A method of converting departure in difference of longitude, and vice versâ, by using the middle latitude instead of the meridional parts, as in Mercator's sailing.
·noun Extent; size; amplitude; scope. II. Latitude ·noun The angular distance of a heavenly body fr...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
In wide terms, the extent of the earth from one pole to the other; but strictly it is the distance o...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·adj Intermediate; intervening. II. Middle ·adj the <<Waist>>. III. Middle ·adj Equally distant fr...
·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Sail>>. II. Sailing ·noun The art of managing a vessel; seamanship; navigation...
The movement of a vessel by means of her sails along the surface of the water. Sailing, or the saili...
The abbreviation for complement of latitude, or what it is short of 90°. ...
·- Of or pertaining to the Middle Ages; mediaeval. ...
·adj Being about the middle of the ordinary age of man; between 30 and 50 years old. ...
·noun The world, considered as lying between heaven and hell. ...
·noun That part of a picture between the foreground and the background. ...
In Bartholomew Close, in Farringdon Ward Without (P.C. 1732). Not named in the maps. ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
1) In Newgate Street, extending from Blow bladder street to Newgate Market (Leake, 1666). In Farring...
West out of Cloth Street to King Street and Cloth Fair (P.O. Directory). In Farringdon Ward Without....
One of the Inns of Court (q.v.). On the western side of the Temple precincts, to the west of Middle...
One of the bands of a sail, to give additional strength. ...
That timber in the stern which is placed amidships. ...
A deep-roached sail, set in some schooners and sloops on the heel of their top-masts between the top...
The three or four thick strakes worked along each side between the lower and middle-deck-ports in th...
The portion of the crew on deck-duty from midnight to 4 A.M. ...
The slight meal snatched by officers of the middle-watch about five bells (or 2·30 A.M.) ...
The method of determining the true motion of a ship, when, besides being acted upon by the wind, she...
A general designation for all the methods on which the rules of computation are founded, on the hypo...
Performed loxodromically, by means of Mercator's charts. ...
Is the reduction of the position of the ship from the various courses made good, oblique to the meri...
Sailing nearly on a given parallel of latitude. ...
That part of navigation which treats a ship's course as an angle, and the distance, difference of la...
Running a course on one of the four cardinal points, so as to alter only a ship's latitude, or longi...
An officer in some navies, whose duties are similar to those of our masters in the royal navy. ...
Works supplied by the admiralty to Her Majesty's ships, which advise the navigator as to the pilotag...
A number of loose pieces floating at a sufficient distance from each other, for a ship to be able to...
With a quartering wind. (See large.) ...
Written instructions for the performance of any proposed duty. ...
A scheme for detecting the approach to shoal water by the diminution of temperature, and found to be...
Resolving a traverse is merely a general term for the determination of a single course equivalent to...
, or turning to windward. That mode of navigating a ship in which she endeavours to gain a positio...
Synonymous with Mercator's sailing. ...
The distance of a celestial body from one of the nodes of its orbit, upon which the latitude depends...
The distance between any two places on the same meridian, or the difference between the parallels of...
That estimated by the log-board, and the last determined by observation. ...
The latitude determined by observations of the sun, star, or moon, by meridional, as also by double ...
Is a circle parallel to the equator passing through any place. Almucantar is the Arabic name. ...
East out of Great New Street at No. 18 and New Street Square, Fetter Lane (P.O. Directory). In Farri...
On the west side of Middle Temple Lane, within the Temple precincts (P.O. Directory). Great Hall new...
South out of Fleet Street at No. 3 through the Temple precincts (P.O. Directory). In Farringdon Ward...
Is a method for determining a series of points in an arc of a great circle between two points on the...
See sailing, order of. ...
The general disposition of a fleet of ships when proceeding on a voyage or an expedition. It is gene...
An arc of a circle of longitude between the centre of that object and the ecliptic, and is north or ...