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the sea; having to do with the ocean, or with navigation or naval affairs; nautical; as, marine productions or bodies; marine shells; a marine engine.

Having the lower part of the body like a fish. Crabb.

One whose occupation is to assist in navigating ships; a seaman or sailor. Chaucer. Mariner's compass. See under Compass.

Seamanship. [Obs.] Udalt.

A characteristic crystalline substance, obtained from oil of bitter almonds.

A transparent, pale green variety of beryl, used as a gem. See Beryl.

Quality of being customary.

Formed by the joint action of a river and the sea, as deposits at the mouths of rivers.

An alkaloid extracted from fumitory, as a white crystalline substance.

Having the nostril covered with a scale. Pomarine jager (Zoöl.), a North Atlantic jager (Stercorarius pomarinus) having the elongated middle tail feathers obtuse. The adult is black.

The quality or state of being primary, or first in time, in act, or in intention. Norris.

Dew from the sea; sea dew. [Obs.] That purer brine And wholesome dew called rosmarine. B. Jonson.

Being, acting, or growing, under water in the sea; as, submarine navigators; submarine plants. Submarine armor, a waterproof dress of strong material, having a helmet into which air for breathing is pumped through a tube leading from above the surface to enable a diver to remain under water. -- Submarine cable. See Te…

Lying or being beyond the sea. Howell.

ed blue by the sodium polysulphides made in the fusion. Also used adjectively. Green ultramarine, a green pigment obtained as a first product in the manufacture of ultramarine, into which it is changed by subsequent treatment. -- Ultramarine ash or ashes (Paint.), a pigment which is the residuum of lapis lazuli after…

A group including the greater part of fresh-water fishes, and many marine ones, having the ventral fins under the abdomen behind the pectorals.

A peculiar larval form of Phoronis, a genus of marine worms, having a circle of ciliated tentacles.

An edible marine fish of California (Rhacochilus toxotes).

ants which includes the black, red, and green seaweeds, as kelp, dulse, sea lettuce, also marine and fresh water confervæ, etc.

taining astronomical calculations (lunar, stellar, etc.), and other information useful to mariners.