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To SEETHE, v. n. To be in a state of ebullition ; to be 
hot. 
The boiling baths at Cairbadon, 
Which seethe with secret fire eternally. 
And in their entrails, full of quick brimstone. 
Nourish the flames, which they are warm’d upon. Spenser. 
SEE'THER, s. A boiler; a pot. 
The fire thus form’d, she sets the kettle on ; 
Like burnish’d gold the little secther shone. Dryclen. 
SEETHING, orSENGEs,aparishof England, in Norfolk; 
lOJ miles south-east of Norwich. 
SEEWEE BAY, or Bull’s Harbour, on the coast 
of South Carolina, lies nearly at an equal distance south¬ 
west of Cape Roman, and north-east of Charleston, 
having several isles which form the bay. 
SEEZ, an old town in the north of France, inNorm'andy, 
situated on the Orne, in the middle of an extensive and fer¬ 
tile plain. It is tolerably built, and has 5500 inhabitants. 
It is the see of a bishop, and has a good cathedral. Here are 
manufactures of woollens, cottons, fustians and stockings; 
also a traffic in country produce. Veins of manganese have 
been lately discovered in the neighbourhood ; 14 miles north 
of Alenqon, and 126 west of Paris. Lit. 48. 36. 23. N. long. 
0. 10. 59. E. 
SEEZ, a small river in the west of Normandy, wdiich falls 
into the sea, to the west of Avranches. 
SEFAIRY, a village of Greece, in Attica, near Marathon, 
at the foot of the mountain called Croton. 
SEFAK1N, a small town of Yemen, in Arabia; 60 miles 
south-east of Loheia. 
SEFATIANS, a sect of Mahometans, who held the op¬ 
posite opinion to the Moatazalites, with respect to the eternal 
attributes of God, 
SEFROI, a village of Fez, in Africa; 20 miles south-east 
of Fez. 
SEFURA, a town of Foota, in Western Africa. Lat. 10. 
30. N. long. 10. 25. W. 
SEG, s. [pecg, Saxon.] Sedge. Still a Gloucestershire 
word. It is also in the old Prompt. Parvulorum.—A place 
where segges do grow. Barret. 
SEGAL, a small island on the north-west coast of France. 
SEGA'R, s. [ cigarro , Span.] A little roll of tobacco, 
smoked without a pipe. Swinburne. —Our hostess supplied 
us with plenty of fruit, and then obligingly smoked a segar 
with me. Tzviss. 
SEGARY, a village of England, in Wiltshire, situated on 
the Avon, south-east of Malmesbury. 
SEGEBERG, a small town of Denmark, in Holstein, on 
the river Trave. It is built round the base of a high chalk or 
limestone hill, from the top of which there is a very exten¬ 
sive prospect. The lime obtained from this hill forms an 
important article of trade. Population 1400; 28 miles 
north-east of Hamburgh. Lat. 53. 58. N. long. 10. 19. E. 
SEGED, a village of Sennaar; 30 miles soutli of Sennaar. 
SEGEDIN. See Szegedin. 
SEGERA, a village of Hedsjas, in Arabia ; 5 miles south 
of Medina. 
SEGERS, or Seghers (Gerard), an eminent painter, 
born at Antwerp, in 1589. He was first a pupil of Henry 
van Balen, but afterwards entered the school of Abraham 
Janssens, and had made considerable progress in the art 
when he went to Italy. On his arrival at Rome, he attached 
himself as a disciple to Bartolommeo Manfredi; and from 
him adopted a taste for the vigorous style of Michael Angelo 
Caravaggio. To the strength of contrast, which he thus 
adopted, he added somewhat of the tone and colour lie had 
brought with him from his native country; producing the 
powerful effect of candle-light, though often falsely applied 
in subjects which appertain to the milder illumination of the 
day. By skilful productions of this nature, he acquired very 
considerable fame, and was at length invited by the cardinal 
Zapara, the Spanish ambassador at Rome, to accompany 
him to Madrid. He accepted the invitation, and was pre- 
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sented by the cardinal to the king, who received him in the 
most gracious manner, and engaged him in his service, with 
a considerable pension. He employed himself at Madrid in 
painting several historical subjects, and some musical con¬ 
versation pieces, which were greatly admired; but after re- 
maining there some years, ihe desire of revisiting his native 
country induced him to request permission to retire. His 
renown had reached Flanders, and his iellow-citizens were 
impatient to possess some of his productions; yet, when he 
had arrived there, and executed some paintings in his strong 
manner, they, whose eyes had been accustomed to the pure 
brilliant hues, and clear contrasts of Rubens and Vandyke, 
were unable to yield him that harvest of praise to which he 
had been accustomed, and he was obliged to change his 
manner, and adopt a more tender and agreeable style. The 
facility with which he effected this change, proves his power 
over the materials of the art, and his judgment in its prin¬ 
ciples ; and many of his latter pictures bear evident testimony 
in support of his general ability. His most esteemed pro¬ 
duction is or was the principal altar-piece in the church of 
the Carmelites at Antwerp, the subject of which is the Mar¬ 
riage of the Virgin. Vandyke painted his portrait among 
the eminent artists of his country, which is engraved by 
Pontius. He died in 1651, aged 62. 
SEGERS (Daniel), was the youngest brother of Gerard, 
and born at Antwerp in 1590. His taste leading him to 
design fruit and flowers, he was placed as a disciple with 
J. Brughel. At the age of 16 he entered the society of the 
Jesuits, and abandoned painting during his noviciate, but 
when that term expired, he obtained permission of his supe¬ 
rior to visit Rome, where his brother was then flourishing 
with distinction; and he also acquired considerable cele¬ 
brity, by the fidelity and skill with which he imitated the 
beauty and variety of those objects of creation, as flowers, 
plants and insects, which he chose for his models. 
His productions were sought with avidity, and his talents 
were not unproductive even to his convent, which received 
valuable tributes in return fur those ingenious and entertain¬ 
ing treasures of art. He appears, indeed, to have painted 
more for the benefit of the wily society to which lie had 
attached himself, than for his private advantage; and when 
he had produced his most celebrated picture, at the com¬ 
mand of the Prince of Orange, it was presented to that 
monarch in the name of the society, w'hich was munificently 
recompensed in return. He frequently painted garlands of 
flowers, as borders for pictures, which were filled up with 
historical subjects by the first painters. He died at Antwerp 
in 1660, aeed 70. 
SEGESTA, the ancient Egesta, a once celebrated city 
of Sicily, of which hardly a vestige now remains, except the 
ruins of a theatre, and a beautiful temple of Grecian struc¬ 
ture ; 6 miles from the town of Alcamo. 
SEGESTAN. See Seistan. 
SEGGARS, in the manufacture of porcelain and pottery, 
are cases formed of coarser clays, but which are capable of 
sustaining the required heat without fusion; in which differ¬ 
ent kinds of earthenware are baked. 
SEGHETTO, a large village of Austrian Dalmatia, on the 
Adriatic, between the towns of Spalatro and Trau. 
SE'GMENT, s. [segment, Fr., segmentum, Lat.] A 
figure contained between a chord and an arc of the circle, 
or so much of the circle as is cut off by that chord.—Unto a 
parallel sphere, and such as live under the poles for half a 
year, some segments may appear at any time, and under any 
quarter, the sun not setting, but walking round. Brown. 
SEGMENT of a Circle, in Geometry, a part of a circle, 
comprehended between an arc and its chord ; or, it is a part 
of a circle comprehended between a right line less than a 
semi-diameter, and part of the circumference. 
SEGMENT-LEAVES, a denomination given by botanists 
to those leaves that are cut and divided into many shreds, or 
slices, as fennel, &c. 
SEGMENTUM, among the Romans, an ornament of lace 
used by the women on their shoulders, which, according to 
some, resembled our shoulder-knots. 
C Segment^ 
