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Working smoothly, or without splitting; -- said of timber.

Bearing fruit; -- said of a tree or plant so represented upon an escutcheon. Cussans.

d up, having within its limits all that it can contain; supplied; not empty or vacant; -- said primarily of hollow vessels, and hence of anything else; as, a cup full of water; a house full of people. Had the throne been full, their meeting would not have been regular. Blackstone.

Fully distended with wind, as a sail. Dryden.

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

To utter or send out with denunciations or censures; -- said especially of menaces or censures uttered by ecclesiastical authority. They fulminated the most hostile of all decrees. De Quincey.

made in the latter there will be a consequent alteration in the former. Each quantity is said to be a function of the other. Thus, the circumference of a circle is a function of the diameter. If x be a symbol to which different numerical values can be assigned, such expressions as x2, 3x, Log. x, and Sin. x, are all f…

In a functional manner; as regards normal or appropriate activity. The organ is said to be functionally disordered. Lawrence.

Eating fungi; -- said of certain insects and snails.

To draw up or gather into close compass; to wrap or roll, as a sail, close to the yard, stay, or mast, or, as a flag, close to or around its staff, securing it there by a gasket or line. Totten.

or conj. Moreover; besides; in addition to what has been said.

The spar upon which the upper edge of a fore-and-aft sail is extended.

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

to have gained this harm and loss. Acts xxvii. 21. Gained day, the calendar day gained in sailing eastward around the earth. -- To gain ground, to make progress; to advance in any undertaking; to prevail; to acquire strength or extent. -- To gain over, to draw to one's party or interest; to win over. -- To gain the…

Brooke (Eastford). Topgallant gale (Naut.), one in which a ship may carry her topgallant sails.

galley, formerly used in the Mediterranean, built mainly for speed. It was moved both by sails and oars, having one mast, and sixteen or twenty seats for rowers.

A sailing vessel of the 15th and following centuries, often having three or four decks, and used for war or commerce. The term is often rather indiscriminately applied to any large sailing vessel. The gallens . . . were huge, round-stemmed, clumsy vessels, with bulwarks three or four feet thick, and built up at stem an…

A vessel propelled by oars, whether having masts and sails or not; as:

sisting of two iambic dimeters catalectic, the last of which lacks the final syllable; -- said of a kind of verse.

A small armed vessel, with sails and oars, -- used on the Malabar coast. A. Chalmers.