seemlihead (semlihed)

[Also seemlihed; A yong man ful of semelyhede . Rom. of the Rose , 1. 1130. Yet nathemore his meaning she ared, And by his persons secret seemlyhed Well weend that he had beene some man of place. Spenser, F. Q., IV. viii. 14. Then his tongue with sober seemlihed Gave utterance. Keats , Endymion, iv. seemlily (sem'li-li), adv. In a seemly or becoming manner; decently; comelily. Imp. Dict. seemline (sēm'li-nes), n. [ Womanhod and trout he and seem lin e e . And seemline complete, that sways Thy courtesies, about thee plays. Chaucer, Good Women, 1. 1041. Words worth, To a Highland Girl. seemly (sēm'li), a. [ Hit were sittyng for so the, & semly for wemen, Thaire houses to haunt & holde hom with in. 5467 2. Experienced; versed; skilled. It is verie rare, and maruelous hard, to proue excellent in the Latin tong, for him that is not also well seene in the Greeke tong. Ascham, The Scholemaster, p. 157. He's affable, and seene in many thinges; Discourses well, a good companion. Heywood , Woman Killed with Kindne . She was seene seene in the Hebrew, Greeke, and Latin tongues. Hakluyt's Voyages, II. 2. Arithmetic and Geometry I would wish you well seen in. Sir P. Sidney (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 308). For he right well in Leaches craft was seene. Spenser, F. Q., VI. vi. 3.