Seen, a. Versed; skilled; accomplished. [Obs.]

Well seen in every science that mote be.

Spenser.

Noble Boyle, not less in nature seen, Than his great brother read

in states and men.

Dryden.

{ Seep (?), or Sipe (?) }, v. i. [AS. span to distill.] To run or soak

through fine pores and interstices; to ooze. [Scot. & U. S.]

Water seeps up through the sidewalks.

G. W. Cable.

{ Seep"age (?), or Sip"age }, n. Water that seeped or oozed through a

porous soil. [Scot. & U. S.]

{ Seep"y (?), or Sip"y }, a. Oozy; -- applied to land under cultivation

that is not well drained.

Seer (sr), a. Sore; painful. [Prov. Eng.] Ray.

Se"er (s"r), n. One who sees. Addison.

Seer (sr), n. [From See.] A person who foresees events; a prophet.

Milton.

Seer"ess, n. A female seer; a prophetess.

Seer"fish` (-fsh), n. (Zoöl.) A scombroid food fish of Madeira (Cybium

Commersonii).

Seer"hand (?), n. [Etymol. uncertain.] A kind of muslin of a texture

between nainsook and mull.

Seer"ship, n. The office or quality of a seer.

Seer"suck`er (?), n. A light fabric, originally made in the East

Indies, of silk and linen, usually having alternating stripes, and a

slightly craped or puckered surface; also, a cotton fabric of similar

appearance.

Seer"wood` (?), n. [See Sear.] Dry wood. [Written also searwood.]

[Obs.] Dryden.

See"saw` (?), n. [Probably a reduplication of saw, to express the

alternate motion to and fro, as in the act of sawing.] 1. A play among

children in which they are seated upon the opposite ends of a plank

which is balanced in the middle, and move alternately up and down.

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