mature.

The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark,
When neither is attended; and, I think,
The nightingale, if she should sing by day,
When ev'ry goose is cackling, would be thought
No better a musician than the wren:

How many things by season season'd are
To their right praise and true perfection! Shak、
Who in want a hollow friend doth try,

Directly seasons him his enemy.
Shakspeare.
We charge you, that you have contriv'd to take
From Rome all season'd office, and to wind
Yourself unto a power tyrannical. Shakspeare.
The archers of his guard shot two arrows,
every man together, against an inch board of
well seasoned timber.
Hoyward.

His plenteous stores do season'd timber send; Thither the brawny carpenters repair. Dryden. A man should harden and season himself beyond the degree of cold wherein he lives. Addis. TO SEASON. v. n. To become mature; to grow fit for any purpose.

Moxon.

Carpenters rough plane boards for flooring, that they may set them by to season. SEASONABLE adj. [saison, Fr.] Opportune; happening or done at a proper time; proper as to time.

Mercy is seasonable in the time of affliction, as clouds of rain in the time of drought. Ecclus. If ever it was seasonable to preach courage in the despised abused cause of Christ, it is now, when his truths are reformed into nothing, when the hands and hearts of his faithful ministers are weakened.

South.

SEASONABLY. adv. [from seasonable.] Properly with respect to time.

This is that to which I would most earnestly, most seasonably, advise you all.

Spratt. SE'ASONER. n.s. [from To season.] He who seasons or gives a relish to any thing.

SEASONING. n. s. [from season.] That which is added to any thing to give it a relish.

Breads we have of several grains, with divers kinds of leavenings and seasonings; so that some do extremely move appetites, and some do nourish so as divers do live of them alone. Bacon. Some abound with words, without any seasoning or taste of matter. Ben Jonson.

one may sit.

The sons of light Hasted, resorting to the summons high, And took their seats.

Miltene

The lady of the leaf ordain'd a feast, And made the lady of the flow'r her guest; When, lo, a bow'r ascended on the plain, With sudden seats ordain'd, and large for either Dryden.

train.

2. Chair of state; throne; post of authority; tribunal.

With due observance of thy goodly seat, Great Agamemnon, Nestor shall supply The latest words.

Sbakspeare.

Thus we debase The nature of our seats, and make the rabble Call our cares fears. Shakspeare. Whatsoever be the manner of the world's end, most certain it is an end it shall have, and as certain that then we shall appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that every man may receive according to that which he hath done in his body, whether it be good or evil. Hakerwill. 3. Mansion; residence; dwelling; abode.

It were enough in reason to succour with victuals, and other helps, a vast multitude, compelled by necessity to seek a new seat, or to direct them unto a country able to receive them. Raleigh. O earth, how like to heav'n! if not preferr'd Most justly, seat worthier of gods, as built. With second thoughts, reforming what was old. Milton

In Alba he shall fix his royal seat; And, born a king, a race of kings beget. Dryd. Has winter caus'd thee, friend, to change thy

It followeth now that we find out the seat of Eden; for in it was Paradise by God planted. Raleigh.

A church by Strand-bridge, and two bishops houses, were pulled down to make a seat for his new building. Hayward.

He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat, committeth himself to prison.

Bacon.

The fittest and the easiest to be drawn
To our society, and to aid the war,
The rather for their seat, being next borderers
On Italy.
Ben Jonson.

To SEAT. v. a. [from the noun.]
1. To place on seats; to cause to sit down.
The guests were no sooner seated but they
Arbuthnet.

entered into a warm debate.

2. To place in a post of authority, or place of distinction.

Thus high was king Richard seated. Shaksp. Not Babylon, Nor great Alcairo, such magnificence Equall'd in all their glories, to inshrine Belus or Serapis their gods, or seat Their kings.

Many vegetable substances are used by mankind as seasonings, which abound with a highly exalted aromatick oil; as thyme and savory. Arbuthnot.

SEAT. n. s. [sedes, Lat. sett, old German. Skinner.]

Milton.

A spirit of envy or opposition makes mankind uneasy to see others of the same species seated above them in a sort of perfection. Pope.

tion; to settle.

Should one family or one thousand hold possession of all the southern undiscovered continent, because they had seated themselves in Nova Guiana?

Raleigh.

By no means build too near a great neighbour,

To SECE'DE. v. n. [secedo, Latin.] Το withdraw from fellowship in any affair. SECE'DER. N. s. [from secede.] One who discovers his disapprobation of any proceedings by withdrawing himself.

To SECE'RN. v. a. [secerno, Lat.] To separate finer from grosser matter; to make the separation of substances in the body.

Birds are better meat than beasts, because their flesh doth assimilate more finely, and seserneth more subtilly.

Bacon.

The pituite or mucus secerned in the nose and windpipe is not an excrementitious but a laudable humour, necessary for defending those parts, from which it is secerned, from excoriaArbuthnot. tions.

SECE'SSION.n.s. [secessio, Latin.] 1. The act of departing.

The accession of bodies upon, or secession thereof from, the earth's surface, perturb not the equilibration of either hemisphere. Brorun. 2. The act of withdrawing from councils or actions.

SE'CLE. n. 5. [siecle, Fr. seculum, Latin.] A century. Not in use.

Of a man's age, part he lives in his father's lifetime, and part after his son's birth; and thereupon it is wont to be said that three generations make one secle, or hundred years, in the genealogies. Hammond.

To SECLU'DE. v. a. [secludo, Lat.] To confine from; to shut up apart; to exclude.

None is secluded from that function, of any degree, state, or calling. Whitgift.

Some parts of knowledge God has thought fit to seclude from us; to fence them not only, as he did the interdicted tree, by combination, but with difficulties and impossibilities. Decay of Piety.

The number of birds described may be near five hundred, and of fishes, secluding shell-fish, as many; but if the shell-fish be taken in, more than six times the number.

Ray.

Inclose your tender plants in your conservatory, secluding all entrance of cold. Let eastern tyrants from the light of heaven Seclude their bosom slaves.

Evelyn. Thomson.

SE'COND. adj. [second, Fr. secundus, Lat. It is observable, that the English have no ordinal of two; as the Latins, and the nations deriving from them, have none of duo. What the Latins call se

grace,

Keep their first lustre, and maintain their place, Not second yet to any other face. Dryden.

Not these huge bolts, by which the giants slain Lay overthrown on the Phlegrean plain; 'Twas of a lesser mould and lighter weight; They call it thunder of a second rate. Addison.

By a sad train of miseries alone Distinguish'd long, and second now to none. Pope. Persons of second rate merit in their own country, like birds of passage, thrive here, and fly off when their employments are at an end. Swift. SECOND-HAND. n. s. Possession received from the first possessor. SECOND-HAND is sometimes used adjectively. Not original; not primary. Some men build so much upon authorities, they have but a second-band or implicit knowledge.

Locke.

They are too proud to cringe to second-band favourites in a great family. Swift to Gay. At SECOND-HAND.adv. In imitation; in the second place of order; by transmission; not primarily; not originally.

They pelted them with satires and epigrams, which perhaps had been taken up at first only to make their court, and at second-band to flatter those who had flattered their king.

Temple. In imitation of preachers at second-band, I shall transcribe from Bruyere a piece of raillery.

Spurious virtue in a maid; A virtue but at second-band.

Tatler.

Swift.

ŞE'COND. n. S. [second, Fr. from the adjective.]

1. One who accompanies another in a
duel, to direct or defend him.
Their seconds minister an oath,
Which was indifferent to then both,
That on their knightly faith and troth
No magick them supplied;
And sought them that they had no charms,
Wherewith to work each other's harms,
But came with simple open arms

To have their causes tried. Drayton. Their first encounters were very furious, till after some toil and bloodshed they were parted by the seconds. Addison.

Personal brawls come in as seconds to finish the dispute of opinion. Watts.

2. One who supports or maintains; a supporter; a maintainer.

He propounded the duke as a main cause of divers infirmities in the state, being sure enough of seconds after the first onset. Wotton.

Courage, when it is only a second to injustice, and falls on without provocation, is a disadvantage to a character. Collier.

3. A SECOND Minute, the second division

of an hour by sixty; the sixtieth part of a minnte.

Four flames of an equal magnitude will be kept alive the space of sixteen second minutes, though one of these frames alone, in the same vessel, will not last above twenty-five or at most thirty seconds.

Wilkins.

Sounds move above 1140 English feet in a second minute of time, and in seven or eight minutes of time about 100 English miles. Locke. To SECOND. v. a. [seconder, Fr. secundo, Lat. from the noun.1

1. To support; to forward; to assist ; to come in after the act as a maintainer.

The authors of the former opinion were presently seconded by other wittier and better learned, who being loth that the form of church polity, which they sought to bring in, should be otherwise than in the highest degree accounted of, took first an exception against the difference between church polity and matters of necessity to salvation. Hooker.

Though we here fall down, We have supplies to second our attempt; If they miscarry, theirs shall second them. Shaks. I to be the power of Israel's God Avow, and challenge Dagon to the test, Off'ring to combat thee, his champion bold, With th' utmost of his godhead seconded. Milt.

Familiar Ovid tender thoughts inspires, And nature seconds all his soft desires. Rescom.

If in company you offer something for a jest, and nobody seconds you in your laughter, you may condemn their taste; but in the mean time you make a very indifferent figure. Swift.

In human works, tho' labour'd on with pain, A thousand movements scarce one purpose gain; In God's, one single can its ends produce, Yet serves to second too some other use. Pope. 2. To follow in the next place. You some permit

To second ills with ills.

Sbakspeare.

Having formerly discoursed of a maritimal voyage, I think it not impertinent to second the same with some necessary relations concerning the royal navy. Raleigh.

He saw his guileful act
By Eve, though all unweeting, seconded
Upon her husband.

Milton.

Sin is seconded with sin; and a man seldom commits one sin to please, but he commits another to defend himself.

South.

It is primarily generated out of the effusiori of melancholick blood, or secondarily out of the dregs and remainder of a phlegmonous or cædematick tumour. Harvey. SECONDARINESS. n. s. [from secondary.] The state of being secondary.

That which is peculiar and discriminative must be taken from the primariness and secondariness of the perception. Norris. SECONDARY. adj. [secondarius, Lat.] 1. Not primary; not of the first intention. Two are the radical differences: the secondary differences are as four. Bacon.

2. Succeeding to the first; subordinate. Wheresoever there is moral right on the one hand, no secondary right can discharge it. L'Estrange.

Gravitation is the powerful cement which holds together this magnificent structure of the world, which stretcheth the north over the empty space, and hangeth the earth upon nothing, to transfer the words of Job from the first and real cause to the secondary. Bentley.

3. Not of the first order or rate.

If the system had been fortuitously formed by the convening matter of a chaos, how is it conceivable that all the planets, both primary and secondary, should revolve the same way, from the west to the east, and that in the same plane? Bentley.

4. Acting by transmission or deputation. That we were form'd then, say'st thou, and the work

Of secondary hands, by task transferr'd
From father to his son?

As in a watch's fine machine,
Though many artful springs are seen,
The added movements which declare
How full the moon, how old the year,
Derive their secondary pow'r

Miltom

From that which simply points the hour. Prier. 5. A secondary fever is that which arises after a crisis, or the discharge of some morbid matter, as after the declension of the smallpox or measles. Quincy. SECONDARY.n.s. (from the adjective.] A delegate; a deputy. SECONDLY. adv. [from second.] In the second place.

First, she hath disobeyed the law; and secondly, trespassed against her husband. Ecclesiasticus. First, metals are more durable than plants; and secondly, they are more solid and hard. Bacon. The house of commons in Ireland, and, secondly, the privy council, addressed his majesty against these half-pence.

Swift. SECOND-RATE.n.s. [second and rate.] I. The second order in dignity or value.

They call it thunder of the second-rate. Addison. 2. [It is sometimes used adjectively.] Of the second order: a colloquial licence. He was not then a second-rate champion, as they would have him, who think fortitude the first virtue in a hero. Dryden.

SE'CRECY.n. s. [from secret.] 1. Privacy; state of being hidden; con

cealment.

That's not suddenly to be perform'd, But with advice and silent secrecy. Shakspeare.

The lady Anne, Whom the king hath in secrecy long married, This day was view'd in open as his queen. Shak.

In Nature's book of infinite secrecy

A little can I read.

Shakspeare.

secondarily.

view.