These 16 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Scymnus, Scythians, Sea Eagle.
A native of Chios, who wrote a Periegesis, or description of the earth, in prose, and which is consequently different from the Periegesis in Iambic meter which has come down to us. Scyros (Scyro). An island in the Aegean Sea , east of Euboea, and one of the Sporades . Here Thetis concealed her son Achilles in woman's attire among the daughters of Lycomedes , and here also Pyrrhus , the son of Achilles by Deidamia, was brought up.
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a name very vaguely used by ancient writers. It was sometimes applied to all the nomadic tribes which wandered over the regions to the N. of the Black and the Caspian Seas, and to the E. of the latter. In the time of the Roman empire the name Scythia extended over Asia from the Volga to the frontiers of India.
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a name applied to one or two members of the eagle family; but probably with most distinctive value to the cinereous or white-tailed eagle or erne, Haliaëtus albicilla, found in all parts of Europe. It is generally found inhabiting the seacoasts, and though livjou ing mainly on fish, yet makes inland neys in search of food, and seizes lambs, hares, and other animals. The head is covered with long drooping feathers of ashy brown color, while the body is of a dark-brown hue, streaked in some places SEA EAGLE with lighter tints, and having the primary feathers of the wing mostly black. The tail is rounded, and is of white color in the adult, but brown in the young bird. The bird feeds in Shetland in the Hebrides. The American band headed eagle, Haliaëtus leucocephalus, from its frequenting the seacoasts is also named the sea eagle. See EAGLE.
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a large seal, called also bottle-nosed seal and seal elephant. It is the largest of the seal family, being larger than an elephant. The average length of the male is 12 to 14 feet, but some of 20 and 25 feet are mentioned. SEA ELEPHANT The female is generally about 10 feet long. It gets its name from its size and from its proboscis, which stretches out a foot or more, somewhat like the trunk of an elephant. The males are slaty-blue or brown, the female olive-brown above and yellowish below. Their hair is coarse and useless, but their thick skin makes good harness leather. The blubber yields a fine clear oil as good as sperm oil, without bad smell or taste. In England it is used for softening wool and in making cloth. The sea elephant was once found in abundance at Heard's Island in the southern Indian ocean, and at the Falkland and South Shetland Islands and other islands in the south Atlantic, and the coast of California. It is now rare.
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Aplysia, the name of a genus of gasteropodous mollusca. These animals are slug-like in appearance, and derive their popular name from the prominent character of the front pair of tentacles, which somewhat resemble the ears of a hare. The shell is either absent or is of very rudimentary character, and is concealed by the mantle. Four tentacles exist, and the eyes are situated at the base of the hinder tentacles. The sea hares are widely distributed throughout most seas, and generally inhabit muddy or sandy tracts. They emit a fluid of a rich purple hue. They are also known to discharge an acrid fluid of milky appearance, which has an irritant effect on the human skin. A. hybrida is the common British species.
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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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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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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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in zoology, any individual of the Opisthobranchiata. The name is sometimes confined to the Nudibranchiates.
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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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the popular name of a fish, Centriscus scolopax.
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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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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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a popular name given to the narwhal.
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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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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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