sea-turtle 
sea-turtle 2 (se'ter'tl), . [< m/i -I- turtle.'] 
Any marine chelonian ; a sea-tortoise. These 
all have the limbs formed as flippers. Some furnish the 
tortoise-shell of commerce ; others arc famous among epi- 
cures. The leading forms are the hawkbill, leatherback, 
loggerhead, and green turtle. 
seat-worm (set'werm), n. A pinworm com- 
monly infesting the fundament. See cut un- 
der Oxi/uris. 
sea-umbrella (se'um-brel"ii), n. A pennatu- 
laceous polyp of the genus "Vmbelhilaria. 
sea-unicorn (se'u"ni-k6rn), n. The narwhal, 
Miiiiiii/ini inonoceros : so called from the single 
horn-like tusk of the male, sometimes 8 feet 
long. See cuts under Monodon and nartclial. 
sea-urchin (se'er"chin), n. An echinoid; any 
member of the Eeliinoidea; a sea-egg or sea- 
hedgehog. Many of the leading forms have popular 
designations or vernacular book-names, as heart-urchins, 
Spataiyridx ; helmet-urchins. Galeritidx ; shield-urchins, 
Scutellidie; turban-urchins, Cidaridfe. The common green 
sea-urchin of New England is Stronyylocentrotus drobachi- 
ensis (figured under the generic word). A purple sea-ur- 
chin is Arbacia punctulata. Toxopneustes fmnciscormn 
is a California!! sea-urchin used for food by Indians, and 
the common European one figured under Echinus is classic 
in the annals of gastronomy. The species here figured is 
Sea-urchin (Phormosotna tu(ttlentum). 
flatter and less prickly than usual ; still natter ones are 
those known aa cake-urchins, sand-dollars, etc. (See sand- 
dollar.) Home sea-urchins have spines several inches long, 
and in others the spines become heavy clubs. Sea-urchins, 
like sea-anemones, are common objects on most sea-coasts, 
and their dry tests, usually lacking the spines, are often of 
beautiful tints. See Echinus, also cuts under ambulacrum, 
Ananchytes, cake-urchin, Cidaris, Clypeastridx, Echinoi- 
dea, Echinometra, Echinothuriidte, Echinus, Encope, lan- 
tern, petalostichous, and Strongylocentrotus. 
sea-vampire (se'vam'pir), . A devil-fish or 
manta. 
Men have been struck with the resemblances between 
animals of the land and those of the water. Among fishes 
we have " sea-vampires," "sea-eagles," "sea-wolves," etc. 
S. Tetauy, Pop. Sci. Mo., XIII. 324. 
seave (sev), . [Also written stive; < ME. seyj'e 
= Icel. sef = Dan . xiv = S w. sqf, a rush. Of. 
sieve.'] 1. A rush. Catlt. Aug., p. 327. 2. A 
wick made of rush, 
seavent, seaventeent, etc. Obsolete spellings 
of seven, seventeen, etc. 
sea-view (se'vu), . A prospect at sea or of 
the sea, or a picture representing a scene at sea ; 
a marine view. 
: wytf,i^.""---.':ov : ;:y 
E 
m 
Sea-walls. 
A. Plymouth (England) breakwater: a, a, level of the top; #, d, 
low water at spring tide ; r, bottom ; d, foreshore ; e, sea-slope ; /, top. 
H. Sea-dike: e, the sea-bottom; a, rubble; b, core; c, facing of stone ; 
rf, sea-level. C and D. Sectional diagrams of inclosure of Zuid Plas, 
near Rotterdam, Holland. K Dutch polder-bank, consisting of sheet- 
piling with earth filling, and an apron of rubble on the side toward the 
sea. /'. Wall of sheet-piling at Havre, France, with earth embank- 
ment behind the piles. 
5460 
seavy (se'vi), a. [< scare + -y 1 .] Overgrown 
with rushes: as, seavy ground. Kay, Gloss, of 
North Country Words. [Prov. Eng.j 
sea-wall (se'wal), n. [< ME. "m-irall, < AS. 
sseweall (poet.), a cliff by the sea, a wall formed 
by the sea, < see, sea, + weall, wall.] 1. A strong 
wall or embankment on the shore, designed to 
prevent encroachments of the sea, to form a 
breakwater, etc. See cut in preceding column. 
2. An embankment of stones thrown up by 
the waves on a shore. 
sea-walled (se'wald), a. Surrounded or de- 
fended by the sea. [Rare.] 
When our sea-walled garden, the whole land, 
Is full of weeds, her fairest flowers choked up. 
Shalt., Rich. II., iii. 4. 43. 
sea-wand (se'wond), . See hanger, 7. 
seawane, seawant (se'wan, -want), . [Amer. 
Ind.] Wampum. 
This [Indian money] was nothing more nor less than 
strings of beads wrought of clams, periwinkles, and other 
shell-fish, and called seawant or wampun. 
Irviny, Knickerbocker, p. 232. 
seaward, seawards (se'ward, -wjirdz), <lr. 
[< sea + -ward.} Toward the sea. 
The rock rush'd seaward with impetuous roar, 
Ingulf'd, and to th' abyss the boaster bore. 
Fentan, in Pope's Odyssey, IT. 681. 
seaward (se'ward), a. [< seaward, adv.'] 1. 
Directed toward the sea. 
Those loving papers, where friends send 
With glad grief to your seaward steps farewell. 
Donne, Poems, Epistles, To Sir Henry Wotton, at his going 
[Ambassador to Venice. 
2f. Fresh from the sea. 
White herynge in a dische, if hit be ttcattard & fresshe. 
Babces Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 161. 
seaware (se'war), . [Also xenwore, dial, sea- 
ore; < ME. 'seeware, < AS. sxwar ( found only 
in the form ssewaur, an error for *stewaar), < see, 
sea, + tear, weed: see ware 3 .] Seaweed; es- 
pecially, the larger, coarser kinds of algse that 
are thrown up by the sea and used as manure, 
etc. 
sea-washballs (se'wosh'balz), n. pi. The egg- 
cases of the whelk Bucdnum undatum. [Local, 
Eng.] 
sea-water (se'wa'ter), . [< ME. neeicater, < 
AS. ssetcseter, < s, sea, + water, water.] The 
salt water of the sea or ocean. See ocean. 
Sea-water shall thou drink. Shak., Tempest, L 2. 462. 
sea-wax (se'waks), n. Same as maltha. 
seaway (se'wa), n. Sattt., progress made by a 
vessel through the waves In a seaway, in the 
position of a vessel where a moderately heavy sea is run- 
ning. 
seaweed (se' wed), n. Any plant or plants grow- 
ing in the sea ; 
more particu- 
larly, any mem- 
ber of the class 
Algse. They are 
very abundant, es- 
pecially in warm 
seas, and are often 
exceedingly deli- 
cate and beautiful. 
See Alyx. See also 
cuts under air- 
cell, conjugation, 
Fucus, yutfweed, 
and Macrocystis. 
Also called sea- 
moss. Seaweed- 
bath, a bath made 
by adding to sea- 
water an infusion 
of Fucus vesicu- 
losus. Seaweed- 
fern, the fern 
Scolopendrium vul- 
ffare. 
sea- whip (se'- 
hwip),. Agor- 
goniaceous al- 
cyonarian po- 
lyp of slen- 
der, straight 
or spiral, and 
little -branched 
or branchless 
shape; any al- 
cyonarian of such form, as black coral. 
.illli/itltliet,; 
sea-whipcord (se'hwip"kord), . The common 
seaweed Chorda filum. See sea-thong, sea-lace. 
sea-whiplash (se'hwip'lash), . Same as sea- 
lehipcora. 
sea-whistle (se'hwis"!), . The common sea- 
weed .Ixmjilii/lliiHi iiodiisuiH (fill-as nodosus of 
authors) : so named because the bladders or 
I. Lamii 
Seaweeds 
aria diffittitft. z. L. longicruris. 
See 
sebaceous 
vesicles in the 'continuity of the frond are used 
by children as whistles. 
sea-wife (se'wif), M. 1. A kind of wrasse, Lti- 
linix rt-tiila, a labroid fish. 2. The fish ACIIH- 
Iliolnbriis i/urrelli. 
sea-willow (se'wil'6), . A gorgoniaceous 
polyp of the genus Gorgonia, as G. aiiccjm and 
others, with slender flexible branches like 
wit lies or osier. 
sea-wind (se'wind), n. A wind blowing from 
tin- sea. See sea-breeze. 
sea-wing (se'wing), n. 1. A wing-shell. See 
I'iuMi-. 2. A sail. [Rare.] 
Antony 
Claps on his sea-wing, and, like a doting mallard, 
Leaving the flght in height, flies after her. 
Shak., A. and C., 111. 10. 20. 
sea-withwind (s^'with^wind), n. A species of 
bindweed, Cininilviilus SoManella ; sea-bells. 
sea-wold (se'wold), n. A wold-like tract under 
the sea. [Rare.] 
We would run to and fro, and hide and seek, 
On the broad sea-wolds. Tennyson, The M ennaid. 
sea-wolf (se'wulf), n. 1. The wolf-fish, Anar- 
rhicux lupus. 2. The bass Labrax lupus. See 
bass 1 (). 3. The sea-elephant or the sea- 
lion. [Now rare.] 4. A viking; a pirate. 
Sullenly answered Ulf, 
The old sea-wolf. 
Longfellow, Wayside Inn, Musician's Tale, six. 
sea-woodcock (se'wud"kok), . The European 
bar-tailed godwit. See cut under Limosa. 
sea-WOOdlouse (se'wud'lous), w. 1. Anisopod 
of the family Asellida; a sea-slater. Also sea- 
Imise. 2. A chiton, or coat-of-mail shell: so 
called from resembling the isopods named 
wood-lice. See cut under Chitonlam. 
seawore (se'wor), . Same as seaware. 
sea-worm (se'werm), n. A marine annelid; a 
free errant worm of salt water, as distinguished 
from a sedentary or a terrestrial worm; a 
nereid. The species are very numerous, and 
the name has no specific application. 
sea-WOrmwood (se'werm'wud), . A saline 
plant, Artemisia maritima, found on the shores 
of Europe and North Africa, also occupying 
large tracts in the region of the Black and 
Caspian seas. 
sea-worn (se'worn), a. Worn or abraded by 
the sea. Drayton. 
seaworthiness (se'wfer'THi-nes), . Seaworthy 
character or condition ; fitness as regards struc- 
ture, equipment, lading, crew, etc., for encoun- 
tering the perils of the sea. 
seaworthy (se'wer'THi), a. In fit condition to 
encounter stormy weather at sea ; stanch and 
well adapted for voyaging: as, a seaworthy 
ship. 
Dull the voyage was with long delays, 
The vessel scarce sea-worthy. 
Tennyson, Enoch Arden. 
sea- wrack (se'rak), . 1. Same as grass-wrack. 
2. Coarse seaweeds of any kind that are cast 
upon the sea-shore, such as f uci, Laminariacese, 
etc. ; oreweed. See wrack, fucus. 
seax, . [AS. seax, a knife: see sax 1 .'] 1. A 
curved one-edged sword or war-knife used by 
Germanic and Celtic peoples ; specifically, the 
largest weapon of this sort, having a blade 
sometimes 20 inches in length. 
They invited the British to a parley and banquet on Sal- 
isbury Plain ; where suddenly drawing out their seaxer, 
concealed under their long coats being crooked swords, 
the emblem of their indirect proceedings they made 
their innocent guests with their blood pay the shots of 
their entertainment. Fuller, Ch. Hist., I. v. 26. 
Their arms and weapons, helmet and mail-shirt, tall 
spear and javelin, sword and seax, the short, broad dag- 
ger that hung at each warrior's girdle, gathered to them 
much of the legend and the art which gave color and 
poetry to the life of Englishmen. 
J. R. Green, Hist. Eng. People, I. i. 
2. Iii her., a bearing representing a weapon 
more or less like the above, but often ap- 
proaching the form of a simitar, to distin- 
guish it from which it is then engrailed at the 
back. 
sebaceous (se-ba'shius), . [= F. sebace, < L. 
xebaceux, of tallow, < sebum, scrum, tallow, suet, 
grease.] 1. Pertaining to tallow or fat; made 
of, containing, or secreting fatty matter ; fatty. 
2. In hot., having the appearance of tallow, 
grease, or fat : as, the sebaceous secretions of 
someplants. Henslmc. 3. In anat. and :ool. : 
(a) Fatty; oily; greasy; unctuous: as, seba- 
ceous substances: specifically noting the secre- 
tion of the sebaceous follicles. (6) Secreting, 
containing, or conveying sebaceous matter: as, 
a sebaceous follicle, gland, or duct. Sebaceous 
cyst, a tumor formed from a sebaceous gland, its duct 
