tain, and
even further north.

SEA-BEAR. A name applied to several species of large seals of the genus
_Otaria_, found both in the northern and southern hemispheres. They
differ from the true seals, especially in the mode in which they use
their hind limbs in walking on land.

SEA-BOARD. The line along which the land and water meet, indicating the
limit common to both.

SEA-BOAT. A good sea-boat implies any vessel adapted to bear the sea
firmly and lively without labouring heavily or straining her masts or
rigging. The contrary is called _a bad sea-boat_.

SEA-BORNE. Arrived from a voyage: said of freighted ships also afloat.

SEA-BOTTLE. The pod or vesicle of some species of _sea-wrack_ or _Fucus
gigantea_ of Cape Horn and the Straits of Magellan.

SEA-BREEZE. A wind from the sea towards the land. In tropical climates
(and sometimes during summer in the temperate zone) as the day advances
the land becomes extremely heated by the sun, which causes an ascending
current of air, and a wind from the sea rushes in to restore
equilibrium. Above the sea-breeze is a counter current, which was
clearly shown in Madras, where an aeronaut waited until the sea-breeze
had set in to make his ascent, expecting to be blown inland, but after
rising to a certain height found himself going out to sea, and in his
haste to descend he disordered the machinery, and could not close the
valve which allowed the gas to escape, so fell into the sea about three
miles from the land, but clung to his balloon and was saved. Also, a
cool sea drink.

SEA-BRIEF. A specification of the nature and quantity of the cargo of a
ship, the place whence it comes, and its destination. (_See_ PASSPORT.)

SEA-CALF. A seal, _Phoca vitulina_.

SEA-CAP. The white drift or breaks of a wave. _White horses_ of trades.

SEA-CARDS. The old name for charts.

SEA-CAT. A name of the wolf-fish, _Anarrhicas lupus_.

SEA-CATGUT. The _Fucus filum_, or sea-thread.

SEA-COAST, OR SEA-BORD. The shore of any country, or that part which is
washed by the sea.

SEA COCOA-NUT, OR DOUBLE COCOA-NUT. The fruit of the _Lodoicea
seychellarum_, a handsome palm growing in the Seychelles Islands. It was
once supposed to be produced by a sea-weed, because so often found
floating on the sea around.

SEA-COULTER. The puffin or coulter-neb, _Fratercula arctica_.

SEA-COW. One of the names given to the _manatee_ (which see).

SEA-CRAFTS. In ship-building, a term for the scarphed st