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arrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or a bar over which the sea washes.

An extensive division of gastropod mollusks in which the odontophore is long and narrow, and usually bears seven rows of teeth. It includes a large number of families both marine and fresh- water.

To convey or haul with a team; as, to team lumber. [R.] Thoreau.

refoil (Meibomia gyrans), whose lateral leaflets jerk up and down like the arms of a semaphore, and also rotate on their axes.

ight, I did not tend My way well down. Chapman. To tend a vessel (Naut.), to manage an anchored vessel when the tide turns, so that in swinging she shall not entangle the cable.

A division of hydroids comprising those which have the hydranths in thecæ and the gonophores in capsules. The campanularians and sertularians are examples. Called also Thecata. See Illust. under Hydroidea.

A calcareous tufa, in part crystalline, occurring on a large scale as a shore deposit about the Quaternary lake basins of Nevada.

The lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk.

teeth by a motion resembling that of turning a key. -- Tooth net, a large fishing net anchored. [Scot.] Jamieson. -- Tooth ornament. (Arch.) Same as Dogtooth, n., 2.Tooth paste, a paste for cleaning the teeth; a dentifrice. -- Tooth powder, a powder for cleaning the teeth; a dentifrice. -- Tooth rash. (Med.) See Re…

A quantity of explosives anchored in a channel, beneath the water, or set adrift in a current, and so arranged that they will be exploded when touched by a vessel, or when an electric circuit is closed by an operator on shore.

. The god, vindictive, doomed them never more-Ah, men unblessed! -- to touch their natal shore. Pope.

e set his face toward the wilderness. Num. xxiv. 1. The waves make towards'' the pebbled shore. Shak.

To draw along continuously, as a vessel, by a line, men or animals on shore being the motive power; to tow.

To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend; as, the shore of the sea trends to the southwest.

ante, or the first accented and the second unaccented, as in the English word motion; a choreus.

A stroller; a loiterer; esp., an idle, untidy woman; a slattern; a slut; a whore.

ed, flowerlike hydranths at the summits of long, slender, usually simple, stems. The gonophores are small, and form clusters at the bases of the outer tentacles.

A subordinate cliff on a shore, consisting of material that has fallen from the higher cliff above.

To sail alongshore. [Obs.]

The current that sets seaward near the bottom when waves are breaking upon the shore.