Variable breezes, mostly light.
·adj Adapted or used for shifting anything. II. Shifting ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Shift>>. III. Shifti...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Shuffling. Tricking. Shifting cove; i.e. a person who lives by tricking. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
Blowing from the four quarters of heaven (Jer. 49:36; Ezek. 37:9; Dan. 8:8; Zech. 2:6). The east win...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
♦ Local or peculiar. ♦ Trade-winds occur within and beyond the tropical parallels. They are pretty...
The Sailor's Word-Book
That the Hebrews recognized the existence of four prevailing winds as issuing, broadly speaking, fro...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
A term used by sailors, to signify soldiers, passengers, or any landsmen on board. ...
When by heavy rolling the ballast shifts in the hold. ...
Pigs of iron, bags of sand, &c., used for ballast, and capable of being moved to trim the vessel. Al...
One or more wooden bulk-heads in a vessel's hold, put up fore-and-aft, and firmly supported, for pre...
See meta-centre. ...
A bank, of which the sand, being incoherent, is subject to removal or being driven about by the viol...
Peculiar winds blowing at stated times one way, and then, from a sudden alteration in the temperatur...
Those which blow constantly at certain seasons of the year, as monsoon, trade, and etesian winds. ...
Those from the due north, east, south, and west points of the compass. ...
See variables. ...
The Etesiæ of the ancients; winds which blow constantly every year during the time of the dog-days i...
See monsoon and trade-winds. ...
The prevalent winds on any particular coast or region. (See wind.) ...
Currents of air moving from about the 30th degree of latitude towards the equator. The diurnal motio...
The act of removing the blocks of a tackle to a greater distance from each other, in order to extend...
Changing its position on the capstan from right to left, or vice versâ. ...
Those which blow from the offing, and render bays uncomfortable and insecure. ...
Those which can be changed from one side of a ship to the other, as the occasion demands. ...
The mariner's compass on maps and charts. ...