v. Obs. [UN-2 3.]
1. trans. To detach from something held or that holds; spec. in hawking.
1575. Turberv., Faulconrie, 95. When she hath fedde, take it from hir and vnseaze hir.
1622. Mabbe, trans. Aleman’s Guzman d’Alf., I. To Vulgar, Who is hee that can be so happy as to … unseaze himselfe from thy griping talons?
1635. Quarles, Embl., I. xii. 1. Be thy lips skrew’d so fast To th’ earth’s full breast? For shame, for shame unseise thee. Ibid., 3. Unseise thy lips.
1728. Chambers, Cycl., s.v. Falcon, To which if she come well … and hastly seize it, let her cast two or three bits thereon. That done, unseize, take her off the Lure.
2. To let go, take one’s hands off.
1663. Tuke, Adv. 5 Hours, I. 8. He, at the stroke, unseas’d me, and gave back.
