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SE'ASONER, s. He who seasons or gives a relish to any 
thing. 
SEASONING, s. That which is added to any thing to 
give it a relish.—Some abound with words, without any 
seasoning or taste of matter. B, Jonson. —'The public 
accept a paper which has in it none of those seasonings that 
recommend the writings which are in vogue among us. 
Addison. . 
SEA-SU'RGEON, s. A chirurgeon employed on ship¬ 
board.-—My design was to help the sea-surgeon. Wise¬ 
man. 
SEA-SURROUNDED, adj. Encircled by the sea. 
To sea-surrounded realms the gods assign 
Small tract of fertile lawn, the least to mine. Pope. 
SEAT, s. [sett, old German.] Any thing on which one 
may sit. 
The sons of light 
Hasted, resorting to the summons high, 
And took their seats. 
Chair of state. 
With due observance of thy goodly seat. 
Great Agamemnon, Nestor shall supply 
Thy latest words. 
Dwelling; abode. 
O earth, how like to heaven! if not preferr’d 
Most justly, seat worthier of gods, as built 
With second thoughts, reforming what was old. Milton. 
The promis’d seat of empire shall again 
Cover the mountain, and command the plain. Prior. 
Situation; site.-—It followeth now that we find out the 
seat of Eden; for in it was Paradise by God planted. 
Ralegh. —A church by Strand-bridge, and two bishops’ 
houses, were pulled down to make a seat for his new 
building. Hayward.— He that builds a fair house upon an 
ill seat, committeth himself to prison. Bacon. 
To SEAT, v. a. To place on seats ; to cause to sit down. 
—-The guests were no sooner seated but they entered into a 
warm debate. Arbtithnot. —To fix in any particular place 
or situation ; to settle.-—Should one family or one thousand 
hold possession of all the southern undiscovered continent, 
because they had seated themselves in Nova Guiana. Ra¬ 
legh. —To fix; to place firm. 
Why do I yield to that suggestion. 
Whose horrid image doth upfix my hair. 
And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, 
Against the use of nature ? Shakspeare. 
From their foundations loosening to and fro, 
They pluck’d the seated hills. Milton. 
To SEAT, v. n. To rest; to lie down; Not in use. 
Him thether eke for all his fearfull threat 
He followed fast, and chased him so nie, 
That to the folds, where sheepe at night doe seat. 
And to the litle cots, where shepherds lie 
In winter’s wrathfull time, he forced him to flie. Spenser. 
SEA-TE'RM, s. Word of art used by the sea-men.-—I 
agree with you in your censure of the sea-terms in Dryden’s 
Virgil, because no terms of art, or cant words, suit the majesty 
of epic poetry. Pope, 
SEA-THI'EF, s. [jae-'Seop, Saxon,] A pirate.—The one 
be sea-theeves, suche as lye in the straights and corners of 
the sea, and take other men’s goods from them by force. 
Bp. of Chichester. 
SEATHWAITE, a parish of England, m Lancashire; 8 
miles west-by-north of Hawkshead. 
SEATMOORTHON, a small village of England, in 
Cumberland, near Cockermouth. 
SEA-TO'AD, s. An ugly sea fish so named. 
SEATON, a fishing village of Scotland, in Ross-shire, on 
the coast of the Moray frith. Population 380. 
SEATON, a township of England, in Cumberland; 3 
miles north-east of Workington. Here are very extensive 
Vox.. XXII. No. 1548. 
Milton. 
Shakspeare. 
iron-works on the Derwent, and near it there is a consider¬ 
able salmon-fishery. 
SEATON, a parish of England, in Devonshire, much 
frequented for sea-bathing; 3 miles south of Colyton. Po¬ 
pulation 726. 
SEATON, a river of England, in Cornwall, which rises 
about 4 miles north-east of Leskeard, and after a course of 12 
miles, falls into the English channel, 3 miles east of Loo. A 
town of the same name formerly stood at its mouth, which 
was long since swallowed up by the encroachments of the 
sea. 
SEATON, a hamlet of England, in Durham; 4| miles 
south-west of Sunderland. 
SEATON, a parish of England, in Rutlandshire; 4 miles 
south-east of Uppingham. 
SEATON, a village of England, East Riding of Yorkshire; 
11 miles north-east of Beverley. 
SEATON CAREW, a village of England, on the sea- 
coast of Durham, much frequented as a bathing place, for 
which purpose it is accommodated with an inn, on an exten¬ 
sive scale, and several commodious lodging-houses; 10| 
miles north-east of Stocktoh-upon-Tees 
SEATON DELAVAL, a village of England, county of 
Northumberland, situated on the sea, near Tynemouth. It 
has an excellent harbour, of artificial construction, called 
Seaton Sluice, but admitting only vessels of small burden. 
SEATON, North, a hamlet of England, in Northum¬ 
berland ; 6 miles east-by-north of Morpeth. 
SEATON ROSS, a parish of England, East Riding of 
Yorkshire; 7 miles west-by-south of Market Weighton. 
SE'A-TORN, adj. Torn by the sea. 
As fair a bay, 
As ever merchant wish’d might be the road. 
Wherein to ease his sea-torn vessel’s load. Browne. 
SE'A-TOST, adj. Tossed by the sea. 
The ship, upon whose deck 
The sea-tost prince appears to speak. ShakspearL 
SEAVES, s. Rushes. Northern. 
SEAVINGTON, St. Mary and St. Michael’s, two 
adjoining parishes of England, in Somerset, about 3 miles 
east of Ilminster. 
SE'AVY, adj. Overgrown with rushes: as, seavy ground. 
Ray. 
SEA-WA'LLED, adj. Surrounded by the sea. 
Our sea-wall'd garden, the whole land, 
Is full of weeds. Shakspeare. 
SE'A-WARD, adj. [peapfe, Sax.] Directed towards the 
sea.—To your sea-ward steps farewell. Donne. 
SE'A-WARD, adv. Towards the sea. 
The rock rush’d sea-ward with impetuous roar, 
Ingulf’d, and to the abyss the boaster bore. Pope. 
SEA-WATER, s. The salt water of the sea.—By dig¬ 
ging of pits in the sea-shore, he did frustrate the laborious 
works of the enemies, which had turned the sea-water upon 
the wells of Alexandria. Bacon. 
SEA-WEEDS, s.pl. Plants growing in the sea, other¬ 
wise called Alg^e. 
But like a rock unmov’d, a rock that braves 
The raging tempest, and the rising waves. 
Propp’d on himself he stands: his solid sides 
Wash off the sea-weeds, and the sounding tides. Dry den. 
SE'A-WITH WIND, s. Bindweed, or Convolvulus. 
SEA-WORMWOOD, s. [seriphium, Lat.] A sort of 
wormwood that grows in the sea. 
SE'A-WORTHY, adj. Fit to go to sea; applied to a 
ship. 
SEBA (Albert), a native of East Frizeland, was by pro¬ 
fession a druggist at Amsterdam, and a member of the 
Academy Naturae Curiosorum. He published a descriptive 
catalogue, in Latin and French, of the vast collection of 
objects in natural history which he had brought together, in 
four vols. folio, illustrated with a great number of engravings. 
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