▪ I. † segge1 poet. Obs.
Forms: 1 secg, 3 sæg, 3–4 (6) seg, 3–6 segge, 4–6 sege, 4 segg, (seegge, 5 seege, seghe, seige), 6 sedge.
[OE. sęcg = OS. segg, ON. segg-r:—OTeut. *sagjo-z.]
A man. (In the 16th c. only contemptuous.)
| Beowulf 208 (Gr.) Secg wisade, laᵹucræftiᵹ mon, land⁓ᵹemyrcu. Ibid. 633 Þa ic on holm ᵹestah, sæbat ᵹesæt mid minra secga ᵹedriht. c 1205 Lay. 7991 Heo ledden in heore scipen..moni forhfulne sæg sare iwunded. Ibid. 5109 Þer weore segge songe [c 1275 gleomenne songe]. Ibid. 20854 Þene siȝeð him to segges vnder beorȝen. 1340–70 Alex. & Dind. 165 Of þe seggus þat he sai bi-ȝonde þe side stronde. 1377 Langl. P. Pl. B. xx. 333 ‘I am a surgien’, seide þe segge ‘and salues can make’. a 1400 Morte Arth. 1574, I had leuer see hym synke one the salte strandez, Than the seegge ware seke, that es so sore woundede. c 1470 Henry Wallace iii. 53 Robert Boid, quhilk wald no langar bide Vndir thrillage of segis of Ingland. c 1475 Rauf Coilȝear 713 Thair was seruit in that saill Seigis semelie. 1508 Dunbar Flyting 13 For and I flyt sum sege for schame sould sink. 15.. Scot. Field 113 in Chetham Soc. Misc. II, Then sumoned he his sedges, in sondry places. 1557 N. Grimalde Death Zoroas 98 in Tottel's Misc. (Arb.) 122 Wherwith a hole route came of souldiours stern, And all in peeces hewed the silly seg. 1567 Drant Horace, A.P. B vij, Through this and such the sillie segge lay plasde in puddle still. Ibid., Ep. i. ii. C iij, Duke Nestor, sillie carkinge segge. |
▪ II. † segge2 Obs. rare—1.
[? a. OF. seiche (:—L. sēpia).]
? A cuttle-fish.
| c 1300 [see lax n.1] |
▪ III. segge
obs. form of say v.1, sedge, siege.