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lie-to, to
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Lie
·noun ·see <<Lye>>.
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Lie
An intentional violation of the truth. Lies are emphatically condemned in Scripture (John 8:44; 1 Ti...
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lie
A lie out of whole cloth, is an utter falsehood.
In the second place, we are authorized by these ge...
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lie along, to
(See along.) A ship is said to lie along when she leans over with a side wind.
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lie athwart, to
When the tide slackens, and the wind is across tide, it makes a vessel ride athwart.
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By
(·pref.) Against.
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By
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by
On or close to the wind.
♦ Full and by, not to lift or shiver the sails; rap-full.
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lie the course, to
When the vessel's head is in the direction wished.
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lie under arms, to
To remain in a state of preparation for immediate action.
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By and by
Immediately (Matt. 13:21; R.V., "straightway;" Luke 21:9).
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white lie
A harmless lie, one not told with a malicious intent, a lie told to reconcile people at variance.
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lie in!
The order to come in from the yards when reefing, furling, or other duty is performed.
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lie off!
An order given to a boat to remain off on her oars till permission is given for her to come alongsid...
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lie out!
The order to the men aloft to distribute themselves on the yards for loosing, reefing, or furling sa...
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lie over
A ship heeling to it with the wind abeam.
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lie-to, in a gale
, is, by a judicious balance of canvas, to keep a ship's bow to the sea, and, with as much as she ca...
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To
·prep Addition; union; accumulation.
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To-
·prep An obsolete intensive prefix used in the formation of compound verbs; as in to-beat, to-break,...
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to
for at or in, is an exceedingly common vulgarism in the Northern States. We often hear such vile exp...
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By-bidder
·noun One who bids at an auction in behalf of the auctioneer or owner, for the purpose of running up...
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By-blow
·noun An illegitimate child; a bastard.
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By-corner
·noun A private corner.
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By-dependence
·noun An appendage; that which depends on something else, or is distinct from the main dependence; a...
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By-drinking
·noun A drinking between meals.
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By-election
·noun An election held by itself, not at the time of a general election.
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By-end
·noun Private end or interest; secret purpose; selfish advantage.
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By-interest
·noun Self-interest; private advantage.
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By-lane
·noun A private lane, or one opening out of the usual road.
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By-law
·noun A local or subordinate law; a private law or regulation made by a corporation for its own gove...
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By-name
·noun A <<Nickname>>.
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By-pass
·noun A by-passage, for a pipe, or other channel, to divert circulation from the usual course.
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By-passage
·noun A passage different from the usual one; a byway.
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By-past
·adj Past; gone by.
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By-place
·noun A retired or private place.
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By-product
·noun A secondary or additional product; something produced, as in the course of a manufacture, in a...
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By-respect
·noun Private end or view; by-interest.
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By-room
·noun A private room or apartment.
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By-speech
·noun An incidental or casual speech, not directly relating to the point.
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By-spell
·noun A <<Proverb>>.
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By-street
·noun A separate, private, or obscure street; an out of the way or cross street.
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By-stroke
·noun An accidental or a slyly given stroke.
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By-turning
·noun An obscure road; a way turning from the main road.
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By-view
·noun A private or selfish view; self-interested aim or purpose.
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By-walk
·noun A secluded or private walk.
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By-wash
·noun The outlet from a dam or reservoir; also, a cut to divert the flow of water.
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By-wipe
·noun A secret or side stroke, as of raillery or sarcasm.
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Go-by
·noun A passing without notice; intentional neglect; thrusting away; a shifting off; adieu; as, to g...
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Good-by
(·noun / ·interj) ·Alt. of Good-bye.
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Hang-by
·noun A dependent; a hanger-on;
— so called in contempt.
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Passer-by
·noun One who goes by; a passer.
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Stand-by
·noun One who, or that which, stands by one in need; something upon which one relies for constant us...
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Stander-by
·noun One who stands near; one who is present; a bystander.
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By-ways
Only in Judg. 5:6 and Ps. 125:5; literally "winding or twisted roads." The margin has "crooked ways....
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By-word
Hebrew millah (Job 30:9), a word or speech, and hence object of talk; Hebrew mashal (Ps. 44:14), a p...
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the go by
To give one the go by is to deceive him; to leave him in the lurch.--Craven Glossary.
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to set by
To regard; to esteem.--Johnson. Norfolk and Craven Glossaries. These are very old expressions, and w...
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bime-by
By-and-by, soon, in a short time.
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by-bidder
A person employed at public auctions to bid on articles put up for sale, in order to obtain higher p...
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by gosh!
An inoffensive oath, used mostly in New England. Negroes often say, By Golly!
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by gum!
The same as the preceding. It is also noticed by Moor in his Suffolk Glossary.
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by-wash
The outlet of water from a dam or discharge channel.
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for-by
Near to; adjacent.
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stratagem
♦ To give her the go by, is to escape by deceiving.
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stand by!
The order to be prepared; to look out to fire when directed.
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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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run, to lower by the
To let go altogether, instead of lowering with a turn on a cleat or bitt-head.
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lie a hull
Synonymous with hull to, or hulling.
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luff and lie
A very old sea-term for hugging the wind closely.
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bring-to, to
To bend, as to bring-to a sail to the yard. Also, to check the course of a ship by trimming the sail...
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broach-to, to
To fly up into the wind. It generally happens when a ship is carrying a press of canvas with the win...
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heave-to, to
To put a vessel in the position of lying-to, by adjusting her sails so as to counteract each other, ...
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round-to, to
To bring to, or haul to the wind by means of the helm. To go round, is to tack or wear.
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by hook or by crook
One way or other; by any expedient.--Johnson.
It can't be done by hook or crook,
Unless your Highn...
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put to sea, to
To quit a port or roadstead, and proceed to the destination.
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turn to windward, to
To gain on the wind by alternate tacking. It is when a ship endeavours to make progress against the ...
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lie on your oars!
The order to desist rowing, without laying the oars in.
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trice up lie out!
The order to lift the studding-sail boom-ends while the top-men move out on the yards, preparatory t...
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(St.) Andrew by Aldgate
Apparently St. Andrew Undershaft (q.v.).
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(St.) Katherine by Alegate
See St. Katherine Cree Churchyard.
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cheek by jowl
Side by side, hand to fist.
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fly-by-night
You old fly-by-night; an ancient term of reproach to an old woman, signifying that she was a witch, ...
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to set much by
To regard; to esteem.--Johnson. Norfolk and Craven Glossaries. These are very old expressions, and w...
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to set store by
To value; esteem; regard. This sense of the word store is not noticed by the English or American lex...
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by good rights
By right, by strict justice; as, "By good rights Mr. Clay ought to be President of the United States...
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by the bye
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go-by-ground
a little go-by-ground ; a diminutive person.
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holy-by-zont
a ridiculous figure. N.
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by and large
To the wind and off it; within six points.
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by the board
Over the ship's side. When a mast is carried away near the deck it is said to go by the board.
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by the head
When a ship is deeper forward than abaft.
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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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by the stern
When the ship draws more water abaft than forward. (See by the head.)
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by the wind
Is when a ship sails as nearly to the direction of the wind as possible. (See full and by.) In gener...
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fire, loss by
Is within the policy of insurance, whether it be by accident, or by the fault of the master or marin...
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fly-by-night
A sort of square-sail, like a studding-sail, used in sloops when running before the wind; often a te...
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full and by
Sailing close-hauled on a wind; when a ship is as close as she will lie to the wind, without sufferi...
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kenning by kenning
A mode of increasing wages formerly, according to whaling law, by seeing how a man performed his dut...
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latitude by account
That estimated by the log-board, and the last determined by observation.
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latitude by observation
The latitude determined by observations of the sun, star, or moon, by meridional, as also by double ...
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lay, by the
When a man is paid in proportion to the success of the voyage, instead of by the month. This is comm...
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longitude by account
The distance east and west, as computed from the ship's course and distance run, carried forward fro...
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longitude by chronometer
Is estimated by the difference between the time at the place, and the time indicated by chronometer....
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Lean-to
·adj Having only one slope or pitch;
— said of a roof.
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Set-to
·noun A contest in boxing, in an argument, or the like.
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To-beat
·vt To beat thoroughly or severely.
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To-break
·vt To break completely; to break in pieces.
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To-brest
·vt To burst or break in pieces.
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To-day
·noun The present day.
II. To-day ·prep On this day; on the present day.
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To-do
·noun Bustle; stir; commotion; ado.
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To-fall
·noun A lean-to. ·see Lean-to.
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To-name
·noun A name added, for the sake of distinction, to one's surname, or used instead of it.
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To-rend
·vt To rend in pieces.
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To-rent
·Impf & ·p.p. of To-rend.
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to bam
To impose on any one by a falsity; also to jeer or make fun of any one.
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to bamboozle
To make a fool of any one, to humbug or impose on him.
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to baste
To beat. I'll give him his bastings, I'll beat him heartily.
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to bishop
the balls, a term used among printers, to water them.
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to bitch
To yield, or give up an attempt through fear. To stand bitch; to make tea, or do the honours of the ...
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to bite
To over-reach, or impose; also to steal.--Cant. --Biting was once esteemed a kind of wit, similar to...
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to bug
A cant word among journeymen hatters, signifying the exchanging some of the dearest materials of whi...
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to grab
To seize a man. The pigs grabbed the kiddey for a crack: the officers, seized the youth for a burgla...
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to top
To cheat, or trick: also to insult: he thought to have topped upon me. Top; the signal among taylors...
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to tower
To overlook, to rise aloft as in a high tower.
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to twig
To observe. Twig the cull, he is peery; observe the fellow, he is watching us. Also to disengage, sn...
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hump, to
v.
to shoulder, carry on the back;especially, to hump the swag, or bluey, or drum. See Swag, Bluey,...
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jump, to
v.
to take possession of a claim(mining) on land, on the ground that a former possessor hasabandone...
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to buckle-to
To set about any task with energy and a determination to effect the object. It probably comes from h...
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to cotton to
'To cotton to one,' is to take a liking to him; to fancy him; literally to stick to him, as cotton w...
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abase, to
An old word signifying to lower a flag or sail. Abaisser is in use in the French marine, and both ma...
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abate, to
An old Anglo-Norman word from abattre, to beat down or destroy; as, to abate a castle or fort, is to...
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abet, to
To excite or encourage a common word, greatly in use at boat-racings, and other competitive acts.
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abrase, to
To dubb or smooth planks.
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accoil, to
To coil together, by folding round. (See coil.)
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accompany, to
To sail together; to sail in convoy.
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accost, to
To pass within hail of a ship; to sail coastwise; to approach, to draw near, or come side by side.
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adjourn, to
To put off till another day. Adjournments can be made in courts-martial from day to day, Sundays exc...
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adjust, to
To arrange an instrument for use and observation; as, to adjust a sextant, or the escapement of a ch...
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advance, to
An old word, meaning to raise to honour.
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aid, to
To succour; to supply with provisions or stores.
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allow, to
To concede a destined portion of stores, &c.
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annul, to
To nullify a signal.
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answer, to
To reply, to succeed; as, the frigate has answered the signal. This boat will not answer.
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commute, to
To lighten the sentence of a court-martial, on a recommendation of the court to the commander-in-chi...
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compass, to
To curve; also to obtain one's object.
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complain, to
The creaking of masts, or timbers, when over-pressed, without any apparent external defect. One man ...
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compliment, to
To render naval or military honour where due.
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conquer, to
To overcome decidedly.
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consign, to
To send a consignment of goods to an agent or factor for sale or disposal.
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copper, to
To cover the ship's bottom with prepared copper.
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corn, to
A remainder of the Anglo-Saxon ge-cyrned, salted. To preserve meat for a time by salting it slightly...
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couple, to
To bend two hawsers together; coupling links of a cable; coupling shackles.
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cripple, to
To disable an enemy's ship by wounding his masts, yards, and steerage gear, thereby placing him hors...
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cund, to
To give notice which way a shoal of fish is gone.
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cure, to
To salt meat or fish.
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debark, to
To land; to go on shore.
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decamp, to
To raise the camp; the breaking up from a place where an army has been encamped.
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deck, to
A word formerly in use for to trim, as "we deckt up our sails."
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derrick, to
A cant term for setting out on a small not over-creditable enterprise. The act is said to be named f...
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diddle, to
To deceive.
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ding, to
To dash down or throw with violence.
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dip, to
To lower. An object is said to be dipping when by refraction it is visible just above the horizon. A...
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discourse, to
An old sea term to traverse to and fro off the proper course.
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dish, to
To supplant, ruin, or frustrate.
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dismount, to
To break the carriages of guns, and thereby render them unfit for service. Also, in gun exercise, to...
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disorganize, to
To degrade a man-of-war to a privateer by irregularity.
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dive, to
To descend or plunge voluntarily head-foremost under the water. To go off deck in the watch. A ship ...
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doff, to
To put aside.
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double, to
To cover a ship with an extra planking, usually of 4 inches, either internally or externally, when t...
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douse, to
To lower or slacken down suddenly; expressed of a sail in a squall of wind, an extended hawser, &c. ...
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dout, to
To put out a light; to extinguish; do out. Shakspeare makes the dauphin of France say in "King Henry...
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dress, to
To place a fleet in organized order; also, to arrange men properly in ranks; to present a true conti...
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drive, to
[from the Anglo-Saxon dryfan].
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dubb, to
To smooth and cut off with an adze the superfluous wood.
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duck, to
To dive, or immerse another under water; or to avoid a shot.
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egg, to
To instigate, incite, provoke, to urge on: from the Anglo-Saxon eggion.
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eke, to
[Anglo-Saxon eácan, to prolong.] To make anything go far by reduction and moderation, as in shorteni...
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embark, to
To go on board, or to put on board a vessel.
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endanger, to
To expose to peril.
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enrol, to
To enter the name on the roll of a corps.
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ensconce, to
To intrench; to protect by a slight fortification.
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flying-to
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founder, to
to fill with water and go down.
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frap, to
To bind tightly together. To pass lines round a sail to keep it from blowing loose. To secure the fa...
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free, to
♦ To free a prisoner. To restore him to liberty.
♦ To free a pump. To disengage or clear it.
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gip, to
To take the entrails out of fishes.
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gird, to
To bind; used formerly for striking a blow.
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glent, to
To turn aside or quit the original direction, as a shot does from accidentally impinging on a hard s...
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glower, to
to stare or look intently.
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grabble, to
To endeavour to hook a sunk article. To catch fish by hand in a brook.
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grapple, to
To hook with a grapnel; to lay hold of. First used by Duilius to prevent the escape of the Carthagin...
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grave, to
To clean a vessel's bottom, and pay it over.
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grill, to
To broil on the bars of the galley-range, as implied by its French derivation.
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griped-to
The situation of a boat when secured by gripes.
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ground, to
To take the bottom or shore; to be run aground through ignorance, violence, or accident.
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guddle, to
To catch fish with the hands by groping along a stream's bank.
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gudge, to
To poke or prod for fish under stones and banks of a river.
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