meaning of sea
1. Land which borders on the sea; the seashore.
2. See Garfish (a).
3. A jellyfish, or medusa.
4. The officinal squill. See Squill.
5. Same as Sea mud.
6. A large American holothurian (Lophothuria Fabricii) having a bright orange convex body covered with finely granulated scales. Its expanded tentacles are bright red.
7. An aquatic carnivore (Enhydris lutris, / marina) found in the North Pacific Ocean. Its fur is highly valued, especially by the Chinese. It is allied to the common otter, but is larger, with feet more decidedly webbed.
8. The lumpfish.
9. The puffin.
10. The gilthead (Crenilabrus melops), a fish of the British coasts.
11. A document carried by neutral merchant vessels in time of war, to show their nationality; a sea letter or passport. See Passport.
12. A beautiful American ascidian (Cynthia, / Halocynthia, pyriformis) having the size, form, velvety surface, and color of a ripe peach.
13. A pedunculated ascidian of the genus Boltonia.
14. The European bass (Roccus, / Labrax, lupus); -- called also sea dace.
15. The cunner.
16. The sea bass.
17. The name is applied also to other species of fishes.
18. The pintail duck.
19. The oyster catcher, a limicoline bird of the genus Haematopus.
20. A dish of crust or pastry and meat or fish, etc. , cooked together in alternate layers, -- a common food of sailors; as, a three-decker sea pie.
21. See 1st Sea pie.
22. A porpoise or dolphin.
23. A dugong.
24. The common guillemot.
25. The garfish.
26. A large serranoid food fish (Centropomus undecimalis) found on both coasts of America; -- called also robalo.
27. The merluce.
28. A sea purse.
29. A pentagonal starfish.
30. See Thrift.
31. the black-bellied plover.
32. Alt. of Sea poker
33. The lyrie.
34. A pool of salt water.
35. The horn poppy. See under Horn.
36. Any fish of the genus Diodon, and allied genera, whose body is covered with spines. See Illust. under Diodon.
37. An American compound ascidian (Amoraecium stellatum) which forms large whitish masses resembling salt pork.
38. Any large holothurian.
39. The horny egg case of a skate, and of certain sharks.
40. See under Purslane.
41. See 1st Sea pie.
42. See 1st Sea pie.
43. The turnstone.
44. A pirate.
45. The chimaera.
46. An American cottoid fish (Hemitripterus Americanus) allied to the sculpins, found on the northeren Atlantic coasts.
47. The cormorant.
48. The sea-sand reed. See under Reed.
49. Risk of injury, destruction, or loss by the sea, or while at sea.
50. A pirate; a sea rover.
51. See under Robin, and Illustration in Appendix.
52. See under Rocket.
53. Room or space at sea for a vessel to maneuver, drive, or scud, without peril of running ashore or aground.
54. One that cruises or roves the sea for plunder; a sea robber; a pirate; also, a piratical vessel.
55. A young pollock.
56. The spotted squeteague.
57. See Sea bass (b).
58. Common salt, obtained from sea water by evaporation.
59. The purple sandpiper.
60. See Sea chickweed.
61. Any marine saurian; esp. (Paleon. ) the large extinct species of Mosasaurus, Icthyosaurus, Plesiosaurus, and related genera.
62. A European sculpin (Cottus scorpius) having the head armed with short spines.
63. The scorpene.
64. Any bryozoan which forms rounded or irregular patches of coral on stones, seaweeds, etc.
65. Any marine snake. See Sea snake.
66. A large marine animal of unknown nature, often reported to have been seen at sea, but never yet captured.
67. Any isopod crustacean of the genus Ligia.
68. A holothurian.
69. A nudibranch mollusk.
70. A small fish of the genus Liparis, having a ventral sucker. It lives among stones and seaweeds.
71. Any small creeping marine gastropod, as the species of Littorina, Natica, etc.
72. Any one of many species of venomous aquatic snakes of the family Hydrophidae, having a flattened tail and living entirely in the sea, especially in the warmer parts of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. They feed upon fishes, and are mostly of moderate size, but some species become eight or ten feet long and four inches broad.
73. A sandpiper, as the knot and dunlin.
74. The bellows fish.
75. Any maioid crab; a spider crab. See Maioid, and Spider crab, under Spider.
76. Any pycnogonid.
77. An ascidian. See Illust. under Tunicata.
78. A starfish, or brittle star.
79. A surgeon fish.
80. The common tern.
81. The storm petrel.
82. The gannet.
83. See Cornish chough, under Chough.
84. A sculpin.
85. A toadfish.
86. The angler.
87. 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 the eastern American spotted trout.
88. The common squeteague, and the spotted squeteague.
89. A California fish of the family Chiridae, especially Hexagrammus decagrammus; -- called also spotted rock trout. See Rock trout, under Rock.
90. A California sciaenoid fish (Cynoscion nobilis); -- called also white sea bass.
91. A great blackish seaweed of the Southern Ocean, having a hollow and expanding stem and a pinnate frond, sometimes twenty feet long.
92. Any large marine univalve shell of the genus Triton. See Triton.
93. A breeze, gale, or mist from the sea.
94. Any one of several very large species of chelonians having the feet converted into paddles, as the green turtle, hawkbill, loggerhead, and leatherback. They inhabit all warm seas.
95. The sea pigeon, or guillemot.
96. The narwhal.
97. Any one of numerous species of echinoderms of the order Echinoidea.
98. A kind of seaweed; tang; tangle.
99. A term used specifically by seamen; a nautical word or phrase.
100. A pirate.
101. 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-shaped base.
102. A wall, or embankment, to resist encroachments of the sea.
103. A gorgonian having a simple stem.
104. The scaup duck.
105. The pintail duck.
106. A gorgonian coral with long flexible branches.
107. A wing shell (Avicula).
108. A kind of bindweed (Convolvulus Soldanella) growing on the seacoast of Europe.
109. The wolf fish.
110. The European sea perch.
111. The sea elephant.
112. A sea lion.
113. The bar-tailed godwit.
114. A sea slater.
115. A European species of wormwood (Artemisia maritima) growing by the sea.
116. See Wrack.
117. One of the larger bodies of salt water, less than an ocean, found on the earths surface; a body of salt water of second rank, generally forming part of, or connecting with, an ocean or a larger sea; as, the Mediterranean Sea; the Sea of Marmora; the North Sea; the Carribean Sea.
118. An inland body of water, esp. if large or if salt or brackish; as, the Caspian Sea; the Sea of Aral; sometimes, a small fresh-water lake; as, the Sea of Galilee.
119. The ocean; the whole body of the salt water which covers a large part of the globe.
120. The swell of the ocean or other body of water in a high wind; motion of the waters surface; also, a single wave; a billow; as, there was a high sea after the storm; the vessel shipped a sea.
121. A great brazen laver in the temple at Jerusalem; -- so called from its size.
122. Fig. : Anything resembling the sea in vastness; as, a sea of glory.
123. An acorn barnacle (Balanus).
124. The European fifteen-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus spinachia); -- called also bismore.
125. The European tanglefish, or pipefish (Syngnathus acus).
126. See Drag sail, under 4th Drag.
127. Any one of numerous species of soft-bodied Anthozoa, belonging to the order Actrinaria; an actinian.
128. The thrasher shark.
129. The sea otter.
130. The fruit of a West Indian palm (Manicaria Plukenetii), often found floating in the sea.
131. A squid of the genus Ommastrephes. See Squid.
132. The seashore.
133. A bank or mole to defend against the sea.
134. A sea purse.
135. A large marine food fish (Serranus, / Centropristis, atrarius) which abounds on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It is dark bluish, with black bands, and more or less varied with small white spots and blotches. Called also, locally, blue bass, black sea bass, blackfish, bluefish, and black perch.
136. A California food fish (Cynoscion nobile); -- called also white sea bass, and sea salmon.
137. See Batfish (a).
138. Same as Florida bean.
139. Any fur seal. See under Fur.
140. The white bear.
141. The black-backed gull.
142. In a steamship, a cock or valve close to the vessels side, for closing a pipe which communicates with the sea.
143. The black-bellied plover.
144. A gurnard, as the European red gurnard (Trigla pini).
145. A magnificent palm (Lodoicea Sechellarum) found only in the Seychelles Islands. The fruit is an immense two-lobed nut. It was found floating in the Indian Ocean before the tree was known, and called sea cocoanut, and double cocoanut.
146. A large blackfish seaweed (Agarum Turneri), the frond of which is punctured with many little holes.
147. Sea cabbage.
148. The mariners compass. See under Compass.
149. A scoter duck.
150. A yellow cylindrical mass of egg capsule of certain species of whelks (Buccinum), which resembles an ear of maize.
151. The mantee.
152. The dugong.
153. The walrus.
154. Alt. of Sea crayfish
155. Any crustacean of the genus Palinurus and allied genera, as the European spiny lobster (P. vulgaris), which is much used as an article of food. See Lobster.
156. The chough.
157. The cormorant.
158. The blackheaded pewit, and other gulls.
159. The skua.
160. The razorbill.
161. The coot.
162. Any large holothurian, especially one of those belonging to the genus Pentacta, or Cucumaria, as the common American and European species. (P. frondosa).
163. The European sea perch.
164. A European amarylidaceous plant (Pancratium maritimum).
165. Any very large ray, especially any species of the genus Manta or Cepholoptera, some of which become more than twenty feet across and weigh several tons. See also Ox ray, under Ox.
166. Any large cephalopod, as a large Octopus, or a giant squid (Architeuthis). See Devilfish.
167. The angler.
168. The dogfish.
169. The common seal.
170. An old sailor; a salt.
171. The turnstone.
172. The little auk, or rotche. See Illust. of Rotche.
173. A dragonet, or sculpin.
174. The pegasus.
175. The pewit gull.
176. 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 are examples. They may be distinguished by the lobate hind toe.
177. Any one of several species of fish-eating eagles of the genus Haliaeetus and allied genera, as the North Pacific sea eagle. (H. pelagicus), which has white shoulders, head, rump, and tail; the European white-tailed eagle (H. albicilla); and the Indian white-tailed sea eagle, or fishing eagle (Polioaetus ichthyaetus). The bald eagle and the osprey are also sometimes classed as sea eagles.
178. The eagle ray. See under Ray.
179. See under Gauge, n.
180. Alt. of Sea girkin
181. Any small holothurian resembling in form a gherkin.
182. 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. See Illust. under Millepore.
183. A kind of kelp (Laminaria digitata) with palmately cleft fronds; -- called also sea wand, seaware, and tangle.
184. A phalarope.
185. A gown or frock with short sleeves, formerly worn by mariners.
186. The gulf weed. See under Gulf.
187. A shrubby plant (Coccoloba uvifera) growing on the sandy shores of tropical America, somewhat resembling the grapevine.
188. The clusters of gelatinous egg capsules of a squid (Loligo).
189. Eelgrass.
190. The green color of sea water.
191. Any tectibranchiate mollusk of the genus Aplysia. See Aplysia.
192. A jager gull.
193. A low perennial plant (Frankenia laevis) resembling heath, growing along the seashore in Europe.
194. A sea urchin.
195. the common guillemot; -- applied also to various other sea birds.
196. The porpoise.
197. An evergeen seashore plant (Eryngium maritimum). See Eryngium.
198. A small uninhabited island.
199. Sea holly.
200. A fabulous creature, half horse and half fish, represented in classic mythology as driven by sea dogs or ridden by the Nereids. It is also depicted in heraldry. See Hippocampus.
201. The walrus.
202. Any fish of the genus Hippocampus.
203. Sea holly.
204. See under Kale.
205. One of the leaders among the Norsemen who passed their lives in roving the seas in search of plunder and adventures; a Norse pirate chief. See the Note under Viking.
206. Any large marine mammal, as a seal, walrus, or cetacean.
207. Any swimming bird frequenting the sea; a sea fowl.
208. A plant (Suaeda maritima) of the Goosefoot family, growing in salt marches.
209. A pteropod.
210. See Sea kale, under Kale.
211. The common seal.
212. The beluga, or white whale.
213. The captain of a vessel that sails upon the sea.
214. Mariners card, or compass.
215. Alt. of Sea cat
216. The wolf fish.
217. Any marine siluroid fish, as Aelurichthys marinus, and Arinus felis, of the eastern coast of the United States. Many species are found on the coasts of Central and South America.
218. A chart or map on which the lines of the shore, islands, shoals, harbors, etc. , are delineated.
219. A fleshy plant (Arenaria peploides) growing in large tufts in the sands of the northern Atlantic seacoast; -- called also sea sandwort, and sea purslane.
220. Any one of the large bivalve mollusks found on the open seacoast, especially those of the family Mactridae, as the common American species. (Mactra, / Spisula, solidissima); -- called also beach clam, and surf clam.
221. Coal brought by sea; -- a name by which mineral coal was formerly designated in the south of England, in distinction from charcoal, which was brought by land.
222. See Marine rainbow, under Rainbow.
223. A boy employed on shipboard.
224. A breaking or overflow of a bank or a dike by the sea.
225. Any one of several species of sparoid fishes, especially the common European species (Pagellus centrodontus), the Spanish (P. Oweni), and the black sea bream (Cantharus lineatus); -- called also old wife.
226. Same as Sea letter.
227. A chiton.
228. The conger eel.
229. A sea urchin.
230. A very large seal (Macrorhinus proboscideus) of the Antarctic seas, much hunted for its oil. It sometimes attains a length of thirty feet, and is remarkable for the prolongation of the nose of the adult male into an erectile elastic proboscis, about a foot in length. Another species of smaller size (M. angustirostris) occurs on the coast of Lower California, but is now nearly extinct.
231. Any gorgonian which branches in a fanlike form, especially Gorgonia flabellum of Florida and the West Indies.
232. Any gorgonian which branches in a plumelike form.
233. Samphire.
234. Any gorgonian which branches like a fern.
235. An engagement between ships at sea; a naval battle.
236. A sertularian hydroid, especially Sertularia abietina, which branches like a miniature fir tree.
237. A sea anemone, or any related anthozoan.
238. Foam of sea water.
239. Meerschaum; -- called also sea froth.
240. Any bird which habitually frequents the sea, as an auk, gannet, gull, tern, or petrel; also, all such birds, collectively.
241. The thrasher shark. See Thrasher.
242. See Sea foam, 2.
243. A kind of seaweed (Chorda Filum) having blackish cordlike fronds, often many feet long.
244. The common lamprey.
245. The peculiar language or phraseology of seamen; sailors cant.
246. The rock pipit (Anthus obscurus).
247. Any one of several small sandpipers and plovers, as the ringed plover, the turnstone, the dunlin, and the sanderling.
248. See Marsh rosemary, under Marsh.
249. The gray snapper. See under Snapper.
250. A marine deity; a fabulous being supposed to live in, or have dominion over, the sea, or some particular sea or part of the sea, as Neptune.
251. A goddess supposed to live in or reign over the sea, or some part of the sea.
252. The European black goby (Gobius niger).
253. Any gull living on the seacoast.
254. Legs able to maintain their possessor upright in stormy weather at sea, that is, ability stand or walk steadily on deck when a vessel is rolling or pitching in a rough sea.
255. Any one of several species of nudibranchiate mollusks of the genus Doris and allied genera, having a smooth, thick, convex yellow body.
256. Any one of several species of spotted seals, especially Ogmorhinus leptonyx, and Leptonychotes Weddelli, of the Antarctic Ocean. The North Pacific sea leopard is the harbor seal.
257. The customary certificate of national character which neutral merchant vessels are bound to carry in time of war; a passport for a vessel and cargo.
258. The green papery fronds of several seaweeds of the genus Ulva, sometimes used as food.
259. The level of the surface of the sea; any surface on the same level with the sea.
260. A medusa, or jellyfish.
261. A crinoid.
262. Any one of several large species of seals of the family Otariidae native of the Pacific Ocean, especially the southern sea lion (Otaria jubata) of the South American coast; the northern sea lion (Eumetopias Stelleri) found from California to Japan; and the black, or California, sea lion (Zalophus Californianus), which is common on the rocks near San Francisco.
263. The three-bearded rockling. See Rockling.
264. Any one of numerous species of isopod crustaceans of Cymothoa, Livoneca, and allied genera, mostly parasites on fishes.
265. Any bryozoan of the genus Flustra or allied genera which form frondlike corals.
266. The sea mew.
267. See Monk seal, under Monk.
268. Any large sea animal.
269. Any branched marine bryozoan resembling moss.
270. A dorsibranchiate annelid, belonging to Aphrodite and allied genera, having long, slender, hairlike setae on the sides.
271. The dunlin.
272. The rock pipit.
273. A gull; the mew.
274. A geographical mile. See Mile.
275. A low, fleshy perennial herb (Glaux maritima) found along northern seashores.
276. A rich slimy deposit in salt marshes and along the seashore, sometimes used as a manure; -- called also sea ooze.
277. A squilla.
278. a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land
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