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单词 sea
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sean.

Brit. /siː/, U.S. /si/
Forms: Old English sǽ, (Middle English seo), Middle English sæ, Middle English–1500s se, see, Middle English ( Ayenb.) ze, ( seo, sse), Middle English cee, Middle English–1500s Scottish sey, 1500s Scottish seye, sie, Middle English– sea. plural Old English sǽs, sǽas, sǽ, Middle English sen, Middle English sees, Middle English–1500s (chiefly Scottish) seis, 1500s seaes, sease, ( saezes), seeis, Scottish seyis, seyes, 1500s– seas.
Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.
Etymology: Common Germanic: Old English sǽ strong masculine and feminine corresponds to Old Frisian sê masculine, Old Saxon sêo, sêu, dative sêwa masculine (Middle Low German sê, Middle Dutch see masculine and feminine, Dutch zee feminine), Old High German sêo, sê, dative sêwe masculine, sea, lake, pond (Middle High German sê masculine and feminine, sea, lake, modern German see masculine, lake, see feminine, sea), Old Norse sǽ-r, sjá-r, sjó-r masculine (Swedish sjö, Danish sø), Gothic saiw-s masculine, sea, also marsh < Germanic *saiwi-z. The word has no certain affinities, and it is doubtful whether the w represents a pre-Germanic w or (by Verner's Law) a pre-Germanic q u (or kw ). On the assumption of a guttural root, and of the priority of the sense ‘marsh’ (occurring in Gothic) it has been suggested that the word may be cognate with Old High German gisig (gisic , gezik ), found in glosses as a collective for ponds or marshes (stagna , paludes ), and with the Old High German sîgan to flow down, sink, Old English sígan to descend: see sye v.1
I. The simple word.
1.
a. The continuous body of salt water that covers the greater part of the earth's surface. Often poetic with epithet as broad, deep (see deep adj. 1), †large, salt (see salt adj.1 1), †side, wide, wild, etc. For ocean sea, sea ocean, sea of ocean, see ocean n. 1.Since Early Middle English always with prefixed article, except in phrases with prepositions (see esp. 1b, 10 – 17).
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > [noun]
sea-floodc893
brimc937
streamc950
foamOE
mereOE
seaOE
sea of (the) oceanc1300
brookc1400
float1477
strand1513
breec1540
burnc1540
broth1558
Thetisie1600
fishpond1604
brine1605
pond1612
Thetisc1620
brack1627
herring-pond1686
tide1791
black water1816
lave1825
briny1831
salt water1839
blue1861
swan's bath1865
puddle1869
ditch1922
oggin1945
OE Beowulf 2394 Ofer sæ side.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 15221 On þare sæ [c1300 Otho see] brade.
c1275 Moral Ode 82 in Old Eng. Misc. 61 He makede fysses in þe sea.
c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women 2163 In an yle, amid the wilde see.
c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 1098 Fletynge in the large See.
c1430 Syr Gener. 6553 Toward the cee he rode a pase.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 1982 Blouen to þe brode se.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II ii. i. 46 This precious stone set in the siluer sea . View more context for this quotation
1646 H. More Philos. Devotion in Democritus Platonissans sig. E3 As the thankfull Rivers pay What they borrowed of the Sea.
1779 W. Cowper in J. Newton & W. Cowper Olney Hymns iii. xv. 328 God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.
1807 W. Wordsworth Poems I. 138 Two Voices are there; one is of the Sea, One of the Mountains; each a mighty Voice.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Farewell 1 Flow down, cold rivulet, to the sea.
b. Often coupled with land, to express the idea of the whole surface of the earth; similarly †sea and earth, sea and sand. Also with prepositions, as by land and sea, on sea or land, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > surface of the earth > [noun]
sea and earthc1000
sea and sanda1352
c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xxiii. 15 Ge befarað sæ & eorþan þæt ge don anne elþeodine.
1338 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 281 At his wille to be, bi se & bi land.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 37 Of zuichen þer byeþ uele maneres ine londe and ine ze.
a1352 L. Minot Poems (1914) iii. 1 God þat schope both se and sand.
c1366 G. Chaucer A.B.C. 50 Neither in erthe nor in see.
c1386 G. Chaucer Man of Law's Prol. 127 Ye seken lond and see for yowre wynnynges.
a1400 Pistill of Susan 254 Was neuer more sorweful segge bi see nor bi sand.
1475 Bk. Noblesse (Roxb.) 8 Batailes bothe by lond and see.
1559 D. Lindsay Test. Papyngo l. 756 in Wks. (1931) I Quhat thow hes hard, be landis, or be seis, Off ws Kirkmen.
1807 W. Wordsworth Poems II. 142 The light that never was, on sea or land.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 300 Cimon and Lysander, Pompey and Agrippa, had fought battles by sea as well as by land.
c. plural. Different parts or tracts of the ocean. (Often merely poetic or rhetorical, like waters.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > region of sea or ocean > [noun]
seasc825
oceanc1300
oceana1387
country1748
open1883
c825 Vesp. Psalter xxiii. 2 He ofer sæas [L. super maria] gesteaðelade hie.
c1000 Ælfric Genesis i. 10 And God gecigde þa drignisse eorðan and þæra wætera gegaderunga he het sæs [L. maria].
c1430 J. Lydgate Lyke thyn Audience 44 in Polit. Relig. & Love Poems (1903) 49 Shipmen..that haue experience In troubly seis.
1550 Bp. G. Day in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1846) 3rd Ser. III. 303 No lesse vnpleasaunt..than it is to the merchaunte to sayle againe in those seeis wherin he hathe suffered shipwrack before.
1600 Will in Yorks. Archæol. Jrnl. (1902) 17 121 In the name of Gode, the maker of heven and yerth, the saezes and all that therin ys.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) ii. ii. 60 This my Hand will rather The multitudinous Seas incarnardine. View more context for this quotation
1820 J. Keats Ode to Nightingale in Lamia & Other Poems 111 Magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas.
1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems iv. 18 To carry thence a master o'er the surly seas.
d. In a more or less pregnant use, with reference to naval operations, the shipping trade, the profession or employment of a sailor, life on shipboard, etc. to keep the sea: to prevent the enemy from occupying it, to keep it clear for one's own ships and traffic.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > [verb (intransitive)] > maintain naval power
to keep the sea1338
society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > [noun] > naval affairs
sea1556
sea-affairs1633
society > travel > travel by water > seafaring life > [noun] > sea-affairs
sea1556
sea-affairs1633
society > travel > travel by water > seafaring life > [noun]
sea1745
1338 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 161 Bernard of Bayoun, þat was kepand þe se [Fr. ke la mer gardait].
c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 278 He woolde the see weere kept for any thyng Bitwixen Myddelburgh and Orewelle.
1414 26 Pol. Poems xiii. 108 Whanne ȝe han made pes wiþynne,..Strengþe ȝoure marche, and kepe þe see.
1556 in J. G. Nichols Chron. Grey Friars (1852) 18 Thys yere the lorde Talbot..was made..amyralle of the see.
1568 in J. Small Poems W. Dunbar (1893) II. 306 Gif thow beis ane marchand man, And wynnis thy living be the see.
1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 182 To be Master of the Sea, is an Abridgement of a Monarchy.
1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) xxix. 184 The Command of the Seas.
1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. xi. 121 Who did not think that the Fleet could have been so soon ready for Sea.
1707 J. Freind Acct. Earl of Peterborow's Conduct in Spain 178 Without the assistance of the sea, the best dispositions in Italy are useless.
1745 Life Bampfylde-Moore Carew 9 His Friends..put him on board a Man of War, but neither the Sea, nor any settled Employ agreeing with his wandering Inclinations, he soon forsook the King's Service.
1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. ii. v. 447 The antient Egyptians had a superstitious antipathy to the sea . View more context for this quotation
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 302 As soon as he came back from sea he was made Colonel of a regiment of foot.
1889 Sat. Rev. 16 Mar. 304/1 We are afraid that few Englishmen at present claim the sovereignty of the seas for their country.
e. Proverbs, proverbial phrases, and similitudes.
ΚΠ
1614 T. Gentleman Englands Way to win Wealth 45 (margin) The Sailors Prouerbe: The Sea and the Gallowes refuse none.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) iv. iii. 33 A heart As full of sorrowes, as the Sea of sands. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) ii. iv. 99 As hungry as the Sea . View more context for this quotation
1637 R. Monro Exped. Scots Regim. ii. 55 I with my partie, did lie on our Poste, as betwixt the Devill and the deepe Sea.
1690 W. Walker Idiomatologia Anglo-Lat. 394 Between the devil and the dead sea.
1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 58 (Jam.) Between the Deel and the deep sea; that is between two difficulties equally dangerous.
1816 W. Scott Old Mortality iv, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. IV. 87 Being atween the deil and the deep sea.
1894 H. H. Gibbs Colloquy on Currency (ed. 3) 199 You must remember that he was between the devil and the deep sea.
f. high sea: see high sea n.
2.
a. A part of the general body of salt water, having certain land-limits or washing a particular coast, and having a proper name, as the Red, Black, Irish, Adriatic Sea. †the great sea: the Mediterranean. the Severn Sea (archaic): the Bristol Channel. †Formerly sometimes in plural, as the Red, Irish, Indian Seas; cf. narrow seas n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > [noun] > a sea
seac825
the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > specific seas > [noun] > Mediterranean Sea
the great sea1382
sea of middle eartha1387
South Seaa1398
Mediterrany?a1475
Mediterranean Sea?1556
mid-earth sea1559
Midland Sea1579
Mediterrane1582
Mediterranean1621
middle-land sea1650
Great Lake1857
Mare Nostrum1921
Med?1942
the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > channel > [noun] > Bristol Channel
North SeaeOE
the Severn Sea1577
c825 Vesp. Psalter cxxxv. 13 Se todaelde ðone readan sae.
c1290 St. Michael 636 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 317 Ech oþur se among us here, ne beo heo so gret non, Nis bote a lime of þulke se.
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Num. xxxiv. 6 The west plage forsothe shal begynne fro the greet see. [So 1611 and 1884 ( Revised).]
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 362 To passe over the grete See To werre and sle the Sarazin.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 100 To the Turk sey all land did his name dreid.
c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. i. i. f. 1/1 Pharo..quhais son..wes drownit..wt all his army in ye reid seis.
1563 T. Sackville in W. Baldwin et al. Myrrour for Magistrates (new ed.) v The Beare, that in the Iryshe seas had dipt His griesly feete.
1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Eng. 241/1 in Chron. I The Danes..comming into the Seuerne sea.
1614 T. Gentleman Englands Way to win Wealth 20 When as they [sc. herrings] come into Yermouth Seas yearely about S. Luke, and sometimes before.
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 43 The Riuer Indus, which their ingulfes herselfe into the Indian Seas.
1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi vi. §2. 193 Mare, the sea, is a part of the ocean, to which we cannot come but through some strait.
c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1641 (1955) II. 61 We sailed over a Sea call'd the Plaet, which is an exceeding dangerous Water.
1886 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 578/2 Any part of the ocean marked off from the general mass of water may be called a sea. In geography the name is loosely applied: for instance, the Arabian Sea is an open bay, Hudson's Bay is an enclosed sea.
b. the four seas: the seas bounding Great Britain on the four sides. within the four seas = in Great Britain.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > specific seas > [noun] > bounding Great Britain
the four seasa1325
a1325 MS. Rawl. B. 520 lf. 30 Þe chef lordes..þat beȝ of plener age ant bi þinne þe four sen ant out of prisone.
a1400–50 Alexander 4406 Þe soile ne þe foure sees suffice ȝowe nouthire.
1642 T. Fuller Holy State v. i. 359 So be it he goeth not out beyond the Foure-seas.
1886 E. Lynn Linton Paston Carew iii He..was the safest confidant to be found within the four seas.
c. Astronomy. [translating Latin mare (see mare n.4).] The name of ‘seas’ is still given to those darker portions of the moon's surface which were formerly supposed to be covered with water.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > moon > [noun] > surface of > mare
sea1665
mare1860
1665 R. Hooke Micrographia lx. 245 Those mountains, which are by Hevelius call'd the Apennine Mountains, and some other, which seem to border on the Seas of the Moon.
1698 tr. C. Huygens Celestial Worlds Discover'd ii. 130 Those vast countries which appear darker than the other, commonly taken for and call'd by the name seas, are discover'd with a good long telescope, to be full of little round cavities.
1833 J. F. W. Herschel Astronomy vi. 229 What is, moreover, extremely singular in the geology of the moon is, that although nothing having the character of seas can be traced, (for the dusky spots which are commonly called seas, when closely examined, present appearances incompatible with the supposition of deep water,) yet there are large regions perfectly level, and apparently of a decided alluvial character.
1873 R. A. Proctor Moon 383 Index to the Map of the Moon. Table I. Grey Plains, usually called Seas.
1907 G. P. Serviss Moon iii. 146 This..does not invalidate what I have said about the lunar ‘seas’, or plains, darkening near sunset more rapidly than we should expect them to do, as a simple result of the low angle at which the sunlight strikes them.
1949 Jrnl. Brit. Interplanetary Soc. 8 185 The origin of the characteristic features of the lunar surface, craters, mountain ranges and ‘seas’, is far from being understood.
1974 Times 17 Apr. 16/3 It seems that the maria and the basins of the lunar ‘seas’ are of volcanic origin.
3. A large lake or landlocked sheet of water, whether salt or fresh. Obsolete except in inland sea and in proper names, as the Sea of Galilee, the Dead Sea, the Caspian Sea, the Sea of Aral.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > water > lake > [noun] > large lake or inland sea
seac893
inland sea1590
c893 tr. Orosius Hist. i. i. §9 Þeah sume men secgen þæt [the Nile] þær wyrcð micelne sæ [vastissimo lacu exundare].
c1000 West Saxon Gospels: John (Corpus Cambr.) vi. 1 Æfter þyson for se hælend ofer þa galileiscan sæ, seo is tiberiadis.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 169 & þe swin ananricht urnen adun to þe sea & adrenhden ham seoluen.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 1123 Ðe swarte flum, ðe dede se.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 105 Iudea..haþ in þe souþe side þe dede Se.
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 1020 Þer faure citees wern set, nov is a see called, Þat ay is drouy and dym, and ded in hit kynde, Blo, blubrande, and blak..Forþy þe derk dede see hit is demed.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xv. 275 A myle wes betuix the seis.
1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 144 It is also called the dead sea, because the water moveth not..nether can..any fishe live there.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. vi. 10 This wide Inland sea, that hight..the Idle lake.
1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 186 This [the Caspian], as other Seas, is a gathering together of perpetual Waters nourished with Springs.
1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan II. 350 Deader than the dead-sea itself.
1876 Encycl. Brit. V. 176/1 The Caspian Sea..is the largest of those salt lakes or closed inland seas which may be considered as ‘survivals’ of former oceanic areas.
4. The volume of water in the sea considered in regard to the ebb and flow of the tide. †full sea, high tide (also figurative) †the sea was in, it was high water.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > state of sea > [noun]
seac1000
sea-state1967
the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > tide > type of tide > [noun] > ebb and flow > volume of water with regard to
seac1000
the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > tide > type of tide > [noun] > high
main floodc1303
full flooda1375
full sea1390
high water1422
full water1498
full tide1538
high tide1546
tide1570
headwater1594
young flood1611
pleni-tide1617
top of flood1867
the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > tide > type of tide > types of tide [verb (intransitive)] > be high tide
the sea was in1488
c1000 Sax. Leechd. III. 176 Þonne þu wyte þæt sæ si ful.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 10991 Þenne þa sæ falleð in.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 10988 Whænne þa sæ vledeð.
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 35 The See now ebbeth, now it floweth.
a1450 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Bodl. 619) (1872) ii. Suppl. §46. 59 In whiche place of the firmament the mone beyng, makiþ fulle see.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) xi. l. 419 The sey was In, at thai stoppyt and stud. On loud he criyt and bad thaim tak the flud.
a1500 (c1437) Brut (Lamb.) 583 Remembres how ye drowned at full see.
1536 in R. G. Marsden Sel. Pleas Court Admiralty (1894) I. 58 Goyng from the porte of London at a full see with a full wynde.
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy Democritus to Rdr. 27 A Satyrrical Roman in his time thought all vice, folly, and madnesse were at a full sea.
1677 W. Hubbard Narrative (1865) I. 181 But it was now full Sea with Philip his Affairs.
1806 R. Forsyth Beauties Scotl. III. 512 During spring tides these sluices are opened, and at full sea they are shut.
5.
a. With an epithet indicating the roughness or smoothness of the waves, the presence or absence of swell, etc. Hence without qualification = a heavy swell, rough water.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > state of sea > [noun] > rough sea
water floodOE
ground-seaa1642
sea1753
seaway1840
sugar-loaf sea1852
c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. xiv. §1 Ful oft we fageniað smyltre sæ.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 5990 Þe sæ [c1300 Otho see] wes wunder ane wod and ladliche iwraððed.
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 282 I wode as doth the wylde Se.
1589 Voy. W. Towrson in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 103 We..found the entrance very ill, by reason that the sea goeth so high.
c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1641 (1955) II. 60 So tirrible & overgrowne a Sea, as..we had much ado to keepe our selves above water.
1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 114 We found a large under-rolling Sea.
1753 T. Woodroofe in J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea I. lix. 397 When there is any sea, the breakers are visible.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine (at cited word) A long sea implies an uniform and steddy motion of long and extensive waves; on the contrary, a short sea is when they run irregularly, broken, and interrupted; so as frequently to burst over a vessel's side.
1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. ix. 143 We were now past Devil's Point, and the sea was very heavy.
1837 T. Hook Jack Brag III. v. 218 It was pitch-dark, a good deal of sea on.
1841 H. W. Longfellow Wreck of Hesperus in Boston Bk. (ed. 3) 75 Some ship in distress, that cannot live In such an angry sea!
1865 Daily Tel. 8 Dec. 5/6 During the passage..they had continued fine weather, and no sea.
b. The direction of the waves or swell.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > state of sea > direction of sea > [noun]
sea1769
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Sea..is..applied by sailors..to their [sc. waves'] particular progress or direction. Thus they say..the sea sets to the southward. Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine sig. G3 Franchir la lame, to head the sea; to sail against the setting of the sea.
c. A large heavy wave.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > types of waves > [noun] > unusually large
sea1582
tenth wave1585
sea-mountain1694
mountain wave1696
seventh wave1759
death wave1832
fluctuosity1850
Spanish wave1852
ranger1891
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 4 Theire ships too larboord doo nod, seas monsterus haunt theym.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. iii. 93 Two huge broken Seas, which twice couered the..boat.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Sea..is..applied by sailors, to a single wave... Thus they say, a heavy sea broke over our quarter, or we shipped a heavy sea.
1864 Lady Duff-Gordon in F. Galton Vacation Tourists & Trav. 1862–3 121 A sea struck us on the weather side.
1892 W. Pike Barren Ground N. Canada 26 The heavy fresh-water seas broke with great violence on the weather shore.
d. Roughness of the sea brought about by wind blowing at the time.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > state of sea > [noun] > rough state or motion
roughc1400
troublesomeness1648
a bubble of a sea1839
smother1840
sea1927
milestone1946
1927 G. Bradford Gloss. Sea Terms 152/1 The waves prevailing at any time are spoken of collectively as the sea, but they must be due to the wind then blowing.
1970 J. Verhoogen et al. Earth vii. 341/1 In the presence of the generating wind, waves have steep, sharp, asymmetric crests, and broad troughs, and the whole water surface is irregularly choppy. This condition is known as sea.
1977 Offshore Engineer July 35/1 In August 1975, the LWC began by using graphical methods to produce sea-swell forecast charts, combining ‘sea’, or wind-driven waves and ‘swell’, which is persistent wave movement continuing after the wind has dropped.
6. salt or bitter sea: sea-water. poetic.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > liquid > water > [noun] > from the sea
seawaterc1000
salt waterc1440
salt or bitter sea1602
stay-liquor1682
seawaters1706
1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge iv. ii. sig. G3v They'l..eat like salt sea in his siddowe ribs.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 141 His finny Flocks about their Shepherd play, And rowling round him, spirt the bitter Sea . View more context for this quotation
1841 H. W. Longfellow Wreck of Hesperus in Boston Bk. (ed. 3) 77 The salt sea was frozen on her breast.
7. figurative. With reference to metaphorical sailing, drowning, waves, etc.; also, a copious or overwhelming quantity or mass (of something). See also 4.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > vastness of quantity or amount > (a) vast quantity or amount
worldOE
seaa1200
fernc1325
mountain1570
ocean1590
microcosm1611
immensity1778
vast1793
worldful1835
oceanful1838
megaton1971
a1200 Vices & Virtues 45 On ðessere michele sea of ðare bitere woreld.
1574 J. Higgins 1st Pt. Mirour for Magistrates Induct. v Sithe those on whom, for Fortunes giftes we stare, Ofte sooniste sinke in greatest seas of care.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. I1v A whole Sea of examples woulde present themselues.
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. i. 61 To take Armes against a sea of troubles. View more context for this quotation
1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII iii. ii. 361 I haue ventur'd..This many Summers in a Sea of Glory, But farre beyond my depth. View more context for this quotation
1632 P. Massinger Emperour of East iii. ii. sig. F4v The peoples ioy In seas of acclamations flow in To wait on yours.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 718 In a troubl'd Sea of passion tost. View more context for this quotation
a1686 T. Watson Body Pract. Divinity (1692) 365 Men will for a drop of Pleasure drink a Sea of Wrath.
1813 C. Lamb in Philanthropist Jan. 50 To waste whole seas of time upon those who pay it back in little inconsiderable drops of grudging applause.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. i. 17 The elder traveller..plunged, nothing loth, into a sea of discussion concerning urns, vases [etc.].
1872 W. Bagehot Physics & Polit. (1876) 220 A complex sea of forces and passions trouble men in life and in action.
8. transferred.
a. A large level tract (of some material substance or aggregate of objects).
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [noun] > vast extent > that which is
latitude?a1475
sea1585
ocean1590
vasture1596
vast1604
vastity1652
vastness1674
immense1791
breadths1839
vastitude1841
Atlantic1865
wide1916
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iv. x In al this sandy sea, is found no water.
c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1644 (1955) II. 208 We could perceive nothing but a Sea of thick Clowds rowling under our feete like huge Waves.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 440 So on this windie Sea of Land, the Fiend Walk'd up and down alone. View more context for this quotation
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1654 (1955) III. 115 After dinner..we passd over that goodly plaine or rather Sea of Carpet.
1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives III. 448 The billows of an immense sea of sand surrounding the whole army.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. x. 655 All the space as far as Charing Cross was one sea of heads.
1862 M. E. Braddon Lady Audley's Secret III. v. 139 His uncle's wife, in a criminal dock, hemmed in on every side by a sea of eager faces.
1869 H. F. Tozer Res. Highlands of Turkey I. 340 The open country extends in a sea of green vegetation.
b. Hyperbolically, a great quantity of liquid, esp. (in figurative context) of blood. So, allusively, Red Sea (see 2), with reference to blood or wine.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > liquid > [noun] > a quantity of > large
sea1598
junt1824
douse1835
1598 G. Chapman in C. Marlowe & G. Chapman Hero & Leander (new ed.) iii. sig. G3 And all this while the red sea of her blood Ebd with Leander.
a1644 F. Quarles Shepheards Oracles (1646) vii. 83 Oyl-steep'd Anchovis, landed from his brine, Came freely swimming in red seas of wine.
1756 E. Burke Vindic. Nat. Society 100 These Wars, which spilled such Seas of Blood.
1821 W. Scott Kenilworth I. i. 25 We will have one of Father Bacon's pupils..to conjure them [sc. such troublesome thoughts] away..—Or, what say you to laying them in a glorious red sea of claret, my noble guest?
1864 J. R. Lowell Fireside Trav. 239 The ghost of a creed..may be laid, after all, only in a Red Sea of blood.
c. Physics. A (physical or mathematical) space filled with particles of a certain kind, esp. one in which only the particles near the boundary or surface are significant.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > physics > atomic physics > particle physics > particle avoiding strong interaction > electron > [noun] > space filled with particles
electron gas1913
sea1955
the world > matter > physics > atomic physics > particle physics > quark > [noun] > space filled with
sea1979
1955 Rev. Mod. Physics July 252/2 The introduction of the Fermi sea of electrons to rescue the relativistic theory of the electron.
1965 C. S. G. Phillips & R. J. P. Williams Inorg. Chem. I. vi. 207 Because there are electron energy levels lying only very little above the surface of the calm Fermi sea, electrons can take up energy at normal temperatures in a metal and so make a contribution to the specific heat.
1972 Sci. Amer. Apr. 26/3 Once an atom has lost an electron it becomes a positive ion that finds itself in a deep electrostatic potential well created by the surrounding sea of negative electrons.
1979 Sci. Amer. Sept. 76/3 These events are explained by interactions involving a ‘sea’ of quarks and anti-quarks that have a virtual existence in the vicinity of a proton.
9. Ancient History. The great brazen laver in the Jewish Temple. [Literally from Hebrew.]
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > artefacts > implement (general) > vessel (general) > Laver (Jewish) > [noun]
seaa1382
washing-vessel1388
laver1535
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1963) 3 Kings vii. 23 He made forsoþe þe ȝotyn se.
c1450 Mirour Saluacioun (Roxb.) 47 Thilk see of brasse Whilk in the entree of the Temple of Jerusalem sette was.
1899 A. H. Sayce Early Israel vi. 251 In the court of the temple was a ‘sea’ or ‘deep’, like that which was made by Solomon.
II. Phrases.
10. at sea.
a. Out on the sea, on ship-board; (sailing, trafficking, fighting, etc.) on the sea; in employment as a sailor. Also †at the seas.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > [phrase] > at sea
at seaa1400
on seaboard1535
at the seas1585
the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > [adverb] > at sea
at seaa1400
outc1450
afloat?1473
at the seas1585
by sea1625
offshore1745
society > travel > travel by water > seafaring life > in seafaring employment or enterprises [phrase]
at sea1836
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 13284 At see sant Iohn and Iam he fand.
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie i. v. 4 Wee discouered at the Seas [Fr. en plaine mer] two Foystes.
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice i. i. 177 Thou knowst that all my fortunes are at sea . View more context for this quotation
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxxiv. v. 491 The beake-heads..which were taken from them in a conflict at sea.
1672 C. Manners in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. v. 24 The Duke is at sea allready, to draw by his example others to the fleete.
a1687 W. Petty Polit. Arithm. (1690) iii. 55 To persuade the World how considerable the King of France was..at Sea.
1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §316 The light may be seen at sea much stronger..than it can from a great elevation at land.
1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy II. iii. 90 I have not been long at sea, and, of course, cannot know much about these things.
b. figurative. In a state of mind resembling the condition of a ship which is out of sight of land and has lost her bearings; in a state of uncertainty or perplexity, at a loss. Also all at sea.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > perplexity, bewilderment > confused, at a loss [phrase]
at one's wit's end (occasionally ends)1377
seek1390
will of wane (also wone)a1400
will of redea1425
on wild1477
to be at a muse1548
at a loss1592
at a stopa1626
in a fog?c1640
in a wood1659
at a wit-standa1670
at sea1768
at fault1833
far to find, seek1879
1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. iii. xxvii. 440 If a court of equity were still at sea, and floated upon the occasional opinion which the judge who happened to preside might entertain of conscience in every particular case.
1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) I. 486 If there were not the same rules of property in all courts, all things would be as it were at sea; and under the greatest uncertainty.
1856 C. Dickens Little Dorrit (1857) ii. ix. 397 She was so plainly at sea on this part of the case..that Clennam was much disposed to regard the appearance as a dream.
1893 F. C. Selous Trav. S.-E. Afr. 219 I was rather surprised to find that he seemed all at sea, and had no one ready to go with me.
c. worse things happen at sea and variants: a consolatory catchphrase.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pleasure > state of being consoled or relieved > consolation or relief [phrase] > consolatory
(all the same in) a hundred years (hence)1647
worse things happen at sea1829
1829 P. Egan Boxiana New Ser. II. 346 The Fancy were too game to complain.., contenting themselves with the old saying, ‘that worse accidents occur at sea!’
1869 C. H. Spurgeon John Ploughman's Talk v. 41 To be poor is not always pleasant, but worse things than that happen at sea.
1948 ‘N. Shute’ No Highway xii. 297 Oh well, worse things happen at sea. I expect we shall get over it.
1978 M. Kenyon Deep Pocket viii. 97 Worse things 'ave 'appened at sea, he told himself, if 'e shoots..you'll 'ardly feel a thing.
11. beyond sea (also beyond the sea, beyond the seas, beyond seas). Out of the country, in foreign parts, abroad. Cf. beyond prep. 1. Also beyond-sea adj..
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > [adverb] > in or to foreign land(s)
beyond the seasc900
without1297
o brodea1400
on brodea1400
abroada1450
overseas1583
oversea1616
in foreigna1640
foreign1813
over sea1845
exterritorially1853
out foreign1895
c900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1890) v. xix. 458 Mid þy he þa gena wæs begeondan sæ wuniende.
a1122 Anglo-Saxon Chron. ann. 1041 (MS. C.) Fram begeondan sæ.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 14547 Sum fleh bi-ȝeonden sæ in-to Bruttaine.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 165 Ine þe londe be-yende þe ze.
1485 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 28 A standyng bed, corven with estrich borde of beyond see makyng.
1536 in R. G. Marsden Sel. Pleas Court Admiralty (1894) I. 56 All my goods whersoever they may be found as well on this syde the see as beyende the see.
1555 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1871) II. 227 Sindry schippis cumin furth of Burdeaux, Scherand, and vtheris places beyond sey.
1590 J. Smythe in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Lit. Men (1843) (Camden) 58 When her Majestie called me from beeyond the seas.
1647 T. May Hist. Parl. i. ii. 23 The Reformed Churches beyond the Seas.
1710 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 26 Oct. (1948) I. 73 He is a very ingenious man, and a great scholar, and has been beyond sea.
1879 M. E. Braddon Cloven Foot xxxii The husband, or lover, may have been out of the way—beyond seas, perhaps.
12. by sea.
†a. Close to the sea, at the seaside. (Now by the sea).
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > seashore or coast > [adverb]
by seac1275
by the seac1275
on the sea1832
sublittorally1902
mid-coast1976
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 744 Heo forð fusden. toward sele Brutun þer he bi sæ wonede.
1836 Longfellow (title) The Castle by the Sea.]
b. By way of the sea, on or over the sea (as a mode of transit or conveyance).
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > [phrase]
by waterOE
by sea1487
by (be) seaboard1535
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xiii. 615 Send the kyng by se Till balmeburch in his awne cuntre.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) x. l. 437 Few fled with him and gat away be see.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 7 One of my Companions being going by Sea to London.
1891 Ld. Hobhouse in Law Times Rep. 65 562/2 From the Melbourne factory they carried butterine by sea to Sydney.
c. In the region of the sea, at sea. (See also sense 1b.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > [adverb] > at sea
at seaa1400
outc1450
afloat?1473
at the seas1585
by sea1625
offshore1745
1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 183 We see the great Effects of Battailes by Sea.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 342 I had been very unfortunate by Sea.
†13. by long sea. Short for by long sea passage: see long adj.1 and n.1 Compounds 4. Also by the long seas.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > [phrase] > by long sea passage
by the long seasa1684
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 467 I made a Collection of divers Curiosities..which I sent for England by long sea.
1694 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) III. 290 Two dispatches are sent to our fleet at Cadiz, one by way of the Groyn, the other by long sea.
1721 J. Strype Eccl. Memorials II. ii. iii. 265 To pass into Ireland, either by the long Seas, or by Bristow.
14. on the sea (also upon the sea). (In early use on sea or upon sea.)
a. On the sea's surface, afloat, at sea, on shipboard. In Old English also: = in the sea.
ΚΠ
c900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1890) i. xiii. 48 We..oððe sticode beoð oððe on sæ adruncene.
OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. ann. 877 Þa mette hie micel yst on sæ.
a1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 94 For hwi ne fixast þu on sæ.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 13296 Þatt iss to farenn upp o sæ. To fisskenn affterr fisskess.
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 9795 Colgrim had a broþer on þe se.
1389 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 48 Þorow losse on þe se.
a1400–50 Alexander 83 For he him-self is on þe se with siche a somme armed.
1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xiv. 327 I fled in to Spayn to Alaffre vpon the see.
1560 in R. G. Marsden Sel. Pleas Court Admiralty (1897) II. 25 The marrynors..in eny ship or vessel laboring and travayling upon the seaes.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 711 The Bastard..made sayle with all haste, and roued on the Sea, as before he was accustomed.
1861 W. Whiting in W. H. Monk Hymns Anc. & Mod. ccxxii O hear us when we cry to Thee For those in peril on the sea.
b. Of a dwelling, etc.: at the sea's edge, on the sea-coast.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > seashore or coast > [adverb]
by seac1275
by the seac1275
on the sea1832
sublittorally1902
mid-coast1976
1832 Ld. Tennyson Palace of Art xvi, in Poems (new ed.) 74 In a clearwalled city on the sea.
15. over sea (also over the sea).
a. Of motion: Across the sea, to the other side of the sea.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > [adverb] > over sea
over seaOE
oversea?a1475
overseas1583
OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. ann. 894 (end) Ond þæt wæs ymb twelf monað Þæs þe hie ær hider ofer sæ comon.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 1749 Ouer sea [c1300 Otho see] icomen hauene sone. anomen.
1338 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 25 He..ferde ouer the see, & conquerd Normundie.
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xiii. 392 If I sent ouer see my seruantz to Bruges.
1458 Cal. Anc. Rec. Dublin (1889) 300 Ther marchandys, the wyche they takyth ovre the se.
1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. D5v These [goods] they transport ouer seas, whereby they gaine infinit summes of mony.
1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 253 He fled ouer Seas into Denmarke.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Walking to Mail in Poems (new ed.) II. 48 He..sick of home went overseas for change.
b. Of position: On the other side of the sea; abroad. Cf. oversea adj., overseas adv.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > [adverb] > in or to foreign land(s)
beyond the seasc900
without1297
o brodea1400
on brodea1400
abroada1450
overseas1583
oversea1616
in foreigna1640
foreign1813
over sea1845
exterritorially1853
out foreign1895
1616 Sir G. Hay Let. in J. Russell Haigs of Bemersyde (1881) vii. 146 If he be not found there [i.e. at Court], it is likely that he pretended Court, and meant over-sea.
a1626 N. Breton Toyes of Idle Head in Wks. (1879) 35 (title) A letter sent by a gentlewoman, in verse, to her husband, being ouer sea.
1782 J. H. St. J. de Crèvecoeur Lett. from Amer. Farmer i. 17 Great people over sea may write to our town's folks, because they have nothing else to do.
1838 J. P. Kennedy Rob of Bowl II. v. 97 I wish the fingers of the sempstress over sea had been blistered ere they stitched that foul mantle.
1845 R. Browning Time's Revenges in Bells & Pomegranates No. VII: Dramatic Romances & Lyrics 1 I've a Friend, over the sea.
1886 Longman's Mag. Mar. 552 Our brethren of the pen over-seas.
1887 A. C. Swinburne Locrine v. ii. 128 For in my father's kingdom oversea.
16.
a. to sea (also †to the sea). Out on the water, on a voyage, or on ship-board. to go to sea, to go aboard ship, go on a voyage; to enter upon, or follow, the profession of a sailor; (of rigging) to be carried adrift; †also with ellipsis of the verb. to put, put off, put out, to sea: see put v. 9a, 9c, to put off 8a at put v. Phrasal verbs 1, to put out 11a at Phrasal verbs 1. to stand out to sea: see to stand out 5 at stand v. Phrasal verbs 1.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > [verb (intransitive)] > set out on a voyage
to go to seac900
to take the seac1275
to go or fere to (the) saila1375
sail1387
to make saila1500
to set sail1513
lance1526
launch1534
to put off1582
to put out?1587
to put forth1604
to come to sail1633
underweigh1891
to take sail1904
society > travel > travel by water > seafaring life > practice the calling of a sailor [verb (intransitive)] > become a sailor
to go to sea1488
c900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1890) i. xiii. 48 Us drifað þa ellreordan to sæ.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 9664 To þere sa [c1300 Otho see] heo wenden.
c1275 Laȝamon Brut 11968 Hii seileden [down the Thames] forte hii to see come.
c1480 (a1400) St. Mary of Egypt 474 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 309 Til I percase a-pone a day saw men of luby & egipe hast þame to sey, for to schype.
1488 W. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 655 All suche capeteyns as wente to þe see in Lente..makythe them redy to goo to the see ageyn as schortely as they can.
1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health ccxvii. 216 Wherefore if any be desirous to vomit, let them rather go to the Sea.
1595 E. Spenser Colin Clouts come Home Againe sig. B2v Let him to sea.
a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Old Law (1656) v. 70 Shees going to Sea, your Grace knowes whether better then I doe.
1665 S. Pepys Diary 8 Mar. (1972) VI. 52 He was to go to sea in her.
1677 A. Yarranton England's Improvem. 41 I waited upon the Lord Clarendon and some other Gentlemen to Sea.
1686 tr. J. Chardin Trav. Persia 53 The Ottoman Fleet..putting to sea from Constantinople, Landed in Candy.
1726 G. Shelvocke Voy. round World ii. 61 He knew I was not allow'd an ounce of fresh provisions to sea with me.
1770 H. Nelson in R. Southey Life Nelson (1813) I. 4 I should like to go to sea with uncle Maurice.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. v. 550 On the afternoon of the second of May he stood out to sea before a favourable breeze.
1857 S. P. Hall in Mercantile Marine Mag. (1858) 5 12 The spare lower yard started from its lashings..and went to sea.
b. In the Nautical proverbial phrase he that would go to sea for pleasure, would go to hell for a pastime and variants.
ΚΠ
1899 A. J. Boyd Shellback viii. 110 Shentlemens vot goes to sea for pleasure vould go to hell for pastime.
1910 D. W. Bone Brassbounder xxvi. 289 He gave a half-laugh, and muttered the old formula about ‘the man who would go to sea for pleasure, going to hell for a pastime!’
1924 R. Clements Gipsy of Horn iii. 50 ‘He who would go to sea for pleasure would go to hell for a pastime’ is an attempt at heavy satire.
1933 M. Lowry Ultramarine i. 50 Well, a man who'd go to sea for fun'd go to hell for a pastime.
17. to take the sea (also †to take sea, the seas, Middle English †to nim the sea). To go on board ship, embark; to start on a sea-voyage, launch forth, put out to sea (said also of the ship). Cf. French prendre la mer.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > [verb (intransitive)] > set out on a voyage
to go to seac900
to take the seac1275
to go or fere to (the) saila1375
sail1387
to make saila1500
to set sail1513
lance1526
launch1534
to put off1582
to put out?1587
to put forth1604
to come to sail1633
underweigh1891
to take sail1904
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 2477 Þer he þa sæ [c1300 Otho see] nom.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 643 Bi Ruscikadan heo nomen þa sæ [c1300 Otho see].
c1400 Laud Troy Bk. 4099 And Achilles toke the see With his vitayles and his naue.
1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xxiv. 530 Reynawde dyde doo hale vp saylle, & toke the see.
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 287 The maryners,..beeyng lothe to take ye seaes, Pompeius hymself first of al entreed into the shippe.
a1604 M. Hanmer Chron. Ireland 184 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) For want of skill they could not take the seas, but were tossed with winde and weather, along the Coast.
1641 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. F. Biondi Hist. Civil Warres Eng. I. iv. 68 The 27. of April he tooke sea at Dover.
1867 A. C. Swinburne in Fortn. Rev. July 25 The first hymn of Orpheus as Argo takes the sea.
1890 S. Lane-Poole Barbary Corsairs vii. 83 He..was able to take the sea with a fleet of eighty-four vessels.
1903 Daily Chron. 30 July 3/1 All the ships..are able to touch 24 knots, but their lines and the way they take the sea is cause of common complaint.

Compounds

Attributive uses and combinations.
C1. Simple attributive:
a. Of or belonging to the sea or a sea.
sea-arm n.
ΚΠ
1637 T. Heywood True Descr. Royall Ship (1638) 28 The Great Colosse..who bestrid The spacious Rhodian Sea-arme.
1865 W. G. Palgrave Narr. Journey through Arabia II. 203 Between the islands runs a narrow sea-arm.
sea-basin n.
ΚΠ
1884 A. Geikie Elem. Lessons Physical Geogr. (rev. ed.) xiv. 123 Most of the great sea-basins.
† sea-bore n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
c1325 Metr. Hom. (Small) 135 That betes thaim wit dede and word Als se bare betes on schip bord.
1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. xxv. xxi. 1005 The effigies of a Sea-Bore. Olaus Magnus writes that this monster was taken at Thyle.
sea brim n.
ΚΠ
1626 G. Sandys tr. Ovid Metamorphosis xi. 225 With blood the sea-brimme blusht.
1879 F. W. Robinson Coward Conscience i. iii A country full of life and animation even to its sea-brim.
sea-brink n.
ΚΠ
a1300 Horn (Cambr.) 151 Bi þe se brinke No water þe na drinke.
c1820 S. Rogers Italy (1839) 84 On the sea-brink, another train they met.
† sea-flash n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 7 Sometimes the surges or Sea-flashes doe rebound top-gallant height.
sea harbour n.
ΚΠ
1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Een Zee-haven, a Sea-haven, or a Sea-harbor.
sea-haven n.
ΚΠ
1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Een Zee-haven, a Sea-haven, or a Sea-harbor.
1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present i. v. 89 No monstrous pitchy City, and Seahaven of the world!
sea-marge n.
ΚΠ
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iv. i. 69 Thy Sea-marge stirrile. View more context for this quotation
1923 H. Belloc Sonnets & Verse 159 The rank sea-marge.
1976 New Yorker 8 Mar. 122/3 The bird has been watched on the sea-marge of Jamaica Bay.
sea-pull n.
ΚΠ
1896 R. Kipling Seven Seas 68 The sea-pull drew them side by side, gunnel to gunnel laid.
sea-romp n.
ΚΠ
1876 G. M. Hopkins Wreck of Deutschland xvii, in Poems (1967) 57 They..rolled With the sea-romp over the wreck.
sea-spray n.
ΚΠ
1812 J. Sinclair Acct. Syst. Husbandry Scotl. i. 47 Withering mentions a thorny shrub..which stands the sea-spray.
sea-surge n.
ΚΠ
1912 E. Pound Ripostes 25 Known on my keel many a care's hold, And dire sea-surge.
1930 E. Pound Draft of XXX Cantos vii. 25 Ear, ear for the sea-surge.
sea-swell n.
ΚΠ
1880 W. Whitman Daybks. & Notebks. (1978) III. 628 A little sea-swell on the water.
1927 H. Crane Let. 12 Sept. (1965) 306 The movement of the verse..of the ‘Ave Maria’, with its sea-swell crescendo.
sea-swill n.
ΚΠ
1878 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 74 Till a lifebelt and God's will Lend him a lift from the sea-swill.
sea-tide n.
ΚΠ
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. v. i. 90 It..is not only overflowed by the sea tides.
sea-wave n.
ΚΠ
1727 J. Thomson Summer 50 The loud Sea-Wave.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xxv. 185 The sea-waves..sometimes reach the shore before the wind which produces them.
b. That is an attribute or quality of the sea.
sea-beat n.
ΚΠ
a1953 D. Thomas Quite Early One Morning (1954) 16 Sea captains..going down into a..cabin of sleep, rocked to the sea-beat of their ears.
sea-blink n.
ΚΠ
1850 B. Taylor Eldorado II. x. 94 Far away to the right I saw the sea-blink along the edges of the sky.
sea-calm n.
ΚΠ
1821 C. Lamb in London Mag. Oct. 387/2 The billows gradually subsiding, fell from a sea-roughness to a sea-calm, and thence to a river motion.
sea-murmur n.
ΚΠ
1819 P. B. Shelley Lines Euganean Hills in Rosalind & Helen 85 A dell..Which the wild sea-murmur fills.
sea-music n.
ΚΠ
1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound iii. iii. 104 And thou, Ione, shalt chaunt fragments of sea-music.
sea-roughness n.
ΚΠ
1821 C. Lamb in London Mag. Oct. 387/2 The billows gradually subsiding, fell from a sea-roughness to a sea-calm, and thence to a river motion.
sea-shine n.
ΚΠ
1869 A. J. Evans Vashti xiv. 189 The greenish sea-shine breaking through the dense foliage.
1880 A. C. Swinburne Stud. in Song 179 Streak on streak of glimmering seashine crosses All the land.
sea-smell n.
ΚΠ
1832 Ld. Tennyson Rosalind in Poems (new ed.) 121 Fresh as the early seasmell blown Through vineyards from an inland bay.
sea-sound n.
ΚΠ
1961 L. van der Post Heart of Hunter i. ii. 45 My first memories are of the incomparable starlight of the high-veld of Southern Africa and the far sea-sound that goes with it.
1974 BP Shield Internat. Oct. 18/2 All sea~sounds were eclipsed by the noise of the drilling operation.
sea-voice n.
ΚΠ
1859 Ld. Tennyson Guinevere in Idylls of King 238 And strong man-breasted things stood from the sea, And sent a deep sea-voice thro' all the land.
1930 T. S. Eliot Ash-Wednesday 20 The lost lilac and the lost sea voices.
1955 C. Tomlinson Necklace 9 The sea-voice Tearing the silence from the silence.
sea-wash n.
ΚΠ
1930 W. de la Mare On the Edge 297 With the sea-wash in her ears.
1965 E. Richardson Living Island 123 There is no sigh of wind and scarcely a whisper of seawash.
c. Consisting of sea.
sea-approach n.
ΚΠ
1913 J. Masefield Mainsail Haul (ed. 2) 139 The defences to the sea-approach were powerful.
1940 E. C. Shepherd Britain's Air Power 9 The more usual work of these [coastal reconnaissance] aircraft is that of continuous patrol over all the sea approaches to Germany.
sea-frontier n.
ΚΠ
1905 Westm. Gaz. 15 Aug. 3/1 The sea-frontier of England.
† sea-limit n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1577 J. Dee Gen. Mem. Arte Nauig. 59 All, within the Sea-limits of our Brytish Royallty.
sea-path n.
ΚΠ
1673 J. Milton Psalm VIII in Poems (new ed.) 142 Fowl of the Heavens, and Fish that through the wet Sea-paths in shoals do slide.
sea pool n.
ΚΠ
1596 E. Spenser View State Ireland 2 I heard it often wished also..that all that land were a Sea poole.
1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. p. lxxxvii A Seapool arranged as a grotto.
† sea-tract n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1601 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Trauellers Breuiat 127 So huge a sea-tract full of hauens.
sea-valley n.
ΚΠ
1847 R. W. Emerson Poems 109 Sea valleys and the deep of skies Furnished several supplies.
d.
(a) (Phenomena) occurring at sea.
sea-cloud n.
ΚΠ
1811 W. Scott Don Roderick xxxvi. 37 That sea-cloud, in size like human hand.
sea dew n.
ΚΠ
1888 F. Cowper Capt. of Wight (1889) 306 The sea-dew glittered on spar and mast and straining sail.
sea-dusk n.
ΚΠ
1916 J. Joyce Portrait of Artist v. 265 Swallows flying through the seadusk over the flowing waters.
1970 T. Hughes Crow 31 The curlew trawled in seadusk through a chime of wineglasses.
sea-gust n.
ΚΠ
c1866 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 31 She listened how the sea-gust shook.
1874 Trans. Highland & Agric. Soc. Scotl. 6 245 Great loss and much misery is often caused by these destructive ‘sea-gusts’.
sea-meteor n.
ΚΠ
a1818 M. G. Lewis Jrnl. W. India Proprietor (1834) 39 The above~mentioned floating lights are a kind of sea-meteors.
sea-storm n.
ΚΠ
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. ii. 178 And now I pray you Sir,..your reason For raysing this Sea-storme ? View more context for this quotation
sea-sunset n.
ΚΠ
1839 P. J. Bailey Festus 319 Nor that it now sinks..Like a sea-sunset.
1872 Ld. Tennyson Last Tournament in Gareth & Lynette 121 A low sea-sunset glorying round her hair.
† sea-tempest n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
c1400 Sc. Trojan War ii. 1011 And sene þat so þe see-tempestes Lownyt not, nor yhet toke restes.
(b) Also designating actions or events which take place at sea.
sea-burial n.
ΚΠ
1838 E. A. Poe Narr. Arthur Gordon Pym vii. 74 The mate..ordered the men to..allow it [sc. the body] the usual rites of sea-burial.
sea-death n.
ΚΠ
1918 J. Joyce Ulysses Proteus in Little Rev. May 44 Seadeath, mildest of all death's [sic] known to man.
sea-rescue n.
ΚΠ
1959 Listener 6 Aug. 217/3 A British sea-rescue plane.
1976 Morecambe Guardian 7 Dec. 25/6 A dramatic sea rescue during the early hours of July 5.
e.
(a) Deposited by or in the sea.
sea-clay n.
ΚΠ
1531 Lett. & Papers Henry VIII V. 183 Longe cartes caryng of see turff and see clay from the floo marke.
† sea-gravel n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 304 Þin herte is lyche þe see-grauel & sande, þat sokyth in, & drynketh in, all waterys, and ȝit þe see is neuere full.
sea-mud n.
ΚΠ
1675 J. Beale Let. 17 Apr. in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1977) XI. 280 Sr H Platts..taught ye people all over England..to make of worst land in England, to be ye Richest, from ye West to ye Garden of England. And make ye Seaweedes, Seamud & Seasand, ye best of English food.
1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture II. 125/2 If their holes were stopt up with Sea-mud, or ashes, it wou'd destroy them.
sea-ooze n.
ΚΠ
1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) 68 All manner of Sea-Owse, Owsie-mud, or Sea-weeds,.. are very good for the bettering of Land.
sea-slob n.
ΚΠ
1780 A. Young Tour Ireland i. 279 Part [manured] with sea-slob and lime mixed.
† sea-slub n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia i. x. 30 They vse both Orewood, Sea-sand, and Sea-slubbe for soylings.
sea-slutch n.
ΚΠ
1795 J. Holt Agric. Surv. Lanc. 126 Sea slutch, from the Ribble and Wyre, is in some places adjacent, made use of as a substitute for marle.
sea-stone n.
ΚΠ
1918 D. H. Lawrence New Poems 27 Sad he sits on the white sea-stone.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xii. [Cyclops] 284 From his girdle hung a row of seastones.
1936 Geogr. Jrnl. 88 105 Bib Nambas..are very Melanesian,..with a frequent pigmoid strain, often with white seastones through their noses.
† sea-turf n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1531 [see sea-clay n.].
sea-warp n.
ΚΠ
1839 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 2 450/1 By introducing fascine jetty work, which greatly accelerated the deposit of the sea warp.
(b) Formed by the sea.
† sea-concretion n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1695 J. Edwards Disc. conc. Old & New-Test. III. vi. 282 Others would perswade us that it [Stone-henge] is a Sea-Concretion.
(c) Proceeding from the sea.
sea-blast n.
ΚΠ
1798 R. Southey Henry the Hermit 25 And underneath a rock that shelter'd him From the sea-blast, he built his hermitage.
sea fog n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > mist > [noun] > thick mist or fog > sea-fog
haar1662
sea fog1796
water smoke1813
fret1842
water-eynd1883
1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) I. 171 Long belts of land and sea-fogs, which accompany the melting of all ices.
1834 J. J. Audubon Ornithol. Biogr. II. 201 The sea-fog began to approach the land so swiftly, that..we judged it prudent to return to our vessel.
1893 R. Kipling in Pall Mall Budget 14 Dec. 1950/2 West you'll turn and south again beyond the sea-fog's rim.
1972 Gloss. Aeronaut. & Astronaut. Terms (B.S.I.) xv. 6 Sea fog, fog formed at sea, usually by condensation of moisture in the lower layers of a warm air current passing over a relatively cold sea surface.
sea fret n.
ΚΠ
1842 C. Ridley Let. Feb. in U. Ridley Cecilia (1958) vii. 86 This evening everything was thawing but I imagine it was only what they call a sea fret.
1846 W. E. Brockett J. T. Brockett's Gloss. North Country Words (ed. 3) Sea~fret, a wet mist, or haze proceeding from the sea inland.
1882 W. B. Scott Poet's Harvest Home 33 But still she stared across the bar Through blinding locks and blind seafret.
1963 Times 13 June 4/6 Those who came yesterday out of the heat in the surrounding country were surprised to find Brighton enveloped in a sea fret, which..reduced visibility to a furlong or two.
sea-gale n.
ΚΠ
1821 W. Scott Pirate I. i. 6 A garden..produced such vegetables as..the sea-gale would permit to grow.
sea haze n.
ΚΠ
1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 37 Till drawn thro' either chasm..Roll'd a sea-haze and whelm'd the world in gray.
sea-mist n.
ΚΠ
1893 R. Kipling in Pall Mall Budget 14 Dec. 1947/2 The Northern Light drove into the bay and the sea-mist drove with her.
1974 L. Deighton Spy Story i. 11 A flurry of sea mist that rolled in upon us.
sea-roke n.
ΚΠ
1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 335 Sea-roke, a fog or mist suddenly approaching from the direction of the sea.
1869 Zoologist 4 1943 A gray sea-roke drifting in across the sand-dunes.
sea-scud n.
ΚΠ
1883 Chambers's Jrnl. 20 It was no easy matter to distinguish between salt seascud and driving rain.
sea-smoke n.
ΚΠ
1860 Ld. Tennyson Sea Dreams 52 A full tide Rose with ground-swell, which, on the foremost rocks Touching, upjetted in spirts of wild sea-smoke.
sea-vapour n.
ΚΠ
1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 142 Expos'd to the Winds and Salt Sea-Vapours.
f. Situated in or by the sea.
sea-cape n.
ΚΠ
a1876 M. Collins Thoughts in Garden (1880) II. 251 Seacapes divine which the merry winds whiten.
sea-cave n.
ΚΠ
1806 W. Scott Lay of Last Minstrel (ed. 4) vi. xxiii. 192 But the sea-caves rung, and the wild winds sung, The dirge of the lovely Rosabelle.
1849 M. Arnold Forsaken Merman 61 Come back to the kind sea-caves!
1917 D. H. Lawrence Look! We have come Through! 26 They dwelt in a huge, hoarse sea-cave.
1979 Amer. Poetry Rev. Mar. 45/2 Three craft..negotiate intricate sharp turns and arcs through..narrow canals into sea-caves.
† sea-city n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. i. 29 All the sea-cities and inland-cities of Barbarie.
sea crag n.
ΚΠ
1595 A. Duncan Appendix Etymologiae: Index in Latinae Grammaticae Scopulus,..a sea craig.
sea-down n.
ΚΠ
1865 A. C. Swinburne Chastelard i. ii. 30 Between the sea-downs and the sea.
sea-dune n.
ΚΠ
1885 Ld. Tennyson Flight xxiii, in Tiresias We shall light upon..Some lodge within the waste sea-dunes, and hear the waters roar.
sea-flat n.
ΚΠ
1823 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 16 Aug. 434 The wheat on..the sea-flats at Havant.
sea garden n.
ΚΠ
1881 W. D. Hay Three Hundred Years Hence vii. 135 With..sea-garden food, life in these deep-down Harbours is by no means unenjoyable.
1947 I. L. Idriess Isles of Despair xxxvii. 246 The sea gardens of the lagoons.
1977 Times 14 May 12/7 Snorkelling among the magnificent sea gardens which eddy among the rocks.
sea-grove n.
ΚΠ
1583 in N. Riding Rec. (1894) New Ser. I. 250 [They] have had seagroves [? read sea-graves] chosen..from tyme to tyme for the presenntynge of all such wreckes and Regall fishes.
1830 Ld. Tennyson Merman ii Then we would wander away..To the pale-green sea-groves.
sea-hall n.
ΚΠ
1830 Ld. Tennyson Merman ii I would fill the sea-halls with a voice of power.
sea-home n.
sea-marsh n.
ΚΠ
a1746 E. Holdsworth Remarks & Diss. Virgil (1768) 400 There could be no fleet lying there, no sea-marshes, no lines drawn across them to intercept communication.
1835 J. J. Audubon Ornithol. Biogr. III. 241 The Long-billed Curlew spends the day in the sea-marshes.
1982 ‘J. Gash’ Firefly Gadroon vi. 65 The sea marshes show between the long runs of banks and dykes.
sea pen n.
ΚΠ
1976 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 3 Oct. 32/3 They [sc. salmon fry] were transferred to sea pens on barges..and continued rapid growth in salt water.
sea-point n.
ΚΠ
1736 Gentleman's Mag. June 357/2 To be built on the sea-point of the same Island.
sea-quag n.
ΚΠ
1882 R. L. Stevenson New Arabian Nights II. 15 Graden Floe and the other sea quags that fortified the shore against invaders.
sea-scar n.
ΚΠ
1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 415 Ane fair castell standand on the se skar.
sea-terrace n.
ΚΠ
1868 E. Bulwer-Lytton Chrons. & Characters I. 325 The solemn obelisks And sombre cypress stripe with blackest shade Sea terraces.
1884 A. Geikie Elem. Lessons Physical Geogr. (rev. ed.) xxiii. 217 (caption) Fig. 40 View of an old sea-terrace or raised beach, with sea-worn caves on its inner margin.
sea-track n.
ΚΠ
1890 R. Kipling Gipsy Trail in Poems 1886–1929 (1929) III. 284 Out on a clean sea-track.
1949 E. Muir Coll. Poems (1960) 164 The smooth sea-tracks that open and close again.
sea-wold n.
ΚΠ
1830 Ld. Tennyson Mermaid in Poems 29 We would run to and fro, and hide and seek, On the broad seawolds i'the crimson shells.
sea-wood n.
ΚΠ
1858 W. Baird Cycl. Nat. Sci. Chitonidæ,..Sea Wood-lice.
1858 W. Baird Cycl. Nat. Sci. at Isopoda The sea wood lice, Asellidæ.
1902 J. Buchan Watcher by Threshold ii. 113 A sea-wood of alders slipping from the hill's skirts to the water's edge.
g. Occasionally = ‘at the seaside’, as sea-place, sea-quarters, sea-sojourn, †sea-watering-place.
ΚΠ
1824 S. T. Coleridge Let. to H. F. Cary (1895) 733 Both Mrs. G. and myself have returned much benefited by our sea-sojourn.
1833 T. Hook Parson's Daughter II. xiv. 270 ‘Where's St. Leonard's?’ ‘Oh, the sea watering-place, close to Hastings.’
1833 T. Hook Parson's Daughter III. iii. 58 The proposition of her removal to some sea-watering place.
1861 J. W. Carlyle Lett. III. 81 East Cliff..would be perfect as sea-quarters if it weren't for the noise.
1877 Princess Alice Mem. 25 July (1884) 356 The nicest sea-place I have been as yet.
h. Pertaining to the sea as a sphere of warlike operations.
sea army n.
ΚΠ
1600 E. Blount tr. G. F. di Conestaggio Hist. Uniting Portugall to Castill 181 The arriuall of his sea-armie.
1835 C. F. Partington Brit. Cycl. Arts & Sci. II. 685/1 The movements of a sea-army having a necessary dependence on the wind, they cannot [etc.].
sea battle n.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > naval battle > [noun]
sea battle1598
sea-fight1600
1598 R. Hakluyt tr. W. Camden in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 12 In the yeere 1156..there was a Sea-battell fought.
1940 N. Last Diary 9 Apr. in Nella Last's War (1981) 47 I kept..wondering if our sailors were winning in the reported sea battle.
sea campaign n.
ΚΠ
1678 A. Marvell Acct. Growth Popery in Wks. (1875) IV. 264 This fatal conclusion of all our Sea-champaynes.
sea conquest n.
ΚΠ
1627 T. May tr. Lucan Pharsalia (new ed.) iii. Argt. Brutus maintaines The siege, and Cæsars first Sea~conquest gaines.
sea dominion n.
ΚΠ
1652 M. Nedham tr. J. Selden Of Dominion of Sea 58 The Sea-Dominion of the Lydians.
sea empire n.
ΚΠ
1910 Nation 22 Jan. 671/2 They controlled a Sea-empire over the Aegean.
sea engagement n.
ΚΠ
1696 B. Kennett Rom. Antiq. (1717) ii. i. iv. 46 The Naumachiæ, or Places for the Shows of Sea-Engagements.
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 299. ¶2 Such an one commanded in such a Sea Engagement.
sea force n.
ΚΠ
1577 J. Dee Gen. Mem. Arte Nauig. 59 Our Sea-forces preuayling.
sea regiment n.
ΚΠ
1669 R. Montagu in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 444 Four sea regiments of three thousand men a-piece.
sea rival n.
ΚΠ
1682 C. Irvine Hist. Sc. Nomencl. Ded. *iv By your careful Conduct, you made Britain triumph over her most powerful Sea-Rival.
sea royalty n.
ΚΠ
1577 J. Dee Gen. Mem. Arte Nauig. 21 Appropriat to her peculiar Iurisdiction and Sea Royallty.
sea soldier n.
ΚΠ
1577 J. Dee Gen. Mem. Arte Nauig. 5 That expert and hardy Crue of some Thousands of Sea soldiers wold be to this Realme a Treasor incomparable.
1708 J. Chamberlayne Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (1710) i. ii. ii. 53 He can soon Man the same with the best Sea-Soldiers in the whole World.
sea state n.
ΚΠ
1615 Trade's Incr. 33 This goodly engine of our sea-state.
sea victory n.
ΚΠ
a1649 W. Drummond Hist. James IV in Wks. (1711) 64 A Sea-Victory obtained by Sir Andrew Wood.
sea war n.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > war > types of war > [noun] > sea war
ship-war1408
sea war1727
ocean-war1805
1727 J. Arbuthnot Tables Anc. Coins 241 This Sea War cost the Carthaginians five hundred Quinquiremes.
i.
(a) Seagoing, as sea-boat n.
sea-coble n.
ΚΠ
1505 in Hist. MSS Comm.: Rep. MSS Var. Coll. (1901) I. 9 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 784) XXXVI. 1 That all the see cowbelles commynge frome the se shall lande upon this syde of the water of Twede.
1565 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 246 I will that my wyffe shall haiue the best sea coble in hir custodye.
sea-ship n.
ΚΠ
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Kings x. 22 The kynges Seeshippe yt sayled vpon the See with ye shippe of Hiram.
1838 H. W. Longfellow Beowulf's Exped. to Heort 20 He bade him a sea-ship..prepare.
(b) Also in fanciful terms descriptive of various kinds of seagoing vessels.
sea-car n.
ΚΠ
1851 C. L. Smith tr. T. Tasso Jerusalem Delivered xvii. liv Over the self-same paths which the sea-car Had traced in coming, backward hence it goes.
sea-castle n.
ΚΠ
1663 Marquis of Worcester Cent. Names & Scantlings Inventions §16 How to make a Sea-castle or Fortification Cannon-proof.
1841 Ld. J. Manners England's Trust 18 On furthest ocean's heaving breast meanwhile Ride the sea-castles of our merchant-isle.
1878 Ld. Tennyson Revenge iv Till the Spaniard came in sight, With his huge sea-castles heaving upon the weather bow.
sea-coffin n.
ΚΠ
1899 Pall Mall Mag. Feb. 230 Many coasters were called Sea-coffins after Mr. Plimsoll..denounced the ship-owner as the rapacious destroyer of his species.
† sea-kennel n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1676 W. Wycherley Plain-dealer iii. i You shou'd be ty'd up again, in your Sea-kennel, call'd a Ship.
sea-terrier n.
ΚΠ
1865 E. Burritt Walk to Land's End 275 The Fowey seamen made a remarkable reputation in their day with their little sea-terriers.
† sea wasp n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1667 J. Dryden Annus Mirabilis 1666 cliii. 39 She seems a Sea-wasp flying on the waves.
j.
(a) Pertaining to life at sea; used or worn at sea .
sea-biscuit n.
ΚΠ
a1699 W. Temple Ess. Health & Long Life in Wks. (1731) I. 283 A Spoonful of Powder of Sea-bisquet.
sea-boot n. (also in Nautical slang phrase a face like a sea-boot n., a dejected or wry expression)
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [noun] > assuming or presenting dejected appearance > dejected expression
loura1400
glum?1499
Friday-face1592
Friday-looka1716
a face like a sea-boot1916
1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick ix. 44 A low rumbling of heavy sea-boots among the benches.
1916 ‘Taffrail’ Pincher Martin viii. 150 Wot's up wi' yer? You've got a face on yer like a sea-boot.
1946 Nature 14 Sept. 386/2 Land Army hose, sea-boot stockings,..and jungle-green pullovers also came under the scheme.
1971 G. M. Brown Fishermen with Ploughs 47 His sea boots filled, and Willag said no more.
sea-booted adj.
ΚΠ
1897 R. Kipling Captains Courageous v. 107 With his sea-booted feet cocked up on the table.
1933 ‘L. Luard’ All Hands 44 The decks..were alive with jovial sea-booted men.
sea-bread n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Parazoa > phylum Porifera > [noun] > member of > parts of > skeletal parts
sea-bread1834
sea-cracker1888
1834 A. Underwood Jrnl. Dec. in Southwestern Hist. Q. (1928) Oct. 131 I in company with two of my fellow passengers started taking with us some sea bread water &c. determined to camp out that night.
1876 C. H. Davis Narr. North Polar Exped. Ship Polaris xi. 261 A hash made of dried salmon and sea-bread.
sea cap n.
ΚΠ
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iii. iv. 323 Now you haue no sea-cap on your head. View more context for this quotation
† sea-cates n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1688 J. Barker Poet. Recreations I. 92 The best of Sea-Cates we wish for thy Diet.
sea-clothes n.
ΚΠ
c1578 Frobisher in Proc. Rec. Comm. (1833) 562 At Bristo, wher his carde and his se-clothes dyd ly to pawne.
1933 W. de la Mare Fleeting & Other Poems 45 His stiffening sea-clothes grey with salt.
sea coat n.
ΚΠ
1687 London Gaz. No. 2290/4 A black Negro..having a Sea-Coat lin'd with white Bays.
† sea compass n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. aiiijv Certaine Landmarkes..well hable to be skried, in what point of the Seacumpase they appeare.
1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 81 This Instrument is generally furnished with the Sea Compass.
sea-rig n.
ΚΠ
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast i. 6 I made my appearance on board at twelve o'clock, in full sea-rig.
sea-stock n.
ΚΠ
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson i. ix. 90 Some place..where ships might refresh and supply themselves with the necessary sea-stock for their voyage.
1840 F. D. Bennett Narr. Whaling Voy. II. 349 This fruit..is very eligible for sea-stock.
1892 C. H. Fretwell Anc. Mariner 38 I..purchased my sea-stock of warm clothing, intending to join on the following day.
sea-dish n.
ΚΠ
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Sea-pie,..a favourite sea-dish in rough weather.
sea-gasket n.
ΚΠ
1889 Cent. Dict. Furling~line, a line wound spirally about a sail and its yard in furling. Also called sea-gasket.
sea-gown n.
ΚΠ
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet v. ii. 14 Vp from my Cabin, My sea-gowne scarft about me in the darke. View more context for this quotation
1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. i. v. 91 My Guide carried my Sea-gown, which was my covering in the night.
sea-habit n.
ΚΠ
1745 Life Bampfylde-Moore Carew 58 He..furnishes himself with a tattered Sea-Habit.
sea-handkerchief n.
ΚΠ
1687 London Gaz. No. 2256/4 With a Sea Hankerchief about his Neck.
sea-jacket n.
ΚΠ
1856 C. Dickens Little Dorrit (1857) i. vi. 44 The doctor was amazingly shabby, in a torn and darned rough-weather sea-jacket.
sea-kit n.
ΚΠ
1884 Sir F. S. Roberts in 19th Cent. June 1069 Sea-kits should be issued gratis [to the army] as required.
sea lead n.
ΚΠ
1838 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 358/1 A sea lead is charged at its heavy end with a small iron tube.
sea-life n.
ΚΠ
1740 S. Johnson Drake in Gentleman's Mag. Oct. 509 Bred, from his earliest Years, to the Labour and Hardships of a Sea-Life.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. v. 35 The recurring noonday, the meridian starting-point of sea-life.
sea-neckcloth n.
ΚΠ
1668 London Gaz. No. 262/4 A sea Neckcloth about his neck.
sea-pipe n.
ΚΠ
1886 R. L. Stevenson Kidnapped x. 88 Then there came a single call on the sea-pipe, and that was the signal.
sea rite n.
ΚΠ
?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads ii. 538 King Agamemnon, on these men, did well-built ships bestow To passe the gulfie purple sea, that did no sea rites know.
sea-store n.
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1659 J. Rushworth Hist. Coll. 415 All manner of Tackle, Sea-stores, and Ammunition.
1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. viii. 93 We were ordered to the dock-yard to draw sea-stores.
sea-suit n.
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1604 T. Dekker & T. Middleton Honest Whore i. ii. 01 (stage direct.) Enter Fustigo in some fantastike Sea-suite.
sea venison n.
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1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery xi. 125 To make Sea Venison.
(b) Also, characteristic of life at sea or of seamen, nautical.
sea-bow n.
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1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. iii. 15 My uncle, after two or three sea-bows, expressed himself in this manner.
sea-gibberish n.
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1608 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 107 Strike, strike our saile (the Master cries) amain,..but he cries in vain; For in his face the blasts so bluster ay, That his Sea-gibberish is straight born away.
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sea-hornpipe n.
sea jaw n.
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1791 J. O'Keeffe Wild Oats i. i John. You must know, on our quitting harbour—. Sir Geo. Damn your sea jaw, you marvellous dolphin, give the contents of your log-book in plain English.
sea-language n.
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1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Offing In the Sea-Language, that part of the Sea a good distance from Shore.
1928 L. P. Smith Words & Idioms 20 The sea-languages of the world.
sea manners n.
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1829 F. Marryat Naval Officer I. iv. 108 My sea manners were not congenial to the drawing-room.
sea-phrase n.
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1659 G. Torriano Florio's Vocabolario Italiano & Inglese Avaria, a sea-phrase, viz. a..distribution of the losse made, when [etc.].
1778 F. Burney Evelina III. xxi. 245 I suppose it to be some sea-phrase.
sea-scrape n.
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1884 ‘H. Collingwood’ Under Meteor Flag 172 He made an elaborate sea-scrape with his right foot.
sea-slang n.
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1857 Ld. Dufferin Lett. from High Latitudes (ed. 3) 400 [We] were nearly run into ourselves by a clumsy merchantman, whom we had the relief of being able to abuse in..the most racy sea-slang.
sea-term n.
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1710 A. Pope Corr. 28 Oct. (1956) I. 101 I agree with you in your Censure of the Use of Sea-Terms in Mr Dryden's Virgill.
1898 A. Ansted (title) A dictionary of sea terms.
k. Applied to pay received or ‘due for actual service in a duly-commissioned ship’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 1867). in sea-pay, †at sea-wages: (of a sailor) in actual service on the sea; (of a ship) in commission.
ΚΠ
1490 Act 7 Hen. VII c. 1 §2 If the Captain be at Sea-wages, he [shall] shew the departing..of the said Soldier..to the Admiral of the Navy.
1667 S. Pepys Diary 29 Aug. (1974) VIII. 405 My Lord Crew and his friends takes it very ill of me that my Lord Sandwiches Sea-fee should be retrenched.
1758 Let. to Mayor wherein Discouragem. of Seamen are Examined 6 When such Ships shall have been eighteen Months in Sea-pay, the Wages of the first twelve Months shall be paid.
1889 Notes & Queries 7th Ser. 7 81/2 The fleet then left by Pepys in sea-pay comprised 76 vessels, and the men numbered 12,040.
l.
(a) Applied to works of art or literature, narratives, etc., representing the sea or life at sea.
sea-eclogue n.
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1712 (title) Nereids: or Sea-Eclogues.
sea-sonnet n.
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1659 Lady Alimony iii. iii. sig. F4 Let us have a Sea-sonnet before we launch forth in our Adventure-Frigot.
sea-story n.
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1855 (title) Sea Stories: tales of discovery, adventure, and escapes.
1885 Academy 21 Nov. 338/3 Mr. Russell undoubtedly ‘struck oil’ with his earlier sea-stories.
sea-subject n.
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1850 M. F. Ossoli Woman in 19th Cent. (1862) 267 Painters of sea-subjects.
sea-tale n.
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1888 F. M. Crawford With Immortals II. 129 I used to..listen to the sea-tales of the sailors.
sea-yarn n.
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1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 157 Spinning sea-yarns all night.
(b) So also.
sea-painter n.
sea-poet n.
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1909 Q. Rev. July 140 Joseph Autran the sea-poet of Marseilles.
m. Applied to nautical maps and charts. Also sea-book n., sea-card n. 1.
† sea-chart n. Obsolete
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > navigational aids > [noun] > chart
shipman's card1530
carda1532
card of the sea1555
chard?a1560
sea-card?a1560
mariner's card1594
seaman card1636
sea-chart1669
chart1696
1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. iv. iii. 157 By the true Sea-chart you are arrived at G.
1685 N. Boteler Six Dialogues Sea-services 266 This Sea-cart is also called a Plot.
1745 R. Pococke Descr. East II. i. 210 The modern sea carts make it [Cyprus] only one hundred and thirty-five [miles] in length.
1883 Encycl. Brit. XV. 520/2 By 1601 Mercator's projection was in use for all sea charts.
sea-map n.
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1632 R. Sherwood Dict. in R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues (new ed.) A sea-card, or Sea-map, Carte marine, Hydrographie.
1839 Penny Cycl. XIV. 405/1 There are two kinds of terrestrial maps—geographic or land maps, and hydrographic or sea maps.
sea-plat n.
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1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World xv. 416 The Drafts or Sea-plats being first consulted, it was [etc.].
n. By sea; also, pertaining to navigation or maritime or naval affairs. Also sea-voyaging n. at sea-voyage n. Derivatives.
sea-business n.
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1625 K. Long tr. J. Barclay Argenis iv. xv. 289 The hurly-burly of such as were vnskilfull in Sea-busines, was like to bring no lesse danger than the storms violence.
1712 M. Henry Daily Commun. God (1866) 45 Whatever your employment be, in country-business, city-business, or sea-business,..go about them in the fear of God.
sea-carriage n.
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1766 T. Smollett Trav. France & Italy I. xx. 315 This wine is of a strong body,..and improves by sea-carriage.
1868 J. E. T. Rogers Man. Polit. Econ. iii. 20 The relative values of food, clothing, metals, and sea-carriage remain the same.
† sea-concernment n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
a1687 W. Petty Polit. Arithm. (1691) i. 27 Wherefore he whom this latter Party doth affectionately own to be their Head, cannot probably be wronged in his Sea-concernments by the other.
sea-crossing n.
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1936 Brit. Birds 29 367 They undertake a 1,200 mile sea-crossing from Greenland to Ireland.
1962 H. R. Loyn Anglo-Saxon Eng. i. 24 A sea-crossing is perilous to tribal institutions.
sea-passage n.
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1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 2 The description of our Sea passage.
1873 M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma vi. 176 Because a man has frequently to make sea-passages, he is not gifted with an immunity from sea-sickness.
sea-passenger n.
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1591 R. Greene Second Pt. Conny-catching sig. B2v Syrens, who sitting with their watching eies vpon the rockes to allure Sea-passengers to their extreame preiudice.
sea-route n.
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1858 Timbs Curiosities of Sci. 1st Ser. 184 Ocean highways: how sea-routes have been shortened.
1886 C. E. Pascoe London of To-day (ed. 3) xliii. 372 In communication with the Continent by the shortest sea route.
sea-trade n.
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1664 J. Exton Maritime Dicæol. i. iii. 14 Other things..done—either on or at the sea, concerning Sea-trade.
sea-trader n.
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1899 C. J. C. Hyne Further Adventures Capt. Kettle i. 4 Kettle had come across many types of sea-trader in his time.
sea-trading adj.
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1921 19th Cent. July 150 She failed..to become a great sea-trading nation.
sea-traffic n.
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1885 J. F. Payne in Encycl. Brit. XIX. 166/2 Two insular outbreaks [of plague]..both thought to be cases of importation by sea-traffic.
sea-transport n.
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1847 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Sea-traveling, traveling by sea voyages.
† sea-wandering n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 50 Like..Vlysses, (well knowne vnto them by his prolixious seawandering).
sea-news n.
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1666 A. Marvell Let. 1 Dec. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 47 The sea news is not good from seuerall places.
sea-discipline n.
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a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. vii. sig. S3v Seing wherein the Sea-discipline differed from Land-seruice.
sea-course n.
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1615 Trade's Incr. 2 A man may runne a course this way [by fishing] to enrich himselfe..more easily..then any other sea-course can persuade vs to.
a1617 S. Hieron Spirituall Fishing in Wks. (1620) I. 643 It is an allusion to a sea-course: When he the admirall hangs out a lanterne, and all that come behind steere to that.
o.
(a) In designations of persons, as living or exercising their functions at sea.
sea-boy n.
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a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 (1623) iii. i. 27 Canst thou (O partiall Sleepe) giue thy Repose To the wet Sea-Boy [1600 season], in an houre so rude.
1860 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem (1861) III. cxii. 38 A Hull sea-boy went to see his master when his time was out.
sea-carpenter n.
ΚΠ
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Scarfed, in the sea carpenter's language, is the same as pierced, or fastened or joined in.
sea-commander n.
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1659 J. Rushworth Hist. Coll. 4 One of the last Sea-Commanders then living bred under Queen Elizabeth.
sea-fellow n.
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1909 E. Pound Personae 37 As Glaucus tasting the grass that made him sea-fellow with the other gods.
1918 D. H. Lawrence New Poems 27 I wish a wild sea-fellow would come down the glittering shingle.
sea-friend n.
sea-robber n.
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1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 435 When the Erle..had not founde one Pirate or Sea robber, he [etc.].
1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. IV 305 On the mast Hung the sea-robbers' fair shields, lip to lip.
sea-chief n.
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1723 R. Blackmore Alfred iii. 87 Rigid Sea-Chiefs and turbulent of Mind.
sea-chirurgeon n.
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1672 R. Wiseman Treat. Wounds ii. App. To Rdr. 73 My design was to help the Sea-Chirurgeons.
sea-general n.
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1661 J. Davies Civil Warres 326 Coll. Popham one of their Sea-Generalls.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1666 (1955) III. 471 Van Tromp, the Sea Generall.
sea-gunner n.
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1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. v. xiii. 85 Hand-Granadoes [are]..made by Sea-Gunners upon a Mould made with Twine.
sea-lad n.
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1758 J. Blake Plan Marine Syst. 42 To sea-lads under 18 not more than 22s. 6d. per month.
sea-lieutenant n.
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c1688 Pepys Mem. R.N. in Moorhouse Pepys (1909) 253 For ascertaining the duty of a sea-lieutenant, and for examining persons pretending to that office.
1723 Pres. State Russia II. 341 The same happened to another Sea-Lieutenant Michucow.
1803 in D. Knox Naval Documents U.S. Wars Barbary Powers (U.S. Office Naval Records) (1941) III. 32 A sea lieutenant is always to be on the quarter-deck.
sea-looby n.
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1797 Sporting Mag. 10 322 A sea~looby that did not know how to reckon.
sea-people n.
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1600 Abp. G. Abbot Expos. Prophet Ionah viii. 169 These sea-people in like sort might well thinke of the Lord, and yet not leaue their idolatry.
sea-reaver n.
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1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vii. vii. 48 Ȝone fals see rewir will leif in sturt.
1595 A. Duncan Appendix Etymologiae: Index in Latinae Grammaticae Pyrata, a sea rewar, a pyrate.
(b) Also occasionally quasi-adj., that is a sailor, nautical.
sea-lover n.
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1695 W. Congreve Love for Love iv. i. 62 What, has my Sea-Lover lost his Anchor of Hope then?
sea-philosopher n.
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1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xxxii. 285 I was much pleased and edified with the maxims of this sea-philosopher.
sea-reader n.
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1726 G. Shelvocke tr. Imperial Comm. in Voy. round World Pref. p. iv I do not here pretend to give my Sea-Reader a compleat system of the Navigation on the coasts of Chili, Peru, &c.
p. In appellations of mythological or other imaginary beings supposed to inhabit the sea.
sea-cattle n.
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1710 W. King Heathen Gods & Heroes (1722) l. 179 He [Proteus] is said to ride in a Chariot drawn by Sea-Cattle, a sort of Horses with two Legs, and Tails like Fishes.
sea-deity n.
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1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 677 Neptune with his ruder Sea-Deities.
sea-giant n.
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1888 F. M. Crawford With Immortals (1890) 294 The match between gods and sea-giants for souls of sailors.
sea-girl n.
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1915 T. S. Eliot Love Song J. Alfred Prufrock in Poetry June 135 Seagirls wreathed with seaweed red and brown.
1923 E. P. Mathers tr. J. C. Mardrus Bk. of Thousand Nights & One Night VII. 80 Suddenly they saw twelve sea girls..come up out of the water and dance a round upon the sand.
1939 D. Thomas Map of Love 5 The sea-girls' lineaments Glint in the staved and siren-printed caverns.
sea-goblin n.
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1824 W. Scott Romance in Encycl. Brit.: Suppl. 4th–6th Eds. VI. ii. 451/1 Begot betwixt a mortal and a sea-goblin.
sea-idol n.
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1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 13 This day a solemn Feast the people hold To Dagon thir Sea-Idol . View more context for this quotation
sea-hag n.
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1855 C. Kingsley Argonauts in Heroes v. 161 In that cave lives Scylla, the sea-hag.
sea-mare n.
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1604 Meeting of Gallants sig. C3v Riding vppon a Sea-mare.
sea-queen n.
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1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. Fv How oft haue I descending Titan seene His burning lockes couch in the Sea-queenes lap.
sea-satyr n.
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1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. xii. sig. Aa2 The horrible Sea-satyre, that doth shew His fearefull face in time of greatest storme.
q. That lives in the sea, or is found in the sea, esp. as opposed to a similar thing found or living on land, or in fresh water.
ΚΠ
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxii. xxii. 128 Others affirme, that Alimon is a sea-wort, of a salt and brackish tast.
1612 J. Speed Theatre of Empire of Great Brit. i. xli. 79/2 Sea-winkles, Cockles and other Sea-fish.
1767 tr. D. Cranz Hist. Greenland I. 60 Of the Land and Sea Vegetables.
1848 R. Owen in Times 14 Nov. 9/1 The Sea Saurians of the Secondary periods of geology.
1859 Ld. Lytton Wanderer (ed. 2) 329 My coat..Salt as a sea-sponge.
1867 W. T. Brande & G. W. Cox Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art (new ed.) III. 393/1 s.v. Sea-serpent,..Mesozoic sea-reptiles (Ichthyosaurus, Plesiosaurus).
1888 L. A. Smith Music of Waters 341 The herring fishery in the Isle of Man is the staple industry of the place—the Manx sea-harvest it is called.
1916 J. Joyce Portrait of Artist iv. 199 The sea harvest of shells and tangle.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses i. iii. [Proteus] 37 Signatures of all things I am here to read, seaspawn and seawrack.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xii. [Cyclops] 282 Golden ingots, silvery fishes,..purple seagems and playful insects.
1979 Dallas (Texas) Times Herald 30 May 8- e/1 Fans of the delicacy [sc. seaweed] believe that the term ‘sea vegetables’ would..enhance the image of native dishes.
C2. Objective.
† sea-binding adj. Obsolete
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1613 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals I. iv. 84 Ô yee Sea binding Cleeues!
sea-convulsing adj.
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1822 P. B. Shelley Hellas 24 The sea-convulsing fight.
† sea drying adj. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iii. 121 Let fainte Women shake At their dread God, at their Sea-drying Lord.
sea-framing adj.
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1860 Ld. Tennyson Sea Dreams 33 They..Ran in and out the long sea-framing caves.
sea-loving adj.
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1862 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. (new ed.) II. 700 The Dunlin..is the commonest of the sea-loving Sandpipers.
† sea-shouldering adj. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. xii. sig. Aa1v Spring-headed Hydres and sea-shouldring Whales.
sea-rider n.
ΚΠ
1939 W. B. Yeats Last Poems 29 That sea-rider Oisin led by the nose Through three enchanted islands.
† sea-wright n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme xcv. 12 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 143 The Sea is his, and he the Sea-wright was.
sea-bounding adj.
ΚΠ
1616 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals II. i. 10 By thickets which aray'd The high Sea-bounding hill, so neare she went.
sea-compelling adj.
ΚΠ
1861 S. Brooks Silver Cord IV. xvii. 56/2 The basin in which stood..the sea-compelling Poseidon.
sea-ensuing adj.
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1601 R. Chester Loves Martyr 78 The flowing Riuer Thamasis is nam'd, Whose Sea-ensuing Tide can neare be tam'd.
sea-surveying adj.
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1616 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals II. i. 26 Bearded Goates, that on the clouded head Of any sea-suruaying Mountaine fed.
C3. Similative. Cf. sea-green adj. and n.
sea-cold adj.
ΚΠ
1921 W. de la Mare Veil & Other Poems 78 In sea-cold Lyonesse.
1931 A. Huxley Cicadas 57 I reach for grapes, but from an inward vine Pluck sea-cold nipples, still bedewed with brine.
sea-coldly adv.
ΚΠ
1955 E. Bowen World of Love vi. 105 ‘You mean, you were late at the sea?’ ‘Not at all,’ said Antonia sea-coldly.
sea-colour adj.
ΚΠ
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 233 Three springs of hote water, of a blewish or sea colour.
sea-blue adj.
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1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam lxxxix. 134 Or underneath the barren bush Flits by the sea-blue bird of March. View more context for this quotation
sea-deep adj.
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1896 A. E. Housman Shropshire Lad xiv. 22 Sea-deep, till doomsday morning, Lie lost my heart and soul.
sea-grey adj.
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1906 Academy 6 Jan. 14/1 Our ancient sea-grey town.
1970 T. Hughes Crow 34 Seeing sea-grey mash a mountain of itself.
sea-shot adj.
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1874 G. M. Hopkins Jrnls. & Papers (1959) 248 The sea-shot blue-and-green woollen gown our Lady wears.
sea-smiling adj.
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1919 J. Joyce Ulysses xi. [Sirens] in Little Rev. Sept. 47 Charming, seasmiling and unanswering Lydia on Lidwell smiled.
sea-wide adj.
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1757 J. Dyer Fleece iv. 131 Those [lakes] a sea-wide surface spread.
C4. Instrumental.
† sea-partition n. Obsolete
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1597 J. Payne Royall Exchange 3 Neyther sea particion nor distans of plase can be anye lawfull excuse to be..silent.
sea-bathed adj.
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1640 G. Sandys tr. H. Grotius Christs Passion i. 80 Sea-bath'd Hesperus, who brings Night on.
sea-blown adj.
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1857 J. G. Whittier in National Era 22 Oct. 170/5 So to us who walk in summer through the cool and sea-blown town.
1945 J. Betjeman New Bats in Old Belfries 27 Whose fantastic mausoleum Sings its own seablown Te Deum.
sea-bounded adj.
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1610 R. Niccols Winter Nights Vision in Mirour for Magistrates (new ed.) 573 Our sea-bounded Britanie.
† sea-broke adj. Obsolete
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a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V clx, in Poems (1878) IV. 141 As a brave Vessell, Sea-broke, lyes to Hull.
† sea-circled adj. Obsolete
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1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. B3 Their sea-circled Ilands.
sea-deserted adj.
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a1822 P. B. Shelley Witch of Atlas iv, in Posthumous Poems (1824) 30 The sea-deserted sand.
sea-divided adj.
ΚΠ
a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V lxxviii, in Poems (1878) IV. 120 Sea-Devided France.
sea-driven adj.
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1581 Compendious Exam. Certayne Ordinary Complaints i. f. 8v Towards what Coastes yee bee sea dryuen.
sea encircled adj.
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1730 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons 168 Round the sea-incircled globe.
sea-environed adj.
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1597 M. Drayton Englands Heroicall Epist. f. 44v This Sea-inuirond Ile.
sea-fed adj.
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1919 J. Joyce Ulysses x. [Wandering Rocks] in Little Rev. July 36 A sailorman, rustbearded..eyes her. A long and seafed silent rut.
sea-lulled adj.
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1848 J. R. Lowell Poems 2nd Ser. 143 Fair Beatrice's spirit wandering now In some sea-lulled Hesperides.
1921 W. de la Mare Veil & Other Poems 85 The mild noon air of Spring again Lapped shimmering in that sea-lulled lane.
sea-scented adj.
ΚΠ
1845 R. Browning Meeting at Night ii Warm sea-scented beach.
sea-strewn adj.
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1892 W. B. Yeats Countess Kathleen 125 When fades the sea-strewn rose of day.
1934 T. S. Eliot Rock ii. 56 Many left their bodies to the kites of Syria Or sea-strewn along the routes.
sea-sucked adj.
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1934 D. Thomas 18 Poems 33 Half of the fellow father as he doubles His sea-sucked Adam in the hollow hulk.
1966 New Statesman 11 Feb. 196/1 I used To think of the soul As round and smooth Like a sea-sucked pebble.
sea-tossed adj.
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1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles x. 60 Vpon whose Decke The seas tost Pericles appeares to speake.
† sea wrecked adj. Obsolete
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society > travel > travel by water > seafaring life > [adjective] > weary of seafaring
sea-wearyOE
sea wrecked1594
sea-scourged1648
1594 T. Lodge & R. Greene Looking Glasse sig. F2 You returne thus sea-wrackt as I see.
sea-laved adj.
ΚΠ
1735 W. Somervile Chace iii. 431 All now is plain, Plain as the strand sea-lav'd.
sea-rounded adj.
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1592 in J. A. Picton City of Liverpool: Select. Munic. Rec. (1883) I. 70 Sea rounded groundes.
sea-scourged adj.
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society > travel > travel by water > seafaring life > [adjective] > weary of seafaring
sea-wearyOE
sea wrecked1594
sea-scourged1648
1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. G3 Far more welcome then the happy soile, The Sea-scourg'd Merchant, after all his toile, Salutes with tears of joy.
sea-severed adj.
ΚΠ
1744 E. Young Complaint: Night the Seventh 3 He whom Sea-sever'd Realms obey.
sea-surrounded adj.
ΚΠ
1725 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. iv. 827 Sea-surrounded realms.
sea-swallowed adj.
ΚΠ
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) ii. i. 256 She that from whom We all were sea-swallow'd . View more context for this quotation
sea-torn adj.
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1616 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals II. i. 3 Into as fayre a Bay As euer Merchant wisht might be the rode Wherein to ease his sea-torne Vessels lode.
C5. Locative.
sea-based adj.
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1845 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 2) 221 Like seabased icebergs.
sea-bred adj.
ΚΠ
1695 W. Congreve Love for Love Pers. Dram. Ben, Sir Sampson's Younger Son, half home-bred, and half Sea-bred.
sea-built adj.
ΚΠ
1667 J. Dryden Annus Mirabilis 1666 lvii. 15 The Sea-built Forts in distant order move.
† sea-lost adj. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1624 F. Quarles Sions Elegies ii. xi. D 1 b As a Sea-lost Rouer, Shee roames, but can no land of peace discouer.
sea-packed adj.
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1891 Cent. Dict. Sea-packed, packed at sea or during a voyage, as fish to be sold on arrival in port.
sea-potent adj.
ΚΠ
1743 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Odes II. iii. xxviii. 137 The Sea-potent King, And Nereids.
sea-setting n. and adj.
ΚΠ
1848 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 3) 211 My soul sank within me like a star Sea-setting.
1865 A. Smith Summer in Skye I. 200 [The] wan sea-setting of the moon.
sea-spouting adj.
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1685 J. Dryden Albion & Albanius iii. sig. G1v Sea-spouting Dolphins are tam'd for our motion.
sea-wildered adj.
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1789 E. Darwin Bot. Garden I. 15 Sea-wilder'd crews the mountain-stars admire.
sea-sailing adj.
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1663 Marquis of Worcester Cent. Names & Scantlings Inventions Index 2 A Sea-sailing Fort.
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a. Special combinations:
sea-affairs n. nautical or naval affairs, or things occurring at sea.
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society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > [noun] > naval affairs
sea1556
sea-affairs1633
society > travel > travel by water > seafaring life > [noun] > sea-affairs
sea1556
sea-affairs1633
1633 T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia iii. vi. 303 Conversant in Sea-affaires.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iii. i. 2 Having experienced my Knowledge in Sea-Affairs to be at least equal to his, he would enter into any Engagement to follow my Advice.
1791 J. O'Keeffe Wild Oats i. i. 7 I thought you had..retired to live quiet upon your estate, and had done with sea affairs.
1939 J. Masefield Live & Kicking Ned 29 He told me something of sea-affairs.
† sea-agate n. Obsolete ? an agate with green wave-like markings.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > rock crystal > [noun] > chalcedony > agate > varieties of
sea-agatea1593
phassachate1634
sardachate1706
jaspagate1748
peacock stone1753
moss agate1798
fortification-agate1882
the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > silicates > tectosilicate > [noun] > quartz > cryptocrystalline quartz > chalcedony > agate > varieties
sea-agatea1593
phassachate1634
sardachate1706
jaspagate1748
peacock stone1753
moss agate1798
ruin agate1798
a1593 C. Marlowe Hero & Leander (1598) i. sig. Bijv The wals were of discoloured Iasper stone, Wherein was Proteus carued, and o'rehead, A liuelie vine of greene sea agget spread.
sea-air n. attributive pertaining to or involving both the sea and the air.
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the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > [adjective]
floodyc1420
marine?1440
seaish1530
maritime1610
marinal1614
Neptunianc1620
aequoreal1647
thalassian1851
thalassic1860
sea-air1945
the world > matter > gas > air > [adjective] > relating to water or sea and air
aqu-aerial1672
sea-air1945
1945 L. E. O. Charlton Royal Air Force 266 A strong Japanese battle fleet..delivered an attack..reminiscent of the sea-air battles of Midway and the Coral Sea.
1959 H. Barnes Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. iii. 106 Information about temperature and salinity conditions and their variation enables deductions to be made about physical processes taking place in the sea-air interface.
sea-anchor n. (a) (see quot. 1769); (b) = drift-anchor n. at drift n. Compounds 2.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > drogue
drift-sail1627
stop-water1794
drift-anchor1874
drogue1874
sea-anchor1877
cone-anchor1902
watersail1925
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Transl. French Terms Ancre du Large, the sea-anchor, or that which lies towards the offing.
1877 J. Dixon in Daily News 19 Oct. 6/4 She also had a floating bag, or sea anchor, to keep her head to windward.
† sea-artist n. Obsolete a master of the art of navigation.
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > sailors involved in specific duties or activities > [noun] > helmsman or pilot > skilled pilot or navigator
pilot-major1562
navigator1574
sea-artist1669
1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. iv. i. 138 Such young Sea-faring Men, as are desirous to be Sea-Artists or Navigators.
sea-bag n. U.S. a seaman's travelling bag or trunk; also transferred, a heavy artillery shell.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > luggage > travelling bag
cloak-bagc1540
mallet1612
Peter1667
sac de nuit1814
carpet-bag1830
roll-up1831
pikau1836
travelling bag1838
swag1853
suit bag1869
bluey1878
Matilda1889
shiralee1892
port1898
handgrip1915
sea-bag1918
blanket pack1920
weekender1929
valpack1934
weekend bag1946
swag bag1951
society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [noun] > bullet or shell > shell > other types of shell
carcass1684
light ball1729
anchor ball1779
shrapnel1810
hollow shot1862
segment-shell1862
blind-shell1864
ring-shot1868
star shell1876
ring-shell1879
pipsqueak1900
Black Maria1914
coal box1914
crump1914
Jack Johnson1914
Archie1915
Little Willie1915
whizz-bang1915
woolly bear1915
fizzbang1916
five-ninea1918
ashcan1918
cream puff1918
sea-bag1918
pudding1919
G.I. can1929
flechette1961
1918 M. Denig Let. July in K. Cowing Dear Folks at Home (1919) 250 A few big ‘sea-bags’ had hit near by.
1919 Sea-Bag 9 Feb. 3 Down in the bottom of a sea bag you may find the suit that a German Sub would have fired at if we had been lucky enough to really see a Fritz.
1926 J. W. Thomason Fix Bayonets! 148 If Brother Boche had kept flingin' them seabags around here, he'd a-hurt somebody.
1957 J. Kerouac On the Road iii. ii. 187 He grabbed his seabag and threw things into that.
1977 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 23 June 6/2 How easy it would have been at that point, one thinks, for the Marine Corps to have packed up its sea bags and departed.
sea bed n. †(a) a bed for use on board ship (obsolete); (b) the floor of the sea.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > bed on ship
cabin1598
waterbed1615
sea bed1637
cabin-bed1719
the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > region of sea or ocean > [noun] > sea bed
groundOE
sea-groundOE
channela1387
sea-bottoma1400
ocean bed1638
ocean floor1820
sea bed1838
ocean basin1848
ocean bottom1855
sea-floor1855
1637 in Arch. Maryland (1887) IV. 76 The Inventary of the goods & chattells of mr John Baxter... 1. rugg & an old sea-bed.
1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 381 My Governess..came down herself..bringing me in the first Place a Sea-Bed as they call it, and all its Furniture.
1774 N. Cresswell Jrnl. 8 Apr. (1925) 9 Bought a Sea Bed; paid Captn. Parry my passage.
1838 Penny Cycl. XI. 142/2 So as to stain the whole sea-bed for 1000 feet or yards in depth.
1937 Discovery Sept. 279/2 The sea-bed gave out a bluish light.
1975 Offshore Sept. 49-04/1 Other firms in this business include Heerema, with three special ships designed to drill seabed holes up to 1,200 ft in 700 ft of water.
sea-beggar n. [= French gueux de mer] Historical a seaman of the small fleet organized by William of Orange in 1572 to combat the Spaniards.
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society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > seafaring warrior or naval man > [noun] > member of specific fleet, etc.
lithsman1805
sea-beggar1845
Pompeyite1916
1845 M. Russell in Encycl. Metrop. XIII. 603/1 Repulsed by the Sea-beggars, he [the Count de Bossu] endeavoured to seek a refuge in Dort.
1922 P. S. Allen Let. 30 Mar. (1939) xvi. 183 We are now on our way to Rotterdam..to attend..the 350th anniversary of the recapture of Brill by the ‘Sea-beggars’ from the Spaniards on 1 April 1572.
1963 Times 22 Feb. 17/3 He spoke for an hour to a packed audience of intent undergraduates and history dons about..the ‘invasion’ of the Netherlands by Prince William of Orange's sea beggars.
sea-blacking n. jocular the effect of sea-air in darkening the skin.
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the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > darkness > [noun] > effect of sea-air in darkening skin
sea-blacking1840
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxx. 364 It was surprising to see how much soap and fresh water did for the complexions of many of us; how much of what we supposed to be tan and sea-blacking we got rid of.
sea-blessing n. Nautical slang = sailor's blessing n. at sailor n. Compounds 3.
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1883 W. C. Russell Round Galley Fire 109 The sea-blessings showered out by the cook as he chases his dishes and pans and burns his fingers.
1912 W. I. Downie Reminisc. Blackwall Midshipman ii. 19 Sea blessings galore descended on my unfortunate head.
1933 S. Bradford Shell-backs viii. 181 The mate..gave me his sea-blessing for having recommended such a man to him.
sea-bloom n. a flower or blossom of marine vegetation.
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > [noun] > blossom or flower(s) > of plant of particular habitat
sea-bloom1820
1820 P. B. Shelley Ode to West Wind iii, in Prometheus Unbound 191 The sea-blooms and the oozy woods which wear The sapless foliage of the ocean.
sea-blossom n. = sea-bloom n.
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1865 A. C. Swinburne Chastelard i. ii. 38 Some sea-blossom stripped to the sun and burned At naked ebb.
sea-bow n. a phenomenon similar to the rainbow, formed by the action of light on sea-spray.
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1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Rainbow The Marine or Sea-Bow, is a Phænomenon sometimes observ'd in a much agitated Sea.
† sea-brace n. Obsolete a piece of timber used to strengthen a framework against the stress of the waves.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > [noun] > wooden structures or wooden parts of > specific pieces of woodwork
top-rail1679
sea-brace1776
angle bead1799
staff1812
angle-staff1825
warping1833
lipping1963
1776 G. Semple Treat. Building in Water 131 You may also extend the..Sills..toward the Sea, and thereon fix your five Sea-braces.
sea-breach n. (a) a breaker; (b) an irruption of the sea.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > flood or flooding > [noun] > sea
ragea1393
surabundance?1473
sea-breach1620
sea-breaka1688
transgression1882
the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > types of waves > [noun] > breaker
sea-breach1620
flash1627
breaker1684
whitecap1773
outbreaker1801
comber1840
pounder1927
shore break1962
1620 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Phylaster v. 60 Let me stand the shock of this mad sea-breach, Which I'le either turne, or perish with it.
1695 J. Collier Misc. upon Moral Subj. 14 You might as good attempt to..stop a Sea-Breach by proving the Water gets nothing by overflowing.
1884 Chambers's Jrnl. 3 May 275/1 The whole coast also suffers much from sea-breaches.
sea-break n. = sea-breach n. (b).
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > flood or flooding > [noun] > sea
ragea1393
surabundance?1473
sea-breach1620
sea-breaka1688
transgression1882
a1688 J. Wallace Descr. Orkney (1693) 19 How great is the power of the Sea-break may appear from this, that..there are by the violence of the sea & winds, large stones thrown up..a great way above the rock.
sea-brief n. (see quot. 1874).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > ship's papers > [noun] > sea passport
sea-brief1566
passport letter1585
passporta1587
sea-letter1653
sea-pass1864
1566 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 481 The lettres of marque, or sey brevis of the Kingis of Denmark, Swaden, or ony uther foreign Prince.
1755 N. Magens Ess. Insurances II. 460 All kind of Ships and Vessels..shall be only obliged to shew unto the Officers acting in the Ports of the said States,..their Passport commonly called a Sea-Brief.
1874 F. G. D. Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. vi. 181 The Sea-Letter, or Sea-Brief,..is the document which entitles the Master to sail under the Flag..of the Nation to which he belongs; and it also specifies the nature and quantity of the cargo [etc.].
sea-bud n. a bud of marine vegetation; also attributive.
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the world > plants > by habitat or distribution > [noun] > aquatic plant
weedc1450
aquatic?c1600
river weed1633
aquatile1638
sea-plant1681
submarine1703
sea-buda1822
hydrophyte1832
rheophyte1899
submergent1942
a1822 P. B. Shelley Prince Athanase ii. iii, in Posthumous Poems (1824) 254 The grass in the warm sun did start and move, And sea-buds burst under the waves serene.
1830 Ld. Tennyson Mermaid in Poems 28 My starry seabud crown.
Sea Cadet n. a member of the Sea Cadet Association (see quot. 1976), a voluntary youth organization which seeks to foster and develop for public benefit a sea cadet corps and to provide sea training and promote education in maritime affairs.
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society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > specific societies or organizations > [noun] > specific youth organizations > members of other youth organizations
wander-bird1924
Wandervogel1928
4-H'er1935
pathfinder1960
Sea Cadet1976
1976 Times 13 May 5/8 The Navy League, formed 81 years ago to press for more naval power for Britain, announced yesterday that it is changing its name to the Sea Cadet Association.
1977 Navy News June 32/5 Members are grateful to the Leicester Unit, Sea Cadet Corps, for the use of their H.Q. for branch meetings.
sea-cap n. (see quot.).
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > [noun] > crest
ridgeOE
white nose1771
feather1838
crest1864
sea-cap1867
comb1886
soup1962
peak1963
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Sea-cap, the white drift or breaks of a wave. White horses of trades.
† sea-carriage n. Obsolete a gun-carriage for a ship's gun.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > gun carriage > [noun]
stock1496
carriage1562
sea-carriage1669
gun-carriage1769
devil carriage1794
devil-cart1797
sleigh1797
galloper carriage1802
garrison-carriage1872
galloping carriage1883
1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. iv. xii. 64 Sea-Carriages are made..as the Block-maker that makes them hath Rules for.
sea-change n. a change wrought by the sea; now frequently transferred with or without allusion to Shakespeare's use (quot. a1616), an alteration or metamorphosis, a radical change.
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the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > sudden or complete change > [noun]
leapc1000
lope14..
revolution?a1439
reverse?1492
metamorphosis1548
transformation1581
earthquake1592
upside down1593
metamorphose1608
sea-changea1616
peritropea1656
transilience1657
transiliency1661
saltus1665
catastrophe1696
peristrophe1716
transiliency1769
upheaving1821
upset1822
saltation1844
shake1847
upheaval1850
cataclysm1861
shake-out1939
virage1989
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. ii. 403 Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a Sea-change Into something rich, & strange. View more context for this quotation
1917 E. Pound Lustra 193 Full many a fathomed sea~change in the eyes That sought with him the salt sea victories.
1923 J. M. Murry Pencillings 164 The characters which have suffered this sea-change, ‘of whose bones are coral made’, are the only unpleasant characters we remember.
1948 A. C. Baugh Lit. Hist. Eng. II. ix. 173 An interesting paper suggesting that romance is transplanted epic, which has undergone a kind of sea-change in the passage.
1974 R. Helms Tolkien's World ii. 32 Even before The Hobbit was published he was at work on its sequel, a work in which Middle-earth has undergone a wondrous sea change.
1976 Listener 8 Apr. 450/3 The Messianic vision..has undergone some strange sea~changes outside Judaism.
1977 ‘E. Crispin’ Glimpses of Moon vii. 117 He..could, moreover..bring about a sea~change in the image of even the most bumbling police officers going about their duties, so that they emerged as prodigies of intelligence, zeal and kindness.
sea chest n. (a) a seaman's chest or box for his own clothing, etc.; (b) (see quot. 1909).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > chest used on board ship
ship-chest1494
ship-coffer1557
sea chest1669
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > valve or sea-cock > part of
sea chest1909
1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. v. xiii. 86 Like a Sea Chest.
1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island i. i. 1 His sea-chest following behind him in a hand-barrow.
1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. Sea-chest, in ship-building, a short open pipe extending from the outside plating to the interior just inside the inner bottom, the inner end of which is closed by a sea-valve placed in a position accessible from the interior of the vessel.
1942 G. C. Manning Man. Ship Constr. (1943) iii. 76 Sea valves must be so placed as to be easily worked from the engine-room platforms. When they make connection with the sea through the double bottom or otherwise so that they would require a long neck if fastened directly to the shell they are attached to sea chests which are secured on the inside of the shell plating.
1972 L. M. Harris Introd. Deepwater Floating Drilling Operations 248 All sea chest strainers were removed. The sea valves were opened and examined. The sea chests were thoroughly examined.
sea-clam n. (also sea-clamp) ‘a clam, clamp, or forceps closed by a weight, for use with deep-sea sounding-lines’ ( Cent. Dict. 1891).
sea-cloth n. (a) a painted cloth spread over the stage and moved so as to represent waves; (b) cloth used for making sailors' clothing.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric for specific purpose > [noun] > for clothing > for wear at sea
sailing ware1483
sailing cloth1593
sea-cloth1883
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > theatrical equipment or accessories > [noun] > scenery > cloth > types of
sky-border1744
skydrop1854
skycloth1871
sea-cloth1883
cut cloth1884
front cloth1884
backcloth1886
backdrop1913
cyclorama1915
teaser1916
scrim1930
cut drop1961
1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island vi. xxxi. 263 ‘He was a seaman,’ said George Merry, who..was examining the rags of clothing. ‘Leastways, this is good sea-cloth.’
1890 B. Hall Turnover Club xviii. 172 The wings are removed, and what is technically known as a ‘sea cloth’ takes their place.
1891 Cent. Dict. Sea-cloth, Theat.
1901 Referee 4 Aug. 3 in Encycl. Dict. Suppl. The quicksand in ‘Wrestler Joe’ was crudely represented by a black ‘sea-cloth’.
1905 ‘Q’ Shining Ferry iii. xviii. 218 A bustious, big fellow, with a round hat like a missionary's, and all the rest of him in sea-cloth.
sea clutter n. = sea return n. (s) below.
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society > communication > telecommunication > radio communications > radio equipment > [noun] > radar apparatus > marks or signals on radar screen
range mark1942
ghost1943
pip1944
range marker1944
blip1945
clutter1945
sea return1945
sea clutter1946
angel1947
1946 Electronic Engin. 18 267 Sea clutter, caused by echoes from the tips of waves and broken water.
1970 P. Clissold Radar in Small Craft ii. 26 Sea clutter is not likely to be of any consequence beyond three or four miles, but at short range it can obscure stronger targets.
sea-cobble n. a pebble rounded by the action of the sea, used for paving and building.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [noun] > stone as material for paving > a paving stone > cobble
cogglea1400
cobbled stonec1435
cobble?a1500
cobblestone?a1500
cocklestone1677
sea-cobble1810
1810 Act 50 George III (Public Local & Personal Acts, c. 41) 36 Paved with such good and substantial sea-cobbles.
† sea-common n. Obsolete (see quot. 1584).
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the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > seashore or coast > [noun] > covered by sea
washc1440
sea-common1584
salting1712
inksa1740
tide-land1787
sea-grounds1826
salting-mound1908
shore1919
tide-water1949
1584 in 3rd Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1872) 5/1 All fishermen may fish in and upon sea-commons, that is, all such places in rivers, creeks, or bays as are covered by the water at high tide.
sea-cook n. a cook on board ship; esp. in son of a sea-cook used as a term of abuse.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > cook > [noun] > ship's cook
cook1466
sea-cook1707
doctor1803
slushy1859
potwalloper1890
society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > sailors involved in specific duties or activities > [noun] > ship's cooks and assistants
shifter1704
sea-cook1707
doctor1803
slushy1859
cook's mate1865
potwalloper1890
1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 82 A Sea-Cook, has been an able Fellow in the last War.
1806 J. Davis Post-Captain v. 27 ‘A precious husband!’ exclaimed captain Brilliant... ‘A son of a sea-cook! If he was to fall overboard, I would not heave him a rope.’
c1825 J. Choyce Log of Jack Tar (1891) 30 [They] struck the landlord, and called him an out-landish son of a sea-cook in his own house.
1865 H. Kingsley Hillyars & Burtons lv If he got any more cheek from him, or any other..post and rail son of a sea-cook.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvi. [Eumaeus] 594 Boisterously trolling, like a veritable son of a seacook.
1977 A. Hunter Gently Instrumental iv. 59 You're a right son of a seacook, aren't you?
sea-corpse n. poetic the corpse of a person drowned at sea.
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1878 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 74 They say who saw one sea-corpse cold He was all of lovely manly mould.
sea-crust n. the incrustation formed on an iron ship during a sea-voyage.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > fitting out or equipping ships > cleaning and recoating bottom > shells or incrustation on ship's bottom
shell-work1698
sea-crust1896
1896 R. Kipling Seven Seas 4 Go, get you gone up-Channel with the sea-crust on your plates.
sea-daddy n. [compare Dutch zeevader] an old sailor who befriends and instructs a midshipman.
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > types of sailor > [noun] > old or experienced sailor
hale bowline1627
sea-dog1823
stationer1826
old salt1828
salt1840
shell-back1853
sea-daddy1899
1899 ‘Martello Tower’ At School & at Sea 80 ‘Mas'r Tower’, said my sea-daddy to me one quiet evening, ‘I was wantin' to say a word to you, sir.’
† sea-distemper n. Obsolete = seasickness n.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > [noun] > nausea > types of nausea
heartsickness1614
seasickness1625
sea-distempera1641
nausea1771
mal de mer1778
airsickness1784
morning sickness1844
pregnancy sickness1864
carsickness1867
trainsickness1876
motion sickness1881
travel sickness1900
space sickness1912
a1641 J. Finett Philoxenis (1656) 153 Giving to the Queen some time of refreshing after her Sea-distempers, before he would see her.
1745 Life Bampfylde-Moore Carew 22 So violently were Bampfylde and his Friend afflicted with the Sea-Distemper.
sea-door n. a means of access (to a country) from the sea.
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the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > land near coast > [noun] > maritime district > access to
sea-door1861
1861 J. R. Lowell Pickens-and-Stealin's Rebell. in Wks. (1890) V. 83 The seceding States, every one of which had a sea-door open to the invasion of an enemy.
1884 J. Miller Memorie & Rime 120 Portland sits at the sea-door [of Oregon].
† sea-drags n. Obsolete (see quot.).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > [noun] > that hangs into sea
sea-drags1706
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Sea-Drags,..any thing that hangs over the Ship in the Sea; as Shirts, Gowns, &c. or the Boat when it is towed.
† sea-dust n. Obsolete (see quot.).
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > dry weather or climate > [noun] > dust-storm or sand-storm > dust-cloud or sand-cloud
red fog1828
brickfielder1829
sand-cloud1852
sea-dust1879
sirocco-dust1879
the world > matter > constitution of matter > granular texture > [noun] > state of being powdery > dust > cloud of > from dried rivers or lakes
red fog1828
sea-dust1879
sirocco-dust1879
1879 A. Geikie in Encycl. Brit. X. 266/1 The dust or sand of dried lakes or river-beds is sometimes borne away into the upper regions of the atmosphere,..it may descend again to the surface, in the form of ‘red-fog’, ‘sea-dust’, or ‘sirocco-dust’.
Sea Dyak n. see Dayak n. and adj.
sea-edge n. the brink of the sea; also spec. ‘the boundary between the icy regions of the “north water” and the unfrozen portions of the Arctic Sea’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 1867).
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the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > region of sea or ocean > [noun] > boundary between ice and unfrozen portions
sea-edge1820
the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > seashore or coast > [noun] > coast line
seasidec1275
the sea's sidea1400
seasides1532
shoreside1571
sea-linea1687
seaboard1788
waterline1789
shoreline1811
sea-edge1820
coast-line1861
ocean line1870
ria coast1899
rias coast1899
1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions I. 102 The Seven Icebergs are each, on an average, about a mile in length, and perhaps near 200 feet in height at the sea-edge.
1910 N. Munro in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 231 The drystone dykes that marked them rose from the sea-edge dripping.
sea-end n. the end (of a road) at the sea.
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1904 W. M. Ramsay Lett. Seven Churches xxii. 296 The sea-ends of the two great roads.
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sea-farm n. ‘an area of sea-bottom devoted to the cultivation of molluscs; an oyster-farm’ ( Funk's Stand. Dict. 1895).
sea-farmer n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > sea-farmer
sea-farmer1968
1968 E. S. Iversen Farming Edge of Sea ii. 31 The most important group of animals to sea farmers are mollusks (clams, oysters, and mussels), crustaceans (shrimps, crabs, and lobsters), and fishes.
1975 Times 24 Apr. 3/2 By next year the group of sea-farmers expect to have 1,250,000 Pacific oysters..ready for the market. A company, Western Aquaculture, is one of the sea-farming organizations.
sea-farming n. mariculture; also as adj.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > fish-keeping, farming, or breeding > [noun]
pisciculture1807
water farming1811
fish-breeding1860
fish-hatching1862
fish-culture1865
aquiculture1867
mariculture1867
fish-farming1869
pond culture1883
aquaculture1887
aquafarming1896
sea-farming1962
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > fish-keeping, farming, or breeding > [adjective]
intensive1832
piscicultural1856
cultural1868
fish-cultural1872
maricultural1903
sea-farming1962
1962 New Scientist 18 Oct. 129 Sir Alister Hardy, of Oxford, the leading prophet of sea~farming.
1972 Aquaculture 1 232 Seafarming is feasible and it can be carried out with profit.
sea-fencible n. an old coastguard.
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > watching or keeping guard > [noun] > one who watches or keeps guard > one who guards the coast > old
sea-fencible1803
1803 J. Moore in Tait's Edinb. Mag. (1834) June 333/2 The Volunteers, Sea-Fencibles, and all, were turned out.
sea-fever n. longing or desire for the sea or sailing on it.
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society > travel > travel by water > seafaring life > [noun] > yearning for the sea
sea-fever1902
sea-longing1955
1902 J. Masefield (title of poem) Sea-fever.
1931 Daily Express 23 Sept. 9/4 Men with the sea-fever on them pottered about among the debris of the docks.
1980 P. Moyes Angel Death i. 9 The much smaller island..has been infected by the current sea-fever to the point of constructing a small yacht basin.
sea-fire n. phosphorescence at sea.
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the world > matter > light > light emitted under particular conditions > [noun] > phosphorescence > of the sea > phosphorescent light on or in the sea
briny1602
sea-light1755
sea-fire1815
milky sea1821
mareel1866
mar-fire1881
milk sea1898
witch-fire1947
1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles Notes p. xxviii The phenomenon called by sailors Sea-fire.
1903 R. Kipling Five Nations 74 Flying-fish about our bows, Flying sea-fires in our wake.
1947 K. Tennant Lost Haven ii. 30 About her the impersonal sea-fire broke and the strange lights vibrated and shone.
sea-flyer n. one of the longipennine natatorial sea-birds, as gulls, etc.
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the world > animals > birds > unspecified and miscellaneous birds > [noun] > miscellaneous
night-raveneOE
cold-finch1676
crane1678
diver1694
solitary1708
wheat-bird1747
yellow-bill1775
Chinese thrush1781
whidah thrush1781
tomtit1789
solitaire1797
year-bird1798
softbill1830
swift-shrike1841
scissor bird1843
seed finch1862
sea-flyer1869
stalker1872
seven sisters1873
dicky bird1879
baboon bird1883
1869–73 T. R. Jones tr. A. E. Brehm Cassell's Bk. Birds IV. 175 The Sea-fliers (Longipennes).
1869–73 T. R. Jones tr. A. E. Brehm Cassell's Bk. Birds IV. 219 The Oar-footed Sea-fliers (Steganopodes).
sea-fort n. a fort on the coast.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > fort or fortified town > [noun] > other types of fort
hendecagon1648
grand1670
etoile1727
vitrified fort1777
roundabout1795
ring fort1846
oppidum1847
sea-fort1879
motte-and-bailey1900
motte castle1912
mote-castle1919
murus gallicus1939
1879 C. Nugent & J. E. Portlock in Encycl. Brit. IX. 450/1 Fig. Plan of Sea Fort, with continuous Iron wall.
sea-gauge n. (a) (see quot. 1753); (b) ‘the depth that a vessel sinks in the water’ (Webster 1828–32).
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1753 Philos. Trans. 1751–2 (Royal Soc.) 47 213 Upon the passage, I made several trials, with the bucket sea-gage.
sea-gipsy n. one of a roving tribe of fishermen of Malayan type living all their life on the sea, in the Malay Archipelago.
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the world > people > ethnicities > Malaysian or Indonesian > [noun] > Malaysian or Indonesian peoples > person
Bajau1769
Rejang1783
Buginese1800
sea-gipsy1817
Makasarese1820
Samsam1836
Jakun1839
Sakai1839
Sundanese1849
Sasak1869
Timorese1869
Temiar1933
Orang Asli1961
pribumi1974
the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fisher > [noun] > one of tribe of fishers
sea-gipsy1817
1817 T. Moore Lalla Rookh Fire-worshippers, That Eastern Ocean, where the sea-gipsies, who live for ever on the water, enjoy a perpetual summer in wandering from isle to isle.
1848 Simmonds' Col. Mag. Jan. 49 The sea-gipsies skimming over the waters in prahus filled with their wives and children.
sea-glass n. †(a) isinglass; (b) (see quot. 1895).
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > other manufactured or derived materials > [noun] > from animals
gold skin1507
mouth gluec1540
water glue1542
isinglass1545
gold-beater's skin1710
sea-glass1753
book1765
bone1812
mist1852
staple isinglass1879
mist1896
mis1958
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > instrument for distant vision > [noun] > water glass
water telescope1782
water glass1804
sponge-glass1885
sea-glass1895
1753 J. Cooke in J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea I. lviii. 385 We observed a great quantity of sea-glass [note Commonly called isinglass, of which lanthorns are made].
1895 Outing 27 240/1 Our object in visiting the reefs was to look through the sea-glasses, which consist of funnels of wood about a yard long, with a piece of glass at the lower end.
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† sea-grave n. Obsolete = sea-reeve n.
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sea-grocer n. ‘a sobriquet for the purser’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk.).
sea-guard n. a guarding or protecting by sea.
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > [noun] > afforded by a specific person or thing > by the sea
sea-guard1852
1852 G. Bancroft Hist. Amer. Revol. II. v. 104 It was Grenville who introduced a more than Spanish sea-guard of British America.
1902 Times 15 Aug. 5/3 The [naval] review of this week may also be regarded as a kind of national stock-taking of the Empire's sea-guard.
† sea-gulf n. Obsolete (a) a whirlpool; (b) a deep place in the sea.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > whirlpool > [noun]
swallowa700
weelc897
suckc1220
swallowinga1387
swelthc1400
swirlc1425
gorce1480
vorage1490
whirlpool1530
gourd1538
gulf1538
poolc1540
hurlpool1552
whirlpit1564
sea-gulf1571
maelstrom1588
vorago1654
well1654
gurges1664
gurge1667
swelchiea1688
vortex1704
tourbillion1712
whirly-pool1727
wheel-pit1828
sea-puss1839
turn-hole1851
suck-hole1909
1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (xlii. 8) By ye name of (depth) he sheweth that ye temptacions, wherwith he was assaulted might bee compared too seagulfes.
1594 C. Marlowe & T. Nashe Dido v. sig. F4v I hope that that which loue forbids me doe, The Rockes and Sea-gulfes will performe at large, And thou shalt perish in the billowes waies.
1902 D. G. Hogarth Nearer East 87 That profound sea gulf, which compensates the abrupt incline of Crete.
† sea-head n. Obsolete ? a sea-wall or bank.
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the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > embankment or dam > [noun] > sea-wall
sea-dike1394
seawallc1450
sea-head1531
bulwark1555
sea-bank1647
swash bank1852
1531 Lett. & Papers Henry VIII V. 181 Chawlke for making of a see hedd be the West Bray gate, which was brokyn by the great rage of the see.
sea-horizon n. the line where sky and sea seem to meet: in Navigation, ‘the small circle which bounds the portion of the surface visible to a spectator in the open sea’ (Harbord Gloss. Navig. 1863).
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the world > the earth > region of the earth > horizon > [noun]
horizonc1374
horizontal1555
rim1712
weather-gleam1802
skyline1815
sea-horizon1822
verge1822
sea-line1880
sea-rima1881
1822 P. B. Shelley Hellas 31 The Sirocco..drove his flock of thunder-clouds Over the sea-horizon.
1879 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (ed. 6) I. x. 306 A luminous sheet which grazes the sea-horizon.
sea-ice n. (see quot. 1835); also simply, the ice of the sea, frozen sea-water.
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the world > the earth > water > ice > [noun] > frozen sea water
sea-ice1835
nilas1960
the world > the earth > water > ice > land ice > [noun] > separated from land
sea-ice1835
1835 J. Ross Narr. Second Voy. North-west Passage Explan. Terms p. xv Sea ice, ice within which there is a separation from the land.
1909 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 484 Travelling over the sea-ice.
sea-impoldering n. (impolder v.)
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1899 D. S. Meldrum Holland & Hollanders 213 I cannot give a better idea of the practical work of sea-impoldering.
sea ivory n. ivory from the tusks and horns of marine mammalia (see also Compounds 6f below).
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > bone or horn > [noun] > ivory > types of
morphil1615
sea ivory1851
walrus-ivory1875
1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xvi. 77 Those thews ran not through base blocks of land wood, but deftly travelled over sheaves of sea-ivory.
1883 Official Catal. Internat. Fisheries Exhib. (ed. 4) 78 Sea Ivories, Horns, Bone, &c. manufactured and rough.
1968 G. Jones Hist. Vikings i. i. 23 Southwards..went skins and furs, amber, sea-ivory, and slaves.
sea-jockey n. North American a nimble sailor; the sailor of a small craft; occasionally derogatory (cf. jockey n. 5b).
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > types of sailor > [noun] > sailor of a small craft
sea-jockey1847
society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > types of sailor > [noun] > nimble sailor
sea-jockey1847
1847 H. Melville Omoo xvi. 58 Jermin, sea-jockey that he was, sometimes stood in the fore-chains.
1897 Outing Dec. 234/1 Aboard one of these well-balanced and swift little vessels the sea jockey's art can easily be acquired.
1971 D. Conover One Man's Island 67 The sea jockeys have taken over the waterways... Outboard cruiser owners—sea jockeys, as we call them.
sea-keeping n. of a ship, hovercraft, etc.: the endurance of (rough) conditions at sea.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel with reference to qualities or attributes > [noun] > qualities of vessel > seaworthiness or stability
seaworthiness1813
stiffness1877
sea-keeping1963
1963 Times 2 Mar. 8/4 Their employment in certain roles will depend largely on their sea-keeping qualities.
1972 C. Mudie Motor Boats 144 Maximum speeds have crept up from some forty knots to eighty knots in ten years and seakeeping has improved out of all recognition with rough water speeds nearly doubled.
sea-kindly adj. (of a ship) easy to handle at sea.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel with reference to qualities or attributes > [adjective] > easily managed
yare1390
sea-kindly1876
1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Sea-kindly.
1958 J. L. Kent Ships in Rough Water xi. 157 A seakindly ship is one which rides the seas in rough weather without shipping green water and with little spray blown inboard.
1981 Times 2 Feb. 22 There is a possibility of building hulls which can achieve speeds in excess of 30 knots on a waterline length of only 75 metres. These..should be extremely sea-kindly.
sea-kindliness n.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel with reference to qualities or attributes > [noun] > qualities of vessel > of being managed at sea
yarage1579
sea-kindliness1897
1897 F. T. Bullen Cruise ‘Cachalot’ 133 But for the build and sea-kindliness of the Cachalot, she could not have come out of that horrible cauldron again.
1936 C. Winchester Shipping Wonders of World I. 690/3 The Livonia..proved her ‘sea~kindliness’ by crossing the Atlantic in the worst of weather.
1976 Yachting World Oct. 110/2 Of course, the boat doesn't usually match true wind speed in open sea conditions, but it does exhibit truly phenomenal sea~kindliness with the hydrofoils set in moderate and heavy conditions.
sea-lake n. a land-locked portion of the sea, a lagoon.
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the world > the earth > water > lake > [noun] > lagoon
wash1530
lagoon1612
jheel1805
sea-lake1816
haff1859
pound1867
pond1926
1816 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1959) IV. 684 Up to this Garden comes a sort of Sea-lake, which at High Tide is..very interesting.
1827 J. Montgomery Pelican Island ii. (1828) 30 A sea-lake shone amidst the fossil isle.
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 161 The slumbering sea-lake.
sea-lane n. a route at sea for shipping.
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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > [noun] > sailing route
seawaya1000
fairwayc1474
navigationa1544
trade way1589
roadwaya1608
ocean lane1864
sea-lane1878
sea-road1893
1878 Ld. Tennyson Revenge v, in 19th Cent. Mar. 427 And the little 'Revenge' ran on thro' the long sea-lane between.
1948 British Birds XLI. Suppl. 1 After some months on its sea-lanes one could not but feel that the true answer to any one question could only be known if it were possible to cover the whole area in a matter of a few days.
1978 J. A. Michener Chesapeake 346 Can we keep the sea lanes open?
sea-league n. three nautical miles.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > [noun] > units of length or distance > league > nautical
league1555
sea-league1903
1903 R. Kipling Five Nations 23 They forced the sea a sea-league back.
sea-ledger n. ledger tackle (see ledger-tackle at ledger n. and adj. Compounds 2) used in sea-fishing.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > [noun] > kind of
prick-tackle1463
ledger-tackle1653
fly-tackle1834
otter1834
bait-tackle1835
paternoster tackle1852
spinning-tackle1856
otter-line1862
traveller1864
skate1882
sea-ledger1887
otter1898
otter-board1901
ripper1925
salmon tackle-
1887 ‘J. Bickerdyke’ Angling in Salt Water 24 The Sea Leger..is a very useful piece of tackle for catching flat fish.
sea-letter n. = sea-brief n.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > ship's papers > [noun] > sea passport
sea-brief1566
passport letter1585
passporta1587
sea-letter1653
sea-pass1864
1653 H. Oldenburg Let. 29 Dec. in Corr. (1965) I. 19 If, besides the sworne Sealetters, yr Highnes should demand the number and names of our ships..they are ready to give to yr Highnes an exact list of them.
1755 N. Magens Ess. Insurances II. 501 The Ships and Vessels belonging to the Subjects of the other Ally must be furnished with Sea-Letters, or Passports, expressing the Name, Property and Bulk of the Ship [etc.].
1848 J. Arnould Law Marine Insurance II. ii. iii. 624 In New York..a difference has been held to exist between a passport and a sea-letter, the latter term being confined to a mere certificate of ownership.
sea-lift n. North American a large-scale transportation of troops, supplies, etc., by sea (cf. airlift n. 2); hence as v. transitive, to transport by sea.
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society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > [noun] > on a large scale
sea-lift1956
society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > transport by water [verb (transitive)] > on a large scale
sea-lift1956
1956 Sun (Baltimore) 19 Dec. 2/1 The General Eltinge will sail..tomorrow with the first of 5,500 Hungarian refugees to head toward the United States by sea... The sealift complements commercial air services and the airlift inaugurated by United States military planes.
1967 Economist 4 Mar. 802/2 [The United States] has the air-lift and sea-lift capacity to be on hand whenever a power vacuum develops.
1972 S. Burnford One Woman's Arctic i. 15 It had been brought in by the annual sea-lift the year before.
1974 Greenville (S. Carolina) News 23 Apr. 14/3 The Middle East fighting proved, he says, our capacity to airlift and sealift needed munitions and equipment over long distances.
1980 N.Y. News 11 May 14/2 Officials put at 30,598 the total number of Cubans sealifted to freedom across the Florida strait.
sea-loch n. Scottish an inlet of the sea.
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the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > bend in coast > [noun] > inlet in river or sea > in sea
fleetc893
pillOE
arm of the seaOE
sounda1300
lougha1387
bracec1400
lough1423
firthc1425
loch1427
resort1477
estuarya1552
inshot1555
mere1574
portlet1577
fret1587
frith1600
sea-gate1605
creek1625
sea-lochc1645
wick1664
fjord1674
voea1688
backwater1867
strait gulf1867
ocean-arm1871
ria1887
fjard1904
geo1934
c1645 in W. Macfarlane Geogr. Coll. Scotl. (1907) II. 522 Ther is a sealoch cumeth in betwixt both the countreys of Morrour and Knodeart.
1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. (1907) II. xx. 84 Would any but a poet..have brought all the different marks and circumstances of a sea~loch before the mind, as the actions of a living and acting power?
1934 M. R. Shackleton Europe xv. 204 Other sea lochs..with lower banks have been termed ‘fjards’, such as those occurring on the southern coast of Norway.
1975 J. G. Evans Environment Early Man Brit. Isles iii. 67 The various long bays of south-west Ireland, some of which, like the sea lochs of western Scotland, have been glacially deepened as well.
sea-lock n. a lock at the marine extremity of a ship canal.
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the world > the earth > water > body of water > channel of water > [noun] > navigable waterway > canal > lock or chamber > types of lock
sidelock1761
tide-lock1808
weigh-lock1834
sea-lock1839
tail-lock1907
riser1908
1839 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 2 11/1 The difficulties experienced in building the sea lock at the eastern end of the [Caledonian] canal.
1959 Times 8 Dec. 13/6 Down at the sea-locks..the tugs would be worrying like strange small sea animals.
sea-log n. an official record of a ship's voyage (see also quot. 1867 for sea-cap n.).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > ship's papers > [noun] > logbook
traverse book1600
sea-booka1642
journal1671
logbooka1679
rough logbook1779
log1825
sea-log1853
1853 D. G. Rossetti Let. 16 Apr. (1965) I. 131 Your ‘sea-log’ gave me the greatest pleasure.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Sea-log, that part of the log-book relating to whatever happens while the ship is at sea.
sea-longing n. a yearning for the sea, sea-fever.
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society > travel > travel by water > seafaring life > [noun] > yearning for the sea
sea-fever1902
sea-longing1955
1955 J. R. R. Tolkien Return of King 149 Deep in the hearts of all my kindred lies the sea-longing.
a1973 J. R. R. Tolkien Silmarillion (1977) xxiii. 244 The sea-longing woke in his heart.
sea-lord n. a naval lord (of the Admiralty).
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society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > seafaring warrior or naval man > naval officials > [noun] > Lord of Admiralty
First Lord of the Admiralty1723
Lords (Commissioners) of the Admiralty1739
First Lord1814
sea-lord1817
1817 G. Canning in Parl. Deb. 1st Ser. 322 The Admiralty ought to be constituted partly of lay and partly of sea lords.
1872 Daily News 19 Jan. The First Sea Lord had charge of all ships in commission.
1907 Who's Who at Fisher Fisher, Admiral Sir John Arbuthnot,..2nd Sea Lord of Admiralty, 1902–3.
sea-mail n. mail conveyed by sea; a service for conveying letters, parcels, etc., by sea (not an official term); so as v. transitive (rare), to send by sea; cf. airmail n.
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society > communication > correspondence > sending items > send items [verb (transitive)] > by sea
sea-mail1951
society > communication > correspondence > letter > mail > [noun] > type of
first class1863
second class1863
local1879
third class1891
registered1914
junk mail1921
direct mail1930
mailing shot1936
V-Mail1942
sea-mail1951
hate mail1954
certified mail1955
Mailgram1969
society > communication > correspondence > postal services > [noun] > types of service > conveyance of mail by sea
ocean postage1851
sea-mail1951
1951 R. Macaulay Let. 12 Aug. in Lett. to Friend (1961) 173 I think I shall airmail this [letter]... But I really will seamail the next.
1971 New Society 14 Jan. 47/1 This [order coupon] gives inland and overseas rates (airmail and seamail).
sea marker n. a device which can be dropped from an aircraft to produce a distinctive patch on water below it.
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society > communication > indication > marking > [noun] > implement > type of
dotter?a1782
sea marker1933
1933 Gloss. Aeronaut. Terms (B.S.I.) 64 Sea marker, a device dropped from an aircraft on to water, providing a distinguishable patch for determining the drift-angle.
1944 ‘N. Shute’ Pastoral iii. 43 He began a chat with the Equipment Officer about sea-markers that did not mark.
† sea-master n. Obsolete a sailing-master.
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > sailors involved in specific duties or activities > [noun] > helmsman or pilot > sailing master
sea-master1582
sailing master1779
1582 J. Dee 1 Nov. in Private Diary (1842) 17 The same day cam Mr. Clement the seamaster.
sea-mile n. (a) a unit equal to a minute of arc of a great circle of the earth; cf. geographical mile n. at geographical adj. Compounds; (b) (in full international sea mile) = nautical mile n. at nautical adj. and n. Compounds 2
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > [noun] > units of length or distance > mile > nautical mile
geometrical1597
maritime mile1632
geometric1670
nautical mile1730
knot1748
nautic mile1762
sea-mile1796
air mile1919
1796 C. Hutton Math. & Philos. Dict. (new ed.) I. 530 Geographical Mile, which is the sea-mile or minute.
1871 R. A. Proctor Light Sci. 224 At the rate of three or four hundred sea-miles an hour.
1929 Rep. Proc. 1st Supplementary Internat. Hydrographic Conf. 217 The President suggested that the text be amended by the deletion of the word ‘called’. It would then read: ‘The length represented by 1852 times that of the international prototype of the metre shall be the international sea mile.’..(The proposal was adopted.)
sea-mine n. (see mine n. 5).
sea-mount n. a large natural elevation rising abruptly from the ocean floor, usually entirely underwater; an underwater mountain.
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the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > region of sea or ocean > [noun] > undersea mountains
sea-mountain1694
sea-mount1941
guyot1946
tablemount1952
1941 Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. 52 338 A number of remarkable submarine mountains, termed ‘seamount’ by the United States Board on Geographic Names, rise sharply to heights of 1 to more than 2 miles above the gulf floor.
1959 New Scientist 1 Jan. 14/1 The few Pacific seamounts whose summits do form islands are mostly coral atolls.
1962 New Scientist 12 Apr. 11/2 The deep flat-topped sea-mounts or guyots which are such a typical feature of the Pacific.
1977 Dædalus Summer 118 Both noticed that the magnetic field over some seamounts could be explained only if the seamount was reversely magnetized.
sea-mountain n. (a) a high wave; (b) a mountain covered or partly covered by the sea.
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the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > region of sea or ocean > [noun] > undersea mountains
sea-mountain1694
sea-mount1941
guyot1946
tablemount1952
the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > types of waves > [noun] > unusually large
sea1582
tenth wave1585
sea-mountain1694
mountain wave1696
seventh wave1759
death wave1832
fluctuosity1850
Spanish wave1852
ranger1891
1694 tr. F. Martens Voy. Spitzbergen 30 in Narbrough's Acct. Several Late Voy. The Ships do not feel these smaller Waves but only the great ones, that are called Sea-Mountains.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VI. 325 That extensive flat [sc. the sand-banks off Cape Breton] seems to be no other than the broad top of a sea-mountain,..surrounded with a deeper sea.
sea-net n. a net used in sea-fishing.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > net > [noun] > sea-net
haking1602
sea-net1851
1851 Act 14 & 15 Victoria c. 26 §6 It shall not be lawful for any Person to use for the Purpose of taking Herrings any Drag Net, or Sea Net mounted for trawling.
† sea-office n. Obsolete an office on board ship.
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > [noun] > crew > member of crew > position as
sea-office1670
site1930
1670 J. Dryden & W. Davenant Shakespeare's Tempest iii. 38 This [sc. the boatswain's whistle]..is a badge of my Sea-Office.
sea-pass n. (see quot. 1864).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > ship's papers > [noun] > sea passport
sea-brief1566
passport letter1585
passporta1587
sea-letter1653
sea-pass1864
1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Sea-pass, a document carried by neutral merchant vessels, in time of war, to show their nationality.
Sea People n. (also Sea Peoples) = Peoples of the Sea n. at people n. Phrases 1c.
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the world > people > ethnicities > ancient peoples of the Middle East and Asia Minor > peoples of the sea > [noun]
Peoples of the Sea1896
Sea People1928
1928 C. Dawson Age of Gods xv. 358 It is extremely improbable that the Sea Peoples actually penetrated into the Hittite homelands.
1957 Antiquity & Survival 2 145/1 Sisera stood at the head of the Canaanite coalition, and perhaps belonged to the Sea People who invaded Palestine in the 12th century b.c. and gained control of the sea-coast.
1978 N. K. Sandars Sea Peoples iv. 83 Wild northerners..took ship to arrive on the borders of Egypt as those mysterious ‘Sea Peoples’ who so terrified Rameses III.
sea-peril n. = sea-risk n.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > [noun] > instance or cause of > peril of the sea
sea-risk1727
sea-peril1811
1811 E. H. East Rep. Cases King's Bench (1812) XIV. 465 The ship..was run foul of by another vessel in a gale of wind, and from that and other sea perils received so much damage as to be obliged to put into Warberg Roads.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Sea-peril, synonymous with sea-risk.
sea-preacher n. ? = sea-lawyer n.
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > types of sailor > [noun] > argumentative or opinionated sailor
sea-lawyer1829
sea-preacher1855
Jack Strop1910
1855 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 25 Apr. in Eng. Notebks. (1997) I. ii. 164 The poor old fellow..seems to have been a mischief-maker—what they call a sea-preacher—promoting discontent and grumbling.
sea-price n. Nautical colloquial an inflated price.
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society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > high price or rate > [noun] > excessively
overprice1620
over-ratea1640
rack rate1655
ransom1816
sea-price1910
1910 D. W. Bone Brassbounder 64 ‘Good ol' “sea price”,’ said Martin. ‘Many an 'appy 'ome, an' garden wit' a flagstaff, is built o' “sea price”.’
1924 R. Clements Gipsy of Horn iv. 71 Sea-price is often a figure which a Maltee Jew would hesitate to ask.
1972 N. Ayland Schooner Captain xv. 134 All the bread he would let them have was a two pound loaf, for which he charged sea price.
sea-pup n. jocular a ‘young sea-dog’, a child of a sailor or fisherman.
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > types of sailor > [noun] > young or inexperienced sailor
younker1592
youngster1608
young man1612
pedee?a1800
sailor-boy1835
sailor-lad1842
sea-pup1897
1897 T. Watts-Dunton Aylwin ii. iii Associating with fisher-boys and all the shoeless, hatless ‘sea-pups’ of the sands.
sea-purple n. = purple adj. and n. Compounds 2a(a), also the dye derived from it.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > red colouring matter > [noun] > dyes and dyestuffs > crimson from murex
purple1519
sea-purple1855
murexa1897
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Siphonostomata > family Muricidae > specific species of Murex
snipe-bill1713
snipe's-head1842
thorny woodcock1842
Venus comb1842
sea-purple1855
snipe-shell1889
1855 F. A. Paley in tr. Aeschylus Agamemnon in Trag. 368/1 The shores of Laconia..produced the sea-purple (Murex trunculus) little inferior to the Tyrian.
1861 F. A. Paley in tr. Aeschylus Agamemnon in Trag. (ed. 2) 393/2 Garments of the precious sea-purple.
sea-rainbow n. = sea-bow n.
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1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Iris Iris marina, the Sea Rainbow. This elegant appearance is generally seen after a violent storm.
sea-rake n. a rake used for collecting shellfish, etc., a clam-rake.
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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > [noun] > rake > other types of rake
muckrake1366
wording hook1605
swath-rake1652
dew-rake1659
pick1777
twitch rake1798
tooth-rakec1830
pea-rake1867
buck-rake1893
sea-rake1902
1902 R. W. Chambers Maids of Paradise x. 176 Dragging a sea-rake over the ground [sc. the sand] behind her.
† sea-rat n. Obsolete a pirate.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > piracy > [noun] > pirate
sea-thiefc1050
skimmera1387
scummera1398
galliotc1425
reaver1434
piratea1475
freebooter1570
sea-rover1579
filibuster1591
water rat1600
water thief1600
picaroon1624
sea-rata1640
Algerine1657
marooner1661
rat1675
Likedeelers1764
Viking1807
sea-wolf1837
piratess1862
a1640 P. Massinger & J. Fletcher Very Woman v. i. 22 in P. Massinger 3 New Playes (1655) I'll make..you the Neptunes of the Sea, you shall No more be Sea-rats.
sea-rate n. (see quots.).
ΚΠ
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Sea-rate, the going of a chronometer as established on board, instead of that supplied from the shore [etc.].
sea reach n. (see quots.).
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1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Sea-reach, the straight course or reach of a winding river which stretches out to sea-ward.
sea-reeve n. an officer who took care of the maritime rights of the lord of the manor, and watched the shore and collected wrecks.
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society > authority > delegated authority > one having delegated or derived authority > [noun] > steward or bailiff in charge of another's property > other types of steward
multure-ward?a1300
multure grieve1301
surveyor1485
field reeve1617
sea-reeve1855
sea-grave-
1855 J. Ogilvie Suppl. Imperial Dict. Sea-reeve.
sea return n. (also sea returns) unwanted radar images due to reflection from a rough sea.
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society > communication > telecommunication > radio communications > radio equipment > [noun] > radar apparatus > marks or signals on radar screen
range mark1942
ghost1943
pip1944
range marker1944
blip1945
clutter1945
sea return1945
sea clutter1946
angel1947
1945 E. W. Cowan Sea-return Effects & their Elimination in AN/APS-6 (M.I.T. Radiation Lab. Rep. No. 707) 1 An airplane flying very close to the sea may be hidden by sea return.
1959 Listener 12 Feb. 277/1 It is almost impossible to pick up that iceberg with the radar equipment, because of what we call ‘sea return’ or ‘sea clutter’.
1966 D. Taylor Introd. Radar iii. 40 The actual performance obtained with this form of A.S.V. equipment depended on aircraft height, state of sea (because of sea returns), operator's experience, etc.
sea-risk n. ‘liability to losses by perils of the sea’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk.).
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > [noun] > instance or cause of > peril of the sea
sea-risk1727
sea-peril1811
1727 J. Arbuthnot Tables Anc. Coins 273 He charged himself with all the Sea-risque of such Vessels as carried Corn to Rome in the Winter time.
1884 G.W.R. Time Tables July 82 The Company will not be responsible for Sea risks of any kind.
sea-road n. rare a route by sea.
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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > [noun] > sailing route
seawaya1000
fairwayc1474
navigationa1544
trade way1589
roadwaya1608
ocean lane1864
sea-lane1878
sea-road1893
1893 Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 9 Nov. If fish disappeared from the sea-roads and fiords.
1906 Outlook 19 May 677/1 We hold the great sea-roads to the East.
1907 T. C. Middleton Geogr. Knowl. Discov. Amer. 25 The Vivaldi brothers of Genoa..in 1291 essayed a sea~road to India.
sea-run adj. ‘having returned to the sea after spawning, as an anadromous fish’ ( Cassell's Suppl. 1902).
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the world > animals > fish > [adjective] > having returned to sea
sea-run1885
1885 Science 22 May 424 The group [of Salvelini] includes fontinalis, known in the searun condition as immaculatus.
1896 D. S. Jordan & B. W. Evermann Fishes N. & Middle Amer. (Bull. U.S. National Mus. No. 47) i. 492 Sea-run specimens are nearly uniform silvery.
sea-runner n. ? = sea-flyer n.
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the world > animals > birds > defined by habitat > [noun] > aquatic or swimming bird > marine
sea-fowl1340
sea-bird1589
guano1697
seed bird1791
ocean fowl1864
sea-runner1872
1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 324 Petrels..are oceanic birds..; excepting the sea-runners, none of them dive.
sea-running adj. ‘anadromous; entering rivers to spawn and returning to the sea’ ( Cassell's Suppl.).
† sea-ruttier n. Obsolete = rutter n.2
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > navigational aids > [noun] > pilot book
rutter1561
sea-ruttier1599
routier1677
wagoner1687
pilot1693
portolan1717
sea-book1726
norie1827
1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 10 My Tables are not yet one quarter emptied of my notes out of their Table, which..is, as it were a Sea Rutter diligently kept amongst them from age to age.
sea scout n. a member of the (Boy) Scout movement engaged in activities pertaining to the sea and seamanship.
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society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > specific societies or organizations > [noun] > specific youth organizations > members of scouts or guides
Boy Scout1908
patrol leader1908
scout1908
scoutmaster1908
tenderfoot1908
captain1909
Girl Guide1909
Girl Scout1909
lieutenant1909
pathfinder1911
sea scout1911
rosebud1914
brownie1916
sixer1916
tenderpad1916
Brown Owl1918
rover1918
Rover Scout1918
ranger1920
tawny owl1921
Cub1922
Akela1924
scouter1930
Guider1931
den mother1936
Queen's Guide1946
Queen's Scout1952
Venture Scout1966
Beaver1975
skipper1986
1911 R. S. S. Baden-Powell Sea Scouting for Boys 8 Sea Scouts are of two kinds, viz. (1) Coastguard Scouts; (2) Seamen Scouts.
1912 C. Beresford in W. Baden-Powell Sea Scouting & Seamanship for Boys p. vi The Sea Scouts were formed as an auxiliary to..the Boy Scouts. The object of the Sea Scouts is to teach lads at or near the sea seamanship, navigation, pilotage, knotting and splicing, how to handle boats under oars and sail, [etc.].
1950 Oxf. Junior Encycl. IX. 87/1 The boy who is fond of the sea can become a Sea Scout... There are Sea Scout Troops on rivers and inland waterways as well as on the sea.
1977 Listener 24 Mar. 382/3 I was a sea scout and sailed and rowed boats.
sea-scurvy n. the form of scurvy incident of life on ship-board.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered nutrition > [noun] > vitamin deficiency > scurvy
scurviness1548
scurvy1586
scorbute1597
scorbuch1598
scorbuticism1665
scorbutica1680
sea-scurvy1748
land-scurvy1790
scorbutus1866
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. i. 110 Languishing..for the land and its vegetable productions, (an inclination constantly attending every stage of the sea-scurvy).
1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 423/2 In sea-scurvy..a similar state occurs.
sea seiche n. a seiche occurring in the open sea.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > types of waves > [noun] > high wave caused by movement of tide > of unusual height
head1570
bore1601
eagre1610
mascaret1660
sea seiche1925
1925 J. Proudman in Monthly Notices Royal Astron. Soc. (Geophysical Suppl.) I. 247 By ‘sea-seiches’ we mean those oscillations of fairly definite period but of irregular amplitude and phase which are frequently observed on the sea coast.
1967 Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. 5 42 These modes have been called sea seiches..and are basically similar to the transient oscillations or seiches set up by wind and atmospheric pressure in closed basins.
sea-sergeant n. (see quot. 1867).
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society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > specific societies or organizations > [noun] > other specific associations or organizations > members of
steward1614
Tityre1648
hougher1712
sea-sergeant1744
Molly Maguire1867
Molly1877
buff1879
woodward1886
Downsman1924
lions1949
cruelty man1954
Muslim Brother1957
1744 Gen. Evening Post No. 1670 On Saturday the 14th Day of July next will be held the Anniversary Meeting of the Society of Sea-Serjeants.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Sea-sergeants, a society of gentlemen, belonging to the four maritime counties of South Wales... It was a secret association of early date, revived in 1726, and dissolved about 1765.
sea-shoal n. (a) a shoal of fish in the sea; (b) a shoal or bank in the sea.
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the world > animals > fish > [noun] > shoal
schoolc1425
shoal1579
flote1603
sea-shoal1738
run1771
mountain1880
the world > the earth > water > body of water > [noun] > shallow place
shoal839
shoala1400
bank?1473
undeep1513
shelf1545
flat1550
vadea1552
ford1563
shallow1571
shoaling1574
ebbs1577
shelve1582
bridge1624
ballow1677
shamble1769
sharp1776
poling ground1901
sea-shoal1903
1738 G. Smith Curious Relations II. v. 8 There are a great many Sea Shoals floating about the Sea, between which the Fishermen in still Weather look out for Whales.
1903 J. Morley Life Gladstone I. iv. vii. 546 Like quicksands and sea-shoals.
† sea-shoe n. Obsolete (in phr. see quot. 1769).
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1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Transl. French Terms Avoir le pied marin, to have good sea-shoes aboard, or to walk firm in a ship like a sailor.
sea-silk n. a silky substance obtained from the sea-silk-worm.
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1902 W. I. Hannan Textile Fibres Commerce 184 Sea Silk.
Sea Sled n. (see quot. 1948) (a proprietary name in the U.S.).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > mechanically propelled vessels > [noun] > motor vessel > fast > type of
Sea Sled1916
airboat1946
1916 Rudder Apr. 175 One noticeable thing about the sea sled..is the absence of bow-wave.
1921 Chambers's Jrnl. 61/1 The United States naval authorities have lately experimented with land-aeroplanes carried on and flown from a very fast type of motor-boat. This boat, known as the ‘sea-sled’, is of unusual design. If a boat were cut in halves along the line of the keel, and the halves were placed side by side with the half-keels outermost, they would give a form of hull somewhat resembling the sea-sled.
1923 Glasgow Herald 4 May 9/1 Motor boats of the ‘sea sled’ type.
1948 R. de Kerchove Internat. Maritime Dict. 639/2 Sea sled, a type of construction adopted for small craft of high speed in which the ordinary V bottom is inverted in order to collect a layer of air under the bows of the boat.
1957 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) tm–10/2 Norman A. McDonald, Skokie, Ill. Filed Jan. 24, 1957. Sea Sled..For Boats. First used Mar. 15, 1953.
sea-slope n. a slope facing the sea.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > slope > [noun] > other
sea-slope1838
face1857
rand1939
powder slope1972
1838 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 136/2 The Plymouth Breakwater..has a sea-slope of about one in five.
1883 Fortn. Rev. Feb. 277 The sea-slope of the mountains.
sea-sorrow n. archaic a catastrophe or cause of trouble at sea.
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the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [noun] > misfortune or ill-luck > instance of misfortune or ill-luck > at sea
sea-sorrowa1616
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. ii. 171 Sit still, and heare the last of our sea-sorrow . View more context for this quotation
sea-speed n. the ordinary speed of a vessel when at sea, as distinguished from full speed.
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society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [noun] > speed in specific manner or conditions
surface speed1859
sea-speed1887
stern speed1904
hump speed1915
1887 W. H. White Mod. War Ships 94 The ‘sea-speeds’ of all war-ships are always estimated on different assumptions.
1908 Westm. Gaz. 27 Apr. 10/2 The sea-speed aimed at in the contract will be about 16½ knots.
sea-stack n. = stack n. 7.
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the world > the earth > land > land mass > reef > stack > [noun]
carrc950
stack1769
stag1776
stalk1806
sea-stack1899
1899 Geogr. Jrnl. Mar. 288 The isolated rock-masses and sea-stacks, which we are enabled to trace by means of the soundings.
1973 C. Bonington Next Horizon xxi. 292 A sea-stack on the north coast of Scotland.
sea-state n. the degree of turbulence at sea, esp. as measured according to a scale of average wave height.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > state of sea > [noun]
seac1000
sea-state1967
1963 Meteorol. Gloss. (Meteorol. Office) (ed. 4) 222 The degree of sea disturbance is reported in a ‘state of sea’ code in which the scale number increases from 0 to 9 according to the average wave height.]
1967 Jane's Surface Skimmer Syst. 1967–8 85/1 The journey has been covered successfully in Sea States 2–4, with wave heights up to 5 ft 0 in (1·5 m).
1977 Offshore Engineer Apr. 74/1 The calculator multiplies measured value of the load by a factor determined by sea-state, and compares result with safe-load for the particular crane luff angle specified in manufacturer's table.
sea-stick n. a herring cured at sea.
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > cured fish > salted or pickled fish
pickle-herring1463
round shore-herring1469
split herring1469
white herring1469
white-salted herring1469
ling fish1489
pickled herring?1577
mudfish1600
old ling1600
sea-stick1604
cor1624
crux-herrings1641
red fish1728
dunfish1746
sea steak1798
caveach1822
fair maid1823
dun codfish1839
crape-fish1856
black herring1883
rollmop1892
schmaltz herring1912
stink-fish1913
stinking fish1935
Spithead pheasant1948
1604 Rates Marchandizes sig. K1 Herrings..Shotten vnpacked or seasticks the Last cont. xviii. barrels iiii. l.
1641 S. Smith Herring-bvsse Trade 7 The sea-sticks are all the Fishing season as they come from the sea..repact on shore.
1813 Q. Rev. 9 291 All the Herrings caught and packed to be bought by Government at 25/ a barrel of sea-sticks.
sea-stroke n. the stroke of a heavy wave.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > movement of waves > [noun] > breaking or dashing > the stroke of a heavy wave
sea-stroke1856
1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits ii. 33 Chances of squall, collision, sea-stroke, piracy, cold, and thunder.
sea-tan n. tan produced by exposure to sea-air.
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the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > tan > [noun]
tanning1598
sunburntness1692
tawn1744
tan1749
sunniness1753
suntan1809
tannage1845
snow-tan1901
sea-tan1902
perma-tan1984
1902 R. W. Chambers Maids of Paradise x. 176 She was a lithe creature..with the sea-tan on throat and knee.
sea-tath n. (see tath n. 3).
sea-time n. (a) time spent at sea in service; (b) the way of reckoning time at sea; (c) the duration of a journey at sea.
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the world > time > [noun] > stretch, period, or portion of time > spell of some action > specific activities
gradation1613
standing1653
sea-time1663
travel time1851
alert1920
block time1930
screen time1991
society > travel > travel by water > seafaring life > [noun] > service at sea > time spent in
sea-time1663
the world > time > reckoning of time > [noun] > at sea
sea-time1793
1663 S. Pepys Diary 7 Jan. (1971) IV. 7 Comanders did never heretofore receive any pay for the Rigging-time but only for Sea time.
1793 J. Rennell in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 83 193 I have, through~out, reckoned according to sea time; that is, the day commences at noon.
1899 Mahan in Eng. Hist. Rev. July 483 The date of this Opinion is misleading to-day, because it uses the now obsolete sea-time.
1930 Times 26 Mar. 17/4 Her sea-time beat the Bremen's best..by eighteen minutes.
1933 J. Masefield Bird of Dawning 16 I wished to get sea-time, sir, so as to be able to pass for master.
1977 Navy News Aug. 22 (advt.) Service includes normal roster sea-time in Leander and Type 12 frigates and small ships.
sea-toss n. colloquial ‘a toss overboard into the sea’ ( Cent. Dict.).
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1847 H. Melville Omoo xxiv. 92 ‘Give him a sea~toss!’ ‘Overboard with him!’
sea-train n. (a) a ship used for the transportation of railway cars; (b) a group of ships carrying supplies or equipment.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > trading vessel > cargo vessel > [noun] > convoy of
sea-train1933
1933 National Geographic Mag. May 581/1 Freight-car contents are transferred here into the holds of liners, and recently a terminal was established which places loaded cars themselves within huge vessels called ‘seatrains’.
1942 W. S. Churchill Second World War (1951) IV. i. xxii. 349 These equipments will sail for Suez..in two sea-trains taken from the Havana sugar traffic, doing 15 and 13 knots respectively.
1947 Sun (Baltimore) 14 July 7/3 The ships which..should be started this year..are..two for Alaskan trade specifically, two sea trains and two ‘mystery’.
sea-transom n. ‘that which is bolted to the counter-timbers, above the upper, at the height of the port-sills’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk.).
sea-trap n. a trap in the sea for catching fish, etc.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > fish-trap > [noun] > other traps
ark-net1613
hawk1669
paidle1824
sea-trap1876
kelong1878
1876 S. Smiles Life Sc. Naturalist xiv. 280 He usually visited his sea-traps once a month.
† sea-trod adj. Obsolete sea-faring.
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society > travel > travel by water > seafaring life > [adjective] > seafaring
seafaringc1200
sea-trod?1624
navigantc1680
seagoing1855
?1624 G. Chapman tr. Hymn to Apollo in tr. Crowne Homers Wks. 43 The Light himselfe..made the Sea-trod ship [τοντοπόρος νηῦς] ariue them nere The Grapefull Crissa.
sea-turn n. (a) a gale or breeze (usually accompanied by mist, etc.) from the sea; (b) ‘a tack into the offing’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk.).
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > wind with reference to direction > wind blowing from the sea
sea-wind1604
sea-turn1627
out-wind1676
tropaean winds1686
sea-breeze1697
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. x. 46 All the night it [sc. the breeze] is from the shore which is called a Turnado, or a Sea-turne.
1792 J. Belknap Hist. New-Hampsh. III. 23 Sometimes the extreme heat of several days, produces, in the maritime parts, a sea turn, and in the inland parts, a whirlwind.
1883 W. D. Howells Woman's Reason (new ed.) I. 97 A dull chilly morning when the sea-turn was beginning to break in a thin, chilly rain.
sea-valve n. ‘any one of several valves in the bottom or side of a steamship communicating with the sea below the water-line’ ( Cent. Dict.).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > valve or sea-cock
Kingston1837
sea-cock1855
sea-valve1895
1895 R. Kipling in Bombay Gaz. 6 Dec. 5/5 A sea-valve that communicated directly with the water outside.
1915 G. K. Chesterton Poems 16 On them the sea-valves cluster and the grey sea-forests curl.
† sea-wake n. Obsolete the duty of watching the sea.
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > watching or keeping guard > [noun] > as a watchman or sentinel > watch or guard on the shore
sea-wake1201
1201 Rot. Chart. (1837) 89/1 Quieta de schiris et hundredis..de sewake, castelwerke, taillagio, cornagio, et de omni thelonio.
† sea-warth n. Obsolete the sea-shore.
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the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > seashore or coast > [noun]
sea-warthc888
sea-rimOE
sea-strandc1000
sandc1275
rive1296
bankc1350
sea-banka1375
sea-coasta1400
coastc1400
warthc1450
ripec1475
landsidec1515
seashore1526
banksidec1540
brinish brink1594
shorea1616
ore1652
outland1698
sea beach1742
table-shore1849
playa1898
treaty coast1899
treaty shore1901
beach1903
c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. xxxii. §3 Be sæwaroðe.
c1450 Mirk's Festial 7 As he walket on þe see-warth, he segh a drownet man cast vp on þe watyr.
† sea-watch n. Obsolete (a) a chronometer; (b) (see quot. 1769).
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > [noun] > chronometer
longitude1665
longitude watch1670
chronometer1714
sea-watch1768
watch1778
box chronometer1789
oligochronometer1857
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > navigational aids > [noun] > chronometer
chronometer1714
sea-watch1768
1768 Ann. Reg. 1767 i. 141/1 Two time-pieces or sea-watches.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Transl. French Terms at Bordée Faire la grande Bordée, to set a watch of half the ship's crew, when in any dangerous road, usually called the sea-watch.
sea-wax n. = maltha n. 2.
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the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > hydrocarbon minerals > [noun] > waxes
mountain tar1798
maltha1807
sea-wax1807
ozokerite1834
mineral wax1838
bog-butter1863
wax1866
petrostearin1879
impsonite1901
1807 T. Thomson Syst. Chem. (ed. 3) II. 455 Sea wax, or maltha, is a solid substance found on the Baikal lake in Siberia.
1855 in Ogilvie's Suppl.
sea-wise adj. versed in the ways of the sea; also absol. as n.
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > types of sailor > [adjective] > skilled in seafaring
sea-crafty1838
salty1920
sea-wise1934
1934 Sun (Baltimore) 17 Sept. 12/1 The sea-wise reason that in a strong breeze and an attendant unruly sea that elongated prow will come down and pound against the chop or plunge into a heavy swell.
1966 T. H. Raddall Hangman's Beach i. ii. 29 The sea~wise folk of Halifax awaited word from Europe.
sea-wit n. a naval jester or wit; also, nautical wit or facetiousness.
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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > [noun] > particular kinds of wit
bavin wits1598
Attic salt1633
water-wit1658
Latin-wit1670
sheer wit1672
sea-wit1695
razor wit1786
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > [noun] > witty person > types of
pot wit1611
vernaculous1623
coffee-wit1667
sea-wit1695
1695 W. Congreve Love for Love iii. i. 42 I swear, Mr. Benjamin is the verriest Wag in nature; an absolute Sea-wit.
1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 98 He and his Brother Jacks lye pelting each other with Sea-Wit.
1728 Kiss my A––– is no Treason 15 In this Instance his absoluteSea-Wit seems to come somewhat short of the Mark.
sea-woman n. (a) a mermaid; (b) a female sailor; a woman working at sea.
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the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > hybrid creature or monster > [noun] > human hybrid > mermaid or merman > mermaid
nicker1340
mermaidc1350
mermaiden1397
sea-maid1600
sea-woman1608
merwoman1811
merrymaid1865
Mammy Water1966
society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > [noun] > female
sailoress1890
sea-woman1939
1608 E. Grimeston tr. J. F. Le Petit Gen. Hist. Netherlands ii. 116 A Sea-woman swimming in the Zuyderzee.
1901 Westm. Gaz. 22 Aug. 2/3 The green weed shone as silken as a sea-woman's hair.
1939 Sun (Baltimore) 1 July 20/2 Twenty-three seawomen sailed into Baltimore harbor yesterday afternoon aboard the ship William J. Stanford.
1963 Punch 21 Aug. 288/3 The endless queue of frustrated seawomen.
sea-work n. a work or construction in the sea; also naval work or work on a ship or in service.
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society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > naval service > [noun]
sea-work1528
sea-service1610
society > travel > travel by water > seafaring life > [noun] > business or work of a sailor
sea-work1528
seafaring1586
sailoring1864
sailorizing1876
society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > [noun] > building of structures in the sea
sea-work1528
1528 Lett. & Papers Henry VIII IV. ii. 2228 The ordinary reparations of the town sluices, see works [etc.].
1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) xiii. f. 172 I Was giuen too seawoorkes, and in them mee only did apply.
1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! xxix He never saw sea-work to my remembrance. Never saw a shot fired by sea, except ours at Smerwick.
1897 River & Coast 29 May 12/2 Mr. Gibson well-known in connection with sea-work, including bridges, screw-pile piers, jetties, &c.
† sea-yoke n. Obsolete a combination of pulleys and ropes for working the helm in stormy weather.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > steering equipment > [noun] > helm > steering yoke or quadrant
sea-yoke1704
quadrant1779
yoke1792
1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Sea-Yoke.
b. In the names of marine mammalia.
† sea-boar n. Obsolete some kind of large cetacean.
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the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > [noun] > unspecified and miscellaneous types of
huddon?c1370
whirlpoolc1450
thirlepollc1460
physeter1581
whirl-about1605
whirl-whale1606
thurlhead1610
black whale1615
blackfish1688
bonefish1752
pollack1774
Algerine1849
sea-boar1859
oil-butt1937
1859 Frank Leslie's New Family Mag. 4 547 Keeping for awhile among the cetacea,..the female sea-boar is like lamb, and its cub the very counterpart of roast pig.
sea-canary n. a sailor's name for the white whale or beluga, Delphinapterus leucas, of the dolphin family (see quot. 1879).
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the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > suborder Odontoceti > [noun] > family Monodontidae > genus Delphinapterus (white whale)
beluga1605
white whale1635
whitefish1792
porpoise1841
sea-canary1879
1879 E. P. Wright Animal Life 130 When under water, they [dolphins] emit a peculiar whistling sound,..and on this account the seamen often call them sea-canaries.
sea-goose n. ‘a dolphin, so called from the shape of the snout’ ( Cent. Dict. 1891).
sea-leopard n. a name for various seals of the antarctic and southern seas, esp. of the genus Ogmorhinus (formerly Stenorhynchus).
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Pinnipedia (seal, sea lion, or walrus) > [noun] > family Phocidae > genus Hydrurga (leopard-seal)
sea-leopard1664
leopard-seal1894
sea leopard-
1664 R. Hubert Catal. Rarities (1665) 14 A Sea-Leopard.
1825 J. Weddell Voy. S. Pole 22 Having seen some sea-leopards on shore, I sent the second mate to take them... This creature resembles the quadruped of the same name in being spotted.
1891 W. H. Flower & R. Lydekker Introd. Study Mammals 605 One species, Ogmorhinus leptonyx, the Sea-Leopard, widely distributed in the Antarctic and southern temperate seas.
sea-monk n. ‘the monk-seal’ ( Cent. Dict.).
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1672 J. Josselyn New-Englands Rarities 32 Sea Vnicorn or Sea Mononeros.
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† sea-monoceros n. Obsolete = sea-unicorn n. 1.
sea-morse n. the morse or walrus, also attributive.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Pinnipedia (seal, sea lion, or walrus) > [noun] > family Odobenidae (walrus)
morse1482
seahorse?a1500
rosmarine1590
horse-whale1598
sea-elephant1601
sea-ox1613
sea-morse1631
sea-cow1668
walrus1728
walrus calf1896
1631 J. Rous Diary (1856) 64 A Sea-morce as big as an oxe.
1635 Rates Merchandizes sig. E7 Seamorse teeth the pound.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Sea-morse-teeth, a name for the canines or tusks of the hippopotamus.
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sea-pellock n. dialect the porpoise ( Eng. Dial. Dict.).
sea-pig n. (a) a marine mammal; esp. a porpoise or dolphin; (b) the tunny.
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the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > [noun] > member of
whalec893
cetec1220
blubber-fish1756
sea-pig1826
cetacean1835
the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > suborder Odontoceti > [noun] > family Phocaenidae (porpoise)
swineeOE
mereswineeOE
pellock1331
sea-swine1398
porpoisea1425
brownswinec1440
bassinatc1540
pollantine1558
sea-hog1580
hogfish1611
tursion1655
tumbler1694
sea-pig1826
snuffer1829
puffing pig1845
puff-pig1861
puffer1884
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Pinnipedia (seal, sea lion, or walrus) > [noun] > family Phocidae > seal
sealc893
sea-seala1398
seal-fishc1420
sea-veal1576
phoca1594
sea tun1601
sea-calf1616
rubb1694
swile1802
tang-fish1809
sea-pig1826
earless seal1833
phocacean1842
phocid1871
floe-flat1883
phocine1890
1826 M. R. Mitford Our Village (1863) II. 387 Driving about an unhappy porpoise in a wheel~barrow, and showing it at two-pence a head, under the name of a sea pig.
1879 E. P. Wright Animal Life 130 [Dolphins] are sometimes also called ‘sea-pigs’.
sea-seal n. the seal.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Pinnipedia (seal, sea lion, or walrus) > [noun] > family Phocidae > seal
sealc893
sea-seala1398
seal-fishc1420
sea-veal1576
phoca1594
sea tun1601
sea-calf1616
rubb1694
swile1802
tang-fish1809
sea-pig1826
earless seal1833
phocacean1842
phocid1871
floe-flat1883
phocine1890
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. xcii. 1243 A certeyn kynde of salamandra haþ rowȝ skynne and hery as the skynne of þe see sele.
1851 Zoologist 9 3298 The common sea-seal or elephant is very numerous on our coast [California].
† sea-veal n. Obsolete = sea-calf n.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Pinnipedia (seal, sea lion, or walrus) > [noun] > family Phocidae > seal
sealc893
sea-seala1398
seal-fishc1420
sea-veal1576
phoca1594
sea tun1601
sea-calf1616
rubb1694
swile1802
tang-fish1809
sea-pig1826
earless seal1833
phocacean1842
phocid1871
floe-flat1883
phocine1890
1576 A. Fleming tr. J. Caius Of Eng. Dogges 19 The sea Calfe..other more largely name a Sea Vele.
c. In names of birds:
sea-brant n. (a) U.S. the white-winged scoter, Œdemia deglandi; (b) ‘the brant- or brent-goose’ ( Cent. Dict. 1891).
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1888 G. Trumbull Names & Portraits Birds 99 Sea Brant.
sea-bumblebee n. = sea-dove n. ( Cent. Dict. 1891).
sea-coot n. †(a) the cormorant; (b) the guillemot (see coot n.1 1); (c) a scoter of the genus Œdemia (Cent. Dict.); (d) the American coot (see coot n.1 2).
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the world > animals > birds > order Pelecaniformes > [noun] > family Phalacrocoracidae > member of (cormorant)
cormorantc1320
plungeon1480
gormaw?a1513
scart1513
sea-coot1575
sea-crow1579
scrath16..
sea-raven1611
sea-drake1632
storta1661
scarf1668
diver1766
Isle of Wight parson1806
1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 137 The flesh of the Bitter, and Sea Coote is good.
sea-coulter n. the puffin, Fratercula arctica.
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Alcidae (auks) > [noun] > fratercula arctica (puffin)
scout1596
willock1606
bottlenose1620
parrot1664
sea-parrot1664
guldenhead1676
coulterneb1678
mullet1678
puffin1678
cockandy1684
sea-coulter1684
bowger1698
norie1701
tammie norie1701
popea1705
lunda1744
rock-bird1765
puffin-auk1768
tommy noddy1769
Tomnoddy1771
Tommya1777
Tomnorry1793
Tommy1828
sea-owl1842
1684 R. Sibbald Scotl. Illustr. ii. iii. 22 Avis Marina Sea-Coulter dicta.
sea-dotterel n. the turnstone, Strepsilas interpres; also a local name for the ring-plover.
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > arenaria interpres (turnstone)
sea-lark1602
turnstone1674
sea-dotterel1676
stone-pecker1731
whale-bird1771
bullfinch plover1864
tangle-picker1882
turkey-bird1885
jinny1888
sparked back (plover)1888
1676 F. Willughby & J. Ray Ornithologiæ 231 Morinellus marinus... The Turnstone or Sea-Dotterel.
1805 G. Barry Hist. Orkney iii. i. 300 The Turnstone or Sea Dotterel (charadrius morinellus, Lin. Syst.).
sea-dove n. the little auk, Mergulus alle.
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Alcidae (auks) > [noun] > alle alle (little auk)
ice bird1620
rotge1694
rotche1806
rotchie1806
sea-dove1826
king-auk1851
dovekie1917
1826 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. XIII. i. 34 (Mergulus melanoleucos)... Sea-dove.
1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! xxvii Or if I was a say-dove, to fly unto the shoor.
sea-drake n. a cormorant or sea-crow; also U.S., the male eider-duck.
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the world > animals > birds > order Pelecaniformes > [noun] > family Phalacrocoracidae > member of (cormorant)
cormorantc1320
plungeon1480
gormaw?a1513
scart1513
sea-coot1575
sea-crow1579
scrath16..
sea-raven1611
sea-drake1632
storta1661
scarf1668
diver1766
Isle of Wight parson1806
1632 R. Sherwood Dict. in R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues (new ed.) Sea-drake, sea-raven, or sea-cormorant, diable de mer.
1861 Coues in Proc. Philad. Acad. 240 They are..known as ‘Sea-ducks’, the males being..distinguished as ‘Sea-drakes’.
sea-goose n. U.S. a phalarope (see quot. 1861).
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1861 Coues in Proc. Philad. Acad. 229 The [Phalaropus]fulicarius and hyperboreus are both known by the..inappropriate, though curious name of ‘Sea-geese’.
sea-kittie n. a dialect name for the kittiwake, also for any seagull.
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1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 206 Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla)... Sea kittie (Norfolk; Suffolk).
sea-magpie n. = sea-pie n.1
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > haematopus ostralegus (oystercatcher)
olive1541
sea-pie1552
sea piet1710
oystercatcher1731
pianet1802
sea-magpie1805
shalder1828
musselcracker1845
oyster-bird1877
mussel pecker1885
mussel-picker1889
oyster-plover1890
sea-pilot1891
1805 Sporting Mag. 25 226 Sea-magpye.
† sea-moit n. [French mouette] Obsolete a seagull.
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Laridae (gulls and terns) > [noun] > member of genus Larus (gull) > larus canus (common gull)
meweOE
larea1425
sea-mawc1425
seamewc1430
mow1440
maw?a1513
sea-cob1530
camose1542
seagull1542
cob1574
mevy1616
sea-pigeon1620
tarrock1674
sea-mall1676
sea-moit1681
gor1697
seed bird1791
1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. §iv. iv. 77 The Egg of the Sea-Moit.
† sea peacock n. Obsolete rare an African crane, Balearica pavonina, which has a tuft of straw-coloured bristle-like feathers on the crown of the head, and nests in swampy ground.
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the world > animals > birds > order Gruiformes > [noun] > family Gruidae (cranes) > genus Balearica or crowned crane
Balearic crane1661
sea peacock1774
mahem1826
Kavirondo crane1928
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth V. 388 Some have described them [sc. the Balearic cranes] by the name of the sea-peacock.
sea-piet n. = sea-pie n.1
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1710 R. Sibbald Hist. Fife & Kinross ii. iii. 46 Hæmatopus Bellonii, the Sea-Piot.
1880 W. Black White Wings xx There is no screaming sea-pyot to give warning.
sea-pilot n. = sea-pie n.1
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > haematopus ostralegus (oystercatcher)
olive1541
sea-pie1552
sea piet1710
oystercatcher1731
pianet1802
sea-magpie1805
shalder1828
musselcracker1845
oyster-bird1877
mussel pecker1885
mussel-picker1889
oyster-plover1890
sea-pilot1891
1891 Cent. Dict. Sea-pilot.
sea plover n. the grey plover, Pluvialis squatarola (Swainson).
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > family Charadriidae > genus Pluvialis > pluvialis squatarola (grey plover)
sea plover1634
whistling plover1668
strand plover1772
squatarole1819
whistling field bird1819
grey plover1838
whistling field plover1872
Swiss plover1874
pilot1880
1634 Althorp MS in J. N. Simpkinson Washingtons (1860) App. p. xxiii For a sea plover 00 01 00.
1682 A. Mudie Pres. State Scotl. i. 12 Sea-plover, Pewits, Woodcoks [etc.].
sea-quail n. U.S. the sea-dotterel or turnstone.
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1888 G. Trumbull Names & Portraits Birds 186 Sea Quail.
sea-skimmer n. a skimmer, a bird of the genus Rhynchops.
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > member of genus Rhynchops
skimmer1785
sea-skimmer1839
1839 Penny Cycl. XIII. 333/1 Brisson placed in his twenty-third order..the Gulls,..Terns, Sea-skimmer or Rhyncopsalia.
sea-titling n. the rock-pipit.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Motacillidae > genus Anthus > anthus spinoletta (water-pipit)
sea-lark1602
rock-lark1771
rock pipit1830
water pipit1831
shore pipit1837
sea-titling1872
tang-sparrow1880
1872 R. G. Latham Dict. Eng. Lang. Sea-titling.
† sea turtle-dove n. Obsolete = sea-turtle n.1
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Alcidae (auks) > [noun] > cepphus grylle (black guillemot)
sea-pigeon1620
sea turtle-dove1676
Greenland-dove1678
Greenland dove1678
sea-turtle1678
diving-pigeon1694
pigeon diver1694
scraber1698
puffineta1705
Greenland turtle?1787
tinkershere1799
dovekie1819
1676 F. Willughby & J. Ray Ornithologiæ 245 Columba Groenlandica dicta. The Greenland-Dove or Sea-Turtle~Dove.
sea-whaup n. Scottish a species of seagull.
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1822 H. Ainslie Pilgrimage to Land of Burns 208 The sea whaups cry As they rise frae the whitening roar.
sea-widgeon n. (a) ‘the pintail duck’; (b) ‘the scaup-duck’ ( Funk's Stand. Dict.).
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the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > member of genus Anas (miscellaneous) > anas acuta (pintail)
sea-widgeon1624
pintail1674
sea pheasant1674
cracker1678
sprigtail1768
winter duck1775
sprig1844
pin-tailed duck1851
pigtailed winder1864
ladybird1885
smeath1888
smee1888
1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia v. 171 Coots and Red-shankes, Sea-wigions, Gray-bitterns [etc.].
sea-woodcock n. (a) some West Indian bird; (b) applied in dialect to various birds, e.g. the bar-tailed godwit, Limosa lapponica, the oystercatcher or sea-pie n.1, and the little grebe, Trachybaptes fluviatilis.
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the world > animals > birds > unspecified and miscellaneous birds > [noun] > unspecified > aquatic or shore
calmewec1430
dicken1579
gravell1618
gravelin1621
sea-woodcock1666
pilot bird1678
pink1694
Poor John1775
fraik1812
bay-snipe1856
wing-wader1867
bay-bird1889
1666 J. Davies tr. C. de Rochefort Hist. Caribby-Islands 106 There is another kind of Becunes, by some called Sea-Wood-Cocks from the figure of the Beak.
a1682 Sir T. Browne Acct. Fishes Norfolk in Wks. (1835) IV. 329 A scolopax or sea woodcock of Rondeletius.
1887 A. C. Smith Birds Wilts. 423 In consequence of their great length of beak, they [sc. the bar-tailed godwits] are often called ‘Sea Woodcocks’.
d. In the names of fishes, jellyfishes, molluscs, shells, etc.See also sea grasshopper n. at grasshopper n. 4, sea cockroach n. at cockroach n. 1b.
sea-acorn n. (see acorn n. 3); also sea-acorn shell.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Mollusca > [noun] > miscellaneous types > other types of mollusc
squame1393
shell-worm1591
spout-fish1594
pentadactyl1601
sea cucumber1601
pirot1611
worm1621
nun-fish1661
scarlet mussel1672
sea-navel1678
redcap?1711
strawberry cockle1713
sea-finger1748
sea-nail1748
sea-acorn1755
coneya1757
compass1776
bubble shell1818
glass-shell1851
golden comb1857
cryptodont1893
nuculoid1960
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Entomostraca > order Cirripedia > suborder Thoracica > member of family Balanidae
balanus1728
acorn1737
sea-acorn1755
acorn shell1763
whale-acorn-shell1815
acorn barnacle1835
balanid1835
balanoid1869
1755 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 33/2 Sea Acorns, Balani.
1879 E. P. Wright Animal Life 531 The Sea Acorn Shells.
sea-anemone n. (see anemone n. 2).
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Anthozoa Actinozoa > order Zoantharia > compound organism > member of
sea-anemone1742
pettifogger1938
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Anthozoa Actinozoa > order Zoantharia > suborder Actiniaria > member of
sea-nettle1601
red nettle1611
sea-spout1731
anemone1742
sea-anemone1742
sea-mushroom1742
sea-pudding1750
actinia1752
sea-carnation1768
sea star-flower1768
sea-sunflower1768
sea-daisya1776
sea-marigolda1776
sea-torchthistlea1776
insect-flower1791
sea-flower1850
aurora1858
actiniarian1874
actinian1876
1742 H. Baker Microscope made Easy ii. v. 99 The Sea-Mushroom.., some Naturalists have called it the Sea-Anemone.
1855 P. H. Gosse Man. Marine Zool. I. 16 The extensive group known popularly as Sea-anemones or Animal-flowers, from the blossom-like appearance of their expanded disks and tentacles, and their gorgeous colours.
1881 H. N. Moseley in Nature 31 Mar. 515/1 The mouth of the sea-anemony.
sea-angel n. the angel-fish.
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the world > animals > fish > subclass Elasmobranchii > order Pleurotremata > [noun] > angel-fish or monk-fish
monkfish1582
sea-monk1611
sea-devil1634
kingston1666
angelfish1668
skate1668
piper1673
mermaid fish1738
fiddle-fish1748
fiddler1750
monk1756
angel shark1776
shark-ray1836
puppy-fish1880
squat1884
sea-angel1891
1891 Cent. Dict. Sea-angel.
1896 J. W. Kirkaldy & E. C. Pollard tr. J. E. V. Boas Text Bk. Zool. 384 There are Sharks (Squatina, the Sea-angel), which are somewhat flattened.
sea-arrow n. (a) a mollusc of the genus Ommastrephes; (b) a member of the Sagittidæ.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Chaetognatha > [noun] > member of family Sagittidae
sea-arrow1851
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Cephalopoda > [noun] > order Dibranchiata > section Decapoda > family Teuthidae > member of (squid)
calamary1567
sea-cat1601
sleeve1611
sleeve-fish1611
squid1613
calaminary1620
sea-clerk1623
sotong1833
pen-fish1835
sea-arrow1851
devil fish1866
sea-sleeve1867
oegopsid1890
chokka1902
1851 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca i. 73 The sailors call them ‘sea-arrows’ or ‘flying squids’, from their habit of leaping out of the water.
1854 A. Adams et al. Man. Nat. Hist. 142 Sea-Arrows (Sagittidæ).
sea-attorney n. ‘the ordinary brown and rapacious shark’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 1867).
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the world > animals > fish > subclass Elasmobranchii > order Pleurotremata > [noun] > miscellaneous types of
tiburon1555
dog1673
picked dog1673
picked dogfish1740
tiger-shark1787
piked dogfish1805
ground-shark1834
sea-attorney1849
gazer1861
shovel head1881
puff shark1902
spur-dog1921
whaler shark1937
megamouth1977
1849 H. Melville Mardi I. 55 There is the ordinary Brown Shark, or sea-attorney, so called by sailors.
1854 Putnam's Monthly Mag. Apr. 362/2 The dippers dip carefully, lest they get a stroke from the ray..or a rip from his cousin the ‘sea-attorney’.
sea-barrel n. an ascidian of the class Tunicata.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > division Molluscoidea > [noun] > division Tunicata > class Ascidiacea > member of
ascidian1835
sea-squirt1850
sea-barrel1876
sea-sac1876
squirt1891
1876 E. R. Lankester tr. E. Haeckel Hist. Creation II. 150 Sea-sacs, Tunicata, Sea-squirts, Sea-barrels.
sea-barrow n. the egg-case of the skate.
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the world > animals > fish > subclass Elasmobranchii > order Hypotremata > [noun] > family Rajidae > member of genus Raia (skate) > part
mermaid's purse1700
sea-pincushion1799
skate-rumple1823
sea purse1836
skate-barrow1851
sea-barrow1860
mermaid's-egg1890
1860 J. E. Worcester Dict. Eng. Lang. (citing Gentl. Mag.) Sea-barrow.
sea-basket n. a basket-fish or gorgon's head.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [noun] > subphylum Eleutherozoa > class Ophiuroidea > order Euryalae > member of
net-fish1670
Medusa's head1754
sea-basket1865
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [noun] > subphylum Eleutherozoa > class Ophiuroidea > order Euryalae > family Astrophytidae > member of genus Astrophyton
net-fish1670
basket-fish1753
Medusa's head1754
sea-basket1865
1865 T. R. Jones Anim. Creation 65 The Sea-baskets (Gorgonocephalus).
† sea-beard n. Obsolete a sertularian coral (see quot. 1755).
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Hydrozoa > order Campanulariae > member of family Sertulariidae
sea-fir1633
shrub coral1681
coralline1721
coralloid1750
sea-coralline1753
herringbone coralline1755
sea-beard1755
tree-coral1871
1755 J. Ellis Ess. Nat. Hist. Corallines 15 Lobster's horn Coralline, or Sea-beard.
sea-biscuit n. = sand dollar n. at sand n.2 Compounds 2b.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [noun] > subphylum Eleutherozoa > class Echinoidea > order Clypeastroidea > member of
sand dollar1884
sea-biscuit1949
pansy1954
1949 G. E. MacGinitie & N. MacGinitie Nat. Hist. Marine Animals xxvi. 236 The sand dollars, sea biscuits, or cake urchins..resemble very much flattened sea urchins.
1972 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 12 Mar. 16/4 White people call them [sc. sea urchins] sea-biscuits or sand-dollars.
† sea-bleb n. Obsolete = sea-blubber n. 2.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Acalepha > member of (jelly-fish)
nettle1601
sea-nettle1601
blubber1602
nettlefish1611
red nettle1611
squalder1659
sea-jellya1682
urticaa1682
carvel1688
sea-qualm1694
sea-bleb1700
acaleph1706
sea-blubber1717
Medusa1752
quarla1820
acalephan1834
medusite1838
jellyfish1841
naked-eyed medusa1848
slobber1849
sea-cross1850
sea-danger1850
sun squall1853
discophore1856
medusoid1856
starch1860
Discophoran1876
jelly1882
sea-blub1885
1700 C. Leigh Nat. Hist. Lancs. i. 133 We have frequently cast upon the sea-shore the Sea-Blebs, the whole substance of which seems to be nothing but a perfect Gelly.
† sea-blewling n. [compare German bläuling pilchard] Obsolete some bluish fish.
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the world > animals > fish > unspecified types > [noun]
whalec950
tumbrelc1300
sprout1340
squame1393
codmop1466
whitefish1482
lineshark?a1500
salen1508
glaucus1509
bretcock1522
warcodling1525
razor1530
bassinatc1540
goldeney1542
smy1552
maiden1555
grail1587
whiting1587
needle1589
pintle-fish1591
goldfish1598
puffin fish1598
quap1598
stork1600
black-tail1601
ellops1601
fork-fish1601
sea-grape1601
sea-lizard1601
sea-raven1601
barne1602
plosher1602
whale-mouse1607
bowman1610
catfish1620
hog1620
kettle-fish1630
sharpa1636
carda1641
housewifea1641
roucotea1641
ox-fisha1642
sea-serpent1646
croaker1651
alderling1655
butkin1655
shamefish1655
yard1655
sea-dart1664
sea-pelican1664
Negro1666
sea-parrot1666
sea-blewling1668
sea-stickling1668
skull-fish1668
whale's guide1668
sennet1671
barracuda1678
skate-bread1681
tuck-fish1681
swallowtail1683
piaba1686
pit-fish1686
sand-creeper1686
horned hog1702
soldier1704
sea-crowa1717
bran1720
grunter1726
calcops1727
bennet1731
bonefish1734
Negro fish1735
isinglass-fish1740
orb1740
gollin1747
smelt1776
night-walker1777
water monarch1785
hardhead1792
macaw-fish1792
yellowback1796
sea-raven1797
blueback1812
stumpnose1831
flat1847
butterfish1849
croppie1856
gubbahawn1857
silt1863
silt-snapper1863
mullet-head1866
sailor1883
hogback1893
skipper1898
stocker1904
1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 135 Glaucus Bellonii... Idem forte, quem piscatores nostri Sea-Blewling vocant.
sea-blub n. = sea-blubber n. 2.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Acalepha > member of (jelly-fish)
nettle1601
sea-nettle1601
blubber1602
nettlefish1611
red nettle1611
squalder1659
sea-jellya1682
urticaa1682
carvel1688
sea-qualm1694
sea-bleb1700
acaleph1706
sea-blubber1717
Medusa1752
quarla1820
acalephan1834
medusite1838
jellyfish1841
naked-eyed medusa1848
slobber1849
sea-cross1850
sea-danger1850
sun squall1853
discophore1856
medusoid1856
starch1860
Discophoran1876
jelly1882
sea-blub1885
1885 Riverside Nat. Hist. (1888) I. 89 Those called the Discophora, ‘sea-nettles’, ‘sea-blubs’, or jelly-fishes.
sea-bread n. = sea-cracker n.
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1888 A. Heilprin Animal Life Sea-shore v. 115 The ‘sea-bread’ or ‘sea-crackers’, rounded yellowish masses..are also skeletal parts of sponges.
sea-bristle n. a sertularian polyp, Plumularia setosa.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Hydrozoa > order Campanulariae > member of family Sertulariidae > polyp
sea-insect1664
sea-bristle1755
sea-cypress1755
sea-hair1755
sea-oak coralline1755
sea-tamarisk1755
sea-oak sertularia1813
sea-wreath1860
1755 J. Ellis Ess. Nat. Hist. Corallines 19 Sea-Bristles.
1843 Zoologist 1 209 Sea-bristles (Plumularia setacea).
sea-bug n. †(a) a triton shell; (b) (see quot. 1884).
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Opisthobranchiata > suborder Nudibranchiata > family Tritonidae or genus Triton > member of
sea-bug1601
sea-trumpet1668
trumpet1668
trumpet-shell1753
Triton1777
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Mollusca > [noun] > amphineura or chitons
chiton1815
sea-caterpillara1843
sea-woodlouse1863
mail-shell1867
sea-boat1884
sea-bug1884
Amphineura1889
1601 R. Dolman tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. III. 290 The Triton, (otherwise called the sea Bugge).
1884 E. Ingersoll in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 701 These [Chiton] shells have been called by different names,..such as..‘Sea-bug’, and ‘Sea-caterpillar’.
sea-bun n. the heart-urchin.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [noun] > subphylum Eleutherozoa > class Echinoidea > order Spatangoidea > member of genus Spatangus
mermaid's head1662
heart urchin1830
sea-bun1882
1882 Cassell's Nat. Hist. VI. 270 Spatangus (Heart-urchin or Sea-bun).
sea butterfly n. a mollusc of the sub-class Pteropoda.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Mollusca > [noun] > class Pteropoda > member of
sea-wing1681
pteropod1833
wing-shell1835
butterfly snail1876
pteropodan1890
sea butterfly1909
1883 Science 1 508/1 The winged..mollusks..known to the Neapolitan fishermen as farfalle di mare, or sea-butterflies.]
1909 E. Shackleton Heart of Antarctic II. 266 A few sea-butterflies (Pteropods) of large size and red colour.
1932 L. A. Borradaile & F. A. Potts Invertebrata 494 The Pteropoda (sea butterflies)..are modified for pelagic life.
1972 M. S. Gardiner Biol. Invertebr. v. 161/1 Planktonic ‘pteropods’..or ‘sea butterflies’.
† sea-button n. Obsolete a sea urchin (cf. button-fish n. at button n. Compounds 2a.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [noun] > subphylum Eleutherozoa > class Echinoidea > member of (sea-urchin)
echinusc1374
urchin fish1566
ruffe1591
sea-hedgehog1598
urchin1601
sea urchin1605
sea-bear1611
sea-chestnut1613
sea-thistle1661
sea-apple1666
sea-egg1666
button-fish1668
sea-button1668
urchin-worm1668
whore's egg1674
sea-shilling1713
echinite1750
echinid1835
pancake1843
echinoid1864
oursin1914
kina1960
1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 183 Echinus Minimus..the Sea-Button.
sea-cactus n. a holothurian of the family Thyonidæ.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [noun] > subphylum Eleutherozoa > class Holothurioidea > order Actinopoda > member of family Thyonidae
sea-cactus1854
1854 A. Adams et al. Man. Nat. Hist. 330 Sea-Cactuses (Thyonidæ).
sea-cap n. ‘a basket-shaped sponge which sometimes attains great size, found in Florida’ ( Cent. Dict.).
† sea-capon n. Obsolete (see quot.).
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Pleuronectiformes (flat-fish) > [noun] > family Soleidae (soles) > member of genus Solea > solea solea (sole)
buttc1300
sole1347
sole-fish1538
sea partridge1584
sea-capon1620
sole-fluke1684
yellowfin sole1949
1620 T. Venner Via Recta iv. 75 The Sole,..For whitenes [etc.]..far excelleth all other Sea fish, and therefore may well be termed the Sea Capon.
1672 J. Josselyn New-Englands Rarities 30 Soles, or Tonguefish, or Sea Capon, or Sea Partridge.
sea-carnation n. a kind of sea-anemone.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Anthozoa Actinozoa > order Zoantharia > suborder Actiniaria > member of
sea-nettle1601
red nettle1611
sea-spout1731
anemone1742
sea-anemone1742
sea-mushroom1742
sea-pudding1750
actinia1752
sea-carnation1768
sea star-flower1768
sea-sunflower1768
sea-daisya1776
sea-marigolda1776
sea-torchthistlea1776
insect-flower1791
sea-flower1850
aurora1858
actiniarian1874
actinian1876
1768 J. Ellis in Philos. Trans. 1767 (Royal Soc.) 57 436 The Actinia dianthus or Sea carnation.
sea-caterpillar n. (a) a marine worm of the genus Polynoë; (b) a chiton shell.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Mollusca > [noun] > amphineura or chitons
chiton1815
sea-caterpillara1843
sea-woodlouse1863
mail-shell1867
sea-boat1884
sea-bug1884
Amphineura1889
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Annelida > [noun] > class Chaetopoda > order Polychaeta > suborder Nereidiformia > family Aphroditidae > member of genus Polynoe
sea-caterpillara1843
scolopendrine scale-back1882
polynoid1889
a1843 R. Southey Common-place Bk. (1851) 4th Ser. 401/2 Herrings [feed] on an insect called the sea caterpillar.
1869 W. S. Dallas tr. F. Müller Facts & Arguments for Darwin 111 The Sea Caterpillars (Polynoë) at first possess only a few body-segments.
1884 [see sea-bug n.].
sea-catfish n. a name for various marine siluroid fishes.
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Siluriformes (catfish) > [noun] > unspecified and miscellaneous member of
sea-cat1601
gaff-topsail1794
mudpout1804
mudcat1819
blue cat1826
channel cat-fish1838
channel cat1847
sea-catfish1882
goujon1883
scorpion fish1883
bashaw1888
ground spearing1896
1882 D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert Synopsis Fishes N. Amer. 110 Arius felis... Sea Cat-fish.
1882 D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert Synopsis Fishes N. Amer. 111 Ælurichthys marinus... Sea Cat-fish.
sea-centipede n. (a) a large marine errant annelid; (b) an isopod of the family Idoteidæ.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Annelida > [noun] > class Chaetopoda > order Polychaeta > suborder Nereidiformia > member of family Nereidae
sea-forty-legs1750
Nereid1774
nereidean1835
palolo1847
sea-centipede1858
nereidian1860
ragworm1865
rag1881
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Arthostraca > order Isopoda > family Idoteidae > member of
sea-centipede1858
1858 W. Baird Cycl. Nat. Sci. at Aunelida To this order [Dorsibranchiata] belong the sea centipedes or Nereidæ.
1858 W. Baird Cycl. Nat. Sci. at Isopoda The sea centipedes, Idotea.
† sea-chameleon n. Obsolete the bleak n.
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > superorder Ostariophysi or order Cypriniformes > [noun] > suborder Cyprinoidei > family Cyprinidae (minnows and carps) > genus Leuciscus > leuciscus alburnus (bleak)
blayc1000
bleak1496
bleise1598
river swallow1601
sea-chameleon1661
tailor1676
ablet1775
alburn1912
1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 187 They are called Sea Chameleons also.
1672 J. Josselyn New-Englands Rarities 24 Sea Bleak or Bley, or Sea Camelion.
sea-chestnut n. a sea urchin.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [noun] > subphylum Eleutherozoa > class Echinoidea > member of (sea-urchin)
echinusc1374
urchin fish1566
ruffe1591
sea-hedgehog1598
urchin1601
sea urchin1605
sea-bear1611
sea-chestnut1613
sea-thistle1661
sea-apple1666
sea-egg1666
button-fish1668
sea-button1668
urchin-worm1668
whore's egg1674
sea-shilling1713
echinite1750
echinid1835
pancake1843
echinoid1864
oursin1914
kina1960
1613 M. Ridley Short Treat. Magneticall Bodies Pref. sig. a2 The sea-Lampron or Remora, that is thought to stay a ship vnder saile.
† sea-chough n. Obsolete ? = sea-crow n.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > family Corvidae (crow) > [noun] > genus Pyrrhocorax > species graculus (chough)
cowec1230
Cornish crow1552
chough1553
sea-crow1579
killigrew1668
sea-chough1672
Cornish jay1750
red-legged crow1776
red-legged chough1831
1672 J. Josselyn New-Englands Rarities 24 Sea Chough.
† sea-chub n. Obsolete (see quot. 1668).
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > superorder Ostariophysi or order Cypriniformes > [noun] > suborder Cyprinoidei > family Cyprinidae (minnows and carps) > cyprinus cephalus (chub)
chevinc1450
chub1496
chavender?a1500
pollard1585
botlinga1609
guff1655
sea-chub1668
poll1755
skelly1769
fallfisha1811
big-head1820
1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 151 Capito..the Sea-Chub, or Pollard.
sea-clam n. one of several species of clam found on the Atlantic coast of North America esp. the surf clam, Spisula solidissima; cf. hen clam n.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > bivalves > of particular type > other types
heart1750
sea-clam1765
Mactra1777
terebellum1851
red nose1856
red nose1864
taxodont1896
Pismo clam1911
pectinoid1952
1765 J. Bartram Diary 29 July in Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. (1942) 33 16/2 There is many clam shels of different sises..ye very same with our sea clams.
1782 J. H. St. J. de Crèvecoeur Lett. from Amer. Farmer iv. 135 The shores of this island [sc. Nantucket] abound with the soft-shelled, the hard-shelled, and the great sea clams.
a1862 H. D. Thoreau Cape Cod (1865) v. 78 The sea-clam, or hen, was not easily obtained.
1935 J. C. Lincoln Cape Cod Yesterdays 49 Along the outer bar, almost two miles from shore..were the large ‘sea clams’.
1960 J. J. Rowlands Spindrift 83 Sea clams are from four to six inches long and about four inches wide.
sea-clerk n. the calamary.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Cephalopoda > [noun] > order Dibranchiata > section Decapoda > family Teuthidae > member of (squid)
calamary1567
sea-cat1601
sleeve1611
sleeve-fish1611
squid1613
calaminary1620
sea-clerk1623
sotong1833
pen-fish1835
sea-arrow1851
devil fish1866
sea-sleeve1867
oegopsid1890
chokka1902
1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. iii Calæmarie, a fish called the Sea Clarke, hauing as it were a knife and a pen.
1896 J. W. Kirkaldy & E. C. Pollard tr. J. E. V. Boas Text Bk. Zool. 323 The Sea-clerk (Loligo vulgaris).
† sea-coralline n. Obsolete a coralline or coral.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Anthozoa Actinozoa > member of
coral1579
animal flower1750
sea-coralline1753
coralline1779
flower-animals1840
corallum1846
anthozoon1849
actinozoon1864
anthozoan1865
actinozoan1876
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Hydrozoa > order Campanulariae > member of family Sertulariidae
sea-fir1633
shrub coral1681
coralline1721
coralloid1750
sea-coralline1753
herringbone coralline1755
sea-beard1755
tree-coral1871
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Corallina The small, fir-like, sea-coralline.
sea-corn n. U.S. the string of egg-capsules of the whelk.
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1885 Riverside Nat. Hist. (1888) I. 333 Presenting an appearance well-described by the name ‘sea-corn’ applied to them by the New England fishermen.
1891 Cent. Dict. Sea-corn... Also sea-ear, sea-ruffle, sea-honeycomb, sea-necklace, etc.
sea-cracker n. (see quot.).
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Parazoa > phylum Porifera > [noun] > member of > parts of > skeletal parts
sea-bread1834
sea-cracker1888
1888 A. Heilprin Animal Life Sea-shore v. 115 The ‘sea-bread’ or ‘sea-crackers’, rounded yellowish masses..are also skeletal parts of sponges.
sea-crawfish n.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Thoracostraca > order Decapoda > suborder Macrura > member of family Palinuridae
sea-crayfish1601
long oyster1622
red crab1674
crevis fish1688
sea-crawfish1694
crayfish1748
spring lobster1789
Cape lobster1793
rock lobster1810
spiny lobster1819
langouste1832
thorny lobster1833
crayfish1853
kreef1863
langosta1924
1694 tr. F. Martens Voy. Spitzbergen 113 in Narbrough's Acct. Several Late Voy. The sea Crawfish without a Tail, or Sea Spider.
1856 Eng. Cycl., Nat. Hist. IV. 174 The Palinuri or Sea-Crawfish, as they are popularly called, have the body nearly cylindrical.
sea-crayfish n. †(a) (see crayfish n. 2); (b) a crustacean of the genus Palinurus (= crayfish n. 3b).
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Pycnogonida or Pantopoda > [noun] > member of (sea-spider)
sea-crayfish1601
water-softling1656
pycnogonoid1852
pycnogon1853
pycnogonid1869
sea spider1873
nobody-crab1876
pantopod1887
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Thoracostraca > order Decapoda > suborder Macrura > member of family Palinuridae
sea-crayfish1601
long oyster1622
red crab1674
crevis fish1688
sea-crawfish1694
crayfish1748
spring lobster1789
Cape lobster1793
rock lobster1810
spiny lobster1819
langouste1832
thorny lobster1833
crayfish1853
kreef1863
langosta1924
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxxii. xi. 451 The sea Craifish Cammarus.
sea-cross n. a jellyfish.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Acalepha > member of (jelly-fish)
nettle1601
sea-nettle1601
blubber1602
nettlefish1611
red nettle1611
squalder1659
sea-jellya1682
urticaa1682
carvel1688
sea-qualm1694
sea-bleb1700
acaleph1706
sea-blubber1717
Medusa1752
quarla1820
acalephan1834
medusite1838
jellyfish1841
naked-eyed medusa1848
slobber1849
sea-cross1850
sea-danger1850
sun squall1853
discophore1856
medusoid1856
starch1860
Discophoran1876
jelly1882
sea-blub1885
1850 A. Pratt Chapters Common Things Sea-side v. 326 Our common species [of jelly-fish] are termed Sea-blubbers, Sea-dangers, Falling stars, or Sea-crosses.
† sea-cup n. Obsolete a polyp (see quot. 1755).
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Anthozoa Actinozoa > order Alcyonaria > genus Alcyonium > member of > polyp
sea-cup1755
sea-fig1755
1755 J. Ellis Ess. Nat. Hist. Corallines 87 Alcyonium, seu Cyathus marinus. Sea Cup.
sea-cut n. the cuttlefish or calamary.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Cephalopoda > [noun] > order Dibranchiata > section Decapoda > family Sepiadae > member of
cuttlec1000
seggec1300
polypus?1527
scuttle1530
sepia1569
cuttlefish1591
inkhorn fish1598
ozaena1601
sea-cat1601
sea-cut1601
sound1611
scribe1655
sea-qualm1804
sepiacean1842
sepioid1857
sea-sleeve1867
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. ix. xv. 244 Good store of Sea-cuts or Calamaries.
† sea-cypress n. Obsolete a sertularian polyp.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Hydrozoa > order Campanulariae > member of family Sertulariidae > polyp
sea-insect1664
sea-bristle1755
sea-cypress1755
sea-hair1755
sea-oak coralline1755
sea-tamarisk1755
sea-oak sertularia1813
sea-wreath1860
1755 J. Ellis Ess. Nat. Hist. Corallines 7 Sea-Cypress.
a1776 J. Ellis Nat. Hist. Zoophytes (1786) 38 Sertularia cupressina. Sea Cypress.
sea-dace n. the sea-perch or bass.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Labrioidei (wrasse) > [noun] > family Labridae > genus Labrax > member of (sea-perch)
sea-perch1601
labrax1603
sea-dace1668
labroid1826
1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 143 Apua..the Spirling, Smy, or Sea-Dace.
1863 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. (new ed.) III. 231 The..Basse, or Sea-Dace, or Sea-Perch.
sea-danger n. a jellyfish.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Acalepha > member of (jelly-fish)
nettle1601
sea-nettle1601
blubber1602
nettlefish1611
red nettle1611
squalder1659
sea-jellya1682
urticaa1682
carvel1688
sea-qualm1694
sea-bleb1700
acaleph1706
sea-blubber1717
Medusa1752
quarla1820
acalephan1834
medusite1838
jellyfish1841
naked-eyed medusa1848
slobber1849
sea-cross1850
sea-danger1850
sun squall1853
discophore1856
medusoid1856
starch1860
Discophoran1876
jelly1882
sea-blub1885
1850 A. Pratt Chapters Common Things Sea-side v. 326 Our common species [of jelly-fish] are termed Sea-blubbers, Sea-dangers, Falling stars, or Sea-crosses.
† sea-dart n. Obsolete (see quots. and dart n. 5).
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the world > animals > fish > unspecified types > [noun]
whalec950
tumbrelc1300
sprout1340
squame1393
codmop1466
whitefish1482
lineshark?a1500
salen1508
glaucus1509
bretcock1522
warcodling1525
razor1530
bassinatc1540
goldeney1542
smy1552
maiden1555
grail1587
whiting1587
needle1589
pintle-fish1591
goldfish1598
puffin fish1598
quap1598
stork1600
black-tail1601
ellops1601
fork-fish1601
sea-grape1601
sea-lizard1601
sea-raven1601
barne1602
plosher1602
whale-mouse1607
bowman1610
catfish1620
hog1620
kettle-fish1630
sharpa1636
carda1641
housewifea1641
roucotea1641
ox-fisha1642
sea-serpent1646
croaker1651
alderling1655
butkin1655
shamefish1655
yard1655
sea-dart1664
sea-pelican1664
Negro1666
sea-parrot1666
sea-blewling1668
sea-stickling1668
skull-fish1668
whale's guide1668
sennet1671
barracuda1678
skate-bread1681
tuck-fish1681
swallowtail1683
piaba1686
pit-fish1686
sand-creeper1686
horned hog1702
soldier1704
sea-crowa1717
bran1720
grunter1726
calcops1727
bennet1731
bonefish1734
Negro fish1735
isinglass-fish1740
orb1740
gollin1747
smelt1776
night-walker1777
water monarch1785
hardhead1792
macaw-fish1792
yellowback1796
sea-raven1797
blueback1812
stumpnose1831
flat1847
butterfish1849
croppie1856
gubbahawn1857
silt1863
silt-snapper1863
mullet-head1866
sailor1883
hogback1893
skipper1898
stocker1904
1664 R. Hubert Catal. Rarities (1665) 17 A long narrow fish called the Sea-Pelican for the form of its head, also it is called the Sea-Dart.
sea-date n.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > [noun] > invertebrate > unspecified
pepper worm1688
pipeweed1755
sea-date1797
1797 T. Holcroft tr. F. L. Stolberg Trav. (ed. 2) III. lxv. 23 A kind of sea insect..called..Sea-date.
sea date-shell n. (see quots. and date-shell n. at date n.1 Compounds 2).
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Asiphonida > family Mytilidae > genus Lithodomus > member of
date-shell1606
date fish1829
sea date-shell1858
1858 W. Baird Cycl. Nat. Sci. at Lithodomus It [the bivalve L. lithophagus].. is generally known by the name of the ‘sea date shell’.
† sea dog-fish n. Obsolete the sea-fox n. or sea-ape n.
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the world > animals > fish > subclass Elasmobranchii > order Pleurotremata > [noun] > member of family Alopiidae (sea-ape)
sea-fox1605
thresher1605
sea-ape1607
sea ape1607
sea dog-fish1611
thrasher1638
thrasher fish1658
long-tailed shark1776
thresher fish1817
fox-shark1828
swingle-tail1839
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Peis espase, the sea Fox, or sea Dog-fish.
† sea-emperor n. Obsolete a swordfish.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Scombroidei (mackerel) > [noun] > family Xiphiidae (swordfish) > xiphias gladius (swordfish)
swordfishc1400
gladius?1527
xiph1572
monoceros1590
xiphias1590
sea-emperor1672
rapier-fish1681
xiphiad1859
1672 J. Josselyn New-Englands Rarities 25 Sea Emperour or Sword Fish.
† sea-fig n. Obsolete a polyp (see quot. 1755).
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Anthozoa Actinozoa > order Alcyonaria > genus Alcyonium > member of > polyp
sea-cup1755
sea-fig1755
1755 J. Ellis Ess. Nat. Hist. Corallines 82 Alcyonium pulmonis instar lobatum... Sea Fig.
sea-finger n. (see quots.).
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Mollusca > [noun] > miscellaneous types > other types of mollusc
squame1393
shell-worm1591
spout-fish1594
pentadactyl1601
sea cucumber1601
pirot1611
worm1621
nun-fish1661
scarlet mussel1672
sea-navel1678
redcap?1711
strawberry cockle1713
sea-finger1748
sea-nail1748
sea-acorn1755
coneya1757
compass1776
bubble shell1818
glass-shell1851
golden comb1857
cryptodont1893
nuculoid1960
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Anthozoa Actinozoa > order Alcyonaria > genus Alcyonium > member of
sea-foam1725
dead man's hand1755
dead man's toes1755
mermaid's glove1793
alcyonian1844
alcyonoid1857
dead man's finger1860
alcyonarian1861
dead man's thumb1863
sea-finger1876
1748 tr. Vegetius Of Distempers Horses 42 Those small Shell Fishes they call Sea-nails or Sea-fingers.
1876 S. Smiles Life Sc. Naturalist xvi. 329 ‘Dead-men's paps, sea-fingers, etc.’ (Alcyonium digitatum).
sea-fir n. a sertularian polyp or coral.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Hydrozoa > order Campanulariae > member of family Sertulariidae
sea-fir1633
shrub coral1681
coralline1721
coralloid1750
sea-coralline1753
herringbone coralline1755
sea-beard1755
tree-coral1871
1633 T. Johnson Gerard's Herball (new ed.) iii. 1574 Abies marina Belgica, Clus. Clusius his Sea Firr.
1755 J. Ellis Ess. Nat. Hist. Corallines 4 Corallina marina Abietis forma... Sea-Fir.
a1776 J. Ellis Nat. Hist. Zoophytes (1786) 36 Sertularia abietina, Sea Fir Coralline.
1870 H. A. Nicholson Man. Zool. (1875) vii. 90 The Sea-firs (Sertularida).
sea-flea n. the sand-flea or sand-hopper.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Siphonaptera or fleas > [noun] > member of genus Orchestia
sea-flea1658
sand-hopper1790
sand-skipper1871
sand-jumper1900
1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 1127 The Sea-fleas are larger... It shewes a wonderful deal of agility when men strive to catch it.
† sea-forty-legs n. Obsolete = sea-centipede n.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Annelida > [noun] > class Chaetopoda > order Polychaeta > suborder Nereidiformia > member of family Nereidae
sea-forty-legs1750
Nereid1774
nereidean1835
palolo1847
sea-centipede1858
nereidian1860
ragworm1865
rag1881
1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados 259 The Sea-Forty-Legs.
sea-frog n. = angler n.2 3.
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > superorder Paracanthopterygii > order Lophiiformes (anglers) > [noun] > family Lophiidae > lophius piscatorius (angler)
frogfish1598
frog1601
sea-fisher1601
sea-frog1601
friar1603
toad-fish1612
catfish1620
sea-angler1653
devil fish1666
monkfish1666
nass-fish1666
angler1776
pocket-fish1796
kettle-mawa1798
wide-gab1807
anglerfish1854
round robin1880
dragon-
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxxii. v. 434 The decoction of sea-frogs sodden in wine and vinegre.
1854 C. D. Badham Prose Halieutics 251 A sea-frog as prepared by the Neapolitan boatmen for a show.
† sea-galliwasp n. Obsolete a Jamaican name for Elops saurus.
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > subdivision Teleostei > [noun] > order Elopiformes > member of family Elopidae (ten-pounder)
ten-pounder1699
sea-galliwaspa1705
seine-fish1725
saury1771
mackerel pike1890
ladyfish1971
a1705 J. Ray Synopsis Avium & Piscium (1713) ii. 159 Saurus maximus non maculatus; The Sean fish or Sea Galley Wasp.
† sea-gar n. Obsolete a crustacean (see quot. 1674).
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > member of
shellfishc888
sea-gar1674
gill-breather1828
crustacean1834
sea-insect1860
1674 J. Ray Catal. Fishes 105 Shell-Fish. Crustaceous. Long Oyster, Sea-gar, Red Crab: Locusta marina.
sea-gherkin n. one of several small holothurians, akin to the sea-cucumber.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [noun] > subphylum Eleutherozoa > class Holothurioidea > member of (sea-cucumber)
quab1617
sea-pudding1750
sea-orange1753
Priapus1765
holothuria1792
sea cucumber1841
sea-gherkin1841
holothurian1842
sea-melon1854
nigger1855
slug1855
holothurioid1859
sea-quince1861
holothurid1877
red fish1880
pumpkin1897
1841 E. Forbes Hist. Brit. Starfishes 229 The animals to which we have applied the name of Sea-Girkins.
sea-ginger n. (see quot. 1884).
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Hydrozoa > order Hydrocorallinae > member of > member of family Milleporidae > millepora alcicornis (sea-ginger)
sea-ginger1884
1884 R. Rathbun in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 841 The so-called Finger Coral or Sea Ginger (Millepora alcicornis), the latter common name having reference to the smarting sensation which it imparts to the skin, on handling.
sea-gudgeon n. (see gudgeon n.1 1b).
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > [noun] > suborder Gobioidei > family Gobiidae > member of (goby)
gull1495
gudgeon1584
quab1598
quabling1617
goby1769
gobioid1845
sea-gudgeon1864
gobiid1883
oysterfish1903
sand goby1911
1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xix. 180 Two Sea Gudgins called Paganelli..which our Western fisher-men call by the name of Sea-cobs.
1864 W. S. Symonds Old Bones (ed. 2) 122 The Sea Gudgeon, or common goby of the aquavivarium.
sea-hag n. the hag-fish.
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the world > animals > fish > superclass Agnatha > [noun] > suborder Myxinoidei or genus Myxine > member of (hagfish)
hag1777
hagfish1799
myxinoid1846
slime-eel1860
sea-hag1881
borer1884
1881 Encycl. Brit. XII. 645/1 The skeleton of the Cyclostomata (or Marsipobranchii) (lampreys and sea-hags).
sea-hair n. a sertularian polyp.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Hydrozoa > order Campanulariae > member of family Sertulariidae > polyp
sea-insect1664
sea-bristle1755
sea-cypress1755
sea-hair1755
sea-oak coralline1755
sea-tamarisk1755
sea-oak sertularia1813
sea-wreath1860
1755 J. Ellis Ess. Nat. Hist. Corallines 8 Corallus muscosa denticulata procumbens [etc.]. Sea-Hair.
a1776 J. Ellis Nat. Hist. Zoophytes (1786) 39 Sertularia operculata. Sea-Hair Coralline.
† sea-hare-fish n. Obsolete the sea-hare n. ( Aplysia).
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Opisthobranchiata > suborder Tectibranchiata > order Inferobranchiata > member of family Aplysidae
sea-hare1593
hare1601
sea-hare-fish1607
pissabed1759
sea-cat1759
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 27 Against the venom of a sea-Hare-fish.
† sea hog-louse n. Obsolete a sea-slater.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Arthostraca > order Isopoda > member of family Lygdidae
sea-shears1664
sea hog-louse1702
sea-slater1850
sea-woodlouse1863
1702 J. Petiver Gazophylacii I. 3 Asellus marinus, e nigro luteoque striatus. Sea-Hog-louse.
sea-honey-comb n. (see sea-corn n. above).
sea-insect n. †(a) a coral-polyp (or ‘-insect’); (b) a crustacean.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Hydrozoa > order Campanulariae > member of family Sertulariidae > polyp
sea-insect1664
sea-bristle1755
sea-cypress1755
sea-hair1755
sea-oak coralline1755
sea-tamarisk1755
sea-oak sertularia1813
sea-wreath1860
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > member of
shellfishc888
sea-gar1674
gill-breather1828
crustacean1834
sea-insect1860
1664 R. Hubert Catal. Rarities (1665) 27 A Sea insect called the Sea Shears.
1755 J. Ellis Ess. Nat. Hist. Corallines 73 On which different species of Sea Insects build their calcarious Nests.
1860 F. C. L. Wraxall Life in Sea iii. 68 The hopping sea-insects and molluscs.
sea-jelly n. a jellyfish.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Acalepha > member of (jelly-fish)
nettle1601
sea-nettle1601
blubber1602
nettlefish1611
red nettle1611
squalder1659
sea-jellya1682
urticaa1682
carvel1688
sea-qualm1694
sea-bleb1700
acaleph1706
sea-blubber1717
Medusa1752
quarla1820
acalephan1834
medusite1838
jellyfish1841
naked-eyed medusa1848
slobber1849
sea-cross1850
sea-danger1850
sun squall1853
discophore1856
medusoid1856
starch1860
Discophoran1876
jelly1882
sea-blub1885
a1682 Sir T. Browne Acct. Fishes Norfolk in Wks. (1835) IV. 333 Squalders, or sea-jellies.
1717 T. Robinson in Philos. Trans. 1714–16 (Royal Soc.) 29 478 The Urtica Marina (called Sea Gelly or Blubber).
1864 R. Browning Death in Desert 152 I seemed left alone Like a sea-jelly weak on Patmos strand.
† sea-kite n. Obsolete a kind of flying-fish.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Atheriniformes > [noun] > member of family Exocoetidae (flying fish)
flying fish?c1510
rearmouse1598
sea-swallow1598
sea-kite1601
swallow-fish1601
sea-bat1611
swallow1668
sea-hawka1717
wing-fish1855
the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Scorpaeniformes (scorpion-fish) > [noun] > member of Dactylopteridae (flying gurnards)
flying fish?c1510
sea-swallow1598
sea-kite1601
swallow-fish1601
sea-bat1611
swallow1668
sea-hawka1717
batfish1848
wing-fish1855
flying gurnard1882
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. ix. xxvi. 249 The sea Kite.
1672 J. Josselyn New-Englands Rarities 27 Sea Kite or Flying Swallow.
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† sea-lampern n. Obsolete = sea-lamprey n. (a).
sea-lamprey n. †(a) = remora n. 1; (b) a marine lamprey, Petromyzon marinus.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Percoidei > [noun] > family Echeneidae (remoras) > member of (remora)
echeneis1481
remora1533
stay-ship1567
suck-stone1602
stop-ship1605
sea-lamprey1616
ship-halter1668
sucking-fish1697
sucker1753
suck-fish1753
shark-sucker1850
ship-holder1860
fisher-fish1867
sucker-fish1867
sea-lampern-
the world > animals > fish > superclass Agnatha > [noun] > suborder Petromyzontoidei or genus Petromyzon > member of (lamprey) > marine
sea-lamprey1879
1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Sealamprie, a fish called by some Remora.
a1627 T. Middleton Witch (1945) i. ii. 411 A Remora? what's that? Hec. A litle Suck-stone some call it a Sea-lamprey [printed Sta-lamprey], a small ffish.
1879 E. P. Wright Animal Life 467 The Sea Lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) is widely dispersed in the seas of Europe, North America, and West Africa.
sea-leech n. a marine annelid of the genus Pontobdella.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Annelida > [noun] > class Hirudinea > member of genus Pontobdella
sea-leecha1682
skate-suckera1832
skate-leech1882
a1682 Sir T. Browne Acct. Fishes Norfolk in Wks. (1835) IV. 334 Hirudines marini, or sea-leeches.
1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados 258 The Sea-Leech. The common People call this the Sea, or the Black-pudding. However, I shall call it, the Sea-leech.
1839 Penny Cycl. XIII. 382/2 The sea-leech is distinctly mentioned by Belon, Rondelet, [etc.].
sea-lemon n. (a) a nudibranchiate gastropod of the family Dorididæ; (b) Australian ‘a holothurian of the genus Cuvieria; sea-orange’ ( Funk's Stand. Dict.).
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Opisthobranchiata > suborder Nudibranchiata > member of family Dorididae
sea-lemonc1790
c1790 Encycl. Brit. VI. 91/2 The argo, or lemon doris,..called about Brighthelmstone the sea-lemon.
1858 W. Baird Cycl. Nat. Sci. Doris, the Sea Lemons.
1890 A. Conan Doyle Capt. Polestar 13 Numerous small medusæ and sea-lemons.
sea-lily n. a crinoid.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [noun] > division Pelmatozoa > class Crinoidea > member of
crinoidean1835
crinoid1836
sea-lily1876
1876 E. R. Lankester tr. E. Haeckel Hist. Creation II. 166 Sea Lilies. Crinoida.
† sea-liver n. Obsolete (see quots.).
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Sparidae (sea-breams) > [noun] > member of (sea-bream)
baleenc1185
sea-bream1530
old wife1585
pargo1589
ruffle1601
sargon1601
sargus1605
sea-liver1611
ruffe1647
silver-fish1703
porgy1725
brassem1731
red gilt-head1776
sparoid1842
panga1902
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Foye marin, the sea Liuer; a kind of Breame~like fish, that is but seldome seene.
sea-locust n. [Latin locusta] archaic a lobster.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Thoracostraca > order Decapoda > suborder Macrura > member of genus Homarus (lobster)
lobstera1000
sea lion1601
locusta1664
sea-locust1672
fiery-tangs1813
chicken lobster1871
homarine1880
1672 J. Josselyn New-Englands Rarities 27 Sea Locusts.
1853 C. Kingsley Hypatia I. x. 209 The strange crabs and sea-locusts which crawled up and down the face of the masonry.
sea long-worm n. a nemertean worm of the family Lineidæ and genus Lineus.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Platyhelminthes > [noun] > class Nemertea > member of family Lineidae
sea long-worm1813
1813 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. (ed. 4) III. 405 The sea long-worm.
sea mantis n. the mantis-shrimp.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Thoracostraca > order Stomatopoda > member of family Squillidae
squilla1658
sea grasshopper1668
squill-fish1681
squill1710
sea mantis1835
squillian1842
mantis crab1850
locust shrimp1867
mantis shrimp1871
mantid1941
1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals II. 58 The Stomapods..are called Sea Mantises.
sea-marigold n. a kind of sea-anemone.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Anthozoa Actinozoa > order Zoantharia > suborder Actiniaria > member of
sea-nettle1601
red nettle1611
sea-spout1731
anemone1742
sea-anemone1742
sea-mushroom1742
sea-pudding1750
actinia1752
sea-carnation1768
sea star-flower1768
sea-sunflower1768
sea-daisya1776
sea-marigolda1776
sea-torchthistlea1776
insect-flower1791
sea-flower1850
aurora1858
actiniarian1874
actinian1876
a1776 J. Ellis Nat. Hist. Zoophytes (1786) 7 Actinia Calendula. Sea Marigold.
1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. III. 514 The Sea-Marigold.
sea-mat n. a polyzoan of the family Flustridæ and genus Flustra.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Polyzoa > [noun] > class Ectoprocta > order Gymnolaemata > suborder Chilostomata > member of family Flustridae
sea-mata1776
sea-moss1885
a1776 J. Ellis Nat. Hist. Zoophytes (1786) 10 Flustra. The Sea Matt.
a1776 J. Ellis Nat. Hist. Zoophytes (1786) 11 Flustra truncata. Square-top'd Sea Matt.
1863 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. (new ed.) III. 449 Flustra denticulata (Toothed Sea Mat).
sea-mat acorn-shell n. (see quot. 1819).
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Entomostraca > order Cirripedia > suborder Thoracica > member of family Lepadidae
sea-mat acorn-shell1819
1819 W. Turton Conchol. Dict. 76 Lepas Alcyonii. Sea-mat Acorn-shell.
sea-melon n. a holothurian of the family Pentactidæ.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [noun] > subphylum Eleutherozoa > class Holothurioidea > member of (sea-cucumber)
quab1617
sea-pudding1750
sea-orange1753
Priapus1765
holothuria1792
sea cucumber1841
sea-gherkin1841
holothurian1842
sea-melon1854
nigger1855
slug1855
holothurioid1859
sea-quince1861
holothurid1877
red fish1880
pumpkin1897
1854 A. Adams et al. Man. Nat. Hist. 330 Sea-Melons (Pentactidæ).
sea mink n. = kingfish n. 1e.
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1888 G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 122 The King-fish, Menticirrus nebulosus, also known as..the ‘Sea Mink’ in North Carolina.
sea-minnow n. †(a) the anchovy; (b) dialect (see quot. 1672).
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > order Clupeiformes > [noun] > family Engraulidae > engraulis encrasicholus (anchovy)
anchovy1582
javelin1655
sea-minnow1672
spearing1884
1672 J. Josselyn New-Englands Rarities 23 Anchova or Sea Minnow.
1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Sea-minnow, the young of the coal-fish, Merlangus carbonarius.
sea-moth n. a small fish of the family Pegasidæ, found in Indo-Pacific waters and having bony plates covering the body and enlarged pectoral fins.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > [noun] > order Pegasiformes or genus Pegasus > member of (sea-moth)
sea-dragona1836
flying or winged seahorse1854
sea-moth1905
1905 D. S. Jordan Guide Study of Fishes II. xiii. 239 These ‘sea-moths’ are fantastic little fishes.
1947 K. H. Barnard Pictorial Guide S. Afr. Fishes III. 76 The Dragon-fish or sea-moth..is also encased in bony plates like the sea-horses... It derives its name of sea~moth from its habit of skimming over the surface of the water.
1978 Nature 26 Oct. 693/1 The sea moths are a small family (Pegasidae) of marine fishes found only in the Indian and Western Pacific oceans, from East Africa to Hawaii.
† sea-mulberry n. Obsolete a variety of coral (see quot. 1753).
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Anthozoa Actinozoa > non-specific types
stone-shrub1687
white bead bandstring1696
sea-mulberry1753
wedge-coral1860
1753 W. Watson in Philos. Trans. 1751–2 (Royal Soc.) 47 465 The soft lithophyton, usually call'd the sea-mulberry.
† sea-mushroom n. Obsolete a sea-anemone.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Anthozoa Actinozoa > order Zoantharia > suborder Actiniaria > member of
sea-nettle1601
red nettle1611
sea-spout1731
anemone1742
sea-anemone1742
sea-mushroom1742
sea-pudding1750
actinia1752
sea-carnation1768
sea star-flower1768
sea-sunflower1768
sea-daisya1776
sea-marigolda1776
sea-torchthistlea1776
insect-flower1791
sea-flower1850
aurora1858
actiniarian1874
actinian1876
1672 J. Dodington Let. 16 Feb. in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1971) VIII. 542 Then 27 Book is taken up in ye consideration of vegetives produced in ye Sea, as Coral, Sponge, Scylls, onyons, Sea netts, Mushromes &c.]
1742 H. Baker Microscope made Easy ii. v. 98 The Sea-Mushroom, or Anemone:..a little Animal found frequently on the Coasts of Normandy.
† sea-nail n. Obsolete = sea-finger n.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Mollusca > [noun] > miscellaneous types > other types of mollusc
squame1393
shell-worm1591
spout-fish1594
pentadactyl1601
sea cucumber1601
pirot1611
worm1621
nun-fish1661
scarlet mussel1672
sea-navel1678
redcap?1711
strawberry cockle1713
sea-finger1748
sea-nail1748
sea-acorn1755
coneya1757
compass1776
bubble shell1818
glass-shell1851
golden comb1857
cryptodont1893
nuculoid1960
1748 tr. Vegetius Of Distempers Horses 42 Those small Shell Fishes they call Sea-nails or Sea-fingers.
† sea-navel n. Obsolete (see quot. 1678).
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Mollusca > [noun] > miscellaneous types > other types of mollusc
squame1393
shell-worm1591
spout-fish1594
pentadactyl1601
sea cucumber1601
pirot1611
worm1621
nun-fish1661
scarlet mussel1672
sea-navel1678
redcap?1711
strawberry cockle1713
sea-finger1748
sea-nail1748
sea-acorn1755
coneya1757
compass1776
bubble shell1818
glass-shell1851
golden comb1857
cryptodont1893
nuculoid1960
1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Sea-navel, a turbinated and small shell~fish like a Navel.
sea-necklace n. (see sea-corn n. above).
sea-needle n. the gar-fish, Belone vulgaris (cf. needlefish n.).
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Atheriniformes > [noun] > member of family Belonidae (gar-fish)
horn-fishOE
hornkeckc1425
garfishc1440
horn-stocka1485
green-bone1525
hornbeak1565
thorn-beak1570
horn-back1598
needlefish1601
spit-fish1601
sea-needle1603
ganefish1611
snacot-fish1611
greenbacka1682
bill-fisha1757
gar1767
sea-pike1769
saury1771
gar-pike1776
sea-snipea1832
mackerel guide1835
long-nose1836
gore-fish1839
gorebill1862
mackerel-scout1880
Long Tom1881
snipe-eel1882
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 200 Certaine fishes called the Sea-needles [Gk. βελόνη].
1769 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) III. iv. 274 This fish [sc. the sea pike]..is known by the name of the Sea Needle.
sea-orange n. a large holothurian ( Lophothuria fabricii) of a globose shape and orange-coloured.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [noun] > subphylum Eleutherozoa > class Holothurioidea > member of (sea-cucumber)
quab1617
sea-pudding1750
sea-orange1753
Priapus1765
holothuria1792
sea cucumber1841
sea-gherkin1841
holothurian1842
sea-melon1854
nigger1855
slug1855
holothurioid1859
sea-quince1861
holothurid1877
red fish1880
pumpkin1897
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Orange Sea Orange, in natural history, a name given by Count Marsigli to a very remarkable species of sea plant,..it is round and hollow, and in all respects resembles the shape of an orange.
c1800 E. C. Knight Autobiogr. II. 256 Sea-oranges and Sea-lemons I have seen.
1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. iii. ii. 91 The Alcyonium Lyncurium of Lamouroux, commonly called the Sea-quince or Sea-Orange.
1968 P. Brien in M. Florkin & B. T. Scheer Chem. Zool. II. i. i. 12 Among the Clavaxinellidae are included the Hadromerina, of which one type is the genus Tethya (the sea orange).
sea-orb n. a swell, globe, or orb-fish.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Tetraodontiformes (puffers) > [noun] > family Tetraodontidae (puffers) > member of (puff-fish)
globe fish1668
sea-orb1774
Tetrodon1774
puff-fish1807
puffer1814
swell-fish1839
rabbitfish1842
tambour1854
swallow1876
blaasop1902
toado1943
the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Tetraodontiformes (puffers) > [noun] > family Diodontidae (porcupine-fishes) > member of
toad-fish1612
globe fish1668
sculpin1672
sea-hedgehog1711
sea-orb1774
puff-fish1807
puffer1814
balloonfish1834
swell-fish1839
tambour1854
swallow1876
blaasop1947
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VI. 291 The Sea Orb, which is almost round, has a mouth like a frog..also called the Sea Porcupine.
sea-pad n. a starfish.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [noun] > subphylum Eleutherozoa > class Asteroidea > member of (starfish)
starfish1538
sea-pad1558
sea-star1569
star1569
pad1613
finger fish1709
sea-sun1731
stelleridan1835
stelliridean1837
asteroid1841
sand-star1841
spoon-worm1841
sun star1841
sun starfish1850
Stellerid1882
stelleroid1900
1558 G. Rondelet Gesner's Historia Animalium iv. 1106 Eliota Anglus interpretatur a Sterrefyshe. Ego ab erudito quodam Anglo audiui nominari a Seepadde.
1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 283 Seepadde. Stella marina.
1773 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. (ed. 4) Sea-pad, the star-fish.
sea-palm n. a crinoid (see quot. 1896).
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [noun] > division Pelmatozoa > class Crinoidea > fossil or encrinite > family Pentacrinidae > member of
Medusa's head1754
pentacrinite1816
sea-palm1896
1896 J. W. Kirkaldy & E. C. Pollard tr. J. E. V. Boas Text Bk. Zool. 130 Sea Palms (Pentacrinus) are large animals with ten arms, which may divide repeatedly.
sea-panther n. †(a) ? a houndfish or shark; (b) ‘a South African fish, Agriopus torvus, of a brown color with black spots’ ( Cent. Dict.).
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the world > animals > fish > subclass Elasmobranchii > order Pleurotremata > [noun] > member of (shark)
shark1569
hay-fish1613
sea-shark1655
sea-panther1668
beam-fish1742
squalus1753
water-lawyer1794
squaloid1836
Noah's Ark1945
Noah1965
1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 128 Pardalus Marinus..the sea-Panther.
1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. §v. i. 91 The Spoted Houndfish or Sea-Panther.
sea-parson n. the stargazer.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > [noun] > suborder Trachinoidei > family Uranoscopidae (star-gazers) > member of > uranoscopus scaber (star-gazer)
uranoscopus1571
uranoscope1605
heaven-gazer1611
stargazer1661
sea-priest1672
skygazer1852
sea-parson1898
1898 E. P. Evans Evol. Ethics v. 184 On account of this sanctimonious look it [the fish called stargazer] is also known as the ‘sea parson’.
sea-peach n. (see quot. 1885).
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1885 Riverside Nat. Hist. (1888) III. 57 The fishermen call some of the species of the genus Cynthia by the rather appropriate name ‘sea peach’.
sea-pear n. an ascidian or sea-squirt of the genus Boltenia.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > division Molluscoidea > [noun] > division Tunicata > class Ascidiacea > member of > member of genus Boltenia
sea-pear1885
1885 Riverside Nat. Hist. (1888) III. 57 The..genus..Boltenia..embraces the ‘sea pears’ of the fishermen's terminology.
† sea-pelican n. Obsolete = sea-dart n.
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the world > animals > fish > unspecified types > [noun]
whalec950
tumbrelc1300
sprout1340
squame1393
codmop1466
whitefish1482
lineshark?a1500
salen1508
glaucus1509
bretcock1522
warcodling1525
razor1530
bassinatc1540
goldeney1542
smy1552
maiden1555
grail1587
whiting1587
needle1589
pintle-fish1591
goldfish1598
puffin fish1598
quap1598
stork1600
black-tail1601
ellops1601
fork-fish1601
sea-grape1601
sea-lizard1601
sea-raven1601
barne1602
plosher1602
whale-mouse1607
bowman1610
catfish1620
hog1620
kettle-fish1630
sharpa1636
carda1641
housewifea1641
roucotea1641
ox-fisha1642
sea-serpent1646
croaker1651
alderling1655
butkin1655
shamefish1655
yard1655
sea-dart1664
sea-pelican1664
Negro1666
sea-parrot1666
sea-blewling1668
sea-stickling1668
skull-fish1668
whale's guide1668
sennet1671
barracuda1678
skate-bread1681
tuck-fish1681
swallowtail1683
piaba1686
pit-fish1686
sand-creeper1686
horned hog1702
soldier1704
sea-crowa1717
bran1720
grunter1726
calcops1727
bennet1731
bonefish1734
Negro fish1735
isinglass-fish1740
orb1740
gollin1747
smelt1776
night-walker1777
water monarch1785
hardhead1792
macaw-fish1792
yellowback1796
sea-raven1797
blueback1812
stumpnose1831
flat1847
butterfish1849
croppie1856
gubbahawn1857
silt1863
silt-snapper1863
mullet-head1866
sailor1883
hogback1893
skipper1898
stocker1904
1664 R. Hubert Catal. Rarities (1665) 17 A long narrow fish called the Sea-Pelican for the form of its head, also it is called the Sea-Dart.
† sea-pencil n. Obsolete the razor-shell or spout-fish.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Siphonida > sinu-pallialia > family Solenidae
razorc1311
spout1525
spout-fish1594
razor-fish1602
sheath-fish1602
hagfish1611
pitot1611
solen1661
sheath shell1712
sheatha1717
razor shell1752
knife-handle1755
sea-pencil1755
razor-shell clam1792
long clam1811
scabbard razor-shell1813
scimitar razor-shell1819
spout shell1848
scimitar1855
razor clam1860
1755 Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 82/1 The Sea Pencil, or Watering Spout, is the most remarkable shell of this tribe.
sea-perch n. (a) a fish of the genus Labrax, a bass; (b) a fish of the genus Serranus or family Serranidæ; (c) = red perch n. at red adj. and n. Compounds 1e(c)(ii); (d) = blue perch n. (a) at blue adj. and n. Compounds 1b(a).
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Serranidae (sea-bass) > [noun] > member of
anthias1601
sea-perch1601
jewfish1679
hind1735
mero1763
rock cod1790
rock codfish1796
Norway or Norwegian haddock1847
serranid1879
the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Labrioidei (wrasse) > [noun] > family Labridae > member of Ctenolabrus (cunner)
sea-perch1601
cunner1620
sea-roach1668
nibbler1842
burgall1860
blue perch1990
the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Labrioidei (wrasse) > [noun] > family Labridae > genus Labrax > member of (sea-perch)
sea-perch1601
labrax1603
sea-dace1668
labroid1826
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxxii. xi. 452 The sea Perches.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Perche de mer, the sea Pearch; a wholesome, rough-find, and tonguelesse, rocke-fish.
1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 214 The Sea-perch... The head with honey helps pustules, &c.
1857 M. H. Perley Hand-bk. New Brunswick 25 The cunner, or sea~perch.
1882 J. E. Tenison-Woods Fish & Fisheries New S. Wales 33 The Rock Cod [Serranus]... These are commonly called ‘sea-perches’.
1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. Sea-Perch, a name applied..in Sydney, to the Morwong [Chilodactylus], and Bull's-eye [Priacanthus macracanthus]; in New Zealand and Melbourne, to Red-Gurnard [Sebastes percoides].
sea-pert n. the opah n.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > [noun] > order Lampridiformes > member of family Lamprididae (opah)
moonfish1646
kingfish1653
opah1752
sea-pert1880
sunfish1880
1880–4 F. Day Fishes Great Brit. & Ireland I. 119 Lampris luna... Opah, King-fish, sea-pert.
sea-pill-ball n. an isopod crustacean ( Sphæroma), a globe-slater.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Arthostraca > order Isopoda > member of genus Sphaeroma
sea-pill-ball1850
globe-slater1869
1850 A. White List Specim. Crustacea Brit. Mus. 75 Sphæroma serratum. Serrated Sea Pill~ball.
sea-pincushion n. (a) = sea-barrow n.; (b) (see pincushion n. 3).
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the world > animals > fish > subclass Elasmobranchii > order Hypotremata > [noun] > family Rajidae > member of genus Raia (skate) > part
mermaid's purse1700
sea-pincushion1799
skate-rumple1823
sea purse1836
skate-barrow1851
sea-barrow1860
mermaid's-egg1890
1799 Let. 22 May in Gentleman's Mag. May 368/2 I lately heard a gentleman assert, that the Sea-pincushions, as they are commonly called,..answered the purpose of egg-shells.
† sea-pipe n. Obsolete ? a ‘pipe-worm’.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Annelida > [noun] > class Chaetopoda > order Polychaeta > suborder Sabelliformia > member of
sea-pipe1755
pipe-worm1774
tube-worm1813
tubicole1842
fan worm1851
tube-maker1888
1755 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 32/2 Sea Pipes, Tubuli Marini.
sea-poacher n. the armed bull-head or pogge.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Scorpaeniformes (scorpion-fish) > [noun] > member of family Agonidae (poacher)
poggea1672
armour-fish1747
pluck1808
sea-poacher1811
poacher1961
1811 P. Neill in Mem. Wernerian Nat. Hist. Soc. 1 534 C[ottus] cataphractus..Sea Poacher.
1836 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Fishes I. 70 The Armed Bullhead, Pogge. Lyrie, Sea-poacher, Pluck, Noble.
1905 D. S. Jordan Guide Study of Fishes II. xxv. 449 The sea-poachers or alligator-fishes, Agonidæ, are sculpins enclosed in a coat of mail.
sea-porcupine n. = porcupine fish n. at porcupine n. Compounds 2.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Tetraodontiformes (puffers) > [noun] > family Diodontidae (porcupine-fishes) > diodon hystrix (porcupine-fish)
sea-hedgehog1598
porcupine fish1681
sea-porcupine1681
urchin fish1773
porcupine1859
1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. §v. ii. 107 The Sea-Porcupine, Histrix Piscis.
1712 E. Cooke Voy. S. Sea 342 The Sea Porcupine, or a sort of Sculpion.
1744 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 43 38 The Sea-Porcupine, and a kind of Ray, are known to subsist chiefly upon them [sc. shellfish].
1792 G. Riley Beauties of Creation (ed. 2) III. 48 The Sea Porcupine of South America, has a mouth like that of a frog, and is about seven inches long.
1858 W. Baird Cycl. Nat. Sci. at Diodontidæ The sea porcupine.., Diodon hystrix, is nearly spherical in shape.
1902 Nebraska State Jrnl. 1 May 7/4 Charles Darwin..is himself the authority for the statement that the sea-porcupine has been known to gnaw his way out of the stomach of the white shark.
1916 Amer. Naturalist 50 636 A specimen of the ‘sea porcupine’, Diodon hystrix Linn., seen swimming near the surface and secured with a dipnet, was found to have two living lepad barnacles attached to one of its erectile spines.
1989 Skin Diver 114 (heading) Sea porcupines are easy prey and super palate pleasers.
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sea-potato n. U.S. regional an ascidian, as Boltenia reniformis or Ascidia mollis (Cent. Dict.).
† sea-poult n. Obsolete ? a sea-hen.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Scorpaeniformes (scorpion-fish) > [noun] > family Cyclopteridae (lump-fishes) > cyclopterus lumpus (lump-fish)
lump1545
mugle1574
paddle1589
sea-owl1601
snot-fish1655
sea-poult1658
werrell1658
cockpaddle1684
urchin lumpfish1688
bagaty1710
lumpfish1744
sucker1753
suck-fish1753
lump sucker1776
red lump1832
sucking-fish1867
sea-hen1892
the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Scorpaeniformes (scorpion-fish) > [noun] > family Triglidae (gurnards) > genus Trigla > trigla lyra (piper)
piper1585
piper fish1585
sea-hen1611
sea-poult1658
werrell1658
harp-fish1661
lyra1706
lyre-fish1884
1658 Sir T. Browne Garden of Cyrus iii, in Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall 143 The handsome Rhombusses of the Sea-poult, or Werrell.
† sea-priest n. Obsolete (cf. sea-parson n.).
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > [noun] > suborder Trachinoidei > family Uranoscopidae (star-gazers) > member of > uranoscopus scaber (star-gazer)
uranoscopus1571
uranoscope1605
heaven-gazer1611
stargazer1661
sea-priest1672
skygazer1852
sea-parson1898
1672 J. Josselyn New-Englands Rarities 29 Priest Fish or Sea Priest.
sea-pudding n. †(a) an Actinia or sea-anemone; (b) a large sea-cucumber.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [noun] > subphylum Eleutherozoa > class Holothurioidea > member of (sea-cucumber)
quab1617
sea-pudding1750
sea-orange1753
Priapus1765
holothuria1792
sea cucumber1841
sea-gherkin1841
holothurian1842
sea-melon1854
nigger1855
slug1855
holothurioid1859
sea-quince1861
holothurid1877
red fish1880
pumpkin1897
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Anthozoa Actinozoa > order Zoantharia > suborder Actiniaria > member of
sea-nettle1601
red nettle1611
sea-spout1731
anemone1742
sea-anemone1742
sea-mushroom1742
sea-pudding1750
actinia1752
sea-carnation1768
sea star-flower1768
sea-sunflower1768
sea-daisya1776
sea-marigolda1776
sea-torchthistlea1776
insect-flower1791
sea-flower1850
aurora1858
actiniarian1874
actinian1876
1750 [see sea-leech n.].
1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. iii. 387 The Sea-Pudding. This insect..is soft and glutinous, of a cylindric form, short, and furnished with a great number of small flabby tentaculæ.
sea-qualm n. a jellyfish or cuttlefish.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Acalepha > member of (jelly-fish)
nettle1601
sea-nettle1601
blubber1602
nettlefish1611
red nettle1611
squalder1659
sea-jellya1682
urticaa1682
carvel1688
sea-qualm1694
sea-bleb1700
acaleph1706
sea-blubber1717
Medusa1752
quarla1820
acalephan1834
medusite1838
jellyfish1841
naked-eyed medusa1848
slobber1849
sea-cross1850
sea-danger1850
sun squall1853
discophore1856
medusoid1856
starch1860
Discophoran1876
jelly1882
sea-blub1885
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Cephalopoda > [noun] > order Dibranchiata > section Decapoda > family Sepiadae > member of
cuttlec1000
seggec1300
polypus?1527
scuttle1530
sepia1569
cuttlefish1591
inkhorn fish1598
ozaena1601
sea-cat1601
sea-cut1601
sound1611
scribe1655
sea-qualm1804
sepiacean1842
sepioid1857
sea-sleeve1867
1694 tr. F. Martens Voy. Spitzbergen 168 in Narbrough's Acct. Several Late Voy. Called Sea-qualms by the Seamen, as if they were a thick Scum of the sea coagulated together.
1804 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. (ed. 2) II. 365 The Sea-qualm (a kind of Cuttle fish).
sea-quince n. = sea-orange n.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [noun] > subphylum Eleutherozoa > class Holothurioidea > member of (sea-cucumber)
quab1617
sea-pudding1750
sea-orange1753
Priapus1765
holothuria1792
sea cucumber1841
sea-gherkin1841
holothurian1842
sea-melon1854
nigger1855
slug1855
holothurioid1859
sea-quince1861
holothurid1877
red fish1880
pumpkin1897
1861 [see sea-orange n.].
† sea-roach n. Obsolete the cunner.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Labrioidei (wrasse) > [noun] > family Labridae > member of Ctenolabrus (cunner)
sea-perch1601
cunner1620
sea-roach1668
nibbler1842
burgall1860
blue perch1990
the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Labrioidei (wrasse) > [noun] > family Labridae > member of genus Crenilabrus (gilt-head)
aurata?1527
peacock of the sea?1527
gilthead1538
cunner1602
golden-poll1655
peacock fish1661
sea-roach1668
goldsinnya1705
goldfinny1795
golden maid1814
cork-wing1836
1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 140 Erythrynus..the Sea-Roach.
a1717 W. Diaper tr. Oppian Halieuticks (1722) i. 7 Sea-Roach in ruddy Shoals frequent the Land.
sea-roll n. ‘a holothurian’ ( Cent. Dict.).
sea-rose n. (a) = sea-corn n.; (b) ‘a sea-anemone, Urticina nodosa, found on Newfoundland, etc.’ ( Cent. Dict.).
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1850 A. Pratt Chapters Common Things Sea-side v. 282 This mass of eggs is called on the coast bladder-chain,..sea-rose,..or wash-ball.
1896 J. W. Kirkaldy & E. C. Pollard tr. J. E. V. Boas Text Bk. Zool. 118 The Actiniaria (Sea-anemones, Sea-roses).
sea-ruff n. = ruffe n. 1.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Percidae (perches) > [noun] > acerina cernua (ruff)
ruffec1450
black-tail1601
pope1653
sea-ruff1668
coal-perch1671
stone-perch1888
1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 140 The Sea-Rough.
1672 J. Josselyn New-Englands Rarities 27 Sea Ruff and Reeves.
1773 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. (ed. 4) [and in later Dicts.].
sea-ruffle n. = sea-corn n.
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1891 Cent. Dict. Sea-corn... Also sea-ear, sea-ruffle, sea-honeycomb, sea-necklace, etc.
sea-sac n. any ascidian of the class Tunicata.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > division Molluscoidea > [noun] > division Tunicata > class Ascidiacea > member of
ascidian1835
sea-squirt1850
sea-barrel1876
sea-sac1876
squirt1891
1876 E. R. Lankester tr. E. Haeckel Hist. Creation II. 150 Sea-sacs. Tunicata. Sea-barrels.
sea-salmon n. a pollack, also the spotted weakfish and the white sea bass ( Funk's Stand. Dict.).
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1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 230 In the Gulf of Saint Lawrence they [sc. Pollock] are known as ‘Sea Salmon’.
sea-scallop n. ‘the great northern scallop’ ( Funk's Stand. Dict.).
sea-scurf n. a polyzoan of the genus Lepralia.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Polyzoa > [noun] > class Ectoprocta > order Gymnolaemata > suborder Chilostomata > member of family Escharidae
sea-scurf1881
1881 Cassell's Nat. Hist. V. 279 The Sea~scurfs.
† sea-shears n. Obsolete ? = sea-woodlouse n.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Arthostraca > order Isopoda > member of family Lygdidae
sea-shears1664
sea hog-louse1702
sea-slater1850
sea-woodlouse1863
1664 R. Hubert Catal. Rarities (1665) 27 A Sea insect called the Sea Shears: It hath many scales like a wood louse, two long hornes, and a forked tayle.
† sea-shilling n. [Dutch zeeschelling] Obsolete a sea urchin.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [noun] > subphylum Eleutherozoa > class Echinoidea > member of (sea-urchin)
echinusc1374
urchin fish1566
ruffe1591
sea-hedgehog1598
urchin1601
sea urchin1605
sea-bear1611
sea-chestnut1613
sea-thistle1661
sea-apple1666
sea-egg1666
button-fish1668
sea-button1668
urchin-worm1668
whore's egg1674
sea-shilling1713
echinite1750
echinid1835
pancake1843
echinoid1864
oursin1914
kina1960
1713 J. Petiver Aquatilium Animalium Amboinæ Tab. iii Echinus planus... Sea-Shilling.
sea-shrub n. an alcyonarian polyp of the family Gorgonidæ, a sea-fan.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Anthozoa Actinozoa > order Alcyonaria > suborder Gorgonacea > family Gorgoniidae > member of
sea-shrub1681
1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis ii. §v. i. 242 Sea-Shrubs.
1755 J. Ellis Ess. Nat. Hist. Corallines 56 Next in Order to the Corallines, may be ranked the Frutices coralloides, or Sea-shrubs.
1870 H. A. Nicholson Man. Zool. (1875) xiv. 145 The Gorgonidæ, or ‘Sea-shrubs’.
sea-silkworm n. a bivalve mollusc of the genus Pinna.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Asiphonida > family Pinnidae > genus Pinna > member of
jambon1753
sea-silkworm1822
bysso-ark1854
thorn-mussel1860
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 287 Reaumur denominates the pinna the sea-silk-worm.
sea-slater n. a small isopod crustacean, Ligia oceanica.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Arthostraca > order Isopoda > member of family Lygdidae
sea-shears1664
sea hog-louse1702
sea-slater1850
sea-woodlouse1863
1850 A. White List Specim. Crustacea Brit. Mus. 71 Ligia oceanica. Great Sea Slater.
sea-sleeve n. a cuttlefish or calamary.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Cephalopoda > [noun] > order Dibranchiata > section Decapoda > family Teuthidae > member of (squid)
calamary1567
sea-cat1601
sleeve1611
sleeve-fish1611
squid1613
calaminary1620
sea-clerk1623
sotong1833
pen-fish1835
sea-arrow1851
devil fish1866
sea-sleeve1867
oegopsid1890
chokka1902
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Cephalopoda > [noun] > order Dibranchiata > section Decapoda > family Sepiadae > member of
cuttlec1000
seggec1300
polypus?1527
scuttle1530
sepia1569
cuttlefish1591
inkhorn fish1598
ozaena1601
sea-cat1601
sea-cut1601
sound1611
scribe1655
sea-qualm1804
sepiacean1842
sepioid1857
sea-sleeve1867
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Sea-sleeve, a name of the flosk or squid, Loligo vulgaris.
† sea-snapple n. Obsolete (see quot. 1658).
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Siphonida > sinu-pallialia > family Veneridae
Venus-shell1589
hena1613
sea-snapple1658
clam1672
clamp1672
nun1678
purr?1711
Venus purr1713
Venus1777
quahog1781
palourde1823
littleneck1854
venerid1861
1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Seasnapple, a kinde of Shell-fish, called in Latin Cochlea Veneris, i. Venus shell.
sea-sow n. dialect the ballan wrasse.
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1838 Johnston in Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 1 vi. 172 Labrus maculatus... Ballan Wrasse... Sea Sow.
† sea sparrow n. Obsolete ? the plaice.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Pleuronectiformes (flat-fish) > [noun] > family Pleuronectidae > genus Pleuronectes > pleuronectes platessa (plaice)
schullea1300
buttc1300
plaicec1300
plaice-fluke1596
suanta1609
sea sparrow1672
1672 J. Josselyn New-Englands Rarities 27 Plaice or Sea Sparrow.
† sea sparrow-hawk n. Obsolete the lizard- or snake-fish, Synodus fœtens.
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Siluriformes (catfish) > [noun] > member of family Synodontidae
sangris1598
sea sparrow-hawk1743
snake-fish1796
lizard fish1882
1743 M. Catesby Nat. Hist. Carolina (1754) II. 2 The Sea Sparrow-Hawk..is a slender long Fish.
sea-squirt n. any ascidian or tunicate, also attributive.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > division Molluscoidea > [noun] > division Tunicata > class Ascidiacea > member of
ascidian1835
sea-squirt1850
sea-barrel1876
sea-sac1876
squirt1891
1850 A. Pratt Chapters Common Things Sea-side iii. 182 One of those strange looking things, commonly called sea-squirts (Ascidiæ).
1880 A. Wilson in Gentleman's Mag. CCXLVI. 43 The appendicularians..the existing representatives of the stock and ancestry which gave origin alike to the sea-squirt race and to the great vertebrate group itself.
† sea star-flower n. Obsolete a sea-anemone of the genus Actinia.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Anthozoa Actinozoa > order Zoantharia > suborder Actiniaria > member of
sea-nettle1601
red nettle1611
sea-spout1731
anemone1742
sea-anemone1742
sea-mushroom1742
sea-pudding1750
actinia1752
sea-carnation1768
sea star-flower1768
sea-sunflower1768
sea-daisya1776
sea-marigolda1776
sea-torchthistlea1776
insect-flower1791
sea-flower1850
aurora1858
actiniarian1874
actinian1876
1768 J. Ellis in Philos. Trans. 1767 (Royal Soc.) 57 436 The Actinia aster, or Sea star flower.
a1776 J. Ellis Nat. Hist. Zoophytes (1786) 3 Actinia gemmacea. Studded Sea Star-flower.
a1776 J. Ellis Nat. Hist. Zoophytes (1786) 6 Actinia Aster. Sea Star-flower with a smooth stem.
1833 J. Murray Physiol. Plants i. 7 The specific distinction is derived from an assumed resemblance to particular flowers, &c.; thus we have actinia sociata, the clustered animal flower, A. Aster, sea star-flower.
sea-stickle n.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Gasterosteiformes (sticklebacks) > [noun] > family Gasterosteidae > spinachia vulgaris (sea-stickleback)
heckleback1699
sea-adder1836
sea-stickleback1880
sea-stickle1896
1896 J. W. Kirkaldy & E. C. Pollard tr. J. E. V. Boas Text Bk. Zool. 390 The Sea-Stickle (Spinachia vulgaris) is exclusively marine.
sea-stickleback n. the (marine) fifteen-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus spinachia or Spinachia vulgaris.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Gasterosteiformes (sticklebacks) > [noun] > family Gasterosteidae > spinachia vulgaris (sea-stickleback)
heckleback1699
sea-adder1836
sea-stickleback1880
sea-stickle1896
1880 A. Günther Introd. Study of Fishes 506 The Sea-Stickleback (Gasterosteus spinachia) is likewise a nest builder.
1896 J. W. Kirkaldy & E. C. Pollard tr. J. E. V. Boas Text Bk. Zool. 377 (note) The male Sea Stickleback (Spinachia vulgaris).
† sea-stickling n. Obsolete ? = the glaucus of Pliny.
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the world > animals > fish > unspecified types > [noun]
whalec950
tumbrelc1300
sprout1340
squame1393
codmop1466
whitefish1482
lineshark?a1500
salen1508
glaucus1509
bretcock1522
warcodling1525
razor1530
bassinatc1540
goldeney1542
smy1552
maiden1555
grail1587
whiting1587
needle1589
pintle-fish1591
goldfish1598
puffin fish1598
quap1598
stork1600
black-tail1601
ellops1601
fork-fish1601
sea-grape1601
sea-lizard1601
sea-raven1601
barne1602
plosher1602
whale-mouse1607
bowman1610
catfish1620
hog1620
kettle-fish1630
sharpa1636
carda1641
housewifea1641
roucotea1641
ox-fisha1642
sea-serpent1646
croaker1651
alderling1655
butkin1655
shamefish1655
yard1655
sea-dart1664
sea-pelican1664
Negro1666
sea-parrot1666
sea-blewling1668
sea-stickling1668
skull-fish1668
whale's guide1668
sennet1671
barracuda1678
skate-bread1681
tuck-fish1681
swallowtail1683
piaba1686
pit-fish1686
sand-creeper1686
horned hog1702
soldier1704
sea-crowa1717
bran1720
grunter1726
calcops1727
bennet1731
bonefish1734
Negro fish1735
isinglass-fish1740
orb1740
gollin1747
smelt1776
night-walker1777
water monarch1785
hardhead1792
macaw-fish1792
yellowback1796
sea-raven1797
blueback1812
stumpnose1831
flat1847
butterfish1849
croppie1856
gubbahawn1857
silt1863
silt-snapper1863
mullet-head1866
sailor1883
hogback1893
skipper1898
stocker1904
1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 123 Glaucus..the Sea-Stichling [sic].
† sea-stranger n. Scottish Obsolete the adder-pike, Trachinus vipera.
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1710 R. Sibbald Hist. Fife & Kinross ii. iii. 53 Draco sive Araneus minor; I take it to be the same our Fishers call the Otter-pike or Sea-stranger.
sea-strawberry n. ‘a kind of polyp, Alcyonium rubiforme’ (Cent. Dict.).
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1837 W. Baxter Brit. Phænogamous Bot. III. 203 Spartina stricta. Twin~spiked Cord-grass. Smooth Sea-grass. Sea Cock's-footgrass.
sea-sucker n. a sucker, a fish of the family Cyclopteridæ.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Scorpaeniformes (scorpion-fish) > [noun] > family Cyclopteridae (lump-fishes) > member of (sea-sucker)
sea-sucker1750
1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados 259 The Sea-Sucker.
1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 161 One form of sea-sucker (Lepidogaster) affixes its eggs to the inside of a dead shell.
† sea-sun n. Obsolete a kind of starfish.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [noun] > subphylum Eleutherozoa > class Asteroidea > member of (starfish)
starfish1538
sea-pad1558
sea-star1569
star1569
pad1613
finger fish1709
sea-sun1731
stelleridan1835
stelliridean1837
asteroid1841
sand-star1841
spoon-worm1841
sun star1841
sun starfish1850
Stellerid1882
stelleroid1900
1731 G. Medley tr. P. Kolb Present State Cape Good-Hope II. 210 There is a sort of shell-fish at the Cape, which the Europeans there call Sea-suns.
1790 Coll. Voy. round World I. xii. 323 Sea-suns and sea-stars, are small round shell-fish, and receive their denominations from the great variety of prickles, which shoot from them like rays of light.
sea-sunflower n. a sea-anemone.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Anthozoa Actinozoa > order Zoantharia > suborder Actiniaria > member of
sea-nettle1601
red nettle1611
sea-spout1731
anemone1742
sea-anemone1742
sea-mushroom1742
sea-pudding1750
actinia1752
sea-carnation1768
sea star-flower1768
sea-sunflower1768
sea-daisya1776
sea-marigolda1776
sea-torchthistlea1776
insect-flower1791
sea-flower1850
aurora1858
actiniarian1874
actinian1876
1768 J. Ellis in Philos. Trans. 1767 (Royal Soc.) 57 436 The Actinia helianthus or Sea-sun-flower.
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sea-surgeon n. ‘a surgeon-fish’ ( Cent. Dict.).
sea-tamarisk n. a sertularian polyp.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Hydrozoa > order Campanulariae > member of family Sertulariidae > polyp
sea-insect1664
sea-bristle1755
sea-cypress1755
sea-hair1755
sea-oak coralline1755
sea-tamarisk1755
sea-oak sertularia1813
sea-wreath1860
1755 J. Ellis Ess. Nat. Hist. Corallines 4 Corallina vesiculata sparsim et alternatim ramosa [etc.]... Sea-Tamarisk.
a1776 J. Ellis Nat. Hist. Zoophytes (1786) 36 Sertularia tamarisca. Sea-Tamarisk Coralline.
sea-tench n. ‘the black sea-bream, Cantharus lineatus’ (Cent. Dict.).
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Sparidae (sea-breams) > [noun] > member of genus Cantharus
wratbyhe1443
sea-tench1602
beetle-fish1783
1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall ii. f. 127v They beare..a sea-tenche nayante proper.
1778 S. Whatley England's Gazetteer (ed. 2) at Holyhead Sea-tenches,..and plenty of other fish.
sea-thorn n. (see quot. 1891).
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Entomostraca > order Cirripedia > suborder Thoracica > member of
barnaclec1571
goose-mussel1863
sea-thorn1891
1891 Cent. Dict. Pustule of the sea, a sailor's name of sessile barnacles or acorn-shells. Also called sea-thorns.
sea tiger n. = barracuda n.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > [noun] > suborder Sphyraenoidei (barracudas) > family Sphyraenidae > member of genus Sphyraena (barracuda)
barracuda1678
picuda1882
spet1896
sea tiger1937
1924 L. L. Mowbray in J. O. La Gorce Bk. Fishes 143 Well deserving its nickname of ‘The Tiger of the Sea’, the carnivorous Barracuda..darts at its prey on sight.]
1937 M. N. Kaplan Big Game Anglers' Paradise iv. 180 Although ichthyologists gave the great barracuda the euphonious name Sphyraena barracuda, in common parlance it bears the nom-de-guerre, ‘Sea-tiger’.
1963 H. Ulrich America's Best Deep-sea Fishing ii. 102 Barracuda... Other Names: Great barracuda, common barracuda, picuda, sea tiger, cuda.
† sea-tod n. Scottish Obsolete the ballan wrasse, Labrus maculatus.
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1710 R. Sibbald Hist. Fife & Kinross ii. iii. 53 Turdi alia species; It is called, by our Fishers, the Sea-Tod or Kingervie.
† sea-torchthistle n. Obsolete a variety of sea-anemone.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Anthozoa Actinozoa > order Zoantharia > suborder Actiniaria > member of
sea-nettle1601
red nettle1611
sea-spout1731
anemone1742
sea-anemone1742
sea-mushroom1742
sea-pudding1750
actinia1752
sea-carnation1768
sea star-flower1768
sea-sunflower1768
sea-daisya1776
sea-marigolda1776
sea-torchthistlea1776
insect-flower1791
sea-flower1850
aurora1858
actiniarian1874
actinian1876
a1776 J. Ellis Nat. Hist. Zoophytes (1786) 2 Actinia Cereus. Sea Torch-thistle.
sea-umbrella n. ‘a pennatulaceous polyp of the genus Umbellularia’ (Cent. Dict.).
sea-vampire n. ‘a devil-fish or manto’ (Cent. Dict.).
sea-washball n. a local name for the egg-case of the whelk.
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1755 J. Ellis Ess. Nat. Hist. Corallines 84 Alcyonium, seu Vesicaria marina... Sea Wash-balls.
sea wasp n. a poisonous jellyfish belonging to the order Cubomedusæ, found in Indo-Pacific waters.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Cubozoa > order Cubomedusae > member of
Cubomedusae1886
sea wasp1910
1910 A. G. Mayer Medusæ of World III. 504 The flexible part of the tentacles are [sic] armed with nematocysts, the stinging power of which is so great that the name ‘Sea Wasp’ is commonly given to these medusæ.
1966 J. H. Barnes in W. J. Rees Cnidaria 332 The origin of such stings was not known, but..it must have been a sea wasp.
1977 C. McCullough Thorn Birds xiii. 301 We're too far south here for sea wasps.
sea-weasel n. ‘an old name of the lamprey’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk.).
sea-weever n. the greater weever ( Trachinus draco).
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > [noun] > suborder Trachinoidei > member of family Trachinidae (weever) > greater
sting-bull1836
sea-weever1902
1902 H. H. Littlejohn in Encycl. Brit. XXX. 609/1 Trachinus draco or sea-weever.
sea-whip n. = sea-fan n.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Anthozoa Actinozoa > order Alcyonaria > suborder Gorgonacea > member of
sea-fan1633
sea-willow1755
sea-whip1775
Venus's fan1855
1775 J. Ellis in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 66 1 Those [Zoophytes]..called..Gorgoniæ; and known in English by the names of sea-fans, sea-feathers, and sea-whips.
sea-wife n. a kind of wrasse, Acantholabrus yarrelli.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Labrioidei (wrasse) > [noun] > family Labridae > miscellaneous types
sea-wife1836
hogfish2002
1836 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Fishes I. 284 The Sea Wife. Labrus vetula [1841 (ed. 2) I. 339 Acantholabrus Yarrellii, Cuv. et Valenc.].
sea wood-borer n. a wood-shrimp, Chelura terebrans.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > miscellaneous types > member of family Cheluridae
sea wood-borer1850
wood-shrimp-
1850 A. White List Specim. Crustacea Brit. Mus. 56 Chelura terebrans. Sea Wood-Borer.
sea-woodlouse n. (a) a sea-slater; (b) a chiton or coat-of-mail shell, so called from resembling the above.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Mollusca > [noun] > amphineura or chitons
chiton1815
sea-caterpillara1843
sea-woodlouse1863
mail-shell1867
sea-boat1884
sea-bug1884
Amphineura1889
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Arthostraca > order Isopoda > member of family Lygdidae
sea-shears1664
sea hog-louse1702
sea-slater1850
sea-woodlouse1863
1863 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. (new ed.) III. 631 The Great sea-Slater, or Sea-woodlouse.
sea-wreath n. a sertularian polyp.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Hydrozoa > order Campanulariae > member of family Sertulariidae > polyp
sea-insect1664
sea-bristle1755
sea-cypress1755
sea-hair1755
sea-oak coralline1755
sea-tamarisk1755
sea-oak sertularia1813
sea-wreath1860
1860 G. Hartwig tr. Sea & its Living Wonders 278 The delicate feathery forms of the sea-wreaths, sea-feathers, and sea-bells (sertulariæ, plumulariæ, and campanulariæ).
1865 T. R. Jones Anim. Creation 35 The Sea-wreaths (Sertulariæ) are known to every sea-side visitor.
e. In names of seaweeds: See also sea-oak n., sea-ware n., seaweed n., sea-wrack n., etc.
sea-apron n. the genus Laminaria (Cent. Dict. 1891).
sea-bamboo n. South African a large kelp, Ecklonia maxima; = sea-trumpet n. 3.
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the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] > sea-trumpet
sea-bamboo1798
trumpet-weed1830
sea-trumpet1836
trumpet-grass1850
trumpet-seaweed1884
1798 S. H. Wilcocke tr. J. S. Stavorinus Voy. E.-Indies I. i. i. 25 On the 10th of November, we saw for the first time trumpets, or sea-bamboo, floating on the ocean.
1822 W. J. Burchell Trav. Interior S. Afr. I. ii. 28 The Dutch call this plant Zee bambos (sea-bamboo), and boys after cutting its stem to a convenient length when dry, sometimes amuse themselves in blowing it as a horn or trumpet.
1946 L. G. Green So Few are Free viii. 116 The place is called Bamboes Bay, because the sea bamboo is piled high on the beach after heavy gales.
1973 Standard Encycl. Southern Afr. IX. 562/2 The largest kelp of Southern Africa is the sea-trumpet or sea-bamboo..which commonly reaches lengths of over 6 metres.
sea-belt n. Laminaria saccharina (in Turner perhaps Zostera marina).
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the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] > kelp and allies > sugar-wrack or sea-belt
girdle1548
sea-belt1548
sea-girdle1548
sea-wand1841
laminaria1848
sea-tape1861
sea-staff1865
sugar-wrack1882
1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. C.iij Cingulum is named in greeke Zoster,..& is like a gyrdel, wherfore it maye be named in englishe, fysshers gyrdle or sea gyrdel, or sea belte.
1841 Penny Cycl. XXI. 156/1 Laminaria saccharina, or the sugar sea-belt.
sea-bottle n. the bladder-wrack; also applied to the pod or vesicle of some American fuci.
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the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] > fucus seaweeds > bladder-wrack and allies
sea-oak1597
sea-bladder1681
sea-blubber1681
bottle-ore1756
air bladder1770
bladder-wrack1777
black tang1796
sea-bottle1825
bladder-kelp1835
bladder-tangle1857
1825 J. Jennings Observ. Dial. W. Eng. 66 Many of the species of the sea-wrack, or fucus, are called sea-bottles, in consequence of the stalks having round or oval vesicles or pods in them.
1859 J. M. Jones Naturalist in Bermuda 176 That very curious marine plant, commonly designated the ‘sea bottle’... These ‘sea bottles’ are transparent, and shaped like a small balloon.
sea-catgut n. = sea-lace n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] > whipcord seaweeds
sea-thong1633
sea-lace1666
sea-points1666
fucus1714
sea-catgut1833
sea-whipcord1833
sea-whiplash1833
thread-tangle1844
whipcord1850
whiplash1850
sea-whip1858
thong weed1958
1833 Penny Cycl. I. 322/2 The Chorda filum, or sea cat-gut, of Orkney.
sea-chitterling n. ‘common name for the plant otherwise called Enterophytum’ (Mayne Expos. Lex. 1858).
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1777 J. Lightfoot Flora Scotica II. 968 [Ulva intestinalis] Gut Laver. Sea Chitterling. Anglis.
† sea-cluster n. Obsolete
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1728 R. Bradley Dict. Botanicum Sea-cluster, Uva marina.
† sea-colander n. Obsolete (see quots.).
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1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. Sea-colander, the American name in the North-eastern States of Agarum Turneri.
sea-furbelow n. the Laminaria bulbosa.
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the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] > kelp and allies > furbelow
sea-hanger1633
sea-furbelow1808
furbelow1846
1808–30 Edinb. Encycl. X. 20/2 Fucus bulbosus..sometimes called sea furbelows.
1860 Ld. Tennyson Sea Dreams 257 The dimpled flounce of the sea-furbelow.
sea-girdle n. Laminaria digitata; also = sea-belt n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] > kelp and allies > sugar-wrack or sea-belt
girdle1548
sea-belt1548
sea-girdle1548
sea-wand1841
laminaria1848
sea-tape1861
sea-staff1865
sugar-wrack1882
1548 [see sea-belt n.].
?1550 H. Llwyd tr. Pope John XXI Treasury of Healthe (c1560) X 7 Take of dragons bloud, seagyrdel [etc.].
1845 P. H. Gosse Ocean (1849) i. 34 The sea-weed usually called in England the Sea-girdle... (Laminaria digitata).
† sea grass-wrack n. Obsolete the seaweed Zostera.
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1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 497 Zostera... Sea Grass-wrack.
sea-hanger n. Laminaria bulbosa.
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the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] > kelp and allies > furbelow
sea-hanger1633
sea-furbelow1808
furbelow1846
1633 T. Johnson Gerard's Herball (new ed.) iii. 1569 The diuided one they may call Sea Hangers.
sea-lace n. Chorda filum.
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the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] > whipcord seaweeds
sea-thong1633
sea-lace1666
sea-points1666
fucus1714
sea-catgut1833
sea-whipcord1833
sea-whiplash1833
thread-tangle1844
whipcord1850
whiplash1850
sea-whip1858
thong weed1958
1666 [see sea-points n.].
1877 W. C. Bryant Sella 136 The dulse with crimson leaves, and streaming far, Sea-thong and sea-lace.
sea-lentil n. the gulf-weed.
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the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] > gulf-weed
sargasso1598
sea-lentil1633
gulf-weed1674
sea-thistle1703
tropic grape1814
sea-grape1825
sargasso weed1830
Gulf-Stream weed1884
sargassum1905
sargassum weed1928
1633 T. Johnson Gerard's Herball (new ed.) App. 1615 Lenticula marina angustifolia. Narrow leaued Sea Lentill.
† sea-lungwort n. Obsolete the seaweed Ulva lactuca or sea-lettuce n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > aquatic, marsh, and sea-shore plants > [noun] > oyster-plant
sea-lungwort1597
sea lightwort1770
oyster plant1847
sea-bugloss1884
1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. 1377 Sea Lungwoort, or Oister greene.
1797 J. E. Smith Eng. Bot. VI. 368 (heading) Sea lungwort.
1960 S. Ary & M. Gregory Oxf. Bk. Wild Flowers 170/1 Sea Lungwort or Oyster Plant (Mertensia maritima)..is a rare plant of stony sea-shores in the north.
sea-membrane n. dulse, Rhodymenia palmata (Cassell's Encycl. Dict. 1887).
sea-network n. (see network n. 2c).
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1841 Penny Cycl. XXI. 156/2 The Dictyoleæ, or sea-net-works,..are characterised by the beautifully reticulated texture of the integument.
sea-ore n. (see ore n.5).
sea-points n. = sea-lace n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] > whipcord seaweeds
sea-thong1633
sea-lace1666
sea-points1666
fucus1714
sea-catgut1833
sea-whipcord1833
sea-whiplash1833
thread-tangle1844
whipcord1850
whiplash1850
sea-whip1858
thong weed1958
1666 C. Merrett Pinax Rerum Naturalium Britannicarum 40 Fucus marinus rotundus, Sea points or laces.
† sea-ragged-staff n. Obsolete ? the Ascophyllum nodosum.
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the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] > fucus seaweeds > tangle
hangera1483
tanglec1540
tang1547
sea-ragged-staff1633
tangle-wrack1721
sea-cabbage1764
prickly tang1795
yellow tang1809
tangle-weed1825
fucoid1848
saw-wrack1868
tangle-work1890
1633 T. Johnson Gerard's Herball (new ed.) iii. 1569 Mr. Thomas Hickes being in our companie did fitly name it Sea ragged Staffe.
1633 T. Johnson Gerard's Herball (new ed.) iii. 1570 Fucus spongiosus nodosus. Sea ragged Staffe.
sea-staff n. = sea-girdle n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] > kelp and allies > sugar-wrack or sea-belt
girdle1548
sea-belt1548
sea-girdle1548
sea-wand1841
laminaria1848
sea-tape1861
sea-staff1865
sugar-wrack1882
1865 Mrs. L. L. Clarke Common Seaweeds vi. 116 Laminaria Digitata. Sea-girdles, Tangle, Sea-staff, Sea-wand, Cows'-tails.
sea-tang n.
sea-tangle n. (see tang n.3, tangle n.1).
sea-tape n. (see quot. 1861).
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the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] > kelp and allies > sugar-wrack or sea-belt
girdle1548
sea-belt1548
sea-girdle1548
sea-wand1841
laminaria1848
sea-tape1861
sea-staff1865
sugar-wrack1882
1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. ii. iii. 721 Laminaria saccharina is called Sea-tape in China, where it is used for food and other purposes.
sea-thong n. one of several chord-like seaweeds, as Chorda filum, Himanthalia lorea, etc.
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the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] > whipcord seaweeds
sea-thong1633
sea-lace1666
sea-points1666
fucus1714
sea-catgut1833
sea-whipcord1833
sea-whiplash1833
thread-tangle1844
whipcord1850
whiplash1850
sea-whip1858
thong weed1958
1633 T. Johnson Gerard's Herball (new ed.) iii. 1568 Quercus marina secunda. Sea Thongs.
1845 P. H. Gosse Ocean (1849) i. 43 The common Sea-thong (Himanthalia lorea).
sea-thread n. (see quots.).
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the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] > others
manatee grass1696
pepper dulse1724
pipeweed1755
sea-beard1777
Iceland sea grass1809
Porphyra1836
nullipore1840
sea-thread1843
niggerhair1852
lucky minnie's lines1853
marine sauce1866
hijiki1951
1843 Zoologist 1 209 The knotted sea-thread (Laomedea geniculata).
sea-turnip n. a seaweed of the genus Nereocystis, having a turnip-shaped protuberance of the stem.
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the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] > sea-turnip
sea-turnip1878
1878 B. Harte Man on Beach 39 The long, snaky, undulating stems of the sea turnip.
sea-wand n. Laminaria digitata = tangle n.1 2.
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the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] > kelp and allies > sugar-wrack or sea-belt
girdle1548
sea-belt1548
sea-girdle1548
sea-wand1841
laminaria1848
sea-tape1861
sea-staff1865
sugar-wrack1882
1841 Penny Cycl. XXI. 156 Laminaria digitata, or sea-wand.
sea-whip n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] > whipcord seaweeds
sea-thong1633
sea-lace1666
sea-points1666
fucus1714
sea-catgut1833
sea-whipcord1833
sea-whiplash1833
thread-tangle1844
whipcord1850
whiplash1850
sea-whip1858
thong weed1958
1858 K. H. Digby Children's Bower II. 67 These sea-laces or sea-whips.
sea-whipcord n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] > whipcord seaweeds
sea-thong1633
sea-lace1666
sea-points1666
fucus1714
sea-catgut1833
sea-whipcord1833
sea-whiplash1833
thread-tangle1844
whipcord1850
whiplash1850
sea-whip1858
thong weed1958
1833 W. J. Hooker Brit. Flora II. i. 275 Chordaria flagelliformis, Ag. (common Sea-Whipcord).
sea-whiplash n. = sea-thong n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] > whipcord seaweeds
sea-thong1633
sea-lace1666
sea-points1666
fucus1714
sea-catgut1833
sea-whipcord1833
sea-whiplash1833
thread-tangle1844
whipcord1850
whiplash1850
sea-whip1858
thong weed1958
1833 W. J. Hooker Brit. Flora II. i. 276 Chorda Filum, Lamour. (common Sea Whip-lash).
sea-whistle n. Ascophyllum nodosum.
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the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] > sea-whistle
sea-whistle1808
1808–30 Edinb. Encycl. X. 19/1 Boys amuse themselves by cutting them [the fronds] transversely near the end, and making whistles of them; hence the name sea-whistles sometimes bestowed on the plant [Fucus nodosus].
f. In names of plants growing on the sea-shore:
sea arrow-grass n. a marsh plant, Triglochin maritima, with fleshy grass-like leaves and spikes of green flowers.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > reedy or aquatic grasses > [noun] > arrow-grass
arrow grass1711
sea arrow-grass1770
1770 J. Hill Herbarium Brit. II. 215 (heading) Sea Arrow Grass.
1851 C. A. Johns Flowers of Field II. 245 Sea Arrow-grass... Salt marshes, common.
1975 J. G. Evans Environment Early Man Brit. Isles ii. 37 A number of species..today confined to coastal or estuarine situations, such as sea arrow grass..and sea thrift.
sea-ash n. Xanthoxylon Clava-Herculis or carolinianum.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > aquatic, marsh, and sea-shore plants > [noun] > other aquatic plants
sea-purslane1548
frog-bit1578
heartwort1578
milkwort1578
water dragon1578
water-liverwort1578
water milfoil1578
water milfoil1578
water radish1578
arrowhead1597
saltwort1597
water archer1597
calla1601
water-rocket1605
sea rocket1611
water archer1617
water chickweed1633
water purslane1633
arsesmart1640
water hyssop1653
water thyme1655
water serpent1659
Myriophyllum1754
least water plantain1756
mud-weed1756
Thalia1756
water-leaf1756
marsh liverwort1760
bastard plantain1762
wool-weed1765
Ruppia1770
goat's foot1773
pipewort1776
blinking chickweed1777
mudwort1789
arrowleaf1805
water-target1814
water willow1814
felwort1816
water shield1817
mermaid weed1822
mud plantain1822
hydrilla1824
blinks1835
crystalwort1846
naiad1846
waterwort1846
arrow weed1848
willow-thorn1857
lattice leaf1866
marsh flower1866
bonnet1869
lattice plant1877
sea-ash1884
alligator weed1887
water parsley1891
water hyacinth1897
lirio1926
neverwet1927
1884 C. S. Sargent Rep. Forests N. Amer. 30 Sea Ash.
sea-aster n. = sea-starwort n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > composite flowers > other composite flowers
ox-eyea1400
starwort?a1450
Jupiter's beard1567
goldenrod1568
achillea1597
blue camomile1597
blue daisy1597
cineraria1597
hog's bean1597
jackanapes on horseback1597
sea-starwort1597
sultan flower1629
mouse-ear1696
aster1706
Canada goldenrod1731
ageratum1737
rudbeckia1751
coreopsis1753
melampodium1754
Aaron's rod1760
zinnia1761
Michaelmas daisy1767
China aster1785
New England aster1785
catananche1798
sea-aster1812
cosmea1813
cosmos1813
gazania1813
erigeron1815
gousblom1822
Christmas daisy1829
rhodanthe1834
tassel-flower1836
ligularia1839
old maid1839
mountain daisy1848
purple coneflower1848
acroclinium1852
sea ox-eye1856
thimble-weed1860
helipterum1862
treasure-flower1866
Swan River daisy1873
blanket flower1879
cone-flower1879
blue marguerite1882
Solidago1883
yellow-top1887
Gaillardia1888
gerbera1889
youth and old age1889
pussytoes1892
niggerhead1893
Transvaal daisy1899
Barberton daisy1906
onion grass1909
ursinia1928
Cupid's dart1930
Livingstone daisy1932
1812 G. Crabbe Tales x. 179 The Sea-aster, the dullest of that numerous and hardy genus.
1925 G. Bonnier Brit. Flora 96 Sea Aster. Salt marshes: July–Sept.
1960 S. Ary & M. Gregory Oxf. Bk. Wild Flowers 136/2 Sea Aster..is common in salt-marshes and on cliffs and rocks round the coasts.
† sea ay-green n. Obsolete = sea-houseleek n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Liliaceae family or plants > [noun] > aloe plants
aloeeOE
sea ay-green1551
sea-houseleek1597
aloe tree1640
tongue aloe1731
partridge-breast1811
partridge-breasted aloe1858
1551 W. Turner New Herball sig. B vj Some haue called it semper viuum marinum, that is sea aigrene.
sea-beard n. a marine plant, Cladophora (Conferva) rupestris.
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the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] > others
manatee grass1696
pepper dulse1724
pipeweed1755
sea-beard1777
Iceland sea grass1809
Porphyra1836
nullipore1840
sea-thread1843
niggerhair1852
lucky minnie's lines1853
marine sauce1866
hijiki1951
1777 S. Robson Brit. Flora 317 Conferva rupestris... Sea-beard.
sea-beet n. (a) a variety of the common beet, Beta vulgaris, often called Beta maritima; (b) = sea-lavender n. (b).
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > beet > beet plants
sea-beet1713
scarcity1787
leaf beet1830
Swiss chard1832
spinach beet1842
sea-kale beet1882
wurzel1888
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > sea lavender and allied flowers
moly1578
Our Lady's cushion1578
sea-grass1578
thrift1592
marsh lavender1597
sea spike-grass1597
statice1601
sea-cushion1629
sea-gilliflower1629
sea-thrift1706
sea-pink1731
lavender thrift1760
sea lavender1760
marsh rosemary1777
sea-daisy1838
sea-beet1845
cushion-pink1863
sea-lavender1865
1713 J. Petiver Catal. Ray's Eng. Herbal Sea Beet.
1845 G. Don in Encycl. Metrop. XXV. 28/2 Statice limonium, the Sea Beet, or Sea Lavender.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. at Beta The Sea Beet, Beta maritima, a perennial,..grows wild on the sea coast in various parts of Britain.
sea-bent n. Psamma (or Ammophila) arenaria (see bent n.1 1).
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > reedy or aquatic grasses > [noun] > sea bent or sea reed grass
sea-reedc1550
sea-bent1562
sea matweed1597
sea reed-grass1777
sand-reed1805
bent-star1822
sea matgrass1840
sand-sedge1842
sand-oat1881
1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball ii. 144 Sparta..is a kind of sea bente or sea rishe.
1899 Cumbld. Gloss. Sea bent, the sea-side grasses—Psamma arenaria, or Ammophila arundinacea, growing on the Bent hills at Maryport.
sea-berry n. †(a) some South American plant; (b) Australian applied to the genera Haloragis and Rhagodia.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > aquatic, marsh, and sea-shore plants > [noun] > unspecified or unidentified plants
bildersc1425
bladdera1500
olourc1540
bellrags1548
laver1562
sion1562
olorina1596
water wall1607
strumblowes1624
sea-ear1668
sea-berry1711
sea-froth1725
slawk1824
flannel-weed1893
the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > berry-bush or -tree > [noun] > Australasian
redberry1785
five-corner1826
wax-cluster1834
mako1848
makomako1848
snowberry1880
sea-berry1884
ground-berry1889
wineberry1889
1711 J. Petiver Gazophylacii VI. Table LX Brasil Sea-berry... Its leaves very green, juicy, and thick like Purslain.
1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants 123 Sea-berry, of Australia, the genera Haloragis and Rhagodia.
sea-bindweed n. Convolvulus soldanella.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > [noun] > bindweed or convolvulus
woodbinec875
withwindc1000
bearbinda1325
bindweed1548
buckwheat1548
foalfoot1548
sea-cole1548
convolvulus1551
weedbind1551
soldanel1562
withweed1567
bindcorn1574
running buck1574
bind1575
ivy-bindweed1578
weedwind1578
windweed1578
withywind1578
nil1597
sea-bell1597
sea-bindweed1597
sea or Scottish scurvy-grass1597
sea-withwind1597
soldanella1597
ropeweed1598
bethwine1609
volubilis1664
Scotch scurvy-grassa1722
black bindweed1785
calystegia1880
sea convolvulus1921
bell-binder-
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 690 Sea Withwinde, Sea Bindweed, Sea bels, Sea Coale, of some Sea Folefoote, and Scottish Scuruie grasse.
1786 Gentleman's Mag. 56 i. 35 Convolvulus Soldanella, Sea Bindweed.
sea-blite n. Suæda fruticosa.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > aquatic, marsh, and sea-shore plants > [noun] > sea-blite
stonecropc1000
shrub or tree stonecrop1713
sea-blite1762
gold chain1841
sea-goosefoot1856
sea-rosemary1866
Suaeda1901
1762 W. Hudson Flora Anglica 92 Chenopodium..maritimum... Anglis, Sea Blite or white Glasswort.
1855 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. IV. 267 Suæda (Sea-Blite).
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. at Schoberia S. fruticosa, the Shrubby Sea-blite, abundant on the muddy coast of Norfolk,..locally known by the name of Sea Rosemary.
sea-buckthorn n. Hippophaė rhamnoides.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > thorn-tree or -bush > [noun] > other thorn-trees
paliurec1384
paliurusa1398
sea-willow1548
Christ's thorn1553
buckler-thorn1562
garland-thorn1597
goat's thorn1597
Jews thorn1597
milk-vetch1597
sea-buckthorn1731
Spanish hedgehog thorn1760
sensitive briar1802
lily thorn1816
sallow thorn1847
cat-brier1875
1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I Rhamnoides, the Sea Buckthorn.
1905 H. R. Haggard Gardener's Year Sept. 323 Four or five years ago I planted some hundreds of Sea-buckthorn upon the face of my cliff.
sea-bugloss n. = sea lungwort n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > aquatic, marsh, and sea-shore plants > [noun] > oyster-plant
sea-lungwort1597
sea lightwort1770
oyster plant1847
sea-bugloss1884
1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants 123 Sea Bugloss, Pulmonaria (Mertensia) maritima.
sea-burdock n. the small burdock or burweed, Xanthium strumarium.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > weed > [noun] > bur-weed
clot-bur1548
ditch-bur1548
louse-burr1578
button-bur1634
bur-weed1783
clotweed1804
sea-burdock1845
Bathurst burr1855
Noogoora burr1883
1845–50 A. H. Lincoln Familiar Lect. Bot. (new ed.) App. 186/2 Xanthium..strumarium (cockle-burr, sea-burdock).
sea campion n. Silene maritima.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Caryophyllaceae (chickweeds and allies) > [noun] > campion and ragged robin
cow-rattle14..
campion1576
behen1578
crowsoap1578
white campion1578
catchfly1597
feather-top wild campion1597
frothy poppy1597
lime-wort1597
nonsuch1597
sea campion1597
spattling poppy (also campion)1597
Greek rose1601
lychnis1601
knap-bottle1640
moss pink1641
Lobel's catchfly1664
red robin1678
moss campion1690
red campion1728
round robin1741
Silene1751
Nottingham catchfly1762
silenal1836
Robin Hood1844
thunder-flower1853
gunpowder weed1860
sea-catchfly1864
robin redbreast1880
poppy1886
thunderbolt1886
rattleweed1893
cancer1896
bladder-campion-
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 382 Lychnis marina Anglica. English Sea Campion.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 382 The sea rose Campion is a small herbe.
1762 W. Hudson Flora Anglica 164 Silene..amoena... Anglis, Sea Campion.
sea-catchfly n. = sea campion n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Caryophyllaceae (chickweeds and allies) > [noun] > campion and ragged robin
cow-rattle14..
campion1576
behen1578
crowsoap1578
white campion1578
catchfly1597
feather-top wild campion1597
frothy poppy1597
lime-wort1597
nonsuch1597
sea campion1597
spattling poppy (also campion)1597
Greek rose1601
lychnis1601
knap-bottle1640
moss pink1641
Lobel's catchfly1664
red robin1678
moss campion1690
red campion1728
round robin1741
Silene1751
Nottingham catchfly1762
silenal1836
Robin Hood1844
thunder-flower1853
gunpowder weed1860
sea-catchfly1864
robin redbreast1880
poppy1886
thunderbolt1886
rattleweed1893
cancer1896
bladder-campion-
1864 Brady in Intellectual Observer V. 27 The Sea Catchfly (Silene maritima).
sea-chickweed n. = sea-sandwort n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Caryophyllaceae (chickweeds and allies) > [noun] > sandwort
sandwort1597
sea pimpernel1633
mountain chickweed1659
sea spurrey1762
sea-chickweed1786
arenariaa1806
sand-weed1849
sea-sandwort1850
sea spurrey sandwort1853
mountain sandwort1884
sand flower1916
1786 Gentleman's Mag. 56 i. 35 Arenaria Peploides, Sea Chickweed, remarkable for the depth and length to which it runs its roots.
sea cock's-foot-grass n. Spartina stricta.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > reedy or aquatic grasses > [noun] > marsh grass
salt grass1704
marsh grass1785
spartina1836
sea cock's-foot-grass1837
sea-grass1837
broom-sedge1856
cord-grass1861
rice grass1907
1837 W. Baxter Brit. Phænogamous Bot. III. 203 Spartina stricta. Twin-spiked Cord-grass. Smooth Sea-grass. Sea Cock's-footgrass.
sea-cole n. = sea-colewort n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > [noun] > bindweed or convolvulus
woodbinec875
withwindc1000
bearbinda1325
bindweed1548
buckwheat1548
foalfoot1548
sea-cole1548
convolvulus1551
weedbind1551
soldanel1562
withweed1567
bindcorn1574
running buck1574
bind1575
ivy-bindweed1578
weedwind1578
windweed1578
withywind1578
nil1597
sea-bell1597
sea-bindweed1597
sea or Scottish scurvy-grass1597
sea-withwind1597
soldanella1597
ropeweed1598
bethwine1609
volubilis1664
Scotch scurvy-grassa1722
black bindweed1785
calystegia1880
sea convolvulus1921
bell-binder-
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > cabbage or kale > sea-kale
sea-cole1548
sea-kale1699
sea-colewort1700
sea-cabbage1731
1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. B.vj Brassica syluestris groweth in Douer cliffes... It may be named in english sea cole.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iii. liv. 394 Of Soldanella or Sea Cawle.
1858 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Sea cole, a common name for the Crambe maritima, or sea-kale.
sea-colewort n. (a) = sea-kale n.; †(b) = sea-bindweed n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > cabbage or kale > sea-kale
sea-cole1548
sea-kale1699
sea-colewort1700
sea-cabbage1731
1700 C. Leigh Nat. Hist. Lancs. i. 93 Sea-colewort.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique Sea Colewort, a Plant that differs from other Coles.
1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxiii. 328 Sea-Colewort has a globose silique.
1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 240 Scottish Scurvy Grass. Sea Colewort. Sea Bindweed.
sea convolvulus n. = sea-bell n. 1, sea-bindweed n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > [noun] > bindweed or convolvulus
woodbinec875
withwindc1000
bearbinda1325
bindweed1548
buckwheat1548
foalfoot1548
sea-cole1548
convolvulus1551
weedbind1551
soldanel1562
withweed1567
bindcorn1574
running buck1574
bind1575
ivy-bindweed1578
weedwind1578
windweed1578
withywind1578
nil1597
sea-bell1597
sea-bindweed1597
sea or Scottish scurvy-grass1597
sea-withwind1597
soldanella1597
ropeweed1598
bethwine1609
volubilis1664
Scotch scurvy-grassa1722
black bindweed1785
calystegia1880
sea convolvulus1921
bell-binder-
1921 ‘K. Mansfield’ Let. 8 Aug. (1977) 227 Bathing dresses hanging over verandas, and sandshoes on window sills, and little pink ‘sea’ convolvulus.
sea-cushion n. = sea-pink n. 1.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > sea lavender and allied flowers
moly1578
Our Lady's cushion1578
sea-grass1578
thrift1592
marsh lavender1597
sea spike-grass1597
statice1601
sea-cushion1629
sea-gilliflower1629
sea-thrift1706
sea-pink1731
lavender thrift1760
sea lavender1760
marsh rosemary1777
sea-daisy1838
sea-beet1845
cushion-pink1863
sea-lavender1865
1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole 317 Caryophyllus Marinus. Thrift, or Sea Cushion.
sea cypress n. (see quot. 1855).
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > [noun] > tamarisk
quick treeeOE
tamariskc1400
myrica1548
jhow1827
ithel1838
sea cypress1855
tarfa1858
salt cedar1881
1855 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. II. 305 Tamarix Anglica..is in England commonly called Sea Cypress.
sea-daffodil n. the bulbous plant Pancratium maritimum, also the allied Peruvian plant Hymenocallis (Ismene) calathina.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > aquatic, marsh, and sea-shore plants > [noun] > sea-daffodil
sea-daffodil1597
sea-narcissus1669
sand lily1909
1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 135 The sea Onion of Valentia, or rather the sea Daffodill, hath many long and fat leaues.
1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole 98 Narcissus Marinus Africanus, sive Exoticus Lobelii. The Sea Daffodil of Africa.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. at Ismene The name of Sea Daffodil is given to I. calathina.
† sea-dock n. Obsolete Acanthus mollis.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Acanthaceae (acanthus) > [noun]
sea-docka1400
bear's footc1400
bear claw1543
acanthus1551
brank-ursine1551
bear's breech1565
acanth1648
Malabar nut1694
spirit-leaf1696
spirit weed1699
snap-tree?1711
many-roots1750
ruellia1751
Christmas pride1756
menow weed1756
strobilanthes1836
adelaster1863
bear's breeches1882
a1400 J. Mirfield Sinonoma Bartholomei (1882) 13/1 Branca ursina, herbaest, an. scehock [perh. read scedock].
c1450 Alphita (Anecd. Oxon.) 25 Branca ursina..sedokke.
1597 J. Gerard Herball App. Sedocke is brank vrsine.
1758 W. Borlase Nat. Hist. Cornwall 235 The bloody sea-dock, Lapathum marinum sanguineum.
† sea dog's grass n. Obsolete a maritime variety of couch-grass.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > weed > grasses perceived as weeds > [noun] > couch-grass
quitcheOE
quicka1400
quicken?c1425
couch-grass1578
twitch1588
twitch grass1588
dog grass1597
sea dog's grass1597
quick grass1617
couch1637
wheat-grass1668
scutch1686
quickenings1762
quicken grass1771
spear-grass1784
squitch1785
witchgrass1790
felt1794
dog-wheat1796
creeping wheat1819
quack1822
switch-grass1840
couch-wheat1884
1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 23 Gramen Caninum marinum. Sea Dogs grasse.
sea-fennel n. samphire.
ΚΠ
1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I Crithmum;..Smaller Samphire, or Sea-Fennel.
sea-gilliflower n. = sea-pink n. 1.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > sea lavender and allied flowers
moly1578
Our Lady's cushion1578
sea-grass1578
thrift1592
marsh lavender1597
sea spike-grass1597
statice1601
sea-cushion1629
sea-gilliflower1629
sea-thrift1706
sea-pink1731
lavender thrift1760
sea lavender1760
marsh rosemary1777
sea-daisy1838
sea-beet1845
cushion-pink1863
sea-lavender1865
1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole 318 The greater or Leuant Thrift, or Sea Gilloflower.
1806 Gazetteer Scotl. (ed. 2) at Orkney Islands The root of sea-gilliflower, statice armeria.
sea-goosefoot n. = sea-blite n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > aquatic, marsh, and sea-shore plants > [noun] > sea-blite
stonecropc1000
shrub or tree stonecrop1713
sea-blite1762
gold chain1841
sea-goosefoot1856
sea-rosemary1866
Suaeda1901
1856 A. Gray Man. Bot. Northern U.S. (1860) 366 Chenopodina... Sea Goosefoot.
sea-gromwell n. the sea-bugloss ( Encycl. Dict. 1887).
sea hard-grass n. one of various maritime species of hard-grass.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > reedy or aquatic grasses > [noun] > other aquatic grasses
reed-grass1597
marram1640
reed meadow grass1772
eel-grass1790
buttongrass1814
cutting grass1831
sea hard-grass1843
sea sand-reed1856
tape-grass1857
spinifex1877
surf-grass1923
1843 W. Baxter Brit. Phænogamous Bot. VI. 476 Rottbollia incurvata... Sea Hard-grass.
sea-heath n. a ‘heath’ of the genus Frankenia.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > heather or heath and similar plants > [noun]
heather1335
ling?c1357
heath1626
grig1691
bottle heath?1711
sea-heath1713
heather-bell1725
red heath?1788
Calluna1803
Scotch heath1822
Erica1826
winter heath1842
heathwort1847
heath-blooms1858
St. Dabeoc's heath1863
cat-heather1864
honey bottle1868
French heath1871
1713 J. Petiver Catal. Ray's Eng. Herbal Sea heath.
1762 W. Hudson Flora Anglica 120 Frankenia..lævis.., smooth Sea Heath.
sea hog's-fennel n. (see quot. 1855).
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Umbelliferae (umbellifers) > [noun] > hog's fennel and allies
swine's fennel?a1425
swine's finkle?a1450
hog's fennel1525
dog fennel1526
harstrang1562
mountain parsley1578
sow-fennel1578
sulphurwort1578
much good1597
rock parsley1597
milky parsley1640
brimstone-wort1678
marsh milkweed1787
milk parsley1787
sea sulphur-wort1807
sea sulphur-weed1850
sulphur-weed1850
sea hog's-fennel1855
1855 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. III. 55 Peucedanum officinale (Sea Hog's-fennel, or Sulphur-weed).
sea-houseleek n. the aloe.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Liliaceae family or plants > [noun] > aloe plants
aloeeOE
sea ay-green1551
sea-houseleek1597
aloe tree1640
tongue aloe1731
partridge-breast1811
partridge-breasted aloe1858
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 410 The same effect Sea Housleeke works as well as thees.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Ioubarbe arborée, Tree Housleeke..Ioubarbe marine, Sea Housleek, Sea Aygreen, hearb Aloes.
† sea-hull n. Obsolete = sea-holly n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > medicinal and culinary plants > plant used medicinally or as sweetmeat > [noun] > eryngo plant
sea-thistlec1265
sea-holly1548
sea-hulver1548
sea-holm?1550
erynge1578
sea-ivy1588
sea-hull1608
eryngo-root1620
eryngo1668
ring-roota1718
fit-weed1756
1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 45 The Sea-thistle, called Eryngium marinum, which some call Sea hull, or Huluer.
sea-hulver n. = sea-holly n. (see hulver n.); also attributive.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > medicinal and culinary plants > plant used medicinally or as sweetmeat > [noun] > eryngo plant
sea-thistlec1265
sea-holly1548
sea-hulver1548
sea-holm?1550
erynge1578
sea-ivy1588
sea-hull1608
eryngo-root1620
eryngo1668
ring-roota1718
fit-weed1756
1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. D.i Eryngium is named in englishe sea Hulver or sea Holly.
a1592 R. Greene Mamillia (1593) ii. sig. O Resembling the sea huluer leafe.
sea ivory n. a pale greyish lichen, Ramalina siliquosa, growing in flattened branches on sea-shore rocks; see also Compounds 6a.
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the world > plants > particular plants > lichen > [noun] > other lichens
cup-moss1597
ground liverwort1597
Usnea1597
perelle1712
oak moss1728
necklace moss1759
rag1759
thrush-lichen1759
Iceland lichen1777
Iceland moss1785
map lichen1796
scripture-wort1835
letter lichen1846
dog lichen1853
fairy cups1855
velvet moss1858
manna lichen1864
tree-hair1866
famine-bread1887
old man's beard1888
sea ivory1966
1966 F. H. Brightman Oxf. Bk. Flowerless Plants p. viii/1 ‘Sea Ivory’..grows abundantly wherever there are rocks exposed at high-water mark.
† sea-ivy n. Obsolete ? = sea ivory n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > medicinal and culinary plants > plant used medicinally or as sweetmeat > [noun] > eryngo plant
sea-thistlec1265
sea-holly1548
sea-hulver1548
sea-holm?1550
erynge1578
sea-ivy1588
sea-hull1608
eryngo-root1620
eryngo1668
ring-roota1718
fit-weed1756
1588 R. Greene Pandosto sig. C4 To see if perchaunce the sheepe was browsing on the sea Iuy.
sea-kemp n. Scottish = sea-plantain n.
ΚΠ
1889 Cent. Dict. at Kemp Sea-kemp, Plantago maritima, the sea-plantain.
sea-laurel n. the seaside laurel.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > bay-tree and allies > [noun] > common or cherry-laurel and allies
Daphnec1430
cherry-bay1633
cherry-laurel1664
laurel1664
bay-cherry1665
laurel-cherry1787
sea-laurel1816
saj1839
1816–20 T. Green Universal Herbal II. 875 Sea Laurel. Phyllanthus.
sea-lavender n. †(a) ? some species of Heliotropium; (b) Statice Limonium (see lavender n.2 1b).
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > sea lavender and allied flowers
moly1578
Our Lady's cushion1578
sea-grass1578
thrift1592
marsh lavender1597
sea spike-grass1597
statice1601
sea-cushion1629
sea-gilliflower1629
sea-thrift1706
sea-pink1731
lavender thrift1760
sea lavender1760
marsh rosemary1777
sea-daisy1838
sea-beet1845
cushion-pink1863
sea-lavender1865
1696 L. Plukenet Almagestum in Wks. (1769) II. 182 Heliotropium Gnaphaloides litoreum fruticescens Americanum, Sea-Lavender Barbadensibus dictum.
1865 P. H. Gosse Land & Sea 31 Enormous tufts of the common thrift or sea-lavender.
sea lightwort n. ? Mertensia maritima.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > aquatic, marsh, and sea-shore plants > [noun] > oyster-plant
sea-lungwort1597
sea lightwort1770
oyster plant1847
sea-bugloss1884
1770 J. Hill Herbarium Brit. II. 163 Pneumaria Maritima, Sea Lightwort.
sea lungwort n. the oyster-plant, Mertensia maritima.
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1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. 1377 Lichen Marinus. Sea Lungwoort, or Oister greene.
1657 W. Coles Adam in Eden cvi.
sea matgrass n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > reedy or aquatic grasses > [noun] > sea bent or sea reed grass
sea-reedc1550
sea-bent1562
sea matweed1597
sea reed-grass1777
sand-reed1805
bent-star1822
sea matgrass1840
sand-sedge1842
sand-oat1881
1840 J. Paxton Pocket Bot. Dict. Sea matgrass, Psamma arenaria.
sea matweed n. Psamma arenaria.
ΚΠ
1843 W. Baxter Brit. Phænogamous Bot. VI. 408 Ammophila Arundinacea. Sea Mat-weed.
† sea-mugwort n. Obsolete = sea-wormwood n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > Artemisia or mugwort
mugworteOE
artemisiaOE
mugweeda1400
motherwort1440
matricary1523
French wormwood1548
holy wormwood1548
sea-mugwort1548
sea-wormwood1548
tree wormwood1548
Roman wormwood1551
southernwood1577
garden cypress1578
mouse-wort1607
field southernwood1739
sage1805
hyssop1807
sage-bush1807
appleringie1808
absinth1841
sage-brush1850
1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. B.iij Arthemisia is of three sortes, the fyrst is the herbe that I cal sea Mugworte.
sea myrtle n. = groundsel-tree n. at groundsel n.1 Compounds.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > non-British shrubs > [noun] > North-American
wild tea1728
bastard indigo1730
mountain heath1731
groundsel-tree1736
amorpha1751
buttonbush1754
moosewood1778
pipestem wood1791
modesty1809
sand myrtle1814
wicopy1823
lead-plant1833
false indigo1841
sleek-leaf1845
arrow weed1848
rabbit bush1852
ribbonwood1860
rabbit brush1877
sea myrtle1883
pencil tree1884
tar-bush1884
ocean spray1906
1883 G. O. Shields Hunting Great West xxi. 195 Within the space of this five acres may be found..sea myrtle, grape vine and ivy of several varieties.
1938 M. K. Rawlings Yearling xxiii. 279 The October blooming of dog-fennel and sea-myrtle had turned to a feathery fluff.
† sea-narcissus n. Obsolete = sea-daffodil n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > aquatic, marsh, and sea-shore plants > [noun] > sea-daffodil
sea-daffodil1597
sea-narcissus1669
sand lily1909
1669 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense (ed. 3) 61 Flowers in Prime..Peonies..Sea-Narcissus [etc.].
† sea-navel n. Obsolete
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Crassulaceae (stonecrop and allies) > [noun] > navelwort
pennywortc1300
wall penny-grassa1400
navelwortc1450
wall penny grass1562
Venus' navel1592
hipwort1597
sea-navel1597
sea-navelwort1597
sea-pennywort1597
Venus' garden1597
cotyledon1601
kidneywort1640
Venus's navelwort1678
penny pie1707
acetabulum1727
penny leaf1782
pancakes1882
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 426 The sea Nauell is of a diureticke qualitie.
1728 R. Bradley Dict. Botanicum at Pennywort Sea-Pennywort is the Sea-Navel.
† sea-navelwort n. Obsolete some plant resembling the genus Cotyledon.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Crassulaceae (stonecrop and allies) > [noun] > navelwort
pennywortc1300
wall penny-grassa1400
navelwortc1450
wall penny grass1562
Venus' navel1592
hipwort1597
sea-navel1597
sea-navelwort1597
sea-pennywort1597
Venus' garden1597
cotyledon1601
kidneywort1640
Venus's navelwort1678
penny pie1707
acetabulum1727
penny leaf1782
pancakes1882
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 426 Sea Nauell woort prouoketh vrine.
sea onion n. Urginea (formerly Scilla) maritima, a native of the Mediterranean region, which produces the bulbs called squills; also applied locally to Scilla verna.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Liliaceae family or plants > [noun] > squill or sea-onion
onion?a1425
squillc1440
sea onion1526
squilla1526
French onion1548
scilla1629
vernal squill1796
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. xliii. 937 Cepe caninum..is yfounde by þe see syde; þerfore Platearius clepiþ him cepe marina, as it were ‘a see oynoun’.]
1526 Grete Herball ccccxiii. sig. Yiv/1 A squyll or see onyon.
1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. G.i Scilla is named of the Poticaries squilla, in english a sea Onion, and in some places, a french Onyon.
1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 137 The common Squill or sea Onion.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 28 Pushes or suddaine boyles..are cured with the ioyce of asses dung, and of sea-oynions beat to pouder.
1807 J. Robinson Archæol. Græca iii. iv. 211 Drawing round the person purified a squill, or sea-onion.
sea-orach n. Atriplex littoralis.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Chenopodiaccae (goose-foot and allies) > [noun] > salt bush or orach
milesOE
orachea1300
golden herb1562
notchweed1659
sea pot-herb1706
lamb's quarter1773
butter leaves1789
fat-hen1795
mountain spinach1822
sea-orach1845
salt bush1863
1845–50 A. H. Lincoln Familiar Lect. Bot. (new ed.) 151 The genus Atriplex, (sea-orache).
sea ox-eye n. the seaside ox-eye (see ox-eye n. 1e).
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > composite flowers > other composite flowers
ox-eyea1400
starwort?a1450
Jupiter's beard1567
goldenrod1568
achillea1597
blue camomile1597
blue daisy1597
cineraria1597
hog's bean1597
jackanapes on horseback1597
sea-starwort1597
sultan flower1629
mouse-ear1696
aster1706
Canada goldenrod1731
ageratum1737
rudbeckia1751
coreopsis1753
melampodium1754
Aaron's rod1760
zinnia1761
Michaelmas daisy1767
China aster1785
New England aster1785
catananche1798
sea-aster1812
cosmea1813
cosmos1813
gazania1813
erigeron1815
gousblom1822
Christmas daisy1829
rhodanthe1834
tassel-flower1836
ligularia1839
old maid1839
mountain daisy1848
purple coneflower1848
acroclinium1852
sea ox-eye1856
thimble-weed1860
helipterum1862
treasure-flower1866
Swan River daisy1873
blanket flower1879
cone-flower1879
blue marguerite1882
Solidago1883
yellow-top1887
Gaillardia1888
gerbera1889
youth and old age1889
pussytoes1892
niggerhead1893
Transvaal daisy1899
Barberton daisy1906
onion grass1909
ursinia1928
Cupid's dart1930
Livingstone daisy1932
1856 A. Gray Man. Bot. Northern U.S. (1860) 213 Borrichia... Sea Ox-eye.
sea-parsley n. (see quot. 1843).
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > medicinal and culinary plants > medicinal and culinary plant or part of plant > [noun] > lovage
luvestichec1000
lovagec1300
libstick1688
Scotch lovage1731
Scotch parsley1774
smellage1836
sea-parsley1843
osha1889
1843 W. Baxter Brit. Phænogamous Bot. VI. 472 Ligusticum scoticum. Scotch Lovage. Scotch Parsley. Sea Parsley.
sea parsnip n. name for the genus Echinophora, esp. E. spinosa, growing on sea-shores, with prickly inflorescence.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Umbelliferae (umbellifers) > [noun] > prickly parsnip
sea parsnip1640
prickly parsnip1760
1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 1286 The Sea Parsneppe.
sea-pea n. Lathyrus maritimus ( Pisum maritimum), a sea-coast species rare in England.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > leguminous plants > [noun] > vetchling
vetchling1578
bird's pease1633
sea-pea1633
vetch1671
lathyrus1736
Tangier pea1736
vetch grass1753
meadow vetchling1796
1633 T. Johnson Gerard's Herball (new ed.) (Table Eng. Names) Norfolke sea Pease.
1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Pisum English Sea Pea..is found wild upon the Shoar in Sussex, and several other Counties.
1832 E. Lankester Veg. Substances Food 180 The Sea-Pea is a native of this country... During a famine in..1555, the application of the seeds..as an article of food was extensively..practised.
† sea-pennywort n. Obsolete = sea-navelwort n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Crassulaceae (stonecrop and allies) > [noun] > navelwort
pennywortc1300
wall penny-grassa1400
navelwortc1450
wall penny grass1562
Venus' navel1592
hipwort1597
sea-navel1597
sea-navelwort1597
sea-pennywort1597
Venus' garden1597
cotyledon1601
kidneywort1640
Venus's navelwort1678
penny pie1707
acetabulum1727
penny leaf1782
pancakes1882
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 425 Of Sea Pennywoort.
sea pimpernel n. Honkenya peploides; also seaside pimpernel.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Caryophyllaceae (chickweeds and allies) > [noun] > sandwort
sandwort1597
sea pimpernel1633
mountain chickweed1659
sea spurrey1762
sea-chickweed1786
arenariaa1806
sand-weed1849
sea-sandwort1850
sea spurrey sandwort1853
mountain sandwort1884
sand flower1916
1633 T. Johnson Gerard's Herball (new ed.) ii. 622 Anthyllis lentifolia, siue Alsine cruciata marina... I haue Englished it Sea Pimpernell, because the leaues in shape are as like those of Pimpernel as of any other Plant.
sea-plantain n. Plantago maritima.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > aquatic, marsh, and sea-shore plants > [noun] > water-plantain
water plantain1538
alisma1575
sea-plantain1578
thrumwort1829
alismad1846
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. lxiii. 92 We call the fourth [kind]..Sea Plantayne.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 343 The sea Plantaine, hath small and narrowe leaues.
sea poppy n. the common horned poppy, Glaucium luteum.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > poppy and allied flowers > allied flowers
poppyOE
horned poppy1548
yellow poppy1548
sea poppy1562
garden poppy1577
wind-rose1597
prickly poppy1648
squatmore1691
oriental poppy1731
Welsh poppy1731
infernal fig1760
Mexican poppy1811
Meconopsis1836
redcap1846
horn-poppy1851
squirrel-corn1856
eschscholtzia1857
dielytra1864
Dicentra1866
yellow thistle1866
turkey-corn1884
Shirley poppy1886
1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 77 It may be named in Englishe horned poppy or see poppy, or yelow poppy.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 295 Called..in English sea Poppie, and horned Poppie.
† sea pot-herb n. Obsolete = sea-orach n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Chenopodiaccae (goose-foot and allies) > [noun] > salt bush or orach
milesOE
orachea1300
golden herb1562
notchweed1659
sea pot-herb1706
lamb's quarter1773
butter leaves1789
fat-hen1795
mountain spinach1822
sea-orach1845
salt bush1863
1706 J. Stevens New Spanish Dict. i Salgada, the Plant call'd Sea-pot-herb.
sea-purslane n. (see purslane n. 2).
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > aquatic, marsh, and sea-shore plants > [noun] > other aquatic plants
sea-purslane1548
frog-bit1578
heartwort1578
milkwort1578
water dragon1578
water-liverwort1578
water milfoil1578
water milfoil1578
water radish1578
arrowhead1597
saltwort1597
water archer1597
calla1601
water-rocket1605
sea rocket1611
water archer1617
water chickweed1633
water purslane1633
arsesmart1640
water hyssop1653
water thyme1655
water serpent1659
Myriophyllum1754
least water plantain1756
mud-weed1756
Thalia1756
water-leaf1756
marsh liverwort1760
bastard plantain1762
wool-weed1765
Ruppia1770
goat's foot1773
pipewort1776
blinking chickweed1777
mudwort1789
arrowleaf1805
water-target1814
water willow1814
felwort1816
water shield1817
mermaid weed1822
mud plantain1822
hydrilla1824
blinks1835
crystalwort1846
naiad1846
waterwort1846
arrow weed1848
willow-thorn1857
lattice leaf1866
marsh flower1866
bonnet1869
lattice plant1877
sea-ash1884
alligator weed1887
water parsley1891
water hyacinth1897
lirio1926
neverwet1927
1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. C.iv Cepaea Plinij groweth by the sea syde, and because it is very lyke Purcellayne, it maye be called in englishe sea Purcellayne.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball v. xx. 575 Sea Purcelayne groweth vpon bankes..adioyning to the sea.
sea-purslane tree n. (see quot. 1548 for sea-purslane n.).
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > other trees > [noun]
blood tree1785
sea-purslane tree1786
salt-tree1824
fever tree1830
sand wood1840
scrubwood1874
mulatto tree1876
1786 J. Abercrombie Arrangem. Plants 26 in Gardeners Daily Assistant Atriplex Halimus, sea-purslane tree.
sea-radish n. a variety of the wild radish, sometimes regarded as a species ( Raphanus maritimus).
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > weed > [noun] > wild radish
sea-radish1843
ramenas1902
1843 C. C. Babington Man. Brit. Bot. 31 R[aphanus] maritimus,..Sea Radish.
sea-ragwort n. a common cultivated foliage-plant, Senecio Cineraria (or Cineraria maritima).
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > ragwort
groundsela700
ragwortc1300
bunweeda1525
senecio1562
St. James's wort1578
rugwort1592
felon-weed1597
staggerwort1597
staverwort1597
yellow-weed1597
ragweed1610
swine's grassa1697
hogs madder1707
sea-ragwort1736
dog standard1767
Jacobaea1789
swinecress1803
benweed1823
fly-dod1826
mountain groundsel1830
cushag1843
fairies' horse1866
Oxford ragwort1884
1736 Compl. Family-piece ii. iii. 300 Buphthalmums, Sea Holly, Sea Ragwort.
1852 G. W. Johnson Cottage Gardeners' Dict. Cineraria maritima (sea Ragwort).
sea-reed n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > reedy or aquatic grasses > [noun] > sea bent or sea reed grass
sea-reedc1550
sea-bent1562
sea matweed1597
sea reed-grass1777
sand-reed1805
bent-star1822
sea matgrass1840
sand-sedge1842
sand-oat1881
c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 52 Mercurius that playit on ane sey reid.
1717 T. Parnell tr. Homer's Battle Frogs & Mice ii. 77 Tap'ring Sea-Reeds for the polish'd Spear.
1861 S. Thomson Wanderings among Wild Flowers (rev. ed.) iii. 213 The sea-reed, or Ammophila arundinacea, deserves our attention.
sea reed-grass n. = sea-bent n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > reedy or aquatic grasses > [noun] > sea bent or sea reed grass
sea-reedc1550
sea-bent1562
sea matweed1597
sea reed-grass1777
sand-reed1805
bent-star1822
sea matgrass1840
sand-sedge1842
sand-oat1881
1777 J. Lightfoot Flora Scotica I. 107 [Arundo arenaria] Sea Reed-Grass. Anglis.
sea rocket n. [compare Dutch zeeraket (1554 in Dodoens as †zeerakette)] (see quots.).
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > aquatic, marsh, and sea-shore plants > [noun] > other aquatic plants
sea-purslane1548
frog-bit1578
heartwort1578
milkwort1578
water dragon1578
water-liverwort1578
water milfoil1578
water milfoil1578
water radish1578
arrowhead1597
saltwort1597
water archer1597
calla1601
water-rocket1605
sea rocket1611
water archer1617
water chickweed1633
water purslane1633
arsesmart1640
water hyssop1653
water thyme1655
water serpent1659
Myriophyllum1754
least water plantain1756
mud-weed1756
Thalia1756
water-leaf1756
marsh liverwort1760
bastard plantain1762
wool-weed1765
Ruppia1770
goat's foot1773
pipewort1776
blinking chickweed1777
mudwort1789
arrowleaf1805
water-target1814
water willow1814
felwort1816
water shield1817
mermaid weed1822
mud plantain1822
hydrilla1824
blinks1835
crystalwort1846
naiad1846
waterwort1846
arrow weed1848
willow-thorn1857
lattice leaf1866
marsh flower1866
bonnet1869
lattice plant1877
sea-ash1884
alligator weed1887
water parsley1891
water hyacinth1897
lirio1926
neverwet1927
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Cachile, Sea-rocket.
1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) III. 563 Bunias Cakile, Sea Rocket.
1845 A. Wood Class-bk. Bot. ii. 43 C. maritima... Native of the sea-coast and of the lake-shores of N.Y... Sea Rocket.
sea-rosemary n. (a) = sea-blite n.; (b) = sea-lavender n. (b) (Cent. Dict.).
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > aquatic, marsh, and sea-shore plants > [noun] > sea-blite
stonecropc1000
shrub or tree stonecrop1713
sea-blite1762
gold chain1841
sea-goosefoot1856
sea-rosemary1866
Suaeda1901
1866Sea rosemary [see sea-blite n.].
sea sand-reed n. (see quot. 1856).
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > reedy or aquatic grasses > [noun] > other aquatic grasses
reed-grass1597
marram1640
reed meadow grass1772
eel-grass1790
buttongrass1814
cutting grass1831
sea hard-grass1843
sea sand-reed1856
tape-grass1857
spinifex1877
surf-grass1923
1856 A. Gray Man. Bot. Northern U.S. (1860) 548 Calamagrostis arenaria (Sea Sand-Reed).
sea-sandwort n. a variety of sandwort, Honkenya (Arenaria) peploides, growing in the sand of the coasts of Europe and North America.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Caryophyllaceae (chickweeds and allies) > [noun] > sandwort
sandwort1597
sea pimpernel1633
mountain chickweed1659
sea spurrey1762
sea-chickweed1786
arenariaa1806
sand-weed1849
sea-sandwort1850
sea spurrey sandwort1853
mountain sandwort1884
sand flower1916
1850 A. Pratt Chapters Common Things Sea-side i. 35 The sea sandwort (Arenaria peploides)..is very common.
1882 Thomson in Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 9 iii. 449 The Sea Sandwort (Honkeneja peploides).
† sea spike-grass n. Obsolete thrift.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > sea lavender and allied flowers
moly1578
Our Lady's cushion1578
sea-grass1578
thrift1592
marsh lavender1597
sea spike-grass1597
statice1601
sea-cushion1629
sea-gilliflower1629
sea-thrift1706
sea-pink1731
lavender thrift1760
sea lavender1760
marsh rosemary1777
sea-daisy1838
sea-beet1845
cushion-pink1863
sea-lavender1865
1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 17 Spike Sea grasse hath many small leaues.
sea-spleenwort n. a fern, Asplenium marinum, growing on the rocky coasts of Western Europe.
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the world > plants > particular plants > ferns > [noun] > spleenworts
maidenhairc1300
finger fern1548
scale-fern1548
stone-rue1548
wall rue1548
tentwort?1550
ceterach1551
stone-fern1552
English maidenhair1562
male fern1562
miltwaste1578
spleenwort1578
stonewort1585
white maidenhair1597
milt-wort1611
mule's fern1633
rusty-back1776
maidenhair spleenwort1837
sea-spleenwort1850
sea-fern1855
scaly spleenwort1859
black adiantum1866
1850 A. Pratt Chapters Common Things Sea-side i. 88 The sea spleenwort (Asplenium marinum).
1859 J. C. Atkinson Walks & Talks Two Schoolboys (1892) 337 A habitat of the sea-spleenwort.
sea-spurge n. a maritime spurge, Euphorbia Paralias.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Euphorbiaceae (spurges and allies) > [noun]
catapucec1386
Euphorbiaa1398
spurgea1400
tithymala1400
faitour's grassc1440
cat's-grassc1450
nettlewort1523
essell1527
lint-spurge1548
sea wartwort1548
spurge thyme1548
line-spurge1562
myrtle spurge1562
sun spurge1562
wolf's-milk1575
cypress tithymal1578
devil's milk1578
mercury1578
sea-spurge1597
sun tithymal1597
welcome to our house1597
wood-spurge1597
Euphorbium1606
milk-reed1611
milkwort1640
sun-turning spurge1640
spurge-wort1647
caper-bush1673
Portland spurge1715
milkweed1736
Medusa's head1760
little-good1808
welcome-home-husband1828
three-seeded mercury1846
cat's-milk1861
turnsole1863–79
mole-tree1864
snow-on-the-mountain1873
seven sisters1879
caper-plant1882
asthma herb1887
mountain snow1889
crown of thorns1890
olifants melkbos1898
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 401 The first kinde of Sea Spurge riseth foorth of the sands.
1855 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. V. 9 Euphorbia Paralias (Sea Spurge).
sea spurrey n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Caryophyllaceae (chickweeds and allies) > [noun] > sandwort
sandwort1597
sea pimpernel1633
mountain chickweed1659
sea spurrey1762
sea-chickweed1786
arenariaa1806
sand-weed1849
sea-sandwort1850
sea spurrey sandwort1853
mountain sandwort1884
sand flower1916
1762 W. Hudson Flora Anglica 169 Arenaria..marina... Sea Spurrey.
sea spurrey sandwort n. (see quots.).
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Caryophyllaceae (chickweeds and allies) > [noun] > sandwort
sandwort1597
sea pimpernel1633
mountain chickweed1659
sea spurrey1762
sea-chickweed1786
arenariaa1806
sand-weed1849
sea-sandwort1850
sea spurrey sandwort1853
mountain sandwort1884
sand flower1916
1853 A. Pratt Wild Flowers II. 95 Sea Spurrey Sandwort, Arenaria marina.
sea-starwort n. Aster Tripolium.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > composite flowers > other composite flowers
ox-eyea1400
starwort?a1450
Jupiter's beard1567
goldenrod1568
achillea1597
blue camomile1597
blue daisy1597
cineraria1597
hog's bean1597
jackanapes on horseback1597
sea-starwort1597
sultan flower1629
mouse-ear1696
aster1706
Canada goldenrod1731
ageratum1737
rudbeckia1751
coreopsis1753
melampodium1754
Aaron's rod1760
zinnia1761
Michaelmas daisy1767
China aster1785
New England aster1785
catananche1798
sea-aster1812
cosmea1813
cosmos1813
gazania1813
erigeron1815
gousblom1822
Christmas daisy1829
rhodanthe1834
tassel-flower1836
ligularia1839
old maid1839
mountain daisy1848
purple coneflower1848
acroclinium1852
sea ox-eye1856
thimble-weed1860
helipterum1862
treasure-flower1866
Swan River daisy1873
blanket flower1879
cone-flower1879
blue marguerite1882
Solidago1883
yellow-top1887
Gaillardia1888
gerbera1889
youth and old age1889
pussytoes1892
niggerhead1893
Transvaal daisy1899
Barberton daisy1906
onion grass1909
ursinia1928
Cupid's dart1930
Livingstone daisy1932
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 334 Tripolium,..is called..in English Sea Starwort.
1861 S. Thomson Wanderings among Wild Flowers (rev. ed.) iii. 248 The sea-star-wort, or Michaelmas daisy.
sea-stock n. (also great sea stock) Matthiola sinuata.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > cruciferous flowers > white or purple flowers
garden rocket1548
queen's gillyflower1573
cuckoo-flower1578
damask violet1578
dame's-violet1578
rogue's gilliflower1578
wild passerage1578
lady's smock1593
Canterbury bells1597
close-sciences1597
sea stock-gillyflower1597
cardamine1609
melancholic gentleman1629
melancholy gentleman1629
Whitsun gilliflower1656
Hesperis1666
rocket1731
queen's violet1733
queen's July-flower1760
Virginian stock1760
spinka1774
damewort1776
virgin-stock1786
pink1818
sea-stock1849
clown's mustard1861
rock beauty1870
milksile-
1849 M. Arnold Forsaken Merman 69 The sandy down Where the sea-stocks bloom.
1862 D. T. Ansted & R. G. Latham Channel Islands ii. viii. 177 The purple flowers of the great sea stock (matthiola sinuata).
† sea stock-gillyflower n. Obsolete = sea-stock n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > cruciferous flowers > white or purple flowers
garden rocket1548
queen's gillyflower1573
cuckoo-flower1578
damask violet1578
dame's-violet1578
rogue's gilliflower1578
wild passerage1578
lady's smock1593
Canterbury bells1597
close-sciences1597
sea stock-gillyflower1597
cardamine1609
melancholic gentleman1629
melancholy gentleman1629
Whitsun gilliflower1656
Hesperis1666
rocket1731
queen's violet1733
queen's July-flower1760
Virginian stock1760
spinka1774
damewort1776
virgin-stock1786
pink1818
sea-stock1849
clown's mustard1861
rock beauty1870
milksile-
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 374 The Sea stocke Gilloflower hath a small wooddie roote very threddie.
sea sulphur-weed n. = sea sulphur-wort n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Umbelliferae (umbellifers) > [noun] > hog's fennel and allies
swine's fennel?a1425
swine's finkle?a1450
hog's fennel1525
dog fennel1526
harstrang1562
mountain parsley1578
sow-fennel1578
sulphurwort1578
much good1597
rock parsley1597
milky parsley1640
brimstone-wort1678
marsh milkweed1787
milk parsley1787
sea sulphur-wort1807
sea sulphur-weed1850
sulphur-weed1850
sea hog's-fennel1855
1850 A. Pratt Chapters Common Things Sea-side i. 67 The Sea Sulphur-weed (Peucedanum officinale) is a much more rare plant of the salt marsh.
sea sulphur-wort n. Peucedanum officinale.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Umbelliferae (umbellifers) > [noun] > hog's fennel and allies
swine's fennel?a1425
swine's finkle?a1450
hog's fennel1525
dog fennel1526
harstrang1562
mountain parsley1578
sow-fennel1578
sulphurwort1578
much good1597
rock parsley1597
milky parsley1640
brimstone-wort1678
marsh milkweed1787
milk parsley1787
sea sulphur-wort1807
sea sulphur-weed1850
sulphur-weed1850
sea hog's-fennel1855
1807 J. E. Smith Eng. Bot. XXV. 1767 Peucedanum officinale. Sea Sulphur-wort.
sea-thrift n. = sea-pink n. 1.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > sea lavender and allied flowers
moly1578
Our Lady's cushion1578
sea-grass1578
thrift1592
marsh lavender1597
sea spike-grass1597
statice1601
sea-cushion1629
sea-gilliflower1629
sea-thrift1706
sea-pink1731
lavender thrift1760
sea lavender1760
marsh rosemary1777
sea-daisy1838
sea-beet1845
cushion-pink1863
sea-lavender1865
1706 G. London & H. Wise Retir'd Gard'ner I. iii. 311 Sea-Thrift, [is vivacious] by its Tufts.
1862 D. T. Ansted & R. G. Latham Channel Islands i. v. 112 A flower of the sea-thrift.
† sea trifoly n. Obsolete Astragalus Glaux.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > leguminous plants > [noun] > milk-vetch
astragalus1548
sea trefoil1548
sea trifoly1548
milk-vetch1597
liquorice vetch1640
prairie pea1848
sweet milk-vetch1860
buffalo-bean1906
1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. D.iiij Glaux..may be called in englishe sea Trifoly.
1601 R. Chester Loves Martyr 82 Blessed thistle, and Sea Trifoly.
† sea wartwort n. Obsolete a variety of spurge, Euphorbia Peplis.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Euphorbiaceae (spurges and allies) > [noun]
catapucec1386
Euphorbiaa1398
spurgea1400
tithymala1400
faitour's grassc1440
cat's-grassc1450
nettlewort1523
essell1527
lint-spurge1548
sea wartwort1548
spurge thyme1548
line-spurge1562
myrtle spurge1562
sun spurge1562
wolf's-milk1575
cypress tithymal1578
devil's milk1578
mercury1578
sea-spurge1597
sun tithymal1597
welcome to our house1597
wood-spurge1597
Euphorbium1606
milk-reed1611
milkwort1640
sun-turning spurge1640
spurge-wort1647
caper-bush1673
Portland spurge1715
milkweed1736
Medusa's head1760
little-good1808
welcome-home-husband1828
three-seeded mercury1846
cat's-milk1861
turnsole1863–79
mole-tree1864
snow-on-the-mountain1873
seven sisters1879
caper-plant1882
asthma herb1887
mountain snow1889
crown of thorns1890
olifants melkbos1898
1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. F.iv Peplis..may be..called in english sea wartwurt.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 407 The strongest kinde of Tithymale, and of greatest force is that of the sea.
sea-wheat n. = sea-wheatgrass n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > reedy or aquatic grasses > [noun] > wheatgrass
wheat-grass1668
sea-wheatgrass1796
sea-wheat1839
1839 M. Howitt Marien's Pilgr. viii. xi Where only the dry sea-wheat grew.
sea-wheatgrass n. the wheatgrass Triticum junceum, growing on the sandy seashore.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > reedy or aquatic grasses > [noun] > wheatgrass
wheat-grass1668
sea-wheatgrass1796
sea-wheat1839
1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 173 Triticum... Sea Wheatgrass.
sea-withwind n. Convolvulus Soldanella.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > [noun] > bindweed or convolvulus
woodbinec875
withwindc1000
bearbinda1325
bindweed1548
buckwheat1548
foalfoot1548
sea-cole1548
convolvulus1551
weedbind1551
soldanel1562
withweed1567
bindcorn1574
running buck1574
bind1575
ivy-bindweed1578
weedwind1578
windweed1578
withywind1578
nil1597
sea-bell1597
sea-bindweed1597
sea or Scottish scurvy-grass1597
sea-withwind1597
soldanella1597
ropeweed1598
bethwine1609
volubilis1664
Scotch scurvy-grassa1722
black bindweed1785
calystegia1880
sea convolvulus1921
bell-binder-
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 690 Soldanella..in English Sea Withwinde.
† sea-wormwood n. Obsolete Artemisia maritima.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > Artemisia or mugwort
mugworteOE
artemisiaOE
mugweeda1400
motherwort1440
matricary1523
French wormwood1548
holy wormwood1548
sea-mugwort1548
sea-wormwood1548
tree wormwood1548
Roman wormwood1551
southernwood1577
garden cypress1578
mouse-wort1607
field southernwood1739
sage1805
hyssop1807
sage-bush1807
appleringie1808
absinth1841
sage-brush1850
1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. A.iiijv Sea wormwod is hote in the seconde degree and dry in the fyrste, frenche wormwod is weaker then Sea wormwod is.
1759 J. Wesley Primitive Physick (ed. 8) 121 Take..Conserve of the Tops of Sea-Wormwood.
1855 New Cycl. Bot. II. 461 Artemisia maritima. Sea Wormwood.

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sea channel n. a strait, a comparatively narrow area of sea; a coastal inlet; cf. channel n.1 2a.
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1644 W. Castell Short Discov. Coasts & Continent Amer. ii. 42 Neither yet is the Sea channell here adjoyning so deepe and free from sands, as is safe for ships of any great burden to saile in.
1756 T. Nugent Grand Tour iii. 141 The Spanish troops..passed on foot..through the sea channels that divide the isle of Schowen from that of Duveland, where they were often obliged to wade up to the shoulders in water.
1946 J. W. Day Harvest Adventure x. 159 This old, reedy Halvergate Fleet, once a deep sea-channel, still holds a touch of ancient mystery.
2001 National Geographic Mar. 80/2 Nearly half of all maritime shipping on the planet passes through Indonesia's narrow sea channels.

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sea oats n. union grass; esp. a tall grass, Uniola paniculata, which grows on and stabilizes coastal sand dunes in the south-eastern United States and the Gulf of Mexico.
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1879 Bot. Gaz. 4 157 Nearest to the ocean, growing on the dunes, is found another and very different grass, the Uniola paniculata, commonly called sea-oats.
1936 Auk 53 99 The Noddies [were nesting] mostly in small bushes, but there were some 200 nests in the sea-oats.
2007 Coastal Living July 123 The tiny Florida town of Grayton Beach spreads haphazardly along shell-strewn roads that ramble through scrub oak and sea oats.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

seav.

Brit. /siː/, U.S. /si/
Etymology: < sea n.
intransitive. To go along as a part of the sea.Apparently an isolated use.
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1839 P. J. Bailey Festus 260 To ride upon the broad-backed billow, Seaing along and plunging on his precipitous path.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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