sea

A large body of salt water.

• God moves in a myſterious way, / His wonders to perform; / He plants his footſteps in the ſea, / And rides upon the ſtorm.

A large body of salt water.; The ocean; the continuous body of salt water covering a majority of the Earth's surface.

• These ſhal ye eat, of all that are in the waters: whatſoeuer hath finnes and ſcales in the waters, in the ſeas, and in the riuers, them ſhall ye eate.
• As we stood there watching, the long yellow light on the eastern horizon suddenly changed in color—first to a roseate flush, then to a warm crimson; the scenes round us, sky, sea, and land, brightened as if by magic.

A large body of salt water.; A body of salt water smaller than an ocean, generally forming part of, or connecting with, an ocean or a larger sea.

• The Mediterranean Sea, the Caribbean Sea, the Sea of Crete, etc.

A lake, especially if large or if salty or brackish.

• The Caspian Sea, the Sea of Galilee, the Salton Sea, etc.

A single wave; billow.

• One ſea broke away the ſpare yards and ſpars out of the ſtarboard main chains. Another heavy ſea broke into the ſhip and ſtove all the boats. Several caſks of beer, that had been laſhed upon deck, were broke looſe and waſhed overboard, and
• 'If they buy three cords of birch logs,' said the witch, 'but they must be exact measure—and no bargaining about the price, and if they throw overboard the one cord of logs, piece by piece, when the first sea comes, and the other cord, piec

The swell of the sea, especially when high or rough.

• 2020 June 8, National Weather Service Boston, 2:38 PM EDT marine forecast High pressure will maintain light winds and flat seas through Tue night. ... Potential for briefly choppy 3 ft seas near South Coast...

Living or used in or on the sea; of, near, or like the sea.attributivein-compounds

• Seaman, sea gauge, sea monster, sea horse, sea level, seaworthy, seaport, seaboard, etc.

Anything resembling the vastness or turbulence of the sea in mass, size or quantity.figuratively

• The beck is crossed by a pretty ford and a number of bridges, and in spring the cottages look out over a dancing sea of daffodils.
• In the last two decades, North Korea has on various occasions conducted highly provocative missile and nuclear tests and promised to turn Seoul into a sea of fire.

A constant flux of gluons splitting into quarks, which annihilate to produce further gluons.

A large, dark plain of rock; a mare.

• The Apollo 11 mission landed in the Sea of Tranquility.