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Seance

a sitting; a session, as of some public body; specifically applied by spiritualists to a sitting with the view of evoking spiritual manifestations or of holding communication with spirits.

SEA OF TIBERIAS. See GALILEE, SEA OF.

SEAPLANE. See AERONAUTICS.

Sea Sickness

a nausea, or tendency to vomit, which varies, in respect of duration, in different persons upor their first going to sea. The immediate or exciting cause of sea sickness is variably attributed to the motion of the vessel, or to the effect produced on the eye by moving objects, and by that sense conveyed to the brain.

Seaside Grape

a small tree of the genus Coccolobea (C. uvifera), natural order Polygonaceæ, which grows on the sea coasts of Florida and the West In- SEA SLUG dies. It has clusters of edible fruit somewhat resembling the currant in appearance, a beautiful hard wood which produces a red dye, and yields the extract known as Jamaica kino.

Sea Slug

in zoology, any individual of the Opisthobranchiata. The name is sometimes confined to the Nudibranchiates.

Sea Snipe

the popular name of a fish, Centriscus scolopax.

Sea Spider

or SPIDER CRAB, a marine crab of the genus Maia (M. squi- SEATTLE nado). Its body is somewhat triangular in shape, and its legs are slender and generally long. It lives in deep water, and is seldom seen on the shore.

Sea Unicorn

a popular name given to the narwhal.

Seawell

MOLLY ELLIOT, an American author; born in Gloucester co., Va., Oct. 23, 1860. She published: "The Sprightly Romance of Marsac"; "Hale Weston"; "Twelve Naval Captains" (1897); "A Virginia Cavalier" (1896); "The House of Egremont" (1901); "The Jugglers," "Fifi," "The Lady's Battle," "Franceska," "The Diary of a Beauty," etc. She died in 1916.

Sebago Lake

a lake in Cumberland co., Me.; about 18 miles N. W. of Port- SEBAGO LAKE, a lake in Cumberland land, with which it is connected by the Cumberland and Oxford canal; outlet in Casco bay; length, 12 miles; width, 8 miles.

Sebastes

in ichthyology, a genus of Scorpænoidæ, with about 20 species, widely distributed in temperate seas. In general appearance they resemble the Sea Perches, distributed in temperate seas. In general and are esteemed as food.

Second Sight

a gift of prophetic vision, long supposed in the Scotch Highlands and elsewhere to belong to particular persons. The most common form it took was to see the wraith, fetch, or shadowy second self of some person soon to die, often wrapped in a shroud, attended with some other of the special circumstances of death or burial. or

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