Search the Dictionary

bonnet from a sail, or to cast off, as any lacing in any part of the rigging of a vessel. Totten.

To strip of rigging; as, to unrig a ship. Totten.

To take off the slings of, as a yard, a cask, or the like; to release from the slings. Totten.

An edible fresh-water New Zealand fish (Prototroctes oxyrhynchus) of the family Haplochitonidæ. In general appearance and habits, it resembles the northern lake whitefishes and trout. Called also grayling.

Complete; perfect; total; entire; absolute; as, utter ruin; utter darkness. They . . . are utter strangers to all those anxious thoughts which disquiet mankind. Atterbury.

In an utter manner; to the full extent; fully; totally; as, utterly ruined; it is utterly vain.

A law requiring insurance companies to pay to the insured, in case of total loss, the full amount of the insurance, regardless of the actual value of the property at the time of the loss.

veer, or wear, a vessel. To veer and haul (Naut.), to pull tight and slacken alternately. Totten. -- To veer away or out (Naut.), to let out; to slacken and let run; to pay out; as, to veer away the cable; to veer out a rope.

The total sales of coal from a colliery. [Eng.]

A large rope sometimes used in weighing anchor. [Written also voyal, and voyal.] Totten.

the body from one side to the other, like a duck or very fat person; to move clumsily and totteringly along; to toddle; to stumble; as, a child waddles when he begins to walk; a goose waddles. Shak. She drawls her words, and waddles in her pace. Young.

To cause to shake; to tremble; to move tremulously, as from weakness; to totter. [Obs.]

Instruments of war. [Poetic] His complement of stores, and total war. Prior.

A room occupied as a messroom by the commissioned officers of a war vessel. See Gunroom. Totten.

ng to, a temperance society and movement started in Baltimore in 1840 on the principle of total abstinence. -- n.

, a list of the officers and crew of a ship as divided into watches, with their stations. Totten. -- Watch case, the case, or outside covering, of a watch; also, a case for holding a watch, or in which it is kept. -- Watch chain. Same as watch guard, below. -- Watch clock, a watchman's clock; see under Watchman. --…

To play or move to and fro; to move one way and the other; hence, to totter; to reel; to swing; to flutter. With banners and pennons wavering with the wind. Ld. Berners. Thou wouldst waver on one of these trees as a terror to all evil speakers against dignities. Sir W. Scott.

toward the weather side. -- Weather shore (Naut.), the shore to the windward of a ship. Totten. -- Weather tide (Naut.), the tide which sets against the lee side of a ship, impelling her to the windward. Mar. Dict.

m are shown changes of pressure and of temperature, maximum and minimum temperatures, and total rain for each weather station since the last issue, usually 12 hours.

To take another turn with, as a cable around a windlass. Totten.