…a member of an elite force within the US Navy, specializing in guerrilla warfare and counter-insurgency…
…a device or substance that is used to join two things together so as to prevent them coming apart or to prevent anything passing between them…
…a fish-eating aquatic mammal with a streamlined body and feet developed as flippers, that returns to land to breed or rest…
…a member of an elite force within the US Navy, specializing in guerrilla warfare and counter-insurgency…
…a gregarious eared seal that frequents the coasts of the Pacific and southern oceans, the male of which is substantially larger than the female. The thick fur on the underside is used commercially as sealskin…
…a large seal with a spotted greyish coat and a convex profile, found commonly in the North Atlantic…
…a slender North Atlantic seal that typically has a dark harp-shaped mark on its grey back…
…a seal with a dark back and pale underside, occurring in warm waters of the northern hemisphere…
…a small Antarctic seal with a short muzzle and large eyes, breeding on the pack ice…
…(of a spoon) having a flat design resembling an embossed seal at the end of its handle…
…a seal with a mottled grey-brown coat and a concave profile, found along North Atlantic and North Pacific coasts…
…a seal used for the authentication of state documents of the highest importance. That of the UK is held by the Lord Chancellor and that of the US by the Secretary of State…
…a seal with a grey and white blotched coat, found in the Arctic waters of the North Atlantic. The male has a nasal sac that is inflated into a hood during display…
…a seal of arctic and subarctic waters, which has pale ring-shaped markings on the back and sides and a short muzzle…
…a city in southwestern California, southeast of Long Beach; population 24,127 (est. 2008)…
…a small barrel-shaped stone object with a hole down the centre and bearing an incised design or cuneiform inscription, originally for rolling on clay when soft to indicate ownership or authenticate a document, used chiefly in Mesopotamia from the late 4th to the 1st millennium bc…
…a large seal that breeds on the west coast of North America and the islands around Antarctica. The male is much larger than the female and has a very thick neck and an inflatable snout…
…a large grey Antarctic seal which has leopard-like spots and preys on penguins and other seals…
…a large mottled grey seal with a small head, ranging farther south than any other seal and breeding on the fast ice of Antarctica…
…a slender grey Antarctic seal which lives on the pack ice, feeding mainly on krill…
…make it inevitable that something unpleasant will happen to someone…
…an official statement or indication that something is accepted or regarded favourably…
…(in the UK) a senior cabinet minister without specified official duties…
…finally confirm or conclude; give final authorization to…
…mark with one’s distinctive character…
…prevent something from escaping by closing a container or opening…
…isolate an area by preventing or monitoring access to and from it…
…the obligation on a priest not to divulge anything said during confession…
