Webster's Dictionary 1913

2188

Sea dace

Sea″ dace′ (?). (Zoöl.) The European sea perch.

2189

Sea daffodil

Sea″ daf″fo‐dil (?). (Bot.) A European amaryllidaceous plant (Pancratium maritimum).

2190

Sea devil

Sea″ dev′il (?) (Zoöl.) (a) Any very large ray, especially any species of the genus Manta or Cephaloptera, some of which become more than twenty feet across and weigh several to...

2191

Sea dog

Sea″ dog′ (?). 1. (Zoöl.) The dogfish. (b) The common seal.2. An old sailor; a salt.

2192

Sea dotterel

Sea″ dot″ter‐el (?). (Zoöl.) The turnstone.

2193

Sea dove

Sea″ dove′ (?). (Zoöl.) The little auk, or rotche. See Illust. of Rotche.

2194

Sea dragon

Sea″ drag″on (?). (Zoöl.) (a) A dragonet, or sculpin. (b) The pegasus.

2195

Sea drake

Sea″ drake′ (?). (Zoöl.) The pewit gull.

2196

Sea duck

Sea″ duck′ (?). (Zoöl.) 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 ...

2197

Sea eagle

Sea″ ea″gle (?). 1. (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of fish-eating eagles of the genus Haliæetus and allied genera, as the North Pacific sea eagle (H. pelagicus), which has w...

2198

Sea eel

Sea″ eel′ (sē″ ēl′). (Zoöl.) The conger eel.

2199

Sea egg

Sea″ egg′ (sē″ ĕg′). (Zoöl.) A sea urchin.

2200

Sea elephant

Sea″ el″e‐phant (sē″ ē″ē̍‐fant). (Zoöl.) A very large seal (Macrorhinus proboscideus) of the Antarctic seas, much hunted for its oil. It sometimes attains a length of thirty fee...

2201

Sea fan

Sea″ fan′ (sē″ făn′). (Zoöl.) Any gorgonian which branches in a fanlike form, especially Gorgonia flabellum of Florida and the West Indies.

2202

Sea feather

Sea″ feath″er (?). (Zoöl.) Any gorgonian which branches in a plumelike form.

2203

Sea fennel

Sea″ fen″nel (?). (Bot.) Samphire.

2204

Sea fern

Sea″ fern″ (?). (Zoöl.) Any gorgonian which branches like a fern.

2205

Sea fight

Sea″ fight′ (?). An engagement between ships at sea; a naval battle.

2206

Sea fir

Sea″ fir′ (?). (Zoöl.) A sertularian hydroid, especially Sertularia abietina, which branches like a miniature fir tree.

2207

Sea flower

Sea″ flow″er (?). (Zoöl.) A sea anemone, or any related anthozoan.

2208

Sea foam

Sea″ foam′ (?). 1. Foam of sea water.2. (Min.) Meerschaum; — called also sea froth.

2209

Sea fowl

Sea″ fowl′ (?). (Zoöl.) Any bird which habitually frequents the sea, as an auk, gannet, gull, tern, or petrel; also, all such birds, collectively.

2210

Sea fox

Sea″ fox′ (?). (Zoöl.) The thrasher shark. See Thrasher.

2211

Sea froth

Sea″ froth′ (?; 115). See Sea foam, 2.

2212

Sea gauge

Sea″ gauge′ (?). See under Gauge, n.

2213

Sea gherkin

{ Sea″ gher′kin (?), orSea″ gir″kin (?) }. (Zoöl.) Any small holothurian resembling in form a gherkin.

2214

Sea ginger

Sea″ gin″ger (?). (Zoöl.) 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. S...