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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

1) for saw (preterite of to see.) I see him yesterday, for I saw him. This corruption is common among the illiterate in New England. I have heard old people use the word seed; as, 'I seed him.' Pegge says this is a common vulgarism in London, "and passes currently with the common people, both for our perfect tense saw, and our participle seen."--Anecdotes of the Eng. Lang.


He lookt, he listened, yet his thoughts deride

To think that true which he both heard and see.--Fairfax's Tasso.

O rare! he doth it as like one of these hartolry players as I ever see.--Shakspeare, First Part Henry IV., II. 4.

Mr. M---- was almost dead with the consumption, and had to carry rocks in his pocket to keep the wind from blowing him away. Well, he's a sound and well man, and looks as if he mought live to be a hundred years old. I never seed such an alteration in any body in my life.--Maj. Jones's Sketches.

TO SEE

TO SEE ABOUT

2) To attend to; to consider.

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