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Heeling over too easily when under sail; -- said of a vessel.

. Jolif and glad they went unto here [their] rest And casten hem [them] full early for to sail. Chaucer. They of Italy salute you. Heb. xiii. 24. Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness. Matt. v. 6.

Made of thread; as, threaden sails; a threaden fillet. [Obs.] Shak.

The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.

To drive by violence; as, a vessel or sailors may be thrown upon a rock.

(a) A kind of thimble or ferrule of iron, or leather, for protecting the thumb in making sails, and in other work.

A petty officer among lascars, or native East Indian sailors; a boatswain's mate; a cockswain. [India] Malcom.

es of topgallant sparks." L'Estrange. Topgallant breeze, a breeze in which the topgallant sails may properly be carried.

A sailor or fisherman;-so called in some parts of the Pacific.

To lay a hand upon for curing disease. To touch a sail (Naut.), to bring it so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes. -- To touch the wind (Naut.), to keep the ship as near the wind as possible. -- To touch up, to repair; to improve by touches or emendation.

drill or parade. [U. S.] -- Training ship, a vessel on board of which boys are trained as sailors.

onding hole. -- Traverse jury (Law), a jury that tries cases; a petit jury. -- Traverse sailing (Naut.), a sailing by compound courses; the method or process of finding the resulting course and distance from a series of different shorter courses and distances actually passed over by a ship. -- Traverse table. (a) (N…

A turn; specifically, the spell of a sailor at the helm, -- usually two hours.

ally on each side of the center and at each end, that she shall sit well on the water and sail well; as, to trim a ship, or a boat.

A three-cornered sail formerly carried on a ship's foremast, probably on a lateen yard. Sailing always with the sheets of mainsail and trinket warily in our hands. Hakluyt.

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To unfasten, as sails, from the spars or stays to which they are attached for use.

e state has a million men under arms. -- Under canvas. (a) (Naut.) Moved or propelled by sails; -- said of any vessel with her sail set, but especially of a steamer using her sails only, as distinguished from one under steam. Under steam and canvas signifies that a vessel is using both means of propulsion. (b) (Mil.)…

e opposite side of the world; the antipodes. [R.] Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail, That brings our friends up from the underworld. Tennyson.

To loose from a furled state; to unfold; to expand; to open or spread; as, to unfurl sails; to unfurl a flag.