seatench (setench)

The black sea-bream, Cantharus line at us. [Dublin county, Ireland.] sea-term (se'term), n. A word or term used especially by seamen, or peculiar to the art of navigation. I agree with you in your censure of the sea - terms in Dryden's Virgil, because no terms of art, or cant words, suit the majesty of epick poetry. Pope. seat-fastener (sēt'fås nėr), n. In a wagon, a screw-clamp for securing the seat to the body. 1. Any catadromous trout or char, as the common brook-trout of the United States, Salve lin us fontinalis.-2. A kind of weakfish; any one of the four species of scienoid fishes of the genus Cynoscion which occur along the coast of the middle and southern United States. One of them is the squeteague. Also, sometimes, salmon-trout. See cut under weakfish.-3. Another sciænoid fish, Atractoscion nobilis, related to the weakfish of the Atlantic States. Also called white sea - ba . [California.]-4. A chiroid fish, as Hexagram mus decagram mus, of the Pacific coast of the United States: same as rock - trout, 2.