5. To fall in with; to meet or associate with; to have intercourse or
communication with; hence, to have knowledge or experience of; as, to
see military service.
Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us,
and the years wherein we have seen evil.
Ps. xc. 15.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, if a man keep my saying, he shall
never see death.
John viii. 51.
Improvement in wisdom and prudence by seeing men.
Locke.
6. To accompany in person; to escort; to wait upon; as, to see one
home; to see one aboard the cars.
God you (him, or me, etc.) see, God keep you (him, me, etc.) in his
sight; God protect you. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- To see (anything) out, to
see (it) to the end; to be present at, or attend, to the end. -- To see
stars, to see flashes of light, like stars; -- sometimes the result of
concussion of the head. [Colloq.] -- To see (one) through, to help,
watch, or guard (one) to the end of a course or an undertaking.
See, v. i. 1. To have the power of sight, or of perceiving by the
proper organs; to possess or employ the sense of vision; as, he sees
distinctly.
Whereas I was blind, now I see.
John ix. 25.
2. Figuratively: To have intellectual apprehension; to perceive; to
know; to understand; to discern; -- often followed by a preposition, as
through, or into.
For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not
might see; and that they which see might be made blind.
John ix. 39.
Many sagacious persons will find us out, . . . and see through all
our fine pretensions.
Tillotson.
3. To be attentive; to take care; to give heed; -- generally with to;
as, to see to the house.
See that ye fall not out by the way.
Gen. xlv. 24.
Let me see, Let us see, are used to express consideration, or to
introduce the particular consideration of a subject, or some scheme or
calculation.
Cassio's a proper man, let me see now, - To get his place.
Shak.
See is sometimes used in the imperative for look, or behold. "See. see!
upon the banks of Boyne he stands." Halifax.
To see about a thing, to pay attention to it; to consider it. -- To see
on, to look at. [Obs.] "She was full more blissful on to see." Chaucer.
-- To see to. (a) To look at; to behold; to view. [Obs.] "An altar by
Jordan, a great altar to see to" Josh. xxii. 10. (b) To take care
about; to look after; as, to see to a fire.
Seed (sd), n.; pl. Seed or Seeds (#). [OE. seed, sed, AS. sd, fr. swan
to sow; akin to D. zaad seed, G. saat, Icel. sð, sæði, Goth. manasþs
seed of men, world. See Sow to scatter seed, and cf. Colza.] 1. (Bot.)
(a) A ripened ovule, consisting of an embryo with one or more
integuments, or coverings; as, an apple seed; a currant seed. By
germination it produces a new plant. (b) Any small seedlike fruit,
though it may consist of a pericarp, or even a calyx, as well as the
seed proper; as, parsnip seed; thistle seed.
And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding
seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed
is in itself.
Gen. i. 11.
The seed proper has an outer and an inner coat, and within these the
kernel or nucleus. The kernel is either the embryo alone, or the embryo
inclosed in the albumen, which is the material for the nourishment of
the developing embryo. The scar on a seed, left where the stem parted
from it, is called the hilum, and the closed orifice of the ovule, the
micropyle.
2. (Physiol.) The generative fluid of the male; semen; sperm; -- not
used in the plural.
3. That from which anything springs; first principle; original; source;
as, the seeds of virtue or vice.