sea : Idioms & Phrases

• a sea within the jurisdiction of some particular nation, which controls its navigation.

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A-sea adverb

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1. On the sea; at sea; toward the sea.

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• noun an arm of the Mediterranean between Slovenia and Croatia and Montenegro and Albania on the east and Italy on the west
  Adriatic.
  

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• noun an arm of the Mediterranean between Greece and Turkey; a main trade route for the ancient civilizations of Crete and Greece and Rome and Persia
  Aegean.
  

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• noun part of the Bay of Bengal to the west of the Malay Peninsula
  

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• noun a northwestern arm of the Indian Ocean between India and Arabia
  

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• noun a part of the western Pacific Ocean to the north of Australia and to the south of New Guinea and the eastern islands of Indonesia
  

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• noun a lake to the east of the Caspian Sea lying between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan
  Lake Aral.
  

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• noun sea robins having bony scutes on the body and barbels on the chin; found mostly on the continental slope
  Peristedion miniatum; armored searobin.
  

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• at the height of flood tide; hence, at the height. "But now God's mercy was at full sea." Jer. Taylor.

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• adjective satellite perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment
  baffled; bewildered; bemused; lost; confounded; confused; befuddled; mazed; mixed-up.
  
  • obviously bemused by his questions
  • bewildered and confused
  • a cloudy and confounded philosopher
  • just a mixed-up kid
  • she felt lost on the first day of school

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• upon the ocean; away from land; figuratively, without landmarks for guidance; lost; at the mercy of circumstances. "To say the old man was at sea would be too feeble an expression." G. W. Cable

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• noun sea bream of warm Atlantic waters
  Archosargus rhomboidalis.
  

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• noun a variety of sea lion found in Australia
  Zalophus lobatus.
  

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• noun a sea in northern Europe; stronghold of the Russian navy
  Baltic.
  

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• noun the part of the Arctic Ocean to the north of Norway and Russia
  

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• noun a naval battle in World War II; Allied land-based bombers destroyed a Japanese convoy in the Bismarck Sea in March 1943
  battle of the Bismarck Sea.
  

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• noun a Japanese defeat in World War II (May 1942); the first naval battle fought entirely by planes based on aircraft carriers
  battle of the Coral Sea.
  

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• noun a naval battle in World War II (1944); a decisive naval victory for the United States fleet over the Japanese who were trying to block supplies from reaching American troops on Leyte
  battle of the Philippine Sea.
  

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• noun part of the Arctic Ocean to the northeast of Alaska
  

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• noun part of the North Pacific between Alaska and Siberia; connected to the Arctic Ocean by the Bering Strait
  

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• . (Law) See under Sea.

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• (Law), out of the state, territory, realm, or country. Wharton.

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• noun an arm of the South Pacific to the southwest of the Bismarck Archipelago
  
• noun a naval battle in World War II; Allied land-based bombers destroyed a Japanese convoy in the Bismarck Sea in March 1943
  battle of the Bismarck Sea.
  

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• noun a sea between Europe and Asia; a popular resort area of eastern Europeans
  Black Sea.
  

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• noun bluish black-striped sea bass of the Atlantic coast of the United States
  Centropistes striata; black bass.
  

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• (Jewish Antiq.), a large laver of brass, placed in Solomon's temple for the use of the priests.

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• the city of Venice.

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• the four seas which surround Great Britain.

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• noun often trained as a show animal
  Zalophus californicus; Zalophus californianus.
  

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• noun an arm of the Atlantic Ocean between North and South America; the origin of the Gulf stream
  Caribbean.
  

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• noun a large saltwater lake between Iran and Russia fed by the Volga River; the largest inland body of water in the world
  Caspian.
  

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• noun part of the Arctic Ocean just to the north of the Bering Strait
  

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• waves dashing against each other with a short and quick motion. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

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• (Zoöl.), the sea eel; a large species of eel (Conger vulgaris), which sometimes grows to the length of ten feet.

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• noun an arm of the South Pacific to the northeast of Australia
  
• noun a Japanese defeat in World War II (May 1942); the first naval battle fought entirely by planes based on aircraft carriers
  battle of the Coral Sea.
  

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• (Naut.), a sea running in an opposite direction from the wind.

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• (Naut.), a chopping sea, in which the waves run in contrary directions.

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• noun a saltwater lake on the border between Israel and Jordan; its surface in 1292 feet below sea level
  

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• noun (Old Testament) a collection of written scrolls (containing nearly all of the Old Testament) found in a cave near the Dead Sea in the late 1940s
  
  • the Dead Sea Scrolls provide information about Judaism and the Bible around the time of Jesus

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• adjective satellite of or taking place in the deeper parts of the sea
  
  • deep-sea fishing
  • deep-sea exploration

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Deep"-sea` adjective

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1. Of or pertaining to the deeper parts of the sea; as, a deep-sea line (i. e., a line to take soundings at a great depth); deep-sea lead; deep-sea soundings, explorations, etc.

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• noun a diver in the deeper parts of the sea
  

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• the heaviest of sounding leads, used in water exceeding a hundred fathoms in depth. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

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• noun part of the Pacific Ocean near eastern Asia
  

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• noun an arm of the Pacific between China and Japan
  East Sea.
  

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• noun a sea urchin that can be eaten
  Echinus esculentus.
  

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• noun food fish of European coastal waters
  Pagellus centrodontus.
  

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• noun bulky greyish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail; of Europe and Greenland
  erne; grey sea eagle; Haliatus albicilla; gray sea eagle; European sea eagle; ern.
  

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• noun a sea between Europe and Asia; a popular resort area of eastern Europeans
  Black Sea.
  

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• noun the right of merchant ships to travel freely in international waters
  

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• high water.

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• noun bulky greyish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail; of Europe and Greenland
  erne; grey sea eagle; Haliatus albicilla; gray sea eagle; European sea eagle; ern.
  

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• the Mediterranean sea. In Chaucer both the Black and the Mediterranean seas are so called.

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• (Naut.), a wave that breaks in a solid mass on a vessel's deck.

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• noun part of the Arctic Ocean to the north of Iceland
  

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• noun bulky greyish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail; of Europe and Greenland
  erne; grey sea eagle; Haliatus albicilla; gray sea eagle; European sea eagle; ern.
  

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• the West Indian name for a swell of the ocean, which occurs in calm weather and without obvious cause, breaking on the shore in heavy roaring billows; called also rollers, and in Jamaica, the North sea.

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• half drunk. Colloq. Spectator.

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• adjective satellite British informal for `intoxicated'
  

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• noun a sea in which the waves are running directly against the course of the ship
  

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• a sea that meets the head of a vessel or rolls against her course.

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• a sea in which the waves run high.

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• noun the open seas of the world outside the territorial waters of any nation
  high sea; international waters.
  

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• noun the open seas of the world outside the territorial waters of any nation
  high sea; international waters.
  

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• (Law), the open sea; the part of the ocean not in the territorial waters of any particular sovereignty, usually distant three miles or more from the coast line. Wharton.

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• noun an arm of the Pacific Ocean in southern Japan; surrounded by the islands of Honshu and Shikoku and Kyushu and linked to the Sea of Japan by a narrow channel; the chief port is Hiroshima
  

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• noun an arm of the Mediterranean Sea between western Greece and southern Italy
  

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• noun an arm of the North Atlantic between Great Britain and Ireland
  

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• noun found on coasts of the northwestern Pacific
  Haliaeetus pelagicus; Kamchatkan sea eagle.
  

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• noun part of the Arctic Ocean to the north of Siberia and to the east of the Barents Sea; icebound most of the year
  

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• noun an arm of the northern Atlantic between Labrador and southern Greenland
  

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• noun part of the Arctic Ocean to the north of Siberia (between the Taimyr Peninsula and the New Siberian Islands) that is icebound most of the year
  

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• the imaginary level from which heights and depths are calculated, taken at a mean distance between high and low water.

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• noun an arm of the Mediterranean between northwest Italy and Corsica
  

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• a sea characterized by the uniform and steady motion of long and extensive waves.

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• noun the largest inland sea; between Europe and Africa and Asia
  Mediterranean.
  

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Mid" sea", Mid"-sea" noun (Also<

• Mid sea
• Mid-sea

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1. The middle part of the sea or ocean. Milton.

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• noun an arm of the North Atlantic between the British Isles and Scandinavia; oil was discovered under the North Sea in 1970
  

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• noun large searobin; found from Nova Scotia to Florida
  Prionotus carolinus.
  

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• noun the part of the Atlantic that lies off the Norwegian coast to the north of the North Sea
  

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• noun a naval battle in World War II (1944); a decisive naval victory for the United States fleet over the Japanese who were trying to block supplies from reaching American troops on Leyte
  battle of the Philippine Sea.
  

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• noun a long arm of the Indian Ocean between northeast Africa and Arabia; linked to the Mediterranean at the north end by the Suez Canal
  

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• noun a kind of sea bass
  rock bass; Centropristis philadelphica.
  

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• noun an arm of the southern Pacific Ocean in Antarctica
  

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• noun a saltwater lake in southeastern California
  

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• noun a vast area of the North Atlantic from the West Indies to the Azores that is dense with gulfweed
  

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Sea" a"corn

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1. (Zoöl.) An acorn barnacle (Balanus).

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Sea" ad"der

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1. (Zoöl.) (a) The European fifteen-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus spinachia); -- called also bismore. (b) The European tanglefish, or pipefish (Syngnathus acus).

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Sea" a*men"o*ne

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1. (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of soft-bodied Anthozoa, belonging to the order Actrinaria; an actinian. ✍ They have the oral disk surrounded by one or more circles of simple tapering tentacles, which are often very numerous, and when expanded somewhat resemble the petals of flowers, with colors varied and often very beautiful.

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• noun restraint consisting of a canvas covered frame that floats behind a vessel; prevents drifting or maintains the heading into a wind
  drogue.
  

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Sea" an"chor

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1. (Naut.) See Drag sail, under 4th Drag.

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• noun marine polyps that resemble flowers but have oral rings of tentacles; differ from corals in forming no hard skeleton
  anemone.
  

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• noun any of numerous animals inhabiting the sea including e.g. fishes and molluscs and many mammals
  marine animal; marine creature; sea animal.
  

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Sea" ape`

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1. (Zoöl.) (a) The thrasher shark. (b) The sea otter.

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Sea" ap"ple

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1. (Bot.) The fruit of a West Indian palm (Manicaria Plukenetii), often found floating in the sea. A. Grisebach.

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Sea" ar"row

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1. (Zoöl.) A squid of the genus Ommastrephes. See Squid.

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• noun small deciduous aromatic shrub (or tree) having spiny branches and yellowish flowers; eastern North America
  Zanthoxylum americanum; toothache tree; Zanthoxylum fraxineum.
  

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• noun a common European aster that grows in salt marshes
  sea aster; Aster tripolium.
  

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Sea" bank`

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1. The seashore. Shak.
2. A bank or mole to defend against the sea.

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Sea" bar"row

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1. (Zoöl.) A sea purse.

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• noun the lean flesh of a saltwater fish of the family Serranidae
  bass.
  
• noun any of various food and sport fishes of the Atlantic coast of the United States having an elongated body and long spiny dorsal fin
  

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Sea" bass`

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1. (). (Zoöl.) (a) A large marine food fish (Serranus, ∨ Centropristis, atrarius) which abounds on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It is dark bluish, with black bands, and more or less varied with small white spots and blotches. Called also, locally, blue bass, black sea bass, blackfish, bluefish, and black perch. (b) A California food fish (Cynoscion nobile); -- called also white sea bass, and sea salmon.

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Sea" bat`

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1. (Zoöl.) See Batfish (a).

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• noun bathing in the sea or ocean
  

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Sea" bean

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1. (Bot.) Same as Florida bean.

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Sea" bear`

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1. (Zoöl.) (a) Any fur seal. See under Fur. (b) The white bear.

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Sea" beast`

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1. (Zoöl.) Any large marine mammal, as a seal, walrus, or cetacean.

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• noun a bird that frequents coastal waters and the open ocean: gulls; pelicans; gannets; cormorants; albatrosses; petrels; etc.
  seafowl; seabird.
  

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Sea" bird`

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1. (Zoöl.) Any swimming bird frequenting the sea; a sea fowl.

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• noun very hard unsalted biscuit or bread; a former ship's staple
  ship biscuit; hardtack; pilot bread; pilot biscuit.
  

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Sea" blite`

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1. (Bot.) A plant (Suæda maritima) of the Goosefoot family, growing in salt marches.

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• noun a boat that is seaworthy; that is adapted to the open seas
  

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• noun the bottom of a sea or ocean
  Davy Jones; ocean bottom; sea bottom; ocean floor; Davy Jones's locker; seabed.
  

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Sea" bow`

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1. See Marine rainbow, under Rainbow.

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Sea" boy`

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1. A boy employed on shipboard.

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Sea" breach`

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1. A breaking or overflow of a bank or a dike by the sea. L'Estrange.

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• noun flesh of any of various saltwater fishes of the family Sparidae or the family Bramidae
  bream.
  
• noun any of numerous marine percoid fishes especially (but not exclusively) of the family Sparidae
  bream.
  

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Sea" bream`

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1. (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of sparoid fishes, especially the common European species (Pagellus centrodontus), the Spanish (P. Oweni), and the black sea bream (Cantharus lineatus); -- called also old wife.

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• noun a cooling breeze from the sea (during the daytime)
  

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Sea" brief`

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1. Same as Sea letter.

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Sea" bug`

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1. (Zoöl.) A chiton.

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Sea" but"ter*fly`

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1. (Zoöl.) A pteropod.

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Sea" cab"bage

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1. (Bot.) See Sea kale, under Kale.

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Sea" calf`

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1. (Zoöl.) The common seal.

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Sea" ca*na"ry

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1. (Zoöl.) The beluga, or white whale.

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• noun an officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship
  captain; master; skipper.
  

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Sea" cap"tain

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1. The captain of a vessel that sails upon the sea.

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Sea" card`

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1. Mariner's card, or compass.

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• noun any of numerous marine fishes most of which are mouthbreeders; not used for food
  

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Sea" cat`fish, Sea" cat` (Also<

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• Sea cat

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1. (Zoöl.) (a) The wolf fish. (b) Any marine siluroid fish, as Ælurichthys marinus, and Arinus felis, of the eastern coast of the United States. Many species are found on the coasts of Central and South America.

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• noun a profound transformation
  

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• noun a rhythmical work song originally sung by sailors
  shanty; chanty; chantey.
  

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Sea" chart`

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1. A chart or map on which the lines of the shore, islands, shoals, harbors, etc., are delineated.

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• noun a sailor's storage chest for personal property
  

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Sea" chick"weed`

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1. (Bot.) A fleshy plant (Arenaria peploides) growing in large tufts in the sands of the northern Atlantic seacoast; -- called also sea sandwort, and sea purslane.

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• noun schooling fishes mostly of Indian and western Pacific oceans; two species in western Atlantic
  

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Sea" clam`

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1. (Zoöl.) Any one of the large bivalve mollusks found on the open seacoast, especially those of the family Mactridæ, as the common American species. (Mactra, ∨ Spisula, solidissima); -- called also beach clam, and surf clam.

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• noun pulverized bituminous coal; used as a foundry facing
  

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Sea" coal`

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1. Coal brought by sea; -- a name by which mineral coal was formerly designated in the south of England, in distinction from charcoal, which was brought by land.

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Sea" cob`

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1. (Zoöl.) The black-backed gull.

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Sea" cock`

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1. In a steamship, a cock or valve close to the vessel's side, for closing a pipe which communicates with the sea.
2. (Zoöl.) (a) The black-bellied plover. (b) A gurnard, as the European red gurnard (Trigla pini).

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Sea" co"coa

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1. (Bot.) A magnificent palm (Lodoicea Sechellarum) found only in the Seychelles Islands. The fruit is an immense two-lobed nut. It was found floating in the Indian Ocean before the tree was known, and called sea cocoanut, and double cocoanut.

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Sea" col"an*der

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1. (Bot.) A large blackfish seaweed (Agarum Turneri), the frond of which is punctured with many little holes.

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• noun perennial of coastal sands and shingles of northern Europe and Baltic and Black Seas having racemes of small white flowers and large fleshy blue-green leaves often used as potherbs
  Crambe maritima; sea cole.
  

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Sea" cole"wort`

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1. (Bot.) Sea cabbage.

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Sea" com"pass

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1. The mariner's compass. See under Compass.

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Sea" coot`

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1. (Zoöl.) A scoter duck.

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Sea" corn`

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1. (Zoöl.) A yellow cylindrical mass of egg capsule of certain species of whelks (Buccinum), which resembles an ear of maize.

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• noun any of two families of large herbivorous aquatic mammals with paddle-shaped tails and flipper-like forelimbs and no hind limbs
  sirenian; sirenian mammal.
  

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Sea" cow`

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1. (Zoöl.) (a) The mantee. (b) The dugong. (c) The walrus.

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• noun primitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk having a mantle covered with eight calcareous plates
  polyplacophore; coat-of-mail shell; chiton.
  

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• noun large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters
  crawfish; langouste; rock lobster; spiny lobster; crayfish.
  

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Sea" craw"fish`, Sea" cray"fish` (Also<

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1. (Zoöl.) Any crustacean of the genus Palinurus and allied genera, as the European spiny lobster (P. vulgaris), which is much used as an article of food. See Lobster.

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• noun any of numerous animals inhabiting the sea including e.g. fishes and molluscs and many mammals
  marine animal; marine creature; sea animal.
  

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Sea" crow`

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1. (Zoöl.) (a) The chough. Ireland (b) The cormorant. (c) The blackheaded pewit, and other gulls. (d) The skua. (e) The razorbill. Orkney Islands (f) The coot.

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• noun echinoderm having a flexible sausage-shaped body, tentacles surrounding the mouth and tube feet; free-living mud feeders
  holothurian.
  

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Sea" cu"cum*ber

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1. (Zoöl.) Any large holothurian, especially one of those belonging to the genus Pentacta, or Cucumaria, as the common American and European species. (P. frondosa).

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Sea" dace`

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1. (Zoöl.) The European sea perch.

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Sea" daf"fo*dil

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1. (Bot.) A European amarylidaceous plant (Pancratium maritimum).

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• noun stout herb with flowers one to a stalk; ornamental developed from a Mexican wildflower
  Coreopsis maritima.
  

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Sea" dev`il

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1. (Zoöl.) (a) Any very large ray, especially any species of the genus Manta or Cepholoptera, some of which become more than twenty feet across and weigh several tons. See also Ox ray, under Ox. (b) Any large cephalopod, as a large Octopus, or a giant squid (Architeuthis). See Devilfish. (c) The angler.

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• noun a man who serves as a sailor
  Jack-tar; tar; old salt; seaman; gob; Jack; seafarer; mariner.
  

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Sea" dog`

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1. (Zoöl.) The dogfish. (b) The common seal.
2. An old sailor; a salt. Colloq.

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Sea" dot"ter*el

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1. (Zoöl.) The turnstone.

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Sea" dove`

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1. (Zoöl.) The little auk, or rotche. See Illust. of Rotche.

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Sea" drag"on

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1. (Zoöl.) (a) A dragonet, or sculpin. (b) The pegasus.

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Sea" drake`

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1. (Zoöl.) The pewit gull.

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• noun any of various large diving ducks found along the seacoast: eider; scoter; merganser
  

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Sea" duck`

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1. (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of ducks which frequent the seacoasts and feed mainly on fishes and mollusks. The scoters, eiders, old squaw, and ruddy duck are examples. They may be distinguished by the lobate hind toe.

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• noun large harmless hawk found worldwide that feeds on fish and builds a bulky nest often occupied for years
  fish eagle; fish hawk; osprey; Pandion haliaetus.
  
• noun any of various large eagles that usually feed on fish
  

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Sea" ea"gle

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1. (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of fish-eating eagles of the genus Haliæetus and allied genera, as the North Pacific sea eagle. (H. pelagicus), which has white shoulders, head, rump, and tail; the European white-tailed eagle (H. albicilla); and the Indian white-tailed sea eagle, or fishing eagle (Polioaëtus ichthyaëtus). The bald eagle and the osprey are also sometimes classed as sea eagles.
2. (Zoöl.) The eagle ray. See under Ray.

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Sea" eel`

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1. (Zoöl.) The conger eel.

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Sea" egg`

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1. (Zoöl.) A sea urchin.

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• noun either of two large northern Atlantic earless seals having snouts like trunks
  elephant seal.
  

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Sea" el"e*phant

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1. (Zoöl.) A very large seal (Macrorhinus proboscideus) of the Antarctic seas, much hunted for its oil. It sometimes attains a length of thirty feet, and is remarkable for the prolongation of the nose of the adult male into an erectile elastic proboscis, about a foot in length. Another species of smaller size (M. angustirostris) occurs on the coast of Lower California, but is now nearly extinct.

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• noun European evergreen eryngo with twisted spiny leaves naturalized on United States east coast; roots formerly used as an aphrodisiac
  Eryngium maritimum; sea eryngium; sea holly.
  

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• noun corals having a treelike or fan-shaped horny skeleton
  

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Sea" fan"

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1. (Zoöl.) Any gorgonian which branches in a fanlike form, especially Gorgonia flabellum of Florida and the West Indies.

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• noun corals forming featherlike colonies
  

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Sea" feath"er

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1. (Zoöl.) Any gorgonian which branches in a plumelike form.

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Sea" fen"nel

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1. (Bot.) Samphire.

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Sea" fern"

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1. (Zoöl.) Any gorgonian which branches like a fern.

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Sea" fight`

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1. An engagement between ships at sea; a naval battle.

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Sea" fir`

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1. (Zoöl.) A sertularian hydroid, especially Sertularia abietina, which branches like a miniature fir tree.

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Sea" flew"er

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1. (Zoöl.) A sea anemone, or any related anthozoan.

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• noun the bottom of a sea or ocean
  Davy Jones; ocean bottom; sea bottom; ocean floor; Davy Jones's locker; seabed.
  

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Sea" foam`

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1. Foam of sea water.
2. (Min.) Meerschaum; -- called also sea froth.

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Sea" fowl`

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1. (Zoöl.) Any bird which habitually frequents the sea, as an auk, gannet, gull, tern, or petrel; also, all such birds, collectively.

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Sea" fox`

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1. (Zoöl.) The thrasher shark. See Thrasher.

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Sea" froth`

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1. See Sea foam, 2.

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Sea" gauge`

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1. See under Gauge, n.

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Sea" gher`kin, Sea" gir"kin (Also<

• Sea gherkin
• Sea girkin

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1. (Zoöl.) Any small holothurian resembling in form a gherkin.

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Sea" gin"ger

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1. (Zoöl.) A hydroid coral of the genus Millepora, especially M. alcicornis, of the West Indies and Florida. So called because it stings the tongue like ginger. See Illust. under Millepore.

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Sea" gir"dles

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1. (Bot.) A kind of kelp (Laminaria digitata) with palmately cleft fronds; -- called also sea wand, seaware, and tangle.

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• noun a deity that personifies the sea and is usually believed to live in or to control the sea
  

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Sea" god`

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1. A marine deity; a fabulous being supposed to live in, or have dominion over, the sea, or some particular sea or part of the sea, as Neptune.

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Sea" god"dess

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1. A goddess supposed to live in or reign over the sea, or some part of the sea.

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Sea" goose`

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1. (Zoöl.) A phalarope.

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• noun ctenophore having a rounded body with longitudinal rows of cilia
  

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Sea" gown`

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1. A gown or frock with short sleeves, formerly worn by mariners. Shak.

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Sea" grape`

Definitions

1. (Bot.) (a) The gulf weed. See under Gulf. (b) A shrubby plant (Coccoloba uvifera) growing on the sandy shores of tropical America, somewhat resembling the grapevine.
2. pl. (Zoöl.) The clusters of gelatinous egg capsules of a squid (Loligo).

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Sea" grass`

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1. (Bot.) Eelgrass.

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• noun the property of a moderate green color resembling the waters of the sea
  

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Sea" green`

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1. The green color of sea water.

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Sea" gud"geon

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1. (Zoöl.) The European black goby (Gobius niger).

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• noun mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short legs
  seagull; gull.
  

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Sea" gull`

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1. (Zoöl.) Any gull living on the seacoast.

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• noun naked marine gastropod having a soft body with reduced internal shell and two pairs of ear-like tentacles
  Aplysia punctata.
  

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Sea" hare`

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1. (Zoöl.) Any tectibranchiate mollusk of the genus Aplysia. See Aplysia.

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Sea" hawk`

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1. (Zoöl.) A jager gull.

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Sea" heath`

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1. (Bot.) A low perennial plant (Frankenia lævis) resembling heath, growing along the seashore in Europe.

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Sea" hedge"hog`

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1. (Zoöl.) A sea urchin.

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Sea" hen`

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1. (Zoöl.) the common guillemot; -- applied also to various other sea birds.

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Sea" hog`

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1. (Zoöl.) The porpoise.

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• noun European evergreen eryngo with twisted spiny leaves naturalized on United States east coast; roots formerly used as an aphrodisiac
  Eryngium maritimum; sea eryngium; sea holly.
  
• noun widely cultivated southern European acanthus with whitish purple-veined flowers
  bear's breech; Acanthus mollis; bear's breeches.
  

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Sea" hol"ly

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1. (Bot.) An evergeen seashore plant (Eryngium maritimum). See Eryngium.

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• noun European evergreen eryngo with twisted spiny leaves naturalized on United States east coast; roots formerly used as an aphrodisiac
  Eryngium maritimum; sea eryngium; sea holly.
  

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Sea" holm`

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1. A small uninhabited island.

Sea" holm`

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1. (Bot.) Sea holly.

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• noun either of two large northern marine mammals having ivory tusks and tough hide over thick blubber
  seahorse; walrus.
  
• noun small fish with horse-like heads bent sharply downward and curled tails; swim in upright position
  seahorse.
  

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Sea" horse`

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1. A fabulous creature, half horse and half fish, represented in classic mythology as driven by sea dogs or ridden by the Nereids. It is also depicted in heraldry. See Hippocampus.
2. (Zoöl.) (a) The walrus. (b) Any fish of the genus Hippocampus. ✍ In a passage of Dryden's, the word is supposed to refer to the hippopotamus.

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Sea" hul"ver

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1. (Bot.) Sea holly.

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• noun small bushy tree grown on islands of the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of the southern United States; yields cotton with unusually long silky fibers
  Gossypium barbadense; tree cotton.
  

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Sea" jel"ly

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1. (Zoöl.) A medusa, or jellyfish.

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• noun perennial of coastal sands and shingles of northern Europe and Baltic and Black Seas having racemes of small white flowers and large fleshy blue-green leaves often used as potherbs
  Crambe maritima; sea cole.
  

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Sea" kale"

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1. (Bot.) See under Kale.

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• noun a Viking pirate chief
  

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Sea" king`

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1. One of the leaders among the Norsemen who passed their lives in roving the seas in search of plunder and adventures; a Norse pirate chief. See the Note under Viking.

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Sea" la"ces

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1. (Bot.) A kind of seaweed (Chorda Filum) having blackish cordlike fronds, often many feet long.

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• noun (nautical) ladder to be lowered over a ship's side for coming aboard
  sea ladder.
  

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• noun large anadromous lamprey sometimes used as food; destructive of native fish fauna in the Great Lakes
  Petromyzon marinus.
  

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Sea" lam"prey

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1. (Zoöl.) The common lamprey.

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• noun a lane at sea that is a regularly used route for vessels
  trade route; seaway; ship route.
  

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Sea" lan"guage

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1. The peculiar language or phraseology of seamen; sailor's cant.

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Sea" lark`

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1. (Zoöl.) (a) The rock pipit (Anthus obscurus). (b) Any one of several small sandpipers and plovers, as the ringed plover, the turnstone, the dunlin, and the sanderling.

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• noun any of various plants of the genus Limonium of temperate salt marshes having spikes of white or mauve flowers
  statice; marsh rosemary.
  

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Sea" lav"en*der

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1. (Bot.) See Marsh rosemary, under Marsh.

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• noun an argumentative and contentious seaman
  

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Sea" law"yer

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1. (Zoöl.) The gray snapper. See under Snapper.

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Sea" legs`

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1. Legs able to maintain their possessor upright in stormy weather at sea, that is, ability stand or walk steadily on deck when a vessel is rolling or pitching in a rough sea. Sailor's Cant Totten.

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Sea" lem"on

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1. (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of nudibranchiate mollusks of the genus Doris and allied genera, having a smooth, thick, convex yellow body.

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Sea" leop"ard

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1. (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of spotted seals, especially Ogmorhinus leptonyx, and Leptonychotes Weddelli, of the Antarctic Ocean. The North Pacific sea leopard is the harbor seal.

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Sea" let"ter

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1. (Mar. Law.) The customary certificate of national character which neutral merchant vessels are bound to carry in time of war; a passport for a vessel and cargo.

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• noun seaweed with edible translucent crinkly green fronds
  laver.
  

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Sea" let"tuce

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1. (Bot.) The green papery fronds of several seaweeds of the genus Ulva, sometimes used as food.

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• noun level of the ocean's surface (especially that halfway between mean high and low tide); used as a standard in reckoning land elevation or sea depth
  

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Sea" lev"el

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1. The level of the surface of the sea; any surface on the same level with the sea.

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• noun crinoid with delicate radiating arms and a stalked body attached to a hard surface
  

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Sea" lil"y

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1. (Zoöl.) A crinoid.

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• noun any of several large eared seals of the northern Pacific related to fur seals but lacking their valuable coat
  

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Sea" li"on

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1. (Zoöl.) Any one of several large species of seals of the family Otariidæ native of the Pacific Ocean, especially the southern sea lion (Otaria jubata) of the South American coast; the northern sea lion (Eumetopias Stelleri) found from California to Japan; and the black, or California, sea lion (Zalophus Californianus), which is common on the rocks near San Francisco.

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Sea" loach"

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1. (Zoöl.) The three-bearded rockling. See Rockling.

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• noun marine isopod crustacean
  sea louse.
  

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Sea" louse`

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1. (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of isopod crustaceans of Cymothoa, Livoneca, and allied genera, mostly parasites on fishes.

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• noun a dune grass of the Pacific seacoast used as a sand binder
  Leymus arenaria; European dune grass; Elymus arenarius.
  

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Sea" man"tis

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1. (Zoöl.) A squilla.

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Sea" marge`

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1. Land which borders on the sea; the seashore. Shak.

   You are near the sea marge of a land teeming with life. J. Burroughs.

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• noun sessile aquatic animal forming mossy colonies of small polyps each having a curved or circular ridge bearing tentacles; attach to stones or seaweed and reproduce by budding
  bryozoan; sea mat; moss animal; polyzoan.
  

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Sea" mat`

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1. (Zoöl.) Any bryozoan of the genus Flustra or allied genera which form frondlike corals.

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Sea" maw`

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1. (Zoöl.) The sea mew.

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• noun the common gull of Eurasia and northeastern North America
  mew; mew gull; Larus canus.
  

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Sea" mew`

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1. (Zoöl.) A gull; the mew.

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• noun a former British unit of length once used in navigation; equivalent to 6,000 feet (1828.8 meters)
  mile.
  

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Sea" mile`

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1. A geographical mile. See Mile.

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• noun a small fleshy herb common along North American seashores and in brackish marshes having pink or white flowers
  Glaux maritima; sea milkwort; black saltwort.
  

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Sea" milk"wort`

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1. (Bot.) A low, fleshy perennial herb (Glaux maritima) found along northern seashores.

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Sea" monk`

Definitions

1. (Zoöl.) See Monk seal, under Monk.

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Sea" mon"ster

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1. (Zoöl.) Any large sea animal.

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• noun sessile aquatic animal forming mossy colonies of small polyps each having a curved or circular ridge bearing tentacles; attach to stones or seaweed and reproduce by budding
  bryozoan; sea mat; moss animal; polyzoan.
  
• noun any of various red algae having graceful rose to purple fronds (e.g. dulse or carrageen)
  

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Sea" moss`

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1. (Zoöl.) Any branched marine bryozoan resembling moss.

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• noun any of several large worms having a broad flattened body with a mat of coarse hairs covering the back
  

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Sea" mouse`

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1. (Zoöl.) (a) A dorsibranchiate annelid, belonging to Aphrodite and allied genera, having long, slender, hairlike setæ on the sides. (b) The dunlin.

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Sea" mud`

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1. A rich slimy deposit in salt marshes and along the seashore, sometimes used as a manure; -- called also sea ooze.

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Sea" nee"dle

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1. (Zoöl.) See Garfish (a).

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Sea" net`tle

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1. A jellyfish, or medusa.

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• noun (Greek mythology) a water nymph who was the daughter of Oceanus or Nereus
  

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• noun a bay of the Black Sea between Russia and the Ukraine
  Sea of Azof; Sea of Azoff.
  

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• noun a bay of the Black Sea between Russia and the Ukraine
  Sea of Azof; Sea of Azoff.
  

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• noun a bay of the Black Sea between Russia and the Ukraine
  Sea of Azof; Sea of Azoff.
  

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• noun a gulf to the west of the mainland of Mexico
  Gulf of California.
  

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• noun an arm of the Pacific between China and Japan
  East Sea.
  

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• noun an inland sea in northwestern Turkey; linked to the Black Sea by the Bosporus and linked to the Aegean by the Dardanelles
  Marmora; Marmara Denizi; Sea of Marmara; Marmara.
  

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• noun an inland sea in northwestern Turkey; linked to the Black Sea by the Bosporus and linked to the Aegean by the Dardanelles
  Marmora; Marmara Denizi; Sea of Marmara; Marmara.
  

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• noun an arm of the Pacific to the east of Asia
  

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• noun having dense spikes of small white flowers and yielding a bulb with medicinal properties
  squill; Urginea maritima; sea onion.
  
• noun European scilla with small blue or purple flowers
  spring squill; Scilla verna.
  

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Sea" on"ion

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1. (Bot.) The officinal squill. See Squill.

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Sea" ooze`

Definitions

1. Same as Sea mud. Mortimer.

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Sea" or"ange

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1. (Zoöl.) A large American holothurian (Lophothuria Fabricii) having a bright orange convex body covered with finely granulated scales. Its expanded tentacles are bright red.

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• noun large marine otter of northern Pacific coasts having very thick dark brown fur
  Enhydra lutris.
  

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Sea" ot"ter

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1. (Zoöl.) An aquatic carnivore (Enhydris lutris, ∨ marina) found in the North Pacific Ocean. Its fur is highly valued, especially by the Chinese. It is allied to the common otter, but is larger, with feet more decidedly webbed.

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Sea" owl`

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1. (Zoöl.) The lumpfish.

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Sea" pad`

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1. (Zoöl.) The puffin.

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Sea" par"tridge

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1. (Zoöl.) The gilthead (Crenilabrus melops), a fish of the British coasts.

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Sea" pass`

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1. A document carried by neutral merchant vessels in time of war, to show their nationality; a sea letter or passport. See Passport.

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• noun wild pea of seashores of north temperate zone having tough roots and purple flowers and useful as a sand binder
  beach pea; Lathyrus maritimus; Lathyrus japonicus.
  

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Sea" peach`

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1. (Zoöl.) A beautiful American ascidian (Cynthia, ∨ Halocynthia, pyriformis) having the size, form, velvety surface, and color of a ripe peach.

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Sea" pear`

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1. (Zoöl.) A pedunculated ascidian of the genus Boltonia.

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• noun fleshy featherlike warm-water colonies
  

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Sea" perch`

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1. (Zoöl.) (a) The European bass (Roccus, ∨ Labrax, lupus); -- called also sea dace. (b) The cunner. (c) The sea bass. (d) The name is applied also to other species of fishes.

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Sea" pheas"ant

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1. (Zoöl.) The pintail duck.

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Sea" pie

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1. (Zoöl.) The oyster catcher, a limicoline bird of the genus Hæmatopus.

Sea" pie`

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1. A dish of crust or pastry and meat or fish, etc., cooked together in alternate layers, -- a common food of sailors; as, a three-decker sea pie.

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Sea" pi"et

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1. (Zoöl.) See 1st Sea pie.

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Sea" pig`

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1. (Zoöl.) (a) A porpoise or dolphin. (b) A dugong.

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Sea" pi"geon

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1. The common guillemot.

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Sea" pike`

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1. (Zoöl.) (a) The garfish. (b) A large serranoid food fish (Centropomus undecimalis) found on both coasts of America; -- called also robalo. (c) The merluce.

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Sea" pin`cush`ion

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1. (Zoöl.) (a) A sea purse. (b) A pentagonal starfish.

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• noun tufted thrift of seacoasts and mountains of north temperate zone; occasionally grown as a ground cover
  cliff rose; Armeria maritima.
  

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Sea" pink`

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1. (Bot.) See Thrift.

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Sea" plov"er

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1. the black-bellied plover.

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• noun small slender fish (to 8 inches) with body covered by bony plates; chiefly of deeper northern Pacific waters
  poacher; sea poacher.
  

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Sea" poach"er, Sea" pok"er (Also<

• Sea poacher
• Sea poker

)

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1. The lyrie.

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• noun small slender fish (to 8 inches) with body covered by bony plates; chiefly of deeper northern Pacific waters
  poacher; sea poacher.
  

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Sea" poach"er, Sea" pok"er (Also<

• Sea poacher
• Sea poker

)

Definitions

1. The lyrie.

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Sea" pool`

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1. A pool of salt water. Spenser.

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• noun yellow-flowered Eurasian glaucous herb naturalized in along sandy shores in eastern North America
  horn poppy; yellow horned poppy; Glaucium flavum; horned poppy.
  

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Sea" pop"py

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1. (Bot.) The horn poppy. See under Horn.

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Sea" por"cu*pine

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1. (Zoöl.) Any fish of the genus Diodon, and allied genera, whose body is covered with spines. See Illust. under Diodon.

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Sea" pork`

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1. (Zoöl.) An American compound ascidian (Amoræcium stellatum) which forms large whitish masses resembling salt pork.

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Sea" port` noun

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1. A port on the seashore, or one accessible for seagoing vessels. Also used adjectively; as, a seaport town.

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• noun naval strength
  
• noun a nation that possesses formidable naval strength
  

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Sea" poy noun

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1. See Sepoy.

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Sea" pud"ding

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1. (Zoöl.) Any large holothurian. Prov. Eng.

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• noun the seaward undercurrent created after waves have broken on the shore
  sea purse; undertow; sea puss; sea-poose; sea-purse.
  

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Sea" purse`

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1. (Zoöl.) The horny egg case of a skate, and of certain sharks.

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Sea" purs"lane

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1. (Bot.) See under Purslane.

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• noun the seaward undercurrent created after waves have broken on the shore
  sea purse; undertow; sea puss; sea-poose; sea-purse.
  

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Sea" pye`

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1. (Zoöl.) See 1st Sea pie.

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Sea" rat`

Definitions

1. A pirate. R. Massinger.
2. (Zoöl.) The chimæra.

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• noun large sculpin of western Atlantic; inflates itself when caught
  Hemitripterus americanus.
  

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Sea" ra"ven

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1. (Zoöl.) (a) An American cottoid fish (Hemitripterus Americanus) allied to the sculpins, found on the northeren Atlantic coasts. (b) The cormorant.

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Sea" reed`

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1. (Bot.) The sea-sand reed. See under Reed.

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Sea" risk

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1. Risk of injury, destruction, or loss by the sea, or while at sea.

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• noun someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation
  buccaneer; sea robber; pirate.
  

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Sea" rob"ber

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1. A pirate; a sea rover.

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• noun American gurnard; mostly found in bays and estuaries
  searobin.
  

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Sea" rob"in

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1. See under Robin, and Illustration in Appendix.

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Sea" rock"et

Definitions

1. (Bot.) See under Rocket.

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• noun space for maneuver at sea
  

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Sea" room`

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1. (Naut.) Room or space at sea for a vessel to maneuver, drive, or scud, without peril of running ashore or aground. Totten.

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• noun someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation
  buccaneer; sea robber; pirate.
  

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Sea" rov"er

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1. One that cruises or roves the sea for plunder; a sea robber; a pirate; also, a piratical vessel.

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Sea" salm"on

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1. (Zoöl.) (a) A young pollock. (b) The spotted squeteague. (c) See Sea bass (b).

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Sea" salt`

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1. Common salt, obtained from sea water by evaporation.

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Sea" sand"pi`per

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1. (Zoöl.) The purple sandpiper.

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Sea" sand"wort`

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1. (Bot.) See Sea chickweed.

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Sea" sau"ri*an noun

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1. (Zoöl.) Any marine saurian; esp. (Paleon.) the large extinct species of Mosasaurus, Icthyosaurus, Plesiosaurus, and related genera.

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• noun muscle of large deep-water scallops
  
• noun a large scallop inhabiting deep waters of the Atlantic coast of North America
  Pecten magellanicus; giant scallop.
  

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• noun a motorboat resembling a motor scooter
  water scooter; scooter.
  

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• noun marine fishes having a tapering body with an armored head and venomous spines
  scorpionfish; scorpion fish.
  

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Sea" scor"pi*on

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1. (Zoöl.) (a) A European sculpin (Cottus scorpius) having the head armed with short spines. (b) The scorpene.

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• noun a Boy Scout enrolled in programs for water activities
  

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Sea" scurf`

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1. (Zoöl.) Any bryozoan which forms rounded or irregular patches of coral on stones, seaweeds, etc.

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• noun huge creature of the sea resembling a snake or dragon
  

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Sea" ser`pent

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1. (Zoöl.) Any marine snake. See Sea snake.
2. (Zoöl.) A large marine animal of unknown nature, often reported to have been seen at sea, but never yet captured. ✍ Many accounts of sea serpents are imaginary or fictitious; others are greatly exaggerated and distorted by incompetent observers; but a number have been given by competent and trustworthy persons, which indicate that several diverse animals have been called sea serpents. Among these are, apparently, several large snakelike fishes, as the oar fish, or ribbon fish (Regalecus), and huge conger eels. Other accounts probably refer to the giant squids (Architeuthis). Some of the best accounts seem to describe a marine saurian, like the fossil Mosasauri, which were large serpentlike creatures with paddles.

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• noun marine isopod crustacean
  sea louse.
  

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Sea" slat"er

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1. (Zoöl.) Any isopod crustacean of the genus Ligia.

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• noun any of various marine gastropods of the suborder Nudibranchia having a shell-less and often beautifully colored body
  nudibranch.
  

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Sea" slug`

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1. (Zoöl.) (a) A holothurian. (b) A nudibranch mollusk.

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• noun small tadpole-shaped cold-water fishes with pelvic fins forming a sucker; related to lumpfish
  seasnail; snailfish; Liparis liparis.
  

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Sea" snail`

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1. (Zoöl.) (a) A small fish of the genus Liparis, having a ventral sucker. It lives among stones and seaweeds. (b) Any small creeping marine gastropod, as the species of Littorina, Natica, etc.

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• noun any of numerous venomous aquatic viviparous snakes having a fin-like tail; of warm littoral seas; feed on fish which they immobilize with quick-acting venom
  

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Sea" snake`

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1. (Zoöl.) Any one of many species of venomous aquatic snakes of the family Hydrophidæ, having a flattened tail and living entirely in the sea, especially in the warmer parts of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. They feed upon fishes, and are mostly of moderate size, but some species become eight or ten feet long and four inches broad.

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Sea" snipe`

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1. (Zoöl.) (a) A sandpiper, as the knot and dunlin. (b) The bellows fish.

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• noun any of various small spiderlike marine arthropods having small thin bodies and long slender legs
  pycnogonid.
  

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Sea" spi"der

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1. (Zoöl.) (a) Any maioid crab; a spider crab. See Maioid, and Spider crab, under Spider. (b) Any pycnogonid.

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• noun spray from ocean waves
  

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• noun prostrate weedy herb with tiny pink flowers; widespread throughout Europe and Asia on sand dunes and heath and coastal cliffs; naturalized in eastern North America
  sand spurry; Spergularia rubra.
  

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• noun delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver
  pufferfish; blowfish; puffer.
  

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• noun having dense spikes of small white flowers and yielding a bulb with medicinal properties
  squill; Urginea maritima; sea onion.
  

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• noun ascidian that can contract its body and eject streams of water
  

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Sea" squirt`

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1. (Zoöl.) An ascidian. See Illust. under Tunicata.

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• noun echinoderms characterized by five arms extending from a central disk
  starfish.
  

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Sea" star`

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1. (Zoöl.) A starfish, or brittle star.

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• noun a common European aster that grows in salt marshes
  sea aster; Aster tripolium.
  

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• noun (nautical) ladder to be lowered over a ship's side for coming aboard
  sea ladder.
  

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Sea" sur"geon

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1. (Zoöl.) A surgeon fish.

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• noun common tern of Eurasia and America having white black and grey plumage
  Sterna hirundo.
  

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Sea" swal"low

Definitions

1. (Zoöl.) (a) The common tern. (b) The storm petrel. (c) The gannet.
2. (Her.) See Cornish chough, under Chough.

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• noun any of various coarse seaweeds
  tang.
  

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Sea" tang`

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1. (Bot.) A kind of seaweed; tang; tangle.

   To their nests of sedge and sea tang. Longfellow.

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• noun any of various kelps especially of the genus Laminaria
  tang.
  

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Sea" term`

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1. A term used specifically by seamen; a nautical word or phrase.

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Sea" thief`

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1. A pirate. Drayton.

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Sea" thongs`

Definitions

1. (Bot.) A kind of blackish seaweed (Himanthalia lorea) found on the northern coasts of the Atlantic. It has a thonglike forking process rising from a top-shaped base.

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Sea" tit"ling

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1. (Zoöl.) The rock pipit.

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Sea" toad`

Definitions

1. (Zoöl.) (a) A sculpin. (b) A toadfish. (c) The angler.

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• noun a small fleshy herb common along North American seashores and in brackish marshes having pink or white flowers
  Glaux maritima; sea milkwort; black saltwort.
  

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• noun flesh of marine trout that migrate from salt to fresh water
  salmon trout.
  
• noun any of several sciaenid fishes of North American coastal waters
  
• noun silvery marine variety of brown trout that migrates to fresh water to spawn
  

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Sea" trout`

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1. (Zoöl.) (a) Any one of several species of true trouts which descend rivers and enter the sea after spawning, as the European bull trout and salmon trout, and the eastern American spotted trout. (b) The common squeteague, and the spotted squeteague. (c) A California fish of the family Chiridæ, especially Hexagrammus decagrammus; -- called also spotted rock trout. See Rock trout, under Rock. (d) A California sciænoid fish (Cynoscion nobilis); -- called also white sea bass.

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Sea" trum"pet

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1. (Bot.) A great blackish seaweed of the Southern Ocean, having a hollow and expanding stem and a pinnate frond, sometimes twenty feet long.
2. (Zoöl.) Any large marine univalve shell of the genus Triton. See Triton.

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Sea" turn`

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1. A breeze, gale, or mist from the sea. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

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• noun any of various large turtles with limbs modified into flippers; widely distributed in warm seas
  marine turtle.
  

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Sea" tur"tle

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1. (Zoöl.) (a) Any one of several very large species of chelonians having the feet converted into paddles, as the green turtle, hawkbill, loggerhead, and leatherback. They inhabit all warm seas. (b) The sea pigeon, or guillemot.

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Sea" u"ni*corn

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1. (Zoöl.) The narwhal.

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• noun shallow-water echinoderms having soft bodies enclosed in thin spiny globular shells
  

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Sea" ur"chin

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1. (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of echinoderms of the order Echinoidea. When living they are covered with movable spines which are often long and sharp.

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Sea" wall`

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1. A wall, or embankment, to resist encroachments of the sea.

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Sea" whip`

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1. (Zoöl.) A gorgonian having a simple stem.

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Sea" wid"geon

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1. (Zoöl.) (a) The scaup duck. (b) The pintail duck.

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Sea" wil"low

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1. (Zoöl.) A gorgonian coral with long flexible branches.

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Sea" wing`

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1. (Zoöl.) A wing shell (Avicula).

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Sea" with"wind`

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1. (Bot.) A kind of bindweed (Convolvulus Soldanella) growing on the seacoast of Europe.

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• noun predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas
  grampus; killer whale; killer; Orcinus orca; orca.
  

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Sea" wolf`

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1. (Zoöl.) (a) The wolf fish. (b) The European sea perch. (c) The sea elephant. (d) A sea lion.

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Sea" wood louse`

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1. (Zoöl.) A sea slater.

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Sea" wood"cock`

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1. (Zoöl.) The bar-tailed godwit.

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• noun plants of western and northern European coasts
  Seriphidium maritimum; Artemisia maritima.
  

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Sea" worm"wood`

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1. (Bot.) A European species of wormwood (Artemisia maritima) growing by the sea.

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• noun submerged marine plant with very long narrow leaves found in abundance along North Atlantic coasts
  grass wrack; eelgrass; Zostera marina.
  
• noun growth of marine vegetation especially of the large forms such as rockweeds and kelp
  wrack.
  

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Sea" wrack`

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1. (Bot.) See Wrack.

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Sea"-bar` noun

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1. (Zoöl.) A tern.

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Sea"-blub"ber noun

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1. (Zoöl.) A jellyfish.

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Sea"-bor"der*ing adjective

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1. Bordering on the sea; situated beside the sea. Drayton.

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Sea"-born` adjective

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1. Born of the sea; produced by the sea. "Neptune and his sea-born niece." Waller.
2. Born at sea.

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Sea"-built` adjective

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1. Built at, in, or by the sea.

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• noun the shore of a sea or ocean
  seashore; seacoast; coast.
  

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• noun naval service aboard a ship at sea
  service abroad; shipboard duty.
  

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• noun an abalone found near the Channel Islands
  ormer; Haliotis tuberculata.
  

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Sea"-ear` noun

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1. (Zoöl.) Any species of ear-shaped shells of the genus Haliotis. See Abalone.

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Sea"-gate`, Sea"-gait` noun (Also<

• Sea-gate
• Sea-gait

)

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1. A long, rolling swell of the sea. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

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• adjective satellite of the color of the sea; bluish green
  

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Sea"-green` adjective

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1. Of a beautiful bluish green color, like sea water on soundings.

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Sea"-is`land adjective

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1. Of or pertaining to certain islands along the coast of South Carolina and Georgia; as, sea-island cotton, a superior cotton of long fiber produced on those islands.

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• noun perennial herbs and shrubs and lianas; cosmopolitan especially in saltwater areas
  family Plumbaginaceae; leadwort family; Plumbaginaceae.
  

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• noun thin flat or tubular green algae
  family Ulvaceae; Ulvaceae.
  

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• adjective satellite lying below the normal level
  low-lying.
  
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• noun the atmospheric pressure reduced by a formula to the pressure at sea level
  

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Sea"-maid` noun

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1. The mermaid.
2. A sea nymph.

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Sea"-mail` noun

Etymology

Definitions

1. (Zoöl.) A gull; the mew.

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Sea"-mell` noun

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1. (Zoöl.) The sea mew.

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Sea"-orb` noun

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1. (Zoöl.) A globefish.

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Sea"-pen" noun

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1. (Zoöl.) A pennatula.

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• noun the seaward undercurrent created after waves have broken on the shore
  sea purse; undertow; sea puss; sea-poose; sea-purse.
  

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• noun the seaward undercurrent created after waves have broken on the shore
  sea purse; undertow; sea puss; sea-poose; sea-purse.
  

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• noun the seaward undercurrent created after waves have broken on the shore
  sea purse; undertow; sea puss; sea-poose; sea-purse.
  

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• noun salt-tolerant seashore annual grown for its fragrant rose or violet flowers and fleshy grey-green foliage
  Cakile maritima.
  

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Sea"-rov"ing

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1. , a. Cruising at random on the ocean.

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Sea"-walled` adjective

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1. Surrounded, bounded, or protected by the sea, as if by a wall. Shak.

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• noun an informal expression for all of the oceans of the world
  
  • the old salt had sailed the seven seas

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• a sea in which the waves are short, broken, and irregular, so as to produce a tumbling or jerking motion.

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• noun of the southern coast of South America
  Otaria Byronia.
  

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• noun a tropical arm of the Pacific Ocean near southeastern Asia subject to frequent typhoons
  

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• noun any sea to the south of the equator (but especially the South Pacific)
  

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• noun any islands in the southern or southwestern of central parts of the Pacific Ocean
  

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• noun weakfish of southern Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of United States
  spotted weakfish; spotted squeateague; Cynoscion nebulosus.
  

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• noun found on coasts of the northwestern Pacific
  Haliaeetus pelagicus; Kamchatkan sea eagle.
  

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• noun largest sea lion; of the northern Pacific
  Eumetopias jubatus; Steller sea lion.
  

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• noun extinct large sirenian mammal formerly found near the Asiatic coast of the Bering Sea
  Hydrodamalis gigas.
  

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• noun largest sea lion; of the northern Pacific
  Eumetopias jubatus; Steller sea lion.
  

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• noun an arm of the southern Pacific Ocean between southeastern Australia and New Zealand
  

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• the Mediterranean Sea. Obs.

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• noun an arm of the eastern Indian Ocean between Timor and northern Australia
  

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• a adopt the calling or occupation of a sailor.

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• (Naut.), to set sail; to begin a voyage; to advance into the ocean.

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• (Naut.), to direct the course from land.

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• the depression between two waves.

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• noun an arm of the Mediterranean between Italy and the islands of Corsica and Sardinia and Sicily
  

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• noun an arm of the south Atlantic in Antarctica to the east of the Antarctic Peninsula
  

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• noun a large inlet of the Barents Sea in the northwestern part of European Russia
  

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• noun bulky greyish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail; of Europe and Greenland
  erne; grey sea eagle; Haliatus albicilla; gray sea eagle; European sea eagle; ern.
  

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• noun part of the Pacific off the east coast of Asia
  Huang Hai.
  

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