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3. See that ye fall not out by the way.Gen. xlv. 24. Let me see, Let us see, are used to express consideration, or to introduce the particular consideration of a subject, or some scheme or calculation. Cassio's a proper man, let me see now, -Shak. See is sometimes used in the imperative for look, or behold. "See. see! upon the banks of Boyne he stands." Halifax. Seed And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself.Gen. i. 11. The seed proper has an outer and an inner coat, and within these the kernel or nucleus. The kernel is either the embryo alone, or the embryo inclosed in the albumen, which is the material for the nourishment of the developing embryo. The scar on a seed, left where the stem parted from it, is called the hilum, and the closed orifice of the ovule, the micropyle. Praise of great acts he scatters as a seed,Waller. In this sense the word is applied to one person, or to any number collectively, and admits of the plural form, though rarely used in the plural. Of mortal seed they were not held.Waller. |
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