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ˈsea-mall
Also seamel(l.
= seamew.
The form seamell is perh. spurious, invented as a conjectural emendation of scamels in Shakes. Temp. ii. ii. 176.
a1672Willughby Ornith. (1676) 262 Larus cinereus minor. The common Sea-Mall. 1752J. Hill Hist. Anim. 448 The lesser Gull, or Sea-mall... The deep, grey, Sea-mall. 1778Stevens Shaks. Temp. ii. ii. 176 Wks. I. 63 note, Theobald had very reasonably proposed to read sea-malls, or sea-mells. 1894Newton Dict. Birds, Sea-mall, -mel, or -mew have been used indifferently for Gulls. |