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sea, term used as synonymous with ocean ocean, interconnected mass of saltwater covering 70.78% of the surface of the earth, often called the world ocean. It is subdivided into four (or five) major units that are separated from each other in most cases by the continental masses. See also oceanography . ..... Click the link for more information. , or a subdivision of an ocean (Caribbean Sea, Yellow Sea), or erroneously designating a large salt lake lake, inland body of standing water occupying a hollow in the earth's surface. The study of lakes and other freshwater basins is known as limnology. Lakes are of particular importance since they act as catchment basins for close to 40% of the landscape, supply ..... Click the link for more information. (Caspian Sea, Dead Sea, Aral Sea). Sea Aegir god of the seas. [Norse Myth.: Brewer Dictionary, 12] queen of the sea; Poseidon’s wife. [Gk. Myth.: NCE, 94] standard navigational work, American Practical Navigator; so called from its compiler, Nathaniel Bowditch. [Am. Hist.: Hart, 97] drowned bound to anchor; invoked in marine dedications. [Christian Hagiog.: Attwater, 88] mad with grief, he battles the sea. [Irish Myth.: Benét, 239] god of waves, which continually mourn him. [Celtic Myth.: Leach, 332; Jobes, 480] personification of the ocean. [Br. and Am. Marine Slang: Leach, 298] Irish god of the sea. [Irish Folklore: Briggs, 280] half-woman, half-fish; seen by sailors. [western Folklore: Misc.] fifty daughters of Nereus; attendants of Poseidon. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 174] son of Oceanus; father of the Nereids. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 174; Gk. Lit.: Iliad] god; protector of sailors and ships. [Norse Myth.: Brewer Dictionary, 760]
three thousand daughters of Oceanus and Tethys. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 178] consort of Neptune and goddess of springs. [Rom. Myth.: Kravitz, 208] goddess-wife of Oceanus. [Gk. Myth.: Brewer Dictionary, 1070] sea deity and mother of Achilles. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 269; Gk. Lit.: Odyssey] primeval sea represented as a dragon goddess, mother of all the gods. [Babylonian Myth.: Benét, 1007] three-pronged fork; attribute of Poseidon. [Gk. Myth.: Hall, 309] gigantic sea deity; son and messenger of Poseidon. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 277; Rom. Lit.: Aeneid] god over the waters. [Vedic Myth.: Leach, 1155]
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Sea Catch knew that, and every spring would swim from whatever place he happened to be in--would swim like a torpedo-boat straight for Novastoshnah and spend a month fighting with his companions for a good place on the rocks, as close to the sea as possible. But our love it was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we - Of many far wiser than we - And neither the angels in Heaven above Nor the demons down under the sea Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful ANNABEL LEE: - The ship was no sooner out of the Humber than the wind began to blow and the sea to rise in a most frightful manner; and, as I had never been at sea before, I was most inexpressibly sick in body and terrified in mind. |
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