Sea Kale
Crambe maritima, a perennial cruciferous herb, a species of colewort, called also sea cabbage. It is a native of the seacoasts of Europe, and is much cultivated in gardens as a table vegetable.
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Single-source entries: S (44)
Each of these 17 subjects appears in only one of the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. None is long enough to carry a page by itself, so they are gathered here by letter. Anything that grows moves out to a page of its own.
Sea Mouse
Aphrodite, a genus of dorsi-branchiate Annelids or marine worms. The most notable feature in connection with the sea mouse consists in the beautiful iridescent hues exhibited by the hairs or bristles which fringe the sides of the body. The sea mouse inhabits deep water, and may be obtained by dredging. The common species, A. aculeata of the British and French coasts, is inches in width.
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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.
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Sea Slug
in zoology, any individual of the Opisthobranchiata. The name is sometimes confined to the Nudibranchiates.
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Sea Snake
any individual of the family Hydrophidæ. They have depressed heads, dilated behind and covered with shields. Their bodies are covered with square plates; their tails are very much compressed and raised vertically, so as to aid them in swimming. They are very venomous. They are found off the coast of India, in the salt water channels of the Sunderbunds, in the seas around the Indian islands, and in the Pacific. They are eaten in Tahiti.
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Sea Snipe
the popular name of a fish, Centriscus scolopax.
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Sea Spider
or SPIDER CRAB, a marine crab of the genus Maia (M. squinado). 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.
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Sea Surgeon
or SURGEON FISH (Acanthurus chirurgus), a fish belonging to the teleostean section of Acanthopteri, so named from the presence of a sharp spine on the side and near the extremity of the tail, bearing a resemblance to a surgeon's lancet. It occurs on the Atlantic coasts of South America and Africa, and in the Caribbean seas. Its average length is from 12 to 19 inches.
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Sea Unicorn
a popular name given to the narwhal.
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Sea Wolf
a fish, Anarrhicas lupus, about seven or eight feet in length; gray or brown, with transverse black or brown stripes. Its formidable aspect and sharp, effective teeth constitute its chief resem- manded from the Turkish Government blance to a wolf.
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Sea-coal Facing
See COAL-DUST. Sea-water is water impregnated with salt in solution. It is generally composed of chloride of sodium 2.50, chloride of magnesium 0.35, sulphate of magnesia 0.58, carbonate of lime and carbonate of magnesia 0.02, sulphate of lime 0.01, water 96.54. It will be seen from the above why sea-water is utterly unfit for foundry purposes, as, in the subsequent process of evaporation, the chloride of sodium or common salt is deposited in innumerable crystals among the sand; and this deposit being volatile at furnace heat must flow as a slag immediately it is brought in contact with the molten metal. This explains why, where sea-water is employed, castings invariably show dull gray deposits on the surface, which utterly destroy all beauty of finish, and render them unfit for any but the commonest purposes. The slag produced is also a source of annoyance when the castings must be tooled. See SALT; DAUBING.
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Sea-Cucumber
a marine animal related not distantly to the sea-anemone, starfish, and sea-urchin. In external appearance the cucumber looks like a fat worm, but the skeleton of the starfish is represented by a tough, muscular body wall, in the skin of which scales, plates, wheels, and anchors of lime are scattered. The sea-cucumber feeds on minute animals and organic particles extracted from the sand. A repulsive species inhabits the coral reefs of Malaysia. The stout, worm-like individuals attain a length of six to twenty-four inches. The bodies are slit and dried for food. Under the commercial name of trepang, large quantities are imported to the markets of the Chinese, by whom a bowl of trepang soup is regarded as a luxury.
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Sea-Horse
a small, ashen gray, bony fish covered with armor-like scales extending to the end of a long, rounded tail. Its armor is covered with tiny spangles or scales that shine like silver. The entire fish is about five to eight inches in length and is noticeable in three respects. It swims upright; it carries its head with a peculiar arch of the neck like that of a horse, and it uses its long tail like a monkey or an opossum to cling to objects for support. Sea-horses are interesting in aquaria. Dried specimens are a standard article of sale in seaside curio shops.
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Seager
HENRY ROGERS, an American economist, born at Lan Lansing, Mich., in 1870. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1890, and took post-graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania, at Johns Hopkins, and in Germany and Austria. From 1897 to 1902 he was assistant professor of political economy at the University of Pennsylvania, and in 1905 became professor of the same branch at Columbia University. He wrote "Introduction to Economics" (1904); "Social Insurance" (1910); "Principles of Economics" (1917). From 1917 to 1919 he was secretary of the Shipbuilding Labor Adjustment Board in Washington.
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Sealing Wax
a composition for sealing or securely fastening letters of packets. Sealing wax made of resin, and colored with vermilion, lamp-black, white lead, or orpiment, was made in the 16th century.
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Sealing-wax Impressions
Sealing-wax is a very handy and useful substance for obtaining any particular impression to be afterwards inclosed within or attached to a pattern for moulding in sand. The wax must be of good quality and melted in a metal vessel over a lamp, after which the pattern can be pressed down upon the wax just before it congeals, and a beautiful impression will result if the pattern is thoroughly clean. Sealing-wax impressions make good moulds for plaster.
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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 Indies. 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.
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