sea-horse

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

SE'A-HORSE, noun [sea and horse.] 1. In ichthyoilogy, the morse, a species of Trichechus or walrus. 2. The hippopotamus, or river horse. 3. A fish of the needle-fish kind, four or five inches in length, ane half an inch in diameter. 4. A fish of the genus Syngnathus.
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