sess

• cess

Aphetic form of assess.

sess (third-person singular simple present sesses, present participle sessing, simple past and past participle sessed)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To lay a tax upon; to assess.

sess (plural sesses)

1. (obsolete) A tax; an assessment.

• ses

Clipping of sensimilla.

sess (plural sesses)

1. (slang) Marijuana, weed.
   • 1994, Method Man featuring RZA, Inspectah Deck, Carlton Fisk & Streetlife,, “Mr. Sandman”, in Tical‎^[1]:

     Remedy for stress is three bags of sess / A day at my rest playin' chess, yes

   • 2001, Notch, “Nuttin No Go So” (track 3), in Buy Out Riddim‎^[2]‎^[3]:

     Well, from yuh never put no cocaine inna yuh cigarette. Before, yuh woulda prefer smoke 10 pound of sess.

• “sess”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

From Old Norse sess, from Proto-Germanic *sessaz (“seat”). Cognate with Old English sess (“seat”).

• IPA^(key): /sɛsː/

  Rhymes: -ɛsː

sess m (genitive singular sess, nominative plural sessar)

1. place to sit, seat

   Synonym: sæti

• seß, söß, söss, soss, süss
• zes (Dutch Low Saxon)

From Middle Low German ses, sēs, from Old Saxon sehs. Compare German sechs, Dutch zes.

sess (many dialects, including Low Prussian)

1. six (6)

• Plautdietsch: sass

Borrowed from Italian sesso.

• IPA^(key): /sɛs/
• Rhymes: -ɛs

sess m (plural sessi)

1. gender
2. sex (sexual intercourse)

From Old Norse sess, from Proto-Germanic *sessaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sedstós. Related to sitte.

sess m (definite singular sessen, indefinite plural sesser, definite plural sessene)

1. seat
2. rear, back, end

• være tung i sessen

• “sess” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “sess” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

From Old Norse sess, from Proto-Germanic *sessaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sedstós. Related to sitja.

sess m (definite singular sessen, indefinite plural sessar, definite plural sessane)

1. seat
2. milking stool
3. rear, back, end

• (seat): sete, sitjeplass
• (milking stool): mjølkekrakk

• tung i sessen

• “sess” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• ses, sæs

From Proto-West Germanic *sess, from Proto-Germanic *sessaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sedstós.

• IPA^(key): /sess/, [ses]

sess m

1. seat
2. bench

Strong a-stem:

• set
• setl
• sittan

From Proto-Germanic *sessaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sedstós. Cognate with Old English sess.

sess m (genitive sess, plural sessar)

1. seat

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “sess”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive