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a ship.—Privateers and Moorish corsairs possess not the best 
sed-manship, and very little discipline. Burke. 
SE'A-MARK, s. Point or conspicuous place distin¬ 
guished at sea, and serving the mariners as directions of 
their course.—They were executed at divers places upon the 
sea-coast, for sea-marks or light-houses, to teach Perkins’s 
people to avoid the coast. Bacon. 
SEAMER, a hamlet of England, North Riding of York¬ 
shire ; 4 miles south-west of Scarborough. Population 485. 
SEAMER, a hamlet of England, North Riding of York¬ 
shire ; 2 miles north-west of Stokesley. 
SEAMER, a small river of England, in Yorkshire, which 
falls into the Ure, between Norton and Bainbridge. 
SE'A-MEW, s. A fowl that frequents the sea. 
An island salt and bare, 
The haunt of seals, and ores, and sea-mews clang. Milton. 
SE'AMLESS, adj. Having no seam. 
There froward authors, with disputes, have torn 
The garments seamless as the firmament. Davenant. 
SEAMMADALE, Loch, a small lake of Scotland, in 
Argyleshire, out of which rises the small river Euchar, and 
falls into the sound of Mull. 
SEA-MONSTER, s. Strange animal of the sea.—Where 
luxury late reign’d, sea-monsters whelp. Milton. 
SE'A-MOSS, s. Coral. 
Some scurvi-grass do bring;— 
From Shepey sea-moss some, to cool his boyling blood. 
Drayton. 
SE'AM-RENT, s. A separation of any thing where it is 
joined; a breach of the, stitches. 
SE'AMSTRESS, s. [peampepe, Sax.] And according to 
the Saxon form, our word at first was seamster. Cotgrave 
in V. Lingiere, says, “ A seamster, a woman that makes or 
sells linen, &c.” A woman whose trade is to sew. Often 
written sempstress. 
They wanted food and raiment; so they took 
Religion for their seamstress and their cook. Cleaveland. 
SE'AMY, adj. Having a seam; shewing the seam. 
Some such squire he was, 
That turn’d your wit the seamy side without. 
And made you to suspect me. Shakspeare. 
SEAN, s. [pegne, Sax.] A net. Sometimes written seine 
or same. 
Birds are ta’ne 
With tramels, fishes by the entangling saine. Sandys. 
SEA-NAYELWORT, s. An herb growing in Syria. 
See Androsaces. 
SEA NETTLE, s. A sort of fish, resembling a lump of 
stiff jelly. 
SEA-NYMPH, s. Goddess of the sea.—Virgil, after 
Homer’s example, gives us a transformation of rEneas’s ship 
into sea-nymphs. Broome. 
SEA-G'NION, s. An herb. Ainsworth. —See Scilla. 
SE'A-OOSE, s. The mud in the sea or shore.—All sea- 
ooses or oosy mud, and the mud of rivers, are of great advan¬ 
tage to all sorts of land. Mortimer. 
SE'A-PAD, The star-fish. 
SEA-PA'NTHER, s. A fish like a lamprey. 
SE'A-PIECE, s. A picture representing any thing at sea. 
—Painters often employ their pencils upon sea-pieces. 
Addison. 
SEA-PIKE, s. The Esox Belone. 
SE'A-POOL, s. A lake of salt water.—I heard it wished, 
that all that land were a sea-pool. Spenser. 
SE'A-PORT, s. A harbour.—Scene, for the first act, in 
Venice; during the rest of the play, at a sea-port in Cyprus. 
Shakspeare. 
SE'APOY. See Sepoy. 
SEAR, cfr/y. [peapian, Sax., to dry. The word has been 
also referred to the Gr. dry.] Dry; not any longer 
green. See Sere. 
I have liv’d long enough: my May of life 
Is fall’n into the sear, the yellow leaf. Shakspeare. 
Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sear. Milton. 
To SEAR, v. a. [peapian, Sax.] To burn ; to cauterize. 
The scorching flame sore singed all his face, 
And through his armour all his body sear'd. Spenser. 
To wither ; to dry.—Some beauty peep’d through lattice 
of sear'd age. Shakspeare. 
SEARA, a province and captainship of Brazil, bounded 
west by the province of Maranham, north by the ocean, east 
by the province of Rio Grande, and south by the mountains 
of the interior. It contains about 10,000 inhabitants, and 
carries on little commerce. 
SEARA, a town and fortress of Brazil, in the capitania of 
Seara, of which it is the capital. It contains three churches, 
the governor’s palace, the town-hall and prison, a custom¬ 
house, and the treasury. The number of inhabitants is from 
1000 to 1200. It is defended by a fort which stands upon 
a sand hill close to the town. There is'not much to justify 
the preference given to this spot. It has no river, nor any 
harbour, and the beach is bad to land upon, the breakers 
are violent, and the reef of rocks affords very little protection 
to vessels riding at anchor upon the coast. Lat. 3. 31. S. 
long. 38. 28. W. 
SEARBY, a parish of England, in Lincolnshire; 4| miles 
north-west of Caistor. 
To SEARCE, v. a. [sasser, Fr.] To sift finely.—For the 
keeping of meal, bolt and searce it from the bran. Mor¬ 
timer. 
SEARCE, s. [s<w, Fr.] A sieve; a bolter. Unused. 
Sherwood. 
SE'ARCER, s. One who sifts and bolts corn. 
To SEARCH, v. a. [chercher, Fr.] To examine; to 
try ; to explore; to look through.—-Help to search my 
house this one time: If I find not what I seek, let me for 
ever be your table sport. Shakspeare. —To inquire; to seek 
for. 
Now clear I understand 
What oft my steadiest thoughts have search'd in vain. 
Milton. 
With this good sword. 
That ran through Caesar’s bowels, search this bosom. 
Shakspeare. 
To Search out. To find by seeking.—They may some¬ 
times be successful to search out truth. Watts. 
To SEARCH, v. n. To make a search; to look for 
something.—Satisfy me once more, once more search with 
me. Shakspeare. —To make inquiry.—To ask or search I 
blame thee not. Milton .—Those who seriously search 
after or maintain truth, should study to deliver themselves 
without obscurity or equivocation. Locke .—To seek; to 
try to find.—Your husband’s coming, woman, to search for 
a gentleman that is here now in the house. Shakspeare. _ 
We in vain search for that constitution within a fly, upon 
which depend those powers we observe in them. Locke. 
SEARCH, s. Inquiry by looking into every suspected 
place. 
The orb he roam’d 
With narrow search, and with inspection deep. Milton. 
Examination.—The mind sets itself on work in search of 
some hidden idea, and turns the eye of the soul upon it. 
Locke.- —Inquiry ; act of seeking: with of, for, or after. 
—His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels 
of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when 
you have them they are not worth the search. Shakspeare. 
—By the philosophical use of words, I mean such an use as 
conveys the precise notions of things, which the mind may 
be satisfied with in its search after knowledge. Locke .— 
The parents, after a long search for the boy, gave him for 
drowned in a canal. Addison. —Quest; pursuit. 
If zealous love should go in search of virtue. 
Where should he find it purer than in Blanche? Shakspeare. 
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