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An offense which occasions a total forfeiture either lands or goods, or both, at the common law, and to which capital or other punishment may be added, according to the degree of guilt.

To bring one's self; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward. Totten. To fetch away (Naut.), to break loose; to roll slide to leeward. -- To fetch and carry, to serve obsequiously, like a trained spaniel.

To draw apart the blocks of; -- said of a tackle. Totten.

t.), a sheet when eased off, or loosened to the wind, as when the wind is abaft the beam. Totten.

a total failure in a recitation. [U.S.]

That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card. Totten.

A curve of the third order, consisting of two infinite branches, which have a common asymptote. The curve has a double point, and a leaf-shaped loop; whence the name. Its equation is x3 + y3 = axy.

The act of adding up a column of figures; the amount or sum total of such a column.

persons, to be true and just; and it is for men's health to be temperate. Tillotson. Aristotle is for poetical justice. Dennis.

Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle. 2 Sam. xi. 15. Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, standing in the forefront for all time, the masters of those who know. J. C. Shairp.

A short rope grafted on a harpoon, to which a longer lin Totten.

way, as one ship in outsailing another; -- used especially in the phrase to forge ahead. Totten. And off she [a ship] forged without a shock. De Quincey.

ts bottom a thrummed sail, so that the pressure of the water may force it into the crack. Totten.

essel by passing cables around it; to tighten; as a tackle by drawing the lines together. Tottem.

n wears it; or to renew, as the material used to prevent chafing; as, to freshen a hawse. Totten. To freshen ballast (Naut.), to shift Or restore it. -- To freshen the hawse, to pay out a little more cable, so as to bring the chafe on another part. -- To freshen the way, to increase the speed of a vessel. Ham. Nav. E…

To totter. [Obs.]

mast, or, as a flag, close to or around its staff, securing it there by a gasket or line. Totten.

e edge of the top, or through it, and connecting the topmast rigging with the lower mast. Totten.

Any bird of the genuis Totanus. See Tattler.

(a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron. Totten.