Webster's Dictionary 1913

2350

Sea woodcock

Sea″ wood″cock′ (?). (Zoöl.) The bar-tailed godwit.

2351

Sea wormwood

Sea″ worm″wood′ (?). (Bot.) A European species of wormwood (Artemisia maritima) growing by the sea.

2352

Sea wrack

Sea″ wrack′ (?). (Bot.) See Wrack.

2353

Sea-bar

Sea″–bar′ (?), n.(Zoöl.) A tern.

2354

Sea-blubber

Sea″–blub″ber (?), n.(Zoöl.) A jellyfish.

2355

Sea-bordering

Sea″–bor″der‐ing (?), a. Bordering on the sea; situated beside the sea. Drayton.

2356

Sea-born

Sea″–born′ (?), a. 1. Born of the sea; produced by the sea. “Neptune and his sea-born niece.” Waller.2. Born at sea.

2357

Sea-built

Sea″–built′ (?), a. Built at, in, or by the sea.

2358

Sea-ear

Sea″–ear′ (sē″ēr′), n.(Zoöl.) Any species of ear-shaped shells of the genus Haliotis. See Abalone.

2359

Sea-gate

{ Sea″–gate′, Sea″–gait′ }, n. A long, rolling swell of the sea. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

2360

Sea-green

Sea″–green′, a. Of a beautiful bluish green color, like sea water on soundings.

2361

Sea-island

Sea″–is′land (?), 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 ...

2362

Sea-maid

Sea″–maid′ (?), n. 1. The mermaid.2. A sea nymph.

2363

Sea-mail

Sea″–mail′ (?), n. [Sea + (perhaps) Mall Mally, for Mary; hence, Prov. E. mally a hare.] (Zoöl.) A gull; the mew.

2364

Sea-mell

Sea″–mell′ (?), n.(Zoöl.) The sea mew.

2365

Sea-orb

Sea″–orb′ (?), n.(Zoöl.) A globefish.

2366

Sea-pen

Sea″–pen″ (?), n.(Zoöl.) A pennatula.

2367

Sea-roving

Sea″–rov″ing, a. Cruising at random on the ocean.

2368

Sea-walled

Sea″–walled′ (?), a. Surrounded, bounded, or protected by the sea, as if by a wall. Shak.

2369

Seabeach

Sea″beach′ (?), n. A beach lying along the sea. “The bleak seabeach.” Longfellow.

2370

Seabeard

Sea″beard′ (?), n.(Bot.) A green seaweed (Cladophora rupestris) growing in dense tufts.

2371

Seaboard

Sea″board′ (?), n. [Sea + board, F. bord side.] The seashore; seacoast. Ld. Berners.

2372

Seaboard (2)

Sea″board′, a. Bordering upon, or being near, the sea; seaside; seacoast; as, a seaboard town.

2373

Seaboard (3)

Sea″board′, adv. Toward the sea.

2374

Seaboat

Sea″boat′ (?). [AS. sǣbāt.] 1. A boat or vessel adapted to the open sea; hence, a vessel considered with reference to her power of resisting a storm, or maintaining herself in a...

2375

Seabord

Sea″bord′ (?), n. & a. See Seaboard.

2376

Seabound

Sea″bound′ (?), a. Bounded by the sea.