SEA-SLUG. The Holothuria. An animal of the class Echinodermata, with elongated body, and flexible outer covering.
SEASONED TIMBER. Such as has been cut down, squared, and stocked for one season at least.
SEASONING. The keeping a vessel standing a certain time after she is completely framed, and dubbed out for planking. A great prince of this maritime country in passing a dockyard, inquired what those basket-ships were for!
SEA-SPOUT. The jetting of sea-water over the adjacent lands, when forced through a perforation in a rocky shore; both its egress and ingress are attended with a rumbling noise, and the spray is often very injurious to the surrounding vegetation.
SEA-STAR. A common rayed or star-like animal, belonging to the class Echinodermata. Also called star-fish (Asteria).
SEA-STREAM. In polar parlance, is when a collection of bay-ice is exposed on one side to the ocean, and affords shelter from the sea to whatever is within it.
SEA-SWABBER. A reproachful term for an idle sailor.
SEA-SWALLOW. The tern, a bird resembling the gull, but more slender and swift.
SEA-SWINE. The porpoise.
SEAT. A term often applied to the peculiar summit of a mountain, as the Queen of Spain's Seat near Gibraltar, the Bibi of Mahratta's Seat near Bombay, Arthur's Seat at Edinburgh, &c.