An order of fresh-water fishes inhabiting tropical Africa. They have rudimentary electrical organs on each side of the tail.

A kind of large drinking cup, -- used by Greeks and Romans, esp. by poor folk.

To cut with a scythe; to cut off as with a scythe; to mow.

Armed with scythes, as a chariot.

One who uses a scythe; a mower.

A stone for sharpening scythes; a whetstone.

Wilson's thrush; -- so called from its note.

A native or inhabitant of Scythia; specifically (Ethnol.), one of a Slavonic race which in early times occupied Eastern Europe.

Same as Holothurioidea.

Disdain.

To disdain.

One of the larger bodies of salt water, less than an ocean, found on the earth's surface; a body of salt water of second rank, generally forming part of, or connecting with, an ocean or a larger sea; as, the Mediterranean Sea; the Sea of Marmora; the North Sea; the Carribean Sea.

See under Gauge, n.

Any marine saurian; esp. (Paleon.), the large extinct species of Mosasaurus, Ichthyosaurus, Plesiosaurus, and related genera.

A tern.

A jellyfish.

Bordering on the sea; situated beside the sea.

Born of the sea; produced by the sea.

Built at, in, or by the sea.

Any species of ear-shaped shells of the genus Haliotis. See Abalone.

A long, rolling swell of the sea.

Of a beautiful bluish green color, like sea water on soundings.

Of or pertaining to certain islands along the coast of South Carolina and Georgia; as, sea-island cotton, a superior cotton of long fiber produced on those islands.

The mermaid.

A gull; the mew.

The sea mew.

A globefish.

A pennatula.

Cruising at random on the ocean.

Surrounded, bounded, or protected by the sea, as if by a wall.

A beach lying along the sea.

A green seaweed (Cladophora rupestris) growing in dense tufts.

Toward the sea.

See Seaboard.

Bounded by the sea.

The shore or border of the land adjacent to the sea or ocean. Also used adjectively.

One who follows the sea as a business; a mariner; a sailor.

Following the business of a mariner; as, a seafaring man.

Surrounded by the water of the sea or ocean; as, a seagirt isle.

Going upon the sea; especially, sailing upon the deep sea; -- used in distinction from coasting or river, as applied to vessels.

A Jewish dry measure containing one third of an ephah.

Soap prepared for use in milling cloth.

To affix one's seal, or a seal.

Of a rich dark brown color, like the fur of the fur seal after it is dyed.

A mariner or a vessel engaged in the business of capturing seals.

The skin of a seal; the pelt of a seal prepared for use, esp. of the fur seal; also, a garment made of this material.

A denomination of weight or measure. The quantity of eight bushels of grain. The quantity of 120 pounds of glass.

One whose occupation is to assist in the management of ships at sea; a mariner; a sailor; -- applied both to officers and common mariners, but especially to the latter. Opposed to landman, or landsman.

Having or showing the skill of a practical seaman.

The skill of a good seaman; the art, or skill in the art, of working a ship.

Any elevated object on land which serves as a guide to mariners; a beacon; a landmark visible from the sea, as a hill, a tree, a steeple, or the like.

Out of condition; not in good condition; -- said of a hawk.

The act or process of forming a seam or joint.

Without a seam.

One who sews well, or whose occupation is to sew.

A woman whose occupation is sewing; a needlewoman.

The business of a seamstress.

Having a seam; containing seams, or showing them.

A seine. See Seine.

A session, as of some public body; especially, a meeting of spiritualists to receive spirit communications, so called.

A picture representing a scene at sea; a marine picture.

A port on the seashore, or one accessible for seagoing vessels. Also used adjectively; as, a seaport town.

See Sepoy.

A quaking of the sea.

The catch in a gunlock by which the hammer is held cocked or half cocked.

To sift; to bolt.

One who sifts or bolts.

The act of seeking or looking for something; quest; inquiry; pursuit for finding something; examination.

Capable of being searched.

Quality of being searchable.

One who, or that which, searches or examines; a seeker; an inquirer; an examiner; a trier. Formerly, an officer in London appointed to examine the bodies of the dead, and report the cause of death. An officer of the customs whose business it is to search ships, merchandise, luggage, etc. An inspector of leather. An instrument for examining the bore of a cannon, to detect cavities. An implement for sampling butter; a butter trier. An instrument for feeling after calculi in the bladder, etc.

Exploring thoroughly; scrutinizing; penetrating; trying; as, a searching discourse; a searching eye.

Impossible to be searched; inscrutable; impenetrable.

An apparatus for projecting a powerful beam of light of approximately parallel rays, usually devised so that it can be swiveled about. The beam of light projecting by this apparatus.

To cover, as a sore, with cerecloth.

Scorched; cauterized; hence, figuratively, insensible; not susceptible to moral influences.

The state of being seared or callous; insensibility.

A picture representing a scene at sea. Compare landscape.

The shell of any marine mollusk.

The coast of the sea; the land that lies adjacent to the sea or ocean.

Affected with seasickness.

The peculiar sickness, characterized by nausea and prostration, which is caused by the pitching or rolling of a vessel.

The land bordering on, or adjacent to, the sea; the seashore. Also used adjectively.

To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate.

Occurring in good time, in due season, or in proper time for the purpose; suitable to the season; opportune; timely; as, a seasonable supply of rain.

A seasoning.

Of or pertaining to the seasons.

A form of mild depression that occurs in winters, associated with reduction in the amount of sunlight. It is characterized by oversleeping, irritability, and sometimes overeating. It can be treated by light therapy and usually disappears with the arrival of spring.

One who, or that which, seasons, or gives a relish; a seasoning.

The act or process by which anything is seasoned.

Without succession of the seasons.

To rest; to lie down.

The act of providing with a seat or seats; as, the seating of an audience.

Having no seat.

A rush.

Overgrown with rushes.

The name used by the Algonquin Indians for the shell beads which passed among the Indians as money.

Toward the sea.

Seaweed; esp., coarse seaweed. See Ware, and Sea girdles.

Popularly, any plant or plants growing in the sea.

A European wrasse (Labrus vetula).

The state or quality of being seaworthy, or able to resist the ordinary violence of wind and weather.

Fit for a voyage; worthy of being trusted to transport a cargo with safety; as, a seaworthy ship.

Pertaining to, or secreting, fat; composed of fat; having the appearance of fat; as, the sebaceous secretions of some plants, or the sebaceous humor of animals.

Of or pertaining to fat; derived from, or resembling, fat; specifically, designating an acid (formerly called also sebic, and pyroleic, acid), obtained by the distillation or saponification of certain oils (as castor oil) as a white crystalline substance.

The eleventh month of the ancient Hebrew year, approximately corresponding with February.

A salt of sebacic acid.

The mucilaginous drupaceous fruit of two East Indian trees (Cordia Myxa, and Cordia latifolia), sometimes used medicinally in pectoral diseases.

See Sebacic.

Producing vegetable tallow.

Same as Sebiferous.

A morbidly increased discharge of sebaceous matter upon the skin; stearrhea.

A genus of cereal grasses including rye.

A cutting; an intersection; as, the point of secancy of one line by another.

A line that cuts another; especially, a straight line cutting a curve in two or more points.

Dry.

To withdraw from fellowship, communion, or association; to separate one's self by a solemn act; to draw off; to retire; especially, to withdraw from a political or religious body.

One who secedes.

To separate; to distinguish.

That which promotes secretion.