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tens. To batten down, to fasten down with battens, as the tarpaulin over the hatches of a ship during a storm.

To run or drive (as a vessel or a boat) upon a beach; to strand; as, to beach a ship.

Driven on a beach; stranded; drawn up on a beach; as, the ship is beached.

That part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee.

One of the principal horizontal timbers of a building or ship. The beams of a vessel are strong pieces of timber stretching across from side to side to support the decks. Totten.

a lion bears against his prey. [Obs.] -- To bear away (Naut.), to change the course of a ship, and make her run before the wind. -- To bear back, to retreat. "Bearing back from the blows of their sable antagonist." Sir W. Scott. -- To bear down upon (Naut.), to approach from the windward side; as, the fleet bore dow…

The situation of a distant object, with regard to a ship's position, as on the bow, on the lee quarter, etc.; the direction or point of the compass in which an object is seen; as, the bearing of the cape was W. N. W. (b) pl.

g attached to the suspension ropes at the bottom, functionally analogous to the keel of a ship.

Beadleship. [Obs.] Blount.

ricken; mean; poor; contemptible. "A bankrupt, beggarly fellow." South. "A beggarly fellowship." Swift. "Beggarly elements." Gal. iv. 9.

; conduct; deportment; carriage; -- used also of inanimate objects; as, the behavior of a ship in a storm; the behavior of the magnetic needle. A gentleman that is very singular in his behavior. Steele. To be upon one's good behavior, To be put upon one's good behavior, to be in a state of trial, in which something imp…

One who was admitted to all the rights of divine worship and instructed in all the mysteries of the Christian religion, in distinction from a catechumen, or one yet under instruction.

in protuberance or in cavity; the innermost part; as, the belly of a flask, muscle, sail, ship. Out of the belly of hell cried I. Jonah ii. 2.

Family; relations; household. [Colloq.] Few persons of her ladyship's belongings stopped, before they did her bidding, to ask her reasons. Thackeray.

To place on a bench or seat of honor. Whom I . . . have benched and reared to worship. Shak.

Hard, indurated clay; bind. Bends of a ship, the thickest and strongest planks in her sides, more generally called wales. They have the beams, knees, and foothooks bolted to them. Also, the frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides; as, the midship bend.

The short prayer which closes public worship; as, to give the benediction.

A holy-water stoup. Shipley.

A room in which a number of the officers or ship's company mess and reside.

A place of worship; a hallowed spot. S. F. Adams.