rakes otherwise
called _clamps_. For boats, _see_ THWART-CLAMPS.

SEA-CROW. A name on our southern coast for the cormorant.

SEA-CUCKOO. The _Trigla cuculus_, or red gurnard, so called from the
unmusical grunt which it emits.

SEA-CUNNY. A steersman in vessels manned with lascars in the East India
country trade.

SEA-DEVIL. A name for the _Lophius piscatorius_, or angler, a fish with
a large head and thick short body.

SEA-DOG. A name of the common seal.

SEA-DOGG. The meteor called also _stubb_ (which see).

SEA-DRAGON. An early designation of the _stinging-weever_.

SEA-EAGLE. A large ray-fish with a pair of enormous fins stretching out
from either side of the body, and a long switch tail, armed with a
barbed bone, which forms a dangerous weapon. _Manta_ of the Spaniards.

SEA-EDGE. The boundary between the icy regions of the "north water" and
the unfrozen portion of the Arctic Sea.

SEA-EEL. The _conger_ (which see).

SEA-EGG. A general name for the _echinus_, better known to seamen as the
_sea-urchin_ (which see).

SEA-FARDINGER. An archaic expression for a seafaring man.

SEA-FISHER. An officer in the household of Edward III.

SEA-FRET. A word used on our northern coasts for the thick heavy mist
generated on the ocean, and rolled by the wind upon the land.

SEA-FROG. A name for the _Lophius piscatorius_, or angler.

SEA GATE OR GAIT. A long rolling swell: when two ships are thrown aboard
one another by its means, they are said to be in a sea-gate.

SEA-GAUGE. An instrument used by Drs. Hale and Desaguliers to
investigate the depth of the sea, by the pressure of air into a tube
prepared for the purpose, showing by a mark left by a thin surface of
treacle carried on mercury forced up it during the descent into what
space the whole air is compressed, and, consequently, the depth of water
by which its weight produced that compression. It is, however, an
uncertain and difficult instrument, and superseded by Ericson's patent,
working on the same principle, but passing over into another tube the
volume of water thus forced in. (_See_ WATER-BOTTLE.)

SEA-GOING. Fit for sea-service abroad.

SEA-GREEN. The colour which in ancient chivalry denoted inconstancy.

SEA-GROCER. A sobriquet for the purser.

SEA-GULL. A well-known bird. When they come in numbers to shore, and
make a noise about the coast, or when at sea they alight on ships,
sailors consider it a prognostic of a storm. This is an old idea; s