seckel (sekel)

[So called from its origin at on the farm of Mr. Seckel, near Philadel ing phi a.] A small delicious pear, ripening about the end of October, but keeping good for a short time only. These pears are often called sickle- pears. See pear1, 2. seclet, n. [ lum, seculum, poet. syncopated sæclum, seclum, a race, generation, usually of time, a lifetime, generation, an age, the age, the times, esp. a hundred years, a century, LL. eccl. this world, the world, worldline : root uncertain. Hence ult. secular, etc.] A century. It is wont to be said that three generations make one secle, or hundred years. Hammond, Pract. Catechism. seclude (sē-klöd'), v. t.; pret. and pp. secluded, ppr. secluding. [ Sundrie Honbl: Lords had obtained a large grante from ye king, for ye more northerly parts of that countrie, derived out of ye Virginia patente, and wholy secluded from their Govermente. Bradford , Plymouth Plantation, p. 44. Thomson. Let Eastern tyrants from the light of heav'n Seclude their bosom slaves. Mi Hepzibah, by secluding herself from society, has lost all true relation with it, and is, in fact, dead. Hawthorne , Seven Gables, xiv. 21. To shut or keep out; exclude; preclude. He has the doores and windowes open in the hardest frosts, secluding only the snow. Evelyn, Diary, Aug. 7, 1685. Upon the opening of the Parliament, viz. letting in the secluded members, he girt on his long rustic sword (longer than ordinary), Sir William Waller marching behind him. Aubrey, Lives, William Prinne. secluded (sē-klö'ded), p. a. Separated from others; withdrawn from public observation; retired; living in retirement: as, a secluded spot; to pa a secluded life. secludedly (sē-klö'ded-li), adv. In a secluded manner. Imp. Dict. secluset (se-klös'), a. and n. [L. seclusus, pp. of secludere, shut off: see seclude.] I. a. Secluded; isolated. [Implied in the derived noun seclusene .] II. n. Seclusion. [Rare.] To what end did our lavish ancestors Erect of old these stately piles of ours, For threadbare clerks, and for the ragged muse, Whom better fit some cotés of sad secluse ? Bp. Hall, Satires, II. ii. 4. seclusene t (sē-klös'nes), n. [ clusion. Dr. H. More. [Rare.] seclusion (sē-klöʻzhon), n. [ second A place of seclusion from the external world. Bp. Horsley, Works, II. xx. 2. A secluded place. A seclusion, but seldom a solitude. Hawthorne, Marble Faun, viii. Sweet seclusions for holy thoughts and prayers. Long fellow , Hyper i on, i. 8. =Syn. 1. Retirement, Loneline , etc. See solitude. seclusionist (sē-klö'zhon-ist), n. [ Throughout the length and breadth of the land [Japan] it would probably be difficult to find so much as one gen uine seclusionist or obstructionist. Fortnightly Rev. , N. S., XLI. 677. If the progre ionists had not seized the reins of gov their own way. The Atlantic, ernment, the seclusionists would soon have had everything seclusive (sē-klö ́siv), a. [L. seclusus, pp. of secludere, shut off (see seclude, secluse ), + -ive.] Disposed to shut out; inclined to dwell apart; retiring, or affecting retirement, privacy, or solitude; exclusive. Charleston,... from its very foundation to the present day, has ever been conservative; it has also been seclusive, in the sense that it has never had a large floating population of mixed nationality like so many of our American cities. Amer . Jour. Philol., IX. 200.