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 bard among the Highlanders of Scotland, who preserved and repeated the traditions of the tribes; also, a genealogist.

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.

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.

The act or process of secreting.

Retirement; retreat; secession.

The act of seceding; separation from fellowship or association with others, as in a religious or political organization; withdrawal.

The doctrine or policy of secession; the tenets of secession; the tenets of secessionists.

One who upholds secession.

To seek.

The edible fruit of a West Indian plant (Sechium edule) of the Gourd family. It is soft, pear-shaped, and about four inches long, and contains a single large seed. The root of the plant resembles a yam, and is used for food.

Barren; unprofitable. See Rent seck, under Rent.

A small reddish brown sweet and juicy pear. It originated on a farm near Philadelphia, afterwards owned by a Mr. Seckel.

A century.

To shut up apart from others; to withdraw into, or place in, solitude; to separate from society or intercourse with others.

The act of secluding, or the state of being secluded; separation from society or connection; a withdrawing; privacy; as, to live in seclusion.

Tending to seclude; keeping in seclusion; secluding; sequestering.

To follow in the next place; to succeed; to alternate.

Of the rank or degree below the best or highest; inferior; second-rate; as, a second-class house; a second-class passage; a second-class citizen.

Of the second size, rank, quality, or value; as, a second-rate ship; second-rate cloth; a second-rate champion.

The power of discerning what is not visible to the physical eye, or of foreseeing future events, esp. such as are of a disastrous kind; the capacity of a seer; prophetic vision.

Having the power of second-sight.

In a secondary manner or degree.

The state of being secondary.

One who occupies a subordinate, inferior, or auxiliary place; a delegate or deputy; one who is second or next to the chief officer; as, the secondary, or undersheriff of the city of London.

One who seconds{3} or supports what another attempts, affirms, moves, or proposes; as, the seconder of an enterprise or of a motion.

Not original or primary; received from another; as, secondhand information.

In the second place.

The second part in a concerted piece.