Sea crow () The razorbill.
Sea crow () The coot.
Sea cucumber () Any large holothurian, especially one of those belonging to the genus Pentacta, or Cucumaria, as the common American and European species. (P. frondosa).
Sea dace () The European sea perch.
Sea daffodil () A European amarylidaceous plant (Pancratium maritimum).
Sea devil () 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.
Sea devil () Any large cephalopod, as a large Octopus, or a giant squid (Architeuthis). See Devilfish.
Sea devil () The angler.
Sea dog () The dogfish.
Sea dog () The common seal.
Sea dog () An old sailor; a salt.
Sea dotterel () The turnstone.
Sea dove () The little auk, or rotche. See Illust. of Rotche.
Sea dragon () A dragonet, or sculpin.
Sea dragon () The pegasus.
Sea drake () The pewit gull.
Sea duck () 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.
Sea eagle () Any one of several species of fish-eating eagles of the genus Haliaeetus 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 (Polioaetus ichthyaetus). The bald eagle and the osprey are also sometimes classed as sea eagles.
Sea eagle () The eagle ray. See under Ray.
Sea-ear (n.) Any species of ear-shaped shells of the genus Haliotis. See Abalone.
Sea eel () The conger eel.
Sea egg () A sea urchin.
Sea elephant () 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.
Sea fan () Any gorgonian which branches in a fanlike form, especially Gorgonia flabellum of Florida and the West Indies.
Seafarer (n.) One who follows the sea as a business; a mariner; a sailor.
Seafaring (a.) Following the business of a mariner; as, a seafaring man.
Sea feather () Any gorgonian which branches in a plumelike form.
Sea fennel () Samphire.
Sea fern () Any gorgonian which branches like a fern.
Sea fight () An engagement between ships at sea; a naval battle.
Sea fir () A sertularian hydroid, especially Sertularia abietina, which branches like a miniature fir tree.
Sea flewer () A sea anemone, or any related anthozoan.
Sea foam () Foam of sea water.
Sea foam () Meerschaum; -- called also sea froth.
Sea fowl () Any bird which habitually frequents the sea, as an auk, gannet, gull, tern, or petrel; also, all such birds, collectively.
Sea fox () The thrasher shark. See Thrasher.
Sea froth () See Sea foam, 2.
Sea-gate (n.) Alt. of Sea-gait
Sea-gait (n.) A long, rolling swell of the sea.
Sea gauge () See under Gauge, n.
Sea gherkin () Alt. of Sea girkin
Sea girkin () Any small holothurian resembling in form a gherkin.
Sea ginger () 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.
Sea girdles () A kind of kelp (Laminaria digitata) with palmately cleft fronds; -- called also sea wand, seaware, and tangle.
Seagirt (a.) Surrounded by the water of the sea or ocean; as, a seagirt isle.
Sea god () 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.
Sea goddess () A goddess supposed to live in or reign over the sea, or some part of the sea.
Seagoing (a.) Going upon the sea; especially, sailing upon the deep sea; -- used in distinction from coasting or river, as applied to vessels.
Sea goose () A phalarope.
Sea gown () A gown or frock with short sleeves, formerly worn by mariners.
Sea grape () The gulf weed. See under Gulf.
Sea grape () A shrubby plant (Coccoloba uvifera) growing on the sandy shores of tropical America, somewhat resembling the grapevine.
Sea grape () The clusters of gelatinous egg capsules of a squid (Loligo).
Sea grass () Eelgrass.
Sea green () The green color of sea water.
Sea-green (a.) Of a beautiful bluish green color, like sea water on soundings.
Sea gudgeon () The European black goby (Gobius niger).
Sea gull () Any gull living on the seacoast.
Seah (n.) A Jewish dry measure containing one third of an an ephah.
Sea hare () Any tectibranchiate mollusk of the genus Aplysia. See Aplysia.
Sea hawk () A jager gull.
Sea heath () A low perennial plant (Frankenia laevis) resembling heath, growing along the seashore in Europe.
Sea hedgehog () A sea urchin.
Sea hen () the common guillemot; -- applied also to various other sea birds.
Sea hog () The porpoise.
Sea holly () An evergeen seashore plant (Eryngium maritimum). See Eryngium.
Sea holm () A small uninhabited island.
Sea holm () Sea holly.
Sea horse () 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.
Sea horse () The walrus.
Sea horse () Any fish of the genus Hippocampus.
Sea hulver () Sea holly.
Sea-island (a.) 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.
Sea jelly () A medusa, or jellyfish.
Seak (n.) Soap prepared for use in milling cloth.
Sea kale () See under Kale.
Sea king () 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.
Seal (n.) Any aquatic carnivorous mammal of the families Phocidae and Otariidae.
Seal (n.) An engraved or inscribed stamp, used for marking an impression in wax or other soft substance, to be attached to a document, or otherwise used by way of authentication or security.
Seal (n.) Wax, wafer, or other tenacious substance, set to an instrument, and impressed or stamped with a seal; as, to give a deed under hand and seal.
Seal (n.) That which seals or fastens; esp., the wax or wafer placed on a letter or other closed paper, etc., to fasten it.
Seal (n.) That which confirms, ratifies, or makes stable; that which authenticates; that which secures; assurance.
Seal (n.) An arrangement for preventing the entrance or return of gas or air into a pipe, by which the open end of the pipe dips beneath the surface of water or other liquid, or a deep bend or sag in the pipe is filled with the liquid; a draintrap.
Sealed (imp. & p. p.) of Seal
Skaling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Seal
Seal (v. t.) To set or affix a seal to; hence, to authenticate; to confirm; to ratify; to establish; as, to seal a deed.
Seal (v. t.) To mark with a stamp, as an evidence of standard exactness, legal size, or merchantable quality; as, to seal weights and measures; to seal silverware.
Seal (v. t.) To fasten with a seal; to attach together with a wafer, wax, or other substance causing adhesion; as, to seal a letter.
Seal (v. t.) Hence, to shut close; to keep close; to make fast; to keep secure or secret.
Seal (v. t.) To fix, as a piece of iron in a wall, with cement, plaster, or the like.
Seal (v. t.) To close by means of a seal; as, to seal a drainpipe with water. See 2d Seal, 5.
Seal (v. t.) Among the Mormons, to confirm or set apart as a second or additional wife.
Seal (v. i.) To affix one's seal, or a seal.
Sea laces () A kind of seaweed (Chorda Filum) having blackish cordlike fronds, often many feet long.
Sea lamprey () The common lamprey.
Sea language () The peculiar language or phraseology of seamen; sailor's cant.
Sea lark () The rock pipit (Anthus obscurus).
Sea lark () Any one of several small sandpipers and plovers, as the ringed plover, the turnstone, the dunlin, and the sanderling.
Sea lavender () See Marsh rosemary, under Marsh.
Sea lawyer () The gray snapper. See under Snapper.