sea-mark

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

SE'A-M'ARK, noun [sea and mark.] Any elevated object on land which serves for a direction to mariners in entering a harbor, or in sailing along or approaching a coast; a beacon; as a light-house, a mountain, etc. SE'A-MEW, noun A fowl, a species of gull or Larus.
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