Seating
(Seat"ing) n.
1. The act of providing with a seat or seats; as, the seating of an audience.
2. The act of making seats; also, the material for making seats; as, cane seating.
Sea titling
(Sea" tit"ling) (Zoöl.) The rock pipit.
Seatless
(Seat"less) a. Having no seat.
Sea toad
(Sea" toad`) (Zoöl.) (a) A sculpin. (b) A toadfish. (c) The angler.
Sea trout
(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 Rock. (d) A California sciænoid fish (Cynoscion nobilis); — called also white sea bass.
Sea trumpet
(Sea" trum"pet)
1. (Bot.) A great blackish seaweed of the Southern Ocean, having a hollow and expanding stem and a
pinnate frond, sometimes twenty feet long.
2. (Zoöl.) Any large marine univalve shell of the genus Triton. See Triton.
Sea turn
(Sea" turn`) A breeze, gale, or mist from the sea. Ham. Nav. Encyc.
Sea turtle
(Sea" tur"tle) (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.
Sea unicorn
(Sea" u"ni*corn) (Zoöl.) The narwhal.
Sea urchin
(Sea" ur"chin) (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.
Seave
(Seave) n. [Cf. Dan. siv, Sw. säf, Icel. sef.] A rush. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
Seavy
(Seav`y), a. Overgrown with rushes. [Prov. Eng.]
Sea wall
(Sea" wall`) [AS. sæweall.] A wall, or embankment, to resist encroachments of the sea.
Sea-walled
(Sea"-walled`) a. Surrounded, bounded, or protected by the sea, as if by a wall. Shak.
Seawan
(Sea"wan Sea"want) , n. The name used by the Algonquin Indians for the shell beads which
passed among the Indians as money.
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.
