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An easy chariot or carriage, used by Roman ladies, and in which the vessels, etc., for sacred rites were carried.

One employed to steer a vessel; a helmsman; a steersman. Dryden.

The flag hoisted at the fore by a vessel desiring a pilot, in the United States the union jack, in Great Britain the British union jack with a white border.

A vessel with a very narrow stern; -- called also pinky. Sir W. Scott. Pink stern (Naut.), a narrow stern.

Having a very narrow stern; -- said of a vessel.

A small vessel propelled by sails or oars, formerly employed as a tender, or for coast defence; -- called originally, spynace or spyne.

An armed ship or vessel which sails without a legal commission, for the purpose of plundering other vessels on the high seas.

A niche near the altar in a church, containing a small basin for rinsing altar vessels.

nst, fluid pressure. It usually consists of a short cylinder fitting within a cylindrical vessel along which it moves, back and forth. It is used in steam engines to receive motion from the steam, and in pumps to transmit motion to a fluid; also for other purposes. Piston head (Steam Eng.), that part of a piston which…

e or fall; esp., to fall forward; to decline or slope; as, to pitch from a precipice; the vessel pitches in a heavy sea; the field pitches toward the east. Pitch and pay, an old aphorism which inculcates ready-money payment, or payment on delivery of goods. Shak.

A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids, with a spout or protruding lip and a handle; a water jug or jar with a large ear or handle.

anks, collectively; a series of planks in place, as the wooden covering of the frame of a vessel.

The course of plank laid horizontally over the timberheads of a vessel's frame.

Domestic vessels and utensils, as flagons, dishes, cups, etc., wrought in gold or silver.

Overfullness; especially, excessive fullness of the blood vessels; repletion; that state of the blood vessels or of the system when the blood exceeds a healthy standard in quantity; hyperæmia; -- opposed to anæmia.

A network of vessels, nerves, or fibers.

A mark conspicuously painted on the port side of all British sea-going merchant vessels, to indicate the limit of submergence allowed by law; -- so called from Samuel Plimsoll, by whose efforts the act of Parliament to prevent overloading was procured.

eggs, by breaking them into boiling water; also, to cook with butter after breaking in a vessel. Bacon.

periods or groups, or to separate, by pointing, as figures. -- To point the yards (of a vessel) (Naut.), to brace them so that the wind shall strike the sails obliquely. Totten.

A vessel with two or three masts, used in the Mediterranean. The masts are usually of one piece, and without tops, caps, or crosstrees.