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and more or less varied with small white spots and blotches. Called also, locally, blue bass, black sea bass, blackfish, bluefish, and black perch. (b) A California food fish (Cynoscion nobile); -- called also white sea bass, and sea salmon.

The mariner's compass. See under Compass.

Eelgrass.

d by neutral merchant vessels in time of war, to show their nationality; a sea letter or passport. See Passport.

Of the rank or degree below the best highest; inferior; second- rate; as, a second-class house; a second-class passage.

asserting one's self, or one's own rights or claims; hence, putting one's self forward in a confident or assuming manner.

The act of asserting one's self, or one's own rights or claims; the quality of being self-asserting.

Disposed to self-assertion; self-asserting.

Assumed by one's own act, or without authority.

Assured by or of one's self; self-reliant; complacent.

The prepared fiber of the Agave Americana, or American aloe, used for cordage; -- so called from Sisal, a port in Yucatan. See Sisal hemp, under Hemp.

A special class of small yachts developed in Germany under the patronage of Emperor William and Prince Henry of Prussia, and so called because these yachts do not conform to the restrictions for the regular classes established by the rules of the International Yacht Racing Union. In yachts of the sonderclass, as prescr…

A bravo; a bully; a duelist. Ld. Lytton.

Obs. or corrupt forms of Asparagus.

Asparagus. [Colloq.] See the Note under Asparagus.

A small telescope for viewing distant terrestrial objects.

Quitch grass.

A plant (Orchis mascula); -- called also standerwort, and long purple. See Long purple, under Long.

A glass vessel, usually cylindrical, filled with a solution which is sensitive to atmospheric changes, indicating by a clouded appearance, rain, snow, etc., and by clearness, fair weather.

A brilliant glass, used in the manufacture of artificial paste gems, which consists essentially of a complex borosilicate of lead and potassium. Cf. Glass.