upright : ap- 
plied to a lion or other beast. 
Assis is a synonym. Sejant 
adorsed, sitting back to back : said of 
two animals. Seiant affronte, in 
her., sitting and facing outward, the 
ppr 
In 
feudal investiture, by which the tenant was 
admitted into his freehold. Angell. 
A soldier, plucking a handful of thatch from a cottage, 
in her., sitting and with the body seen 
sidewise, the head looking out from the field. Sejant 
rampant. See rampant sejant, under rampant. 
placed it in the Duke's hand as seizin of all that England sejoiht (se-join'), v. t. [< ME. sejoynen, < OF. 
held within it. E. A. Freeman, Norman Conquest, III. 271. 
Hence (6) Possession as of freehold that is. 
the possession which a freeholder could assert part, 
and maintain by appeal to law. Digby. (e) Pos- The arrow 
session of land actual or constructive under 
*sejoindre,< L. sejungere, separate, disjoin, < se-, 
apart, + jungere, join: see join.] To separate; 
. doth sejoin and join the air together. 
Middleton, Solomon Paraphrased, v. 
rightful title. Seizin is either sei.zin in fact (or indeed), sejointt (se-joinf), p. a. [< ME. sejointe,< OF. 
actual occupation of the land either by the freeholder * sejoint, <L. sejunctus, pp. of sejungere, t 
himself or by some one claiming under him, or seizin in 
law, the constructive seizin which arises when a person 
acquires the title and there is no adverse possession ; thus, 
one taking a deed of vacant lands is seized in law before 
he takes possession. 
separate : 
see sejmn.] Separated. 
Devyde hem that pith be fro pith serjointe [read sejointe\ 
In thende of March thaire graffyng is in pointe. 
Pattadius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. .\ p. 117. 
[They shall] take sesyne the same daye that laste waste sejUgOUS (se'jij-gus), a. [< L. sejugis, a team of 
assygnede, 81X ( 8C- eu rrus, a chariot, a vehicle), < sex, six (= 
Or elles alle the ostage withowttyne the wallys, ,-, \ ,. , ' ... vn t _ w , ln ]f f 1 T n hot 
He hynggyde hye appone hyghte alle holly at ones ! J* V*' 1 T W.""' ?, yO 2 e ' ~ ' 1*"^ *"'' 
Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3589. having six pairs of leaflets. 
The death of the predecessor putteth the successor by Sejunctiont (se-jungk'shon), n. [< L. sejunc- 
blood in seisin. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, viii. 2. tio(n-), a separation or division, < sejungere, pp. 
(rf) The thing possessed, (tf) Ownership and ^jnnctus, disjoin: see sejoin.] The act of se- 
n 
possession of chattelsEquitable seizin, such a 
possession or enjoyment of an equitable interest or right 
in lands as may be treated in equity, by analogy to legal 
J omln g or disjoining; separation. 
A injunction and separation of them from all other na- 
lions on the earth. Bp. Pearson, Expos, of Creed, ii. 
, 
seizin. Thus, where a trustee holds the legal estate, the J..-,_^VIA / i,,'-;i Kl\ n 
ui que trust, though in possession and enjoying the SejUnglblet (se-]un Jl-bl), a 
rents and profits, cannot be said to hold the seizin in the 
cestui 
separate, divide (see sejoin), + -tt>le.} ^ap 
legal sense, because that is in the trustee; but he is pro- of being sejoined or separated. Bp. Pearson, 
tected by courts of equity as holding an equitable seizin, w-v-nns nf PrepH i 
-Livery of seizin. See literys.- Seizin by hasp and _fc V Mi^ik T^^lial, frvrm nf xnrf-1 
staple. See hasp.- Seizin bx, in Scot* la,,; same as SOkH, . A Middle Eng Ush ton ** 
m*fne me (which see, under mtine). Sek 2 t, " A Middle English form of sick*. 
seizing (se'zing), n. [Verbal n. of seize, r.] seket. A Middle English form of seek*, sicfcl. 
1. The act of taking hold or possession. 2. sekelt, . A Middle English form of sickle. 
Xmit., the operation of fastening, binding, or sekert, . A Middle English form of seeker. 
