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opinion touching things divine. Hooker. —Progeny ; 
offspring; descendants. 43 
Next him king Lear in happy peace long reign’d ; 
But had no issue male him to succeed. 
But three fair daughters which were well uptrain’d 
In all that seemed fit for kingly seed. Spenser. 
Race; generation; birth. 
Of mortal seed they were not held. 
Which other mortals so excell’d ; 
And beautv too in such excess, 
As your’s, Zelinda! claims no less. Waller. 
To SEED, v. n. To grow to perfect maturity so as to shed 
the seed. 
Whate’er I plant, like corn on barren earth, 
By an equivocal birth, 
Seeds and runs up to poetry. Swift. 
To shed the seed.—It hath already floured, so that I feare 
it will shortly seede. Lyte s Herbal. 
SEE'D-CAKE, s. A sweet cake. 
Remember, wife, 
The seed-cake, the pasties, and furmenty pot. Tusser. 
SEEDED, adj. Bearing seed ; covered thick with seeds. 
Some hollow tree, or bed 
Of seeded nettles. Fletcher. 
Interspersed as with seeds.—A blue mantle seeded with 
stars. B..Tonson. 
SEEDER, s. [pae&epe, Sax. seminator.] One who 
SOWS. 
SEEDGHUR, a celebrated fortress of Hindostan, pro¬ 
vince of Bejapore. This place was taken from the Mahrattas 
by the British in the month of March 1818, with scarcely 
any loss. 
SEEDLING, s. A young plant just risen from the seed. 
—Carry into the shade such seedlings or plants as are for 
their choiceness reserved in pots. Evelyn. 
SEEDL1P, or See'dlop, s . [jaeb-laep, Saxon.] A 
vessel in which the sower carries his seed. 
SEEDNESS, s. Seedtime; the time of sowing. 
Blossoming time 
From the seedness the bare fallow brings 
To teeming foison. Shakspeare. 
SEEDPEARL, s. Small grains of pearl.—In the 
dissolution of seedpearl in some acid menstruum, if a good 
quantity of the little pearls be cast in whole, they will be 
carried in swarms from the bottom to the top Boyle. 
SEEDPLOT, s. The ground on which plants are sowed 
to be afterwards transplanted.—To counsel others, a man 
must be furnished with an universal store in himself to the 
knowledge of all nature : that is, the matter and seedplot; 
there are the seats of all argument and invention. B. Jonson. 
SEEDSMAN, s. The sower; he that scatters the seed. 
The higher Nilus swells 
The more it promises: as it ebbs, the seedsman 
Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain, 
And shortly comes to harvest. Shakspeare. 
One that sells seeds. 
SEEDTIME, s. [Sax. peb-tima.] The season of 
sowing.—If he would have two tributes in one year, he must 
give them two seedtimes, and two harvests. Bacon. 
Day and night, 
Seedtime and harvest, heat and hoary frost. 
Shall hold their course, till fire purge all things. Milton. 
SEEDY, adj. Abounding with seed. 
SEEDY ABDEL ABBUS, a village of Tunis, anciently 
called Musti, and where there are still the remains of a 
beautiful triumphal arch ; 16 miles north-east of Keft. 
SEEDY ABDELMOUMEN, a small sea-port of Tlemsan, 
in Algiers, on the coast of the Mediterranean, with a small 
but good road for vessels. It takes its name from a cele¬ 
brated prophet, whose tomb the inhabitants hold in great 
veneration. 
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SEEDY ABDULLAH, a small sea-port of Morocco, on 
the coast of the Atlantic; 30 miles north of Mogodor. 
SEEDY ARID, a noted sanctuary of Tlemsan, in Aimers, 
at the conflux of the Arhew and the Shelliff; 30 miles east 
oi Mustyganmm. 
SEEDY BOSGANNIM, a village of Tunis; 40 miles 
south-west of Keft. 
SEEDY BUSOROCTON, a small sea-port of Morocco, 
on the coast of the Atlantic; 10 miles north of Mogodor. 
SEEDY DOUDE, a sanctuary of Tunis, in Africa, situ¬ 
ated at the northern extremity of the peninsula of Dakkul, 
surrounded with the ruins of the ancient Misua. It received 
its present name in honour of Doude, or David, a Moorish 
saint. The people shew a cavity, five yards long, which 
they pretend to be his sepulchre, though Dr. Shaw is con¬ 
vinced that it is nothing more than a fragment of some 
Roman prcetorium. He founds this belief on three tesselated 
or Mosaic pavements, bearing marks of being the workman¬ 
ship ot that people. They are wrought with the greatest 
symmetry and exactness; for besides the general design, exe¬ 
cuted in a great variety of shapes and colours, the many 
figures of horses, birds, fishes and trees, are so judiciously 
intermixed and curiously inlaid, that they appear superior to 
tolerable paintings; 150 miles north-east of Tunis. 
SEEDY EESAH, a village of Algiers, anciently called 
Sava; 25 miles south of Boujeiah. 
SEEDY MEDDUB, a village of Tunis, in Africa; 20 
miles north of Gabs. 
SEED^ NEDJA, a village of Algiers; 26 miles east of 
Burg Hamza. 
SEEDY OCCUBA, a village of the Bled-el-Jereede, to the 
south of Algiers, on which it is dependent. It is famous for 
the tomb of an Arabian general of that name, and for that of 
Seedy Lascar, its tutelar saint; 15 miles south east of Biscara. 
SEEDY TERJE, a cape of Algiers, on which is situated 
a sanctuary, with some Roman ruins. 
SEEFELD, a small town of Lower Austria; 39 miles 
north-by-west of Vienna. Population 1200. 
SEEHAUSEN, a small town of Prussian Saxony, in the 
duchy of Magdeburg, with 1700 inhabitants ; 15 miles west 
of Brandenburg. 
SEEHAUSEN, another small town of Prussian Saxony, 
in the government of Magdeburg, completely surrounded by 
the river Aland. Population 2100; 70 miles west-north- 
'west of Berlin. 
SEEHEIM, a village in the west of Germany, in the 
grand duchy of Hesse ; 7 miles south of Darmstadt, with 800 
inhabitants. 
SEE'ING, s. Sight; vision.—Love adds a precious 
seeing to the eye. Shakspeare. 
SEE'ING, or Sef.'ing that, adv. Since; sith; it being 
so that.— Seeing every nation affords not experience and 
tradition enough for all kind of learning, therefore we are 
taught the languages of those people who have been most 
industrious after wisdom. Milton. 
To SEEK, v. a. pret. I sought; part. pass, sought. 
[pecan. Sax.; soecken, Dutch; soekia. Ice!.; sokja, M. 
Goth.] To look for; to search for: often with out.— He 
did range the town to seek me out. Shakspeare. 
I have a venturous fairy, that shall seek 
The squirrel’s hoard, and fetch thee thence new nuts. 
Shakspeare. 
To solicit; to endeavour to gain.—The young lions roar 
after their prey, and seek their meat from God. Ps. —To 
go to find. 
Let us seek death, or, he not found, supply 
His office. Milton. 
Since great Ulysses sought the Phrygian plains. 
Within these walls inglorious silence reigns. Pope. 
To pursue by machinations. 
I had a son, 
Now outlaw’d from my blood; he sought my life. 
Shakspeare. 
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