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Screen

SCREEN, noun [Latin cerno, excerno, Gr. to separate, to sift, to judge, to fight, contend skirmish. The primary sense of the root is to separate, to drive or force asunder, hence to sift, to discern, to judge, to separate or cut off danger.]

1. Any thing that separates or cuts off inconvenience, injury or danger, ; and hence, that which shelters or protects from danger, or prevents inconvenience. Thus a screen is used to intercept the sight, to intercept the heat of fire on the light of a candle.

Some ambitious men seem as screens to princes in matters of danger and envy.

2. A riddle or sieve.

SCREEN, verb transitive

1. To separate or cut off from inconvenience, injury or danger; to shelter; to protect; to protect by hiding; to conceal; as fruits screened from cold winds by a forest or hill. Our houses and garments screen us from cold; an umbrella screens us from rain and the sun's rays. Neither rank nor money should screen from punishment the man who violates the laws.

2. To sift or riddle; to separate the coarse part of any thing from the fine, or the worthless from the valuable.

Screened

SCREE'NED, participle passive Protected or sheltered from injury or danger; sifted.

Screening

SCREE'NING, participle present tense Protecting from injury or danger.

Screw

SCREW, noun

1. A cylinder of wood or metal, grooved spirally; or a cylinder with a spiral channel or thread cut in such a manner that it is equally inclined to the base of the cylinder throughout the whole length. A screw is male or female. In the male screw the thread rises from the surface of the cylinder; in the female, the groove or channel is sunk below the surface to receive the thread of the male screw

2. One of the six mechanical powers.

SCREW, verb transitive

1. To turn or apply a screw to; to press, fasten or make firm by a screw; as, to screw a lock on a door; to screw a press.

2. To force; to squeeze; to press.

3. To oppress by exactions. Landlords sometimes screw and rack their tenants without mercy.

4. To deform by contortions; to distort.

He screw'd his face into a harden'd smile.

To screw out, to press out; to extort.

To screw up to force; to bring by violent pressure; as, to screw up the pins of power too high.

To screw in, to force in by turning or twisting.

Screwed

SCREW'ED, participle passive Fastened with screws; pressed with screws; forced.

Screwer

SCREW'ER, noun He or that which screws.

Screwing

SCREW'ING, participle present tense Turning a screw; fastening or pressing with a screw.

SCREW'-TREE, noun A plant of the genus Helicteres, of several species, natives of warm climates. They are shrubby plants, with yellow flowers, and capsules intorted or twisted inward.

Scribble

SCRIB'BLE, verb transitive [Latin scribillo, dim. of scribo, to write. See Scribe.]

1. To write with haste, or without care or regard to correctness or elegance; as, to scribble a letter or pamphlet.

2. To fill with artless or worthless writing.

SCRIB'BLE, verb intransitive To write without care or beauty.

If Maevius scribble in Apollo's spite.

SCRIB'BLE, noun Hasty or careless writing; a writing of little value; as a hasty scribble

Scribbled

SCRIB'BLED, participle passive Written hastily and without care.

Scribbler

SCRIB'BLER, noun A petty author; a writer of no reputation.

The scribbler pinch'd with hunger, writes to dine.

Scribe

SCRIBE, noun [Latin scriba, from scribo, to write; formed probably on the root of grave, scrape, scrub. The first writing was probably engraving on wood or stone.]

1. In a general sense, a writer. Hence,

2. A notary; a public writer.

3. In ecclesiastical meetings and associations in America, a secretary or clerk; one who records the transactions of an ecclesiastical body.

4. In Scripture and the Jewish history, a clerk or secretary to the king. Seraiah was scribe to king David.

2 Samuel 8:17.

5. An officer who enrolled or kept the rolls of the army, and called over the names and reviewed them. 2 Chronicles 24:11. 2 Kings 25:19.

6. A writer and a doctor of the law; a man of learning; one skilled in the law; one who read and explained the law to the people. Ezra 8:1.

SCRIBE, verb transitive To mark by a model or rule; to mark so as to fit one piece to another; a term used by carpenters and joiners.

Scrimer

SCRI'MER, noun A fencing-master. obsolete

Scrimp

SCRIMP, verb transitive

To contract; to shorten; to make too small or short; to limit or straiten; as, to scrimp the pattern of a coat.

SCRIMP, adjective Short; scanty.

SCRIMP, noun A pinching miser; a niggard; a close fisted person.

Scrine

SCRINE, noun [Latin scrinium; , cerno, secerno.]

A shrine; a chest, book-case or other place where writings or curiosities are deposited. [See shrine, which is generally used.]

Scringe

SCRINGE, verb intransitive To cringe, of which this word is a corruption.

Scrip

SCRIP, noun [This belongs to the root of gripe, our vulgar grab, that is, to seize or press.]

A small bag; a wallet; a satchel. David put five smooth stones in a scrip 1 Samuel 17:40. Matthew 10:10.

SCRIP, noun [Latin scriptum, scriptio, from scribo, to write.]

A small writing, certificate or schedule; a piece of paper containing a writing.

Bills of exchange cannot pay our debts abroad, till scrips of paper can be made current coin.

A certificate of stock subscribed to a bank or other company, or of a share of other joint property, is called in America a scrip

Scrippage

SCRIP'PAGE, noun That which is contained in a scrip. [Not in use.]

Script

SCRIPT, noun A scrip. [Not in use.]

Scriptory

SCRIP'TORY, adjective [Latin scriptorius. See Scribe.]

Written; expressed in writing; not verbal. [Little used.]

Scriptural

SCRIP'TURAL, adjective [from scripture.]

1. Contained in the Scriptures, so called by way of eminence, that is, in the Bible; as a scriptural word, expression or phrase.

2. According to the Scriptures or sacred oracles; as a scriptural doctrine.

Scripturalist

SCRIP'TURALIST, noun One who adheres literally to the Scriptures and makes them the foundation of all philosophy.

Scripture

SCRIP'TURE, noun [Latin scriptura, from scribo, to write.]

1. In its primary sense, a writing; any thing written.

2. Appropriately, and by way of distinction, the books of the Old and New Testament; the Bible. The word is used either in the singular or plural number, to denote the sacred writings or divine oracles, called sacred or holy, as proceeding from God and containing sacred doctrines and precepts.

There is not any action that a man ought to do or forbear, but the scripture will give him a clear precept or prohibition for it.

Compared with the knowledge which the Scriptures contain, every other subject of human inquiry is vanity and emptiness.

Scripturist

SCRIP'TURIST, noun One well versed in the Scriptures.

Scrivener

SCRIV'ENER, noun [See Scribe.]

1. A writer; one whose occupation is to draw contracts or other writings.

2. One whose business is to place money at interest.

Scrofula

SCROF'ULA, noun [Latin]

A disease, called vulgarly the king's evil, characterized by hard, scirrous, and often indolent tumors in the glands of the neck, under the chin, in the arm-pits, etc.

Scrofulous

SCROF'ULOUS, adjective

1. Pertaining to scrofula, or partaking of its nature; as scrofulous tumors; a scrofulous habit of body.

2. Diseased or affected with scrofula.

Scrofulous persons can never be duly nourished.

Scroll

SCROLL, noun [probably formed from roll, or its root.]

A roll of paper or parchment; or a writing formed into a roll.

Here is the scroll of every man's name.

The heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll Isaiah 34:4.

Scrotum

SCRO'TUM, noun The bag which contains the testicles.

Scroyle

SCROYLE, noun

A mean fellow; a wretch. [Not in use.]

Scrub

SCRUB, verb transitive [This word is probably formed on rub, or its root, and perhaps scrape, Latin scribo, may be from the same radix.]

To rub hard, either with the hand or with a cloth or an instrument; usually, to rub hard with a brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning, scouring or making bright; as, to scrub a floor; to scrub a deck; to scrub vessels of brass or other metal.

SCRUB, verb intransitive To be diligent and penurious; as, to scrub hard for a living.

SCRUB, noun

1. A mean fellow; one that labors hard and lives meanly.

2. Something small and mean.

No little scrub joint shall come on my board.

3. A worn out brush.

Scrubbed

SCRUB'BED,

SCRUB'BY, adjective Small and mean; stunted in growth; as a scrubbed boy; a scrubby cur; a scrubby tree.

Scrubby

SCRUB'BY, a. Small and mean; stunted in growth; as a scrubbed boy; a scrubby cur; a scrubby tree.

Scruf

SCRUF, for scurf, not in use.

Scruple

SCRU'PLE, noun [Latin scrupulus, a doubt; scrupulum, the third part of a dram, from scrupus, a chess-man; probably a piece, a small thing, from scrapping, like scrap.]

1. Doubt; hesitation from the difficulty of determining what is right or expedient; backwardness; reluctance to decide or to act. A man of fashionable honor makes no scruple to take another's life, or expose his own. He has no scruples of conscience, or he despises them.

2. A weight of twenty grains, the third part of a dram; among goldsmiths, the weight of 24 grains.

3. Proverbially, a very small quantity.

4. In Chaldean chronology, the 1/1080 part of an hour; a division of time used by the Jews, Arabs, etc..

Scruple of half duration, an arch of the moon's orbit, which the moon's center describes from the beginning of an eclipse to the middle.

Scruples of immersion or incidence, an arch of the moon's orbit, which her center describes from the beginning of the eclipse to the time when its center falls into the shadow.

Scruples of emersion, an arch of the moon's orbit, which her center describes in the time from the first emersion of the moon's limb to the end of the eclipse.

SCRU'PLE, verb intransitive To doubt; to hesitate.

He scrupl'd not to eat, against his better knowledge.

SCRU'PLE, verb transitive To doubt; to hesitate to believe; to question; as, to scruple the truth or accuracy of an account or calculation.

Scrupled

SCRU'PLED, participle passive Doubted; questioned.

Scrupler

SCRU'PLER, noun A doubter; one who hesitates.

Scrupling

SCRU'PLING, participle present tense Doubting; hesitating; questioning.

Scrupulosity

SCRUPULOS'ITY, noun [Latin scrupulositas.]

1. The quality or state of being scrupulous; doubt; doubtfulness respecting some difficult point, or proceeding from the difficulty or delicacy of determining how to act; hence, the caution or tenderness arising from the fear of doing wrong or offending.

The first sacrilege is looked upon with some horror; but when they have once made the breach, their scrupulosity soon retires.

2. Nicety of doubt; or nice regard to exactness and propriety.

So careful, even to scrupulosity were they to keep their sabbath.

3. Niceness; preciseness.

Scrupulous

SCRU'PULOUS, adjective [Latin scrupulosus.]

1. Nicely doubtful; hesitating to determine or to act; cautious in decision from a fear of offending or doing wrong. Be careful in moral conduct, not to offend scrupulous brethren.

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The judges that say upon the jail, and those that attended, sickened upon it and died.

2. To be satiated; to be filled to disgust.

3. To become disgusting or tedious. The toiling pleasure sickens into pain.

4. To be disgusted; to be filled with aversion or abhorrence. He sickened at the sight of so much human misery.

5. To become weak to decay; to languish. Plants often sicken and die. All pleasures sicken, and all glories sink.

Scrupulously

SCRU'PULOUSLY, adverb With a nice regard to minute particulars or to exact propriety.

The duty consists not scrupolously in minutes and half hours. Taylor.

Henry was scrupulously careful not to ascribe the sucess to himself. Addison.

Scrupulousness

SCRU'PULOUSNESS, noun The state or quality of being scrupulous; niceness, exactness or caution in determining or in acting, from a regard to truth, propriety or expedience.

Scrutable

SCRU'TABLE, adjective [See Scrutiny.] Discoverable by inquiry or critical examination.

Scrutation

SCRUTA'TION, noun Search; scrutiny.

Scrutator

SCRUTA'TOR, noun [Latin from scrutor.] One that scrutinizes; a close examiner or inquirer.

Scrutinize

SCRU'TINIZE, verb transitive [from scrutiny.] To search closely; to examine or inquire into critically; as, to scrutinize the measures of administration; to scrutinize the private conduct or motives of individuals.

Scrutinized

SCRU'TINIZED, participle passive Examined closely.

Scrutinizer

SCRU'TINIZER, noun One who examines with critical care.

Scrutinous

SCRU'TINOUS, adjective Closely inquiring or examining; captious.

Scrutiny

SCRU'TINY, noun [Latin scrutinium, from scrutor, to search closely, to pry into.]

1. Close search; minute inquiry; critical examinatiion; as a scrutiny of votes; narrower

scrutiny. In the heat of debate, observations may escape a prudent man which will not bear the test of scrutiny.

2. In the primitive church, an examination of catechumens in the last week of Lent, who were to receive baptism on Easter-day. This was performed with prayers, exorcisms and many other ceremonies.

3. In the canon law, a ticket or little paper billet on which a vote is written.

Scrutoir

SCRUTO'IR, noun A kind of desk, case of drawers or cabinet, with a lid opening downward for the convenience of writing on it.

Scruze

SCRUZE, verb transitive To crowd; to squeeze.

Scud

SCUD, verb intransitive

1. In a gereral sense, to be driven or to flee or fly with haste. In seamen's language, to be driven with precipitation before a tempest. This is done with a sail extended on the foremast of the ship, or when the wind is too violent, without any sail set, which is called scudding under bare poles.

2. To run with precipitation; to fly.

SCUD, noun

1. A low thin cloud, or thin clould driven by the wind.

2. A driving along; a rushing with precipitation.

Scudding

SCUD'DING, participle present tense Driving or being driven before a tempest; running with fleetness.

Scuddle

SCUD'DLE, verb intransitive . To run with a kind of affected haste; commonly pronounced scuttle.

Scuffle

SCUF'FLE, noun [This is a different orthography of shuffle; from shove, or its root.]

1. A contention or trial of strength between two persons, who embrace each other's bodies; a struggle with close embrace, to decide which shall throw the other; in distinction from from wrestling, which is a trial of strength and dexterity at arm's lenght. Among our common people, it is not unusual for two persons to commence a contest by wrestling, and at last close in, as it is called, and decide the contest by a scuffle.

2. A confused contest; a tumultuous struggle for victory or superiority; a fight.

The dog leaps upon the serpent and tears it to pieces; but in the scuffle, the cradle happened to be overturned. L' Estrange.

SCUF'FLE, verb intransitive

1. To strive or struggle with close embrace, as two men or boys,

2. To strive or contend tumultuously, as small parties.

A gallant man prefers to fight to great disadvantages in the field, in an orderly way, rather than to scuffle with an undisciplined rabble. K. Charles.

Scuffler

SCUF'FLER, noun One who scuffles.

Scuffling

SCUF'FLING, participle present tense Striving for superiority with close embrace; struggling for contending without order.

Scug

SCUG, verb transitive To hide.

Sculk

SCULK, verb intransitive To retire into a close or covered place for concealment; to lurl; to lie close from shame, fear of injury or detection.

No news of Phyl! the bridegroom came, and thought his bride had sculk'd for shame. Swift.

And sculk behind the subterfuge of art. Prior.

Sculker

SCULK'ER, noun A lurker; one that lies close for hiding.

Sculking

SCULK'ING, participle present tense Withdrawing into a close or covered place for concealment; lying close.

Scull

SCULL, noun

1. The brain pan.

2. A boat; a cock boat.

3. One who scull a boat. But properly.

4. A short oar, whose loom is only equal in length to half the breadth of the boat to be rowed, so that one man can manage two, one on each side.

5. A shoal or multitude of fish.

SCULL, verb transitive To impel a boat by moving and turning an oar over the stern.

Scullcap

SCULL'CAP [See Skull-cap.]

Sculler

SCULL'ER, noun

1. A boat rowed by one man with two sculls or short oars.

2. One that sculls, or rows with sculls; one that impels a boat by an oar over the stern.

Scullery

SCULL'ERY, noun [probably from the root of shell, scale, G. schale, a scale, a shell, a dish or cup. Skulls and shells were the cups, bowls and siches or rude men.] A place where dishes, kettles and other culinary utensils are kept.

Scullion

SCULL'ION, noun A servant taht cleans pots and kettles, and does other menial services in the kitchen.

Scullionly

SCULL'IONLY, adjective Like a scullion; base; low; mean.

Sculp

SCULP, verb transitive [L. sculpo, scalpo.] To carve; to engrave.

Sculptile

SCULP'TILE, adjective [L. sculptilis, ] Formed by carving; as sculptile images.

Sculptor

SCULP'TOR, noun [L. See Sculp.] One whose occupation is to carve wood or stone int images; a carver.

Sculpture

SCULP'TURE, noun [L. sculptura.]

1. The art of carving, cutting or hewing wood or stone into images of men, beasts or other things. Sculpture is a generic term, including carving or statuary and engraving.

2. Carved work.

There too, in living sculpture, might be seen The mad affection of the Cretan queen.

Dryden.

3. The art of engraving on copper.

SCULP'TURE, verb transitive To carve ; to engrave; to form images or figures with the chisel on wood, stone or metal.

Sculptured

SCULP'TURED, participle passive Carved; engraved; as a sculptured vase; sculptured marble.

Sculpturing

SCULP'TURING, participle present tense Carving; engraving.

Scum

SCUM, noun

1. The extraneous matter or impurities which rise to the surface of liquors in boiling or fermentation, or which form on the surface by other means. The word is also applied to the scoria of metals.

2. The refuse; the recrement; that which is vile or worthless.

The great and the innocent are insulted by the scum and refuse of the people.

Addison.

SCUM, verb transitive To take the scum from; to clear off the impure matter from the surface; to skim.

You that scum the molten lead. Dryden.

Scumber

SCUM'BER, noun The dung of the fox.

Scummed

SCUM'MED, participle passive Cleaned of scum; skimmed.

Scummer

SCUM'MER, noun An instrument used for taking off the scum of liquors; a skimmer.

Scumming

SCUM'MING, participle present tense Clearing of scum; slimming.

Scummings

SCUM'MINGS, noun The matter skimmed from boiling liquors; as the scummings of the boiling house.

Scupper

SCUP'PER, noun The scuppers or scupper holes of a ship, are channels cut through the water ways and sides of a ship at proper distances, and lined with lead for carrying off the water from the deck.

Scupper-Hose

SCUP'PER-HOSE, noun A lethern pipe attached to the mouth of the scuppers of the lower deck of a ship, to prevent the water from entering.

Scupper-Nail

SCUP'PER-NAIL, noun A nail with a very broad head for covering a large surface of the hose.

Scupper-Plug

SCUP'PER-PLUG, noun A plug to stop a scupper.

Scurf

SCURF, noun [L. scorbutus.]

1. A dry military scab or crust formed on the skin of an animal.

2. The soil or foul remains of any thing adherent; as the scurf of crimes. [Not common nor elegant.] Dryden.

3. Any thing adhering to the surface.

There stood a hill, whose grisly top Shone with a glossy scurf. Milton.

Scurff

SCURFF, noun Another name for the bulltrout.

Scurfiness

SCURF'INESS, noun The state of being scurfy.

Scurfy

SCURF'Y, adjective

1. Having scurf; covered with scurf.

2. Resembling scurf.

Scurril

SCUR'RIL, adjective [L. scurrilis, from scurra , a buffoon.] Such as befits a buffoon or vulgar jester; low; mean; grossly opprobrious in language; scurrilour; as scurril jests; scurril scoffing; scurril taunts.

Scurrility

SCURRIL'ITY, noun [L. scurrilitas.] Such low. vulgar, indecent or abusive language as is used by mean fellows, buffoons, jesters and the like; grossness of reproach or invective; obscene jests, etc.

Banish scurrility and profaneness. Dryden.

Scurrilous

SCUR'RILOUS, adjective

1. Using the low and indecent language of the meaner sort of people, or such as only the licence of buffoons can warrant; as a scurrilous fellow.

2. Containing low indecency or abuse; mean; foul; vile; obscenely jocular; as scurrilous language.

Scurrilously

SCUR'RILOUSLY, adverb With gross reproach; with low indecent language.

It is barbarous incivility, scurrilously to sport with what others count religion.

Tillotson.

Scurrilousness

SCUR'RILOUSNESS, noun Indecency of language; vulgarity; baseness of manners.

Scurtinizing

SCUR'TINIZING, participle present tense Inquiring into with critical minuteness or exactness.

Scurvily

SCUR'VILY, adverb [from scurvy.] Basely; meanly; with coarse and vulgar incivility.

The clergy were never more learned, or so scurvily treated. Swift.

Scurviness

SCUR'VINESS, noun [from scurvy.] The state of being scurvy.

Scurvogel

SCUR'VOGEL, noun A Brazilian fowl of the stork kind, the jabiru guacu.

Scurvy

SCUR'VY, noun [from scurf; scurvy for scurfy; Low L. scorbutus.] A disease characterized by great debility, a pale bloated face, bleeding spongy gums, large livid tumors on the body, offensive breath, aversion to exercise, oppression at the breast or difficult respiration, a smooth, dry, shining skin, etc.; a disease most incident to persons who live confined, or on salted meats without fresh vegetables in cold climates.

SCUR'VY, adjective

1. Scurfy; covered or affected by scurf or scabs; scabby; diseased with scurvy

2. Vile; mean; low; vulgar; worthless; contemptible; as a scurvy fellow.

He spoke scurvy and provoking terms. Shak.

That scurvy custom of taking tobacco. Swift.

Scurvy-Grass

SCUR'VY-GRASS, noun A plant of the genus Cochlearia; spoonwort. It grows on rocks near the sea, has an acrid, bitter taste, and is remarkable as a remedy for the scurvy. It is eaten raw as a salad.

Scuses

'SCUSES, for excuses.

Scut

SCUT, noun The tail of a hare or other animal whose tail is short.

Scutage

SCU'TAGE, noun [Law L. scutagium, from scutum, a shield.] In English history, a tax or contributiion levied upon those who held lands by knight service; originally, a composition for personal service which the tenant owed to his lord, but afterward levied as an assessment.

Blackstone.

Scutcheon

SCUTCHEON, A contractiion of escutcheon, which see.

Scute

SCUTE, noun [L. scutum, a buckler.] A french gold coin of 3s. 4d. sterling.

Scutellated

SCU'TELLATED, adjective [L. scutella, a dish. See Scuttle.] Formed like a pan; divided into small surfaces; as the scutellated bone of a sturgeon.

Scutiform

SCU'TIFORM, adjective [L. scutum, a buckler, and form.] Having a form of a buckler or shield.

Scuttle

SCUT'TLE, noun [L. scutella, a pan or saucer.] A broad shallow basket; so called from its resemblance to a dish.

SCUT'TLE, noun

1. In ships, a small hatchway or opening in the deck, large enough to admit a man, and with a lid for covering it; also, a like hole in the side of a ship, and through the coverings of her hatchways, etc.

2. A square hole in the roof of a house, with a lid.

3. [from scud, and properly scuddle.] A quick pace; a short run.

SCUT'TLE, verb intransitive To run with affected precipitation.

SCUT'TLE, verb transitive [from the noun.]

1. To cut large holes through the bottom or sides of a ship for any purpose.

2. To sink by making holes through the bottom; as, to scuttle a ship.

Scuttle-Butt

SCUT'TLE-BUTT, noun A butt or cask having a square piece sawn out of its lilge, and lashed

Scuttle-Cask

SCUT'TLE-CASK, upon deck.

Scuttle-Fish

SCUT'TLE-FISH, noun The cuttle-fich, so called. [See Cuttle-fish.]

Scuttled

SCUT'TLED, participle passive Having holes made in the bottom or sides; sunk by means of cutting holes in the bottom or side.

Scuttling

SCUT'TLING, participle present tense Cutting holes in the bottom or sides; sinking by such holes.

Scytale

SCYT'ALE, noun A species of serpent.

Scythe

SCYTHE, A wrong spelling. [See Sythe.]

Scythian

SCYTH'IAN, adjective Pretaining to Scythia, a name given to the northern part of Asia, and Europe adjoining to Asia.

SCYTH'IAN, noun [See Scot.] A native of Scythia.

Sdain

SDAIN, for disdain. [Not in use.]

Sdeinful

SDEINFUL, for disdainful. [Not in use.]

Sea

SEA, noun see. [This word, like lake, signifies primarily a seat, set or lay, a repository, a bason.]

1. A large bason, cisternor laver which Solomon made in the temple, so large as to contain more than six thousand gallons. This was called the brazen sea, and used to hold water for the priests to wash themselves. 1 Kings 7:23. 2 Chronicles 4:2

2. A large body of water, nearly inclosed by land, as the Baltic or the Mediterranean; as the sea of Azof. Seas are properly branches of the ocean, and upon the same level. Large bodies of water inland, and situated above the level of the ocean, are lakes. The appellation of sea, given to the Caspian lake, is an exception, and not very correct. So the lake of Galilee is called a sea, from the Greek.

3. The ocean; as, to go to sea. The fleet is at sea, or on the high seas.

4. A wave; a billow; a surge. The vessel shipped a sea.

5. The swell of the ocean in a tempest, or the direction of the waves; as, we head the sea.

6. Proverbially, a large quantity of liquor; as a sea of blood.

7. A rough or agitated place or element.

In a troubled sea of passion tost. Milton.

Sea-Anemony

SEA-ANEM'ONY, noun The animal flower, which see.

Sea-Ape

SE'A-APE, noun [sea and ape.] The name given to a marine animal which plays tricks like an ape.

Sea-Bank

SE'A-BANK, noun [sea and bank.]

1. The sea shore.

2. A bank or mole to defend against the sea.

Sea-Bar

SE'A-BAR, noun [sea and bar.] The sea-swallow.

Sea-Bat

SE'A-BAT, noun [sea and bat.] A sort of flying fish.

Sea-Bathed

SEA-BA'THED, adjective [sea and bathe.] Bathed dipped or washed in the sea.

Sea-Bear

SE'A-BEAR, noun [sea and bear.] An animal of the bear kind that frequents the sea; the white or polar bear; also, the ursine seal.

Sea-Beard

SE'A-BEARD, noun [sea and beard.] A marine plant.

Sea-Beast

SE'A-BEAST, noun [sea and beast.] A beast or monstrous animal of the sea.

Sea-Beat

SE'A-BEAT, adjective [sea and beat.] Beaten by the sea; lashed by the waves.

Sea-Beaten

SE'A-BEATEN,

Along the sea-beat shore. Pope

Sea-Boat

SE'A-BOAT, noun [sea and boat.] A vessel that bears the sea firmly, without laboring or straining her masts and rigging.

Sea-Bord

SE'A-BORD, adjective Bordering on the sea or ocean.

Sea-Bordering

SEA-BORD'ERING,

Sea-Born

SE'A-BORN, adjective [sea and born.]

1. Born of the sea; produced by the sea; as Neptune and his sea-born niece.

2. Born at sea.

Sea-Bound

SE'A-BOUND, adjective [sea and bound.] Bounded by the sea.

Sea-Boy

SE'A-BOY, noun [sea and boy.] A boy employed on shipboard.

Sea-Breach

SE'A-BREACH, noun [sea and breach.] Irruption of the sea by breaking the banks.

Sea-Bream

SE'A-BREAM, noun [sea and bream.] A fish of the Sparus kind.

Sea-Breeze

SE'A-BREEZE, noun [sea and breeze.] A wind or current of air blowing from the sea upon land; for the most part blowing during the day only, and subsiding at night.

Sea-Built

SE'A-BUILT, adjective [sea and built.] Built for the sea; as sea-built forts, [ships.]

Sea-Cabbage

SE'A-CAB'BAGE, noun [sea and cabbage.] Sea-colewort, a plant of the genus Crambe.

Sea-Cale

SE'A-CALE,

Sea-Calf

SE'A-CALF, noun [sea and calf.] The connom seal, a species of Phoca.

Sea-Cap

SE'A-CAP, noun [sea and cap.] A cap made to be worn at sea.

Sea-Card

SE'A-C'ARD, noun [sea and card.] The mariner's card or compass.

Sea-Carp

SE'A-CARP, noun [sea and carp.] A spotted fish fiving among rocks and stones.

Sea-Change

SE'A-CHANGE, noun [sea and change.] A change wrought by the sea.

Sea-Chart

SE'A-CH'ART, noun [sea and chart.] A chart or map on which the line of the shore, isles, shoals, b

harbors, etc. are delineated.

Sea-Circled

SE'A-CIRCLED, adjective [sea and circle.] Surrounded by the sea.

Sea-Coal

SE'A-COAL, noun [sea and coal.] Coal brought by sea; a vulgar name for fossil coal, in distinction from charcoal.

Sea-Coast

SE'A-COAST, noun [sea and coast.] The shore or border of the land adjacent to the sea or ocean.

Sea-Cob

SE'A-COB, noun [sea and cob.] A fowl, called also sea-gull.

Sea-Colewort

SE'A-COLEWORT, noun Sea-cale, which see.

Sea-Compass

SE'A-COMPASS, noun [sea and campass.] The mariner's card and needle; the compass constructed for use at sea.

Sea-Coot

SE'A-COOT, noun [sea and coot.] A sea fowl,

SE'A- COR'MORANT, noun [sea and cormorant.] The sea-crow or sea-drake.

Sea-Cow

SE'A-COW, noun [sea and cow.] The Trichecus manatus, or manati. [See Manati.]

Sea-Crow

SE'A-CROW, noun [sea and crow.] A fowl of the full kind; the mire-crow or pewet.

Sea-Devil

SE'A-DEVIL, noun [sea and devil.] The fishing frog or toad-fish, of the genus Lophius; a fish of a deformed shape, resembling a tadpole, growing to a large size, with a head larger than the whole body.

Sea-Dog

SE'A-DOG, noun [sea and dog.]

1. A fish, perhaps the shark.

2. The sea-calf or common seal.

Sea-Dragon

SE'A-DRAGON, noun [sea and dragon.] A marine monster caught in England in 1749, resembling in some degree an alligator, but having two large fins which served for swimming or flying, It had two legs terminating in hoofs, like those of an ass. Its body was covered with impenetrable scales, and it had five rows of teeth.

Sea-Ear

SE'A-EAR, noun [sea and ear.] A sea plant.

Sea-Eel

SE'A-EEL, noun [sea and eel.] An eel caught in salt water; the conger.

Sea-Encircled

SEA-ENCIR'CLED, adjective [sea and encircled.] Encompassed by the sea.

Sea-Farer

SE'A-FARER, noun [sea and fare.] One that follows the seas; a mariner.

Sea-Faring

SE'A-FARING, adjective Following the business of a seaman; customarily employed in navigation.

Sea-Fennel

SE'A-FENNEL, noun [sea and fennel.] The sea as samphire.

Sea-Fight

SE'A-FIGHT, noun [sea and fight.] An engagement between ships at sea; a naval action.

Sea-Fish

SE'A-FISH, noun [sea and fish.] Any marine fish; any fish that lives usually in salt water.

Sea-Fowl

SE'A-FOWL, noun [sea and fowl.] A marine fowl; any fowl that lives by the sea, and procures it food from salt water.

Sea-Fox

SE'A-FOX, noun A species of squalus, having a tail longer than the body.

Sea-Gage

SE'A-GAGE, noun [sea and gage.] The depth that a vessel sinks in the water.

Sea-Garland

SE'A-G'ARLAND, noun [sea and garland.] A plant.

Sea-Girdles

SE'A-GIRDLES, noun [sea and girdle.] A sort of sea mushroom.

Sea-Girt

SE'A-GIRT, adjective [sea and girt.] Surrounded by the water of the sea or ocean; as a sea-girt isle.

Sea-God

SE'A-GOD, noun [sea and god.] A marine deity; a fabulous being supposed to preside over the ocean or sea; as Neptune.

Sea-Gown

SE'A-GOWN, noun [sea and gown.] A gown or garment with short sleeves, worn by mariners.

Sea-Grass

SE'A-GR'ASS, [sea and grass.] A plant growing on the sea shore; an aquatic plant of the genus Ruppia.

Sea-Green

SE'A-GREEN, adjective [sea and green.] Having the color of sea water; being of a faint green color.

SE'A-GREEN, noun

1. The color of the sea water.

2. A plant, the saxifrage.

Sea-Gull

SE'A-GULL, noun [sea and gull.] A fowl of the genus Larus; a species of gull; called also sea-crow.

Sea-Hare

SE'A-HARE, noun [sea and hare.] A marine animal of the genus Laplysia, whose body is covered with membranes reflected; it has lateral pore on the right side, and four feelers resembling ears. The body is nearly oval, soft, gelatinous and punctated. Its juice poisonous, and ir is so fetid as to cause nausea.

Sea-Hedghog

SEA-HEDGHOG, noun A sea shell, a species of Echinus, so called from its prickles, which resemble in some measure those of the hedghog or urchin.

Sea-Hen

SE'A-HEN, noun [sea and hen.] Anothe name of the guillemot.

Sea-Hog

SE'A-HOG, noun [sea and hog.] The porpes, which see.

Sea-Holly

SE'A-HOLLY, noun [sea and holly.] A plant of the genus Eryngium.

Sea-Holm

SE'A-HOLM, noun

1. A small uninhabited isle.

2. Sea-holly.

Sea-Horse

SE'A-HORSE, noun [sea and horse.]

1. In ichthyoilogy, the morse, a species of Trichechus or walrus.

2. The hippopotamus, or river horse.

3. A fish of the needle-fish kind, four or five inches in length, ane half an inch in diameter.

4. A fish of the genus Syngnathus.

Sea-Legs

SE'A-LEGS, noun [sea and leg.] The ability to walk on a ship' deck when pitching or rolling.

Sea-Lemon

SE'A-LEMON, noun [sea and lemon] A marine animal of the genus Doris, having an oval body, convex, marked with numerous punctures, and of a lemon color.

Sea-Like

SE'A-LIKE, adjective [sea and like] Resembling the sea.

Sea-Lion

SE'A-LION, noun [sea and lion] An animal of the genus Phoca or seal, which has a mane like a lion, the Phoca jubata.

Sea-Maid

SE'A-MAID, noun [sea and maid]

1. The mermaid. [See Mermaid.]

2. A sea nymph.

Sea-Mall

SE'A-MALL, noun A fowl, a species of gull or Larus.

Sea-Man

SE'A-MAN, noun [sea and man]

1. A sailor; a mariner; a man whose occupation is to assist in the management of ships at sea.

2. By way of distinction, a skillful mariner; also, a man who is well versed in the art of navigating ships. In this sense, it is applied both officers and common mariners.

3. Merman, the tale of the merman. [Little used.]

Sea-Mark

SE'A-M'ARK, noun [sea and mark.] Any elevated object on land which serves for a direction to mariners in entering a harbor, or in sailing along or approaching a coast; a beacon; as a light-house, a mountain, etc.

SE'A-MEW, noun A fowl, a species of gull or Larus.

Sea-Mew

SE'A-MEW,

Sea-Monster

SE'A-MONSTER, noun [sea and monster.] A huge marine animal. Lamentations 4:1.

Sea-Moss

SE'A-MOSS, noun [sea and moss.] A name given to coral. [See Coral.]

Sea-Navelwort

SEA-NAVELWORT, noun [sea, navel and wort.] A plant growing in Syria, which is said to effect great cures.

Sea-Needle

SE'A-NEEDLE, noun [sea and needle.] A name of the gar or garfish, of the genus Esox. This fish has a slender body, with long pointed jaws and a forked tail. Its back is of a fine green color, and when in the water, its colors are extremely beautiful.

Sea-Nettle

SE'A-NETTLE, noun [sea and nettle.] Another name of the animal flower, sea-anemony.

Sea-Nursed

SE'A-NURSED, adjective [sea and nursed.] Nursed by the sea.

Sea-Nymph

SE'A-NYMPH, noun [sea and nymph.] A nymph or goddess of the sea.

Sea-Onion

SE'A-ONION, noun [sea and onion.] A plant.

Sea-Ooze

SE'A-OOZE, noun [sea and ooze.] The soft mud on or near the sea shore.

Sea-Otter

SE'A-OTTER, noun [sea and otter.] A species of otter that has hind feet like those of a seal. It feeds on shell fish.

Sea-Owl

SE'A-OWL, noun [sea and owl.] Another name of the lump-fish.

Sea-Pad

SE'A-PAD, noun The star-fish. [Stella marina.]

Sea-Panther

SE'A-PANTHER, noun [sea and panther.] A fish like a lamprey.

Sea-Pheasant

SE'A-PHEASANT, noun [sea and pheasant.] The pin-tailed duck.

Sea-Pie

SE'A-PIE, noun [sea and pie, pica.] A fowl of the genus Haematopus, and grallic order; called

Sea-Piece

SE'A-PIECE, noun [sea and piece.] A picture representing a scene at sea.

Sea-Plant

SE'A-PLANT, noun [sea and plant.] A plant that grows in salt water, as the fucus, conferva etc.

Sea-Pool

SE'A-POOL, noun [sea and pool.] A lake of salt water.

Sea-Pye

SE'A-PYE, also the oyster-catcher, from its thrusting its beak into oysters when open, and taking out the animal.

SE'A-PIE, noun [sea and pie.] A dish of food consisting of paste and meat boiled together; so named because common at sea.

Sea-Resembling

SEA-RESEM'BLING, adjective Like the sea; sea-like.

Sea-Risk

SE'A-RISK, noun [sea and risk.] Hazard or risk at sea; danger of injury or destruction by the sea.

Sea-Robber

SE'A-ROBBER, noun [sea and robber.] A pirate; one that robs on the high seas.

Sea-Rocket

SE'A-ROCKET, noun A plant of the genus Bunias.

Sea-Room

SE'A-ROOM, noun .[sea and room.] Ample space or distance from land, shoals or rocks, sufficient for a ship to drive or scud without danger of shipwreck.

Sea-Rover

SE'A-ROVER, noun [sea and rover.]

1. A pirate; one that cruizes for plunder.

2. A ship or vessel that is employed in cruizing for plunder.

Sea-Ruff

SE'A-RUFF, noun A kind of sea fish. [L. orphus.]

Sea-Scorpion

SEA-SCOR'PION, noun [sea and scorpion.] Another name for a fatherlasher.

Sea-Serpent

SE'A-SERPENT, noun [sea and serpent.] A huge animal like a serpent inhabiting the sea.

Sea-Service

SE'A-SERVICE, noun [sea and service.] Naval service; service in the navy or in ships of war.

Sea-Shark

SE'A-SH'ARK, noun [sea and shark.] A ravenous sea fish.

Sea-Shell

SE'A-SHELL, noun [sea ansd shell.] A marine shell; a shell that grows in the sea.

Sea-Shore

SEA-SHO'RE, noun [sea and shore.] The coast of the sea; the land that lied adjacent to the sea or ocean.

Sea-Sick

SE'A-SICK, adjective [sea and sick.] Affected with sickness or nausea by means of the pitching or rolling of a vessel.

Sea-Sickness

SE'A-SICKNESS, noun The sickness or nausea occasioned by the pitching and rolling of a ship in an agitated sea.

Sea-Side

SE'A-SIDE, noun [sea and side.] The land bordering on the sea; the country adjacent to the sea, or near it.

Sea-Star

SE'A-ST'AR, noun [sea and star.] The starfish, a genus of marine animals, called technically Asterias.

Sea-Surgeon

SEA-SUR'GEON, noun [sea and surgeon.] A surgeon employed on shipboard.

Sea-Surrounded

SEA-SURROUND'ED, adjective [sea and surround.] Encompassed by the sea.

Sea-Term

SE'A-TERM, noun [sea and term.] A word or term used appropriately by seamen, or peculiar to the art of navigation.

Sea-Thief

SE'A-THIEF, noun [sea and thief.] A pirate.

Sea-Toad

SE'A-TOAD, noun [sea and toad.] An ugly fish, so called.

Sea-Torn

SE'A-TORN, adjective [sea and torn.] Torn by or at sea.

Sea-Tossed

SE'A-TOSSED, adjective [sea and tossed.] Tossed by sea.

Sea-Urchin

SE'A-URCHIN, noun [sea and urchin.] A genus of marine animals, the Echinus, of many species. The body is roundish, covered with a bony crust, and often set with movable prickles.

Sea-Walled

SE'A-WALLED, adjective [sea and walled.] Surrounded or defended by the sea.

Sea-Water

SE'A-WATER, noun [sea and water.] Water of the sea or ocean, which is salt.

Sea-Weed

SE'A-WEED, noun [sea and weed.] A marine plant of the genus Fucus, used as manure, and for glass and soap. A common name for the marine algae, and some other plants growing in salt water.

Sea-Withwind

SE'A-WITHWIND, noun Bindweed.

Sea-Wolf

SE'A-WOLF, noun [sea and wolf. See Wolf.] A fish of the genus Anarrhicas, found in northern latitudes, about Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Scotland, England, etc. This fish is so named from its fierceness and ravenousness. It grows sometimes to the lenth of four and even seven feet, and feeds on crustaceous animals and shell fish.

Sea-Wormwood

SEA-WORM'WOOD, noun A sort of wormwood growing in the sea, the Artemisia maritima.

Seaboard

SE'ABOARD, adverb Towards the sea.

Seabord

SE'ABORD noun The sea shore.

Seal

SEAL, noun The common name for the species of the genus Phoca. These animals are ampibious, most of the inhabiting the sea coasts, particularly in the higher latitudes. They have six cutting teeth in the upper jaw, and four in the lower. Their hind feet are placed at the extremity of the body, in the same diretion with it, and serve the purpose of a caudal fin; the fore feet are also adapted for swimming, and furmished each with five claws; the external ears are either very small or wanting. There are numerous species; as the leonina, sometimes 18 feet in length, and the jubata, sometimes 25 feet in length, with a name like a lion, both called sea-lion, and found in the southern seas, and alo in the noun Pacific; the ursina, or sea bear, 8 or 9 feet in length, and covered with long, thick bristly hair, found in the noun Pacifac; and the common seal frome 4 to 6 feet in length, found generally throughout the Atlantic and the seas and bays communicating with it, covered with short, stiff, glossy hair, with a smooth head without external ears, and with the fore legs deeply immersed in the skin. Seals are much sought after for their skins and fur.

SEAL, noun [L. sigillum.]

1. A piece of metal or other hard substance, usually round or oval, on which is ingraved some image or device, and sometimes a legend or inscription. This is used by idividuals, corporate bodies and states, for making impressions on wax upon instuments of writing, as an evidence of their authenticity. The king of England has his seal and his privy seal. Seals are sometimes worn in rings.

The wax set to an instument, and impressed or stamped with a seal Thus we give a deed under had and seel. Wax is generally used in sealing instruments, but other substances may be used.

3. The wax or wafer that makes fast a letter or other paper.

4. Any act of confirmation.

5. That which confirms, ratifies or makes stable; assurance. 2 Timothy 2:19.

6. That which effectually shuts, confines or secures; that which makes fast. Revelation 20:3.

SEAL, verb transitive

1. To fasten with a seal; to attach together with a wafer or with wax; as, to seal a letter.

2. To set or affix a seal as a mark of authenticity; as, to seal a deed. Hence,

3. To confirm; to ratify; to establish.

And with my hand I seal our true hearts' love. Shak.

When therefore I hace performed this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will come by you in Spain. Romans 15:28.

4. To shut or keep close; sometimes with up. Seal your lips; seal up you lips.

Open your ears, and seal your bosom upon the secret conserns of a friend. Dwight.

5. To make fast.

So they went and made the sepulcher sure, sealing the stone and settig a watch.

Matthew 27:1.

6. To mark with a stamp, as an evidence of standard exactness, legal size, or merchantable quality. By our laws, weights and measures are to be sealed by an officer appointe and sworn for that purpose; and lether is to be sealed by a like officer, as evidence that it has been inspected and found to be of good quality.

7. To keep secret.

Shut up the words, and seal the book. Daniel 11:1. Isaiah 8:16.

8. To mark as ones property, and secure from danger.

9. To close; to fulfill; to complete; with up.

10. To imprint on the ; as, to seal instruction.

11. To inclose; to hide; to conceal.

12. To confine; to restrain.

13. In architecture, to fix a piece of wood or iron in a wall with cement.

SEAL, verb intransitive To fix a seal

I will seal unto this bond. [Unusual.] Shak.