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One who drinks wassail; one who engages in festivity, especially in drinking; a reveler. The rudeness and swilled insolence Of such late wassailers. Milton.

A small sail sometimes set under a studding sail or under a driver boom, and reaching nearly to the water.

Backward against the mast;-said of the sails when pressed by the wind. Totten. To be taken aback. (a) To be driven backward against the mast; -- said of the sails, also of the ship when the sails are thus driven. (b) To be suddenly checked, baffled, or discomfited. Dickens.

To lie or sail along the coast or side of; to accost. [Obs.] Whether high towering or accosting low. Spenser.

To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of. [Obs.] "So much [of Lapland] as accosts the sea." Fuller.

mes possessed of a right to another; generally, gain of land by the washing up of sand or sail from the sea or a river, or by a gradual recession of the water from the usual watermark.

publicly, esp. by a printed notice; as, to advertise goods for sale, a lost article, the sailing day of a vessel, a political meeting.

Pertaining to aëronautics, or aërial sailing.

The science or art of ascending and sailing in the air, as by means of a balloon; aërial navigation; ballooning.

front of; farther forward than; as, afore the windlass. Afore the mast, among the common sailors; -- a phrase used to distinguish the ship's crew from the officers.

The seaman or seamen stationed on the poop or after part of the ship, to attend the after-sails. Totten.

rson who first attacks or makes an aggression; he who begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant. The insolence of the aggressor is usually proportioned to the tameness of the sufferer. Ames.

With the sails furled, and the helm lashed alee; -- applied to ships in a storm. See Hull, n.

To lower, as a sail, a yard, etc.

times do under the influence of "bhang," and attack every one that comes in the way; to assail recklessly and indiscriminately. Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet. Pope.

), and pass the shank painter. -- To weigh anchor, to heave or raise the anchor so as to sail away.

The furniture of a ship, as masts, sails, rigging, anchors, guns, etc.

Any one of the legendary Greek heroes who sailed with Jason, in the Argo, in quest of the Golden Fleece.

A genus of Cephalopoda. The shell is called paper nautilus or paper sailor.

A large ship, esp. a merchant vessel of the largest size. Where your argosies with portly sail . . . Do overpeer the petty traffickers. Shak.