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Not dreamed, or dreamed of; not thof. Unpathed waters, undreamed shores. Shak.

An apparatus for the determination of the amount of urea in urine, in which the nitrogen evolved by the action of certain reagents, on a given volume of urine, is collected and measured, and the urea calculated accordingly.

The seaman or seamen stationed on the poop or after part of the ship, to attend the after-sails. Totten.

A South American aquatic bird; the horned screamer or kamichi (Palamedea cornuta). See Kamichi.

Water thrown back by the turning of a waterwheel, or by the paddle wheels of a steamer.

A little banner, flag, or streamer. [Written also bannerol.] From the extremity of which fluttered a small banderole or streamer bearing a cross. Sir W. Scott.

To emit beams of light. He beamed, the daystar of the rising age. Trumbull.

A house of worship for seamen.

off, to let steam escape through a passage provided for the purpose; as, the engine or steamer is blowing off. -- To blow out. (a) To be driven out by the expansive force of a gas or vapor; as, a steam cock or valve sometimes blows out. (b) To talk violently or abusively. [Low] -- To blow over, to pass away without e…

The whale; -- so called by seamen, from the circumstance of its spouting up a column of water.

bridge, Bascule bridge, Bateau bridge. See under Ass, Bascule, Bateau. -- Bridge of a steamer (Naut.), a narrow platform across the deck, above the rail, for the convenience of the officer in charge of the ship; in paddlewheel vessels it connects the paddle boxes. -- Bridge of the nose, the upper, bony part of the n…

tal; sometimes made smooth or without edges, as for burnishing pivot holes in watches; a reamer. The broach for gun barrels is commonly square and without taper.

A kind of oatmeal pudding, or thick gruel, used by seamen. [Written also burgout.]

The crested screamer of Brazil (Palamedea, or Chauna, chavaria), so called in imitation of its notes; -- called also chauna, and faithful kamichi. It is often domesticated and is useful in guarding other poultry. See Kamichi.

loquially of human beings. His chaps were all besmeared with crimson blood. Cowley. He unseamed him [Macdonald] from the nave to the chaps. Shak.

and which it surrounds, or by which it is surrounded, intended especially for the use of seamen; as, the United States Coast Survey charts; the English Admiralty charts.

An order of birds, including the swans, ducks, geese, flamingoes and screamers.

To obtain a clearance; as, the steamer cleared for Liverpool to- day. To clear out, to go or run away; to depart. [Colloq.]

To supply with coal; as, to coal a steamer.

ls of an enemy. Not being intended to fight, they may be improvised from fast passenger steamers.