seesaw

t. & i. [SEESAW, 8. ] A. Trans .: To cause to move in a seesaw fashion. B. in trans.: To move as in the game of seesaw; to move up and down or backward and forward. seethe, #set he (pa. t. seethed , *sod, * soth , pa. par. sodden, #soden, *sothen), v. t. & i . [A. S.seód han (pa. t. seádh , pa. par.soden ); cogn. with Dut. zieden ; Icel. sjódha (pa. t. saudh , pl. saudhu , pa, par. sodhinn); Dan. syde; Sw.sjuda; O. H. Ger. siodan ; Ger. sieden ; cf. also Icel. svidha =to burn , to singe.] IMG:content-1162.png:[blocks in formation] seethed."-Cook: Third Voyage , bk. iv., ch. iii. *2. To soak; to steep and soften in liquor. B. In trans.: To be in a state of ebullition; to boil; to be hot. "As the smoke of a seething pot." -Tyndall: Works, p. 7. seeth-er, s . [Eng. seeth (e); -er.] One who or that which seethes; a boiler; a pot for boiling. "Like burnished gold the little seether shone." Dryden: Ovid; Metamorphosis viii. Se-fā-tians, s . pl . [Arab. sefat qualification, attribute.] Mohammedanism: A sect of Mohammedans who held that God po e ed eternal attributes, and that there was no difference between the "e ential attributes" and the "attributes of operation." To these they, in proce of time, added a third category, "declarative attributes," by which they understood anthropomorphic expre ions, such as God's eyes, His arms, His hands, . They were opposed to the Mutazilites (q.v.). They ultimately split into several sects, some of which still exist. seg (1), s . [A. S. secg .] IMG:content-1163.png:[blocks in formation] A. As adj.: Having a seghol; as, a segholate verb. B. As subst.: A word with a seghol in it. "Infinitive segholates."-Moses Stuart: Hebrew Gram., p. 154. seg-měnt, s. [Lat. segmentum, for sec mentum, from seco to cut.] I. Ord . Language : A part or portion cut off or marked off as separate from the rest; one of the parts into which a body naturally divides itself; a section; as, a segment of an orange. IMG:content-1164.png:[blocks in formation] Ordn.: An elongated projectile invented by Sir W. Armstrong. The iron body is coated with lead, and contains a number of segments of iron in succe ive rings, leaving a hollow cylinder in the center for the bursting-charge. The charge bursts on impact or by a time-fuse, and scatters the segments in all directions. It may be used as case-shot by arranging the fuse to explode the shell on leaving the muzzle. segment-valve, segmental-valve, s . A valve having a seating surface consisting of a portion of a cylinder. segment-wheel, s. A wheel a part only of whose periphery is utilized. marine; gō, põt, The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia .