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Scythe (?), v. t. To cut with a scythe; to cut off as with a scythe; to mow. [Obs.]
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Time had not scythed all that youth begun. Shak.
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Scythed (?), a. Armed with scythes, as a chariot.
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Chariots scythed,
On thundering axles rolled. Glover.
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Scytheman (?), n.; pl. Scythemen (�). One who uses a scythe; a mower. Macaulay.
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Scythestone (?), n. A stone for sharpening scythes; a whetstone.
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Scythewhet (?), n. (Zoöl.) Wilson's thrush; -- so called from its note. [Local, U.S.]
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Scythian (?), a. Of or pertaining to Scythia (a name given to the northern part of Asia, and Europe adjoining to Asia), or its language or inhabitants.
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Coloq. Scythian lamb . (Bot.) See .
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Scythian, n. 1. A native or inhabitant of Scythia; specifically (Ethnol.), one of a Slavonic race which in early times occupied Eastern Europe.
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2. The language of the Scythians.
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Scytodermata (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. � a hide + � a skin.] (Zoöl.) Same as .
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Sdain (?), v. & n. Disdain. [Obs.] Spenser.
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'Sdeath (?), interj. [Corrupted fr. God's death.] An exclamation expressive of impatience or anger. Shak.
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Sdeign (?), v. t. To disdain. [Obs.]
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But either sdeigns with other to partake. Spenser.
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Sea (sē), n. [OE. see, AS. sǣ; akin to D. zee, OS. & OHG. sēo, G. see, OFries. se, Dan. sö, Sw. sjö, Icel. sær, Goth. saiws, and perhaps to L. saevus fierce, savage. √151a.] 1. 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.
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2. An inland body of water, esp. if large or if salt or brackish; as, the Caspian Sea; the Sea of Aral; sometimes, a small fresh-water lake; as, the Sea of Galilee.
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3. The ocean; the whole body of the salt water which covers a large part of the globe.
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I marvel how the fishes live in the sea. Shak.
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Ambiguous between sea and land
The river horse and scaly crocodile. Milton.
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4. The swell of the ocean or other body of water in a high wind; motion or agitation of the water's surface; also, a single wave; a billow; as, there was a high sea after the storm; the vessel shipped a sea.
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5. (Jewish Antiq.) A great brazen laver in the temple at Jerusalem; -- so called from its size.
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He made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof. 2 Chron. iv. 2.
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6. Fig.: Anything resembling the sea in vastness; as, a sea of glory. Shak.
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All the space . . . was one sea of heads. Macaulay.
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☞ Sea is often used in the composition of words of obvious signification; as, sea-bathed, sea-beaten, sea-bound, sea-bred, sea-circled, sealike, sea-nursed, sea-tossed, sea-walled, sea-worn, and the like. It is also used either adjectively or in combination with substantives; as, sea bird, sea-bird, or seabird, sea acorn, or sea-acorn.
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Coloq. At sea , upon the ocean; away from land; figuratively, without landmarks for guidance; lost; at the mercy of circumstances. “To say the old man was at sea would be too feeble an expression.” G. W. Cable -- Coloq. At full sea at the height of flood tide; hence, at the height. “But now God's mercy was at full sea.” Jer. Taylor. -- Coloq. Beyond seas , or Coloq. Beyond the sea or Coloq. Beyond the seas (Law), out of the state, territory, realm, or country. Wharton. -- Coloq. Half seas over , half drunk. [Colloq.] Spectator. -- Coloq. Heavy sea , a sea in which the waves run high. -- Coloq. Long sea , a sea characterized by the uniform and steady motion of long and extensive waves. -- Coloq. Short sea , a sea in which the waves are short, broken, and irregular, so as to produce a tumbling or jerking motion. -- Coloq. To go to sea , to adopt the calling or occupation of a sailor.
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Sea acorn (?). (Zoöl.) An acorn barnacle (Balanus).
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Sea adder (?). (Zoöl.) (a) The European fifteen-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus spinachia); -- called also bismore. (b) The European tanglefish, or pipefish (Syngnathus acus).
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Sea anchor (?). (Naut.) See Drag sail, under 4th .
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Sea anemone (?). (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of soft-bodied Anthozoa, belonging to the order Actinaria; an actinian.
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☞ They have the oral disk surrounded by one or more circles of simple tapering tentacles, which are often very numerous, and when expanded somewhat resemble the petals of flowers, with colors varied and often very beautiful.
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Sea ape (?). (Zoöl.) (a) The thrasher shark. (b) The sea otter.
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Sea apple (?). (Bot.) The fruit of a West Indian palm (Manicaria Plukenetii), often found floating in the sea. A. Grisebach.
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Sea arrow (?). (Zoöl.) A squid of the genus Ommastrephes. See .
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Sea bank (?). 1. The seashore. Shak.
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2. A bank or mole to defend against the sea.
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Sea-bar (?), n. (Zoöl.) A tern.
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Sea barrow (?). (Zoöl.) A sea purse.
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Sea bass. (�). (Zoöl.) (a) A large marine food fish (Serranus atrarius syn. Centropristis atrarius) which abounds on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It is dark bluish, with black bands, and more or less varied with small white spots and blotches. Called also, locally, blue bass, black sea bass, blackfish, bluefish, and black perch. (b) A California food fish (Cynoscion nobile); -- called also white sea bass, and sea salmon.
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Sea bat (?). (Zoöl.) See (a).
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Seabeach (?), n. A beach lying along the sea. “The bleak seabeach.” Longfellow.
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Sea bean (?). (Bot.) Same as .
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Sea bear (?). (Zoöl.) (a) Any fur seal. See under . (b) The white bear.
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Seabeard (?), n. (Bot.) A green seaweed (Cladophora rupestris) growing in dense tufts.
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Sea beast (?). (Zoöl.) Any large marine mammal, as a seal, walrus, or cetacean.
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Sea bird (?). (Zoöl.) Any swimming bird frequenting the sea; a sea fowl.
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Sea blite (?). (Bot.) A plant (Suæda maritima) of the Goosefoot family, growing in salt marshes.
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Sea-blubber (?), n. (Zoöl.) A jellyfish.
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Seaboard (?), n. [Sea + board, F. bord side.] The seashore; seacoast. Ld. Berners.
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Seaboard, a. Bordering upon, or being near, the sea; seaside; seacoast; as, a seaboard town.
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Seaboard, adv. Toward the sea. [R.]
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Seaboat (?). [AS. sǣbāt.] 1. A boat or vessel adapted to the open sea; hence, a vessel considered with reference to her power of resisting a storm, or maintaining herself in a heavy sea; as, a good sea boat.
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2. (Zoöl.) A chiton.
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Seabord (?), n. & a. See .
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Sea-bordering (?), a. Bordering on the sea; situated beside the sea. Drayton.
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Sea-born (?), a. 1. Born of the sea; produced by the sea. “Neptune and his sea-born niece.” Waller.
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2. Born at sea.
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Seabound (?), a. Bounded by the sea.
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Sea bow (?). See Marine rainbow, under .
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Sea boy (?). A boy employed on shipboard.
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Sea breach (?). A breaking or overflow of a bank or a dike by the sea. L'Estrange.
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Sea bream (?). (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of sparoid fishes, especially the common European species (Pagellus centrodontus), the Spanish (P. Oweni), and the black sea bream (Cantharus lineatus); -- called also old wife.
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Sea brief (?). Same as .
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Sea bug (?). (Zoöl.) A chiton.
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Sea-built (?), a. Built at, in, or by the sea.
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Sea butterfly (?). (Zoöl.) A pteropod.
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Sea cabbage (?; 48). (Bot.) See Sea kale, under .
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Sea calf (?). (Zoöl.) The common seal.
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Sea canary (?). [So called from a whistling sound which it makes.] (Zoöl.) The beluga, or white whale.
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Sea captain (?). The captain of a vessel that sails upon the sea.
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Sea card (?). Mariner's card, or compass.
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{ Sea catfish (?). Sea cat (?). } (Zoöl.) (a) The wolf fish. (b) Any marine siluroid fish, as Ælurichthys marinus, and Arinus felis, of the eastern coast of the United States. Many species are found on the coasts of Central and South America.
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Sea chart (?). A chart or map on which the lines of the shore, islands, shoals, harbors, etc., are delineated.
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Sea chickweed (?). (Bot.) A fleshy plant (Arenaria peploides) growing in large tufts in the sands of the northern Atlantic seacoast; -- called also sea sandwort, and sea purslane.
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Sea clam (?). (Zoöl.) Any one of the large bivalve mollusks found on the open seacoast, especially those of the family Mactridæ, as the common American species. (Mactra solidissima or Spisula solidissima); -- called also beach clam, and surf clam.
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Sea coal (?). Coal brought by sea; -- a name by which mineral coal was formerly designated in the south of England, in distinction from charcoal, which was brought by land.
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Coloq. Sea-coal facing (Founding), facing consisting of pulverized bituminous coal.
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Seacoast (?), n. The shore or border of the land adjacent to the sea or ocean. Also used adjectively.
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Sea cob (?). (Zoöl.) The black-backed gull.
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Sea cock (?). 1. In a steamship, a cock or valve close to the vessel's side, for closing a pipe which communicates with the sea.
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2. (Zoöl.) (a) The black-bellied plover. (b) A gurnard, as the European red gurnard (Trigla pini).
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Sea cocoa (?). (Bot.) A magnificent palm (Lodoicea Sechellarum) found only in the Seychelles Islands. The fruit is an immense two-lobed nut. It was found floating in the Indian Ocean before the tree was known, and called sea cocoanut, and double cocoanut.
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Sea colander (?). (Bot.) A large blackfish seaweed (Agarum Turneri), the frond of which is punctured with many little holes.
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Sea colewort (?). (Bot.) Sea cabbage.
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Sea compass (?). The mariner's compass. See under .
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Sea coot (?). (Zoöl.) A scoter duck.
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Sea corn (?). (Zoöl.) A yellow cylindrical mass of egg capsules of certain species of whelks (Buccinum), which resembles an ear of maize.
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Sea cow (?). (Zoöl.) (a) The mantee. (b) The dugong. (c) The walrus.
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{ Sea crawfish (?). Sea crayfish (?). } (Zoöl.) Any crustacean of the genus Palinurus and allied genera, as the European spiny lobster (P. vulgaris), which is much used as an article of food. See .
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Sea crow (?). (Zoöl.) (a) The chough. [Ireland] (b) The cormorant. (c) The blackheaded pewit, and other gulls. (d) The skua. (e) The razorbill. [Orkney Islands] (f) The coot.
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Sea cucumber (?). (Zoöl.) Any large holothurian, especially one of those belonging to the genus Pentacta, or Cucumaria, as the common American and European species. (P. frondosa).
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Sea dace (?). (Zoöl.) The European sea perch.
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Sea daffodil (?). (Bot.) A European amaryllidaceous plant (Pancratium maritimum).
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Sea devil (?) (Zoöl.) (a) Any very large ray, especially any species of the genus Manta or Cephaloptera, some of which become more than twenty feet across and weigh several tons. See also Ox ray, under . (b) Any large cephalopod, as a large Octopus, or a giant squid (Architeuthis). See . (c) The angler.
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Sea dog (?). 1. (Zoöl.) The dogfish. (b) The common seal.
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2. An old sailor; a salt. [Colloq.]
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Sea dotterel (?). (Zoöl.) The turnstone.
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Sea dove (?). (Zoöl.) The little auk, or rotche. See Illust. of .
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Sea dragon (?). (Zoöl.) (a) A dragonet, or sculpin. (b) The pegasus.
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Sea drake (?). (Zoöl.) The pewit gull.
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Sea duck (?). (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of ducks which frequent the seacoasts and feed mainly on fishes and mollusks. The scoters, eiders, old squaw, and ruddy duck are examples. They may be distinguished by the lobate hind toe.
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Sea eagle (?). 1. (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of fish-eating eagles of the genus Haliæetus and allied genera, as the North Pacific sea eagle (H. pelagicus), which has white shoulders, head, rump, and tail; the European white-tailed eagle (H. albicilla); and the Indian white-tailed sea eagle, or fishing eagle (Polioaëtus ichthyaëtus). The bald eagle and the osprey are also sometimes classed as sea eagles.
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2. (Zoöl.) The eagle ray. See under .
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Sea-ear (sēēr), n. (Zoöl.) Any species of ear-shaped shells of the genus Haliotis. See .
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Sea eel (sē ēl). (Zoöl.) The conger eel.
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Sea egg (sē ĕg). (Zoöl.) A sea urchin.
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Sea elephant (sē ē�f�nt). (Zoöl.) A very large seal (Macrorhinus proboscideus) of the Antarctic seas, much hunted for its oil. It sometimes attains a length of thirty feet, and is remarkable for the prolongation of the nose of the adult male into an erectile elastic proboscis, about a foot in length. Another species of smaller size (M. angustirostris) occurs on the coast of Lower California, but is now nearly extinct.
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