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Sea scorpion (?). (Zoöl.) (a) A European sculpin (Cottus scorpius) having the head armed with short spines. (b) The scorpene.
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Sea scurf (?). (Zoöl.) Any bryozoan which forms rounded or irregular patches of coral on stones, seaweeds, etc.
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Sea serpent (?). 1. (Zoöl.) Any marine snake. See .
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2. (Zoöl.) A large marine animal of unknown nature, often reported to have been seen at sea, but never yet captured.
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☞ Many accounts of sea serpents are imaginary or fictitious; others are greatly exaggerated and distorted by incompetent observers; but a number have been given by competent and trustworthy persons, which indicate that several diverse animals have been called sea serpents. Among these are, apparently, several large snakelike fishes, as the oar fish, or ribbon fish (Regalecus), and huge conger eels. Other accounts probably refer to the giant squids (Architeuthis). Some of the best accounts seem to describe a marine saurian, like the fossil Mosasauri, which were large serpentlike creatures with paddles.
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Seashell (?), n. (Zoöl.) The shell of any marine mollusk.
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Seashore (?), n. 1. The coast of the sea; the land that lies adjacent to the sea or ocean.
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2. (Law) All the ground between the ordinary high-water and low-water marks.
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Seasick (?), a. Affected with seasickness.
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Seasickness, n. The peculiar sickness, characterized by nausea and prostration, which is caused by the pitching or rolling of a vessel.
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Seaside (?), n. The land bordering on, or adjacent to, the sea; the seashore. Also used adjectively.
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Sea slater (?). (Zoöl.) Any isopod crustacean of the genus Ligia.
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Sea slug (?). (Zoöl.) (a) A holothurian. (b) A nudibranch mollusk.
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Sea snail (?). (Zoöl.) (a) A small fish of the genus Liparis, having a ventral sucker. It lives among stones and seaweeds. (b) Any small creeping marine gastropod, as the species of Littorina, Natica, etc.
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Sea snake (?). (Zoöl.) Any one of many species of venomous aquatic snakes of the family Hydrophidæ, having a flattened tail and living entirely in the sea, especially in the warmer parts of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. They feed upon fishes, and are mostly of moderate size, but some species become eight or ten feet long and four inches broad.
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Sea snipe (?). (Zoöl.) (a) A sandpiper, as the knot and dunlin. (b) The bellows fish.
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Season (?), n. [OE. sesoun, F. saison, properly, the sowing time, fr. L. satio a sowing, a planting, fr. serere, satum, to sow, plant; akin to E. sow, v., to scatter, as seed.] 1. One of the divisions of the year, marked by alterations in the length of day and night, or by distinct conditions of temperature, moisture, etc., caused mainly by the relative position of the earth with respect to the sun. In the north temperate zone, four seasons, namely, spring, summer, autumn, and winter, are generally recognized. Some parts of the world have three seasons, -- the dry, the rainy, and the cold; other parts have but two, -- the dry and the rainy.
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The several seasons of the year in their beauty. Addison.
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2. Hence, a period of time, especially as regards its fitness for anything contemplated or done; a suitable or convenient time; proper conjuncture; as, the season for planting; the season for rest.
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The season, prime for sweetest scents and airs. Milton.
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3. A period of time not very long; a while; a time.
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Thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. Acts xiii. 11.
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4. That which gives relish; seasoning. [Obs.]
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You lack the season of all natures, sleep. Shak.
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Coloq. In season , in good time, or sufficiently early for the purpose. -- Coloq. Out of season , beyond or out of the proper time or the usual or appointed time.
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Season, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Seasoned (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Seasoning.] 1. To render suitable or appropriate; to prepare; to fit.
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He is fit and seasoned for his passage. Shak.
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2. To fit for any use by time or habit; to habituate; to accustom; to inure; to ripen; to mature; as, to season one to a climate.
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3. Hence, to prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices; as, to season timber.
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4. To fit for taste; to render palatable; to give zest or relish to; to spice; as, to season food.
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5. Hence, to fit for enjoyment; to render agreeable.
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You season still with sports your serious hours. Dryden.
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The proper use of wit is to season conversation. Tillotson.
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6. To qualify by admixture; to moderate; to temper. “When mercy seasons justice.” Shak.
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7. To imbue; to tinge or taint. “Who by his tutor being seasoned with the love of the truth.” Fuller.
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Season their younger years with prudent and pious principles. Jer. Taylor.
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8. To copulate with; to impregnate. [R.] Holland.
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Season (?), v. i. 1. To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate.
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2. To become dry and hard, by the escape of the natural juices, or by being penetrated with other substance; as, timber seasons in the sun.
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3. To give token; to savor. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.
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Seasonable (?), a. 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.
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Mercy is seasonable in the time of affliction. Ecclus. xxxv. 20.
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-- Seasonableness, n. -- Seasonably, adv.
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Seasonage (?), n. A seasoning. [Obs.] South.
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Seasonal (?), a. 1. Of or pertaining to the seasons.
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2. Occurring or being used in a specific season; as, seasonal items for sale.
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Coloq. Seasonal dimorphism (Zoöl.), the condition of having two distinct varieties which appear at different seasons, as certain species of butterflies in which the spring brood differs from the summer or autumnal brood.
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seasonal affective disorder (?), n. 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.
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Seasoner (?), n. One who, or that which, seasons, or gives a relish; a seasoning.
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Seasoning, n. 1. The act or process by which anything is seasoned.
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2. That which is added to any species of food, to give it a higher relish, as salt, spices, etc.; a condiment.
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3. Hence, something added to enhance enjoyment or relieve dullness; as, wit is the seasoning of conversation.
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Political speculations are of so dry and austere a nature, that they will not go down with the public without frequent seasonings. Addison.
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Coloq. Seasoning tub (Bakery), a trough in which dough is set to rise. Knight.
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Seasonless, a. Without succession of the seasons.
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Sea spider (?). (Zoöl.) (a) Any maioid crab; a spider crab. See , and Spider crab, under . (b) Any pycnogonid.
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Sea squirt (?). (Zoöl.) An ascidian. See Illust. under .
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Sea star (?). (Zoöl.) A starfish, or brittle star.
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Sea surgeon (?). (Zoöl.) A surgeon fish.
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Sea swallow (?). 1. (Zoöl.) (a) The common tern. (b) The storm petrel. (c) The gannet.
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2. (Her.) See Cornish chough, under .
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Seat (sēt), n. [OE. sete, Icel. sæti; akin to Sw. säte, Dan. sæde, MHG. sāze, AS. set, setl, and E. sit. √154. See , and cf. , n.] 1. The place or thing upon which one sits; hence; anything made to be sat in or upon, as a chair, bench, stool, saddle, or the like.
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And Jesus . . . overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of them that sold doves. Matt. xxi. 12.
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2. The place occupied by anything, or where any person or thing is situated, resides, or abides; a site; an abode, a station; a post; a situation.
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Where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is. Rev. ii. 13.
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He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat committeth himself to prison. Bacon.
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A seat of plenty, content, and tranquillity. Macaulay.
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3. That part of a thing on which a person sits; as, the seat of a chair or saddle; the seat of a pair of pantaloons.
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4. A sitting; a right to sit; regular or appropriate place of sitting; as, a seat in a church; a seat for the season in the opera house.
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5. Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.
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She had so good a seat and hand she might be trusted with any mount. G. Eliot.
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6. (Mach.) A part or surface on which another part or surface rests; as, a valve seat.
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Coloq. Seat worm (Zoöl.), the pinworm.
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Seat, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Seated; p. pr. & vb. n. Seating.] 1. To place on a seat; to cause to sit down; as, to seat one's self.
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The guests were no sooner seated but they entered into a warm debate. Arbuthnot.
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2. To cause to occupy a post, site, situation, or the like; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle.
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Thus high . . . is King Richard seated. Shak.
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They had seated themselves in New Guiana. Sir W. Raleigh.
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3. To assign a seat to, or the seats of; to give a sitting to; as, to seat a church, or persons in a church.
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4. To fix; to set firm.
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From their foundations, loosening to and fro,
They plucked the seated hills. Milton.
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5. To settle; to plant with inhabitants; as to seat a country. [Obs.] W. Stith.
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6. To put a seat or bottom in; as, to seat a chair.
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Seat, v. i. To rest; to lie down. [Obs.] Spenser.
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Sea tang (?). (Bot.) A kind of seaweed; tang; tangle.
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To their nests of sedge and sea tang. Longfellow.
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Sea term (?). A term used specifically by seamen; a nautical word or phrase.
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Sea thief (?). A pirate. Drayton.
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Sea thongs (?; 115). (Bot.) A kind of blackish seaweed (Himanthalia lorea) found on the northern coasts of the Atlantic. It has a thonglike forking process rising from a top-shaped base.
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Seating (sētĭng), n. 1. The act of providing with a seat or seats; as, the seating of an audience.
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2. The act of making seats; also, the material for making seats; as, cane seating.
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Sea titling (?). (Zoöl.) The rock pipit.
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Seatless (?), a. Having no seat.
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Sea toad (?). (Zoöl.) (a) A sculpin. (b) A toadfish. (c) The angler.
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Sea trout (?). (Zoöl.) (a) Any one of several species of true trouts which descend rivers and enter the sea after spawning, as the European bull trout and salmon trout, and the eastern American spotted trout. (b) The common squeteague, and the spotted squeteague. (c) A California fish of the family Chiridæ, especially Hexagrammus decagrammus; -- called also spotted rock trout. See Rock trout, under . (d) A California sciænoid fish (Cynoscion nobilis); -- called also white sea bass.
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Sea trumpet (?). 1. (Bot.) A great blackish seaweed of the Southern Ocean, having a hollow and expanding stem and a pinnate frond, sometimes twenty feet long.
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2. (Zoöl.) Any large marine univalve shell of the genus Triton. See .
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Sea turn (?). A breeze, gale, or mist from the sea. Ham. Nav. Encyc.
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Sea turtle (?). (Zoöl.) (a) Any one of several very large species of chelonians having the feet converted into paddles, as the green turtle, hawkbill, loggerhead, and leatherback. They inhabit all warm seas. (b) The sea pigeon, or guillemot.
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Sea unicorn (?). (Zoöl.) The narwhal.
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Sea urchin (?). (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of echinoderms of the order Echinoidea. When living they are covered with movable spines which are often long and sharp.
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Seave (?), n. [Cf. Dan. siv, Sw. säf, Icel. sef.] A rush. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
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Seavy, a. Overgrown with rushes. [Prov. Eng.]
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Sea wall (?). [AS. sæweall.] A wall, or embankment, to resist encroachments of the sea.
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Sea-walled (?), a. Surrounded, bounded, or protected by the sea, as if by a wall. Shak.
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{ Seawan (?), Seawant (?), } n. The name used by the Algonquin Indians for the shell beads which passed among the Indians as money.
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☞ Seawan was of two kinds; wampum, white, and suckanhock, black or purple, -- the former having half the value of the latter. Many writers, however, use the terms seawan and wampum indiscriminately. Bartlett.
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Seawand . (Bot.) See .
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Seaward (?), a. Directed or situated toward the sea. Donne.
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Two still clouds . . . sparkled on their seaward edges like a frosted fleece. G. W. Cable.
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Seaward, adv. Toward the sea. Drayton.
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Seaware (?), n. [Cf. AS. sǣwār seaweed.] (Bot.) Seaweed; esp., coarse seaweed. See , and .
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Seaweed (?), n. 1. Popularly, any plant or plants growing in the sea.
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2. (Bot.) Any marine plant of the class Algæ, as kelp, dulse, Fucus, Ulva, etc.
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Sea whip (?). (Zoöl.) A gorgonian having a simple stem.
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Sea widgeon (?). (Zoöl.) (a) The scaup duck. (b) The pintail duck.
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Seawife (?), n.; pl. Seawives (�). (Zoöl.) A European wrasse (Labrus vetula).
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Sea willow (?). (Zoöl.) A gorgonian coral with long flexible branches.
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Sea wing (?). (Zoöl.) A wing shell (Avicula).
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Sea withwind (?). (Bot.) A kind of bindweed (Convolvulus Soldanella) growing on the seacoast of Europe.
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Sea wolf (?). (Zoöl.) (a) The wolf fish. (b) The European sea perch. (c) The sea elephant. (d) A sea lion.
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Sea woodcock (?). (Zoöl.) The bar-tailed godwit.
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Sea wood louse (?). (Zoöl.) A sea slater.
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Sea wormwood (?). (Bot.) A European species of wormwood (Artemisia maritima) growing by the sea.
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Seaworthiness (?), n. The state or quality of being seaworthy, or able to resist the ordinary violence of wind and weather. Kent.
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Seaworthy (?), a. Fit for a voyage; worthy of being trusted to transport a cargo with safety; as, a seaworthy ship.
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Sea wrack (?). (Bot.) See .
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Sebaceous (?), a. [NL. sebaceus, from L. sebum tallow, grease.] (Physiol.) 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.
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Coloq. Sebaceous cyst (Med.), a cyst formed by distention of a sebaceous gland, due to obstruction of its excretory duct. -- Coloq. Sebaceous glands (Anat.), small subcutaneous glands, usually connected with hair follicles. They secrete an oily semifluid matter, composed in great part of fat, which softens and lubricates the hair and skin.
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Sebacic (?), a. [L. sebum tallow: cf. F. sébacique.] (Chem.) 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.
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Sebat (?), n. [Heb. shĕbāt.] The eleventh month of the ancient Hebrew year, approximately corresponding with February. W. Smith (Bibl. Dict.).
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Sebate (sēbāt), n. (Chem.) A salt of sebacic acid.
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Sebesten (s�bĕstĕn), n. [Ar. sebestān the tree: cf. Sp. sebesten.] (Bot.) The mucilaginous drupaceous fruit of two East Indian trees (Cordia Myxa, and Cordia latifolia), sometimes used medicinally in pectoral diseases.
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☞ In the West Indies the name is given to the similar fruit of Cordia Sebestana.
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