high+sea
1high sea — high sea, adj. 1. the sea or ocean beyond the three mile limit or territorial waters of a country. 2. Usually, high seas. a. the open, unenclosed waters of any sea or ocean; common highway. b. Law. the area within which transactions are subject… …
2high sea — noun The sea when it is very rough due to strong winds and storms, such that the sea encroaches much further inland than is normal, often causing damage. The ship eventually broke in half in high sea and winds …
3high sea — noun Date: before 12th century the open part of a sea or ocean especially outside territorial waters usually used in plural …
4high sea — open seas, part of the sea which is located a considerable distance from land …
5Sea — (s[=e]), n. [OE. see, AS. s[=ae]; akin to D. zee, OS. & OHG. s[=e]o, G. see, OFries. se, Dan. s[ o], Sw. sj[ o], Icel. s[ae]r, Goth. saiws, and perhaps to L. saevus fierce, savage. [root]151a.] 1. One of the larger bodies of salt water, less than …
6High-seasoned — High sea soned, a. Enriched with spice and condiments; hence, exciting; piquant. [1913 Webster] …
7Sea surface temperature — Weekly average sea surface temperature for the World Ocean during the first week of February 2011, during a period of La Niña …
8sea — Synonyms and related words: abundance, acres, bags, barrels, big drink, billow, blue, blue water, bore, breakers, brine, briny, bushel, chop, choppiness, chopping sea, comb, comber, copiousness, countlessness, deep, dirty water, drink, eagre,… …
9high seas — Synonyms and related words: big drink, blue water, drink, high sea, hydrosphere, main, main sea, ocean, ocean depths, ocean main, ocean sea, salt sea, salt water, sea, thalassa, the bounding main, the brine, the briny, the briny deep, the deep,… …
10sea fan — any of certain anthozoans, esp. Gorgonia flabellum, of the West Indies, in which the colony assumes a fanlike form. [1625 35] * * * Any of about 500 coral species (genus Gorgonia) especially abundant in shallow waters along the Atlantic coasts of …
