architecture, the fixing a piece of wood or iron in a wall with plaster, mortar, cement, lead, and other solid binding. For staples, hinges and joints, plaster is very proper.

Sealing-wax. See Wax.

Seam or Seme of corn, is a measure of eight bushels.

Seam of glass, the quantity of 120 pound, or 24 stones, each five pounds weight. The seam of wood is an horse-load.

Sear cloth, or Cere-cloth, in surgery, a form of external remedy somewhat harder than an unguent, yet softer than an emplaster, though it is frequently used both for the one and the other. The sear-cloth is always supposed to have wax in its composition, which distinguishes and even denominates it. In effect, when a liniment or unguent has wax enough in it, it does not differ from a sear-cloth.