A controversy (1886 -- 93) between Great Britain and the United States as to the right of Canadians not licensed by the United States to carry on seal fishing in the Bering Sea, over which the United States claimed jurisdiction as a mare clausum. A court of arbitration, meeting in Paris in 1893, decided against the claim of the United States, but established regulations for the preservation of the fur seal. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
(Zool.) An acorn barnacle (
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(Zool.) Any one of numerous species of soft-bodied Anthozoa, belonging to the order
☞ They have the oral disk surrounded by one or more circles of simple tapering tentacles, which are often very numerous, and when expanded somewhat resemble the petals of flowers, with colors varied and often very beautiful. [ 1913 Webster ]
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(Bot.) The fruit of a West Indian palm (Manicaria Plukenetii), often found floating in the sea. A. Grisebach. [ 1913 Webster ]
(Zool.) A squid of the genus
(Zool.) A sea purse. [ 1913 Webster ]
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(Zool.) See Batfish
(Bot.) Same as Florida bean. [ 1913 Webster ]
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(Zool.) Any large marine mammal, as a seal, walrus, or cetacean. [ 1913 Webster ]
(Zool.) Any swimming bird frequenting the sea; a sea fowl. [ 1913 Webster ]
(Bot.) A plant (Suaeda maritima) of the Goosefoot family, growing in salt marshes. [ 1913 Webster ]
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A boy employed on shipboard. [ 1913 Webster ]
A breaking or overflow of a bank or a dike by the sea. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]
(Zool.) Any one of several species of sparoid fishes, especially the common European species (Pagellus centrodontus), the Spanish (Pagellus Oweni), and the black sea bream (Cantharus lineatus); -- called also
Same as Sea letter. [ 1913 Webster ]
(Zool.) A chiton. [ 1913 Webster ]
(Zool.) A pteropod. [ 1913 Webster ]
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(Zool.) The common seal. [ 1913 Webster ]
[ So called from a whistling sound which it makes. ] (Zool.) The beluga, or white whale. [ 1913 Webster ]
The captain of a vessel that sails upon the sea. [ 1913 Webster ]
Mariner's card, or compass. [ 1913 Webster ]
A chart or map on which the lines of the shore, islands, shoals, harbors, etc., are delineated. [ 1913 Webster ]
(Bot.) A fleshy plant (Arenaria peploides) growing in large tufts in the sands of the northern Atlantic seacoast; -- called also
(Zool.) Any one of the large bivalve mollusks found on the open seacoast, especially those of the family
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. [ 1913 Webster ]
Sea-coal facing (Founding),
(Zool.) The black-backed gull. [ 1913 Webster ]
(Bot.) A magnificent palm (Lodoicea Sechellarum) found only in the Seychelles Islands. The fruit is an immense two-lobed nut. It was found floating in the Indian Ocean before the tree was known, and called sea cocoanut, and double cocoanut. [ 1913 Webster ]
(Bot.) A large blackfish seaweed (Agarum Turneri), the frond of which is punctured with many little holes. [ 1913 Webster ]
(Bot.) Sea cabbage. [ 1913 Webster ]
The mariner's compass. See under Compass. [ 1913 Webster ]
(Zool.) A scoter duck. [ 1913 Webster ]
(Zool.) A yellow cylindrical mass of egg capsules of certain species of whelks (
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(Zool.) Any large holothurian, especially one of those belonging to the genus
(Zool.) The European sea perch. [ 1913 Webster ]
(Bot.) A European amaryllidaceous plant (Pancratium maritimum). [ 1913 Webster ]
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