The naval code established by guns to keep a fleet together, to tack, wear, and perform sundry evolutions. Also, certain sounds made in fogs as warnings to other vessels, either with horns, bells, gongs, guns, or the improved fog-whistle.
Codes of signals have been used for centuries and changed frequently. Their use is too well known to...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·noun A state of mental confusion. II. Fog ·noun A second growth of grass; aftergrass. III. Fog ·v...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Smoke. CANT. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
long grass : more properly after-grass. North. Coarse grass. Norf. and Suff. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
A mist at sea, consisting of the grosser vapours floating in the air near the surface of the sea. Th...
By Captain Colomb's plan, the lime light being used on shore, and a plain white light at sea, is cap...
See numerary signals ...
or marryat's signals A useful code used by the mercantile marine, by an arrangement of flags from ...
·add. ·- A region of the ocean where fogs are of marked frequency, as near the coast of Newfoundland...
A dense haze, presenting the appearance of a thick cloud resting upon the horizon; it is known in hi...
A beautiful natural phenomenon incidental to high latitudes. It appears opposite to the sun, and is ...
Those transient prismatic breaks which occur in thick mists, and considered good symptoms of the wea...
A synonym of fog-dog and fog-bow. It may be explained as the clearing of the upper stratum, permitti...
·add. ·- A system of signaling in which balls of red and green fire are fired from a pistol, the arr...
Series of flags, &c., for communicating at sea. ...
Is to make the same signal exhibited by the admiral, in order to its being more readily distinguishe...
As Marryat's and others. ...