searn.¹

Brit.

/sɪə/, U.S.

/sɪ(ə)r/

Forms: 1500s serre, 1500s–1600s seare, 1600s saer, 1800s sere, scear, sear.

Etymology: Of obscure history. Commonly regarded as < Old French serre grasp, something that grasps or holds fast, < serrer to grasp, hold fast, press close, representing late Latin serāre to bar, bolt, < Latin sera bar for a door. The French word, however, has apparently not been found with this specific meaning; in the sense ‘foot of a bird of prey’ (sere n.¹) it is still current, and in Old French it also meant a lock or bolt.

a. A portion of a gun-lock which engages with the notches of the tumbler in order to keep the hammer at full or half cock, and which is released (at full cock) by pressure upon the trigger.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > parts and fittings of firearms > [noun] > lock > sear

sear1596

1596 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent (rev. ed.) 452 Euen as a pistole that is ready charged and bent, will flie off by and by, if a man do but touch the Seare.

1622 F. Markham Five Decades Epist. of Warre i. ix. 35 Let the Cocks and Trickers be nimble to goe and come; for as concerning Seares, they are vtterly out of date.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xviii. 135/1 The seuerall parts of a Fire lock... The saer or dog.

1802 Trans. Soc. Arts 20 246 Further motion being prevented by a notch in the small sear.

1864 H. W. Wheelwright Spring & Summer in Lapland 200 It [a gun-lock] seemed to be altogether destitute of a scear, but with a famous mainspring.

1898 Proc. Soc. Antiq. 17 Mar. 109 The cock is caught by the nose of the sear projecting from the lock-plate.

1903 M. G. Gerard Leaves from Diaries x. 367 The bent of the sear had broken—the piece being at half-cock.

b. tickle or light of the sear (fig.): easily made to ‘go off’, readily yielding to any impulse (cf. quot. 1596 at sense a above). So †to go glib upon the sear.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > light-mindedness > [adjective]

lightlyeOE

lightOE

lightsomea1425

flying1509

light-minded?1529

tickle or light of the sear?1530

giddya1547

light-headed1549

gidded1563

giddish1566

fling-brained1570

tickle-headed1583

toyish1584

shallow1594

leger1598

corky1601

barmy1602

airy1609

unfirma1616

unballast1622

cork-brained1630

unballasted1644

kickshawa1655

unserious1655

unstudious1663

flirtishc1665

caper-witteda1670

shatter-headedc1686

corky-brained1699

flea-lugged1724

halokit1724

shatter-brained1727

scattered-brained1747

shatter-witted1775

flippant1791

butterfly-brained1796

scatter-brained1804

gossamer1806

shandy-pated1806

shattery1820

barmy-brained1823

papilionaceous1832

flirtatious1834

flirty1840

Micawberish1859

scatterheaded1867

flibberty-gibberty1879

thistledown1897

shatter-pated1901

trivial-minded1905

scattery1924

fizgig1928

ditzy1979

the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [adjective] > capricious or whimsical

startfulmood?a1300

wildc1350

volage?a1366

gerfulc1374

geryc1386

wild-headeda1400

skittishc1412

gerish1430

shittle1440

shittle-witted1448

runningc1449

volageous1487

glaikit1488

fantasious1490

giggish1523

tickle or light of the sear?1530

fantastical1531

wayward1531

wantona1538

peevish1539

light-headed1549

humoral1573

unstaid1579

shittle-headed1580

toy-headed1581

fangled1587

humorous1589

choiceful1591

toyish1598

tricksy1598

skip-brain1603

capricious1605

humoursome1607

planetary1607

vertiginous1609

whimsieda1625

ingiddied1628

whimsy1637

toysome1638

cocklec1640

mercurial1647

garish1650

maggoty1650

kicksey-winseya1652

freakish1653

humourish1653

planetic1653

whimsical1653

shittle-braineda1655

freaking1663

maggoty-headed1667

maggot-pated1681

hoity-toity1690

maggotish1693

maggot-headeda1695

whimsy-headed1699

fantasque1701

crotchetly1702

quixotic1718

volatile1719

holloweda1734

conundrumical1743

flighty1768

fly-away1775

dizzy1780

whimmy1785

shy1787

whimming1787

quirky1789

notional1791

tricksome1815

vagarish1819

freakful1820

faddy1824

moodish1827

mawky1837

erratic1841

rockety1843

quirkish1848

maggoty-pated1850

crotchetya1854

freaksome1854

faddish1855

vagrom1882

fantasied1883

vagarisome1883

on-and-offish1888

tricksical1889

freaky1891

hobby-horsical1893

quirksome1896

temperamental1907

up and down1960

untogether1969

fanciful-

fantastic-

?1530 Dialogue Comen Secretary & Ielowsy She that is fayre and lusty yonge,..Thynke ye her tayle is not lyght of the seare.

?1556 Dialogue Commune Secretary & Jalowsye (new ed.) She that is fayre, lusty, and yonge,..Thynke ye her tayle is not lyght of the seare.

1583 H. Howard Defensatiue sig. Hiv Discouering the moods and humours of the vulgar sort,..to be so loose and tickle of the seare, as there wanted nothing but a leader, of great courage and deepe wisedome to begin the game.

1600 N. Breton Pasquils Fooles-cap (rev. ed.) sig. B2 An idle Mate, Whose tongue goes all too glibbe vpon the seare.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Hamlet (1623) ii. ii. 326 The Clowne shall make those laugh whose lungs are tickled a'th' sere.

Compounds

sear-nose n. the end of the sear which engages with the notches in the tumbler.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > parts and fittings of firearms > [noun] > lock > sear > parts of

sear-spring1688

sear-pin1853

sear-nose1859

sear-pivot1892

1859 Regulations for Musketry Instr. Army 16 The arm of the sear is that part on which the trigger acts to raise the sear-nose out of the full bent of tumbler.

sear-pin n.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > parts and fittings of firearms > [noun] > lock > sear > parts of

sear-spring1688

sear-pin1853

sear-nose1859

sear-pivot1892

1853 A. Ure Dict. Arts (ed. 4) II. 251 The sear-pin.

sear-pivot n. the bolt upon which the sear turns.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > parts and fittings of firearms > [noun] > lock > sear > parts of

sear-spring1688

sear-pin1853

sear-nose1859

sear-pivot1892

1892 W. W. Greener Breech-loader 16 Tumbler and scear pivots.

sear-spring n. a spring which keeps the sear in position, also, in some gun-locks a spring which throws the hammer back to half-cock after a discharge (also attributive in sear-spring cramp, sear-spring-pin).

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > parts and fittings of firearms > [noun] > lock > sear > parts of

sear-spring1688

sear-pin1853

sear-nose1859

sear-pivot1892

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xviii. 135/1 The saer spring or feather spring.

1831 Darwin in Life & Lett. (1887) I. 211 Two sere-springs, four nipples or plugs.

1844 Queen's Regulations & Orders Army 96 (note) One Sear-Spring Cramp, for Arms with back-action Locks.

1892 W. W. Greener Breech-loader 15 The bridle and scear-spring pins.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

searn.²

Brit.

/sɪə/, U.S.

/sɪ(ə)r/

Forms: Also 1500s seare.

Etymology: < sear v.

A mark or impression produced by searing. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > indication > marking > marking to identify > [noun] > mark or impression produced by searing

sear1874

1874 A. O'Shaughnessy Music & Moonlight 122 Her dear wan life is dearer to me keeping The sear upon its whiteness of her fall.

1875 H. E. Manning Internal Mission of Holy Ghost viii. 216 If you had ever been burnt, there would remain the sear of the burn as long as you live.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

searv.

Brit.

/sɪə/, U.S.

/sɪ(ə)r/

Forms: Middle English ser, Middle English–1500s, 1800s sere, Middle English–1700s seer, (1500s cear), 1500s–1600s seare, 1500s– sear.

Etymology: Old English séarian = Old High German (ar-)sôrên < Germanic type *sauræ̂jan , < *sauro- , Old English séar dry, sere adj.¹

1. intransitive. To dry up, to wither away; to become sere. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > dryness > become dry [verb (intransitive)] > become dry or wither

sear?c890

wizenc890

fordrya1000

asearc1000

witherc1400

withera1500

?c890 in Cockayne Shrine 168/22 Grenu [leaf] weaxað..hy eft onginnað searian.

c1430 J. Lydgate Reson & Sensuallyte 2736 Ful of trees..whose fressh beaute and grenesse..Nouther Sere, nor wexen olde.

1496 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (de Worde) i. xxviii. 66/2 Whan other herbes sere and drye up.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 709/2 This tree wyll seere within a yere or twayne.

1878 Scribner's Monthly 16 332/2 As the autumn seared and browned and grayed at last into winter.

1901 A. Austin Royal Homecoming x What Nature feels when Autumn stacks and seres, Or Yule-gusts blow.

a. transitive. To cause to wither, to blight.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > dryness > dry [verb (transitive)] > wither

shrenchc950

sear1412

to sear up1430

wither1555

sweal1881

1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy i. 1655 Eke ȝonge trees to sere, rote and rinde, And afterward make hem, agein kynde, With lusty braunchis blosme and budde newe.

a1557 J. Cheke tr. Gospel St. Matthew (1843) xxi. 19 And y^e fig tree was seered bi and bi.

1561 J. Hollybush tr. H. Brunschwig Most Excellent Homish Apothecarye f. 25^v The same heate dryeth or seereth the stomake.

1785 W. Cowper Task iii. 30 When summer sears the plains.

1816 P. B. Shelley Alastor 18 His scattered hair Sered by the autumn of strange suffering Sung dirges in the wind.

1876 A. C. Swinburne Erechtheus 1459 If no fire of sun or star untimely sear the tender grain.

1896 A. Austin England's Darling iii. i. 65 How often have I crushed their [sc. reeds'] crackling stems, Sered by the wind and manacled in ice.

†b. to sear up: to subject to a process which causes withering, to dry up from the roots. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > dryness > dry [verb (transitive)] > wither

shrenchc950

sear1412

to sear up1430

wither1555

sweal1881

1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1494) viii. xv. D iij b The frutles trees vp seryd to the rote.

1589 R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 97 They cut the branches euery euening, because they are seared vp in the day by the heate of the Sunne.

a. To burn or char (animal tissues) by the application of a hot iron; to cauterize (a wound, the stump of an amputated limb, etc.) in order to destroy virus or prevent the flow of blood.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > cauterizing > cauterize [verb (transitive)]

brandc1440

sear1482

burn1483

cauterize?1541

cauterizate1576

to sear up1602

singe1627

1482 in H. E. Malden Cely Papers (1900) 122 Lette hym [a horse] ron in a parke tyll Hallowtyd and then take hym wpe and ser hym and lette hym stand in the dede of whynter.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 709/2 I sere with a hoote yron, as a smyth or cyrurgien dothe.

1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions i. vi. 107 If [it ware] a wenche, they [Amazons] streighte ceared y^e pappes, that thei might not growe to hindre them in the warres.

1634 J. Canne Necessitie of Separation iii. 132 A chirurgion tryeth all gentle meanes, before launcing, searing, or cutting off.

1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1778 II. 243 Johnson: It is a sad thing for a man..to bleed to death, because he has not fortitude enough to sear the wound, or even to stitch it up.

1831 W. Youatt Horse xii. 227 Preventing bleeding by searing the vessels with a hot iron.

1865 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 2nd Ser. 1 ii. 252 I prefer searing at about eight or ten weeks as a..more humane process than drawing... I have never lost a lamb from searing.

b. figurative. Chiefly after 1 Timothy iv. 2, to render (the conscience) incapable of feeling.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > make emotionally unfeeling [verb (transitive)] > make hard or callous

hardc1325

hardenc1350

engrege1382

endurec1384

indurec1450

indurate1538

obduratea1540

brawn1571

hard heart1581

sear1582

cauterize1587

myrmidonize1593

obdure1598

Gorgonize1609

stonea1616

petrifya1631

petrificate1647

roborate1652

case-harden1687

ossify1803

hard-boil1929

1582 Bible (Rheims) 1 Tim. iv. 2 Having their conscience seared [1611 seared with a hote iron].

1633 J. Ford 'Tis Pitty shee's Whore v. sig. I2 Thy Conscience youth is sear'd.

a1674 T. Traherne Christian Ethicks (1675) 190 They are obdurate and seared that cannot discern and feel The Wound which they inflict on themselves, who grieve and offend their Creator.

1772 H. Mackenzie Man of World i. iii To give firmness to sensibility..without searing its feelings where they led to virtue.

1816 Ld. Byron Fare thee Well xv Sear'd in heart, and lone, and blighted, More than this I scarce can die.

1851 F. W. Robertson Serm. (1863) 4th Ser. xv. 116 Christianity does not sear the human heart; it softens it.

1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) II. viii. 210 A long career of ambition, craft, and despotic rule never utterly seared his conscience.

1879 H. Spencer Data of Ethics xiv. §93. 245 The destructive activities carried on against external enemies sear it [sympathy].

c. to sear up: to close (a wound, vein, etc.) by actual cautery. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > cauterizing > cauterize [verb (transitive)]

brandc1440

sear1482

burn1483

cauterize?1541

cauterizate1576

to sear up1602

singe1627

1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions 41 [The Jesuits] haue bespattered with a most dangerous Gangrene, the whole bodie misticall of Christ (which vnlesse it be seared vp with hot irons here in England, wil neuer come at Rome to be soundly cured).

1631 B. Jonson New Inne ii. i. 21 The rogue deserues..To be crop'd with his owne Scizzers..And ha' the stumps sear'd vp with his owne searing candle.

1695 J. Collier Misc. upon Moral Subj. 144 The Vein of Rhetorick was seared up.

1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. iii. 441 Then for the worm of conscience,..they have seared up his mouth with a hot iron that he cannot bite.

1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe III. iv. 382 The political system of Hobbes, like his moral system,..sears up the heart.

†d. To brand, stigmatize. Also figurative. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > indication > marking > marking to identify > be distinctive mark on [verb (transitive)] > put identifying mark on > burn flesh with a hot iron

brandc1440

seara1529

cauterize1591

a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Bi^v And boyes to the pylery gan me plucke..And some bade sere hym with a marke.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) ii. i. 75 Calumnie will seare Vertue it selfe.

a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) ii. i. 173 A divulged shame Traduc'd by odious ballads: my maidens name Seard otherwise.

1638 Brief Relat. 21 Now the Executioner being come, to seare him and cut of his eares, Mr. Prynne spake these words to him [etc.].

1644 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce (ed. 2) 7 Not to suffer the ordinance of his goodnes and favour, through any error to be ser'd and stigmatiz'd upon his servants to their misery and thraldome.

4. In wider sense: To burn, scorch; †to put out (one's eyes) by burning. Also figurative ? Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > punishment > torture > [verb (transitive)] > roast or torture by fire > put out one's eyes by

sear1590

the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > subject or expose to heat or fire [verb (transitive)] > damage or injure by heat or fire > burn or scorch

swithec1220

forscalda1225

scalda1300

broilc1375

toast1398

bysweltc1420

squarken1530

sear1590

torrefy1601

plot1606

reese1618

ustulate1623

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. xi. sig. L2^v The scorching flame sore swinged all his face, And through his armour all his body seard.

1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 70 To the intent that..he might with the bright reflection of his [sc. the sun's] beamy radiation, seare out hys eyes.

1620 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Phylaster ii. 25 All the Court shall whoote thee through the Court, fling rotten orrenges: Make reball rymes, and seare thy name with candles vpon wals.

1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iii. 349 Tophet..where children were offered to Moloch, searing them to death with his burning imbracements.

1652 T. Gataker Antinomianism 8 Poor souls for fear of searing their lips, dare not put the cup to their mouths.

1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey II. v. 307 A lofty wood, Whose leafless summits to the skies aspire, Scorch'd by the sun, or sear'd by heav'nly fire.

1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake iii. 110 For, as the flames this symbol sear, His home, the refuge of his fear, A kindred fate shall know.

5. (See quot.).

ΚΠ

1888 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. Searing, the practice of smoothing the surface of the rougher class of foundry patterns with a flat-faced red hot iron, as a substitute for paint or varnish.

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> see also

also refers to : seresearadj.¹

n.¹?1530

n.²1874

v.?c890

单词	sear
释义	searn.¹ Brit. /sɪə/, U.S. /sɪ(ə)r/ Forms: 1500s serre, 1500s–1600s seare, 1600s saer, 1800s sere, scear, sear. Etymology: Of obscure history. Commonly regarded as < Old French serre grasp, something that grasps or holds fast, < serrer to grasp, hold fast, press close, representing late Latin serāre to bar, bolt, < Latin sera bar for a door. The French word, however, has apparently not been found with this specific meaning; in the sense ‘foot of a bird of prey’ (sere n.¹) it is still current, and in Old French it also meant a lock or bolt. a. A portion of a gun-lock which engages with the notches of the tumbler in order to keep the hammer at full or half cock, and which is released (at full cock) by pressure upon the trigger. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > parts and fittings of firearms > [noun] > lock > sear sear1596 1596 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent (rev. ed.) 452 Euen as a pistole that is ready charged and bent, will flie off by and by, if a man do but touch the Seare. 1622 F. Markham Five Decades Epist. of Warre i. ix. 35 Let the Cocks and Trickers be nimble to goe and come; for as concerning Seares, they are vtterly out of date. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xviii. 135/1 The seuerall parts of a Fire lock... The saer or dog. 1802 Trans. Soc. Arts 20 246 Further motion being prevented by a notch in the small sear. 1864 H. W. Wheelwright Spring & Summer in Lapland 200 It [a gun-lock] seemed to be altogether destitute of a scear, but with a famous mainspring. 1898 Proc. Soc. Antiq. 17 Mar. 109 The cock is caught by the nose of the sear projecting from the lock-plate. 1903 M. G. Gerard Leaves from Diaries x. 367 The bent of the sear had broken—the piece being at half-cock. b. tickle or light of the sear (fig.): easily made to ‘go off’, readily yielding to any impulse (cf. quot. 1596 at sense a above). So †to go glib upon the sear. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > light-mindedness > [adjective] lightlyeOE lightOE lightsomea1425 flying1509 light-minded?1529 tickle or light of the sear?1530 giddya1547 light-headed1549 gidded1563 giddish1566 fling-brained1570 tickle-headed1583 toyish1584 shallow1594 leger1598 corky1601 barmy1602 airy1609 unfirma1616 unballast1622 cork-brained1630 unballasted1644 kickshawa1655 unserious1655 unstudious1663 flirtishc1665 caper-witteda1670 shatter-headedc1686 corky-brained1699 flea-lugged1724 halokit1724 shatter-brained1727 scattered-brained1747 shatter-witted1775 flippant1791 butterfly-brained1796 scatter-brained1804 gossamer1806 shandy-pated1806 shattery1820 barmy-brained1823 papilionaceous1832 flirtatious1834 flirty1840 Micawberish1859 scatterheaded1867 flibberty-gibberty1879 thistledown1897 shatter-pated1901 trivial-minded1905 scattery1924 fizgig1928 ditzy1979 the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [adjective] > capricious or whimsical startfulmood?a1300 wildc1350 volage?a1366 gerfulc1374 geryc1386 wild-headeda1400 skittishc1412 gerish1430 shittle1440 shittle-witted1448 runningc1449 volageous1487 glaikit1488 fantasious1490 giggish1523 tickle or light of the sear?1530 fantastical1531 wayward1531 wantona1538 peevish1539 light-headed1549 humoral1573 unstaid1579 shittle-headed1580 toy-headed1581 fangled1587 humorous1589 choiceful1591 toyish1598 tricksy1598 skip-brain1603 capricious1605 humoursome1607 planetary1607 vertiginous1609 whimsieda1625 ingiddied1628 whimsy1637 toysome1638 cocklec1640 mercurial1647 garish1650 maggoty1650 kicksey-winseya1652 freakish1653 humourish1653 planetic1653 whimsical1653 shittle-braineda1655 freaking1663 maggoty-headed1667 maggot-pated1681 hoity-toity1690 maggotish1693 maggot-headeda1695 whimsy-headed1699 fantasque1701 crotchetly1702 quixotic1718 volatile1719 holloweda1734 conundrumical1743 flighty1768 fly-away1775 dizzy1780 whimmy1785 shy1787 whimming1787 quirky1789 notional1791 tricksome1815 vagarish1819 freakful1820 faddy1824 moodish1827 mawky1837 erratic1841 rockety1843 quirkish1848 maggoty-pated1850 crotchetya1854 freaksome1854 faddish1855 vagrom1882 fantasied1883 vagarisome1883 on-and-offish1888 tricksical1889 freaky1891 hobby-horsical1893 quirksome1896 temperamental1907 up and down1960 untogether1969 fanciful- fantastic- ?1530 Dialogue Comen Secretary & Ielowsy She that is fayre and lusty yonge,..Thynke ye her tayle is not lyght of the seare. ?1556 Dialogue Commune Secretary & Jalowsye (new ed.) She that is fayre, lusty, and yonge,..Thynke ye her tayle is not lyght of the seare. 1583 H. Howard Defensatiue sig. Hiv Discouering the moods and humours of the vulgar sort,..to be so loose and tickle of the seare, as there wanted nothing but a leader, of great courage and deepe wisedome to begin the game. 1600 N. Breton Pasquils Fooles-cap (rev. ed.) sig. B2 An idle Mate, Whose tongue goes all too glibbe vpon the seare. a1616 W. Shakespeare Hamlet (1623) ii. ii. 326 The Clowne shall make those laugh whose lungs are tickled a'th' sere. Compounds sear-nose n. the end of the sear which engages with the notches in the tumbler. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > parts and fittings of firearms > [noun] > lock > sear > parts of sear-spring1688 sear-pin1853 sear-nose1859 sear-pivot1892 1859 Regulations for Musketry Instr. Army 16 The arm of the sear is that part on which the trigger acts to raise the sear-nose out of the full bent of tumbler. sear-pin n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > parts and fittings of firearms > [noun] > lock > sear > parts of sear-spring1688 sear-pin1853 sear-nose1859 sear-pivot1892 1853 A. Ure Dict. Arts (ed. 4) II. 251 The sear-pin. sear-pivot n. the bolt upon which the sear turns. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > parts and fittings of firearms > [noun] > lock > sear > parts of sear-spring1688 sear-pin1853 sear-nose1859 sear-pivot1892 1892 W. W. Greener Breech-loader 16 Tumbler and scear pivots. sear-spring n. a spring which keeps the sear in position, also, in some gun-locks a spring which throws the hammer back to half-cock after a discharge (also attributive in sear-spring cramp, sear-spring-pin). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > parts and fittings of firearms > [noun] > lock > sear > parts of sear-spring1688 sear-pin1853 sear-nose1859 sear-pivot1892 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xviii. 135/1 The saer spring or feather spring. 1831 Darwin in Life & Lett. (1887) I. 211 Two sere-springs, four nipples or plugs. 1844 Queen's Regulations & Orders Army 96 (note) One Sear-Spring Cramp, for Arms with back-action Locks. 1892 W. W. Greener Breech-loader 15 The bridle and scear-spring pins. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). searn.² Brit. /sɪə/, U.S. /sɪ(ə)r/ Forms: Also 1500s seare. Etymology: < sear v. A mark or impression produced by searing. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > marking > marking to identify > [noun] > mark or impression produced by searing sear1874 1874 A. O'Shaughnessy Music & Moonlight 122 Her dear wan life is dearer to me keeping The sear upon its whiteness of her fall. 1875 H. E. Manning Internal Mission of Holy Ghost viii. 216 If you had ever been burnt, there would remain the sear of the burn as long as you live. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). searv. Brit. /sɪə/, U.S. /sɪ(ə)r/ Forms: Middle English ser, Middle English–1500s, 1800s sere, Middle English–1700s seer, (1500s cear), 1500s–1600s seare, 1500s– sear. Etymology: Old English séarian = Old High German (ar-)sôrên < Germanic type sauræ̂jan , < sauro- , Old English séar dry, sere adj.¹ 1. intransitive. To dry up, to wither away; to become sere. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > dryness > become dry [verb (intransitive)] > become dry or wither sear?c890 wizenc890 fordrya1000 asearc1000 witherc1400 withera1500 ?c890 in Cockayne Shrine 168/22 Grenu [leaf] weaxað..hy eft onginnað searian. c1430 J. Lydgate Reson & Sensuallyte 2736 Ful of trees..whose fressh beaute and grenesse..Nouther Sere, nor wexen olde. 1496 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (de Worde) i. xxviii. 66/2 Whan other herbes sere and drye up. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 709/2 This tree wyll seere within a yere or twayne. 1878 Scribner's Monthly 16 332/2 As the autumn seared and browned and grayed at last into winter. 1901 A. Austin Royal Homecoming x What Nature feels when Autumn stacks and seres, Or Yule-gusts blow. 2. a. transitive. To cause to wither, to blight. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > dryness > dry [verb (transitive)] > wither shrenchc950 sear1412 to sear up1430 wither1555 sweal1881 1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy i. 1655 Eke ȝonge trees to sere, rote and rinde, And afterward make hem, agein kynde, With lusty braunchis blosme and budde newe. a1557 J. Cheke tr. Gospel St. Matthew (1843) xxi. 19 And y^e fig tree was seered bi and bi. 1561 J. Hollybush tr. H. Brunschwig Most Excellent Homish Apothecarye f. 25^v The same heate dryeth or seereth the stomake. 1785 W. Cowper Task iii. 30 When summer sears the plains. 1816 P. B. Shelley Alastor 18 His scattered hair Sered by the autumn of strange suffering Sung dirges in the wind. 1876 A. C. Swinburne Erechtheus 1459 If no fire of sun or star untimely sear the tender grain. 1896 A. Austin England's Darling iii. i. 65 How often have I crushed their [sc. reeds'] crackling stems, Sered by the wind and manacled in ice. †b. to sear up: to subject to a process which causes withering, to dry up from the roots. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > dryness > dry [verb (transitive)] > wither shrenchc950 sear1412 to sear up1430 wither1555 sweal1881 1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1494) viii. xv. D iij b The frutles trees vp seryd to the rote. 1589 R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 97 They cut the branches euery euening, because they are seared vp in the day by the heate of the Sunne. 3. a. To burn or char (animal tissues) by the application of a hot iron; to cauterize (a wound, the stump of an amputated limb, etc.) in order to destroy virus or prevent the flow of blood. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > cauterizing > cauterize [verb (transitive)] brandc1440 sear1482 burn1483 cauterize?1541 cauterizate1576 to sear up1602 singe1627 1482 in H. E. Malden Cely Papers (1900) 122 Lette hym [a horse] ron in a parke tyll Hallowtyd and then take hym wpe and ser hym and lette hym stand in the dede of whynter. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 709/2 I sere with a hoote yron, as a smyth or cyrurgien dothe. 1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions i. vi. 107 If [it ware] a wenche, they [Amazons] streighte ceared y^e pappes, that thei might not growe to hindre them in the warres. 1634 J. Canne Necessitie of Separation iii. 132 A chirurgion tryeth all gentle meanes, before launcing, searing, or cutting off. 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1778 II. 243 Johnson: It is a sad thing for a man..to bleed to death, because he has not fortitude enough to sear the wound, or even to stitch it up. 1831 W. Youatt Horse xii. 227 Preventing bleeding by searing the vessels with a hot iron. 1865 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 2nd Ser. 1 ii. 252 I prefer searing at about eight or ten weeks as a..more humane process than drawing... I have never lost a lamb from searing. b. figurative. Chiefly after 1 Timothy iv. 2, to render (the conscience) incapable of feeling. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > make emotionally unfeeling [verb (transitive)] > make hard or callous hardc1325 hardenc1350 engrege1382 endurec1384 indurec1450 indurate1538 obduratea1540 brawn1571 hard heart1581 sear1582 cauterize1587 myrmidonize1593 obdure1598 Gorgonize1609 stonea1616 petrifya1631 petrificate1647 roborate1652 case-harden1687 ossify1803 hard-boil1929 1582 Bible (Rheims) 1 Tim. iv. 2 Having their conscience seared [1611 seared with a hote iron]. 1633 J. Ford 'Tis Pitty shee's Whore v. sig. I2 Thy Conscience youth is sear'd. a1674 T. Traherne Christian Ethicks (1675) 190 They are obdurate and seared that cannot discern and feel The Wound which they inflict on themselves, who grieve and offend their Creator. 1772 H. Mackenzie Man of World i. iii To give firmness to sensibility..without searing its feelings where they led to virtue. 1816 Ld. Byron Fare thee Well xv Sear'd in heart, and lone, and blighted, More than this I scarce can die. 1851 F. W. Robertson Serm. (1863) 4th Ser. xv. 116 Christianity does not sear the human heart; it softens it. 1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) II. viii. 210 A long career of ambition, craft, and despotic rule never utterly seared his conscience. 1879 H. Spencer Data of Ethics xiv. §93. 245 The destructive activities carried on against external enemies sear it [sympathy]. c. to sear up: to close (a wound, vein, etc.) by actual cautery. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > cauterizing > cauterize [verb (transitive)] brandc1440 sear1482 burn1483 cauterize?1541 cauterizate1576 to sear up1602 singe1627 1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions 41 [The Jesuits] haue bespattered with a most dangerous Gangrene, the whole bodie misticall of Christ (which vnlesse it be seared vp with hot irons here in England, wil neuer come at Rome to be soundly cured). 1631 B. Jonson New Inne ii. i. 21 The rogue deserues..To be crop'd with his owne Scizzers..And ha' the stumps sear'd vp with his owne searing candle. 1695 J. Collier Misc. upon Moral Subj. 144 The Vein of Rhetorick was seared up. 1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. iii. 441 Then for the worm of conscience,..they have seared up his mouth with a hot iron that he cannot bite. 1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe III. iv. 382 The political system of Hobbes, like his moral system,..sears up the heart. †d. To brand, stigmatize. Also figurative. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > marking > marking to identify > be distinctive mark on [verb (transitive)] > put identifying mark on > burn flesh with a hot iron brandc1440 seara1529 cauterize1591 a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Bi^v And boyes to the pylery gan me plucke..And some bade sere hym with a marke. a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) ii. i. 75 Calumnie will seare Vertue it selfe. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) ii. i. 173 A divulged shame Traduc'd by odious ballads: my maidens name Seard otherwise. View more context for this quotation 1638 Brief Relat. 21 Now the Executioner being come, to seare him and cut of his eares, Mr. Prynne spake these words to him [etc.]. 1644 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce (ed. 2) 7 Not to suffer the ordinance of his goodnes and favour, through any error to be ser'd and stigmatiz'd upon his servants to their misery and thraldome. 4. In wider sense: To burn, scorch; †to put out (one's eyes) by burning. Also figurative ? Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > torture > [verb (transitive)] > roast or torture by fire > put out one's eyes by sear1590 the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > subject or expose to heat or fire [verb (transitive)] > damage or injure by heat or fire > burn or scorch swithec1220 forscalda1225 scalda1300 broilc1375 toast1398 bysweltc1420 squarken1530 sear1590 torrefy1601 plot1606 reese1618 ustulate1623 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. xi. sig. L2^v The scorching flame sore swinged all his face, And through his armour all his body seard. 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 70 To the intent that..he might with the bright reflection of his [sc. the sun's] beamy radiation, seare out hys eyes. 1620 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Phylaster ii. 25 All the Court shall whoote thee through the Court, fling rotten orrenges: Make reball rymes, and seare thy name with candles vpon wals. 1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iii. 349 Tophet..where children were offered to Moloch, searing them to death with his burning imbracements. 1652 T. Gataker Antinomianism 8 Poor souls for fear of searing their lips, dare not put the cup to their mouths. 1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey II. v. 307 A lofty wood, Whose leafless summits to the skies aspire, Scorch'd by the sun, or sear'd by heav'nly fire. 1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake iii. 110 For, as the flames this symbol sear, His home, the refuge of his fear, A kindred fate shall know. 5. (See quot.). ΚΠ 1888 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. Searing, the practice of smoothing the surface of the rougher class of foundry patterns with a flat-faced red hot iron, as a substitute for paint or varnish. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > see also also refers to : seresearadj.¹ < n.¹?1530n.²1874v.?c890 see also
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