Webster's Dictionary 1913

2323

Sea snake

Sea″ snake′ (?). (Zoöl.) Any one of many species of venomous aquatic snakes of the family Hydrophidæ, having a flattened tail and living entirely in the sea, especially in the w...

2324

Sea snipe

Sea″ snipe′ (?). (Zoöl.) (a) A sandpiper, as the knot and dunlin. (b) The bellows fish.

2325

Sea spider

Sea″ spi″der (?). (Zoöl.) (a) Any maioid crab; a spider crab. See Maioid, and Spider crab, under Spider. (b) Any pycnogonid.

2326

Sea squirt

Sea″ squirt′ (?). (Zoöl.) An ascidian. See Illust. under Tunicata.

2327

Sea star

Sea″ star′ (?). (Zoöl.) A starfish, or brittle star.

2328

Sea surgeon

Sea″ sur″geon (?). (Zoöl.) A surgeon fish.

2329

Sea swallow

Sea″ swal″low (?). 1. (Zoöl.) (a) The common tern. (b) The storm petrel. (c) The gannet.2. (Her.) See Cornish chough, under Chough.

2330

Sea tang

Sea″ tang′ (?). (Bot.) A kind of seaweed; tang; tangle.To their nests of sedge and sea tang. Longfellow.

2331

Sea term

Sea″ term′ (?). A term used specifically by seamen; a nautical word or phrase.

2332

Sea thief

Sea″ thief′ (?). A pirate. Drayton.

2333

Sea thongs

Sea″ thongs′ (?; 115). (Bot.) A kind of blackish seaweed (Himanthalia lorea) found on the northern coasts of the Atlantic. It has a thonglike forking process rising from a top-s...

2334

Sea titling

Sea″ tit″ling (?). (Zoöl.) The rock pipit.

2335

Sea toad

Sea″ toad′ (?). (Zoöl.) (a) A sculpin. (b) A toadfish. (c) The angler.

2336

Sea trout

Sea″ trout′ (?). (Zoöl.) (a) Any one of several species of true trouts which descend rivers and enter the sea after spawning, as the European bull trout and salmon trout, and th...

2337

Sea trumpet

Sea″ trum″pet (?). 1. (Bot.) A great blackish seaweed of the Southern Ocean, having a hollow and expanding stem and a pinnate frond, sometimes twenty feet long.2. (Zoöl.) Any la...

2338

Sea turn

Sea″ turn′ (?). A breeze, gale, or mist from the sea. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

2339

Sea turtle

Sea″ tur″tle (?). (Zoöl.) (a) Any one of several very large species of chelonians having the feet converted into paddles, as the green turtle, hawkbill, loggerhead, and leatherb...

2340

Sea unicorn

Sea″ u″ni‐corn (?). (Zoöl.) The narwhal.

2341

Sea urchin

Sea″ ur″chin (?). (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of echinoderms of the order Echinoidea. When living they are covered with movable spines which are often long and sharp.

2342

Sea wall

Sea″ wall′ (?). [AS. sæweall.] A wall, or embankment, to resist encroachments of the sea.

2343

Sea whip

Sea″ whip′ (?). (Zoöl.) A gorgonian having a simple stem.

2344

Sea widgeon

Sea″ wid″geon (?). (Zoöl.) (a) The scaup duck. (b) The pintail duck.

2345

Sea willow

Sea″ wil″low (?). (Zoöl.) A gorgonian coral with long flexible branches.

2346

Sea wing

Sea″ wing′ (?). (Zoöl.) A wing shell (Avicula).

2347

Sea withwind

Sea″ with″wind′ (?). (Bot.) A kind of bindweed (Convolvulus Soldanella) growing on the seacoast of Europe.

2348

Sea wolf

Sea″ wolf′ (?). (Zoöl.) (a) The wolf fish. (b) The European sea perch. (c) The sea elephant. (d) A sea lion.

2349

Sea wood louse

Sea″ wood″ louse′ (?). (Zoöl.) A sea slater.