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Meanings of sea-horse in English

A mythological creature with the front head and forelimbs of a horse and the rear of a dolphin.

Usage of sea-horse in English
1
Roaring with rage the lanced sea-horse dived into the deep.
The Eternal Maiden
2
Shan't you feel proud to sail the Venetian lagoons with a sea-horse at the mast-head?
A Venetian June
3
The profits will help fund sea-horse conservation research.
The Irish Times
4
The sea-horse saw the mare and came to land to meet her, and King Souran descended.
Malayan Literature: Comprising Romantic Tales, Epic Poetry and R...
5
And two young pages were shooting the hilts of their daggers, of the bone of the sea-horse.
The Mabinogion
6
For there, like a triton on a sea-horse, came Gibbie through the water on Snowball, swimming wearily.
Sir Gibbie
7
It is Neptune taming a sea-horse.
Robert Browning: How to Know Him
8
It may well be compared to a sea-horse, for above all other places it loveth best the waters.'
The Book-Hunter at Home
9
Thereupon an overseer ran up and flogged him with a cruel whip cut from the hide of the sea-horse.
Moon of Israel: A Tale of the Exodus
10
Certainly he might justly have been called a sea-horse-betterthan many of the amphibious animals who bear that name.
In Search of the Castaways; Or, The Children of Captain Grant
11
Behind her was a sea-horse.
Independent.ie
12
The women brought imitations of men, women, animals, and birds, carved with labour and ingenuity out of sea-horse teeth.
The Journey to the Polar Sea
13
Me, I've gotta good call to jump overboard now an' be de sonny of a sea-horse, dead to rights!
Romance Island
14
It was a rather imposing fountain, with a Neptune in bronze riding a sea-horse, with nymphs on dolphins in attendance.
The Trumpeter Swan
15
She wore small gold ear-rings like sea-shells, and a gold sea-horse pin, and nylons and some very slender high heels.
Talk of the town
16
Here they got a supply of fresh meat in the shape of sea-horse, of which animal they killed a good many.
The Life of Captain James Cook, the Circumnavigator
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