1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. at Sipe Seipage, leakage.

1834 Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) I. 414 In Ireland..every peasant..bottoms his dung~stead with stuff drawn from the bogs, that he may thus preserve the seep or gooding, as he terms it, of his stable~manure.

1871 P. H. Waddell Psalms frae Hebrew Pref. 1 Thar's the saft seep o' the cluds an' the dour chirt o' the cranreuch.

1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. 424 Seeps, sypes or sykes, trivial springs.

1902 Nature 4 Dec. 113/1 At Comanche Spring, a small ‘seep’,..the limestone bluffs have been covered in a number of places with rude paintings of characteristic Indian design.

1903 Bull. U.S. Geol. Surv. No. 212. 97 In this well small seeps or pockets of petroleum were found at several depths.

1966 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. (rev. ed.) X. 60/2 Almost without exception, seeps are at topographically low spots where water has accumulated. Oil..rises to the surface of the water, covering it with an iridescent film.

1972 Science 16 June 1257/2 The existence of submarine seeps is often mentioned in discussions of oil pollution.

1897 E. W. Hamilton Outlaws of Marches xvii. 187 I've mair than a mind to rin doun..and see if I canna light on a stolum o' bread and a seip o' milk maybe.

1901 R. Buchanan Poems 157 (E.D.D.) Anither bit seep, wi' her han' below the glass in case o' ony scaling.

1790 A. Wilson Epist. to Brother Pedlar in Poet. Wks. 173 Rain seeps through the thack.

1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian v, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 116 That canna hinder the bluid seiping through.

1882 G. W. Cable Dr. Sevier xv Water seeps up through the side-walks.

1922 H. Crane Let. 6 May (1965) 85 A new literary magazine.., Secession, which is (first number) just seeping into this country.

1925 H. L. Foster Trop. Tramp with Tourists 121 Through the closed doors there seeped out a great babble of conversation.

1930 L. Cooper Ship of Truth ii. 216 Serenity had seeped into his very soul.

1931 W. G. McAdoo Crowded Years xviii. 284 The..emotions generated by the European struggle seeped into American thought.

1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 13 June 13 The Commandos had been part of the British Army for about eight months before they seeped into print.

1955 A. L. Rowse Expansion of Elizabethan Eng. iv. 141 In 1585 a plan for peopling Munster was drawn up... Meanwhile the Irish came seeping back.

a1974 R. Crossman Diaries (1976) II. 453 One thing I learnt from my brief visit was how well-informed the Transport House staff are about internal Cabinet affairs and how they seep with anti-Government gossip.

1927 M. Eiker Over Boat-side xi. 161 The nagging, monotonous, unessential, seeping harassments that sap a man of achievement.