888 
SEA 
The sovereign of seas he blames in vain. 
That, once sca-beat , will to sea again. Spenser. 
Ships—both extremely sea-beaten, and at last wracked. 
Bp. Hall. 
SE'A-BOARD, adv. Towards the sea: a naval word. 
SE'A-BOAT, s. Vessel capable to bear the sea.—Ship¬ 
wrecks were occasioned by their ships being bad sea-boats, 
and themselves but indifferent seamen. Arbuthnot. 
SE'A-BORD, or Sea-bo'rdering, adj. Bordering on 
the sea. 
There shall a lion from the sea-bord wood 
Of Neustria come roring. Spenser. 
Those sea-bordering shores of ours that point at France. 
Drayton. 
SE'A-BORN, adj. Bom of the sea; produced by the 
sea. 
Like Neptune and his sea-born niece, shall be 
The shining glories of the land and sea. Waller. 
All these in order march, and marching sing 
The warlike actions of their sea-born king. Dry den. 
SEABOROUGH, a hamlet of England, in Somersetshire; 
2 \ miles south-by-west of Crewkerne. 
SE'A-BOUND, or Sea-bounded, adj. Bounded by the 
sea.—Our sea-bounded Britainy. Mir. for Mag. 
Subject all nations to thy throne. 
And make the sea-bound earth thine own. - Sandys. 
SE'A-BOY, s. Boy employed on ship-board. 
Can’st thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose 
To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude, 
And in the calmest and the stillest night 
Deny it to a king ? Shakspeare. 
SE'A-BREACH, s. Irruption of the sea by breaking the 
banks.—To an impetuous woman, tempests and sea-breaches 
are nothing. L'Estrange. 
SE'A-BREEZE, s. Wind blowing from the sea.—Hedges, 
in most places, would be of great advantage to shelter the 
grass from the sea-breeze. Mortimer. 
SEA-BRIEF. See Sea-Letter. 
SEABROOK, a hamlet of England, in Buckinghamshire, 
near Ivinghoe. 
SEABROOK, a township of the United States, in Rock¬ 
ingham county. New Hampshire. Population 744. 
SEABROOK. See Saybrook. 
SE'A-BUILT, adj. Built for the sea. 
Borne each by other in a distant line. 
The sea-built forts in dreadful order move. Dry den. 
SEA-CA'BBAGE, s. Seacolewort. A plant. 
SE'A-CALF, s. The seal. See Phoca Vitulina. 
SE'A-CAP, s. Cap made to be worn on shipboard. 
I know your favour well. 
Though now you have no sea-cap on your head. 
Shakspeare. 
SE'A-CARD, s. The mariner’s card. 
We are all like sea-cards; 
All our endeavours, and our motions, 
(As they do to the north), still point at beauty. 
Beautn. and FI. 
SE'A-CARP, s. The Turdus Marinus. A spotted fish 
that lives among stones and rocks. 
SE'A-CHANGE, s. Change effected by the sea. 
Full fathom five thy father lies; 
Of his bones are coral made; 
Those are pearls that were his eyes; 
Nothing of him that doth fade. 
But doth suffer a sea-change. Shakspeare. 
SE'A-CHART, s. Map on which only the coasts are 
delineated.—The situation of the parts of the earth are better 
SEA 
learned by a map or sea-chart, than reading the description. 
Watts. 
SE'A-CIRCLED, adj. Surrounded by the sea.—The 
daughters of sea -circled Tyre. Sandys. 
SEACKLETON, a hamlet of England, North Riding of 
Yorkshire; 6 miles from Malton. 
SE'A-COAL, s. Coal brought to London by sea.— 
Sea-coal lasts longer than charcoal. Bacon. 
SE'A-COAST, s. Shore; edge of the sea 
The venturous mariner that way. 
Learning his ship from those white rocks to save. 
Which all along the southern sea-coast lay; 
For safety’s sake that same his sea-mark made. 
And nam’d it Albion. Spenser. 
SE'A-COB, s. A bird, called also sea-gull. 
SEACOMBE, a village of England, in Chester; lOf 
miles north-east of Great Neston. 
SEA-CO'MPASS, s. The card and needle of mariners. 
See Compass. —The needle in the scacompass still moving 
but to the uorth point only, with moveor immotus, notified 
the respective constancy of the gentleman to one only. 
Camden. 
SE'A-COOT, s. Sea-fowl, like the moor-hen. The 
Fultca Marina. 
SEA-CO'RMORANT, or Sea-drake, $. A sea-crow. 
The Corvus Marinus. 
SE'A-COW, s. The manatee. See Trichecus. 
SEA-CROFT, a hamlet of England, West Riding of 
Yorkshire; 4 miles north-east of Leeds. 
SE'A-CROW, s. A name given to the sea-gull. 
SEA-CYPRESS. The Sertularia. 
SEA-DEVIL. The Lophius Piscatorius. 
SE'A-DOG, s. Perhaps the shark.—Fierce sea-dogs 
devour the mangled friends. Roscotnmon. 
When, stung with hunger, she embroils the flood. 
The seadog and the dolphin are her food. Pope. 
SEADOWLY, a fortress of Northern Hindostan, province 
of Nepaul, and district of Mockwanpore. This place was 
taken by the British in 1761, but they were soon obliged to 
evacuate it, and return to Bengal, owing to the unhealthi¬ 
ness of the climate. It has been ceded to the British 
at the conclusion of the French war. Lat. 27. 13. N. long. 
86. 5. E. 
SEA-DRA'GON, s. [jae-bpaca, Sax.] A sea-fish; called 
also the Viver. Cotgrave .—See Trachinus. 
SEA-EAGLE, s. The Raia Aquila. 
SE'A-EAR, s. A sea-plant. 
SEA-EEL, s. The Conger Eel. 
SE'A-ENCIRCLED, adj. Surrounded by the sea. 
Rouse, and wing, 
The prosperous sail from every growing port, 
Uninjur’d, round the sea-encircled globe. Thomson 
SEA-FAN. See Gorgonia. 
SEA-FA'RER, s. A traveller by sea; a mariner. 
A wandering merchant, he frequents the main. 
Some mean seafarer in pursuit of gain; 
Studious of freight, in naval trade well skill’d; 
But dreads the athletic labours of the field. Pope. 
SEA-FA'RING, adj. Travelling by sea. 
My wife fasten’d him unto a small spare mast. 
Such as seafaring men provide for storms. Shakspeare. 
SEA-FIR. A species of Sertularia. 
SE'A-FENNEL. The same with Samphire, 
SE'A-FIGHT, s. Battle of ships; battle on the sea.—If 
our sense of hearing were a thousand times quicker than it is, 
we should, in the quietest retirement, be less able to sleep 
than in the middle of a sea-fight. Locke. 
SE'A-FISH, s. [fse-fij caj-, Sax.] Fish that live in the 
sea. 
SEAFORTH, Loch, an arm of the sea on the coast of 
Scotland, 
