Hudson's Day might equally well, or even more properly, 
sea 5438 sea-bream 
sea-angel (se'anjel), . The angel-fish, Sqita- sea-beard (se'berd), n. A marine plant, Cln 
tina angelus. See cut under aiigel-liglt. </<>]ilmr<t rupcctris. 
be called HmisoifSea. ' " sea-ape (se'ap), n. 1. Same as sea-fojc. 2. The sea-beast (se'best), i. A beast of the sea. 
And this deed See hathe in brede eat and west .vj. sea-otter: so called from its gambols. That sea beast 
dayes jour- When holding a fore-paw over their eyes in order to 
look about them with more distinctness, they are called 
sea-apes. a. I;, 
Northwardis to the kingdom of Surr, And to these of apa-annlp (se''in"11 
lire* in Rum nlftpe 
See cocoain/t. 
i. A kind 
Icgges, and in lengthe northe and southe 
lu ; 
iy ; and nyghe unto the sayd see it is comonly darke as 
ill. Sir R. Guijlforde, 1'ylgrymage, p. 5S. 
Cipres, in sum place. 
Torkinffton, Diarie of Eng. Travel!, p. 38. 
3. Any widely extended or overwhelming mass 
or quantity ; an ocean ; a flood : as, a sea of dif- 
ficulties ; a sea of upturned faces. 
So she, deep-drenched in a sea of care, 
Holds disputation with each thing she views. 
Shak., Lucrece, 1. 1100. 
4. The swell of the ocean, or the direction of 
the waves: as, there was a heavy sea on; to 
keep the boat's head to the sea. 
His first Lieutenant, Peter, was 
As useless as could be, 
A helpless stick, and always sick 
When there was any fa. 
H: S. Gilbert, The Martinet. 
6. A large wave; a billow; a surge: as, to ship 
a sea. 
The warriors standing on the breezy shore, 
To dry their sweat and wash away the gore, 
Here paus'd a moment, while the gentle gale 
Convey'd that freshness the cool seas exhale. 
Pope, Iliad, xi. 761. 
The broad seas swell'd to meet the keel, 
And swept behind. 
tened fronds. See kelp?. 
Leviathan, which God of all his works 
Created hugest that swim the ocean stream. 
Milton, P. L, 1. 200. 
Same as sea-cocoainit. sea-beat (se'bet), a. Beaten by the sea ; lashed 
by the waves. 
Darkness cover'd o'er 
The face of things; 
Satiate we slept. 
-beaten (se'be'tn) 
of elongated form, as of the genus Ommastre- 
a flying-squid : so called from their durt- 
'. 2. An arrow-worm ; any 
along the seabeat shore 
Pope, Odyssey. 
, a. Same as sea-beat. 
Xanthoxylum Clara-Berciilis. See prickly-ash. 
sea-asparagus (se'as-par"a-gus), n. 
shelled crab, as CaUinectcs'hastitttix. 
sea-bank (se'bangk), n. 1. The sea-shore. 
In such a night 
Stood Dido with a willow in her hand 
Upon the wild fca-banks, and waft her love 
To come again to Carthage. 
Shat.,K. of V., v. 1. 11 
2. A bank or mole to defend against the sea. 
sea-bar (se'bar), n. The sea-swallow ortern. 
sea-barley (se'bar'li), w. See Hordcmn. 
marina. 
See beeft. 
n. pi. A species of bind- 
tnvolrulus) Soldanellu, bear- 
ing pink funnel-shaped flowers, and growing in 
- sea-sands on European and Pacific coasts. 
'" sea-belt (se'belt), n. A plant, the sweet fucus, 
Laminaria saccharina, which grows upon stones 
and rocks by the sea-shore, the fronds of which 
resemble a belt or girdle. See Laminaria and 
kambou. 
sea-bent (se'bent), n. See Ammophila. 
seaberry (se'ber'i), . ; pi. seaberries (-iz). See 
Baloragis and Khagodia. 
sea-bindweed (se'bind'wed), n. Same as sea- 
bells. 
Sea-bass [ Centrofristitfurtnts\ 
sea-barrow (se'bar"6), w. The egg-case of a sea-bird (se'berd), w. A marine or pelagic web- 
Tennyson, The Voyage, ray or skate : so called from its shape, like that footed bird ; a sea-fowl : a name of no specific 
A long sea, a sea having a uniform and steady motion of of a hand-barrow : same as mermai<fs-pnrse. application, 
the^ea^elte^dh^nfan^ sea-basket (se'bas"ket), n. Same as basket- sea-biscuit (se'bis"kit), n. Ship-biscuit; 
water of rivers is P roVel"ed r ckward byth y c*ngre < ss l a e nd Sea-baSS (se'bas), n. 1. A fish of the family sea-blite (se'blit), w. Seeblite?. 
pressure of the tide. Angett, On Tide Waters, ill. At Serranidse, Centropristis furvus, distinguished Sea-blubber (se'blub'er), . An acaleph or 
lull sea, at high water; hence, at the height. by its peculiar caudal fin and its conspicuous sea-nettle; a jellyfish; a sea-jelly. Also sea- 
A satyricall Romano in his time thought all vice, folly, 
and madnesse were all at. full sea. 
Burton, Anat. of Mel., To the Reader, p. 28. {Dairies.) 
God's mercy was at full sea. Jer. Taylor. 
At sea. () Voyaging on the ocean ; out on the ocean ; 
away on a voyage : as, her husband is now at sea ; vessels 
spoken a* sea. 
Those that (at. Sea) to see both Poles are wont, 
Vpon their Compass two and thirty count. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 2. 
(6) Out on the ocean, and out of sight of land; hence, in 
the condition of a mariner who has lost his bearings ; iu 
a state of uncertainty or error ; astray ; wide of the mark ; 
quite wrong : as, you arc altogether at sea in your guesses. 
Beyond the sea or seas, see beyond. Brazen sea. 
See brazen. Closed sea. See mare clausum. Cross sea 
chopping sea. See rrossW Gothland sea laws. See 
(owl. Great sea , see ,jreat. Half seas over, tipsy. 
[Slang.] Heave of the sea. See heare. Heavy sea, 
a sea in which the waves run high ; also, a wave moving 
with great force. High seas. See high. Inland sea. 
See inland. Main sea. the ocean; that part of the sea 
which is not within the body of a country. Molten sea 
in Scrip., the great brazen laver of the Mosaic ritual.' 
iKi. vii. 23-26. Onthesea. (a) Afloat. (6) Bythe mar- 
gin of the sea ; on the sea-coast. 
A clear-wall'd city on the sea. Tennyson, Palace of Art. 
Over seas. See oner. Perils of the sea. See peril. 
Pustules of the sea. See pustule. Sargasso Sea. See 
sargasso. Sea. laws. See (awl. Short sea, a sea in 
which the waves are irregular, broken, and interrupted. 
so as frequently to break over a vessel's bow, side, or lm , U m uau,juuinieveni 
quarter. The four seas, the seas bounding Great Brit- ooa v- aT , rp'r,pr 
am on the north, east, south, and west. The narrow sea-Dean (se en;, n. 
sea. See iwrrowi.-To go to sea, to follow the sea, 
to follow the occupation of a sailor. To quarter the 
sea. See quarter!. 
sea 2 t, n. An obsolete spelling of see 2 . 
sea-acorn (se'a"k6rn), n. A barnacle ; one of 
the Salanidse. 
sea-adder (se'ad"er), H. 1. The fifteen-spined 
stickleback. Spinachia vulgaris: same as adder- 
fish. [Local, Eng.] 2. One of certain pipe- 
fishes, as Nernphis seguorciw and A 7 , ophidion. 
[Local, Eng. (Cornwall).] 
sea- 
See cuts under acaleph and Discophora. 
seaboard (se'bord), n. and a. [Early mod. E. 
also sea-bord; < sea + board.] I. . The sea- 
shore ; the coast-line ; the sea-coast ; the coun- 
try bordering on the sea. 
II. a. Bordering on or adjoining the sea. 
There shall a Lion from the sea-bord wood 
Of Meustria come roaring. 
Spenser, F. Q., III. ill. 47. 
sea-boat (se'bot), n. 1. A vessel considered 
with reference to her sea-going qualities or be- 
havior at sea : as, a good or a bad sea-boat. 
2. A sea-bug. 
colors, the body being brown or black and more sea-bookt (se'buk), . An old name for a nauti- 
or less mottled with pale longitudinal stripes C &1 map. See the quotation. 
When the loxodromic maps first came into existence, 
hand-books with sailing directions were written to accom- 
pany them; hence the titles "sailing-directions," "sea- 
oooks," portulani (by which word actual maps were after- 
wards meant), or cartas da marear. Encyc. Brit., XV. 619. 
along the rows of scales. It is one of the most com- 
mon fishes in the New York markets, and is locally called 
black sea bass, black perch, blackjish, blue bass, and bluefish. 
2. A scieenoid fish, Cynoscion nobilis, related to 
the weakfish of the eastern United States, but 
much larger. It occurs along the coast of Cali- sea-bordt, . and a. 
fornia, where it is also called ichite sea-bass, and ''<"''' 
sea-salmon. 3. The sturgeon, Aeipenser trans- sea-bordering (se'bor'der-ing), a. 
montanus. Jordan and Gilbert. [Pacific coast, <>r lying on the sea. 
U. S.] 4. Same as drum 1 , 11 (c). Those sea-bord'ring shores of ours that point at France, 
sea-bat (se'bat), n. 1. A fish of the family Drayton, Polyolbion, xvii. 358. 
Platacidee. See cut under Plahtx. 2. A mal- sea-born (se'b&rn), a. Bom of the sea; pro- 
theoidfish,ja^/ie vespertilio: sameas&o<-/s/i, 1. duced by the sea. 
ea-bean (se'ben), n. 1. The seed of a legu- 
minous climbing plant, Entada scandens, grow- 
ing in the tropics of both hemispheres, and re- 
markable for the size of its pods. (See simitar- 
pod. ) The seeds or beans are some two inches broad and 
half an inch thick, have a hard polished exterior, and are 
often converted into trinkets. They are sometimes carried 
by ocean currents to the shores of Scotland and Norway. 
An obsolete form of sea- 
Bordering 
But they, 
Like Neptune and his sea-born niece, shall be 
The shining glories of the land and sea. 
Waller, To My Lord Admiral. 
sea-borne (se'born), a. Carried on the sea. 
This ordinance regulates, in five clauses, the sale of the 
common sea-borne articles of food. 
English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 342. 
2. One of numerous different species of small sea-bottle (se'bot'l), . A seaweed, Valonia 
univalve shells of the family Trtiiidse, as Trivia ntricularis: so called from the vesicular fronds. 
pediculus of the West Indies, T. calif arnica, etc. sea-bound (se'bound), a. 1. Bounded by the 
These somewhat resemble coffee-beans in size and shape, sea. 2. On the way to or bound for the sea. 
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sea-anchor (sVang-kor), . 1. The anchor ^^S^^&S^& a " d U8ed ' r sea-bow (se'bo), n. A prismatic bow formed 
lying toward the sea when a ship is moored. 3. The operculum or lid of the aperture of any ' 
2. A floating anchor used at sea in a gale to shell of the family Turbinidx, as the common 
keep the ship's head to the wind : same as drag- 
sheet. Also called drift-anchor. 
sea-anemone (se'a-uem''o-ne), n. An actinia; 
a coalenterate of the class Actinozoa and order 
Malacodermata, of which there are several fam- 
ilies besides the Aetiniidx, many genera, and 
numerous species. They are distinguished by the 
cylindrical form of the body, which is soft fleshy and 
capable of dilatation and contraction. The same aper- 
ture serves for mouth and vent, and is furnished with 
tentacles, by means of which the animal seizes and secures 
its food, and which when expanded give it somewhat the 
appearance of a flower. The tentacles may be very numer- 
ous, in some cases exceeding 200 in number. When fully 
expanded the appearance of the sea-anemones in all their 
varieties of color is exceedingly beautiful ; but upon the 
slightest touch the tentacles can be quickly retracted with- 
in the mouth-aperture. Sea-anemones are all marine, and 
are found on the sea-shore of most countries. See'cuts 
under Actinozoa. cancrisocial, Edirardsia, and Ifctridinm 
, L j. -i j.i_ 
the 8 " n . 8 ra - v * st r ik , e th ? sp / ay , 
'"g waves, being reflected and refracted there- 
, 
Turbo pharaoxis of the East Indies. These objects b - v j. ust f- b 7 ^ rops of ram> See ''"' " bolr - 
vary in size with the several species, and are of different SCa-DOy (se DO1), . 
A boy employed on board 
ship ; a sailor-boy. [Rare.] 
Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose 
To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude, 
And in the calmest and most stillest night . . . 
Deny it to a king? Shak., 2 Hen. IV., iii. 1. 27. 
colors, as red, green, brown, etc., or variegated. They are 
thick, solid, and somewhat stony, generally plano-convex, 
the flat side showing subspiral lines, the other smooth. 
They are gathered and sold in large quantities for various 
superstitious and imaginary medicinal purposes, being 
worn about the neck as amulets or carried in the pocket 
as "lucky stones." They are also polished and used for sea-brant (se brant), >!. 1. The brant- or brent- 
watch-charms, Jewelry-settings, etc. goose. 2. The velvet-duck or white-winged 
sea-bear (se bar), . 1. The white or polar scoter. [Portsmouth, New Hampshire.] 
bear, Vrsus or Thatassarctos maritimus. See cut sea-breach (se'brech), n. Irruption of the sea 
under bear?. 2. The fur-seal CaOorhinus vr- by breaking banks, dikes, etc. 
shunt, of the North Pacific, which affords the 
sealskin of commerce. (See fur-seal .) The name 
is also common to the various smaller otaries or fur-seals 
Let me stand the shock 
Of this mad sea-breach, which I'll either turn, 
Or perish with it. Beau, and Fl., Philaster, v. S. 
of southern and antarctic waters (species of Arctocepha- / -,, - * 
Im), as distinguished from the larger hair-seals called sea- Sea-bream (se brem), w. 
lions. 
3. See seiche. 
1. One of several spa- 
roid fishes; with some authors, the Sparidx in 
general. The common sea-bream ir- PayeUun centrflnn 
