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An East Indian deer (Rusa Aristotelis) having a mane on its neck. Its antlers have but three prongs. Called also gerow. The name is applied to other species of the genus Rusa, as the Bornean sambur (R. equina).

To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder. Totten.

or cask with a large hole in it, used to contain the fresh water for daily use in a ship. Totten.

alk steadily on deck when a vessel is rolling or pitching in a rough sea. [Sailor's Cant] Totten.

sea for a vessel to maneuver, drive, or scud, without peril of running ashore or aground. Totten.

To pitch; as, the ship sends forward so violently as to endanger her masts. Totten. To send for, to request or require by message to come or be brought.

That which impresses itself on the sense; anything perceptible. Aristotle distinguished sensibles into common and proper. Krauth- Fleming.

To be agitated with a waving or vibratory motion; to tremble; to shiver; to quake; to totter. Under his burning wheels The steadfast empyrean shook throughout, All but the throne itself of God. Milton. What danger Who 's that that shakes behind there Beau & FL. Shaking piece, a name given by butchers to the piece of be…

Easily shaken; tottering; unsound; as, a shaky constitution; shaky business credit. [Colloq.]

ratlines. -- Sheer strake (Shipbuilding), the strake under the gunwale on the top side. Totten. -- To break sheer (Naut.), to deviate from sheer, and risk fouling the anchor.

chways of a ship. -- Shot gauge, an instrument for measuring the diameter of round shot. Totten. -- shot hole, a hole made by a shot or bullet discharged. -- Shot locker (Naut.), a strongly framed compartment in the hold of a vessel, for containing shot. -- Shot of a cable (Naut.), the splicing of two or more cable…

Large fenders hung over a vessel's side to protect it in handling a cargo. Totten.

That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole. Totten.

aut.), a line or small rope by which seamen haul up the foot of the mainsail or foresail. Totten.

ssion. -- Slip rope (Naut.), a rope by which a cable is secured preparatory to slipping. Totten. -- Slip stopper (Naut.), an arrangement for letting go the anchor suddenly.

slight designedly. To snub a cable or rope (Naut.), to check it suddenly in running out. Totten.

who denied the Trinity, the deity of Christ, the personality of the Devil, the native and total depravity of man, the vicarious atonement, and the eternity of future punishment. His theory was, that Christ was a man divinely commissioned, who had no existence before he was conceived by the Virgin Mary; that human sin w…

bee which does not form communities. -- Solitary sandpiper (Zoöl.), an American tattler (Totanus solitarius). -- Solitary snipe (Zoöl.), the great snipe. [Prov. Eng.] -- Solitary thrush (Zoöl.) the starling. [Prov. Eng.]

aft sail attached to a boom and gaff; -- sometimes called driver. See Illust. under Sail. Totten.

The extension of a general conception, or the totality of the individuals or species to which it may be applied.