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- English Word Sea kale Definition See under Kale.
- English Word Sea king Definition One of the leaders among the Norsemen who passed their lives in roving the seas in search of plunder and adventures; a Norse pirate chief. See the Note under Viking.
- English Word Sea laces Definition A kind of seaweed (Chorda Filum) having blackish cordlike fronds, often many feet long.
- English Word Sea lamprey Definition The common lamprey.
- English Word Sea language Definition The peculiar language or phraseology of seamen; sailor's cant.
- English Word Sea lark Definition The rock pipit (Anthus obscurus).
- English Word Sea lark Definition Any one of several small sandpipers and plovers, as the ringed plover, the turnstone, the dunlin, and the sanderling.
- English Word Sea lavender Definition See Marsh rosemary, under Marsh.
- English Word Sea lawyer Definition The gray snapper. See under Snapper.
- English Word Sea legs Definition Legs able to maintain their possessor upright in stormy weather at sea, that is, ability stand or walk steadily on deck when a vessel is rolling or pitching in a rough sea.
- English Word Sea lemon Definition Any one of several species of nudibranchiate mollusks of the genus Doris and allied genera, having a smooth, thick, convex yellow body.
- English Word Sea leopard Definition Any one of several species of spotted seals, especially Ogmorhinus leptonyx, and Leptonychotes Weddelli, of the Antarctic Ocean. The North Pacific sea leopard is the harbor seal.
- English Word Sea letter Definition The customary certificate of national character which neutral merchant vessels are bound to carry in time of war; a passport for a vessel and cargo.
- English Word Sea lettuce Definition The green papery fronds of several seaweeds of the genus Ulva, sometimes used as food.
- English Word Sea level Definition The level of the surface of the sea; any surface on the same level with the sea.
- English Word Sea lily Definition A crinoid.
- English Word Sea lion Definition Any one of several large species of seals of the family Otariidae native of the Pacific Ocean, especially the southern sea lion (Otaria jubata) of the South American coast; the northern sea lion (Eumetopias Stelleri) found from California to Japan; and the black, or California, sea lion (Zalophus Californianus), which is common on the rocks near San Francisco.
- English Word Sea loach Definition The three-bearded rockling. See Rockling.
- English Word Sea louse Definition Any one of numerous species of isopod crustaceans of Cymothoa, Livoneca, and allied genera, mostly parasites on fishes.
- English Word Sea mantis Definition A squilla.