Sea-coal facing(Founding), facing consisting of pulverized bituminous coal.

Seabound
(Sea"bound`) a. Bounded by the sea.

Sea bow
(Sea" bow`) See Marine rainbow, under Rainbow.

Sea boy
(Sea" boy`) A boy employed on shipboard.

Sea breach
(Sea" breach`) A breaking or overflow of a bank or a dike by the sea. L'Estrange.

Sea bream
(Sea" bream`) (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of sparoid fishes, especially the common European species the Spanish and the black sea bream (Cantharus lineatus); — called also old wife.

Sea brief
(Sea" brief`) Same as Sea letter.

Sea bug
(Sea" bug`) (Zoöl.) A chiton.

Sea-built
(Sea"-built`) a. Built at, in, or by the sea.

Sea butterfly
(Sea" but"ter*fly`) (Zoöl.) A pteropod.

Sea cabbage
(Sea" cab"bage) (Bot.) See Sea kale, under Kale.

Sea calf
(Sea" calf`) (Zoöl.) The common seal.

Sea canary
(Sea" ca*na"ry) [So called from a whistling sound which it makes.] (Zoöl.) The beluga, or white whale.

Sea captain
(Sea" cap"tain) The captain of a vessel that sails upon the sea.

Sea card
(Sea" card`) Mariner's card, or compass.

Sea catfish
(Sea" cat`fish 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.

Sea chart
(Sea" chart`) A chart or map on which the lines of the shore, islands, shoals, harbors, etc., are delineated.

Sea chickweed
(Sea" chick"weed`) (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.

Sea clam
(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, or Spisula, solidissima); — called also beach clam, and surf clam.

Sea coal
(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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