seaholm (2)

A small uninhabited island. pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, põt, sea-horse, s. 1. Zool.: (1) The Hippopotamus (q.v.); (2) the Walrus (q.v.). 2. Ichthy . (pl.): The family Hippo camp ide (q.v.). 3. A fabulous animal, represented with foreparts like those of a horse, and with hinder-parts like a fish. Neptune employed them to draw his chariot. In the sea-horse of heraldry, a scalloped fin runs down the back. "Though the sea - horse in the ocean Own no dear domestic cave." Words worth: Wandering Jew. sea-jelly, s. The Jelly-fish (q. v.). sea-kale, s. Bot.: Crambe maritima and the genus Crambe. sea-king, s. [Icel. særkonungr = a sea-king, a viking.] A king of the sea; spec if., one of the piratical North men who infested the coasts of Western Europe, in the eighth, ninth, and tenth centuries; a viking (q. v.).