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To SEEK, v. n. To make search; to make inquiry.— 
Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read. Isa. —To 
endeavour. 
Ask not what pains, nor further seek to know 
Their process, or the forms of law below. Dry den. 
To make pursuit.—If thy brother’s ox or sheep go astray, 
it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it. Deut. 
—To apply to; to use solicitation.—All the earth sought to 
Solomon to hear his wisdom. 1 Kings .—To endeavour 
after.—Being a man of experience, he wished by wisdom to 
order that which the young prince sought for by war. 
Knot/'es. i 
To SEEK. [An adverbial mode of speech.] At a loss ; 
without measures, knowledge, or experience.—Being brought 
and transferred from other services abroad, though they be of 
good experience in those, yet in these they will be new to 
seek; and before they have gathered experience, they shall 
buy it with great loss to his majesty. Spenser. —Unprac¬ 
tis’d, unprepar’d, and still to seek. Milton. 
But they misplace them all; 
And are as much to seek in other things, 
As he that only can design a tree. 
Would be to draw a shipwreck. Roscommon. 
SEE'KER, s. One that seeks; an inquirer.—A lan¬ 
guage of a very witty volatile people, seekers after novelty, 
and abounding with variety of notions. Locke. —The name 
of a sect which professed no determinate religion.—Sir Henry 
Vane—set up a form of religion in a way of his own; yet it 
consisted rather in a withdrawing from all other forms, than 
in any new or particular opinions or forms ^ from which he 
and his party were called seekers. Burnet. 
SEEKHONK, a name applied to Pawtucket river, in the 
United States, below Pawtucket bridge and' falls, to its 
junction with Providence river, a distance of 4 or 5 miles. 
SEEKHONK, a post township of the United States, in 
Bristol county, Massachusetts, on the east side of Pawtucket 
or Seekhonk river, opposite North Providence; 38 miles 
south-south-west of Boston. 
SEEK-SO'RROW, s. One who contrives to give himself 
vexation. Unused. 
Afield they go, where many lookers be. 
And thou seek-sorrow, Klaius, them among: 
Indeed thou saidst it was thy friend to see, 
Strephon, whose absence seem’d unto thee long. Sidney. 
To SEEL, v. a. [siller les yeux, “ to seel or sew up 
the eyelids; and hence, also, to hoodwink, blind, keep in 
darkness, &c.” Cot gravel] To close the eyes. A term of 
falconry; the eyes of a wild or haggard hawk being for a 
time seeled or closed.—Now she brought them to see a 
seeled dove, who the blinder she was, the higher she strave. 
Sidney. 
Come, seeling night. 
Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day. Shakspeare. 
Some ambitious men seem as screens to princes in matters 
of danger and envy ; for no man will take such parts, unless 
he be like the seeled dove, that mounts and mounts, because 
he cannot see about him. Bacon. 
To SEEL, v. n. [fyllan, Sax.] To lean on one side.— 
When a ship seels or- rolls in foul weather, the breaking 
loose of ordnance is a thing very dangerous. Ralegh. 
SEEL, or Seeling, s . The agitation of a ship in foul 
weather. Ainsworth. 
At His command black tempests rise; 
Then mount they to the troubled skies: 
Thence sinking to the depths below, 
The ship hulls as the billows flow: 
And all aboard, at every seele. 
Like drunkards on the hatches reele. Sandys. 
SEEL, s. [psel, Sax. opportunitas. ] Season; time.—It 
is a fair seel for you to come at, i. e. a fair season or time: 
spoken ironically to them that come late. What seel of 
day ? i. e. what time of day ? t . Essex. Ray, and Grose .— 
Hay -seel, hay-time; barley-see/, wheat-see/, bark-see/. 
Norfolk. Grose. 
SEELAND, or Zeeland, a village of the Netherlands, 
in North Brabant; 15 miles east of Bois le Due. Population 
900. 
SEELAU, a large village of the interior of Bohemia, cir¬ 
cle of Czaslau, remarkable for a large monastery, and for the 
topazes, agates and rock crystals occasionally excavated in 
the environs. 
SEELBURG, or Schaspels, a small town in the north¬ 
west of European Russia, in the government of Courland, 
on the left bank of the Dwina, formerly the residence of the 
bishops of Semigalia; 58 miles south-east of Riga. 
SEEL1NGAN, a small island in the Sooloo archipelago. 
Lat. 6. 4. N. long. 118. 15. E. 
SEELOW, a small town of Prussia, in the Middle Mark 
of Brandenburg; 11 miles west of Kustrin, and 40 east of 
Berlin, .containing 1300 inhabitants, part of whom are linen 
weavers. 
SEELOWITZ, or Zidlochowice, a smalltown of the 
Austrian states, in Moravia, on the Schwarza; 12 miles south 
ofBrunn. Population 1000. 
SEE'LY, adj. [jsehg. Sax. happy, prosperous; from 
pael, lucky time.'] Lucky; happy. 
My see/y sheep like well below. 
For they been hale enough, I trow, 
And liken their abode. Spenser. 
Silly; foolish; simple; inoffensive. 
If thee lust to holden chat 
With seely shepheard’s swayne, 
Come downe, and learne the little what. 
That Thomalin can sayne. Spenser, 
Peacock and turkie, that nibbles off top. 
Are very ill neighbours to seely poor hop. Tusser. 
To SEEM, v. n. [Possibly from tbe Icel. saeman, to be¬ 
come; zeimen. Germ, the same. Todd.] To appear; to 
make a show; to have semblance. 
My lord, you’ve lost a friend, indeed; 
And I dare swear, you borrow not that face 
Of seeming sorrow; it is sure your own. Shakspeare. 
So spake the Omnipotent; and with his words 
All seem'd well pleas’d; all seem'd, but were not all. Milton. 
To have the appearance of truth.—It seems to me, that 
the true reason why we have so few versions which are toler¬ 
able, is because there are so few who have all the talents re¬ 
quisite for translation. Dry den —In Shakspeare, to seem, 
perhaps, signifies to be beautiful. Dr. Johnson. —Rather, 
specious. Steevens. 
Sir, there she stands: 
If aught within that little seeming substance 
May fitly like your grace, 
She’s there, and she is your’s. Shakspeare. 
Pluck the borrowed veil of modesty from the so seeming 
mistress Page. Shakspeare. 
It Seems : it appears; or it is used ironically to condemn 
the thing mentioned, like the Latin scilicet, or the old 
English forsooth. Id mihi datur negotii scilicet. 
The raven, urg’d by such impertinence. 
Grew passionate, it seems, and took offence. Addison. 
Here’s another discontented paper. 
Found in his pocket too; and this, it seems, 
Rodorigo meant to have sent. Shakspeare. 
SEE-MA-KOANG, a Chinese mandarin and philosopher 
of the eleventh century, who enjoyed the favour of the em¬ 
peror, and had several important places, which he resigned, 
and retired to a solitary place, where he wrote a history of 
China, commencing at the 403d year before the Christian era. 
He was author likewise of some moral treatises. 
SEE'MER, s. One that carries an appearance. 
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