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(Sething,) Seithing, ppl. adj. Also: saithing, seething. [ME and e.m.E. seþing (Cursor M.), seethinge (1535); Seth(e v.] That is boiling or as if boiling. — 1581-1623 James VI Poems I 149/340.
The ophtallmie … Quhiche uith a seithing [v.r. seething] bloode uithin the sicht as creuall foe Geuis thousande stoggis 1619 Perth Kirk S. 7 Sept.
Gif the act of sclander … war nocht extractit and giffin him he suld … put the said Wiolet in saithing caldroun 1663 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. I 364.
The judiciall tryall of James Dury … for the alledgit murther of [gap] Shanks, … by casting or emptieing of some seithing watter upon him
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