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Any large sea animal.

Any branched marine bryozoan resembling moss.

A dorsibranchiate annelid, belonging to Aphrodite and allied genera, having long, slender, hairlike setæ on the sides.

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

See Garfish (a).

A jellyfish, or medusa.

The officinal squill. See Squill.

Same as Sea mud. Mortimer.

A large American holothurian (Lophothuria Fabricii) having a bright orange convex body covered with finely granulated scales. Its expanded tentacles are bright red.

hinese. It is allied to the common otter, but is larger, with feet more decidedly webbed. Sea-otter's cabbage (Bot.), a gigantic kelp of the Pacific Ocean (Nereocystis Lutkeana). See Nereocystis.

The lumpfish.

The puffin.

The puffin.

The gilthead (Crenilabrus melops), a fish of the British coasts.

document carried by neutral merchant vessels in time of war, to show their nationality; a sea letter or passport. See Passport.

A beautiful American ascidian (Cynthia, or Halocynthia, pyriformis) having the size, form, velvety surface, and color of a ripe peach.

A pedunculated ascidian of the genus Boltonia.

The European bass (Roccus, or Labrax, lupus); -- called also sea dace.

The pintail duck.

tc., cooked together in alternate layers, -- a common food of sailors; as, a three-decker sea pie.