Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SEA-TOAD, n. [sea and toad.]

An ugly fish, so called. Cotgrave.

SEA-TORN, a. [sea and torn.]

Torn by or at sea. Browne.

SEA-TOSS-ED, a. [sea and tossed.]

Tossed by the sea. Shak.

SEA-TRAV'EL-ING, n.

Traveling by sea voyages.

SEA-UR-CHIN, n. [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. This and the sea-egg, and the sea-hedgehog, belong to the family of radiated animals. Encyc.

SEAVES, n. [plur; Sw. säf; Dan. siv; Heb. סיף suf.]

Rushes. [Local.]

SEAV-Y, a.

Overgrown with rushes. [Local.]

SEA-WALL-ED, a. [sea and walled]

Surrounded or defended by the sea. Shak.

SEA-WARD, a. [sea and ward.]

Directed toward the sea. Donne.

SEA-WARD, adv.

Toward the sea. Drayton.

SEA-WA-TER, n. [sea and water.]

Water of the sea or ocean, which is salt. Bacon.

SEA-WEED, n. [sea and weed.]

A marine plant of the genus Fucus, used as manure, and for making glass and soap. A common name for the marine algæ, and some other plants growing in salt water.

SEA-WITH-WIND, n.

Bindweed.

SEA-WOLF, n. [sea and wolf. See Wolf.]

A fish of the genus Anarrhicas, found in northern latitudes, about Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Scotland, England, &c. This fish is so named from its fierceness and ravenousness. It grows sometimes to the length of four and even seven feet, and feeds on crustaceous animals and shell fish. Encyc.

SEA-WORM'WOOD, n.

A sort of wormwood growing by the sea, the Artemisia maritima. Johnson. Lee.

SEA-WORN, a.

Worn by service at sea.

SEA-WOR-THI-NESS, n.

The state of being able to resist the ordinary violence of wind and weather; as that of a ship. Kent.

SEA-WOR-THY, a. [sea and worthy.]

Fit for a voyage; worthy of being trusted to transport a cargo with safety; as, a seaworthy ship.

SE-BA'CEOUS, a. [Low L. sebaceus, from sebum, sevum, tallow, W. saim. Qu. Eth. sebach, fat.]

Made of tallow or fat; pertaining to fat. Sebaceous humor, a suet-like or glutinous matter secreted by the sebaceous glands, which serves to defend the skin and keep it soft. Coxe. Parr. Sebaceous glands, small glands seated in the cellular membrane under the skin, which secrete the sebaceous humor. Parr.

SE-BAC'IC, a. [supra.]

In chimistry, pertaining to fat; obtained from fat; as, the sebacic acid. Lavoisier.

SE'BATE, n. [supra.]

In chimistry, a salt formed by the sebacic acid and a base. Hooper. Lavousier.

SE-BES'TEN, n.

The Assyrian plum, a plant of the genus Cordia, a species of jujube. Lee. Coxe.

SE'CANT, a. [L. secans, seco, to cut or cut off, coinciding with Eng. saw.]

Cutting; dividing into two parts.

SE'CANT, n. [It. Fr. and Sp. secante, supra.]

1. In geometry, a line that cuts another, or divides it into parts. The secant of a circle is a line drawn from the circumference on one side, to a point without the circumference on the other. In trigonometry, a secant is a right line drawn from the center of a circle, which, cutting the circumference, proceeds till it meets with a tangent to the same circle. Encyc.
2. In trigonometry, the secant of an arc is a right line drawn from the center through one end of the arc, and terminated by a tangent drawn through the other end.

SE-CEDE, v.i. [L. secedo; se, from, and cedo, to move. Se is an inseparable preposition or prefix in Latin, but denoting departure or separation.]

To withdraw from fellowship, communion or association; to separate one's self; as, certain ministers seceded from the church of Scotland about the year 1733.