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An American cottoid fish (Hemitripterus Americanus) allied to the sculpins, found on the northeren Atlantic coasts.

The sea-sand reed. See under Reed.

Risk of injury, destruction, or loss by the sea, or while at sea.

A pirate; a sea rover.

See under Robin, and Illustration in Appendix.

See under Rocket.

Room or space at sea for a vessel to maneuver, drive, or scud, without peril of running ashore or aground. Totten.

One that cruises or roves the sea for plunder; a sea robber; a pirate; also, a piratical vessel.

See Sea bass (b).

Common salt, obtained from sea water by evaporation.

The purple sandpiper.

See Sea chickweed.

Any marine saurian; esp. (Paleon.) the large extinct species of Mosasaurus, Icthyosaurus, Plesiosaurus, and related genera.

A European sculpin (Cottus scorpius) having the head armed with short spines.

Any bryozoan which forms rounded or irregular patches of coral on stones, seaweeds, etc.

Any marine snake. See Sea snake.

Any isopod crustacean of the genus Ligia.

A holothurian.

A small fish of the genus Liparis, having a ventral sucker. It lives among stones and seaweeds.

uatic snakes of the family Hydrophidæ, having a flattened tail and living entirely in the sea, especially in the warmer parts of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. They feed upon fishes, and are mostly of moderate size, but some species become eight or ten feet long and four inches broad.