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

try; from the mouth towards the source of, as a stream; as, to journey up the country; to sail up the Hudson.

re highest in position or wealth; the upper class; the aristocracy. [Colloq.] -- Upper topsail (Naut.), the upper half of a double topsail. -- Upper works (Naut.), all those parts of the hull of a vessel that are properly above water. -- Upper world. (a) The atmosphere. (b) Heaven. (c) This world; the earth; -- in di…

To set up; to put upright. [Obs.] "With sail on mast upset." R. of Brunne.

t line or leading column; also, the front line or foremost division of a fleet, either in sailing or in battle. Standards and gonfalons, twixt van and rear, Stream in the air. Milton.

Carrying or bearing sails. [Obs.] "Veliferous chariots." Evelyn.

Flying with sails; passing under full sail. [R.]

ty. J. S. Mill. But on the horizon's verge descried, Hangs, touched with light, one snowy sail. M. Arnold.

An assailant. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

A navy of vessels fitted out and manned by volunteers who sail under the flag of the regular navy and subject to naval discipline. Prussia in 1870, in the Franco-German war, organized such a navy, which was commanded by merchant seamen with temporary commissions, with the claim (in which England acquiesced) that it did…

To take a voyage; especially, to sail or pass by water. A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone. Wordsworth.

That may be sailed over, as water or air; navigable.

One who voyages; one who sails or passes by sea or water.

Liable to injury; subject to be affected injuriously; assailable; as, a vulnerable reputation. His skill in finding out the vulnerable parts of strong minds was consummate. Macaulay.

rposes; to hold a night revel. The king doth wake to-night, and takes his rouse, Keeps wassail, and the swaggering upspring reels. Shak.

A sailor, esp. an old sailor; an old salt. [Colloq.]

away from, and her stern is presented to, the wind, and, as she turns still farther, her sails fill on the other side; to veer.

nopy or cornice over a door or a window, to throw off the rain. -- Weather of a windmill sail, the obliquity of the sail, or the angle which it makes with its plane of revolution. -- Weather report, a daily report of meteorological observations, and of probable changes in the weather; esp., one published by governmen…

Working, or able to sail, close to the wind; as, a weatherly ship. Cooper.

The Westen hemisphere, or the New World so called, it having been discovered by sailing westward from Europe; the Occident.