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▪ I. † segge1 poet. Obs. Forms: 1 secg, 3 sæg, 3–4 (6) seg, 3–6 segge, 4–6 sege, 4 segg, (seegge, 5 seege, seghe, seige), 6 sedge. [OE. sęcg = OS. segg, ON. segg-r:—OTeut. *sagjo-z.] A man. (In the 16th c. only contemptuous.)
Beowulf 208 (Gr.) Secg wisade, laᵹucræftiᵹ mon, land⁓ᵹemyrcu. Ibid. 633 Þa ic on holm ᵹestah, sæbat ᵹesæt mid minra secga ᵹedriht. c1205Lay. 7991 Heo ledden in heore scipen..moni forhfulne sæg sare iwunded. Ibid. 5109 Þer weore segge songe [c 1275 gleomenne songe]. Ibid. 20854 Þene siȝeð him to segges vnder beorȝen. 1340–70Alex. & Dind. 165 Of þe seggus þat he sai bi-ȝonde þe side stronde. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xx. 333 ‘I am a surgien’, seide þe segge ‘and salues can make’. a1400Morte Arth. 1574, I had leuer see hym synke one the salte strandez, Than the seegge ware seke, that es so sore woundede. c1470Henry Wallace iii. 53 Robert Boid, quhilk wald no langar bide Vndir thrillage of segis of Ingland. c1475Rauf Coilȝear 713 Thair was seruit in that saill Seigis semelie. 1508Dunbar Flyting 13 For and I flyt sum sege for schame sould sink. 15..Scot. Field 113 in Chetham Soc. Misc. II, Then sumoned he his sedges, in sondry places. 1557N. Grimalde Death Zoroas 98 in Tottel's Misc. (Arb.) 122 Wherwith a hole route came of souldiours stern, And all in peeces hewed the silly seg. 1567Drant Horace, A.P. B vij, Through this and such the sillie segge lay plasde in puddle still. Ibid., Ep. i. ii. C iij, Duke Nestor, sillie carkinge segge. ▪ II. † segge2 Obs. rare—1. [? a. OF. seiche (:—L. sēpia).] ? A cuttle-fish.
c1300[see lax n.1] ▪ III. segge obs. form of say v.1, sedge, siege. |