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Mentioned before; aforesaid.

The sail bent to the foreyard of a square-rigged vessel, being the lowest sail on the foremast.

Having all its sails set,; hence, without restriction or reservation. Massinger.

Fine charcoal of willow wood, used as a drawing implement.

A small triangular sail having its foot extended upon the gaff and its luff upon the topmast.

Decorative painting in gray monochrome; -- used in English especially for painted glass.

Any sail set forward of the foremast. Totten.

A Mormon; -- the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints being the name assumed by the whole body of Mormons.

A square sail bent upon a yard that hangs obliquely to the mast and is raised or lowered with the sail. Totten.

The principal sail in a ship or other vessel. [They] hoised up the mainsail to the wind. Acts xxvii. 40.

Not rightly aimed. Spenser.

A sail sometimes carried in light winds, above a skysail. R. H. Dana, Jr.

terns small pieces of variously colored glass, stone, or other material; -- called also mosaic work.

Mosaic (in either sense). "A mosaical floor." Sir P. Sidney.

In the manner of a mosaic.

Attachment to the system or doctrines of Moses; that which is peculiar to the Mosaic system or doctrines.

To excel, or to leave behind, in sailing; to sail faster than. Beau. & Fl.

Of or pertaining to, or resembling, paradise; paradisiacal. "Paradisaical pleasures." Gray.

Of or pertaining to the Pharisees; resembling the Pharisees. "The Pharisaic sect among the Jews." Cudworth.

on; a censorious, self-righteous spirit in matters of morals or manners. "A piece of pharisaism." Hammond.