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The seashore. Shak.

A low perennial plant (Frankenia lævis) resembling heath, growing along the seashore in Europe.

An evergeen seashore plant (Eryngium maritimum). See Eryngium.

Land which borders on the sea; the seashore. Shak. You are near the sea marge of a land teeming with life. J. Burroughs.

A low, fleshy perennial herb (Glaux maritima) found along northern seashores.

A rich slimy deposit in salt marshes and along the seashore, sometimes used as a manure; -- called also sea ooze.

A port on the seashore, or one accessible for seagoing vessels. Also used adjectively; as, a seaport town.

The seashore; seacoast. Ld. Berners.

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

d loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere.

-- Shore birds (Zoöl.), a collective name for the various limicoline birds found on the seashore. -- Shore crab (Zoöl.), any crab found on the beaches, or between tides, especially any one of various species of grapsoid crabs, as Heterograpsus nudus of California. -- Shore lark (Zoöl.), a small American lark (Otoco…

permanently fixed; placed; located; as, a town situated, or situate, on a hill or on the seashore.

of the genus Squilla and allied genera. They make burrows in mud or beneath stones on the seashore. Called also mantis shrimp. See Illust. under Stomapoda.

ground saturated with water, but not usually covered with it; marshy ground away from the seashore. Gray swamps and pools, waste places of the hern. Tennyson. A swamp differs from a bog and a marsh in producing trees and shrubs, while the latter produce only herbage, plants, and mosses. Farming Encyc. (E. Edwards, Word…

thing but a wain of hay. Jeffrey. Driving in ponderous wains their household goods to the seashore. Longfellow.