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Sesing, vbl. n.1 Also: sesyn(g, sessing, seising, seasing, saisyn. [ME and e.m.E. seysynge (1336), sesyng (c1400), seazing (1615); Ses(e v.1]

1. The action of Ses(e v.1, in senses 1, 4 c, 5, 6, 9 (3) and (4).(1) 1651 Dickson Matthew 309.
As the instrumental elements of seising a man in a house, or land, or rent (such as are, … a piece of earth, or a stone, or a staffe, or a penny) orderly given and taken
(2) 1596 Warrender P. (SHS) II 294.
Thinking to doo good service by the seasing of such an notorious offender
(3) 1643 Baillie II 57.
Hoptoun … and Stainfoord … betuixt which there hath been continuall skirmishing, let be plundering and sessing
(4) 1539–41 M. Works Acc. (ed.) I 288.
To twa wrychtis … puttand the forsaid tymmer in flottis … for certane ald grete towis for sesing and drawing of the flottis
1619–20 Edinb. B. Rec. VI 394.
Item to four mariners for seasing the blocks and skairing the taikill and hinging the bell and heizing therof to drink [£4]
(5) 1671 Laing MSS 380.
And for the Jus Populi there is an order for seasing upon one at Borostounnesse who is informed to have sold of them
1641 Baillie I 343.
They had no witness to prove his concealling the seasing on the mint, the imbaseing of the money

2. The condition of having been seized, captured or caught; seizure, capture; hold, possession.In one's sesing, in (his) grasp; captive, prisoner; also, in (his) possession.(1) 1375 Barb. vi 496.
Bot men sayis it wes certane thing That he had him in his sesyng
?1438 Alex. ii 1403.
‘I am first luffit and in sesing.’ ‘Ȝa', said Betys, ‘at ȝour wynning'
?1438 Alex. ii 8431.
Bot maugre his It salbe, that in sesing is
14.. Acts I 25/2.
Gif a burges be chalangyt … of ony thyft fundyn with hym in his hous or in his sesyn and he nyte the thyft
(2) ?1438 Alex. ii 650.
Bot I had leuer drowned be Or euer he had sesing of me

3. ? Rope or cord, perhaps for attaching one thing to another as appar. corks to fishing nets. 1540 Acta Conc. & Sess. XIV 66b.
Fische nettis … warrepis … sparrapis with thair corkis and sesingis
1540 Acta Conc. & Sess. XIV 152.
Foure nettis lvj sesingis without corkis
1540 Treas. Acc. VII 355.
Grete cord to be sesingis to the gunnis

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