sear spring (ser spring)

The spring in a gun-lock which causes the sear to catch in the notch of the tumbler. See cut under gun - lock. sea-ruff (sē'ruf), n. A sparoid fish of the genus Pagellus, inhabiting most European coasts, including the Mediterranean; a sea-bream. sea-ruffle (sē'ruf"l), n. Same as sea -corn. sea-run (sē'run), n. Migration into the sea: also used attributively. The group without hyoid teeth includes fontinalis, known in the searun condition as immaculatus, and in its northern habitat varying into hudsonicus of Suckley. Science, V. 424.