SEA-BOAT
SE'A-BOAT, noun [sea and boat.] A vessel that bears the sea firmly, without laboring or straining her masts and rigging.
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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SE'A-BOAT, noun [sea and boat.] A vessel that bears the sea firmly, without laboring or straining her masts and rigging.
SE'A-BORD, adjective Bordering on the sea or ocean.
SEA-BORD'ERING,
SE'A-BORN, adjective [sea and born.]1. Born of the sea; produced by the sea; as Neptune and his sea-born niece.2. Born at sea.
SE'A-BOUND, adjective [sea and bound.] Bounded by the sea.
SE'A-BOY, noun [sea and boy.] A boy employed on shipboard.
SE'A-BREACH, noun [sea and breach.] Irruption of the sea by breaking the banks.
SE'A-BREAM, noun [sea and bream.] A fish of the Sparus kind.
SE'A-BREEZE, noun [sea and breeze.] A wind or current of air blowing from the sea upon land; for the most part blowing during the day only, and subsiding at night.
SE'A-BUILT, adjective [sea and built.] Built for the sea; as sea-built forts, [ships.]
SE'A-CAB'BAGE, noun [sea and cabbage.] Sea-colewort, a plant of the genus Crambe.
SE'A-CALE,
SE'A-CALF, noun [sea and calf.] The connom seal, a species of Phoca.
SE'A-CAP, noun [sea and cap.] A cap made to be worn at sea.
SE'A-C'ARD, noun [sea and card.] The mariner's card or compass.
SE'A-CARP, noun [sea and carp.] A spotted fish fiving among rocks and stones.
SE'A-CHANGE, noun [sea and change.] A change wrought by the sea.
SE'A-CH'ART, noun [sea and chart.] A chart or map on which the line of the shore, isles, shoals, bharbors, etc. are delineated.
SE'A-CIRCLED, adjective [sea and circle.] Surrounded by the sea.
SE'A-COAL, noun [sea and coal.] Coal brought by sea; a vulgar name for fossil coal, in distinction from charcoal.
SE'A-COAST, noun [sea and coast.] The shore or border of the land adjacent to the sea or ocean.
SE'A-COB, noun [sea and cob.] A fowl, called also sea-gull.
SE'A-COLEWORT, noun Sea-cale, which see.
SE'A-COMPASS, noun [sea and campass.] The mariner's card and needle; the compass constructed for use at sea.
SE'A-COOT, noun [sea and coot.] A sea fowl,SE'A- COR'MORANT, noun [sea and cormorant.] The sea-crow or sea-drake.
SE'A-COW, noun [sea and cow.] The Trichecus manatus, or manati. [See Manati.]
SE'A-CROW, noun [sea and crow.] A fowl of the full kind; the mire-crow or pewet.