Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 40
Securipalp (n.) One of a family of beetles having the maxillary palpi terminating in a hatchet-shaped joint.
Securities (n. pl. ) of Security.
Security (n.) The condition or quality of being secure; secureness.
Security (n.) Freedom from apprehension, anxiety, or care; confidence of power of safety; hence, assurance; certainty.
Security (n.) Hence, carelessness; negligence; heedlessness.
Security (n.) Freedom from risk; safety.
Security (n.) That which secures or makes safe; protection; guard; defense.
Security (n.) Something given, deposited, or pledged, to make certain the fulfillment of an obligation, the performance of a contract, the payment of a debt, or the like; surety; pledge.
Security (n.) One who becomes surety for another, or engages himself for the performance of another's obligation.
Security (n.) An evidence of debt or of property, as a bond, a certificate of stock, etc.; as, government securities.
Sedate (a.) Undisturbed by passion or caprice; calm; tranquil; serene; not passionate or giddy; composed; staid; as, a sedate soul, mind, or temper.
Sedation (n.) 鎮靜 The act of calming, or the state of being calm.
Sedation (n.) A state of reduced excitement or anxiety that is induced by the administrative of a sedative agent.
Sedation (n.) The administration of a sedative agent or drug [syn: {sedation}, {drugging}].
Sedative (a.) Tending to calm, moderate, or tranquilize
Sedative (a.) allaying irritability and irritation; assuaging pain.
Sedative (n.) A remedy which allays irritability and irritation, and irritative activity or pain.
Sedent (a.) Sitting; inactive; quiet.
Sedentarily (adv.) In a sedentary manner.
Sedentariness (n.) Quality of being sedentary.
Sedentary (a.) Accustomed to sit much or long; as, a sedentary man.
Sedentary (a.) Characterized by, or requiring, much sitting; as, a sedentary employment; a sedentary life.
Sedentary (a.) Inactive; motionless; sluggish; hence, calm; tranquil.
Sedentary (a.) Caused by long sitting.
Sedentary (a.) Remaining in one place, especially when firmly attached to some object; as, the oyster is a sedentary mollusk; the barnacles are sedentary crustaceans.
Sederunt (n.) A sitting, as of a court or other body.
Sedge (n.) Any plant of the genus Carex, perennial, endogenous herbs, often growing in dense tufts in marshy places. They have triangular jointless stems, a spiked inflorescence, and long grasslike leaves which are usually rough on the margins and midrib. There are several hundred species.
Sedge (n.) A flock of herons.
Sedged (a.) Made or composed of sedge.
With your sedged crowns and ever-harmless looks. -- Shak.
Sedgy (a.) Overgrown with sedge.
On the gentle Severn's sedgy bank. -- Shak.
Sedgy (a.) Covered with sedges (grasslike marsh plants).
Sedilia (n. pl.) (Arch.) Seats in the chancel of a church near the altar for the officiating clergy during intervals of service. -- Hook.
Sediment (n.) The matter which subsides to the bottom, frrom water or any other liquid; settlings; lees; dregs.
Sediment (n.) (Geol.) The material of which sedimentary rocks are formed.
Sediment (n.) Matter that has been deposited by some natural process [syn: sediment, deposit].
Sediment (v.) Deposit as a sediment.
Sediment (v.) Settle as sediment.
Sedimental (a.) Sedimentary.
Sedimentary (a.) Of or pertaining to sediment; formed by sediment; containing matter that has subsided.
Sedimentary rocks. (Geol.) See Aqueous rocks, under Aqueous.
Compare: Aqueous
Aqueous (a.) Partaking of the nature of water, or abounding with it; watery.
The aqueous vapor of the air. -- Tyndall.
Aqueous (a.) Made from, or by means of, water.
An aqueous deposit. -- Dana.
Aqueous extract, An extract obtained from a vegetable substance by steeping it in water.
Aqueous humor (Anat.), One the humors of the eye; a limpid fluid, occupying the space between the crystalline lens and the cornea. (See Eye.)
Aqueous rocks (Geol.), Those which are deposited from water and lie in strata, as opposed to volcanic rocks, which are of igneous origin; -- called also sedimentary rocks.
Sedimentary (a.) Resembling or containing or formed by the accumulation of sediment; "sedimentary deposits."
Sedimentary (a.) Produced by the action of water [syn: aqueous, sedimentary] [ant: eruptive, igneous].
Sedimentation (n.) The act of depositing a sediment; specifically (Geol.), the deposition of the material of which sedimentary rocks are formed.
Sedimentation (n.) The phenomenon of sediment or gravel accumulating [syn: deposit, sedimentation, alluviation].
Sedition (n.) The raising of commotion in a state, not amounting to insurrection; conduct tending to treason, but without an overt act; excitement of discontent against the government, or of resistance to lawful authority.
In soothing them, we nourish 'gainst our senate The cockle of rebellion, insolence, sedition. -- Shak.
Noisy demagogues who had been accused of sedition. -- Macaulay.
Sedition (n.) Dissension; division; schism. [Obs.]
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, . . . emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies. -- Gal. v. 19, 20.
Syn: Insurrection; tumult; uproar; riot; rebellion; revolt.
See Insurrection.
Sedition (n.) An illegal action inciting resistance to lawful authority and tending to cause the disruption or overthrow of the government.
Sedition, () crimes. The raising commotions or disturbances in the state; it is a revolt against legitimate authority, Ersk. Princ. Laws, Scotl. b. 4, t. 4, s. 14; Dig. Lib. 49, t. 16, 1. 3, Sec. 19.
Sedition, () The distinction between sedition and treason consists in this, that though its ultimate object is a violation of the public peace, or at least such a course of measures as evidently engenders it, yet it does not aim at direct and open violence against the laws, or the subversion of the constitution. Alis. Crim. Law of Scotl. 580.
Sedition, () The. obnoxious and obsolete act of July 14, 1798, 1 Story's Laws U. S. 543, was called the sedition law, because its professed object was to prevent disturbances.
Sedition, () In the Scotch law, sedition is either verbal or real. Verbal is inferred from the uttering of words tending to create discord between the king and his people; real sedition is generally committed by convocating together any considerable number of people, without lawful authority, under the pretence of redressing some public grievance, to the disturbing of the public peace. 1 Ersk. ut supra.
Sedition (n.) Incitement of discontent or rebellion against a government.
Syn: mutiny, insurrection.
Sedition (n.) Any action, especially in speech or writing, promoting such discontent or rebellion.
Sedition (n.) Archaic. Rebellious disorder.
Seditionary (n.) An inciter or promoter of sedition. -- Bp. Hall.
Seditionary (a.) Of or relating to sedition; seditious.
Seditionary (n.) (pl. -ies) Also seditionist. one guilty of sedition.
Seditious (a.) Of or pertaining to sedition; partaking of the nature of, or tending to excite, sedition; as, seditious behavior; seditious strife; seditious words.
Seditious (a.) Disposed to arouse, or take part in, violent opposition to lawful authority; turbulent; factious; guilty of sedition; as, seditious citizens. -- Se*di"tious*ly, adv. -- Se*di"tious*ness, n.
Seditious (a.) Arousing to action or rebellion [syn: incendiary, incitive, inflammatory, instigative, rabble-rousing, seditious].
Seditious (a.) In opposition to a civil authority or government [syn: insurgent, seditious, subversive].
Sedlitz (a.) Same as Seidlitz.
Seidlitz (a.) Of or pertaining to Seidlitz, a village in Bohemia. [Written also Sedlitz.]
Seidlitz powders, Effervescing salts, consisting of two separate powders, one of which contains forty grains of sodium bicarbonate mixed with two drachms of Rochell? salt (tartrate of potassium and sodium) and the other contains thirty-five grains of tartaric acid. The powders are mixed in water, and drunk while effervescing, as a mild cathartic; -- so called from the resemblance to the natural water of Seidlitz. Called also Rochelle powders.
Seidlitz water, A natural water from Seidlitz, containing magnesium, sodium, calcium, and potassium sulphates, with calcium carbonate and a little magnesium chloride. It is used as an aperient.
Seduced (imp. & p. p.) of Seduce.
Seducing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Seduce.
Seduce (v. t.) 誘惑；引誘；誘使墮落（或犯罪）[O]；誘姦 To draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty in any manner; to entice to evil; to lead astray; to tempt and lead to iniquity; to corrupt.
For me, the gold of France did not seduce. -- Shak.
Seduce (v. t.) Specifically, to induce to engage in sexual intercourse.
Syn: To allure; entice; tempt; attract; mislead; decoy; inveigle. See Allure.
Seduce (v.) Induce to have sex; "Harry finally seduced Sally"; "Did you score last night?"; "Harry made Sally" [syn: seduce, score, make].
Seduce (v.) Lure or entice away from duty, principles, or proper conduct; "She was seduced by the temptation of easy money and started to work in a massage parlor."
Seducement (n.) [U] [C] 教唆；誘惑；勾引，誘姦；誘惑物；魅力 The act of seducing.
Seducement (n.) The means employed to seduce, as flattery, promises, deception, etc.; arts of enticing or corrupting. -- Pope.
Seducer (n.) 誘惑者；騙子；玩弄女性的人 One who, or that which, seduces. For a female seducer, the term seductress is also used.
He whose firm faith no reason could remove, Will melt before that soft seducer, love. -- Dryden.
Seducer (n.) Specifically: One who induces another to engage in sexual intercourse.
Seducer (n.) A bad person who entices others into error or wrongdoing.
Seducer (n.) A man who takes advantage of women [syn: seducer, ladies' man, lady killer].
Seducible (a.) 易受誘惑的 Capable of being seduced; corruptible.
Seducing (a.) Seductive.
Compare: Seductive
Seductive (a.) 誘惑的；引人注意的；有魅力的；（婦女）性感的 Tempting and attractive; enticing.
‘A seductive voice.’
Seduction (n.) 教唆；誘惑；魅力；吸引；（用複數）誘惑物 The act of seducing; enticement to wrong doing; enticement to fail in some duty.
Seduction (n.) Specifically: The offense of inducing a woman to consent to unlawful sexual intercourse, by enticements which overcome her scruples; the wrong or crime of persuading a woman to surrender her chastity. [Archaic]
Seduction (n.) Specifically: Any successful enticement to engage in some sexual activity, especially intercourse.
Seduction (n.) That which seduces, or is adapted to seduce; means of leading astray; as, the seductions of wealth.
Seduction (n.) Enticing someone astray from right behavior.
Seduction (n.) An act of winning the love or sexual favor of someone [syn: seduction, conquest].
Seductive (a.) Tending to lead astray; apt to mislead by flattering appearances; tempting; alluring; as, a seductive offer.
This may enable us to understand how seductive is the influence of example. -- Sir W. Hamilton.
Seductive (a.) Tending to entice into a desired action or state [ant: unseductive].
Seductively (adv.) In a seductive manner.
Seductively (adv.) In a tempting seductive manner; "she smiled at him seductively" [syn: seductively, temptingly].
Seductress (n.) A woman who seduces ; a female seducer.
Seductress (n.) A woman who seduces.
Sedulity (n.) The quality or state of being sedulous; diligent and assiduous application; constant attention; unremitting industry; sedulousness.
The industrious bee, by his sedulity in summer, lives in honey all the winter. -- Feltham.
Sedulity (n.) The quality of being constantly diligent and attentive [syn: sedulity, sedulousness].
Sedulous (a.) 勤勉的；聚精會神的；仔細的 Diligent in application or pursuit; constant, steady, and persevering in business, or in endeavors to effect an object; steadily industrious; assiduous; as, the sedulous bee.
What signifies the sound of words in prayer, without the affection of the heart, and a sedulous application of the proper means that may naturally lead us to such an end? -- L'Estrange.
Syn: Assiduous; diligent; industrious; laborious; unremitting; untiring; unwearied; persevering. -- Sed"u*lous*ly, adv. -- Sed"u*lous*ness, n.
Sedulous (a.) Marked by care and persistent effort; "her assiduous attempts to learn French"; "assiduous research"; "sedulous pursuit of legal and moral principles" [syn: assiduous, sedulous].
Sedulous (a.) [Formal] 小心的，勤奮的，刻苦的 Careful and using a lot of effort.
// It was agreed that the few students sedulous enough to read the book deserved top marks for diligence.
Sedum (n.) A genus of plants, mostly perennial, having succulent leaves and cymose flowers; orpine; stonecrop.
See (n.) A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.
See (n.) Specifically: (a) The seat of episcopal power; a diocese; the jurisdiction of a bishop; as, the see of New York. (b) The seat of an archibishop; a province or jurisdiction of an archibishop; as, an archiepiscopal see. (c) The seat, place, or office of the pope, or Roman pontiff; as, the papal see. (d) The pope or his court at Rome; as, to appeal to the see of Rome.
Saw (imp.) of See.
Seen (p. p.) of See.
Seeing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of See.
See (v. t.) To perceive by the eye; to have knowledge of the existence and apparent qualities of by the organs of sight; to behold; to descry; to view.
I will now turn aside, and see this great sight. -- Ex. iii. 3.
See (v. t.) To perceive by mental vision; to form an idea or conception of; to note with the mind; to observe; to discern; to distinguish; to understand; to comprehend; to ascertain.
Go, I pray thee, see whether it be well with thy brethren. -- Gen. xxxvii. 14.
Jesus saw that he answered discreetly. -- Mark xii. 34.
Who's so gross That seeth not this palpable device? -- Shak.
See (v. t.) To follow with the eyes, or as with the eyes; to watch; to regard attentivelly; to look after. -- Shak.
I had a mind to see him out, and therefore did not care for contradicting him. -- Addison.
See (v. t.) To have an interview with; especially, to make a call upon; to visit; as, to go to see a friend.
And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death. -- 1 Sam. xv. 35.
See (v. t.) To fall in 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.
See (v. t.) To accompany in person; to escort; to wait upon; as, to see one home; to see one aboard the cars.
See (v. t.) In poker and similar games at cards, to meet (a bet), or to equal the bet of (a player), by staking the same sum. "I'll see you and raise you ten."
God you see (or God him see or God me see, etc.), 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, work 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.) 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.
See (v. i.) 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.
See (v. i.) 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.
Note: 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.
Note: 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.
To see to. (b) To take care about; to look after; as, to see to a fire.
See (n.) The seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located.
See (v.) Perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight; "You have to be a good observer to see all the details"; "Can you see the bird in that tree?"; "He is blind-he cannot see".
See (v.) Perceive (an idea or situation) mentally; "Now I see!"; "I just can't see your point"; "Does she realize how important this decision is?"; "I don't understand the idea" [syn: understand, realize, realise, see].
See (v.) Perceive or be contemporaneous with; "We found Republicans winning the offices"; "You'll see a lot of cheating in this school"; "The 1960's saw the rebellion of the younger generation against established traditions"; "I want to see results" [syn: witness, find, see].
See (v.) Imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind; "I can't see him on horseback!"; "I can see what will happen"; "I can see a risk in this strategy" [syn: visualize, visualise, envision, project, fancy, see, figure, picture, image].
See (v.) Deem to be; "She views this quite differently from me"; "I consider her to be shallow"; "I don't see the situation quite as negatively as you do" [syn: see, consider, reckon, view, regard].
See (v.) Get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally; "I learned that she has two grown-up children"; "I see that you have been promoted" [syn: learn, hear, get word, get wind, pick up, find out, get a line, discover, see].
See (v.) See or watch; "view a show on television"; "This program will be seen all over the world"; "view an exhibition"; "Catch a show on Broadway"; "see a movie" [syn: watch, view, see, catch, take in].
See (v.) Come together; "I'll probably see you at the meeting"; "How nice to see you again!" [syn: meet, run into, encounter, run across, come across, see].
See (v.) Find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort; "I want to see whether she speaks French"; "See whether it works"; "find out if he speaks Russian"; "Check whether the train leaves on time" [syn: determine, check, find out, see, ascertain, watch, learn].
See (v.) Be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something; "He verified that the valves were closed"; "See that the curtains are closed"; "control the quality of the product" [syn: see, check, insure, see to it, ensure, control, ascertain, assure].
See (v.) Go to see for professional or business reasons; "You should see a lawyer"; "We had to see a psychiatrist."
See (v.) Go to see for a social visit; "I went to see my friend Mary the other day."
See (v.) Go to see a place, as for entertainment; "We went to see the Eiffel Tower in the morning" [syn: visit, see].
See (v.) Take charge of or deal with; "Could you see about lunch?"; "I must attend to this matter"; "She took care of this
business" [syn: attend, take care, look, see].
See (v.) Receive as a specified guest; "the doctor will see you now"; "The minister doesn't see anybody before noon".
See (v.) Date regularly; have a steady relationship with; "Did you know that she is seeing an older man?"; "He is dating his former wife again!" [syn: go steady, go out, date, see].
See (v.) See and understand, have a good eye; "The artist must first learn to see."
See (v.) Deliberate or decide; "See whether you can come tomorrow"; "let's see--which movie should we see tonight?"
See (v.) Observe as if with an eye; "The camera saw the burglary and recorded it."
See (v.) Observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect; "The customs agent examined the baggage"; "I must see your passport before you can enter the country" [syn: examine, see].
See (v.) Go or live through; "We had many trials to go through"; "he saw action in Viet Nam" [syn: experience, see, go through].
See (v.) Accompany or escort; "I'll see you to the door" [syn: see, escort].
See (v.) Match or meet; "I saw the bet of one of my fellow players".
See (v.) Make sense of; assign a meaning to; "What message do you see in this letter?"; "How do you interpret his behavior?" [syn: interpret, construe, see].
Seed (n. pl. ) of Seed.
Seeds (n. pl. ) of Seed.
Seed (n.) (Bot.) 種子，籽 [C] [U]；原因，根源 [C] 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.
Seed (n.) (Bot.) 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.
Note: 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.
Seed (n.) (Physiol.) The generative fluid of the male; semen; sperm; -- not used in the plural.
Seed (n.) That from which anything springs; first principle; original; source; as, the seeds of virtue or vice.
Seed (n.) The principle of production.
Praise of great acts he scatters as a seed, Which may the like in coming ages breed. -- Waller.
Seed (n.) Progeny; offspring; children; descendants; as, the seed of Abraham; the seed of David.
Note: In this sense the word is applied to one person, or to any number collectively, and admits of the plural form, though rarely used in the plural.
Seed (n.) Race; generation; birth.
Of mortal seed they were not held. -- Waller.
Seed bag (Artesian well), A packing to prevent percolation of water down the bore hole. It consists of a bag encircling the tubing and filled with flax seed, which swells when wet and fills the space between the tubing and the sides of the hole.
Seed bud (Bot.), The germ or rudiment of the plant in the embryo state; the ovule.
Seed coat (Bot.), The covering of a seed.
Seed corn, or Seed grain (Bot.), corn or grain for seed.
To eat the seed corn, To eat the corn which should be saved for seed, so as to forestall starvation; -- a desparate measure, since it only postpones disaster. Hence: any desparate action which creates a disastrous situation in the long-term, done in order to provide temporary relief.
Seed down (Bot.), The soft hairs on certain seeds, as cotton seed.
Seed drill. See 6th Drill, 2 (a) .
Seed eater (Zool.), Any finch of the genera Sporophila, and Crithagra. They feed mainly on seeds.
Seed gall (Zool.), Any gall which resembles a seed, formed on the leaves of various plants, usually by some species of Phylloxera.
Seed leaf (Bot.), A cotyledon.
Seed lobe (Bot.), A cotyledon; a seed leaf.
Seed oil, Oil expressed from the seeds of plants.
Seed oyster, A young oyster, especially when of a size suitable for transplantation to a new locality.
Seed pearl, A small pearl of little value.
Seed plat, or Seed plot, The ground on which seeds are sown, to produce plants for transplanting; a nursery.
Seed stalk (Bot.), The stalk of an ovule or seed; a funicle.
Seed tick (Zool.), One of several species of ticks resembling seeds in form and color.
Seed vessel (Bot.), That part of a plant which contains the seeds; a pericarp.
Seed weevil (Zool.), Any one of numerous small weevils, especially those of the genus Apion, which live in the seeds of various plants.
Seed wool, Cotton wool not yet cleansed of its seeds. [Southern U.S.]
Seeded (imp. & p. p.) of Seed.
Seeding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Seed.
Seed (v. t.) 在……播種 [H] [（+with）]；除去（水果）的籽 To sprinkle with seed; to plant seeds in; to sow; as, to seed a field.
Seed (v. t.) To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.
A sable mantle seeded with waking eyes. -- B. Jonson.
To seed down, to sow with grass seed.
Seed (v. i.) To sow seed.
Seed (v. i.) To shed the seed.
-- Mortimer.
Seed (v. i.) To grow to maturity, and to produce seed.
Many interests have grown up, and seeded, and twisted their roots in the crevices of many wrongs. -- Landor.
Seed (n.) A small hard fruit.
Seed (n.) A mature fertilized plant ovule consisting of an embryo and its food source and having a protective coat or testa.
Seed (n.) One of the outstanding players in a tournament [syn: seeded player, seed].
Seed (n.) Anything that provides inspiration for later work [syn: source, seed, germ].
Seed (n.) The thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract [syn: semen, seed, seminal fluid, ejaculate, cum, come].
Seed (v.) Go to seed; shed seeds; "The dandelions went to seed."
Seed (v.) Help (an enterprise) in its early stages of development by providing seed money.
Seed (v.) Bear seeds.
Seed (v.) Place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth; "She sowed sunflower seeds" [syn: sow, seed].
Seed (v.) Distribute (players or teams) so that outstanding teams or players will not meet in the early rounds.
Seed (v.) Sprinkle with silver iodide particles to disperse and cause rain; "seed clouds."
Seed (v.) Inoculate with microorganisms.
Seed (v.) Remove the seeds from; "seed grapes."
BitTorrent
Seed
Torrent
A popular, distributed form of peer-to-peer file sharing that enables a client program to fetch different parts of a file (a "torrent") from different sources in parallel. The system is designed to encourage users to make downloaded data available for others to upload. This is aided by a scheme for exchanging unique identifiers, commonly stored in ".torrent" files. A downloader who does not serve data to others is called a "leech". A "seed" is a computer that has a complete copy of a file, possibly the original. The bittorrent.com site claims there are over 100 million users as of 2007-03-24.
Most of the data is copyright material like films or commercial software.
(2007-03-27)
Seeds. () The substance which nature prepares for the reproduction of plants or animals.
Seeds. () Seeds which have been sown in the earth immediately become a part of the land in which they have been sown; quae sata solo cedere intelliguntur. Inst. 2, 1, 32.
Seedbox (n.) (Bot.) A capsule.
Seedbox (n.) (Bot.) A plant ({Ludwigia alternifolia) which has somewhat cubical or box-shaped capsules.
Seedcake (n.) A sweet cake or cooky containing aromatic seeds, as caraway. -- Tusser.
Seedcake (n.) A sweet cake flavored with sesame or caraway seeds and lemon [syn: seedcake, seed cake].
Seedcod (n.) A seedlip. [Prov. Eng.]
Seeder (n.) One who, or that which, sows or plants seed.
Seeder (n.) A person who seeds clouds [syn: seeder, cloud seeder].
Seeder (n.) A mechanical device that sows grass seed or grain evenly over the ground.
Seeder (n.) A kitchen utensil that removes seeds from fruit
Seediness (n.) The quality or state
of being seedy, shabby, or worn out; a state of wretchedness or exhaustion.
[Colloq.] -- G. Eliot.
What is called
seediness, after a debauch, is a plain proof that nature has been
outraged. -- J. S. Blackie.
Seediness (n.) A lack of elegance as a consequence of wearing threadbare or dirty clothing [syn: shabbiness, seediness,
manginess, sleaziness].
Seed-lac (n.) A species of lac. See the Note under Lac.
Compare: Lac
Lac (n.) A resinous substance produced mainly on the banyan tree, but to some extent on other trees, by the Laccifer lacca (formerly Coccus lacca), A scale-shaped insect, the female of which fixes herself on the bark, and exudes from the margin of her body this resinous substance.
Note: Stick-lac is the substance in its natural state, incrusting small twigs. When broken off, and the coloring matter partly removed, the granular residuum is called seed-lac. When melted, and reduced to a thin crust, it is called shell-lac or shellac. Lac, () Is an important ingredient in sealing wax, dyes, varnishes, and lacquers.
Ceylon lac, A resinous exudation of the tree Croton lacciferum, resembling lac.
Lac dye, A scarlet dye obtained from stick-lac.
Lac lake, The coloring matter of lac dye when precipitated from its solutions by alum.
Mexican lac, An exudation of the tree Croton Draco.
Seedless (a.) Without seed or seeds.
Seedless (a.) Lacking seeds; "seedless grapefruit" [ant: seedy].
Seedling (n.) (Bot.) A plant reared from the seed, as distinguished from one propagated by layers, buds, or the like. Seedlip
Seedling (n.) Young plant or tree grown from a seed.
Seedlip (n.) Alt. of Seedlop.
Seedlop (n.) A vessel in which a sower carries the seed to be scattered. [Prov. Eng.]
Seedman, () See Seedsman.
Seedman (n.) A dealer in seeds [syn: seedsman, seedman]
Seedness (n.) Seedtime. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Seedsmen (n. pl. ) of Seedsman
Seedsman (n.) A sower; one who sows or scatters seed.
The seedsman Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain. -- Shak.