Word Meanings - SIGHT-SEEING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Engaged in, or given to, seeing sights; eager for novelties or curiosities.

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• SEEMINGNESS
  Semblance; fair appearance; plausibility. Sir K. Digby.
• SEERSUCKER
  A light fabric, originally made in the East Indies, of silk and linen, usually having alternating stripes, and a slightly craped or puckered surface; also, a cotton fabric of similar appearance.
• SEEK
  Sick. Chaucer.
• SEEMING
  1. Appearance; show; semblance; fair appearance; speciousness. These keep Seeming and savor all the winter long. Shak. 2. Apprehension; judgment. Chaucer. Nothing more clear unto their seeming. Hooker. His persuasive words, impregned With reason,
• SEEDLESS
  Without seed or seeds.
• SEEDCOD
  A seedlip.
• SEETHER
  A pot for boiling things; a boiler. Like burnished gold the little seether shone. Dryden.
• SEED-LAC
  A species of lac. See the Note under Lac.
• SEEL
  1. Good fortune; favorable opportunity; prosperity. "So have I seel". Chaucer. 2. Time; season; as, hay seel.
• ENGAGING
  Tending to draw the attention or affections; attractive; as, engaging manners or address. -- En*ga"ging*ly, adv. -- En*ga"ging*ness, n. Engaging and disengaging gear or machinery, that in which, or by means of which, one part is alternately brought
• SEEL; SEELING
  The rolling or agitation of a ship in a sterm. Sandys.
• ENGAGEDNESS
  The state of being deeply interested; earnestness; zeal.
• SEEDLING
  A plant reared from the seed, as distinguished from one propagated by layers, buds, or the like.
• SEE
  1. A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised. Chaucer. Jove laughed on Venus from his sovereign see. Spenser. 2. Specifically: The seat of episcopal power; a diocese; the jurisdiction of a bishop; as, the see of New York. The
• SEEK-SORROW
  One who contrives to give himself vexation. Sir P. Sidney.
• SEEDNESS
  Seedtime. Shak.
• SEETH
  imp. of Seethe. Chaucer.
• SEELY
  See SPENSER
• SEEMINGLY
  In appearance; in show; in semblance; apparently; ostensibly. This the father seemingly complied with. Addison.
• MESEEMS
  It seems to me.
• WORMSEED
  Any one of several plants, as Artemisia santonica, and Chenopodium anthelminticum, whose seeds have the property of expelling worms from the stomach and intestines. Wormseed mustard, a slender, cruciferous plant having small lanceolate leaves.
• UNSEEMLY
  Not seemly; unbecoming; indecent. An unseemly outbreak of temper. Hawthorne.
• REENGAGEMENT
  A renewed or repeated engagement.
• LOPSEED
  A perennial herb , having slender seedlike fruits.
• GAPESEED
  Any strange sight. Wright.
• BESEECH
  1. To ask or entreat with urgency; to supplicate; to implore. I beseech you, punish me not with your hard thoughts. Shak. But Eve . . . besought his peace. Milton. Syn. -- To beg; to crave. -- To Beseech, Entreat, Solicit, Implore, Supplicate.
• BESEEMING
  1. Appearance; look; garb. I . . . did company these three in poor beseeming. Shak. 2. Comeliness. Baret.
• UPSEEK
  To seek or strain upward. "Upseeking eyes suffused with . . . tears." Southey.
• BERSEEM
  An Egyptian clover extensively cultivated as a forage plant and soil-renewing crop in the alkaline soils of the Nile valley, and now introduced into the southwestern United States. It is more succulent than other clovers or than alfalfa. Called
• UNFORESEE
  To fail to foresee. Bp. Hacket.
• HAGSEED
  The offspring of a hag. Shak.
• BESEEN
  1. Seen; appearing. 2. Decked or adorned; clad. Chaucer. 3. Accomplished; versed. Spenser.
• FORESEE
  1. To see beforehand; to have prescience of; to foreknow. A prudent man foreseeth the evil. Prov. xxii. 3. 2. To provide. Great shoals of people, which go on to populate, without foreseeing means of life. Bacon.
• RESEEK
  To seek again. J. Barlow.
• OUTSEE
  To see beyond; to excel in cer
• UNSEEM
  Not to seem. Shak.