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- English Word Sealer Definition A mariner or a vessel engaged in the business of capturing seals.
- English Word Sealgh Definition Alt. of Selch
- English Word Sealing wax Definition A compound of the resinous materials, pigments, etc., used as a material for seals, as for letters, documents, etc.
- English Word Seam Definition Grease; tallow; lard.
- English Word Seam Definition The fold or line formed by sewing together two pieces of cloth or leather.
- English Word Seam Definition Hence, a line of junction; a joint; a suture, as on a ship, a floor, or other structure; the line of union, or joint, of two boards, planks, metal plates, etc.
- English Word Seam Definition A thin layer or stratum; a narrow vein between two thicker strata; as, a seam of coal.
- English Word Seam Definition A line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix.
- English Word Seam Definition To form a seam upon or of; to join by sewing together; to unite.
- English Word Seam Definition To mark with something resembling a seam; to line; to scar.
- English Word Seam Definition To make the appearance of a seam in, as in knitting a stocking; hence, to knit with a certain stitch, like that in such knitting.
- English Word Seam Definition To become ridgy; to crack open.
- English Word Seam Definition A denomination of weight or measure.
- English Word Seam Definition The quantity of eight bushels of grain.
- English Word Seam Definition The quantity of 120 pounds of glass.
- English Word Seaman Definition A merman; the male of the mermaid.
- English Word Seaman Definition One whose occupation is to assist in the management of ships at sea; a mariner; a sailor; -- applied both to officers and common mariners, but especially to the latter. Opposed to landman, or landsman.
- English Word Seamanlike Definition Having or showing the skill of a practical seaman.
- English Word Seamanship Definition The skill of a good seaman; the art, or skill in the art, of working a ship.
- English Word Seamark Definition Any elevated object on land which serves as a guide to mariners; a beacon; a landmark visible from the sea, as a hill, a tree, a steeple, or the like.