·adj Shedding tears; tender.
·vt To pull with violence; as, to tear the hair. II. Tear ·vt To move violently; to <<Agitate>>. I...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·adj & ·noun from Fall, ·vi. II. Falling ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Fall>>. ...
·noun A name given to several species of plants of the genus Polygonum, having angular stems beset w...
When the mercury of the barometer is sinking in the tube. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
When the top-sides are inclined within the perpendicular; opposite of wall-sided. (See tumbling home...
The opposite of griping, or coming up to the wind; it is the movement or direction of the ship's hea...
When the top-sides project beyond a perpendicular, as in flaring. ...
Meteors which have very much the appearance of real stars. They were falsely regarded as foreboders ...
, or ebb of tide. This phrase, implying a previous flow of tide towards high-water, requires here ...
The decay and deterioration of the hull, spars, sails, ropes, and other stores of a ship in the cour...