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Fret
·noun ·see 1st Frith.
II. Fret ·noun Herpes; tetter.
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fret
A narrow strait of the sea, from fretum.
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Sea
·noun Fig.: Anything resembling the sea in vastness; as, a sea of glory.
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sea
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Sea
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A-sea
·adv On the sea; at sea; toward the sea.
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Deep-sea
·adj Of or pertaining to the deeper parts of the sea; as, a deep-sea line (·i.e., a line to take sou...
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Mid sea
·- ·Alt. of Mid-sea.
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Mid-sea
·- The middle part of the sea or ocean.
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Open sea
·add. ·- A sea open to all nations. ·see Mare clausum.
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Sea acorn
·- An acorn barnacle (Balanus).
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Sea adder
·- The European tanglefish, or pipefish (Syngnathus acus).
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Sea amenone
·- Any one of numerous species of soft-bodied Anthozoa, belonging to the order Actrinaria; an <<Acti...
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Sea anchor
·- ·see Drag sail, under 4th Drag.
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Sea ape
·- The sea otter.
II. Sea ape ·- The thrasher shark.
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Sea apple
·- The fruit of a West Indian palm (Manicaria Plukenetii), often found floating in the sea.
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Sea arrow
·- A squid of the genus Ommastrephes. ·see <<Squid>>.
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Sea bank
·- The <<Seashore>>.
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Sea barrow
·- A sea purse.
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Sea bass
·- A California food fish (Cynoscion nobile);
— called also white sea bass, and sea salmon.
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Sea bat
·- ·see Batfish (a).
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Sea bean
·- ·same·as Florida bean.
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Sea bear
·- The white bear.
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Sea beast
·- Any large marine mammal, as a seal, walrus, or cetacean.
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Sea bird
·- Any swimming bird frequenting the sea; a sea fowl.
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Sea blite
·- A plant (Suaeda maritima) of the Goosefoot family, growing in salt marches.
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Sea bow
·- ·see Marine rainbow, under <<Rainbow>>.
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Sea boy
·- A boy employed on shipboard.
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Sea breach
·- A breaking or overflow of a bank or a dike by the sea.
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Sea bream
·- Any one of several species of sparoid fishes, especially the common European species (Pagellus ce...
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Sea brief
·- ·same·as Sea letter.
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Sea bug
·- A <<Chiton>>.
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Sea butterfly
·- A <<Pteropod>>.
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Sea cabbage
·- ·see Sea kale, under <<Kale>>.
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Sea calf
·- The common seal.
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Sea canary
·- The beluga, or white whale.
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Sea captain
·- The captain of a vessel that sails upon the sea.
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Sea card
·- Mariner's card, or compass.
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Sea cat
·- The wolf fish.
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Sea catfish
·- ·Alt. of Sea cat.
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Sea chart
·- A chart or map on which the lines of the shore, islands, shoals, harbors, ·etc., are delineated.
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Sea chickweed
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Sea clam
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Sea coal
·- Coal brought by sea;
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Sea cob
·- The black-backed gull.
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Sea cock
·- The black-bellied plover.
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Sea cocoa
·- A magnificent palm (Lodoicea Sechellarum) found only in the Seychelles Islands. The fruit is an i...
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Sea colander
·- A large blackfish seaweed (Agarum Turneri), the frond of which is punctured with many little hole...
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Sea colewort
·- Sea cabbage.
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Sea goose
·- A <<Phalarope>>.
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Sea gown
·- A gown or frock with short sleeves, formerly worn by mariners.
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Sea grape
·- The gulf weed. ·see under <<Gulf>>.
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Sea grass
·- <<Eelgrass>>.
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Sea green
·- The green color of sea water.
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Sea gudgeon
·- The European black goby (Gobius niger).
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Sea gull
·- Any gull living on the seacoast.
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Sea hare
·- Any tectibranchiate mollusk of the genus Aplysia. ·see <<Aplysia>>.
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Sea hawk
·- A jager gull.
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Sea heath
·- A low perennial plant (Frankenia laevis) resembling heath, growing along the seashore in Europe.
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Sea hedgehog
·- A sea urchin.
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Sea hen
·- the common guillemot;
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Sea hog
·- The <<Porpoise>>.
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Sea holly
·- An evergeen seashore plant (Eryngium maritimum). ·see <<Eryngium>>.
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Sea holm
·- Sea holly.
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Sea horse
·- The <<Walrus>>.
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Sea hulver
·- Sea holly.
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Sea jelly
·- A medusa, or jellyfish.
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Sea kale
·- ·see under <<Kale>>.
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Sea king
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Sea laces
·- A kind of seaweed (Chorda Filum) having blackish cordlike fronds, often many feet long.
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Sea lamprey
·- The common lamprey.
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Sea language
·- The peculiar language or phraseology of seamen; sailor's cant.
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Sea lark
·- The rock pipit (Anthus obscurus).
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Sea lavender
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Sea lawyer
·- The gray snapper. ·see under <<Snapper>>.
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Sea legs
·- Legs able to maintain their possessor upright in stormy weather at sea, that is, ability stand or...
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Sea lemon
·- Any one of several species of nudibranchiate mollusks of the genus Doris and allied genera, havin...
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Sea leopard
·- Any one of several species of spotted seals, especially Ogmorhinus leptonyx, and Leptonychotes We...
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Sea letter
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Sea lettuce
·- The green papery fronds of several seaweeds of the genus Ulva, sometimes used as food.
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Sea level
·- The level of the surface of the sea; any surface on the same level with the sea.
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Sea lily
·- A <<Crinoid>>.
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Sea lion
·- Any one of several large species of seals of the family Otariidae native of the Pacific Ocean, es...
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Sea loach
·- The three-bearded rockling. ·see <<Rockling>>.
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Sea louse
·- Any one of numerous species of isopod crustaceans of Cymothoa, Livoneca, and allied genera, mostl...
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Sea mantis
·- A <<Squilla>>.
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Sea marge
·- Land which borders on the sea; the seashore.
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Sea mat
·- Any bryozoan of the genus Flustra or allied genera which form frondlike corals.
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Sea maw
·- The sea mew.
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Sea mew
·- A gull; the mew.
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Sea mile
·- A geographical mile. ·see <<Mile>>.
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Sea milkwort
·- A low, fleshy perennial herb (Glaux maritima) found along northern seashores.
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Sea monk
·- ·see Monk seal, under <<Monk>>.
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Sea monster
·- Any large sea animal.
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Sea moss
·- Any branched marine bryozoan resembling moss.
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Sea mouse
·- The <<Dunlin>>.
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Sea mud
·- A rich slimy deposit in salt marshes and along the seashore, sometimes used as a manure;
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Sea needle
·- ·see Garfish (a).
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Sea nettle
·- A jellyfish, or medusa.
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Sea onion
·- The officinal squill. ·see <<Squill>>.
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Sea ooze
·- ·same·as Sea mud.
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Sea orange
·- A large American holothurian (Lophothuria Fabricii) having a bright orange convex body covered wi...
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Sea otter
·- An aquatic carnivore (Enhydris lutris, / marina) found in the North Pacific Ocean. Its fur is hig...
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Sea owl
·- The <<Lumpfish>>.
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Sea pad
·- The <<Puffin>>.
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Sea partridge
·- The gilthead (Crenilabrus melops), a fish of the British coasts.
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Sea pass
·- A document carried by neutral merchant vessels in time of war, to show their nationality; a sea l...
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Sea peach
·- A beautiful American ascidian (Cynthia, / Halocynthia, pyriformis) having the size, form, velvety...
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Sea pear
·- A pedunculated ascidian of the genus Boltonia.
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Sea perch
·- The sea bass.
II. Sea perch ·- The <<Cunner>>.
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Sea pheasant
·- The pintail duck.
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Sea pie
·- The oyster catcher, a limicoline bird of the genus Haematopus.
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Sea piet
·- ·see 1st Sea pie.
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Sea pig
·- A porpoise or dolphin.
II. Sea pig ·- A <<Dugong>>.
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Sea pigeon
·- The common guillemot.
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Sea pike
·- The <<Garfish>>.
II. Sea pike ·- The <<Merluce>>.
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Sea pincushion
·- A sea purse.
II. Sea pincushion ·- A pentagonal starfish.
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Sea pink
·- ·see <<Thrift>>.
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Sea plover
·- the black-bellied plover.
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Sea poacher
·- ·Alt. of Sea poker.
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Sea poker
·- The <<Lyrie>>.
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Sea pool
·- A pool of salt water.
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Sea poppy
·- The horn poppy. ·see under <<Horn>>.
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Sea porcupine
·- Any fish of the genus Diodon, and allied genera, whose body is covered with spines. ·see ·Illust....
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Sea pork
·- An American compound ascidian (Amoraecium stellatum) which forms large whitish masses resembling ...
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Sea pudding
·- Any large holothurian.
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Sea purse
·- The horny egg case of a skate, and of certain sharks.
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Sea purslane
·- ·see under <<Purslane>>.
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Sea pye
·- ·see 1st Sea pie.
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Sea pyot
·- ·see 1st Sea pie.
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Sea quail
·- The <<Turnstone>>.
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Sea rat
·- A <<Pirate>>.
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Sea raven
·- The <<Cormorant>>.
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Sea reed
·- The sea-sand reed. ·see under <<Reed>>.
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Sea risk
·- Risk of injury, destruction, or loss by the sea, or while at sea.
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Sea robber
·- A pirate; a sea rover.
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Sea robin
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Sea rocket
·- ·see under <<Rocket>>.
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Sea room
·- Room or space at sea for a vessel to maneuver, drive, or scud, without peril of running ashore or...
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Sea rover
·- One that cruises or roves the sea for plunder; a sea robber; a pirate; also, a piratical vessel.
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Sea salmon
·- A young pollock.
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Sea salt
·- Common salt, obtained from sea water by evaporation.
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Sea sandpiper
·- The purple sandpiper.
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Sea sandwort
·- ·see Sea chickweed.
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Sea saurian
·noun Any marine saurian; ·esp. (Paleon.) the large extinct species of Mosasaurus, Icthyosaurus, Ple...
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Sea scorpion
·- The <<Scorpene>>.
II. Sea scorpion ·- A European sculpin (Cottus scorpius) having the head armed...
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Sea scurf
·- Any bryozoan which forms rounded or irregular patches of coral on stones, seaweeds, ·etc.
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Sea serpent
·- Any marine snake. ·see Sea snake.
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Sea slater
·- Any isopod crustacean of the genus Ligia.
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Sea slug
·- A nudibranch mollusk.
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Sea snail
·- Any small creeping marine gastropod, as the species of Littorina, Natica, ·etc.
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Sea snake
·- Any one of many species of venomous aquatic snakes of the family Hydrophidae, having a flattened ...
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Sea snipe
·- The bellows fish.
II. Sea snipe ·- A sandpiper, as the knot and dunlin.
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Sea spider
·- Any pycnogonid.
II. Sea spider ·- Any maioid crab; a spider crab. ·see <<Maioid>>, and Spider cr...
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Sea squirt
·- An ascidian. ·see ·Illust. under <<Tunicata>>.
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Sea star
·- A starfish, or brittle star.
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Sea surgeon
·- A surgeon fish.
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Sea swallow
·- The common tern.
II. Sea swallow ·- The storm petrel.
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Sea tang
·- A kind of seaweed; tang; tangle.
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Sea term
·- A term used specifically by seamen; a nautical word or phrase.
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Sea thief
·- A <<Pirate>>.
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Sea thongs
·- A kind of blackish seaweed (Himanthalia lorea) found on the northern coasts of the Atlantic. It h...
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Sea titling
·- The rock pipit.
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Sea toad
·- A <<Sculpin>>.
II. Sea toad ·- The <<Angler>>.
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Sea trout
·- The common squeteague, and the spotted squeteague.
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Sea trumpet
·- Any large marine univalve shell of the genus Triton. ·see <<Triton>>.
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Sea turn
·- A breeze, gale, or mist from the sea.
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Sea turtle
·- The sea pigeon, or guillemot.
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Sea unicorn
·- The <<Narwhal>>.
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Sea urchin
·- Any one of numerous species of echinoderms of the order Echinoidea.
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Sea wall
·- A wall, or embankment, to resist encroachments of the sea.
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Sea whip
·- A gorgonian having a simple stem.
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Sea widgeon
·- The scaup duck.
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Sea willow
·- A gorgonian coral with long flexible branches.
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Sea wing
·- A wing shell (Avicula).
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Sea withwind
·- A kind of bindweed (Convolvulus Soldanella) growing on the seacoast of Europe.
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Sea wolf
·- A sea lion.
II. Sea wolf ·- The wolf fish.
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Sea woodcock
·- The bar-tailed godwit.
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Sea wormwood
·- A European species of wormwood (Artemisia maritima) growing by the sea.
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Sea wrack
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Sea-bar
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Sea-blubber
·noun A <<Jellyfish>>.
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Sea-bordering
·adj Bordering on the sea; situated beside the sea.
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Sea-born
·adj Born at sea.
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Sea-built
·adj Built at, in, or by the sea.
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Sea-ear
·noun Any species of ear-shaped shells of the genus Haliotis. ·see <<Abalone>>.
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Sea-gait
·noun A long, rolling swell of the sea.
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Sea-gate
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Sea-green
·adj Of a beautiful bluish green color, like sea water on soundings.
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Sea-island
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Sea-maid
·noun A sea nymph.
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Sea-mail
·noun A gull; the mew.
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Sea-mell
·noun The sea mew.
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Sea-orb
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Sea-pen
·noun A <<Pennatula>>.
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Sea-roving
·adj Cruising at random on the ocean.
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Sea-walled
·adj Surrounded, bounded, or protected by the sea, as if by a wall.
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