Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. obsolete barren; unprofitable
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Barren; unprofitable. See Rent seck, under rent.
Etymologies
- French sec dry, from Latin siccua. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Labels: chong seck chim, malaysian authors, my reviews posted by bibliobibuli at 9: 36 AM”
“Them homuh-seck-shuls make me feel all funny inside…kinda like the underwear section in the Sears and Roebuck catalog.”
“If one of my people get seck or wtunded by V.C. Sgt.”
“Thae Quakers are what we micht scarcely opine frae first principles, a maist poetical Christian seck ....”
“I could raise a seck o 'seed potates like yon I'd sooin' mak my fortune.”
“Th 'chicken raised sich a dust wi flutterin abaat wol he wor ommost chooaked an blinded, but he grabbed it an wor sooin aght, lukkin as if somedy'd been shakin a flaar seck ovver his heead.”
Yorkshire Tales. Third Series Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect
“Wasna it an ill trick o' Joseph, gran'mither, to put that cup, an 'a siller ane tu, into the mou' o 'Benjamin's seck?”
“For hoo lang are ye goin 't' continue settin 'mopin' and broodin 'like a seck sheep?”
“But I tould her, by the howky, dat starrve or no starrve, it shud niver be sid dat Dochtor Jonathan Wuddy had tarned away a seck bodee fram”
Eoneguski, or, the Cherokee Chief: A Tale of Past Wars. Vol. I.
“In the proper exercise of this last principle, man regards God, not only as a superior, but as a kind superior -- as a generous sovereign, who has annexed a promise to every command -- as a good law-giver and judge, who will reward them that diligently seek him, and punish them who only seck themselves.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘seck’.
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Rent
Here I'm attempting to list words which have to do with what the Century Dictionary defines as "a definite compensation or return reserved by a lease, to be made periodically, or fixed with referen...
rent, Rent, economic rent, rent-service, rent-charge, fee-farm rent, rent-seck, seck, rent seck, barren rent, rents of assize, quit-rents and 32 more...
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The word collector
My collection of words that are intriguing, but don't fit my other lists.
snailery, aplasia, postulant, aigrette, caravel, frigate, capeskin, suffusion, schist, varlet, sepulchral, anisotropy and 317 more...
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