knowledge of spiritual things. Hence prophets were called seers, and prophecies visions or sights.

To see God, Matt. v.8. does not imply, that any resemblance or likeness of the divine Being will be manifested, but is intended to express that immediate enjoyment and perfect blessedness, with which the saints shall be favoured, in the glorious presence of God in heaven.

SEEK-to look or search for; to go to find; to make enquiry after; to endeavour to meet with or labour to obtain something.

SEEM-to be barely probable; to make a shew of; to have the appearance of truth. It is sometimes used as a slight affirmation, to express likelikood or probability, and it seems, is of the same import as, it appears.

SEIZE, seze-to catch at and grasp; to take hold of violently, or unawares, wrongfully, or by force. SELL to part with for a price; to dispose of goods, &c. to others for money, or any other valuable consideration.

SEND to cause a person to go, or a thing to be carried to a distance.

SERVE to labour, do work for, or help a person in any employment; to attend or wait upon a person. in order to obey and assist him, or in any way to be of use.

To serve God, is to obey him, not only by worshipping him, as required, in spirit and in truth; bụɛ also by studying to know and do his will, on all occasions, however opposed to our depraved inclinations, or at variance with our temporal interests.

SET-to lay in a particular place; to put in a certain situation; to plant or fix; to go down or fall below, as the sun in the evening; to apply or give attention to, as to set one's heart or mind upon a thing.

SHAKE-to move quickly to and fro; to cause

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to move; to tremble or totter; to depress or make low through fear, 2 Thess. ii. 2.

SHALL is used as a help-verb to express the future time, when it is dependant upon some contingent circumstance, or the pleasure of another person; as WILL is confined to what the mind resolves to do, or determines to have done. If, according to the Saxon original, this word be only equivalent to owe or ought; even then, thou oughtest not to steal, has more of a prohibitory command than do uot steal, as expressed in the Latin and other languages. But when it is said, thou shalt not steal, the expression strongly indicates some punishment, or serious inconvenience annexed to disobedience. However, this word is often used in the Old Testament as the synonyme of will, not to testify a dispensation of absolute, unavoidable necessity, nor to express a desire or wish that any evil may befal, but declaratory of what, according to the order of Providence, and the nature of things, will be the event and, therefore, is a simple prediction.

SHAME to expose a person to disgrace or punishment, by laying his faults open before others; to excite or raise uneasiness in his mind, on account of his having done something amiss.

SHAVE to pare or cut close to the surface, as hair or wool.

SHEAR, shere—to clip or cut with a sharp instrument, having two blades or edges meeting each other, and moving by a spring, as a pair of shears; or on a joint, as scissors.

SHED-to spill or pour out; to scatter or let

fall.

SHEW (or SHOW) sho-to make appear or expose to sight; to discover or lay open; to point out; to teach.

SHINE-to shed a lustre; to cast forth a brightness, as light reflected from a smooth white surface

to be eminent or exposed to general notice; to enlighten.

SHOOT-to emit or send forth new parts, as plants in a growing state: also to discharge any thing so as to make it fly with speed and violence, as an arrow from a bow, or a shot from a gun; to let out at once, as a load from a cart.

SHUN-to endeavour to avoid; to get out of the way of, or to keep at a distance from, a person or place.

SHUT-to stop up close, so that there may not be any opening; to inclose or confine. Op. to

open.

SIFT to separate the finer powder from the grosser parts of any thing; to part the small dust from the larger particles by means of a sieve: also to examine carefully and minutely..

SIGH, si—to send forth the breath with a sudden, uneasy, mournful noise; as is the case when a person is labouring under a depression of spirits, occasioned by some trouble of mind, or disorder of the body.

SİN to offend knowingly against, or to act contrary to the laws of God, as declared in his word. We sin, not only by doing what is forbidden, and in omitting to do what is commanded, but when we desire any thing contrary to the revealed will of God.

SING to make melody with the voice; to express words according to some regular measure of music, or to utter certain tones agreeably to the harmony of sounds. S. to. to praise.

SINK to fall or settle to the bottom; not to swim.

SIT-to rest upon a seat; to be placed in any particular state or condition.

SLAY, sla-to kill or put to death.

SLEEP-to take rest, as when the body ceases to

be in motion, and the faculties of the mind becomé composed or suspended, so that we lose, for a time, the connected chain of thought. To be insensible of, or indifferent about, spiritual things, 1 Cor. xi. 30. 1 Thess. v. 6. Eph. v. 14. to remain in a state of death, 1 Cor. xv. 51.

SLIP to slide from not treading firmly; to lose by negligence or inattention.

SMELL to receive through the nostrils and distinguish, by the nerves of the nose, the various odours or scents of bodies; to have any particular scent or flavour, as when very fine small particles fly off from a body, in a manner not to be perceived, and, by striking upon the nerves of the nose, cause the sensation of smelling.

SMITE to strike, hit, or beat; to destroy or overthrow; also to afflict, as with fear, poverty, &c. SOUND-to cause any thing to make a noise; to play on, as a musical instrument; to send forth a sound; to try the depth of any water, by letting down to the bottom a plummet fastened to a line.

SOW, so to scatter or spread seed on the earth that it may grow. To preach the Gospel, Matt. xiii. 19. 1 Cor. ix. 11.

To sow to the flesh, is to live according to the dictates of corrupt nature, to be in the service of Satan, and to make provision only for this present life, Gal. vi. 8.

To sow to the spirit, is to spend our time, strength, and talents for the glory of God and the good of our fellow creatures, in obedience to the commands, motions, and dictates of the Holy Spirit, Gal. vi. 8.

SPARE to use frugally; to save for some particular use; to do without, or be ready to part with a thing; to use tenderly, or treat with pity.

SPEAK-to utter articulate or distinct sounds; to express significant words with the human voice, by which the ideas, sentiments, or the thoughts of a

person's mind may be easily known and clearly understood.

SPEND to lay out or bestow, as money, &c.; to waste or pass away, as time; to wear out or consume away, as life.

SPILL to let any liquid matter as water, or small particles as seed or grain, fall from a vessel to the ground.

SPIN to form long threads for weaving or sewing, by drawing and twisting a little at a time, as wool, flax, hemp, &c.

SPOIL to rob or plunder; to damage or hurt; to render any thing useless.

SPORT to divert or amuse; to make merry: also to play; to trifle.

SPREAD, spred to lay open; to scatter about; to publish, or make a thing generally and openly

known.

SPRING-to arise out of the ground and grow, as plants from seed, &c.; also to arise or proceed, as from a source, cause, or reason.

SPUE, (or SPEW)-to eject or cast forth from the stomach..

SPY-to discover by the eye at a distance; to find out by close examination; to search or discover by artifice, something intended to be hidden.

STANCH, stansh-to stop from flowing; to hinder from running, as blood from a wound.

STAND-to be upon the feet; to remain erect or upright; to stop and not go forward; to be firm in a posture of resistance or defence; to continue or abide; to hold out.

STAY, sta-to continue or abide in a place; to hinder a person from leaving one place, or from proceeding to another.

STEAL to take away unlawfully, by private means, what belongs to another.