Seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal.
Amos v. 5.
Since great Ulysses sought the Phrygian plains.
Pope.
Seek (?), v. i. To make search or inquiry; to endeavor to make
discovery.
Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read.
Isa. xxxiv. 16.
To seek, needing to seek or search; hence, unprepared. "Unpracticed,
unprepared, and still to seek." Milton. [Obs.] -- To seek after, to
make pursuit of; to attempt to find or take. -- To seek for, to
endeavor to find. -- To seek to, to apply to; to resort to; to court.
[Obs.] "All the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom." 1 Kings
x. 24. -- To seek upon, to make strict inquiry after; to follow up; to
persecute. [Obs.]
To seek Upon a man and do his soul unrest.
Chaucer.
Seek"er (?), n. 1. One who seeks; that which is used in seeking or
searching.
2. (Eccl.) One of a small heterogeneous sect of the 17th century, in
Great Britain, who professed to be seeking the true church, ministry,
and sacraments.
A skeptic [is] ever seeking and never finds, like our new upstart
sect of Seekers.
Bullokar.
Seek"-no-fur`ther (?), n. A kind of choice winter apple, having a
subacid taste; -- formerly called go- no-further.
Seek"-sor`row (?), n. One who contrives to give himself vexation.
[Archaic.] Sir P. Sidney.
Seel (sl), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Seeled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Seeling.]
[F. siller, ciller, fr. cil an eyelash, L. cilium.] 1. (Falconry) To
close the eyes of (a hawk or other bird) by drawing through the lids
threads which were fastened over the head. Bacon.
Fools climb to fall: fond hopes, like seeled doves for want of
better light, mount till they end their flight with falling.
J. Reading.