Seiurus (siurus)

[NL. (Swains on, 1827), more prop. Siurus (Strick land, 1841), IMG:content-0526.png:[blocks in formation] The carts, waggons, and every attainable or seizable vehicle were unremittingly in motion. Mme. D'Arblay , Diary, VII. 177. ( Davies .) seize (sēz), v.; pret. and pp. seized, ppr. seizing. [Early mod. E. also (and still archaically in legal use) seise; one's self of an inheritance. He torned on his pilwes ofte, And wald of that he my ed han ben sesed . Chaucer, Troilus, iii. 445. IMG:content-0527.png:[blocks in formation] (b) By force, with or without right. The Citie to sese in the same tyme, Bacon . We shall found by my feith, or ellis fay wort he. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1154. and of fin force The peple of Claudas recouered,. made hem forsake place, and the tentes and pavilouns that the i hadden take and sesed. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 402. The grand Caraman, the Turcoman, ruler of Car a mania, took the opportunity of these quarrels to seize Corycus, the last Frank stronghold of Armenia. Stubbs, Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 202. IMG:content-0528.png:[blocks in formation] seker lashing with several turns of a cord, or the fastening so made; also, the cord used for that pur- pose; seizing-stuff. See also cut under rose -lashing. Several sailors appeared, bearing among them two stout, apparently very heavy chests, which they set down upon the cabin floor, taking care to secure them by lashings and seizings to the stanchions. W. C. Ru ell, Death Ship, xxi. seizing-stuff (sē'zing-stuf), n. Naut ., small tarred cord used for seizing. seizlingt (sēz'ling), n. The year- ling of the common carp. Holme , 1688. Seizings, 2. with an inclination that way. Steele , Spectator, No. 386. A horror seized him as he went. William Morris, Earthly Paradise, II. 169. 51. To fasten; fix. So downe he fell before the cruell beast, Who on his neck his bloody clawes did seize. Spenser, F. Q., I. viii. 15. 6. Naut., to bind, lash, or make fast, as one thing to another, with several turns of small rope, cord, or small line; stop: as, to seize two fish-hooks back to back; to seize or stop one rope on to another. Sam, by this time, was seized up, as it is called - that is, placed against the shrouds, with his wrists made fast to them, his jacket off, and his back exposed. R. H. Dana, Jr. , Before the Mast, p. 113. Covenant to stand seized to uses. See covenant . = Syn. 2 and 3. To snatch, catch, capture, apprehend, arrest, take, attach. II. in trans. 1. To lay hold in seizure, as by hands or claws: with on or upon . The mortall sting his angry needle shott Quite through his shield, and in his shoulder seasd . Spenser, F. Q., I. ii. 38. Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon . Shak., Lear, i. 1. 255. The Tartars in Turkeman vse to catch wilde horses with hawkes tamed to that purpose, which seising on the necke of the horse, with his beating, and the horses chafing, tireth him, and maketh him an easie prey to his Master. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 422. last Ship had been at Merga a considerable time, having been seized on by the Siamites, and all the men imprisoned, for some difference that happened between the English and them. Dampier, Voyages, II. i. 151. The text which had " seized upon his heart with such comfort and strength" abode upon him for more than a Southey, Bunyan, p. xxi. year. 2. In metallurgy, to cohere. seizer (sē'zėr), n. [ A soldier, plucking a handful of thatch from a cottage, placed it in the Duke's hand as seizin of all that England held within it. E. A. Freeman , Norman Conquest, III. 271. Hence-( b ) Po e ion as of freehold-that is, the po e ion which a freeholder could a ert and maintain by appeal to law. Digby . (c) Po e ion of land actual or constructive under rightful title. Seizin is either seizin in fact (or in deed ), actual occupation of the land either by the freeholder himself or by some one claiming under him, or seizin in law , the constructive seizin which arises when a person acquires the title and there is no adverse po e ion; thus, one taking a deed of vacant lands is seized in law before he takes po e ion. [They shall] take sesyne the same daye that laste waste a ygnede, Or elles alle the ostage with owt tyne the wallys, Be hynggyde hye appone hyghte alle holly at ones! Morte Arthure (E. É. T. S.), 1. 3589. The death of the predece or putteth the succe or by Hooker , Eccles. Polity, viii. 2. blood in seisin. (d) The thing po e ed. (et) Ownership and po e ion of chattels. - Equitable seizin, such a po e ion or enjoyment of an equitable interest or right in lands as may be treated in equity, by analogy to legal seizin. Thus, where trustee holds the legal estate, cestui que trust, though in po e ion and enjoying the rents and profits, cannot be said to hold the seizin in the legal sense, because that is in the trustee; but he is protected by courts of equity as holding an equitable seizin. - Livery of seizin. See livery2. Seizin by hasp and staple. who seizes or takes po e ion. seizure (sēzūr), n. [ seize + -ure.] 1. The act of seizing; the act of taking or laying hold; a taking po e ion, either legally or by force: as, the seizure of smuggled goods by revenue officers; seizure of arms by a mob. All things that thou dost call thine Worth seizure do we seize into our hands. First Guyne, next Pontien, and then A quit a in, To each of which he made his title known, Nor from their seizure longer would abstain. IMG:content-0529.jpg:[graphic] Stubbs, Const. Hist., § 404. Say, is not bli within our perfect seizure ? Keats , Endymion, iv. 2. The fact of being seized or in po e ion of anything; po e ion; hold. In your hands we leave the queen elected; She hath seizure of the Tower. Webster and Dekker , Sir Thomas Wyatt. If we had ten years agone taken seizure of our portion of dust, death had not taken us from good things, but from infinite evils. Jer. Taylor, Holy Dying, iii. 7. 3. The thing seized; the thing taken hold or po e ion of. Sufficient that thy prayers are heard, and Death, Then due by sentence when thou didst transgre , Defeated of his seizure many days. Milton, P. L., xi. 254. 4. A sudden onset or attack, as of some malady, emotion, panic, or the like; a spell; a turn. Myself too had weird seizures, Heaven knows what. Tennyson, Prince , i.