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sea morse en · NOUN
Meanings
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(obsolete) The walrus.
His snout lifted barked at the wavenoise, herds of seamorse.
1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 3: Proteus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 46:A Sea Morce-head, it is a fish of Lap-land, and of Norway, also of Green-land; This fish do's sleep hanging on the Rocks by the great teeth of the upper jaw, and so is taken in those parts.
1665, Robert Hubert, A Catalogue of Many Natural Rarities, page 29: