or marryat's signals
A useful code used by the mercantile marine, by an arrangement of flags from a cypher to units, and thence to thousands. (See signals.)
·adj Belonging to a certain number; counting as one of a collection or body. ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Codes of signals have been used for centuries and changed frequently. Their use is too well known to...
The Sailor's Word-Book
By Captain Colomb's plan, the lime light being used on shore, and a plain white light at sea, is cap...
The naval code established by guns to keep a fleet together, to tack, wear, and perform sundry evolu...
See numerary signals ...
·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. ...