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A Middle English form of sick1. seeker (sē'kėr), n. [ IMG:content-0514.png:[blocks in formation] 4. [ cap.] One of a sect in the time of Cromwell which profe ed no determinate religion, but claimed to be in search of the true church, ministry, sacraments, and Scriptures. Others, held very good men, are at a dead stand, not knowing what to doe or say; and are therefore called Seekers, looking for new Nuntio's from Christ, to a oile these benighted questions. N. Ward, Simple Cobler, p. 19. These people were called Seekers by some, and the Family of Love by others; because, as they came to the knowledge of one another, they sometimes met together, not formally to pray or preach at appointed times or places, in their own wills, as in times past they were accustomed to do; but waited together in silence, and, as any thing rose in any one of their minds that they thought favoured of a divine spring, they sometimes spoke. Penn, Rise and Progre of Quakers, i. 5. In an at . , same as tracer . Insert a seeker into it [the pedal gland of the common snail] - it can be readily introduced for a distance of more than an inch. Huxley and Martin , Elementary Biology, p. 281. seekingt (se'king), p . a . Investigating; searching for the truth. A student... informed us of a sober and seeking man of great note in the city of Duysburgh; to him we gave some books. There was one more who was tender and inquiring, to whom also we gave some books. Penn, Travels in Holland, Works, III. 402. seek-no-further (sēk'nō-fèrrhér), n . A reddish winter apple, with a subacid flavor. Also go-no-further. [U. S.] 5466 When a ship seels or rolls in foul weather, the breaking loose of ordnance is a thing very dangerous. Raleigh . seel3 (sēl), n. [ seel3 , v.] A roll or pitch, as of a ship in a storm. All aboard, at every seele , Like drunkards on the hatches reele. Sandys , Paraphrase of the Psalms (ed. 1636), p. 181. In a mighty storme, a lustie yonge man (called John How land), coming upon some occasion above ye grattings, was with a seele of ye shipe throwne into [ye] sea. Bradford , Plymouth Plantation, p. 76. seel4+, n. and v. A Middle English form of seal2 . seelilyt (sē'li-li), adv . In a seely or silly manseeline t, n. The character of being seely; happine ; bli fulne . ner. Worldly selyne e , Which clerkes callen fals felicite, Ymedled is with many a bittern e e. Chaucer, Troilus, iii. 813.