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An armed ship or vessel which sails without a legal commission, for the purpose of plundering other vessels on the high seas.

To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in; to run through, as in sailing. Let patient Octavia plow thy visage up With her prepared nails. Shak. With speed we plow the watery way. Pope.

A strip of canvas, sewn upon a sail so that a batten or a light spar can placed in the interspace.

A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails. See Reef point, under Reef.

het with a short handle, and a head variously patterned; -- used by soldiers, and also by sailors in boarding a vessel.

h poppy juice; hence, figuratively, drugged; drowsy; listless; inactive. [R.] The poppied sails doze on the yard. Lowell.

The sailor's choice, or pinfish.

A true dolphin (Delphinus); -- often so called by sailors. Skunk porpoise, or Bay porpoise (Zoöl.), a North American porpoise (Lagenorhynchus acutus), larger than the common species, and with broad stripes of white and yellow on the sides. See Illustration in Appendix.

A sailor's wages when in port.

e road. Practicable breach (Mil.), a breach which admits of approach and entrance by an assailing party.

bed, a bed that may be folded, and inclosed, in a press or closet. Boswell. -- Press of sail, (Naut.), as much sail as the state of the wind will permit.

To run a middle seam through, as the cloth of a sail.

A small marline spike having generally a wooden handle, -- used in sailmaking. R. H. Dana, Ir.

A sailing canoe of the Ladrone Islands and Malay Archipelago, having its lee side flat and its weather side like that of an ordinary boat. The ends are alike. The canoe is long and narrow, and is kept from overturning by a cigar-shaped log attached to a frame extending several feet to windward. It has been called the f…

A small sloop or shallop, or a large boat with sails.

) To leave a port or haven, as a ship. Shak. -- To put in (Naut.), to enter a harbor; to sail into port. -- To put in for. (a) To make a request or claim; as, to put in for a share of profits. (b) To go into covert; -- said of a bird escaping from a hawk. (c) To offer one's self; to stand as a candidate for. Locke.…

To divide; to separate into parts or regions. Then sailors quartered heaven. Dryden.

American fresh-water fish (Ictiobus, or Carpiodes, cyprinus); -- called also carp sucker, sailfish, spearfish, and skimback.

petition; a contest of speed in any way, as in running, riding, driving, skating, rowing, sailing; in the plural, usually, a meeting for contests in the running of horses; as, he attended the races. The race is not to the swift. Eccl. ix. 11. I wield the gauntlet, and I run the race. Pope.

A small sloop-rigged racing yacht carrying about six hundred square feet of sail, distinguished from a knockabout by having a short bowsprit.