Season (v. i.) To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate.
Season (v. i.) To become dry and hard, by the escape of the natural juices, or by being penetrated with other substance; as, timber seasons in the sun.
Season (v. i.) To give token; to savor.
Seasonable (a.) Occurring in good time, in due season, or in proper time for the purpose; suitable to the season; opportune; timely; as, a seasonable supply of rain.
Seasonage (n.) A seasoning.
Seasonal (a.) Of or pertaining to the seasons.
Seasoner (n.) One who, or that which, seasons, or gives a relish; a seasoning.
Seasoning (n.) The act or process by which anything is seasoned.
Seasoning (n.) That which is added to any species of food, to give it a higher relish, as salt, spices, etc.; a condiment.
Seasoning (n.) Hence, something added to enhance enjoyment or relieve dullness; as, wit is the seasoning of conversation.
Seasonless (a.) Without succession of the seasons.
Sea spider () Any maioid crab; a spider crab. See Maioid, and Spider crab, under Spider.
Sea spider () Any pycnogonid.
Sea squirt () An ascidian. See Illust. under Tunicata.
Sea star () A starfish, or brittle star.
Sea surgeon () A surgeon fish.
Sea swallow () The common tern.
Sea swallow () The storm petrel.
Sea swallow () The gannet.
Sea swallow () See Cornish chough, under Chough.
Seat (n.) The place or thing upon which one sits; hence; anything made to be sat in or upon, as a chair, bench, stool, saddle, or the like.
Seat (n.) The place occupied by anything, or where any person or thing is situated, resides, or abides; a site; an abode, a station; a post; a situation.
Seat (n.) That part of a thing on which a person sits; as, the seat of a chair or saddle; the seat of a pair of pantaloons.
Seat (n.) A sitting; a right to sit; regular or appropriate place of sitting; as, a seat in a church; a seat for the season in the opera house.
Seat (n.) Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.
Seat (n.) A part or surface on which another part or surface rests; as, a valve seat.
Seated (imp. & p. p.) of Seat
Seating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Seat
Seat (v. t.) To place on a seat; to cause to sit down; as, to seat one's self.
Seat (v. t.) To cause to occupy a post, site, situation, or the like; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle.
Seat (v. t.) To assign a seat to, or the seats of; to give a sitting to; as, to seat a church, or persons in a church.
Seat (v. t.) To fix; to set firm.
Seat (v. t.) To settle; to plant with inhabitants; as to seat a country.
Seat (v. t.) To put a seat or bottom in; as, to seat a chair.
Seat (v. i.) To rest; to lie down.
Sea tang () A kind of seaweed; tang; tangle.
Sea term () A term used specifically by seamen; a nautical word or phrase.
Sea thief () A pirate.
Sea thongs () A kind of blackish seaweed (Himanthalia lorea) found on the northern coasts of the Atlantic. It has a thonglike forking process rising from a top-shaped base.
Seating (n.) The act of providong with a seat or seats; as, the seating of an audience.
Seating (n.) The act of making seats; also, the material for making seats; as, cane seating.
Sea titling () The rock pipit.
Seatless (a.) Having no seat.
Sea toad () A sculpin.
Sea toad () A toadfish.
Sea toad () The angler.
Sea trout () Any one of several species of true trouts which descend rivers and enter the sea after spawning, as the European bull trout and salmon trout, and the eastern American spotted trout.
Sea trout () The common squeteague, and the spotted squeteague.
Sea trout () A California fish of the family Chiridae, especially Hexagrammus decagrammus; -- called also spotted rock trout. See Rock trout, under Rock.
Sea trout () A California sciaenoid fish (Cynoscion nobilis); -- called also white sea bass.
Sea trumpet () A great blackish seaweed of the Southern Ocean, having a hollow and expanding stem and a pinnate frond, sometimes twenty feet long.
Sea trumpet () Any large marine univalve shell of the genus Triton. See Triton.
Sea turn () A breeze, gale, or mist from the sea.
Sea turtle () Any one of several very large species of chelonians having the feet converted into paddles, as the green turtle, hawkbill, loggerhead, and leatherback. They inhabit all warm seas.
Sea turtle () The sea pigeon, or guillemot.
Sea unicorn () The narwhal.
Sea urchin () Any one of numerous species of echinoderms of the order Echinoidea.
Seave (n.) A rush.
Seavy (a.) Overgrown with rushes.
Sea wall () A wall, or embankment, to resist encroachments of the sea.
Sea-walled (a.) Surrounded, bounded, or protected by the sea, as if by a wall.
Seawan (n.) Alt. of Seawant
Seawant (n.) The name used by the Algonquin Indians for the shell beads which passed among the Indians as money.
Seawand () See Sea girdles.
Seaward (a.) Directed or situated toward the sea.
Seaward (adv.) Toward the sea.
Seaware (n.) Seaweed; esp., coarse seaweed. See Ware, and Sea girdles.
Seaweed (n.) Popularly, any plant or plants growing in the sea.
Seaweed (n.) Any marine plant of the class Algae, as kelp, dulse, Fucus, Ulva, etc.
Sea whip () A gorgonian having a simple stem.
Sea widgeon () The scaup duck.
Sea widgeon () The pintail duck.
Seawives (pl. ) of Seawife
Seawife (n.) A European wrasse (Labrus vetula).
Sea willow () A gorgonian coral with long flexible branches.
Sea wing () A wing shell (Avicula).
Sea withwind () A kind of bindweed (Convolvulus Soldanella) growing on the seacoast of Europe.
Sea wolf () The wolf fish.
Sea wolf () The European sea perch.
Sea wolf () The sea elephant.
Sea wolf () A sea lion.
Sea woodcock () The bar-tailed godwit.
Sea wood louse () A sea slater.
Sea wormwood () A European species of wormwood (Artemisia maritima) growing by the sea.
Seaworthiness (n.) The state or quality of being seaworthy, or able to resist the ordinary violence of wind and weather.
Seaworthy (a.) Fit for a voyage; worthy of being trusted to transport a cargo with safety; as, a seaworthy ship.
Sea wrack () See Wrack.
Sebaceous (a.) Pertaining to, or secreting, fat; composed of fat; having the appearance of fat; as, the sebaceous secretions of some plants, or the sebaceous humor of animals.
Sebacic (a.) Of or pertaining to fat; derived from, or resembling, fat; specifically, designating an acid (formerly called also sebic, and pyroleic, acid), obtained by the distillation or saponification of certain oils (as castor oil) as a white crystalline substance.
Sebat (n.) The eleventh month of the ancient Hebrew year, approximately corresponding with February.
Sebate (n.) A salt of sebacic acid.
Sebesten (n.) The mucilaginous drupaceous fruit of two East Indian trees (Cordia Myxa, and C. latifolia), sometimes used medicinally in pectoral diseases.
Sebic (a.) See Sebacic.
Sebiferous (a.) Producing vegetable tallow.
Sebiferous (a.) Producing fat; sebaceous; as, the sebiferous, or sebaceous, glands.
Sebiparous (a.) Same as Sebiferous.
Seborrhea (n.) A morbidly increased discharge of sebaceous matter upon the skin; stearrhea.
Secale (n.) A genus of cereal grasses including rye.
Secancy (n.) A cutting; an intersection; as, the point of secancy of one line by another.
Secant (a.) Cutting; divivding into two parts; as, a secant line.