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SEARCHABLE, adj. That may be explored. 
SE'ARCHER, s. Examiner ; trier.—The Agarenes that 
seek wisdom upon earth, the authors of fables, and searchers 
out of understanding. Bar. iii. 23.—Seeker; inquirer. 
In vain we lift up our presumptuous eyes 
To what our Maker to their ken denies: 
The searcher follows fast; the object flies. Prior. 
The women in London appointed to examine the bodies 
of the dead, and report the cause of death.—The searchers, 
who are ancient matrons sworn to their office, repair to the 
place where the dead corpse lies, and by view of the same, 
and by other inquiries, examine by what disease the corpse 
died. Graunt. 
SEARCHING, s. Examination; inquisition.—For the 
divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart. 
Judges, v. 
SEARCHLESS, adj. Avoiding or escaping search; in¬ 
scrutable. 
The modest-seeming eye. 
Beneath whose beauteous beams, belying heaven, 
Lurk searchless cunning, cruelty, and death. Thomson. 
SE'ARCLOTH. s. [papclaS, Sax., from pap, pain, and 
claS, a plaster, so that cerecloth, as it is now written, from 
cera, wax, seems to be wrong.] A plaster; a large plaster. 
—Bees wax is the ground of all searcloth salves. Mor¬ 
timer. 
SEAREDNESS, s. State of being seared or cauterized. 
—He wonders at my extreme prodigality of credit, and 
searedness of conscience, in citing an epistle so convicted 
by Bellarmine ! Bp. Hall. —Delivering up the sinner to a 
stupidity, or searedness of conscience. South. 
SE'A-RESEMBLING, adj. Sea-like. 
Jordan from two bubbling heads 
His oft returning waters leads, 
Till they their narrow bounds forsake. 
And grow a sea-resembling lake. Sandys. 
SEAR-GREEN, a hamlet of England, in Buckingham¬ 
shire; 2 miles north-east of Beaconsfield. 
SE'A-RISK, s. Hazard at sea.—He was so great an en- 
courager of commerce, that he charged himself with all the 
sea-risque of such vessels as carried corn to Rome in the 
winter. Arbuthnot. 
SEA-RO'BBER, s. A pirate; a sea-thief.—’Trade is much 
disturbed by pirates and sea-robbers. Milton. 
SEA-ROCKET, s. A plant. 
SEA-ROOM. s. Open sea; spacious main. 
The bigger whale like some huge carrack lay. 
Which wanteth sea-room with her foes to play. Waller. 
SEA-RO'VER, s. A pirate.—A certain island long before 
dispeopled, and left waste by sea-rovers. Milton. 
SEA-RUFF, s. A kind of sea-fish. 
SEA-SALTER, a parish of England, in Kent, near the 
sea; 5 miles north-west of Canterbury. Population 536. 
SEA-SE'RPENT, s. A water-serpent. 
SEA-SE'RVICE, s. Naval war.—You were pressed for 
the sea-service, and got off with much ado. Swift. 
SEA-SHA'RK, s. A ravenous sea-fish. 
Witches mummy, maw and gulf 
Of the ravening salt sea-shark. Shakspeare. 
SE'A-SHELL, s. Shells found on the shore.— Sea-shells 
are great improvers of sour or cold land. Mortimer. 
SEA-SHO'RE, s. The coast of the sea.—To say a man 
has a clear idea of any quantity, without knowing how great 
it is, is as reasonable as to say he has the positive idea of the 
number of the sands on the sea-shore. Locke. 
SEA-SICK, adj. Sick, as new voyagers on the sea.—She 
began to be much sea-sick, extremity of weather continuing. 
Shakspeare. 
SEA-SPDE, s. The edge of the sea.—Their camels were 
without number, as the sand by the sea-side. Jud. vii. 
SEASON, s. [saison, Fr.] One of the four parts of the 
year, Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter.—We saw, in six 
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days’ travelling, the several seasons of the year in their 
beauty. Addison. —The seasons anciently began differently 
from what they now do; witness the old verses: 
“ Dat Clemens hyemen; dat Petrus ver cathedratus; 
JEstuat Urbanus; autumnat Bartholomaeus.” 
A time as distinguished from others.—The season prime 
for sweetest scents and airs. Milton. —A fit time; an 
opportune concurrence. 
The season when to come, and when to go. 
To sing, or cease to sing, we never know. Pope. 
A time not very long. 
We’ll slip you fora season, but our jealousy 
Does yet depend. Shakspeare. 
That which gives a high relish.—You lack the season of 
all natures, sleep. Shakspeare. 
To SEASON, v. a. [German, saheni] To mix with 
food any thing that gives a high relish.—For breakfast and 
supper, milk and milk-pottage are very fit for children; only 
let them not be seasoned with sugar. Locke. —To give a 
relish to; to recommend by something mingled.-—The 
proper use of wit is to season conversation, to represent what 
is praiseworthy to the greatest advantage, and to expose 
the vices and follies of men. Tillotson. —To qualify by 
admixture of another ingredient. 
Mercy is above this sceptred sway ; 
It is an attribute to God himself; 
And earthly power does then shew likest God’s, 
When mercy seasons justice. Shakspeare. 
Season your admiration but a while. 
With an attentive ear, till I deliver 
This marvel to you. Shakspeare. 
To imbue; to tinge or taint. 
Whatever thing 
The sithe of time mows down, devour unspar’d. 
Till I, in man residing, through the race 
His thoughts, his looks, words, actions, all infect. 
And season him thy last and sweetest prey. Milton. 
To fit for any use by time or habit; to mature. 
The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark. 
When neither is attended; and, I think. 
The nightingale, if she should sing by day 
When every goose is cackling, would be thought 
No better a musician than the wren : 
How many things by season season'd are. 
To their right praise and true perfection. Shakspeare. 
The archers of his guard shot two arrows every man 
together against an inch board of well seasoned timber. 
Hayward. 
To SEASON, v. n. To become mature; to grow fit for 
any purpose.—Carpenters rough-plane boards for flooring, 
that they may set them by to season. Moxon. —To 
betoken; to savour. 
Lose not your labour and your time together. 
It seasons of a fool. Beaum. and FI. 
SEASONABLE, adj. Opportune; happening or done 
at a proper time; proper as to time.—Mercy is seasonable in 
the time of affliction, as clouds of rain in the time of 
drought. Ecclus. v. 
SEASONABLENESS, s. Opportuneness of time; 
propriety with regard to time.—A British freeholder would 
very ill discharge his part, if he did not acknowledge the 
excellency and seasonableness of those laws by which his 
country has been recovered out of its confusions. Addison. 
SEASONABLY, adv. Properly with respect to time.— 
This is that to which I would most earnestly, most season¬ 
ably advise you all. Sprat. 
SEASONAGE, 5. Seasoning; sauce.—Light gives a 
seasonage to all other fruitions, lays open the bosom of the 
universe, and shows the treasures of nature; in a word, gives 
opportunity to the enjoyment of all the other senses. South. 
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