Sea

Sea, sē, n. the great mass of salt water covering the greater part of the earth's surface: any great expanse of water less than an ocean: the ocean: the swell of the sea in a tempest: a wave: any widely extended mass or quantity, a flood: any rough or agitated place or element.—ns. Sea′-ā′corn, a barnacle; Sea′-add′er, the fifteen-spined stickle-back; Sea′-an′chor, a floating anchor used at sea in a gale; Sea′-anem′one, a kind of polyp, like an anemone, found on rocks on the seacoast; Sea′-ape, the sea-otter; Sea′-ā′pron, a kind of kelp; Sea′-arr′ow, a flying squid: an arrow-worm; Sea′-aspar′agus, a soft-shelled crab; Sea′-bank, the seashore; an embankment to keep out the sea; Sea′-bar, the sea-swallow or tern; Sea′-barr′ow, the egg-case of a ray or skate; Sea′-bass, a name applied to some perch-like marine fishes, many common food-fishes in America—black sea-bass, bluefish, &c.; Sea′-bat, a genus of Teleostean fishes allied to the Pilot-fish, and included among the Carangidæ or horse-mackerels—the name refers to the very long dorsal, anal, and ventral fins; Sea′-beach, the seashore; Sea′-bean, the seed of a leguminous climbing plant: a small univalve shell: the lid of the aperture of any shell of the family Turbinidæ, commonly worn as amulets; Sea′-bear, the polar bear: the North Pacific fur-seal; Sea′-beast (Milt.), a monster of the sea.—adjs. Sea′-beat, -en, lashed by the waves.—n. Sea′-beav′er, the sea-otter.—n.pl. Sea′-bells, a species of bindweed.—ns. Sea′-belt, the sweet fucus plant; Sea′-bird, any marine bird; Sea′-bis′cuit, ship-biscuit; Sea′-blubb′er, a jelly-fish; Sea′-board, the border or shore of the sea; Sea′-boat, a vessel considered with reference to her behaviour in bad weather.—adjs. Sea′-born, produced by the sea; Sea′-borne, carried on the sea.—ns. Sea′-bott′le, a seaweed; Sea′-boy (Shak.), a boy employed on shipboard: a sailor-boy; Sea′-brant, the brent goose; Sea′-breach, the breaking of an embankment by the sea; Sea′-bream, one of several sparoid fishes: a fish related to the mackerel; Sea′-breeze, a breeze of wind blowing from the sea toward the land, esp. that from about 10 a.m. till sunset; Sea′-buckthorn, or Sallow-thorn, a genus of large shrubs or trees with gray silky foliage and entire leaves; Sea′-bum′blebee, the little auk; Sea′-bun, a heart-urchin; Sea′-bur′dock, clotbur; Sea′-cabb′age, sea-kale; Sea′-calf, the common seal, so called from the supposed resemblance of its voice to that of a calf; Sea′-canā′ry, the white whale; Sea′-cap (Shak.), a cap worn on shipboard: a basket-shaped sponge; Sea′-cap′tain, the captain of a ship, as distinguished from a captain in the army; Sea′-card, the card of the mariners' compass: a map of the ocean; Sea′-carnā′tion, a sea-pink; Sea′-cat, a name of various animals, as the wolf-fish, the chimæra, any sea-cat-fish; Sea′-cat′erpillar, a scale-back; Sea′-cat′-fish, a marine siluroid fish; Sea′-cat′gut, a common seaweed—sea-lace; Sea′-caul′iflower, a polyp; Sea′-cen′tiped, one of several large marine annelids; Sea′-change (Shak.), a change effected by the sea; Sea′-chart, a chart or map of the sea, its islands, coasts, &c.; Sea′-chest′nut, a sea-urchin; Sea′-chick′weed, a seaside species of sandwort; Sea′-clam, the surf clam used for food: a clamp for deep-sea sounding-lines; Sea′-coal, coal brought by sea, as distinguished from charcoal; Sea′coast, the coast or shore of the sea: the land adjacent to the sea; Sea′-cob, a sea-gull; Sea′-cock, a gurnard: the sea-plover: a valve communicating with the sea through a vessel's hull: a sea-rover or viking; Sea′-col′ander, a large olive seaweed; Sea′-cole′wort, sea-kale; Sea′-com′pass, the mariners' compass; Sea′-cook, a cook on shipboard; Sea′-coot, a black sea-duck; Sea′-cor′morant, a sea-crow; Sea′-corn, the string of egg-capsules of the whelk or similar gasteropod—also Sea′-ruff′le, Sea′-hon′eycomb, Sea′-neck′lace, &c.; Sea′-cow, the walrus: the rhytina: the dugong or manatee: the hippopotamus; Sea′-crab, a marine crab; Sea′-craft, skill in navigation; Sea′-craw′fish, a prawn or shrimp; Sea′-crow, a name of various birds, as the common skua, the chough, the coot, &c.; Sea′-cū′cumber, trepang or bêche-de-mer; Sea′-dace, a sea-perch: the common English bass; Sea′-daff′odil, a plant producing showy, fragrant flowers; Sea′-dai′sy, the lady's cushion; Sea′-dev′il, a name of various fishes, as the ox-ray, the angel-fish, &c.; Sea′-dog, the harbour-seal: the dog-fish: an old sailor: a pirate: (her.) a bearing representing a beast nearly like a talbot; Sea′-dott′erel, the turnstone; Sea′-dove, the little auk; Sea′-drag′on, a flying sea-horse; Sea′-drake, a sea-crow; Sea′-duck a duck often found on salt waters, having the hind-toe lobate: the eider-duck; Sea′-ea′gle, the white-tailed eagle: the bald eagle: the osprey: the eagle-ray; Sea′-ear, a mollusc, an ormer or abalone; Sea′-eel, a conger-eel; Sea′-egg, a sea-urchin: a sea-hedgehog: a whore's egg; Sea′-el′ephant, the largest of the seal family, the male about 20 feet long, an inhabitant of the southern seas; Sea′-fan, an alcyonarian polyp with a beautiful much-branched fan-like skeleton; Sea′fārer, a traveller by sea, a sailor.—adj. Sea′fāring, faring or going to sea: belonging to a seaman.—ns. Sea′-feath′er, a polyp, a sea-pen; Sea′-fenn′el, samphire; Sea′-fight, a battle between ships at sea; Sea′-fir, a sertularian polyp; Sea′-fire, phosphorescence at sea; Sea′-fish, any salt-water or marine fish; Sea′-foam, the froth of the sea: meerschaum; Sea′-fog, a fog, occurring near the coast.—n.pl. Sea′-folk, seafaring people.—ns. Sea′-fowl, a sea-bird; Sea′-fox, or Fox-shark, the thresher, the commonest of the larger sharks occasionally seen off British coasts, over 12 feet long, following shoals of herrings, pilchards, &c.; Sea′front, the side of the land, or of a building, which looks toward the sea; Sea′-froth, the foam of the sea, seaweeds; Sea′-gage, -gauge, the depth a vessel sinks in the water: an instrument for determining the depth of the sea.—n.pl. Sea′-gates, a pair of gates in a tidal basin as a safeguard against a heavy sea.—ns. Sea′-gher′kin, a sea-cucumber; Sea′-gill′iflower, the common thrift; Sea′-gin′ger, millipore coral.—adj. Sea′-girt, girt or surrounded by the sea.—ns. Sea′-god, one of the divinities ruling over or inhabiting the sea:—fem. Sea′-god′dess.—adj. Sea′-gō′ing, sailing on the deep sea, as opposed to coasting or river vessels.—ns. Sea′-goose, a dolphin: a phalarope; Sea′-gown (Shak.), a short-sleeved garment worn at sea; Sea′-grape, a genus of shrubby plants of the natural order Gnetaceæ, closely allied to the Conifers, and sometimes called Joint-firs: a glasswort: the clustered egg-cases of sepia and some other cuttle-fish; Sea′-grass, the thrift: grasswrack: a variety of cirrus cloud.—adj. Sea′-green, green like the sea.—ns. Sea′-grove, a grove in the bottom of the sea; Sea′-gull (same as Gull); Sea′-haar (Scot.), a chilling, piercing mist arising from the sea; Sea′-hall, a hall in the bottom of the sea; Sea′-hare, a name given to the genus Aplysia of nudibranch gasteropods; Sea′-hawk, a rapacious, gull-like bird: a skua; Sea-hedge′hog, a sea-urchin: a globe-fish: a sea-egg: a porcupine-fish; Sea′-hen (Scot.), the common guillemot: the great skua: the piper gurnard; Sea′-hog, a porpoise; Sea′-holl′y, the eryngo; Sea′-holm, a small uninhabited island: sea-holly; Sea′horse, the walrus: the hippopotamus or river-horse: the hippocampus; Sea′-hound, the dog-fish; Sea′-island cott′on, a fine long-stapled variety grown on the islands off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia; Sea′-jell′y, a sea-blubber; Sea′kale, a perennial plant with large, roundish, sinuated sea-green leaves, found on British seashores, the blanched sprouts forming a favourite esculent; Sea′-kid′ney, a polyp of the genus Renilla, so called from its shape; Sea′-king, a name sometimes given to the leaders of the early Scandinavian piratical expeditions; Sea′-kitt′ie, a kittiwake; Sea′-lace, a species of algæ—sea-catgut; Sea′-lam′prey, a marine lamprey; Sea′-lark, a sandpiper, as the dunlin: a ring-plover, as the ring-dotterel: the sea-titling; Sea′-lav′ender, a salt-marsh plant: marsh rosemary; Sea′-law′yer, a captious sailor, an idle litigious ′long-shorer, more given to question orders than to obey them: the mangrove snapper: a tiger-shark; Sea′-leech, a marine suctorial annelid.—n.pl. Sea′-legs, ability to walk on a ship's deck when it is pitching or rolling.—ns. Sea′-lem′on, a doridoid; Sea′-len′til, the gulf-weed; Sea′-leop′ard, a seal of the southern seas, with spotted fur; Sea′-lett′er, -brief, a document of description that used to be given to a ship at the port where she was fitted out; Sea′-lev′el, the level or surface of the sea, generally the mean level between high and low water.—adj. Sea′-like, like or resembling the sea.—ns. Sea′-lil′y, a lily-star: a living crinoid; Sea′-line, the line where sky and sea seem to meet: lines used for fishing in deep water; Sea′-lin′tie (Scot.), the sea-titling: a sea-lark: the rock-lintie; Sea′-lī′on, a species of otary—from its barking-roar and the mane of the male: (her.) a monster consisting of the upper part of a lion combined with the tail of a fish; Sea′-liq′uor, brine; Sea′-liz′ard, a nudibranchiate gasteropod: a fossil reptile; Sea′-loach, a gadoid fish, a Motella; Sea′-long′worm, a nemertean worm; Sea′-louse, a parasitic isopod crustacean: the horse-shoe crab; Sea′-luce, the hake; Sea′-lungs, a comb-jelly; Sea′-mag′pie, a sea-pie: the oyster-catcher; Sea′maid (Shak.), a mermaid: a sea-nymph; Sea′-mall a sea-gull; Sea′man, a man below the rank of officer, employed in the navigation of a ship at sea: a sailor: a merman.—adjs. Sea′man-like, showing good seamanship; Sea′manly, characteristic of a seaman.—ns. Sea′manship, the art of navigating ships at sea; Sea′-man′tis, a squill; Sea′-marge, the marge or shore of the sea; Sea′mark, any mark or object on land serving as a guide to those at sea: a beacon; Sea′-mat, a very common genus of polyzoa; in the wrack of the seashore—also Hornwrack; Sea′-mel′on, a pedate holothurian; Sea′-mew, the common gull, any gull—also Sea′-maw (Scot.); Sea′-mile, a geographical mile, 6080 feet in length; Sea′-mink, a kind of American whiting; Sea′-monk, the monk-seal; Sea′-mon′ster, any huge marine animal; Sea′-moss, a kind of compound polyzoan: Irish moss, or carrageen; Sea′-mouse, a genus of Chætopod worms, covered with iridescent silky hairs; Sea′-mud, a rich saline deposit from salt-marshes; Sea′-muss′el, a marine bivalve; Sea′-need′le, the garfish; Sea′-nett′le, any of the stinging species of acalephæ; Sea′-nurse, a shark; Sea′-nymph, a goddess of the sea, esp. one of the Oceanids; Sea′-on′ion, the officinal squill; Sea′-ooze, sea-mud; Sea′-or′ange, a large, globose, orange-coloured holothurian; Sea′-orb, a globe-fish; Sea′-ott′er, a marine otter; Sea′-owl, the lump-fish or lump-sucker; Sea′-ox, the walrus; Sea′-ox′eye, a fleshy seashore plant; Sea′-pad, a star-fish; Sea′-pan′ther, a South African fish, brown with black spots; Sea′-parr′ot, a puffin: an auk; Sea′-pars′nip, an umbelliferous plant; Sea′-par′tridge, the English conner, a labroid fish; Sea′-pass, a passport, or document carried by neutral merchant-vessels to secure them against molestation; Sea′-pea, the beach-pea; Sea′-peach, a sea-squirt or ascidian; Sea′-pear, a sea-squirt; Sea′-pen, one of the radiate zoophytes somewhat resembling a quill; Sea′-perch, a sea-dace: a bass: the red-fish or rose-fish; Sea′-pert, the opah; Sea′-pheas′ant, the pintail or sprigtail duck; Sea′-pie, a sailor's dish made of salt-meat, vegetables, and dumplings baked: the oyster-catcher or sea-magpie: (her.) a bearing representing such a bird; Sea′-piece, a picture representing a scene at sea; Sea′-pig, a porpoise: the dugong; Sea′-pi′geon, the black guillemot; Sea′-pike, an edible American fish found on the Florida and Texas coasts, allied to the perches: the garfish or belone: the hake; Sea′-pin′cushion, the mermaid's purse: a star-fish; Sea′-pink, a sea-carnation; Sea′-plant, an alga; Sea′-poach′er, the armed bull-head; Sea′-por′cupine, any fish of the genus Diodon, whose body is covered with spines; Sea′-pork, an American compound ascidian; Sea′port, a port or harbour on the seashore: a town near such a harbour; Sea′-pudd′ing, a sea-cucumber; Sea′-pump′kin, a sea-melon; Sea′-purse, a sea-barrow: a skate-barrow; Sea′-quail, the turnstone; Sea′-rat, the chimera: a pirate; Sea′-rā′ven, the cormorant: the North American bull-head; Sea′-reed, the mat grass; Sea′-reeve, an officer in maritime towns; Sea′-risk, hazard of injury by sea; Sea′-rob′ber, a pirate; Sea′-rob′in, a common American name for fishes of the genus Prionotus, which represents in America the European gurnards: the red-breasted merganser; Sea′-rock′et, a cruciferous plant of genus Cakile; Sea′-rod, a kind of sea-pen, a polyp; Sea′-roll, a holothurian; Sea′-room, room or space at sea for a ship to be navigated without running ashore; Sea′-rose, a sea-anemone; Sea′-rose′mary, sea-lavender; Sea′-rō′ver, a pirate: a vessel employed in cruising for plunder; Sea′-rō′ving, piracy; Sea′-ruff, a sea-bream; Sea′-salt, common salt obtained from sea-water by evaporation; Sea′scape, a sea-piece; Sea′-scor′pion, a scorpion-fish: a cottoid-fish; Sea′-ser′pent, an enormous marine animal of serpent-like form, frequently seen and described by credulous sailors, imaginative landsmen, and common liars: a name applied to various marine venomous serpents; Sea′-serv′ice, service on board ship; Sea′-shark, the man-eater shark; Sea′-shell, a marine shell; Sea′shore, the land adjacent to the sea: (law) the ground between high-water mark and low-water mark; Sea′-shrub, a sea-fan.—adj. Sea′sick, affected with sickness through the rolling of a vessel at sea.—ns. Sea′sickness; Sea′side, the land beside the sea; Sea′-skim′mer, the skimmer bird; Sea′-slāt′er, the rock-slater; Sea′-sleeve, a cuttle-fish; Sea′-slug, a nudibranch, as a doridoid: a marine gasteropod with the shell absent or rudimentary; Sea′-snail, a fish of the genus Liparis, the sucker, the periwinkle; Sea′-snake, a sea-serpent; Sea′-snipe, a sandpiper: the snipe-fish; Sea′-sol′dier, a marine; Sea′-spī′der, a spider-crab; Sea′-spleen′wort, a fern—Asplenium marinum; Sea′-squid, a cuttle-fish; Sea′-squirt, any tunicate or ascidian—also Sea′-perch, Sea′-pear, Sea′-pork; Sea′-stick, a herring cured at sea at once; Sea′-stock, fresh provisions for use at sea; Sea′-straw′berry, a kind of polyp; Sea′-sun′flower, a sea-anemone; Sea′-sur′geon, one of a family of spiny-rayed Teleostean fishes living in tropical seas, esp. near coral-reefs—the name refers esp. to the members of the genus Acanthurus, characterised by a lancet-like spine ensheathed on each side of the tail; Sea′-swall′ow, a tern: the stormy petrel; Sea′-swine, a porpoise: the sea-hog: the ballan-wrasse; Sea′-tang, sea-tangle; Sea′-tan′gle, one of several species of seaweeds, esp. of genus Laminaria; Sea′-tench, the black sea-bream; Sea′-term, a word used by sailors or peculiar to ships or sailing; Sea′-thong, a cord-like seaweed; Sea′-tit′ling, the shore-pipit or sea-lark; Sea′-toad, the sea-frog: the sculpin: the great spider-crab; Sea′-tor′toise, a sea-turtle.—adj. Sea′-tost (Shak.), tossed upon or by the sea.—ns. Sea′-trout, a popular name for various species of the genus Salmo, but esp. for the common Salmo trutta; Sea′-trum′pet, a medieval musical instrument similar to the monochord: (bot.) a large seaweed; Sea′-turn, a gale from the sea; Sea′-tur′tle, the sea-pigeon: a tortoise; Sea′-umbrell′a, a pennatulaceous polyp; Sea′-ū′nicorn, the narwhal; Sea′-ur′chin, one of a class of Echinoderms, some with the body symmetrical and nearly globular (Echinus), others heart-shaped (Spatangus), others shield-shaped and flattened (Clypeaster)—in all cases the body walled in by continuous plates of lime; Sea′-vam′pire, a devil-fish or manta; Sea′view, a picture of a scene at sea; Sea′-wall, a wall to keep out the sea.—adj. Sea′-walled, surrounded by the sea.—n. Sea′-wane, wampum.—adj. Sea′ward, towards the sea.—adv. towards or in the direction of the sea.—adjs. Sea′ward-bound, outward-bound, as a vessel leaving harbour; Sea′ward-gaz′ing, gazing or looking towards the sea.—n. Sea′-ware, that which is thrown up by the sea on the shore, as seaweed, &c.—n.pl. Sea′-wash′balls, the egg-cases of the common whelk.—ns. Sea′-wa′ter, water from the sea; Sea′-way, progress made by a vessel through the waves; Sea′weed, a general and popular name applied to a vast collection of lower plant-forms growing on the seacoast from high-water mark (or a little above that limit) to a depth of from 50 to 100 fathoms (rarely deeper), and all belonging to the sub-class of the Thallophyta, to which the name Algæ has been given; Sea′-whip, any alcyonarian like black coral; Sea′-whip′cord, a common form of seaweed, sea-thong; Sea′-whis′tle, the seaweed whose bladders are used by children as whistles; Sea′-wife, a kind of wrasse; Sea′-will′ow, a polyp with slender branches like the osier; Sea′-wing, a wing-shell: a sail; Sea′-with′-wind, a species of bindweed; Sea′-wold, an imaginary tract like a wold under the sea; Sea′-wolf, the wolf-fish: the sea-elephant: a viking, a pirate; Sea′-wood′cock, the bar-tailed godwit; Sea′-wood′louse, a sea-slater: a chiton; Sea′-worm, a marine annelid; Sea′-worm′wood, a saline plant found on European shores.—adj. Sea′worthy, fit for sea, able to endure stormy weather.—ns. Sea′worthiness; Sea′-wrack, coarse seaweeds of any kind.—At full sea, at full tide; At sea, away from land: on the ocean: astray; Go to sea, to become a sailor; Half-seas over, half-drunk; Heavy sea, a sea in which the waves run high; High seas, the open ocean; In a sea-way, in the position of a vessel when a heavy sea is running; Main sea, the ocean; Molten sea, the great brazen laver of 1 Kings, vii. 23-26; Ship a sea, to have a large wave washing in; Short sea, a sea in which the waves are choppy, irregular, and interrupted; The four seas, those bounding Great Britain. [A.S. sǽ; Dut. zee, Ger. see, Ice. sær, Dan. sö.]