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Angelo scarce confesses 
That his blood flows, or that his appetite 
Is more to bread than stone: hence shall we see, 
If pow’r change purpose, what our seemers be. ShaJcspeare. 
SEE'MING, s. Appearance; show; semblance. 
All good seeming, 
By thy revolt, oh husband, shall be thought 
Put on for villainy. ShaJcspeare. 
Fair appearance. 
For you there’s rosemary and rue; these keep 
Seeming and savour all the Winter long. ShaJcspeare. 
Opinion. 
His persuasive words impregn’d 
With reason to her seeming. Milton. 
SEE'MINGLY, ado. In appearance; in show; in sem¬ 
blance. 
To this her mother’s plot, 
She seemingly obedient, likewise hath 
Made promise to the doctor. ShaJcspeare, 
They to their viands fell, not seemingly 
The angels, nor in mist. Milton. 
SEE'MINGNESS, s. Semblance; appearance.—Hypo¬ 
crisy will obstruct, and put in a prejudice against all things, 
under the see?ningness or appearance of evil, which are not 
only allowed of God, but necessary. Bp. Taylor. 
SEE'MLESS, adj. Unseemly; indecorous. 
Thence he her drew 
By the faire lockes, and fowly did array 
Withouten pity of her goodly hew, 
That Artegall himselfe her seemlesse plight did rew. Spenser. 
SEE'MLILY, adv. Decently ; comelily. Unused. Huloet, 
and Sherwood. 
SEE'MLINESS, s. Decency; handsomeness; comeliness; 
grace; beauty.—When substantialness combineth with 
delightfulness, seemliness with portliness, and currentness 
with stayedness, how can the language sound other than full 
of sweetness? Camden, 
SEE'MLY, adj. [soommeligt, Danish; from soome, 
Icelandic, honour or decency.] Decent; becoming; 
proper; fit. 
I am a woman, lacking wit 
To make a seemly answer to such person. ShaJcspeare. 
SEE'MLY, adv. In a decent manner; in a proper 
manner. 
There, seemly rang’d in peaceful order, stood 
Ulysses’ arms, now long disus’d to blood. Pope. 
SEE'MLYHED, s. Decent, comely appearance. 
Damoselles two 
Right yong, and ful of semelyhede. Chaucer. 
SEEMO, a village of Kasson, in Central Africa. 
SEEN, adj. Skilled; versed. 
Petruchio shall offer me, disguis’d in sober robes, 
To old Baptista as a schoolmaster 
Well seen in musick. ShaJcspeare. 
SEEND, or Seen, a pleasantly situated village and 
parish of England, in Wiltshire, through which the high 
road to Bath passed till recently, when it was altered to 
avoid a steep hill. Population 876; 4 miles south-east of 
Melksham. 
SEENGHOO, a town of the Birman empire. It is situ¬ 
ated on the banks of the Irrawuddy river; 10 miles south of 
the city of Pagham. 
SEEOR, a town of Hindostan, province of Malwah, be¬ 
longing to the Mahrattas. It is pleasantly situated on the 
bank of a small river, and is surrounded by mangoe groves. 
Lat. 23. 12. N. long. 77. 10. E. 
SEEPARRAN, a small island in the Eastern seas, near 
the east coast of Borneo. Lat. 4. 8. N. long. 118. 23. E. 
SEE 
SE'ER, s. [Sax. pejiepe.] One who sees.—We are in 
hopes that you may prove a dreamer of dreams, and a seer 
of visions. Addison. —A prophet; one who foresees future 
events. 
How soon hath thy prediction, seer blest! 
Measur'd this transient world the race of time. 
Till time stand fix’d ? Milton, 
SEER, adj. [saer , Su. Goth., an adverb signifying separa¬ 
tion. Ihre.] Several. Obsolete. —They are gone seer ways. 
SEER, a principality of Arabia, in the province of Om- 
mon, extending from Cape Mussendoon, along the coast of 
the Persian gulf. It is called by the Persians, the country of 
Dsjulfar; and Europeans frequenting these seas have given 
this name to the Arabs who inhabit it. The Arabs, how¬ 
ever, call it Seer, from the town of the same name, which has 
a good harbour, and is the seat of the Schiech. The country 
not long since acknowledged the sovereign authority of the 
Iman; but the Schiech has shaken off this dependance, and 
is often at war with his former masters. He makes some 
figure among the maritime powers in those parts, and his 
navy is one of the most considerable in the Persian gulf. 
His subjects are much employed in navigation, and carry on 
a pretty extensive trade. 
SEERD, a village of Diarbekir, in Asiatic Turkey; 55 
miles east of Diarbekir. 
SEERDHUNA, a town of Hindostan, province of Delhi, 
and district of Merat. This place was assigned as a jagier to 
the infamous Somroo, a German, who, by command of the 
nabob Cossim Aly Khan, massacred the English prisoners 
at Patna, in the year 1763, by the Afghan chief named Nujif 
Khan. The territory, which is 20 miles long by 12 in 
breadth, is very fertile, and produces all kinds of grain, 
sugar, cotton, &c. After the death of Somroo, his wife 
succeeded him, not only in his possessions, but in the com¬ 
mand of his army, and distinguished herself on various 
occasions. She now resides under the British protection at 
Delhi, having invested her property, which is considerable, 
in the government funds. Lat. 29. 11. N. long. 77. 28. E. 
SEERPORE. There are a number of towns of this name 
in Hindostan, particularly in the provinces of Bahar and 
Bengal. It should probably be Sheerpore, which may either 
signify, “ abounding with milk or tigers.” 
SEE'RWOOD, s. Dry decayed wood. 
SEE'SAW, s. A reciprocating motion. 
His wit all seesaw, between that and this ; 
Now high, now low, now master up, now miss. 
And he himself one vile antithesis. Pope. 
To SEE'SAW, v. n. To move with a reciprocating 
motion.—Sometimes they were like to pull John over, then 
it went all of a sudden again on John’s side; so they went 
seesawing up and down, from one end of the room to the 
other. Arbuthnot. 
SEESEN, a small town of Lower Saxony, in the duchy 
of Brunswick; 14 miles west of Goslar. It contains 2000 
inhabitants, and has a brisk transit trade, carried on by the 
roads which pass through the town from different parts of the 
country. 
SEESUCUNDA, a village of Woolly, in Central Africa, 
on the frontier towards Tenda. 
SEETACOOND, a town of Bengal, district of Chitta¬ 
gong. There is here a warm spring, from which there fre¬ 
quently issues a flame, which the Hindoos consider as an 
emanation of the deity, and make offerings thereto. The 
water is very fine, and will keep without smelling for any 
length of time. Lat. 22. 37. N. long. 91. 36. E.—There is 
just such another place in the vicinity of Monghir, province 
of Bahar, and several others in different parts of Hindostan. 
They are all dedicated to Seeta, the wife of the demigod Ram. 
To SEETHE, v. a. preterite I sod or seethed; part, 
pass, sodden, [feoban, Saxon; zieden, Dutch; se.iden, 
German; rrl'jiv and i^eetv, Gr. Wachter.] To boil ; to 
decoct in hot liquor.—He coude roste, and sethe. Chaucer. 
—The Scythians used to seethe the flesh in the hide, and so 
do the northern Irish. Spenser. 
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