| Old English | n | English |
| Sea | n | One of the larger bodies of salt water, less than an ocean, found on the earth's surface. 2 a body of salt water, generally forming part of, or connecting with, an ocean or a larger sea; as, the Mediterranean Sea. 3. An inland body of water, esp. if large or if salt or brackish; as, the Caspian Sea. 4. sometimes, a small fresh-water lake; as, the Sea of Galilee. 5. The ocean; the whole body of the salt water which covers a large part of the globe. 6. (fig): Anything resembling the sea in vastness; as, a sea of hope. 7. (fig):a great quantity of anything (esp. liquids), "a sea of tea". "a sea of a load". |
| Sea | phr | "All At Sea" - in a ship at sea. 2. on the ocean. 3. at a loss what to do or think; bewildered; at sea. 3. to be confused, perplexed as to what is going on and what to do next. 4. wide of the mark. 5. in a state of uncertainty (like one at sea who has loss their bearings. |
| Sea | phr | "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" - to be faced with two equally unpalatable alternatives which cannot both be avoided. |
| Sea | phr | "Follow the Sea" - to follow the occupation of sailor. |
| Sea | phr | "Half Seas Over" - quite or half drunk. |
| Sea | phr | "On the Sea" - in a ship at sea. |
| Sea | phr | "Put to Sea" - leave land or port. 2. go to sea. |
| Sea | phr | "The Four Seas" - those seas around Great Britain. |
| Sea | phr | "The High Seas" - the unenclosed or open expanse of the ocean; also, the main or that part of the ocean beyond a country's territorial waters. |
| Sea | phr | "The Old Man of the Sea" - in the story of Sinbad, the sailor, who clung to Sinbad's shoulders... |
| Sea | phr | "The Seven Seas" - the Arctic and Antarctic; North and South Pacific, the North and South Atlantic, the Indian Ocean. |
| Sea | phr | "To Ship a Sea" - to have a big wave flooding the deck. |
| Sea-adder | n | Sea-snake, sea-serpent. 2. the saltwater stickleback. |
| Sea-anchor | n | A device such as a heavy bag dragged in the water to retard the drifting of a ship. |
| Sea ape | n | The manatee. 2. the sea-fox, sea-otter. |
| Sea apple | n | The sea urchin. |
| Sea-arrow | n | A genus of ten-footed cuttlefish; the flying squid. |
| Sea-bear | n | The fur seal found in herds at the North Pacific, produces the sealskin of commerce. |
| Sea-beaver | n | The sea otter. |
| Sea-bed | n | The ground under the sea; the ocean floor. |
| Sea-bells | n | A kind of bindweed. |
| Sea-bird | n | A bird frequenting the sea or the land near the sea, as albatrosses,gulls, gannets, petrels, frigate, shearwaters. |
| Sea-bits and strew | n | Flotsam and jetsam |
| Sea-board | n | Bordering on the sea; also the land or region bordering the sea. 2. the seashore or seacoast. 3. the line or neighbourhood of the coast. |
| Sea-boat | n | A boat designed for use at sea. |
| Sea-born | adj | Born at sea. |
| Sea-born Goddess | n | Aphrodite. |
| Seaborne | adj | Carried or transported on the sea or a sea=going vessel. |
| Seabread | n | An unsalted hard biscuit used at sea; hardtack. |
| Sea butterfly | n | A pteropod. |
| Sea-calf | n | The common harbor seal of the north Atlantic. |
| Sea-cat | n | A name given to various fishes, as the wolf-fish or sea wolf. |
| Sea-chest | n | A sailor's storage chest. |
| Sea chicken | n | Any of various types of fish known for their mild flavour. |
| Sea-cliff | n | A cliff that abuts the sea, formed by sea erosion. |
| Sea-coal | n | Coal from inside the sea: mineral coal that washes up from the sea onto beaches, from which it can be collected and sold. |
| Sea-cock | n | A Viking or sea-rover. 2. a valve in the ship's hull. |
| Sea-corn | n | A barnacle. |
| Sea-cow | n | Any aquatic herbivorous mammal of the order Sirenia , sometimes reaching a length of about 25 feet; especially the manatee or dugong. 2. the hippopotamus. 3. the walrus. |
| Sea-craft | n | Maritime skill or the art of navigation. 2. a sea-going vessel. |
| Sea-crow | n | Cormorant. |
| Sea-day | n | A day on which a cruise ship remains at sea all day (i.e. passengers cannot leave the ship) |
| Sea-devil | n | A fish of the genus Lophius, growing to a large size, with a head as large as the body; the angler fish, devil-fish or the wide-gab. |
| Sea-dog | n | An old, experienced sailor. 2. a pirate, corsair, buccaneer. 3. the dog-fish, of shark, seahound 4. a genus the seal or seal calf. |
| Sea-drake | n | The male of the elder duck. 2. a cormorant. |
| Sea-dike | n | A wall or embankment to keep out the sea. |
| Sea duck | n | any duck that frequents salt water. |
| Sea-fare | n | Food obtained from the sea; fish, seafood. |
| Sea-farer | n | Sea voyager, seaman, sailor. 2. a traveler by sea. |
| Seafaring | n | The act of going on or voyaging at sea |
| Seafaring | adj | Following the sea as a calling. 3. |
| Sea-fight | n | A naval battle; a fight or engagement between sea vessels, ships etc. 2. a conflict between vessels on the high sea. |
| Sea-fire | n | The phosphorescent light on the surface of the sea. |
| Sea floor | n | The bottom of a sea or ocean. |
| Sea floor spreading | n | (Geology) The outward movement of the seafloor from central underwater ridges as a result of plate tectonics; the major cause of continental drift. |
| Sea foam | n | The froth or foam on the sea. 2. meerschaum. 3. fluffy candy made of spun sugar. |
| Sea folk | n | Seafaring people. |
| Seafood | n | Edible food (sea fish or shellfish) from the sea. |
| Sea fowl | n | Any bird that spends most of its time in coastal waters or over the oceans. 2. a sea bird or sea birds collectively |
| Sea fox | n | The fox shark or thresher shark, the most common of larger kinds of sharks in British waters, found near shoals of herrings, pilchards or sprats. |
| Sea-gird | n | Encircled, girt, girthed or surrounded by the sea, sometimes said of a peninsula. |
| Sea-gird island | n | Britain, as a island surrounded or girthed by sea. |
| Sea-god | n | A marine deity, a fabulous (god or goddess) being supposed to rule over the sea, as Neptune. |
| Sea-going | adj | Of ships, fit or adapted for crossing the sea. 2. (of a person): seafaring ; skillful in navigation. 3. pertaining to vessels which make long sea voyages. |
| Sea-grass | n | A name for various marine plants, as the grass wrack, thrift etc. 2. a variety of cirrus cloud, a forerunner of stormy weather. |
| Sea-green | adj | A bluish green color having or like the color of seawater, being of a faint green color, with a slightly bluish tinge. |
| Sea-hare | n | Any sea slug having an internal shell and long extensions from its foot. |
| Sea-heath | n | A perennial found on salt marshes of south England with procumbent, wiry branches. |
| Sea-hedgehog | n | A globe fish. |
| Sea hog | n | The porpoise. |
| Sea-holly | n | A spiny-leaved blue-flowered evergreen plant with fleshy roots of the carrot family from which a sweetmeat can be made. |
| Sea-horse | n | The hippocampus. 2. walrus, narwhal. 3. a mythical creature with a horse's and fish's tail. 4. having a head resembling that of the seahorse. 5. a fabulous animal half-horse and half-fish, driven by Neptune. 6. a large white-crested wave. |
| Sea hound | n | A genus of shark; the shark. |
| Sea-ice | n | Frozen seawater. |
| Seaish | adj | Pertaining to the sea or things maritime |
| Sea-keeping | n | Effective operation of a ship at sea. 2. remaining seaworthy. |
| Sea-king | n | One of the piratical chiefs or leaders, often Scandinavian Vikings, of the C9th who ravaged settlements and towns in many parts of Europe. 2. Neptune. |
| Seal | n | An animal half on land and half in the sea; valued for its skin. 2. seal (impressed, mark, closure) is Anglo-french. |
| Seal | n | OE: sael. opportunity. 2. time, season as in a hay seal, wheat-seal. |
| Sealer | n | A person employed to catch seals |
| Sea-lane | n | A regularly ocean-going vessels. |
| Sea-lark | n | The rock pit, sandpipers, plovers, dunlin etc. |
| Sea-lawyer | n | Sailor always standing up for his rights, but with superficial knowledge of the law, and ready to resort to shady and capacious means to achieve his purpose. |
| Sea leather | n | The skin of sharks, porpoises, dogfish prepared for use as leather. |
| Sealer | n | a person or ship employed in hunting seals. |
| Sea-less | adj | Without or lacking a sea; landlocked. |
| Sea-life | n | Organisms (especially fish) that live in the sea. |
| Sea-light | n | Phosphorescence seen at sea. 2. a beacon, lighthouse, harbor light to guide ships. |
| Sea-like | adj | Resembling a sea or some aspect of one. |
| Sea lily | n | A crinoid; a stalked marine invertebrate resembling a flower. |
| Sea-line | n | The coast or seaboard; the littoral area. 2. the horizon, the line where the sea and sky meet or seem to meet. 3. the horizon at sea. |
| Sealing | n | The hunting of seals commercially. |
| Sea Lord | n | (In the UK) either of two senior naval officers (First Sea Lord, Second Sea Lord)serving originally as members of the Admiralty Board (now of the Admiralty of Defence). |
| Seal-skin | n | The skin of seals, used in the making of clothing. |
| Sea lungwort | n | An attractive American herb Mertensia maritima of the borage family with white long-stalked flowers, common to the northern coasts. |
| Seam | n | Suture, junction, join. 2. joining of the edges a wound by suture. 3. joining of fabrics by the seam. 4. an intervening strip. 5. the raise stitching in a cricket ball. 6. a long furrowed groove on on in rocks or stone. 7. a streak of lightning. 9. joints in uniting the edges of sheet . 10. thin layer of stratum separating two strata of greater magnitude. |
| Seam | n | A pack-horse load. 2. a load; a burden. 3. a cartload, esp. a defined amount |
| Seam | phr | "Bursting At the Seams" - full to overflowing. 2. to be very crowded. |
| Seamy | phr | "Seamy Side of Life" ?????- nasty aspects of life. |
| Seam | vb | To put a burden on; load, weigh down, to weigh heavily. |
| Seamish | adj | Pertaining to or belonging to the sea; marine. |
| Sea-maiden | n | Nymph of the Sea. 2. mermaid. 3. goddess of the sea. |
| Seaman | n | A sailor, a mariner, "salt." |
| Seamanly | adj | Seamanlike. |
| Seamanship | n | The skill and ability of a good seaman in the art or management of a ship at sea; sea-craft. |
| Sea mark | n | Any landmark that serves as a guide in navigation; a beacon; lighthouse. |
| Seamed | adj | Having or furnished with seams. |
| Sea mew | n | a gull, especially the European mew (larus canus) |
| Sea-mile | n | A unit of length varying between approximately 2,014 yards (1.842 metres) at the equator and (1.861) at the pole. |
| Seaminess | n | state or condition of being seamy |
| Seamless | adj | Without a seam or seams. 2. uninterrupted, smooth. |
| Seamlessly | adv | In a seamless manner. |
| Seamlessness | n | The quality or state of being seamless. |
| Seamlike | adj | Resembling a seam or some aspect of one. |
| Seamy | adj | Sordid, squalid, 2. having or showing a seam. |
| Sea load | n | The weight of a payload on a vessel. |
| Sea mouse | n | Any marine annelid worm of the genus Aphrodite, with a broad iridescent setae. |
| Sea mouth | n | Pt of a river, estuary, lagoon which broadens out as it enters the sea. |
| Seamster | n | A person employed in sewing. |
| Seamstress | n | A women skilled in needlework, especially one whose occupation deals with sewing. |
| Seamy | adj | Full of seams; as the wrong side of the garment. |
| Sea needle | n | The garfish. |
| Sea nettle | n | The sea nettle is actually a genus, or category, of jellyfish. Specifically, the sea nettles include members of the genus Chrysaora. hysoscella) and the Pacific sea nettle (C. fuscescens) both belong to this genus, which has several distinctive characteristics. |
| Sea oats | n | Uniola paniculata also known as seaside oats, is a tall subtropical grass that is an important component of coastal sand dune and beach plant communities in the southeastern United States, eastern Mexico and some Caribbean islands. |
| Sea otter | n | A marine otter an aquatic animal found in the north Pacific, having long hind legs resembling the flippers of a seal; a valuable full rich soft fur, grayish or dark brown, with a very strong thick pelt |
| Sea owl | n | The lump fish. |
| Sea quake | n | An earthquake under the sea. |
| Sear | adj | Dry, withered, burned up: when a pasture is said to be dried up by the sun, it is said to look "sear". 2. of textile fabrics: thin, worn. |
| Sea rat | n | A pirate; the chimaera. |
| Sea-raven | n | Sea ravens are bottom-dwelling fish that feed on small invertebrates, found in the northwest Atlantic and north Pacific Oceans. They are covered in small spines (modified scales). 2. the cormorant. 3. the deep-water sculpin. |
| Searedness | n | Hardiness; insensibility, callousness. |
| Sea-rim | n | Seashore. 2. the horizon; the sea horizon. |
| Sear-leaf | n | Leaves and foliage of a tree withered, marcescent, or dead |
| Sea-rim | n | Seashore. 2. the horizon; the sea horizon. |
| Searing | adj | Very hot, blistering or boiling. 2. of a pain: having a sensation of intense sudden heat. |
| Searing-iron | n | A iron used for cauterizing flesh. |
| Searingly | adj | In a burning, blistering, hot manner. 2, harshly, mercilessly, cruelly. |
| Searness | n | Dryness. |
| Sea room | n | Ample room for safely manoeuvring a ship. |
| Sea run | n | The salmon having returned to the sea after spawning. |
| Sear-wood | n | Dead branches on a tree, needing to be cut off for safety. |
| Sea sale | n | A sale of tickets for seats at an event at a reduced price. |
| Sea salt | n | Salt prepared by evaporating seawater. |
| Sea sawdust | n | Marine, blue-green algae. |
| Sea shell | n | A marine shell or mollusk. |
| Sea sick | n | Suffering from sea-sickness. |
| Sea-sickness | n | Disturbances of the nervous system with nausea and vomiting produced by the rolling and pitching of a vessel at sea. |
| Seaside | n | The land adjacent to the sea. |
| Seaside | adj | The land adjacent to the sea. 2. the seashore, especially as a place of resort; also, the side abutting or facing the sea. |
| Seasider | n | One who lives near the seaside. |
| Sea silk | n | An extra fine, rare and valuable fabric; produced from the long silky filaments or byssus excreted by several mollusc which attach themselves to the seabed. |
| Sea sleeve | n | A squid. |
| Sea smoke | n | Sea smoke or frost smoke, a fog which is formed when very cold air moves over warmer water. Arctic sea smoke is sea smoke forming over small patches of open water in sea ice. It forms when a light wind of very cold air mixes with a shallow layer of saturated warm air immediately above the warmer water. |
| Sea snake | n | A family of venomous, fish-eating aquatic reptiles brilliantly colored, found in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. 2. a sea-serpent. |
| Seaspeak | n | A controlled natural language (CNL) based on English, designed to facilitate communication between ships whose captains' native tongues differ. |
| Sea spider | n | The spider crab, found under stones at low water. |
| Sea star | n | A starfish. |
| Seasteading | n | The creation of permanent dwellings at sea, especially outside the territory claimed by any national government. |
| Sea stick | n | A herring cured at sea, as soon as caught. |
| Sea swallow | n | The tern, a bird resembling but smaller than the gull. |
| Sea-swept | adj | Located on the sea. |
| Sea-swine | n | A porpoise. |
| Sea-stream | n | An ocean current. 2. the sea (poet). |
| Seat | n | Etymology: not found in English till C14th - but a close relative of sit. 2. see: stool, bench, settle, setl. |
| Sea-wall | n | A breakwater. 2. the sea as a wall or barrier of defence. |
| Sea walnut | n | Any of the various ctenophores having an ovate body somewhat resembling a walnut, especially of the genus Pleurobrachia. |
| Seaward | adj | In the direction or going towards the sea; seawards. 2. blowing, as wind, from the sea. |
| Seaward | adv | In the direction of the sea, |
| Seaware | n | Seaweed, especially, coarse seaweed thrown up on the beach; used for manure and other purposes. 2. (archaic) flotsam; articles cast up by the sea. 3. a kind of kelp; sea girdles. |
| Seawasp | n | Any of several marine stinging box jellyfish, some whose sting is deadly, found in northeast Australia and South East Asia |
| Sea-water | n | salt water |
| Seaway | n | The rate of progress or headway made of a vessel under way. 2. sea room for vessels. 3. a way or lane over the sea. 4. an inland waterway that receives ocean shipping. 5. a rough sea. |
| Sea-weary | adj | Worn out or wearied by sea voyaging: tired by or of the sea. |
| Seaweed | n | A green plant found in abundance around and near the seashore; including kelp, rockweeds, dulse, sea lettuce etc. |
| Sea wife | n | A variety of wrasse. |
| Sea-willow | n | A polyp which resembles the osier. |
| Sea-wolf | n | A predatory, voracious black and white toothed whale with a large dorsal fin, common in cold seas and oceans. 2. a viking, a pirate, a chimaera. |
| Sea woman | n | A mermaid. |
| Sea worm | n | A marine annelid. |
| Seaworthiness | n | The seaworthiness of a watercraft that makes it fit to go to sea. |
| Seaworthy | adj | Pertaining to a ship or seacraft considered fit enough to make a trip on the sea or any significantly large body of water. fit for proceeding to sea. able to withstand the buffeting of the sea. |
| Sea wrack | n | Seaweed, especially a kelp or other large species. |
| Seax | n | A Teutonic one-edged sword; a sax. |
| Sedeful | adj | Virtuous, moral, chaste. |
| Sedge | n | A grass-like plant Carex found in marshy areas |
| Sedged | adj | Composed of sedge. |
| Sedge-hen | n | A marsh hen. |
| Sedgy | adj | Over-grown with sedge. |
| See | vb | To perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight. 2. observe or follow by the eye. 3. hold in the imagination or dream. 4. to understand, to understand the meaning of something, to interpret the context of something, realise, come to know, make sense of something, see the outcome of . 5. to conceive of, see in one's mind, imagine. 6. to deem to be, reckon, regard. 7. to get to know, or become to know or be aware of. 8. to view, watch, or see TV or a movie. 9. to come together, meet, run across, meet by-hap or hap upon. 10. to find out, realize, understand, learn, determine with certainty. 11. to visit for business, health or other reasons someone for professional advice or help. 12. to deal with, arrange, undertake, see to. 13. to date regularly. 14. to experience, endure, survive, go go through. |
| See | phr | "As Far As I Can See" - to the best of my judgement, understanding or belief. |
| See | phr | "As I See It" - in my opinion |
| See | phr | "Do You See" - do you understand, |
| See | phr | "Do You See What I Mean?" - do you understand?. |
| See | phr | "Glad to See the Back of You" - please to see when someone leaves. |
| See | phr | "I Have Seen Better Days" - has declined from former prosperity or good condition. 2. worn, less attractive. |
| See | phr | "I'll Be Seeing You" - an expression of parting; goodbye. |
| See | phr | "I See hat You Mean" ? - I understand. |
| See | phr | "Let Me See" - I am trying to calculate, decide, remember. |
| See | phr | "Not See Beyond the End of One's Nose" - make only a superficial search. |
| See | phr | "Not See for Dust" - not see somebody because he or she has left for dust. |
| See | phr | "Not See the Wood for the Trees" - to overlook the general picture because of undue concentration on the details. |
| See | phr | "See After" - take car of |
| See | phr | "See an End Of" - witness the ending of something (usually something unpleasant). |
| See | phr | "See Beyond" - foresee and understand events which are at some distance in space and time; be farsighted. |
| See | phr | "See Beyond the End of One's Nose" - to be able to understand more than is present and obvious. |
| See | phr | "See Blood" - to be very angry. |
| See | phr | "See Daylight" - to get the right answer, solution or end to a problem. |
| See | phr | "See Eye to Eye" - be in full agreement with. 2. have sympathy, same views to. |
| See | phr | "See Good" - to consider fit and proper. |
| See | phr | "See Here!" - calling attention to; expressing a protest, anger, an annoyance. |
| See | phr | "See How the Other Half Live" - observe, or experience, the life of people different from one's own kind in class, race, occupation or interest. |
| See | phr | "See How the Land Lies" - find out what the shape of a coast line is, so that one can sail along it, or land on it; observe the shape, arrangement of geographical features, streets, buildings, etc in a town, or furniture in a room. 2. (fig) observe the attitudes of others so that one can decide whether it is possible to do something one plans to do. |
| See | phr | "See In" - to show someone in; to introduce someone to the inside of a place++. 3. to welcome++. |
| See | phr | "See In a Good Light" - to regard a person favorably. |
| See | phr | "See In a New Light" - see in a different (usually more favorable) way. |
| See | phr | "See Into a Millstone" - understand a difficult matter. |
| See | phr | "See Into Something" - investigate, to examine. |
| See | phr | "Seeing is Believing" - only the sight of something is real proof of its existence. 2. one needs to see something before one can believe it exists, or happens. |
| See | phr | "Seeing That" - because, considering that. |
| See | phr | "Seeing Things" - having an hallucination, observing a visual illusion. |
| See | phr | "See Life" - gain experience of the world, often by enjoying oneself. 2. observe and/or experience various ways of living and behaving, those thought to be different from one's own, new or stimulating. |
| See | phr | "See Life Steadily and See it Whole" - have a balanced and mature reaction to people, events, fashions and opinions. |
| See | phr | "See Of" - meet have contact with someone often, seldom etc. |
| See | phr | "See Off" - say, bid, farewell to somebody. 2. drive, chase away. |
| See | phr | "See Ourselves as Others See Us" - realize that the impression we make on others. 2. be able to see ourselves objectively. |
| See | phr | "See Out of" - lead, guide, someone out of the building. |
| See | phr | "See Over" - to inspect (premises etc), view, tour, visit, examine a place. |
| See | phr | "See Red" - become or make someone suddenly enraged or extremely angry. |
| See | phr | "See Somebody Right" - look after somebody's interests. 2. ensure that somebody has all they want. |
| See | phr | "See Something with Half an Eye" - to sum up a matter instantly |
| See | phr | "See Someone Coming" - to see someone as a potential victim to swindle or otherwise deceive. 2. to notice in advance, especially to recognize as a threat or a problem. |
| See | phr | "See Someone Hung In Hell before Doing..." - emphatically reject the idea of doing, or agreeing to, what somebody wants. |
| See | phr | "See Someone Off" - be present at the departure of someone. 2. ward off; get the better of. |
| See | phr | "See Someone Out" - escort someone out of a building; accompany one to the door. 2. finish something, as a task, project etc., to completion. 3. remain alive, awake until the end. 4. to outdo. |
| See | phr | "See Someone Right" - ensure that someone is paid, rewarded for their work. |
| See | phr | "See Someone Through" - to give another necessary aid for a successful issue; help someone overcome a difficulty. 2. to penetrate, as a disguise or deception. 3. to aid or protect, as through a period of difficulty or danger. |
| See | phr | "See Stars" - see light before one's eyes as a result of a blow to the head. 2. be briefly blinded, perhaps with flashing sensations. |
| See | phr | "See the Back Of" - be rid of. |
| See | phr | "See the Light" - realize after formerly be mistaken, what one should properly do or think.. 2. to understand the real situation. 3. suddenly see the way forward. 4. undergo a religious experience. realize after formerly be mistaken, what one should properly do or think. |
| See | phr | "See the Last of" - to see something or someone for the last time, especially someone someone unpleasant or difficult. |
| See | phr | "See the Light of Day" - come into existence; usually, not see the light of day. 2. happen or accept; realize the merits of something. |
| See | phr | "See Them Come, See The Go" - outlast a succession of events, persons or things. |
| See | phr | "See the Score" - to appreciate the reality of the situation. |
| See | phr | "See the Sights" - pass, look at, visit the typical of, or famous in, in a city, district, country. |
| See | phr | "See the World" - travel, live and work widely in many parts of the world.. |
| See | phr | "See the Writing On the Wall" - to appreciate a certain outcome of some event. |
| See | phr | "See Things" - have hallucinations or false imaginings. |
| See | phr | "See Through" - last, persist, see through. 2. understand the true nature of somebody beneath the a pleasant, deceptive appearance. 3. see that someone passes through a difficult time. 4. handle a situation and bring events to a happy conclusion. |
| See | phr | "See Through Somebody" - realize that somebody is deceiving you. |
| See | phr | "See to" - take care that something happens. |
| See | phr | "See to Someone" - to attend to; deal with, . |
| See | phr | "See Which Way the Wind Blows" - postpone a decision until one has further information. 2. see etc what is likely to happen; see etc what others think , feel, want, or are planning, especially to check before action is taken or a decision, oneself. |
| See | phr | "See with Only Half an Eye" - notice something that is obvious. |
| See | phr | "See With One's Own Eyes" - to see something in real life, as opposed to a picture or a projection. |
| See | phr | "See Yellow" - to receive a yellow caed in soccer. |
| See | phr | "See You" - goodbye; see you later. |
| See | phr | "See You in Hell" - a farewell which implies that the person addressed is about to die and be damned. |
| See | phr | "See You Later" - an expression of parting or saying goodbye. |
| See | phr | "See You Soon" - goodbye, something said at a farewell, not necessarily literally meaning that the speaker will see the hearer again. |
| See | phr | "See You When I see You" - used as a farewell, when the next time the speaker and interlocutor will meet is not known. |
| See | phr | "So I See" - I told you so. |
| See | phr | "Suck It and See" - discover experimentally how something works. |
| See | phr | ""We Don't See Things As They Are, We See Them As We Are" - each person who sees a thing will see it filtered through their own perceptions. So none of us really see it objectively. |
| See | phr | "We Shall See" - let us wait for the outcome. |
| See | phr | "Wouldn't Be Seen for Dead" - be too ashamed embarrassed for something. |
| Seed | n | A small hard fruit 2. a mature fertilized plant ovule consisting of an embryo and its food source and having a protective coat. 3. one of the outstanding players in a tournament; a seeded player, as opposed to an unseeded player. 4. anything that provides inspiration for later work; source, seed, germ. 5. semen, seed, seminal fluid. 6. that which exists in rudimentary stature. |
| Seed | vb | Go to seed; shed seeds or seedlings. 2. help (an enterprise) in its early stages of development by providing seed money 3. to bear seeds. 4. place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth; sow, seed. 5. distribute (players or teams) so that outstanding teams or players will not meet in the early rounds. 6. sprinkle or seed with silver iodide particles to disperse and cause rain. " to seed clouds" |
| Seed | phr | "Everything Has its Seed" - whatever you see manifested in the world and in your life began as a seed, which through time and reinforcement from internal and external sources germinated into reality —for better or for worse. A flower; a fruit, a rigid belief system; a loving relationship; a musical composition; a disease, a life. |
| Seed | phr | "Go to Seed" - to develop and shed seed. 2. to become shabby, useless, deteriorate. |
| Seed | phr | "Run to Seed" - to produce flowers and seed at the expenses of roots. 2. to dissipate one's talents. 3. to go to waste or ruin. |
| Seed | phr | "Sow Seed" - to propagate ideas in the hope that they will be adopted. |
| Seed-bed | n | A bed of fine soil in which seedlings are germinated. 2. a plot of ground for raising plants from seed. 3. a place of development, as 'a seed-bed of christian revival' |
| Seed-bird | n | The water-wagtail. 2. the common gull. |
| Seed cake | n | Containing whole seed esp. of caraway as flavoring. |
| Seed corn | n | Good-quality corn kept for seed, especially maize, used or intended for seed. |
| Seed-down | n | A fine-hairy substance on some seeds, by which, they are wafted by the wind, the pappus or hairy crown. |
| Seed eater | n | A bird (esp. a finch) living mainly on seed. |
| Seed eating | n | Feeding off seed. |
| Seeded | adj | Sown, matured, |
| Seeder | n | One who or that which sows seed. 2. a device from removing seed from fruit. |
| Seed fern | n | A plant which has fronds like a fern and naked seeds. |
| Seedful | adj | Full of seeds, richly bearing seeds. |
| Seed gall | n | A small gall, resembling a seed, due to insect action. |
| Seed harrow | n | Farm implement for working down the soil and covering sown seed. |
| Seedily | adv | In a seedy manner. |
| Seeding | n | The process of crystallization. |
| Seed leaf | n | A cotyledon or primary leaf. |
| Seedless | adj | Without seed or seeds, barren, effete. |
| Seedlike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a seed. |
| Seedling | n | a young, no longer depending on the seed for food. |
| Seed oyster | n | ?A young oyster especially one transplanted to another bed, also 'oyster seed'. |
| Seedpit | n | A single seed in the center of a cherry, peach, plum, olive, avocado or other fruit. |
| Seed plant | n | A plant which bears seed, spermaphyte. |
| Seed plot | n | A seedbed. |
| Seedsman | n | One who deals in seed. |
| Seed stalk | n | The small stalk by which an ovule is attached to the placenta. |
| Seedster | n | One who seeds or diseminates, a sower, origintor. |
| Seedstock | n | A stock of seed. 2. any supply of seed for planting in general. 3. (fig). any source of new (notably young) individuals. 2. a rookie list, recruitment pool, a source; a recruit, novice, neophyte. |
| Seedtime | n | The sowing season; the season proper for sowing. 2. a period of original development; genesis. |
| Seed wool | n | Raw cotton before the seed have been separated from the fiber. |
| Seedy | adj | Abounding with seed, run or going to seed, exhausted. 2. shabby, ill-looking, miserable or wretched looking, disheveled, scruffy, worn out. 3. diseased, unwell, poorly. 4. not up to the mark; poor and ragged. 5. salacious, pornographic, trashy. 6. pertaining to raw wool with grass seed clinging to it. |
| Seedy-toe | n | Infection of the laminar membrane of a horse's hoof. |
| See-er | n | One who sees or is able to see. 2. a witness. |
| Seeing | n | The act of seeing; vision, sight. 2. |
| Seeing | conj | Taking into consideration; since, in view of the fact. |
| Seeing | phr | "A Good Seeing-to" - a beating. 2. an act of sexual intercourse. 3. a thorough clean-up or repair. |
| Seeing | phr | "Seeing is Believing" - you need to see something to believe it; its visible facts cannot be denied. 3. scepticism about a claim. |
| Seeing-eye dog | n | A animal companion and guide to the blind. |
| Seeing-stone | n | A stone or crystal used for seeing things that are hidden, at a distance, in the past or future, etc.; a crystal ball. |
| Seek | vb | To try to get, reach, or come to. ie happiness; search, look for. 2. try to find, locate, or discover. 3. try to establish the existence of, make inquiry after. 4. to make an effort or attempt or endeavour to find. 5. to go to or towards. 6. inquire for, ask for, inquire for direction, beseech. 7. to seek after, to follow up, persecute, pursue. 8. try to acquire or gain; strive after, aim at, as to seek wealth and fame. 9. to be or go after, ask for, delve into, follow up, hunt for, look up, want to know, visit. |
| Seek | phr | "Far/Much to Seek" - lacking, or not yet found. |
| Seek | phr | "Seek and You Shall find" - something can be found if you look for it. |
| Seek | phr | "Seek Dead" - an order to a retriever to find game. |
| Seek | phr | "Seek for" - try to find, look for. |
| Seek | phr | "Seek No Further" - look no harder. |
| Seek | phr | "Seek Out" - search and find. 2. come looking for to seek help, pass on news or information. |
| Seek | phr | "Seek the Pot of Gold at the End of the Rainbow" - to have naive expectations. |
| Seeker | n | One who endeavors to find happiness, wealth, fame. 2. one who tries to establish the existence of something or someone. 4. one who inquires about something, such as knowledge. |
| Seekers | n | A C17th religious puritan group akin to the Quakers. |
| Seek-no-further | n | A kind of winter apple with a slightly acis taste. |
| Seel | n | Good fortune; happiness, bliss. |
| Seeksorrow | n | One who acts to his own detriment. 2. one who contrives to give himself vexation. 3. a self-tormentor; a masochist. |
| Seelihood | n | Happiness; also: seelihead. |
| Seelily | adv | Happily. |
| Seeliness | n | Happiness, blessedness, blissfulness, artlessness. 2. simplicity, silliness. |
| Seeling | n | The rolling or agitation of a ship in a storm. |
| Seely | adj | Happy, blithesome, blissful, well-omened, lucky, eady. 2. said of persons, their condition or experience: spiritually blessed, enjoying the blessing of God. 3. pious, holy, good. 4. innocent, harmless, compassionate of persons and animals suffering undeservedly. 5. deserving of pity or sympathy, pitiable, miserable, poor. 6. helpless, defenceless, silly, artless. 7. insignificant, trifling, poor, feeble. 8. often of the soul --- in danger of divine judgement. 9. frail, worn, weary. 10. foolish, simple, silly. |
| Seem | n | Agreement, concord, reconciliation. |
| Seep | n | Moisture that drips or oozes out. 2. a small spring; a place where oil and other liquid flow slowly from the ground. |
| Seep | vb | To ooze, drip, trickle. |
| Seeping | n | An act by which something seeps; liquid that has seeped. |
| Seepy | adj | Boggy, marshy, not well-drained, of land. |
| Seer | n | One who sees. 2. one to whom divine revelations are made in visions; a person gifted in profound spiritual insight. 3. magician, crystal gazer, scryer with second-sight. |
| See-saw | adj | Usually of one whose life is passed in monotonous repetition of the same incident. 2. moving backwards and forwards in the manner of a seesaw. 3. vicissitudinous. |
| Seesaw | phr | "To Seesaw" - vacillate or alternate. |
| Seethe | n | Agitation, ebullience, turmoil, botheration, furore. |
| Seethe | vb | OE: lit. to boil. 1. Ebullition of waves. 2. engendering an intense commotion of heat, to smoulder, to stew. 3. to boil, to prepare or produce by boiling, to keep boiling or boil vigorously to ebullition; foam. 4. to rise, surge, boil up like bubbles and foam. 5. to be in state of inner agitation, turmoil or fermentation. 6. of a person in an agitated, emotional state: feverish etc., of plans, discontent or change. 7. of a region : be filled with noisy activity and excitement, disaffection by agitation, be ebullient and tumultous. |
| Seethe | adj | In constant agitation, ebullient, noisy, febrile, feverish, foaming. |
| Seething | vn | The action of seethe. |
| See-through | adj | Transparent, diaphanous, allowing the passage of light, somewhat translucent, unimpeded vision. |
| Segge | n | A man (only used contemptuously). |
| Sehelich | adj | That may be seen, visible. |
| Selcouth | adj | Unfamiliar, unusual, rare, strange, marvelous, wonderful. 2. various, different, not of one kind; (not one selcouth); (no-selcouth) -- no wonder. |
| Seld | n | Throne, a set, a shop, stand for spectators. |
| Seld | adj | Seldom as in Seld-heard-of; seld-known; seld-shaven, seld-speaking, seld-trodden |
| Seldom | adv | Rarely, not often, infrequently. |
| Seldom | adj | Rare, uncommon. |
| Seldom | phr | "Seldom seen, Soon forgotten" - out of sight, out of mind. |
| Seldomly | adv | Seldom, rarely, uncommon. |
| Seldomness | n | Rarenes, infrequency, uncommonness. |
| Seld-seen | adj | Seldom or not often seen; reclusive, hermit-like. |
| Seld-speech | n | Tacturnity. |
| Seld-time | adj | Rarely, seldomly |
| Seld-when | adj | Rarely occurring; infrequent, seldomly |
| Seld-where | adj | Rarely found, seldomly found or located. |
| Seld-while | adj | Seldom worthwhile |
| Sele | n | Happiness, prosperity, good, good fortune. 2. favourble or proper time, opportune moment, right occasion, opportunity. 3. season, a period of time, time of day, " the day's sele." meaning to pass the time of day, that is a give a friendly greeting in passing. |
| Self | n | The individual as the object of his own reflective consciousness. 2. the man viewed by his own cognition as the subject of all his mental phenomena. 3. the agent in his own activities, the subject of his own feelings, and the possessor of capacities and character. 4. a person as a distinct individual; a being regarded as having 5.personal interest, or love of private interest; selfishness; as, self is his whole aim. |
| Self | phr | "One's Better Self" - one's nobler impulse. |
| Self | phr | "One's Old Self" - oneself as one formerly was. |
| Self-arising | n | Self-raising. |
| Self-aware | adj | Conscious of one's character, feelings, motives, etc. |
| Self-awareness | n | The state or property of being self-aware; state of being aware of oneself as an individual. 2. a personal trait regarding someone's ability to persistently and accurately perceive their presence among other people, their own knowledge and abilities; and subsequently, to recognize their limitations for those even which they're particularly confident with. |
| Self-be-got | vb | To self beget, or create one's self by one's power. |
| Self-begotten | adj | Self-created, self-made, set up by one's own hands. |
| Self-being | adj | Independent existence, a self-existent being. |
| Self-belief | n | Trust in one's own positive characteristics, self-confidence, selfworth. |
| Self-binder | n | A reaping machine with an automatic mechanism for binding the sheaves. |
| Self-black | adj | Of a uniformly black color; naturally black color, not-dyed. |
| Self-blood | n | Suicide, self-murder. 2. relatives, relations, one's own kin |
| Self-born | adj | Produced by itself or oneself; not made externally. |
| Self-bow | n | A bow that has been made from a single piece of wood. 2. a bow stave. |
| Self-bred | adj | Self-fertilization; autogamy occurring in hermaphroditic organism. |
| Self-build | vb | To build or construct something one-self; to be a self-builder. |
| Self-builder | n | One who constructs kit-homes. |
| Self-built | adj | Built by oneself, often from commercially available components. |
| Self-burning | adj | Self-igniting. |
| Self-care | n | In health care, self-care is any necessary human regulatory function which is under individual control, deliberate and self-initiated. Some place self-care on a continuum with health care providers at the opposite end to self-care. In modern medicine, preventive medicine aligns most closely with self-care. 2. care for oneself, self-interest. 3. one or a group who looks after their own care. |
| Self-chosen | adj | Chosen by or after oneself. |
| Self-cleaning | adj | Cleaning itself when heating (esp. an oven). |
| Self-cooling | adj | Capable of cooling without external control and intervention, as an air cooler. |
| Self-dead | n | Self-dead souls, self-annihilation. |
| Self-deadness | n | Most profound and spiritual humility. |
| Self-deal | n | Dealing with oneself. 2. engage in dealings favorable to oneself. 3. taking advantage one's position as fiduciary. |
| Self-dealing | n | The act of dealing with oneself. 2. the engagement in dealings favorable to oneself. 3. advantage taken when dealing in a position of a fiduciary. |
| Self-death | n | Murder, suicide. |
| Self-dislike | adj | The dislike of one's imperfections and shortcomings. 2. self-loathing. |
| Selfdom | n | The realm or dominion of self. 2. independence. 3. a condition of things of which self is the centre. 4. that which constitutes a person's self. |
| Self-drive | adj | Of a hired vehicle, driven by the driver. |
| Self-driven | adj | Self-motivated. 2. self-propelled; automotive. |
| Self-driving | adj | Of a motor vehicle equipped with sensors and computer technology to allow it to drive without a human operator. |
| Self-emptying | adj | Capable of a machine of emptying without external control and intervention. |
| Self-end | n | Personal or private end or object. |
| Self-ended | adj | Of merely private or selfish aims, characterized by self-centered actions or decisions. |
| Self-fearing | adj | The fear of one's own behavior and the consequences |
| Self-feed | adj | A machine, boiler or other mechanical device that feeds food, drinks, tickets etc automatically. |
| Self-feeder | n | A machine, boiler or other mechanical device that feeds automatically. |
| Self-feeling | n | Feeling centered in oneself, egotistic feeling. 2. a sense of one's individual identity. 3. self-conscious. |
| Self-filling | adj | Capable of a machine of filling without external control and intervention. |
| Self-folding | adj | Folding of various materials by a mechanical device. |
| Self-forbidden | adj | Abstaining, self-refraining, self-control. |
| Self-forgetful | adj | Forgetful of one's self or individuality. 2. having or characterized by no thought or concern of one's self. |
| Self-forgetfulness | n | State or condition where one is forgetful of one's self or individuality. 2. Condition characterized by having no thought for oneself. |
| Self-forgetting | n | Without concern for oneslf. |
| Self-frighted | adj | Suddenly and extremely fearful. |
| Self-fulfilling | adj | A prophecy or prediction what gives rise to actions that brings about it's fulfillment. |
| Self-fulness | n | Self-sufficiency. 2. self-centredness. |
| Self-given | adj | Emanating or derived from oneself or itself. |
| Self-giving | adj | The giving of oneself for the benefit for others. 2. self-devotion; self-sacrifice. |
| Self-good | n | Personal benefit or advantage. |
| Seelf-hardening | adj | Pertaining to or designating certain steels which will harden property without the need of quenching. |
| Self-harming | adj | Any behavior which involves the deliberate causing of pain or injury towards oneself. |
| Self-hate | n | Self-hatred of oneself, esp. of one's actual self when contrasted with one's imagined self. |
| Self-hated | adj | Hating or loathing oneself. |
| Self-hating | nadj | Exhibiting self-hatred towards oneself. |
| Self-hatred | n | Hatred of oneself, esp. of one's actual self when contrasted with one's imagined self. |
| Self-heal | n | Any of several plants believed to have healing properties in treating cuts and wounds, Prunella vulgaris. |
| Self-healing | n | The action or faculty of providing for oneself without the assistance of others. |
| Self-help | n | The theory that individuals should provide for their own support and improvement in society. 2. fending for one's self. 3. the act or faculty of providing for or improving oneself. 4. redress of one's wrongs by one's own action, without recourse to legal action. |
| Self-helpfulness | n | The state of being or behaving in a way helpful to oneself. |
| Self-helplessness | n | A state or quality of being helpless. |
| Self-hidden | adj | The Hidden Self represents a subconscious part of the mind which is moving in a different direction from the one in which our conscious mind is headed. It is a part of the mind which, in most ways, is thinking to be helpful to the general self, but whose strategy is ineffective and often destructive. |
| Self-holding | n | A series of exercises of holding oneself to bring about calmness and relief from anxiety. |
| Selfhood | n | The state of being an individual, or that which constitutes such a state; personality. 2. the unique individuality possessed by a self or person. 3. only for one's self or one's own interests. |
| Self-hope | n | Hope that one's life and persoanl affairs will have a successful and happy outcome. |
| Selfie | n | (Mobile telephony) A photographic self-portrait, especially one taken manually (not using a timer, tripod etc.) with a small camera or mobile phone. |
| Selfie-stick | n | (Mobile telephony) -an extendable monopod arm onto which a smartphone or camera can be mounted in order to take wide-angle photographs of oneself. |
| Selfing | n | pollination of a stigma from the anthers of the flower. ++++++++ |
| Selfish | n | Pertaining or connected to oneself. 2. devoted to or concerned with one's own advantage or welfare to the inclusion or regard for others. 3. ethical theory: with self as the real motive for human action. |
| Selfish | adj | Pertaining to concerned with one's own advantage or welfare to the exclusion or regards for others. 2. concerned unduly over personal profit or pleasure, lacking consideration for others; mercenary, greedy. |
| Selfishly | adv | To act in manner which is concerned with one's own advantage or welfare only. |
| Selfishness | n | Condition or quality of being selfish, regarding one's own interest or happiness to the disregard of the well-being of others. 2. an undue or excessive care for one's own comfort or pleasure, regardless of the happiness, and often of the rights of others. |
| Self-kindness | n | An aspect of self-compassion, used as a therapy to treat the feeling of shame, and problem of anxiety and deal with stress. |
| Self-knowing | n | Self-knowledge, knowing of oneself without help of others. |
| Self-knowledge | n | Etymology: 'ledge' is of unknown origin. Knowledge of oneself: one's character and capabilities. |
| Self-law | n | A law of one's own making to suit oneself. |
| Self-learning | n | Autodidactic learning or self-education (also self-learning and self-teaching) is education without the guidance of masters (such as teachers and professors) or institutions (such as schools). |
| Selfless | adj | Having no regard for or thought for oneself; not self-centred, unselfish. 2. a life devoted to unselfish means. |
| Selflessly | adv | In a selfless manner. |
| Selflessness | n | The quality or state of being selfless. |
| Self-life | n | Exactly similar; corresponding. 2. of or pertaining to self or one's self; personal; individual; own; elfish; self-centered. |
| Self-lighting | adj | Of street lights sensitive to darkness turning on automatically at dusk or during extremely cloudy periods during daytime. |
| Self-like | adj | Similar; very much like oneself, of the self-same kind. |
| Self-like | n | Self-existence. 2. life lived for oneself. 3. a life devoted to oneself. |
| Self-liked | adj | Conceited, self-satisfied. |
| Self-liking | n | Self-love, conceit. 2. attachment to one's own |
| Self-loading | adj | (Esp. of a gun)automatically reloading itself. |
| Self-loathing | adj | Loathing oneself; self-hating. |
| Self-locking | adj | Locking itself. |
| Self-loss | n | Loss of one's own being or personality. |
| Self-love | n | Due care for one's own happiness and well being, which is perfectly compatible with justice, generosity, or benevolence towards others. 2. love for oneself. 3. self-centredness; self-indulgence, selfishness. |
| Self-loving | adj | Loving or devoted to oneself. 2. seeking one's own interest or advantage. 3. characterized by self-love. |
| Selfly | adv | One or it's own. 2. even specially. 3. one or by oneself (or itself). 4. of it's or one's own accord 5. spontaneously. |
| Self-made | adj | Made by oneself; or one's own actions of efforts of own making. 2. self-made woman/man. 3. self-making. |
| Self-made man/woman | n | Someone from a humble background who has become wealthy, important entirely by his/her/their own effort |
| Self-martyrdom | n | In psychology a person who has a martyr complex, sometimes associated with the term victim complex, desires the feeling of being a martyr for his/her own sake, seeking out suffering or persecution because it either feeds a psychological need, or a desire to avoid responsibility. |
| Self-minded | adj | Obstinate in one's own opinion. |
| Self-mindedness | n | Condition or state of being obstinate in one's opinions. |
| Self-murder | n | Suicide. |
| Self-murderer | n | One who commits self-murder or suicide. |
| Self-named | adj | Named after oneself or by oneself. |
| Selfness | n | Personality, essence. 2. selfcentredness, egoism, selfishess, self regard. 3. selfish act or manifestation. 3. due regard for oneself; individuality, |
| Self-nothingness | n | Self-annihilation, self-abasement |
| Self-nought | n | Deprecation or self-effacement of one's self as manifested in the lives of the saints or mystics. |
| Self-one | adj | Alone with oneself or itself. |
| Self-opening | adj | Opening of one's own accord. |
| Self-ownership | n | Self-ownership (also known as sovereignty of the individual, individual sovereignty or individual autonomy) is the concept of property in one's own person, expressed as the moral or natural right of a person to have bodily integrity and be the exclusive controller of one's own body and life. |
| Self-planted | adj | Self-germinating. |
| Self-pride | n | Pride in oneself. |
| Self-righteous | adj | Righteous in one's own esteem. 2. overconfident in one's own moral standards, superiority. |
| Self-righteously | adv | Righteous in one's own estimation; pharisatic. |
| Self-righteousness | n | Having or characterized by a certainty, especially an unfounded one, that one is totally correct or morally superior. sanctimonious, holier-than-thou, self-satisfied, smug, priggish, complacent, too good to be true, pious, pietistic, moralizing, unctuous, superior, mealy-mouthed, hypocritical; 2. more having or characterized by a certainty, especially an unfounded one, that one is totally correct or morally superior. |
| Self-righting | n | The action of righting oneself or itself after an upset or (boat)capsizing. |
| Self-rising | adj | Self-raising; that rises itself. 2. having the leaven already added by the millers, as some flours.. |
| Selfsame | adj | The very same, identical. 2. the same self person or thing. 3. identical, identical things |
| Selfsameness | n | The property of two or more appearances of being of the selfsame underlying object; sameness as regards self or identity.. |
| Self-shifter | n | A car with an automatic gearbox. |
| Self-schooled | adj | Self-taught. |
| Self-searching | adj | Examination of one's own thoughts and feelings. |
| Self seed | vb | (Of a plant) to propogate itself. |
| Self-seeding | n | (Of a plant) propagate itself by seed, as "an early-blooming, self-seeding primrose |
| Self-seeker | n | One who selfishly seeks his own welfare. 2. a sycophant, a toady. |
| Self-seeking | n | Given to the exclusive pursuit of one's own interests or gain. |
| Self-seeking | adj | The seeking of one's own welfare, happiness before that of others; the prosecution of selfish ends. |
| Self-seekingness | n | The state or action of seeking of one's own welfare before that of others; the prosecution of selfish ends. |
| Self-ship | n | Self-hood, personality, individuality |
| Self-slain | adj | Slain by one's own hands: suicide; harakari. |
| Selfsome | adj | (Neologism) of or characteristic of self or one's self. self-centered; self-moving, self-motivated. self-sufficient; autotelic. isolate, isolated, alone |
| Self-soothe | vb | (Of a young child, especially one left to fall asleep on their own) stop crying without being comforted by a parent or caregiver, as ‘my son only started self-soothing when he was eight months old.’ 2. comfort oneself, as a self-soother, when unhappy or distressed, as ‘many of us self-soothe with junk food, a glass of wine, maybe some mindless TV.’ |
| Self-soothing | adj | (Of a young child, especially one left to fall asleep on their own) stop crying without being comforted by a parent or caregiver. 2. to comfort oneself when unhappy or distressed, some people self-soothe with junk food, a glass of wine, maybe some mindless TV. |
| Self-sown | adj | Sown by itself without human or animal agency. 2. grown by seed scattered naturally. |
| Self-standing | adj | Standing or existing in one's own power, ability or competence, non-reliant. 2. individual; independent. 3. lacking affixes or stems. |
| Self-starter | n | One who makes things happen; an innovator, pro-active person. 2. an internal combustion engine, with automatic or semi-automatic starting mechanism, also, such mechanism. |
| Self-starting | adj | Of a person who begins or undertakes a project on his or her own iniatives, without the need to be told or encouraged to do so. |
| Self-steering | adj | Maintaining a course without constant human action. |
| Self-stick | adj | Capable of adhering to a surface by application of pressure without the addition of moisture. |
| Self-sticking | adj | Self adhesive; something that can stick or seal on its own without any tool or moisture. |
| Self-talk | n | The act or practice of talking to oneself, either aloud or silently. |
| Self-taught | adj | Taught by oneself without direct aid from others; self-educated. 2. of what is learned. 3. acquired by ones own unaided efforts. |
| Self-teaching | adj | Having a knowledge or skills acquired by oneself own efforts without formal instruction. |
| Self-thinning | adj | The death or spontaneous casting off of branches, fruit, etc., from a plant, ensuring the remaining parts of the plant have adequate room to grow. 2. a natural progressive decline in the density of a population (especially of plants) that occurs as its members increase in size or as the population increases in number; frequently attributive. |
| Self-understanding | n | The act or instance of comprehending one's actions and reactions. 2. sympathetic tolerance or awareness of oneself. |
| Selfwards | adj | Towards or in the direction of oneself. 2. tended or directed towards oneself; self-warding. |
| Self-watering | adj | Of pots drawing water up from the outer pot into the inner pot using a piece of fabric, ensuring that watering occurs automatically. |
| Self-weening | adj | Self-opinionated, self-conceited, conceited |
| Self-wilful | adj | With a will of one's own. |
| Self-wilfulness | n | Self-indulgence. |
| Self-will | n | One's own will or desire; obstinacy. 2. wilful or obstinate persistence in following one's own desires or opinions. |
| Self-willed | adj | Wilful or obstinate in the pursuit of one's own desires or opinions. 2. characterized by self-will or self-willingness. 3. wanting to have one's own way in all things. 4. very uncooperative. |
| Self-willingly | adv | Voluntarily. 2. voluntarily of one's own accord. 3. without cause. |
| Self-willingness | n | The state or quality of being self-willing. |
| Self-winding | adj | Having a magnetic, electrical, or other attachment which automatically winds a clock or other mechanisms at certain times. |
| Self-wise | adj | Wise in one's own conceit. 2. relying on one's own wisdom, self-wit or self-wisdom. |
| Self-wisdom | n | The condition of being self-wise or having self-wit; self-witted-ness |
| Self-wise | adj | Wise in one's own conceit or self-wit. 2. relying on one's own wisdom; a self-wiseling |
| Self-worship | n | Autolatry. |
| Self worth | adj | Self-esteem: a good opinion of oneself, as in high self worth or esteem. |
| Self-worthiness | n | The state or condition of self worth. |
| Self-wrong | n | Injury done to one's self. |
| Self-wrought | adj | Produced, made or brought about by one-self. |
| Selfy | n | See 'Selfie" |
| Sell | vb | To give, to deliver; (from a noun akin to sale). 2. to transfer to another for an equivalent 3. to give up for a valuable consideration. 4. to dispose of in return for something, especially for money. 5. To make a matter of bargain and sale of. 6. to accept a price or reward for, as for a breach of duty, trust, or the like; to betray 7. To impose upon; to trick; to deceive; to make a fool of. 8. (slang): to cheat, hoax, a sell. 9. to sell one's life dearly; to cause much loss to those who take one's life, as by killing a number of one's assailants. 10. to sell (anything) out, to dispose of it wholly or entirely. 11. To practice selling commodities. |
| Sell | n | An imposition; a cheat; a hoax. (colloquial.) |
| Sell | phr | "Be Sold On Something" - be utterly dedicated to a proposal |
| Sell | phr | "Sell At" - give in exchange at a particular price level. |
| Sell | phr | "Sell Down" - self-watering containers have an inner pot that holds the plant and soil, and an outer pot or bottom reservoir that holds extra water. A wick joins the two and pulls water up into the root ball as it's needed. Most reservoirs are large enough to supply water for several days or more depending on the weather. |
| Sell | phr | "Sell for" - give in exchange for a particular sum of money. |
| Sell | phr | "Sell Like Hot Cakes" - be bought regularly or eagerly, by large numbers of people. |
| Sell | phr | "Sell My Clothes, I'm Going to Heaven" - |
| Sell | phr | "Sell Off" - to dispose or get rid of by sale of goods which have not sold well (esp. at a reduced or lower prices). 2. sell a plant which is not efficient, so as to free the money invested in them. 3. to sell the whole of one's stock or possessions. |
| Sell | phr | "Sell On" - enthusiastic about. |
| Sell | phr | "Self Oneself" - promote one's own abilities. 2. offer oneself dishonorably for money and other rewards. |
| Sell | phr | "Sell One's Life Dearly" - do great injury before being killed, like "Doolan at Ambon in 1942. |
| Sell | phr | "Sell One's Soul to the Devil" - exchange one's soul for worldly gains. 2. abandon one's spiritual values or moral principles for wealth or other benefits. |
| Sell | phr | "Sell Out" - to betray through secret bargain or agreement. 2. betrayal, or an organized event with full attendance (all tickets sold). 3. sell one's entire stock. |
| Sell | phr | "Sell Out of" - out of stock. |
| Sell | phr | "Sell Short" - disparage, underestimate, belittle someone or oneself. 2. present as less good as reality. 3. agrre to sell something one does not yet have in hope of obtaining it quickly and cheaply enough to amke a profit. 4. cheat somebody in value or quantity. |
| Sell | phr | "Sell Through" - the proportion of wholesale items that are eventually sold at retail. 2. the practice of retailing items (such as DVDs) that are normally, or were previously rented. 3. an item that is sold at retail (as opposed, for example, to being rented out). |
| Sell | phr | "Sell Up"- to dispose or sell of the whole or a portion of the goods (of an insolvent or bankrupt person). 2. sell what one owns, business etc to pay ones debts or to retire. |
| Sell | phr | Sold on Something" - be convinced of something's worth. |
| Seller | n | One who sells. 2. a book, or later any type of article like a best, wide seller; now mostly a book. |
| Selling | n | The action of selling. 2. an instance of selling |
| Sell-off | n | The disposition of by sale of the remainder of goods (esp. at a reduced prices); to sell the whole of one's stock or possessions. |
| Sell out | n | The of selling out, to sell one's whole stock in trade or one's entire interest in a property or a business. 2. to betray the trust of another. |
| Sell up | vb | To dispose of the whole or a portion of the goods (of an insolvent or bankrupt person) by sale. |
| Selly | adj | Strange, wonderful, marvellous. |
| Selth | n | Prosperity, happiness, good fortune, success. |
| Selthlike | adv | Successfully, prosperously |
| Sench | vb | To sink, plunge, dive, asench |
| Send | vb | Cause to go somewhere; 2. to cause or order to be taken, directed, or transmitted to another place. 3. mail, post, . 4: transport commercially; transport, send, ship. 5: assign to a station, post, place. 6. transfer, get off, send off. 7. cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution; commit, institutionalize, charge. 8. broadcast over the airwaves, as on radio or television; air, broadcast, beam, transmit. 9. to dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message, or do an errand. 10 to pitch; as a the ship sends forward so violently as to endanger her masts. 11. to send for, to request or require by message to come or be brought. |
| Send | phr | "Send After" - ask somebody to follow a person, to tell her/him that he has left something behind. |
| Send | phr | "Send Ahead Of" - dispatch somebody in advance of a main party etc, to inquire, find lodgings etc. 2. send someone ahead so that they arrivee before you do. |
| Send | phr | "Send Away" - make somebody leave, depart, remove himself/ herself, themselves from one's presence. |
| Send | phr | "Send Away for" - send an order to a dealer for goods. |
| Send | phr | "Send Back" - return something to a shop, because one is unhappy with it. 2. as k a waiter to take food back to the chef because it is unsatisfactory. |
| Send | phr | "Send Down" - rusticate or expel from university. 2. sentence to imprisonment. |
| Send | phr | "Send for" - summon; order by post. 2. help etc, or message asking for it. 2. make a request, or order for something. |
| Send | phr | "Send Forth" - to emit, produce, let out. |
| Send | phr | "Send In" - submit something to an official, superior for approval. 2. submit an entry for a competition etc. 3. cause to go in. |
| Send | phr | "Send Off" - send a letter by post, etc. 2. celebrate, as a gesture of goodwill, on the occasion of a person's starting on a journey or undertaking -(can also be used disparagingly). 3. of a referee in sending a player off the field in a sporting contest for a breach of a rule. |
| Send | phr | "Send Off for" - send away for. |
| Send | phr | "Send On" - send to a further place, destination or in advance of one's arrival. 2. dispatch somebody for the purpose of a holiday, etc. 3. ask, get, continue somebody on a journey ahead of others. 4. |
| Send | phr | "Send Out" - emit, radiate, transmit. |
| Send | phr | "Send Out (for)" - sk somebody to go from the office , shop to fetch something, etc. |
| Send | phr | "Send Out (of)" - ask somebody to leave (e.g. as a punishment, at the start of a game etc) |
| Send | phr | "Send Someone Away With a Flea in His Ear" - give someone a frank but unwelcome facts. |
| Send | phr | "Send Someone Flying" - to knock someone off their feet. |
| Send | phr | "Send to" - arrange for someone to attend a particular school; college, etc. |
| Send | phr | "Send to Bed" - make somebody go to bed, because they are ill or as punishment. |
| Send | phr | "Send to One's Death" - act in a way, whether consciously or not, that will cause somebody's death. |
| Send | phr | "Send to Sleep" - make somebody fall to sleep. |
| Send | phr | "Send Up" - cause to go up or rise. 2. transmit to a higher authority. 3. in US sentence to imprisonment. 3. satirize or ridicule, by mimicking or mocking. 4. destroy, especially by fire or explosion; blow up. |
| Send | phr | "Send Up the Wall" - annoy greatly or unbearably, infuriate, drive around the bend, up the wall. |
| Send | phr | "Send Word" - send news, message, information to. |
| Sender | n | Someone who sends. 2. a device or component that transmits, as in telegraphy or computer networks. |
| Send-forth | n | A celebration or event to mark a departure, used as a modifier, as send-forth party. |
| Send-forth | adj | A celebration or event to mark a departure, used as a modifier, as send-forth party. |
| Send-off | n | A friendly demonstration on the occasion of a person's starting on a journey or undertaking -- (can also be used disparagingly). 2. a sending-off. |
| Send-up | n | A parody or satire. |
| Sene | n | Vision, power of sight, ease of sight. |
| Sene | adj | Easy to see, evident, manifest. |
| Sengreen | n | The House Leek; also to other evergreen plants esp. some variety of saxifrage, the periwinkle. (OT: sen (always) & gronjo (green.) |
| Sennight | n | A week or seven days, from se(ve)n & night. |
| Senye | n | A military banner or standard. 2. emblem, token, slogan. 3. battle cry, rallying cry, slogan. 4. a bookmark. |
| Sere | adj | Sear, searing: dry, excessively dry or sere-dried, withered. 2. thin, worn, of cloth or textile. |
| Sere-month | n | August. |
| Sere-ward | adj | Prone or towards decay |
| Sester | n | A vessel for holding liquid, a jar, pitcher. 2. a brewing vat. 3. a liquid measure for beer, wine. 4. dry measure for wheat. |
| Set | vb | NB: a set, or a collection of things is from Old French. and is not Anglish. Cause to sit. 2. to position; to fix, to make ready. 3. to put to music. 4. of the sun: to go down. 5. to become firm or fixed, hence have direction of one one way or action. 6. to deliberately think out or plan. 7. to formally arrange, esp. beforehand or prior. 8. to remain steadfast or refuse to vary in attitude or action. 9. liable or incited to react in a particular way. |
| Set | pp | Being or (setting)below the horizon. 2. determined or (set down) by an an Authority |
| Set | adj | Fixed and steadfast. 2, fixed in a particular spot or position. 3. set down according to a particular plan. 4. becoming hard or fixed by cooling or drying. |
| Set | phr | "All Set" - ready to begin. |
| Set | phr | "Have One's Heart Set on Something" - be very keen to achieve something. |
| Set | phr | "Rot Set in" - the begin of a decline, deterioration. |
| Set | phr | "Set About" - begin a task, start to take steps towards purposefully and energetically.. 2. colloquial: attack. |
| Set | phr | "Set Against" - compare, contrast, weigh, something as a piece of evidence balancing something that has already been suggested. 2. consider or reckon (a person or thing) or counterpoise or compensation for (another). 3. cause (a person or persons) to oppose a person or thing. 4. cause people who may be related, or close friends to become enemies or rivals. |
| Set | phr | "Set Ago" - to cause to move, start, begin, to set agoing. |
| Set | phr | "Set a Hare Running" - in order to achieve some desired effect to initiate some realted activity. |
| Set | phr | "Set Aside" - to put or place to one side. 2. to put away, disregard, annul, cancel, reserve, quash. 3. get rid of, make oneself free of, dispense with. |
| Set | phr | "Set Aside for" - reserve, save, name for a particular purpose. |
| Set | phr | "Set a Spell" - to set down for a period of time, especially in the company of other persons in order to relax or to engage in casual conversation. |
| Set | phr | "Set a Thief to Catch? a Thief" - the best way to discover a wrongdoer is use a wrongdoer to do so. |
| Set | phr | "Set At Nought" - to undervalue, contemn, to despise. |
| Set | phr | "Set Back" - place further back in place or time. 2. situate, place at some distance away from a road etc. 3. impede , hinder or reverse the progress of. 4. to deteriorate. 5. be an expense to somebody, cost someone something, knock back. |
| Set | phr | "Set Before" - to exhibit, to bring out to view. 2. offer. 3. to proffer |
| Set | phr | "Set By" - to reject, set aside; save for future use. |
| Set | phr | "Set Down" - to place on the surface; deposit. 2. to write, enter in writing or print; record, register, lay down authoritatively, explain. 3. choose, name a day when a court case is to be heard. 4. to alight from a vehicle. 4. to judge or consider. 4. to attribute or ascribe. 5. to free. 6. to establish. 7. to ordain. 8. to humiliate; snub. |
| Set | phr | "Set Eyes On" - to see, perceive, sight, behold, lay eyes on. |
| Set | phr | "Set Fair" - in a stable and favorable condition (for something to happen or be achieved). |
| Set | phr | "Set Fire to" - to cause to deliberately burn. See "set on fire" |
| Set | phr | "Set Foot In" - enter, arrive in a place or location. |
| Set | phr | "Set Foot On" - put an action, process in motion. |
| Set | phr | "Set for Life" - necessary, sufficient resources, especially financial, to last a lifetime. |
| Set | phr | "Set Forth" - to manifest, make known, declare, expand, offer or present to view, publish, exhibit, display. 2. show to advantage. 3. begin or start on a journey. 4. present, outline. 5. leave home, a base etc at the state of an expedition , campaign etc. |
| Set | phr | "Set Forward" - begin to advance, promote, start. |
| Set | phr | "Set Free" - release, liberate, |
| Set | phr | "Set In" - (of weather, a condition etc) begin (and seem likely to continue); become established. 2. gain a hold and likely to spread, as an epidemic. 3. have fixed, established ways of behaving, reacting, as one's behavior, habits, customs, methods etc., 4. flowing inwards. 5. insert (a precious stone in jewellery; a a sleeve in a garment). |
| Set | phr | "Set In One's Ways" - driven by habit or determined to contrive according to one's customs or established preferences. |
| Set | phr | "Set in Stone" - to make something permanent and incapable of being changed, typically a plan or idea. 2. carved in stone; engraved in stone, written in stone. 3. permanently fixed or firmly established; incapable of being changed. 4. (fig). permanent or not subject to change. |
| Set | phr | "Set Little By" - considered to be of little value. |
| Set | phr | "Set Much By" - considered to be of high value or esteem. |
| Set | phr | "Set Off" - begin or start a journey. 2. detonate or explode a bomb, charge, mine etc. 3. initiate, stimulate, stimulate a discovery, invention, riot, panic. 4. cause a person to start laughing, talking (usually by telling stories). 5. cause or make a person to be angry. 6. serve as an adornment or foil to; make something apppear attractive by contrast. |
| Set | phr | "Set Off Against" - use as a compensating item. 2. balance, match one thing against another as loss, expenditure,rivalry, shyness. |
| Set | phr | "Set On" - attack violently. 2. cause, incite or urge to attack; set upon. |
| Set | phr | "Set Oneself Up" - make pretensions to being. |
| Set | phr | "Set One's Hand to" - start work on; engage in. |
| Set | phr | "Set One's Heart (Hopes) Up/on" - want or hope for eagerly. 2. desire intently, long deeply with all one's heart. 3. to do, achieve something. |
| Set | phr | "Set One's Mind at Rest" - dispel , lighten, somebody's anxiety. |
| Set | phr | "Set One's Mind to" - be determined to do something. 2. give one's full attention to. 3. put one's mind to. |
| Set | phr | "Set One's Shoulders to the Wheel" |
| Set | phr | "Set One's Sight On" - to aim to achieve something. 2. have as one's goal or objective. |
| Set | phr | "Set One Sights High" - be, or make somebody, ambitious about one's future, or in an aim or project; have, set, morals, a high standard of work, morals or behavior. |
| Set | phr | "Set One's Teeth" - clench them in summoning one's resolve. |
| Set | phr | "Set One's Teeth On Edge" - cause an unpleasant sensation in one's teeth (as when one scrapes their fingernails on metal). |
| Set | phr | "Set On Fire" - cause to burn by accident or design; set alight; set fire to. |
| Set | phr | "Set On Foot" - to start (some project business, plan etc). |
| Set | phr | "Set On His Feet" - help to return to help, prosperity. |
| Set | phr | "Set On Something" - keenly desire something. |
| Set | phr | "Set Out" - begin a journey. 2. begin work or a task with the intention of achieving a particular aim . 3. demonstrate, arrange, exhibit, show in an orderly manner. 4. mark out. 5. declare; publish, state. 6. prove, explain. 7. arrange items on a table, board. |
| Set | phr | "Set Out On" - start to move, begin a journey, leave on a journey, set off. 2. begin doing something vigorously. 3. go to work on. |
| Set | phr | "Set Out to" - aim or intend to. 2. begin to fight or argue. |
| Set | phr | "Set Right" - to adjust, correct. |
| Set | phr | "Set Sail" - hoist the sails. 2. begin a voyage, journey by sea to a certain place. |
| Set | phr | "Set Someone Back on Their Heels" - shock, surprise someone. |
| Set | phr | "Set Someone By the Heels" - imprison. |
| Set | phr | "Set Someone on the Right Road" - to show a person how to go about doing something. |
| Set | phr | "Set Someone's Teeth on Edge" - to cause a person to feel unhappy about a situation. |
| Set | phr | "Set the Thames on Fire" - arouse considerable excitement. 2. achieve a remarkable success. |
| Set | phr | "Set the World on Fire" - to do something particularly brilliant. |
| Set | phr | "Set the World to Rights" - discuss, argue about, important problems, so creating an illusions that they have been solved. |
| Set | phr | "Setting a Hen" - giving a hen a certain number of eggs (a sitting) to hatch. |
| Set | phr | "Setting of the Moon, Sun" - their sinking below the horizon. |
| Set | phr | "Set To" - begin doing something vigorously, esp. arguing, fighting, or eating. 2. begin to do something purposely. |
| Set | phr | "Set to Work" - begin working. |
| Set | phr | "Set Tongues Wagging" - to behave in a way that encourages scandal-mongering. |
| Set | phr | "Set to Work" - to cause to start, to work or how to start to work. |
| Set | phr | "Set Up" - place in position, erect, establish, institute. 2. organize or start a business. 3. establish in some capacity. 4. supply the needs of. 5. begin making or creating, etc. 6. cause, produce or make arrangements for a condition or situation. 7. prepare a task etc for someone. 8. restore or make someone better, healthier, more livelier of. 9. establish a speed, time, distance record in a sporting event). 10. propound a theory. 11. cause (a person) to incriminate him or her self r to look foolish. 12. to frame or maliciously blame someone. |
| Set | phr | "Set Up As" - establish oneself in a business or trade; make possible for some somebody to do so by providing the money etc. 2. consider, reckon somebody or something to be special in some way; have pretensions of being such a person. |
| Set | phr | "Set Up House Together" - live together as man and wife (whether married our not) |
| Set | phr | "Set Upon" - to attack upon. 2. to begin to embark upon a course of action. |
| Set | phr | "Set Up Shop" - establish a business. |
| Set | phr | "The Sun has Set on Something" - something has concluded. |
| Set | phr | "Well Set Up" - secure, well provided for. |
| Set-aside | n | The act of setting something (an amount or quantity etc) aside for a special purpose. 2. the policy of taking land out of production to reduce crop surpluses (set-aside land). |
| Set-back | n | A check to progress, reverse in fortune or plan, hindrance. 2. retardation or retrograde movement. 3. a relapse, reverse. 4. a setting back or backwards. 4. a counter-current, an eddy. |
| Set bolt | n | An iron pin, or bolt, for fitting planks closely together in shipbuilding. |
| Set-down | n | A single drive ending where the passenger first alights. 2. a vehicle plying for hire; the distance covered by such a drive. 3. a placing of something on the surface or ground. 4. unexpected and humiliating rebuff. 5. a severe scolding or putting one in their place. |
| Sete | n | A number of men posted to intercept or shoot game. |
| Sete | vb | To sit, settle, settle or be easy in mind; to be content. 2. to be fitting, wholesome or suitable (of food or drink). |
| Setness | n | The quality, state or character of being set. 2. constitution, establishment, imposition of law. 3. what is deemed or determined. 4. a statute, ordinance. 5. a fixed abode. |
| Set-off | n | An offset or counterpoise. 2. a counterclaim. |
| Set off | vb | Separate from the whole with a particular purpose. 2. to separate or portion off. 3. a thing set off against another; a counterpoise. 4. a thing of which the amount or effect may be deducted from that or another or opposite tendency. 5. a counter claim. 6. a thing that embellishes; an adornment to something. |
| Set-out | phr | To present to view, exhibit. |
| Set right | vb | To correct, put in order; make right. |
| Set over | vb | To assign, to transfer, convey. |
| Setter-on | n | One who instigates or incites, urges on or impels. |
| Setter-out | n | One who sets out a document, a plan, a design. 2. a publisher; a proclaimer. |
| Setter-up | n | One who sets up or establishes something or someone. |
| Setting | n | The context and environment in which something is set, set in or inserted: the setting of the sun; hardening of plaster or other moist substances. 2. the state of the environment in which a situation exists; the surrounding of any object regarded as its framework; the environment of a thing; the position or manner in which a thing is set. . . 3. arrangement of scenery and props in a play or film; the place and time, etc of a story, drama etc.. 4. the physical position of something; the immediate surroundings of a house. 5. the table service for one person. 6. a mounting or frame having a piece of metal (as in a ring or jewellery) that holds a gem in place. 7. the music to which the words of a poem, song, etc are set. 8. a set of cutlery and other accessory for one person at a table. |
| Set | phr | "Setting a Hen" - giving a hen a certain number of eggs (a sitting) to hatch. |
| Set | phr | "Setting of the Moon, Sun" - their sinking below the horizon. |
| Setting board | n | Rounded piece of wood with a depression down the centre, used for setting out butterflies, etc for butterflies for preservation. |
| Setting-stick | n | (Printing) a piece of metal with a rim on the back and on one end and fitted with a movable bar, used for setting type, a composing-stick. |
| Settle | n | A bench with a high back and arms, and often with a box fitted below the seat.. |
| Settle | vb | To put in order, establish, make firm or secure. 2. to bring to an end an argument or dispute, usu. by agreement. 3. to come to rest, sit, subside. 4. of water, to clear or transparent again after muddying. 5. to take up residence, abode or occupy. 6. to take possession, settle and develops a region; to colonize. |
| Settle | phr | "After the Dust has Settled" - when sufficient time has passed. |
| Settle | phr | "Settle an Old Score" - avenge oneself (for past wrongs). |
| Settle | phr | "Settle Back" - lean comfortably back in one's chair. |
| Settle | phr | "Settle Down" - to become established in a permanent job. 2. to become tranquil, calm, peaceful. 3. seat oneself comfortably (usually for some, quiet, long activity). 3. marry, and begin the routine stable life sometimes associated with that state. |
| Settle | phr | "Settle for (Something or Someone)" - accept something or someone in a marriage or relationship reluctantly or as a compromise. 2. ready to accept something simple , undemanding etc, because one has modest tastes or lacking in ambition etc. |
| Settle | phr | "Settle In" - become established or settle into in a new place and make oneself comfortable or at home. |
| Settle | phr | "Settle On" - decide or agree to take, buy, accept, use a date, rendezvous, meeting, house, car, partner etc. 3. give, leave money, property under the terms of a will. |
| Settle | phr | "Settle Something on Somebody" - (formally) donate something to somebody. |
| Settle | phr | "Settle Up with (Somebody)" - pay an amount, debt one owns before leaving a hotel, restaurant, medical center etc, . 2, finally arrange a matter. 2. get a revenge on. |
| Settle | phr | "Settle Upon" - o decide something over other options. 2. to settle on. |
| Settle | phr | "Settle With" - punish someone for an injury suffered. 2. get even with; avenge a wrong. 3. square one's accounts. |
| Settle-bed | n | A piece of furniture so constructed, that folded it can be used as a couch, and unfolded as a bed. |
| Settler | n | One who settles, becomes fixed or establishes. 2. a colonist, emperialist. 3. a negiotator who settles disputes and confrontation. 4. that which settles and finishes. 5. an agreement that settles a dispute or argument. 6. a blow or action that ends and usu. wins a boxing-match or an sporting or contest. 7. a worker in a betting-shop who calculates the winnings. 8. a vessel or tub in which crushed-up ore is allowed to sit or settle. |
| Settling | n | The act of making a settlement. 2. the act of subsiding. 3. the adjusting of matters in a dispute. 4. in plural: dregs, lees, sediment. |
| Settling day | n | The fortnightly pay day on the US stock exchange. |
| Set-to | n | A talking to; a dressing down. 2. a fight, contest, an attack both physically and verbally. 3. a heated debate, fight, argument. 4. a drinking bout. |
| Set-up | n | The way something is arranged or organized. 2. an organization, structuring of a business, department, household.. 3. a conspiracy or trick whereby a person is caused to incriminate him or her self to look foolish; or a criminal is caught red-handed. 3. physique, physical build, make-up.4. carriage of a boy, bearing. |
| Seven | n | One more than six, or three less than ten. 2. the sum of three units and four units. 3. a symbol of this (7, V11). 4. a size denoted by seven. 5. the time of seven o'clock. 5. a playing card withh seven pips. |
| Seven | adj | That amount to seven. |
| Seven | phr | "Be at Sixes and Sevens" - be confused, concerned and undecided. |
| Seven | phr | "Seven Deadly Sins" - the sins of pride, covetous, lust, anger, gluttony, envy and sloth. |
| Seven | phr | "Seven Wonders of the World" - seven buildings and monuments regarded in antiquity as specially remarkable. |
| Sevendele | n | A seventh part or seven-deal. |
| Sevenfold | adj | Seven-times or sevensithe. 2. seven times as much or as many. 3. repeated seven times; increased to seven times the size. |
| Seven-fold | adv | Seven times as much or often. |
| Seven-foldness | n | The state or condition of being sevenfold. |
| Seven-hilled | adj | As in seven-hilled burgh: an epithet for Rome. |
| Seven hundred | n | The cardinal number six ninety-nine and seven hundred and one. |
| Sevenish | adj | Any time close to seven o'clock. |
| Seven-leaves | n | The sept-foil. |
| Sevenness | n | The property of being seven in number. |
| Seven-night | n | Sennight. |
| Sevens | n | An abbreviated form of rugby: 'seven-a-side'. |
| Sevenscore | n | The number (140). |
| Seven Seas | n | The oceans of the world: the Arctic, Antarctic, North Pacific, South Pacific, North atlantic, South Atlantic and Indian Ocean. |
| Seven Sisters | n | The Pleiades. |
| Sevensithe | adj | Seven times. |
| Seven Sleepers Day | n | In Germany, June 27th is Sebenschlaertag (Seven Sleeper's Day). The weather on that day iss supposed to determine for the next seven weeks. |
| Sevensome | adj | Composed of seven units or things. |
| Seven Stars | n | The Pleiades or The Great Bear. |
| Seven Sorrows | n | Her (Mary's Sorrows) Simeon's prophecy, the Flight into Egypt, the loss of the Holy Child, on meeting Our Lord on the way to Calvary, the Crucifixion, the Taking Down from the Cross, and the Entombment. Her festival is 8th September. |
| Seventeen | n | One more than sixteen, or seven more than ten. 2. a symbol for this (17 et al). 3. as ize denoted by seventeen. |
| Seventh | adj | The ordinal form of the number seven. |
| Seventh | phr | Be in Seventh Heaven" - the highest abode or conition of happiness. 2. the highest heaven according to various ancient systems of astronomy or in certain theologies. |
| Seventh heaven | n | The highest abode or conition of happiness. 2. the highest heaven according to various ancient systems of astronomy or in certain theologies. |
| Seventieth | adj | The ordinal form of the number seventy. |
| Seventies | n | (In plural) the numbers from 70 to 79, esp. the years of the century, or of a persons life. |
| Seventy | n | The product of seven and ten. 2. a symbol for this (70). 3. (in plural) the numbers from 70 to 79, esp. the years of the century, or of a persons life. |
| Seventy | adj | That amount of seventy. |
| Seven Wonders of the World | n | Any of the several lists of remarkable natural or man-made places. 2. "Seven Wonders of the Ancient World": Seven man-made structures that were listed and accepted as the greatest such in the vicinity of the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East. |
| Seven year itch | n | Supposed tendency to infidelity by some partners around and after seven years of marriage. 2. boredom, restlessness, desire for sexual variety that is supposed to set in about seven years into a relationship. |
| Sew | n | Juice, gravy, a seasoned dish. 2. moisture; humors. 3. pottage, broth, mess of pottage. 3. a delicacy 4. elesew. |
| Sew | vb | Put, fasten or join together by stitching, needle work, or a sewing machine. 2. to do needlework. 3. to make clothes and clothing by sewing. 4. to enclose by sewing up, eg. potatoes into a bag. |
| Sew | vb | To drain a pond for taking fish |
| Sew | phr | "Sew Down" - with needle and thread, fasten completely to the surface something which is partly attached to it. |
| Sew | phr | "Sew On" - attach accessories to a garment with needle and thread. |
| Sew | phr | "Sew Up" - join, seal an opening by drawing the edges together with thread. 2. bring to a desired conclusion or condition; complete or finalized satisfactorily, ensure a favorable outcome of a deal. 3. organize, arrange , settle a deal etc., for the purposes of trade. |
| Sewing | n | Material or work to be sewn. |
| Sewing room | n | A room in a home set aside for sewing. |
| Sexhindman | n | A thane of the middle class, assessed at 600 hundred shillings. 2. a sixhyndeman. |
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