Seth
[seθ] or [sɛθ]
Definition
(noun.) (Old Testament) third son of Adam and Eve; given by God in place of the murdered Abel.
Editor: Vlad--From WordNet
Examples
- Let Seth and Reuben bear him to Ashby. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The agonies of the victim attracted attention, and Edison's mother marked her displeasure by an application of the switch kept behind the old Seth Thomas grandfather clock. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In 1817 a paper was filed at the patent office by Seth Hunt, describing a machine for making pins with head, shaft, and point in one entire piece. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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