| afeard | This is a very common expression for afraid, and though thought low, is a true archaism of our language, as seen in chaucer, shakspeare, and ben jonson. major moor terms it an old and good word. |
| afer | The south-west wind of the latins, and used by some of the early voyagers. |
| affectionate friends | - An official inconsistent subscription, even to letters of reproof and imprest, used by the former board of commissioners of the navy to such officers as were not of noble families or bore titl...
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| afforciament | An old term for a fortress or stronghold. |
| afore the mast | See before the mast. |
| afoundrit | An archaism of sunk or foundered. |
| aftermost | - The last objects in a ship, reckoned from forwards; as, the aftermost mast, aftermost guns, &c.
- Nearest the stern.
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| aftmost | The same as aftermost. |
| aftward | In the direction of the stern. |
| against the sun | - Coiling a rope in the direction from the right hand towards the left—the contrary of with the sun. this term applies to a position north of the sun; south of the sun it would be reversed.
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| agency, naval | A useful class of persons, who transact the monetary affairs of officers, and frequently help them to the top branches of the profession. they are paid for their services by a percentage of 2-1/2.... |
| agents t | Lloyd`s. see lloyd`s agents. |
| agistment | An embankment against the sea or rivers, or one thrown up to fence out a stream. |
| agon | A chinese kind of metal cymbal. (see gong.) it is singular that gower, circa 1395, using this old word for gone, thus metallicizes— |
| aguglia | A common name for sharp-pointed rocks. from the italian for needle; written agulha in spanish and portuguese charts. |
| ahold | A term of our early navigators, for bringing a ship close to the wind, so as to hold or keep to it. |
| ahoo, or all ahoo | As our saxon forefathers had it; awry, aslant, lop-sided. (see askew.) |
| aid, to | To succour; to supply with provisions or stores. |
| aigre | The sudden flowing of the sea, called in the fens of lincolnshire, acker. (see bore.) |
| aiguad | [fr.] aguada [sp.] water as provision for ships. |
| aiguades | Watering-places on french coasts. |
| aiguill | Aimantee, magnetic needle. ——de carene, out-rigger. —— d`inclinaison, dipping needle. ——de tre, or a ralingue, a bolt-rope needle. |
| aiguilles | The peculiar small fishing-boats in the garonne and other rivers of guienne. |
| aigulet | [fr. aiguillettes]. tagged points or cords worn across the breast in some uniforms of generals, staff-officers, and special mounted corps. |
| ailettes | Small plates of steel placed on the shoulders in medi?val armour. |
| airt, or art | A north-country word for a bearing point of the compass or quarter of the heavens. thus the song— |
| airy | - Breezy.
- A mix where the instruments sound as though they are surrounded by a large reflective space full of air, with good high-frequency reflections. also refers to tracks where tr...
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| akedown | A form of the term acton, as a defensive dress. |
| alablaster | An arbalist or cross-bow man; also the corruption of alabaster. |
| alamak | The name given in nautical astronomy to that beautiful double star anak al ard of the arabians, or {g} andromed?. |
| alamottie | - The procellaria pelagica, or storm-finch; mother cary`s chicken, or stormy petrel.
- Another mariner’s name for the stormy petrel.
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| alarm, alaru | [from the italian all`armi!] an apprehension from sudden noise or report. the drum or signal by which men are summoned to stand on their guard in time of danger.—false alarm is sometimes occasione... |
| albany beef | - A name for the sturgeon of the hudson river, where it is taken in quantity for commerce.
- British seamen’s slang for sturgeon caught in the hudson river and served to royal navy ship...
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| alcaid | A governor, or officer of justice, amongst the moors, spaniards, and portuguese. |
| alcatraz | The pelican. alcatraz island is situated in the mouth of the river san |
| aldebaran | The lucida of taurus, the well-known nautical star, popularly called bull`s-eye. |
| alemayne | The early name for germany. |
| alewife | The clupea alosa, a fish of the herring kind, which appears in the philosophical transactions for 1678, as the aloofe; the corruption therefore was a ready one. |
| alexiacus | The appellation under which neptune was implored to protect the nets of the tunny fisheries from the sword-fish. |
| alfere, or alfere | [alfier, fr.; alferez, span.] standard-bearer; ensign; cornet. the old english term for ensign; it was in use in our forces till the civil wars of charles i. |
| alfondiza | The custom-house at lisbon. |
| alga | A species of millepora. |
| algenib | A principal star ({g}) in pegasus. |
| algere | A spear used by fishermen in olden times. |
| algier duty | An imposition laid on merchants` goods by the long parliament, for the redemption of captives in the mediterranean. |
| algology | Scientific researches into the nature of sea-plants. |
| algorab | A star taking rank as the {a} of corvus, but its brightness of late is rivalled by {b} corvi. |
| alhidade | An arabic name for the index or fiducial of an astronomical or geometrical instrument, carrying sight or telescope; used by early navigators. a rule on the back of a common astrolabe, to measure h... |
| aliquot part | That which will exactly divide a number, leaving no remainder. |
| alliciency | The attractive power of the magnet. |
| alligato | [from the spanish lagarto]. the crocodile of america. the head of this voracious animal is flat and imbricate; several of the under teeth enter into and pass through the upper jaw; the nape is nak... |
| alligator water | The brackish water inside the mouths of tropical rivers, with white and muddy surface running into the sea. |
| allocution | The harangue anciently made by the roman generals to exhort their forces. |
| allotting | - Persons agreeing to buy a ship`s cargo appoint a disinterested person to allot a share to each by affixing their respective names.
- Предварительный выбор
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| allow, to | To concede a destined portion of stores, &c. |
| alluvion | An accretion formed along sea-shores and the banks of rivers by the deposition of the various substances held in solution or washed by the waters. sea alluvions differ from those of rivers, in tha... аллювий; намыв; |
| almacantars | Circles parallel to the horizon, and supposed to pass through every degree of the meridian. an arabic term, synonymous with parallels of latitude. |
| almacantars staff | An instrument formerly used at sea for observing the sun`s amplitude, formed of an arc of about 15 degrees. |
| almadia | A small african canoe, made of the bark of trees. some of the larger square-sterned negro-boats are also thus designated. |
| almafadas | Large dunnage cut on the coast of portugal. |
| almat | [hamal]. the star in aries whence the first mansion of the moon takes its name. the frankeleine in chaucer says:— |
| almirante | A great sea-officer or high-admiral in spain. |
| almirantesa | The wife of an admiral. |
| almury | The upright part of an astrolabe. |
| alnus caver | Transport-ships of the early english, so called from the wood of which they were constructed. |
| alof | [anglo-saxon, alofte, on high]. above; overhead; on high. synonymous with up above the tops, at the mast-head, or anywhere about the higher yards, masts, and rigging of ships.—aloft there! the hai... |
| alonde | An old english word for ashore, on land. |
| alongst | In the middle of a stream; moored head and stern. |
| aloof | - The old word for “keep your luff,” in the act of sailing to the wind. (see luff.)—keep aloof, at a distance.
- Obsolete sailing ship term for lying at a distance off to windward, now ...
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| aloofe | See alewife. |
| alow | - Synonymous with below; as alow and aloft, though more properly low and aloft. carrying all sail alow and aloft is when the reefs are shaken out, and all the studding-sails set.
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| alphabetical list | - This is a list which accompanies the ship`s books; it contains the names and number of every person in the pay-book.
- Алфавитный список; список в алфавитном порядке
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| altemetrie | The old term for trigonometry among navigators. |
| alternating winds | Peculiar winds blowing at stated times one way, and then, from a sudden alteration in the temperature of the elements, setting in the contrary direction. a remarkable instance is that of the gulf ... |
| alternation or permutation of quantities | Is the varying or changing their order, and is easily found by a continual multiplication of all numbers. |
| altimetry | Trigonometry; the art of measuring heights or depressions of land, whether accessible or not. |
| altmiklec | A silver turkish coin of 60 paras, or 2_s. 9-1/2_d. sterling. |
