_s._ per
month.--The _ordinary seaman_ is less qualified; does not take the
weather-helm, the earing, or lead; pay about 21_s._ to 23_s._ per
month.--The _landsman_ is still less qualified.

SEAMAN'S DISGRACE. A foul anchor.

SEAMANSHIP. The noble practical art of rigging and working a ship, and
performing with effect all her various evolutions at sea.

SEAMAN'S WAGES. A proper object of the admiralty jurisdiction.

SEA-MARK. A point or object distinguishable at sea, as promontories,
steeples, rivers, trees, &c., forming important beacons, and noted on
charts. By keeping two in a line, channels can be entered with safety,
and thus the errors of steerage, effect of tide, &c., obviated. These
erections are a branch of the royal prerogative, and by statute 8 Eliz.
cap. 13, the corporation of the Trinity House are empowered to set up
any beacons or sea-marks wherever they shall think them necessary; and,
if any person shall destroy them, he shall forfeit L100, or, in case of
inability to pay, he shall be, _ipso facto_, outlawed.

SEAMEN-GUNNERS. Men who have been trained in a gunnery ship, and thereby
become qualified to instruct others in that duty.

SEA-MEW. A sea-gull.

SEA-MOUSE. The _Aphrodita aculeata_, a marine annelid, remarkable for
the brilliant iridescence of the long silky hairs with which its sides
are covered.

SEA-NETTLE. An immemorial name of several zoophytes and marine creatures
of the class _Acalephae_, which have the power of stinging, particularly
the _Medusae_.

SEA-OWL. A name of the lump-fish, _Cyclopterus lumpus_.

SEA-PAY. That due for actual service in a duly-commissioned ship.

SEA-PERIL. Synonymous with _sea-risk_.

SEA-PIE. The pied oyster-catcher, _Haematopus ostralegus_. Also, a
favourite sea-dish in rough weather, consisting of an olla of fish,
meat, and vegetables, in layers between crusts, the number of which
denominate it a two or three decker.

SEA-PINCUSHION. The name among northern fishermen for a kind of
star-fish of the genus _Goniaster_.

SEA-POACHER. A name of the pogge, _Cottus cataphractus_.

SEA-PORCUPINE. Several fish of the genera _Diodon_ and _Tetraodon_,
beset with sharp spines, which they can erect by inflating themselves
with air.

SEA-PORK. The flesh of young whales in the western isles of Scotland;
the whale-beef of the Bermudas, &c. It is also called sea-beef.

SEA-PORT. A haven near the sea, not situated up a river.

SEA-PURSE. _See_ MERMAID'S PU