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  • English Word Seintuary Definition Sanctuary.
  • English Word Seirfish Definition Same as Seerfish.
  • English Word Seirospore Definition One of several spores arranged in a chain as in certain algae of the genus Callithamnion.
  • English Word Seise Definition See Seize.
  • English Word Seisin Definition See Seizin.
  • English Word Seismal Definition Of or pertaining to an earthquake; caused by an earthquake.
  • English Word Seismic Definition Alt. of Seismal
  • English Word Seismograph Definition An apparatus for registering the shocks and undulatory motions of earthquakes.
  • English Word Seismographic Definition Of or pertaining to a seismograph; indicated by a seismograph.
  • English Word Seismography Definition A writing about, or a description of, earthquakes.
  • English Word Seismography Definition The art of registering the shocks and undulatory movements of earthquakes.
  • English Word Seismological Definition Of or pertaining to seismology.
  • English Word Seismology Definition The science of earthquakes.
  • English Word Seismometer Definition An instrument for measuring the direction, duration, and force of earthquakes and like concussions.
  • English Word Seismometric Definition Of or pertaining to seismometry, or seismometer; as, seismometric instruments; seismometric measurements.
  • English Word Seismometry Definition The mensuration of such phenomena of earthquakes as can be expressed in numbers, or by their relation to the coordinates of space.
  • English Word Seismoscope Definition A seismometer.
  • English Word Seity Definition Something peculiar to one's self.
  • English Word Seizable Definition That may be seized.
  • English Word Seize Definition To fall or rush upon suddenly and lay hold of; to gripe or grasp suddenly; to reach and grasp.
  • English Word Seize Definition To take possession of by force.
  • English Word Seize Definition To invade suddenly; to take sudden hold of; to come upon suddenly; as, a fever seizes a patient.
  • English Word Seize Definition To take possession of by virtue of a warrant or other legal authority; as, the sheriff seized the debtor's goods.
  • English Word Seize Definition To fasten; to fix.
  • English Word Seize Definition To grap with the mind; to comprehend fully and distinctly; as, to seize an idea.
  • English Word Seize Definition To bind or fasten together with a lashing of small stuff, as yarn or marline; as, to seize ropes.
  • English Word Seized Definition of Seize
  • English Word Seizer Definition One who, or that which, seizes.
  • English Word Seizin Definition Possession; possession of an estate of froehold. It may be either in deed or in law; the former when there is actual possession, the latter when there is a right to such possession by construction of law. In some of the United States seizin means merely ownership.
  • English Word Seizin Definition The act of taking possession.