signal-officer

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• Signal

  ·noun A token; an indication; a foreshadowing; a sign. II. Signal ·vt To communicate by signals; as...

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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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• Block signal

  ·add. ·- One of the danger signals or safety signals which guide the movement of trains in a block s...

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• Frost signal

  ·add. ·- A signal consisting of a white flag with a black center, used by the United States Weather ...

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• Weather signal

  ·add. ·- Any signal giving information about the weather. The system used by the United States Weath...

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• Wind signal

  ·add. ·- In general, any signal announcing information concerning winds, and ·esp. the expected appr...

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• private signal

  Understood by captains having the key, but totally incomprehensible to other persons. ...

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• signal-man

  The yeoman of the signals; a first-class petty officer in the navy. ...

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• storm-signal

  The hoisting of a danger-flag. Also, Fitzroy's drum and cone, which show the direction of the expect...

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• warning-signal

  Hoisted to warn vessels not to pass a bar. Also, to warrant higher pay to watermen plying between Po...

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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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• naval officer

  One belonging to the royal navy. Also, the person in charge of the stores in a royal dockyard abroad...

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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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• 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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• signal of distress

  When a ship is in imminent danger, she hoists her national flag upside down, and, if she is armed, f...

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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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