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SECK, n.3 In form a Sc. variant of Eng. sect, used occas. for sex, now only in dial. or illiterate use. See P.L.D. §63.2.m.Lth. 1801 J. Thomson Poems 119:
An' ne'er ane o' the female seck Durst ever yet ca' B—n a bleck.Sc. 1824 Scott St. Ronan's W. xv.:
"Ye have skeel of our sect, sir!" replied the dame.Sc. 1831 Wilson Noctes Amb. (1855) III. 148:
That tongue and that pen o' yours, that spares neither age nor sect.
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