As when a bear hath seized her cruel claws Upon the carcass of some
beast too weak.
Spenser.
6. To grap with the mind; to comprehend fully and distinctly; as, to
seize an idea.
7. (Naut.) To bind or fasten together with a lashing of small stuff, as
yarn or marline; as, to seize ropes.
This word, by writers on law, is commonly written seise, in the phrase
to be seised of (an estate), as also, in composition, disseise,
disseisin.
To be seized of, to have possession, or right of possession; as, A B
was seized and possessed of the manor of Dale. "Whom age might see
seized of what youth made prize." Chapman. -- To seize on or upon, to
fall on and grasp; to take hold on; to take possession of suddenly and
forcibly.
Syn. -- To catch; grasp; clutch; snatch; apprehend; arrest; take;
capture.
Seiz"er (?), n. One who, or that which, seizes.
Sei"zin (?), n. [F. saisine. See Seize.] 1. (Law) Possession;
possession of an estate of froehold. It may be either in deed or in
law; the former when there is actual possession, the latter when there
is a right to such possession by construction of law. In some of the
United States seizin means merely ownership. Burrill.