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That part of the upper deck of a vessel forward of the foremast, or of the after part of the fore channels.

A short rope grafted on a harpoon, to which a longer lin Totten.

The milk secreted just before, or directly after, the birth of a child or of the young of an animal; colostrum.

To move heavily and slowly, as a ship after the sails are furled; to work one's way, as one ship in outsailing another; -- used especially in the phrase to forge ahead. Totten. And off she [a ship] forged without a shock. De Quincey.

to which one whole is divided; the quotient of a unit divided by forty; one next in order after the thirty-ninth.

nset, or earlier in cloudy weather; hence the name. It is also called marvel of Peru, and afternoon lady.

Next in order after the thirteenth; as, the fourteenth day of the month.

Next in order after the third; the ordinal of four.

A sly, cunning fellow. [Colloq.] We call a crafty and cruel man a fox. Beattie.

The state or quality of being foxy, or foxlike; craftiness; shrewdness.

Foxlike. [Obs.] "Foxly craft." Latimer.

Foxiness; craftiness. [R.] Shak.

et of smell; odorous; having or emitting an agreeable perfume. Fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers. Milton.

The pledge and tithing, afterwards called by the Normans frankpledge. See Frankpledge. [Written also friburgh and fribourg.] Burril.

A device in which a piece on one shaft or pulley is so forcibly pressed against a piece on another shaft that the two will revolve together; as, in the illustration, the cone a on one shaft, when thrust forcibly into the corresponding hollow cone b on the other shaft, compels the shafts to rotate together, by the hold…

often, a spar deck with a lighter battery. They carried sometimes as many as fifty guns. After the application of steam to navigation steam frigates of largely increased size and power were built, and formed the main part of the navies of the world till about 1870, when the introduction of ironclads superseded them. […

The material of which glass is made, after having been calcined or partly fused in a furnace, but before vitrification. It is a composition of silex and alkali, occasionally with other ingredients. Ure.

One of the drums of the shaft of a column.

n, or great trial; severe experience or discipline. Deut. iv. 20. Bustamente furnace, a shaft furnace for roasting quicksilver ores. -- Furnace bridge, Same as Bridge wall. See Bridge, n., 5. -- Furnace cadmiam or cadmia, the oxide of zinc which accumulates in the chimneys of furnaces smelting zinciferous ores. Raymo…

The shaft of a column, or trunk of pilaster. Gwilt.