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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Sea \Sea\ (s[=e]), noun [OE. see, AS. s[=ae]; akin to D. zee, OS. & OHG. s[=e]o, G. see, OFries. se, Dan. s["o], Sw. sj["o], Icel. saer, Goth. saiws, and perhaps to L. saevus fierce, savage. [root]151a.]
1. One of the larger bodies of salt water, less than an ocean, found on the earth's surface; a body of salt water of second rank, generally forming part of, or connecting with, an ocean or a larger sea; as, the Mediterranean Sea; the Sea of Marmora; the North Sea; the Carribean Sea.
2. An inland body of water, esp. if large or if salt or brackish; as, the Caspian Sea; the Sea of Aral; sometimes, a small fresh-water lake; as, the Sea of Galilee.
3. The ocean; the whole body of the salt water which covers a large part of the globe.
I marvel how the fishes live in the sea. --Shak.
Ambiguous between sea and land The river horse and scaly crocodile. --Milton.
4. The swell of the ocean or other body of water in a high wind; motion or agitation of the water's surface; also, a single wave; a billow; as, there was a high sea after the storm; the vessel shipped a sea.
5. (Jewish Antiq.) A great brazen laver in the temple at Jerusalem; -- so called from its size.
He made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof. --2 Chron. iv. 2.
6. Fig.: Anything resembling the sea in vastness; as, a sea of glory. --Shak.
All the space . . . was one sea of heads. --Macaulay.
Note: Sea is often used in the composition of words of obvious signification; as, sea-bathed, sea-beaten, sea-bound, sea-bred, sea-circled, sealike, sea-nursed, sea-tossed, sea-walled, sea-worn, and the like. It is also used either adjectively or in combination with substantives; as, sea bird, sea-bird, or seabird, sea acorn, or sea-acorn.
{At sea}, upon the ocean; away from land; figuratively, without landmarks for guidance; lost; at the mercy of circumstances. "To say the old man was at sea would be too feeble an expression." --G. W. Cable
{At full sea} at the height of flood tide; hence, at the height. "But now God's mercy was at full sea." --Jer. Taylor.
{Beyond seas}, or {Beyond the sea} or {Beyond the seas} (Law), out of the state, territory, realm, or country. --Wharton.
{Half seas over}, half drunk. [Colloq.] --Spectator.
{Heavy sea}, a sea in which the waves run high.
{Long sea}, a sea characterized by the uniform and steady motion of long and extensive waves.
{Short sea}, a sea in which the waves are short, broken, and irregular, so as to produce a tumbling or jerking motion.
{To go to sea}, to adopt the calling or occupation of a sailor.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Ocean \O"cean\ ([=o]"shan), noun [F. oc['e]an, L. oceanus, Gr. 'wkeano's ocean, in Homer, the great river supposed to encompass the earth.]
1. The whole body of salt water which covers more than three fifths of the surface of the globe; -- called also the {sea}, or {great sea}.
Like the odor of brine from the ocean Comes the thought of other years. --Longfellow.
2. One of the large bodies of water into which the great ocean is regarded as divided, as the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic and Antarctic oceans.
3. An immense expanse; any vast space or quantity without apparent limits; as, the boundless ocean of eternity; an ocean of affairs. --Locke.
You're gonna need an ocean Of calamine lotion. --Lieber & Stoller (Poison Ivy: song lyrics, 1994) [PJC]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
noun
1: a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land
2: anything apparently limitless in quantity or volume [syn: {ocean}, {sea}]
3: turbulent water with swells of considerable size; "heavy seas"
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