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sea-animal
[animal n.]
1. An animal or creature living in the sea.
1745tr. Egede's Descr. Greenland 65 Of the Greenland Sea Animals, and Sea Fowl and Fishes. 1753Chambers' Cycl. Suppl., Hippocampus,..a small sea animal caught in the Mediterranean. 1854Dickens Hard T. ii. viii, Mr. Bounderby..sighed like a huge sea-animal. 1855Kingsley Glaucus (1878) 91 One of the rarest of British sea-animals.
2. transf. Applied to a sailor.
1706E. Ward Wooden World Diss. (1708) 107 Take this plain blunt Sea-Animal,..and you'll find him of more intrinsick Value to the Nation, than the most fluttering Beau in it. |