seadog

1. Zool.: Phoca vitulina . 2. Ichthy .: The dog-fish (q. v.). 3. A sailor who has been long at sea; an old sailor. The name was specially applied to the English privateers of the time of Elizabeth. "The Channel swarmed with ' sea -dogs,' as they were called, who accepted letters of marque from the Prince of Condé." Green: Short History , 406. sea-dottrel, s. Ornith.: Streps i las interpres, the Turnstone (q.v.). sea-dove, 8. Zool.: The rotche, or little auk. sea-dragon, s. Ichthy.: Pegasus drac on is , common in the Indian Ocean. The popular name has reference to the resemblance of this fish to the mythical dragon. sea-drake, s. [SEA-CROW.] †sea-ducks, s . pl . Ornith.: The Fuliguline. ( Swains on .) sea-dust, s. IMG:content-1107.png:[blocks in formation] Bot.: The genus Trichodesmium (q. v.). sea-dyke, s. A dyke, wall, or embankment formed spec if., applied to a ve el which makes foreign IMG:content-1108.png:[blocks in formation] hedgehogs and Sea-urchins. sea-elephant, s. Zoology : Macrorhinus elephant in us (or probo scideus ), the largest of the Phocide, probably owing its popular name as much to its immense size as to the short dilatable proboscis with which the male is furnished. [MACRORHINUS.]