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Lee
·vi To <<Lie>>; to speak falsely. II. Lee ·noun That part of the hemisphere, as one stands on shipb...

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lee
calm, under the wind, shelter. S. ...

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lee
From the Scandinavian word lœ or laa, the sea; it is the side opposite to that from which the wind i...

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Tide
·prep Violent confluence. II. Tide ·prep Time; period; season. III. Tide ·noun To pour a tide or f...

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tide
A regular periodical current of waters, setting alternately in a flux and reflux; it is owing to the...

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tide and half-tide
Those roadsteads affected by several rivers or channels leading into them; as, for instance, Spithea...

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Lee, Nathaniel
(1653?-1692) Dramatist, s. of a clergyman at Hatfield, was ed. at Westminster School and Camb. Afte...

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Lee, Harriet
See Lee, Sophia ...

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Lee, Sophia
(1750-1824), Lee, Harriet (1757-1851) Novelists and dramatists, dau. of John L., an actor, were the...

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Lee, Sidney
D.Litt., LL.D. (b. 1859) Ed. of The Dictionary of National Biography (with Sir L. Stephen), Stratf...

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a-lee
The contrary of a-weather: the position of the helm when its tiller is borne over to the lee-side of...

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lee-anchor
The leeward one, if under weigh; or that to leeward to which a ship, when moored, is riding. ...

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lee-beam
On the lee-side of the ship, at right angles with the keel. ...

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lee-boards
Wooden wings or strong frames of plank affixed to the sides of flat-bottomed vessels, such as Dutch ...

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lee-fang
A rope rove through the cringle of a sail, for hauling in, so as to lace on a bonnet. ...

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lee-fange
The iron bar upon which the sheets of fore-and-aft sails traverse, in small vessels. (See horse.) ...

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lee-gauge
Implies being farther from the point whence the wind blows, than another vessel in company. ...

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lee-hitch
The helmsman getting to leeward of the course. ...

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lee-lurches
The sudden and violent rolls which a ship often takes to leeward when a large wave strikes her on th...

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lee-shore
A ship is said to be on a lee-shore, when she is near it, with the wind blowing right on to it. ...

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lee-side
All that part of a ship or boat which lies between the mast and the side farthest from the wind, the...

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lee-way
What a vessel loses by drifting to leeward in her course. When she is sailing close-hauled in a smoo...

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lee-wheel
The assistant to the helmsman. ...

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Bartholomew tide
·- Time of the festival of St. Bartholomew, August 24th. ...

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Ebb tide
·- The reflux of tide water; the retiring tide; — opposed to flood tide. ...

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Tide-rode
·adj Swung by the tide when at anchor; — opposed to wind-rode. ...

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low tide
When there is no money in a man's pocket. ...

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yule-tide
Christmas. N. ...

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cross-tide
The varying directions of the flow amongst shoals that are under water. (See current.) ...

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double-tide
Working double-tides is doing extra duty. (See work double-tides, to.) ...

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ebb-tide
The receding or running out of the sea, in contradistinction to flood. ...

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eddy-tide
When the water runs back from some obstacle to the free passage of the stream. ...

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falling tide
, or ebb of tide. This phrase, implying a previous flow of tide towards high-water, requires here ...

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flood-tide
The flux of the tide, or the time the water continues rising. When the water begins to rise, it is c...

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high tide
, or high water. Figuratively, a full purse. Constance, in Shakspeare's King John, uses the term h...

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spring-tide
The periodical excess of the elevation and depression of the tide, which occurs when both the sun an...

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tide or tidal harbour
A port which can only be entered at a certain time of flood. ...

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tide-ball
A ball hoisted to denote when the depth of water permits vessels to enter a bar-harbour, or to take ...

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tide-gate
A place where the tide runs strong. ...

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tide-gauge
An instrument contrived for measuring the height of the tides. ...

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tide-pool
A sort of basin worn in seaside rocks. ...

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tide-rip
Those short ripplings which result from eddies, or the passage of the tide over uneven bottom; also ...

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tide-rode
The situation of a vessel at anchor when she swings by the force of the tide. In opposition to wind-...

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tide-way
The mid-stream; or a passage or channel through which the tide sets, and runs strongly. ...

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true tide
Opposed to cross-tide (which see). ...

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weather-tide
The reverse of lee-tide. That which, running contrary to the direction of the wind, by setting again...

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windward tide
See weather-tide. ...

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by the lee
The situation of a vessel going free, when she has fallen off so much as to bring the wind round her...

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hard-a-lee
The situation of the tiller when it brings the rudder hard over to windward. Strictly speaking, it o...

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lee-gunwale under
A colloquial phrase for being sorely over-pressed, by canvas or other cause. ...

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luff a-lee
See luff round ...

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under the lee
Sheltered from the wind by some intervening object, as a ship under the lee of the land. ...

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across the tide
A ship riding across tide, with the wind in the direction of the tide, would tend to leeward of her ...

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athwart the tide
See across the tide. ...

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ebb of tide
See falling tide ...

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fall of tide
An ebb. ...

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half-tide rocks
Those showing their heads at half-ebb. (See tide.) ...

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tide, ebb of
The falling tide. ...

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velocity of tide or current
, depends on several circumstances. First, the tide varies with the state of the moon, running stron...

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angle of lee-way
The difference between the apparent compass-course and the true one arising from lateral pressure an...

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brought by the lee
See bring by the lee, to. ...

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make lee-way, to
To drift to leeward of the course. ...

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fluctuation of the tide
The rising and falling of the waters. ...

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strength of the tide
Where it runs strongest, which in serpentine courses will be found in the hollow curves. ...

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turn of the tide
The change from ebb to flood, or the contrary. ...

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bring by the lee, to
To incline so rapidly to leeward of the course when the ship sails large, or nearly before the wind,...

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lee-hatch, take care of the!
A word of caution to the helmsman, not to let the ship fall to leeward of her course. ...

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lee-side of the quarter-deck
Colloquially called the midshipman's parade. ...

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