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The peculiar sickness, characterized by nausea and prostration, which is caused by the pitching or rolling of a vessel.

The land bordering on, or adjacent to, the sea; the seashore. Also used adjectively.

relative position of the earth with respect to the sun. In the north temperate zone, four seasons, namely, spring, summer, autumn, and winter, are generally recognized. Some parts of the world have three seasons, -- the dry, the rainy, and the cold; other parts have but two, -- the dry and the rainy. The several season…

Occurring in good time, in due season, or in proper time for the purpose; suitable to the season; opportune; timely; as, a seasonable supply of rain. Mercy is seasonable in the time of affliction. Ecclus. xxxv. 20. -- Sea"son*a*ble*ness, n. -- Sea"son*a*bly, adv.

A seasoning. [Obs.] outh.

Of or pertaining to the seasons. Seasonal dimorphism (Zoöl.), the condition of having two distinct varieties which appear at different seasons, as certain species of butterflies in which the spring brood differs from the summer or autumnal brood.

One who, or that which, seasons, or gives a relish; a seasoning.

The act or process by which anything is seasoned.

Without succession of the seasons.

saddle, or the like. And Jesus . . . overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of them that sold doves. Matt. xxi. 12.

The act of providong with a seat or seats; as, the seating of an audience.

Having no seat.

A rush. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Overgrown with rushes. [Prov. Eng.]

The name used by the Algonquin Indians for the shell beads which passed among the Indians as money.

See Sea girdles.

Directed or situated toward the sea. Donne. Two still clouds . . . sparkled on their seaward edges like a frosted fleece. G. W. Cable.

Seaweed; esp., coarse seaweed. See Ware, and Sea girdles.

Popularly, any plant or plants growing in the sea.

A European wrasse (Labrus vetula).