naval officer

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• Naval

  ·adj Having to do with shipping; of or pertaining to ships or a navy; consisting of ships; as, naval...

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• naval

  Of or belonging to a ship, or, as now commonly adopted, to the royal navy; hence, naval stores, nava...

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• Officer

  ·vt To furnish with officers; to appoint officers over. II. Officer ·noun Specifically, a commissio...

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• officer

  A person having some command. A term applied both in the royal and mercantile navies to any one of a...

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• Officer

  It is obvious that most, if not all, of the Hebrew words rendered "officer" are either of an indefin...

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• agency, naval

  A useful class of persons, who transact the monetary affairs of officers, and frequently help them t...

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• naval hood

  See hawse-box ...

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• naval architecture

  The construction, or art and science, of building ships. See ship-building ...

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• naval armament

  A fleet or squadron of ships of war, fitted out for a particular service. ...

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• naval cadet

  See cadet. ...

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• naval hospitals

  Greenwich is styled by eminence the Royal Hospital, yet the naval medical establishments in England ...

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• naval reserve

  A body of volunteers, consisting of coasters and able merchant seamen, who are drilled for serving o...

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• naval science

  A knowledge of the theory of ship-building, seamanship, navigation, nautical astronomy, and tactics....

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• naval stores

  All those particulars which are made use of, not only in the royal navy, but in every other kind of ...

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• naval tactics

  The warlike evolutions of fleets, including such manœuvres as may be judged most suitable for attack...

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• marine officer

  An empty bottle: marine officers being held useless by the seamen. SEA WIT. ...

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• officer plant

  n. another name for Christmas-Bush (q.v.), so called «because of its brightred appearance.» (Maiden...

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• chief officer

  See chief mate ...

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• crack officer

  One of the best class. ...

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• flag-officer

  A term synonymous with admiral. ...

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• marine officer

  An officer of the Royal Marines. Jocularly and witlessly applied to an empty bottle, as being "usele...

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• orderly officer

  In the army. See officer of the day. ...

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• petty officer

  A divisional seaman of the first class, ranking with a sergeant or corporal. ...

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• second officer

  Second mate in merchantmen. ...

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• senior officer

  The commanding officer for the time being. ...

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• signal-officer

  In a repeating frigate, a signal-midshipman; in a flag-ship, a flag-lieutenant. ...

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• staff-officer

  On the general staff of the army, or of a combined force. See staff. ...

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• warrant-officer

  Generally one holding his situation from particular boards, or persons authorized by the sovereign t...

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• naval store-ship

  A government vessel, appropriated to carrying stores and munitions of war to different stations. ...

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• royal naval reserve

  See naval reserve. ...

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• officer of the day

  A military officer whose immediate duty is to attend to the interior economy of the corps to which h...

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• officer of the watch

  The lieutenant or other officer who has charge of, and commands, the watch. ...

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• top the officer, to

  To arrogate superiority. ...

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• training-ship for naval cadets

  H.M.S. Britannia, commanded by a captain and complement of officers for the primary training of nava...

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