plural of seep

simple past tense and past participle of faunch

(transitive, reflexive, obsolete) Keep or withhold oneself. / (intransitive) Refrain from (something or doing something); keep from doing, especially an indulgence.

(algebra, ring theory) An ideal which cannot be made any larger (by adjoining any element to it) without making it improper (i.e., equal to the whole of the containing algebraic structure).