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ˈsea-snail
1. A name for various marine gasteropods.
c1000ælfric Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 122/24 Chelio, testudo, uel marina gugalia, sæsnæl, uel pinewinclan. c1050Suppl. ælfric's Gloss. Ibid. 181/8 Conche, uel cochlee, scille, uel sæsnæglas. 1538Elyot Dict., Chelydros, a see snayle. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 77 Take the blood of a sea⁓snaile, and for want thereof a common snaile. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1824) III. 116 Of all sea snails, that which is most frequently seen swimming upon the surface..is the Nautilus. 1820Scoresby Acc. Arctic Reg. I. 543 Clio helicina. Sea-snail. 1860G. Bennett Gatherings Naturalist Austral. 41, I caught a Janthina fragilis, or Violet Sea Snail. 1865Mrs. L. L. Clarke Sea-weeds i. 23 Bright yellow Nerits, the commonest sea-snail of our coast.
attrib.1681Grew Musæum i. §v. iv. 121 A Sea-Snail shell. 1850Miss Pratt Comm. Things of Sea-side iii. 221 There is a shell lying about most of our beaches and sandy shores,..called the Sea Snail-shell.
2. A fish of the family Liparididæ, esp. the Liparis vulgaris, or unctuous sucker.
a1672Willughby Hist. Pisc. (1686) Tab. H 6, Liparis nostras. Sea Snail Dunelmensibus. 1769Pennant Brit. Zool. III. 105 The sea snail takes its name from the soft and unctuous texture of its body resembling that of the land snail. 1881Cassell's Nat. Hist. V. 97 The Sea Snail..is often known as the Unctuous Lump-sucker. |
