sea-swine 
Sea-swine (se'swln), . 1. A porpoise. Also 
urn-hut/, nca-)iiii. 
Most nations culling this fish Porcus marinus, or the sea- 
swine. J. Han, I'hilos. Trans., Abridged (1700), II. 845. 
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sea-turtle 
- High seat. Same ruiny-Mat -Redistribution of sea-thong (so't hong), w. One of several species 
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pose to be in direct connection with the soul ; the senso- tliiil/ii Inn n, ( horda Ilium, etc. See Chorda, Hi- 
riuin. To take a seat, to sit down. [Colloq.j_ in/nithitliii, Laminariacese. 
2. Theballau-wrasse: in allusion to a supposed seat (set), v. [< seat, n.] I. trans. 1. To place sea-thorn (se'thorn), w. Same as pustule of the 
sucking noise like that of a pig made. by the '" 
fish. See cut under Labrus. If. Dai/. [Moray 
Firth, Scotland.] 
seat (set), n. [< ME. sete, seete; (a) in part < 
AS. siet, a place where one sits in ambush, = 
on a seat; cause to sit down: as, to seat one's SIM (which see, under pustule). 
guests: often used reflexively: as, to seat one's sea-thrift (se'thrift), n. See thrift. 
seZ/at table. seating (se'ting), n. [Verbal n. of seat, .] 
The guests were no sooner seated but they entered into rm " 1 ""* "* - 1 --: 
a warm debate. Arbutlmot. 
The young ladies seated themselves demurely in their 
rush-bottomed chairs, and knit their own woollen stock- 
ings. Irving, Knickerbocker, p. 170. 
2. To furnish or fit up with seats: as, to seat a 
church for a thousand persons. 3. To repair 
by renewing or mending the seat: as, to seat a 
chair or a garment. 4. To afford sitting accom- 
modation for; accommodate with seats or sit- 
tings: as, a room that seats four hundred. 5. 
To fix; set firm-. 
Thus Rodoll was seated againe in his Soueraiguty, and sea-titling (se'tit'ling), n. The shore-pipit or 
r\ illhlr'mn nct'flllln 1tmo/>t tn tllo P.tnr^ovnln- T , j n j. 
sea-lark, Antltus aquattcus or ooscurus. See 
MD. saete, sate, a sitting, seat, chair, station, 
port, dock, = OHG. xil;a, i/eml-e, MHG. sd~t; u 
seat, = Icel. sat, a sitting in ambush, an am- 
bush ; (6) in part <. Icel. sxti = Sw. sate = Dan. 
sssde,& seat ; from the verb, AS. sittan (pret. s/e-t, 
pi. s<eton),ete.,sit: see sit. Cf. settle 1 , from the 
same verb, and cf. L. sedes, a seat (> E. ee 2 , 
siege), sedile, a seat, chair, setta, a seat, throne, 
saddle (> E. sell'*), etc., from the cognate L. 
verb.] 1. A place or thing on which to sit ; a 
bench, stool, chair, throne, or the like. 
Priam by purpos a pales gert make 
Within the Cite full Solempnc of a sete riall. ";*" "/ """ """"" " uo """" *' '"' rock-pipit. [LocalfEng.] 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1680. '" Juth, '' P?rpe_ uajly Preserves m age restores the . >* ,Jin n ^ ^ 
The act of placing on a seat ; the act of f uniish- 
ing with a seat or seats. 2. Textile material 
made for upholstering the seats of chairs, sofas, 
and the like; especially, haircloth. 3. pi. In 
mcch., collectively, the various fitted supports 
of the parts of a structure or of a machine. 
4. In ship-building, that part of the floor which 
rests on the keel. 
When the frames are perpendicular to the keel, the 
bevelling of the seating of the floors, i. e. the angle be- 
tween the plane of the side of timber and the keel, is a 
right angle. Thearle, Naval Arch., 4C. 
The tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them 
that sold doves. Mat. xxi. 12. 
2. That part of a thing on which one sits, or 
on which another part or thing rests, or by 
which it is supported: as, the seat of a chair; 
the seats in a wagon ; the seat of a valve. 
The seat of a valve is the fixed surface on which it rests, 
or against which it presses. Ranttine, Steam Engine, 111. 
3. That part of the body on which one sits ; 
the breech, buttocks, or fundament; techni- 
cally, the gluteal region. 4. That part of a 
garment which covers the breech: as, the seat 
of a pair of trousers. 
His blue Jean trowsers, very full in the seat, might sug- 
gest an idea of a bluebottle fly. 
W. M. Baker, New Timothy, p. 53. 
5. Site; situation; location: as, the seat of 
Eden ; the seat of a tumor, or of a disease. 
This castle hath a pleasant seat. Shak., Macbeth, i. 6. L 
Silver-street, the region of money, a good seat for a 
usurer. B. Jonson, Staple of News, iii. 2. 
6. Abode; place of abode or residence; spe- 
cifically, a mansion : as, a family seat; a coun- 
try-seat. 
In an yle that was negh the noble kynges sete, 
This clene flese was inclosede all with clere water, 
Euon a forlong therfro, & fully nomore. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 848. 
Prusia, now called Bursia, which was the abiding seat 
of the kings of Bithynia. 
Guevara, Letters (tr. by Hellowes, 1577), p. 330. 
It is the seat of an Archbishop, having been first an 
Episcopal cite before it was graced with the dignity of an 
Archbishopricke. Coryat, Crudities, I. 100. sea-tang (se'tang), n. 
I call'd at my cousin Evelyn's, who has a very pretty tang ; tangle. 
seate in the forest, 2 miles behither Clifden. 
Evelyn, Diary, July 23, 1679. 
7. Regular or appropriate place, as of rest, ac- 
in youin it perpetually preserves, in age restores the j. i i_ / -i/i i_\ ' T , ^ 
complexion ; seats your teeth, did they dance like virginal SCat-lOCK (set lok), n. In railroad-cars, etc., a 
, 
jacks, firm as a wall. B. Jonson, Volpone, ii. i. form of lock for holding the back of a reversi- 
6. To locate ; settle ; place definitely as in a ble seat in position. 
permanent abode or dwelling-place ; fix: often Sea-toad (se'tod), n. 1. The sea-frog, fishing- 
frog, or angler, Lophius piscatorius, a fish. See 
cut under angler. 2. The toadfish, Batrachus 
tau.S. The sculpin. 4. The great spider- 
crab, Hyas araneus. Wood. 
sea-tortoise (se'tor'tis), n. A marine tor- 
toise ; a sea-turtle. 
Perhaps it was with these three Languages as with the sea-toss (se'tos), n. A toss overboard into the 
;uage when they_flrst seated themselues in gea: ag) g ive it a sea . tosSf [Colloq.] 
sea-tossed, sea-tost (se'tost), a. Tossed by 
the sea. 
reflexively. 
Fiery diseases, seated in the spirit, embroile the whole 
frame of the body. iV. Ward, Simple Cobler, p. 7. 
The greatest plagues that human nature suffers 
Are seated here, wildness and wants innumerable. 
Fletcher, Sea Voyage, i. 3. 
Gallia. 'Purchas, 
7. In mech., to fix in proper place, as on a bed 
or support ; cause to lie truly on such support ; 
fit accurately. 8f. To settle; plant with in- 
habitants: as, to seat a country. 
Their neighbours of ye Massachusets . . . had some 
years after seated a towne(called Hingam) on their lands, seat-rail (set'ral) n 
Bradford, Plymouth Plantation, p. 368. horizontal members 
Il.t intrans. 1. To fix or take up abode; set- 
tle down permanently; establish a residence. 
The Dutch demanded what they intended, and whither 
they would goe ; they answered, up ye river to trade (now 
their order was to goe and seat above them). 
Bradford, Plymouth Plantation, p. 313. 
The Allingtons seated here before 1239. 
Evelyn, Diary, July 20, 1670. 
2. To rest ; lie down. 
The folds where sheepe at night doe seat. 
Spenser, F. Q., VI. ix. 4. 
A kind of seaweed; 
Drove the cormorant and curlew 
To their nests of sedge and sea-tang. 
... __ , , Longfellow, Hiawatha, ii. 
tivity, etc. ; the place where anything is settled, sea-tangle (se'tang"gl), . One of several spe- 
nxed, or established, or is carried on or flour- cies of seaweeds, principally of the genus La- 
ishes; the matter m which any form inheres: minaria. See cut under seaweed. 
as, the sea* of war; a seat of learning or of com- seat-back (set'bak), n. A piece of tapestry or 
other textile fabric, leather, or the like made 
for covering the back of a sofa, chair, or other 
piece of furniture: especially used of decora- 
tive pieces made of the size and shape required, 
seat-earth (set'erth), n. In coal-mining, the bed 
of cl ay by which many coal-seams are underlain . 
The composition of this clay varies much in variousregions. 
Sometimes it is a plastic clay, often refractory, and much 
used as fire-clay ; sometimes it is more or less mixed with 
silica, or even almost entirely silicious, as in some of the 
midland counties of England, when it is called ganister. 
Also called seat-stone, seat-clay, or simply seat, clunch, 
Remember thee ! 
Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat 
In this distracted globe. Shak., Hamlet, i. 5. 96. 
The nature of man includes a mind and understanding, 
which is the seat of Providence. 
Bacon, Physical Fables, ii., Expl. 
It is an interesting, but not a surprising fact, that the 
circumstances of the first planting of Christianity in 
places which were later among its most powerful seats, 
Including Rome and Carthage, are not known. 
Q. P. Fisher, Begin, of Christianity, p. 516. 
8. A right to sit. (a) Membership, as in a legislative 
or deliberative body, or in the Stock or Produce Exchange : 
pounson, bind, spavin, and (in Leinster) ouddagh; in the 
United States generally known as under-day. 
In your imagination hold 
This stage the ship, upon whose deck 
The sea-tost Pericles appears to speak. 
Shak., Pericles, iii., Prol., 1. 60. 
In furniture, one of the 
horizontal members of the frame which forms 
ts the seat, as in a chair or a sofa. 
^Beverley, Virginia^ T'lfiw. sea-trout (se'trout), re. 1. Any catadromous 
trout or char, as the common brook-trout of 
the United States, Salvelinus fontinalis. 2. A 
kind of weakfish ; any one of the four species 
of seisenoid fishes of the genus Cynoscion which 
occur along the coast of the middle and south- 
ern United States. One of them is the sque- 
teague. Also, sometimes, salmon-trout. See 
cut under iveakfish. 3. Another scisenoid fish, 
Atractoscion nobiiis, related to the weakfish of 
the Atlantic States. Also called white sea-bass. 
[California.] 4. A chiroid fish, as Hexagram- 
mus decagrammus, of the Pacific coast of the 
United States: same as rock-trout, 2. 
Sea-trumpet (se'trum // pet), n. 1. A medieval 
musical instrument essentially similar to the 
monochord, but suggestive of the viol, it con- 
sisted of a wooden body about 6 feet long, flat in front, 
polygonal behind, and tapering from a somewhat large 
flat base, which could be rested on the floor, to a short 
thick neck, terminating in a head with a tuning.screw. 
It had but one large string, made of gut, stretched over 
a peculiar bridge, and tuned to a low pitch, usually about 
that of the second C below middle C. The bridge was 
made so as to rest firmly on only one foot, the other be- 
ing free to vibrate upon the body. The instrument was 
played with a large bow, like that of a violoncello. The 
tones used were the natural harmonics of the string, pro- 
duced by lightly touching the nodes. Its scale therefore 
coincided with that of the trumpet ; and this fact, taken 
in connection with its general shape, probably suggested 
its name. It was used for both sacred and secular music, 
both alone and in sets of three or four. It was especially 
common in nunneries as an accompaniment for singing, 
since its tones corresponded in pitch with those of the 
female voice. The latest specimens date from early in 
the eighteenth century. The instrument is important in 
seats for the play. 
9. Method or posture of sitting, as on horse- 
back; hold in sitting: as, to have a firm seat 
in the saddle. 
in or as in a seat ; located. 
fixed 
In the eyes of David it seemed a thing not fit, a thing 
not decent, that himself should be more richly seated than 
God. Hooker, Eceles. Polity, vii. -23. 
A pretty house, ye see, handsomely seated, 
Sweet and convenient walks, the waters crystal. 
Fletcher, Rule a Wile, IT. 3. 
Never trust me, but you are most delicately seated here, 
full of sweet delight and blandishment ! an excellent air ! 
B. Jonson, Poetaster, ii. 1. 
2. In bot., a large seaweed, Elklonia bucciiialis, 
of the southern ocean. It has a stem often more 
than 20 feet in height, crowned by a fan-shaped cluster 
of fronds, each 12 feet or more in length. Tne stem is 
The ordinary Eastern seat, which approaches more or Z pretty house, ye see, handsomely seated, hollow in the upper part, and when dried is frequently 
less the scat of a cross-country rider or fox-hunter is Sweet and convenient walks, the waters crystal. used as a trumpet by the native herdsmen of the Cape of 
nearly as different from the cowboy's seat as from that of Fletcher, Rule a Wile, IT. 3. Good Hope, whence the name. It is also used as a siphon. 
a man who rides bareback. Never trust me, but you are most delicately seated here, AIso called trumpetweed. 
T. Roosevelt, The Century, XXXV. 659. 'nil of sweet delight and blandishment ! an excellent air ! 3. A large marine gastropod of the genus 
10. A clutch or sitting (of eggs). [Prov. Eng.] R Jongon - Poetaster, ii. 1. Triton. 
11. A place or situation in a shoemakhig sea-tench (se'tench), . The black sea-bream, seat-stand (set'stand), n. In a railroad-car, a 
establishment: as, a seat of work; a seat of ^aWars lineatus. [Dublin county, Ireland.] support, generally made of metal, for the end 
stuff (that is, an engagement to make stuff sea-term (se'term), . A word or term used of the seat next the aisle. 
shoes). [Prov. Eng.] especially by seamen, or peculiar to the art of seat-stone (set'ston), . Same as seat-earth. 
After having worked on stuff work in the country, I navl g a ti n - Sea-turn (se'tern), . A gale or breeze coming 
could not bear the idea of returning to the leather-branch; I agree with you in your censure of the sea-terms in from the sea, generally accompanied by thick 
I attempted and obtained a seat of stuff in Bristol. Dryden's Virgil, because no terms of art, or cant words weather 
MenwirsofJ.LacMiiyton, letter xvii. (Daria.) suit the majesty of epick poetry. Pope, sea-turtle 1 (se'ter'tl). n. [< seal + turtle* ] 
12. Same as neat-Mirth, [Yorkshire, Eng.] seat-fastener (set'fas"uer), n, In a wagon, a The sea-pigeon, or black guillemot, Uria iinillc. 
Curule seat. See cunde. - Deacons' seat. See deacon, screw-clamp for securing the seat to the body. See cut under guillemot. 
