(verb) : ob-sĕro (ops-), sēvi, sĭtum, 3 (
* Inf. perf. sync. obsesse for obsevisse, Att. ap. Non. 395, 27)
* Lit.
* To sow or plant (class.): frumentum,Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 129. —Comically: pugnos,to give a good drubbing,Plaut. Men. 5, 7, 23.
* Trop.: Tun' is es, qui in me aerumnam obsevisti,hast brought upon me, occasioned me,Plaut. Ep. 4, 1, 30: em istic oportet opseri mores malos, si in opserendo possint interfieri,id. Trin. 2, 4, 130.
* To sow or plant with any thing: saepimentum virgultis aut spinis,Varr. R. R. 1, 14, 1: terram frugibus. Cic. Leg. 2, 25, 63; Col. 2, 9, 1; Varr. R. R. 1, 44, 2.
* In gen., to cover over, fill with; only in perf. pass. part., covered over, filled: omnia arbustis obsita,Lucr. 5, 1377: loca obsita virgultis,Liv. 28, 2: obsita pomis Rura,Ov. M. 13, 719: video aegrum pannis annisque obsitum,Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 5: obsitus illuvie ac squalore,Tac. A. 4, 28: vestis obsita squalore,Liv. 2, 23: legati ... obsiti squalore et sordibus,id. 29, 16: variis obsita frondibus,Hor. C. 1, 18, 12: montes nivibus,Curt. 5, 6, 15: aër pallore,darkened,Luc. 5, 627; cf.: dies nube obsitus,Sen. Troad. 20: obsitus aevo,Verg. A. 8, 307: Io jam setis obsita,id. ib. 7, 790: terga (marinae beluae) obsita conchis,Ov. M. 4, 724.

(verb) : obsĕro, āvi, ātum, 1, ob-sera
* To bolt, bar, fasten, or shut up (not in Cic. or Caes.; syn.: claudo, oppilo, obstruo).
* Lit.: ostium,Ter. Eun. 4, 6, 25: aedificia,Liv. 5, 41: fores (opp. aperire),Suet. Tit. 11: tabellam liminis,Cat. 32, 5: exitus,Col. 9, 1, 3: rogos,i. e. the dead,Prop. 4, 11, 8.
* Transf.: aures,Hor. Epod. 17, 53: palatum (for os), i. e. to be silent, Cat. 55, 21: fores amicitiae,Amm. 27, 12.

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