ENCYCLOPAEDIA LONDINENSIS ; 
OR, AN 
UNIVERSAL DICTIONARY 
OF 
ARTS, SCIENCES, AND LITERATURE. 
SEE 
EE, s. [ sedes , Lat.] The seat of episcopal power; the 
diocese of a bishop : formerly, the seat of power in a 
general sense.—Jove laugh’d on Venus from his soverayne 
see. Spoiscr. 
You, my lord archbishop, 
Whose see is by a civil peace maintain’d. Shakspeare. 
To SEE, v. a. preter. I saw ; part. pass. seen. 
[peon, Saxon; sien, Dutch.] To perceive by the eye.—It 
was a right answer of the physician to his patient, that had 
sore eyes: if you have more pleasure in the taste of wine 
than in the use of your sight, wine is good for you; but if 
the pleasure of seeing be greater to you than that of drinking, 
wine is naught. Locke .—I see her sober over a sampler. 
Pope. —To observe; to find. 
Such command we had, 
To see that none thence issu’d forth a spy. Milton. 
To discover; to descry. 
Who is so gross 
As cannot see this palpable device ? 
Yet who so bold but says he sees it not > 
When such ill dealings must be seen in thought. Shakspeare. 
To converse with.—The main of them may be reduced to 
language, and to an improvement in wisdom and prudence 
by seeing men, and conversing with people of different 
tempers and customs Locke. 
To SEE, v. 7i. To have the power of sight; to have by 
the eye perception of things distant.—Air hath some secret 
degree of light; otherwise cats and owls could not see in the 
night. Bacoti. —To discern without deception; with 
through. —Many sagacious persons will find us out, will look 
under our mask, and see through all our fine pretensions, and 
discern the absurdity of telling the world that we believe one 
thing when we do the contrary. Til/otson. —To inquire; 
to distinguish.— See whether fear doth make thee wrong her. 
Shakspeare. —To be attentive. 
Mark and perform it, see st thou; for the fail 
Of any point in’t shall be death. Shakspeare. 
Let me see, is synonymous with let me consider. 
To SEE to. To behold; to look at. 
A certain shepherd lad, 
Of small regard to see to. Milton. 
SEE, interj. [Originally the imperative of the verb see.] 
Lo ; look; observe; behold. 
See, see ! upon the banks of Boyne he stands, 
By his own view adjusting his commands. Halifax. 
See ! the sole bliss Heav’n could on all bestow, 
Which who but feels can taste, but thinks can know ? Pope. 
See what it is to have a poet in your house. Pope. 
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SEE 
SEE AMOL, a small island in the Eastern seas, near the 
east coast of Borneo. Lat. 5.27. N. long. 118.48. E. 
SEEASSEE, a small island in the Sooloo archipelago. 
It is a high island, well wooded, but cleared in many places, 
and inhabited, and supplied with water. It yields many 
cowries and small baat, named Seeassee. Lat. 5. 25. N. 
long. 120. 50. E. 
SEEBAH, a town of Hindostan, province of Lahore, and 
capital of a small district of the same name, belonging to 
the Seiks. It is fortified, and situated on the bank of a small 
river. Lat. 31.39. N. long. 75. 34. E. 
SEE BANGOG, a small island in the Eastern seas, near 
the east coast of Borneo. Lat. 4. 18. N. long. 118. 24. E. 
SEE BEEROO, or Si Biru Isle, an island on the west 
coast of Sumatra, about 70 miles in length by 10 in average 
breadth. It lies between the 1st and 2d degrees of south lat., 
and the 98th and 99th of east long. This island has been 
commonly omitted in our charts, or denoted to be uncer¬ 
tain. It is inhabited by the Mantawey race, and the inha¬ 
bitants both of Si Pora and the Poggy isles, consider it as 
their parent country; but they are, notwithstanding, gene¬ 
rally in a state of hostility; and in 1783, no intercourse 
existed between them. The inhabitants are distinguished 
only by some variety of the patterns in which their skins 
are tattooed. This island is rendered conspicuous from a 
distance, by a volcano mountain. 
SEEBERG, a hill of Upper Saxony, to the west and 
south-west of Gotha, with a celebrated astronomical obser¬ 
vatory, in long. 10. 44. 0. E. lat. 50. 56. 8. N. 
SEEBGUNGE. There are several towns of this name in 
the provinces of Bahar and Bengal, &c., but none of any 
importance. 
SEEBURG, a village of Prussian Saxony, situated be¬ 
tween the Mansfeld lakes, the one of which has fresh, the 
other salt water, produced by brine springs; 11 miles west 
of Halle. 
SEEBURG, a small town of East Prussia; 50 miles south 
of Konigsberg. Population 1300. Lat. 53. 57. 54. N. 
long. 20. 45. 30. E. 
SEED, s. [pseb, Saxon ; seed, Danish; saecl, Dutch.] 
The organized particle produced by plants and animals, from 
which new plants and animals are generated. 
If you can look into the seeds of time. 
And say which grain will grow and which will not. 
Speak them to me. Shakspeare. 
Did they ever see any herbs, except those of the grass¬ 
leaved tribe, come up without two seed leaves; which to me 
is an argument that they came all of seed, there being no 
reason else why they should produce two seed leaves different 
from the subsequent. Ray .—First principle ; original.—The 
seed of whatsoever perfect virtue groweth from us, is a right 
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