Word Meanings - SIGHT-SEEING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Engaged in, or given to, seeing sights; eager for novelties or curiosities.
Related words: (words related to SIGHT-SEEING)
- 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A light fabric, originally made in the East Indies, of silk and linen, usually having alternating stripes, and a slightly craped or puckered surface; also, a cotton fabric of similar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.