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y in the water, and when its ends are brought together or drawn ashore incloses the fish. Seine boat, a boat specially constructed to carry and pay out a seine.

One who fishes with a seine.

See Magenta.

g to the Belgæ, a German tribe who anciently possessed the country between the Rhine, the Seine, and the ocean. How unlike their Belgic sires of old. Goldsmith.

A stock at each end of a seine to keep it stretched.

eds of leguminous plants. Its reactions resemble those of alkali albumin. [Written also caseine.]

rious kinds for catching fish; including the bag net, casting net, drag net, landing net, seine, shrimping net, trawl, etc. -- Fishing rod, a long slender rod, to which is attached the line for angling. -- Fishing smack, a sloop or other small vessel used in sea fishing. -- Fishing tackle, apparatus used in fishing,…

ge fish pound used for the capture of the tunny in the Mediterranean; also applied to the seines used for the same purpose.

The cord or rope at the margin of a seine, to which the meshes of the net are attached. Seaming machine, a machine for uniting the edges of sheet-metal plates by bending them and pinching them together.

A seine. See Seine. [Prov. Eng.]

Fishing with a seine.

or hold a place; to have a situation; to be situated or located; as, Paris stands on the Seine. Wite ye not where there stands a little town Chaucer.