See fly
·vt To clean or clear, as if by using a card. II. Card ·vi To play at cards; to <<Game>>. III. Car...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
The dial or face of the magnetic compass-card. "Reason the card, but passion is the gale." ♦ Pop...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·noun A pair of compasses. II. Compass ·noun A circle; a continent. III. Compass ·noun An inclosed...
An instrument employed by navigators to guide the ship's course at sea. It consists of a circular bo...
·- Mariner's card, or compass. ...
See Car Court. ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
A gay fluttering coxcomb. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
Transparent graduated horn-plates to use on charts, either as protractors or for meteorological purp...
A chart; thus Shakspeare's first witch in Macbeth had winds "And the very ports they blow, All t...
·noun An <<Arcograph>>. II. Bow-compass ·noun A pair of compasses, with a bow or arched plate rivet...
·- The mariner's compass. ·see under <<Compass>>. ...
A superior graduated compass for ascertaining the amount of magnetic variation, by amplitude or azim...
To curve; also to obtain one's object. ...
A narrow saw, which, inserted in a hole bored by a centre-bit, follows out required curves. ...
Such as are curved, crooked, or arched, for ship-building. ...
That in which the card revolves in its bowl floated by alcohol, which prevents the needle from undue...
A compass so constructed as to hang with its face downwards, the point which supports the card being...
See compass. ...
One so fitted with a glass prism for reading by reflection, that the eye can simultaneously observe ...
To say or repeat the mariner's compass, not only backwards or forwards, but also to be able to answe...
Swinging a ship to every point of bearing, to note the variation or error of the needle upon each rh...
Not only to repeat the names of the thirty-two points in order and backwards, but also to be able to...
See magnetic compensator. ...
The 32d part of the circumference, or 11° 15′. ...
To shoot wide of the mark. ...