Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
in constant agitation;
- Example: "a seething flag-waving crowd filled the streets"- Example: "a seething mass of maggots"- Example: "lovers and madmen have such seething brains"- Shakespeare
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Seethe \Seethe\, v. t. [imp. Seethed(Sod, obs.); p. p.
Seethed, Sodden; p. pr. & vb. n. Seething.] [OE.
sethen, AS. se['o]?an; akin to D. sieden, OHG. siodan, G.
sieden, Icel. sj??a, Sw. sjuda, Dan. syde, Goth. saubs a
burnt offering. Cf. Sod, n., Sodden, Suds.]
To decoct or prepare for food in hot liquid; to boil; as, to
seethe flesh. [Written also seeth.]
[1913 Webster]
Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons
of the prophets. --2 Kings iv.
38.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
seething
adj 1: in constant agitation; "a seething flag-waving crowd
filled the streets"; "a seething mass of maggots";
"lovers and madmen have such seething brains"-
Shakespeare