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ˈsea-water
1. The water of the sea, or water taken from the sea.
c1000Sax. Leechd. (Rolls) II. 28 Celeþonian seaw & sæ⁓wæter. c1175Lamb. Hom. 159 Þe tere þet mon wepð for his aȝen sunne is alse salt water, and þer fore hit is inemned see water. c1450Mirk's Festial 167 Wyth his hond wyth a lytyll schell he toke of þe see-watyr and powret into þat put. 1601Holland Pliny xxxi. vii. II. 416 The salt made of sea-water. 1610Shakes. Temp. i. ii. 462 Sea water shalt thou drinke. 1657W. Coles Adam in Eden xlvi. 90 On the Essex and Kentish shores, as far as the brackish Sea⁓water commeth. 1771Smollett Humph. Cl. 8 Aug. (1815) 282 Being drenched with sea-water. 1850Tennyson In Mem. xix. 6 The salt sea-water passes by. 1888F. Hume Mme. Midas i. Prol., A rough blue suit of clothes, all torn and stained by sea-water.
b. pl.
1697Potter Antiq. Greece ii. iv. (1715) 222 If the Sea⁓waters could be procur'd, they were preferr'd before all others. 1860Wraxall Life in Sea xv. 308 The iridescence of the sea-waters is most generally produced by living light⁓bearers.
c. attrib. and Comb.
1588Shakes. L.L.L. i. ii. 86 Tell me precisely of what complexion? Boy. Of the sea-water Greene sir. 1596Will in Longman's Mag. Apr. (1905) 534 My see-water colored green cloke.
†2. A precious stone, the aquamarine 1. Obs.
[1598: cf. aquamarine 1.] 1617Moryson Itin. i. 235 Round stones called Cornioli, of yellow colour and others of white, called the Sea-water of India. |