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To deck; -- often with out or up. [Scot.]

To discover or show one's self. [Obs.] This done, they discover. Decke Nor was this the first time that they discovered to be followers of this world. Milton.

To throw out of rank or into confusion. Decker.

To dress gaudily; to overdress; to bedizen; to deck out. Like a tragedy queen, he has dizened her out. Goldsmith. To-morrow when the masks shall fall That dizen Nature's carnival. Emerson.

A mass of iron or lead hung from the yardarm, in readiness to be dropped on the deck of an enemy's vessel.

fayed across the apron and lapped in the knightheads, or inside planking above the upper deck. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

put clothes upon; to apparel; to invest with garments or rich decorations; to clothe; to deck. Dressed myself in such humility. Shak. Prove that ever Idress myself handsome till thy return. Shak.

A machine for lowering heavy weights, as packages, coal wagons, etc., to a ship's deck.

To deck in glaring colors; to set off conspicuously; to display pompously; to decorate. The walls were . . . emblazoned with legends in commemoration of the illustrious pair. Prescott.

To cover or deck with flowers. [Poetic] These odorous and enflowered fields. B. Jonson.

ertaining to an engine. [Obs.] That one act gives, like an enginous wheel, Motion to all. Decker.

ntends the fifers of a regiment. -- Fife rail. (Naut.) (a) A rail about the mast, at the deck, to hold belaying pins, etc. (b) A railing around the break of a poop deck.

To furnish or deck out with flags.

To deck with a flounce or flounces; as, to flounce a petticoat or a frock.

sliding bolt let into the face or edge of a door, so as to be flush therewith. -- Flush deck. (Naut.) See under Deck, n., 1. -- Flush tank, a water tank which can be emptied rapidly for flushing drainpipes, etc.

A short upper deck forward, formerly raised like a castle, to command an enemy's decks.

The gibbet. [Obs.] Bp. Butler. Fork beam (Shipbuilding), a half beam to support a deck, where hatchways occur. -- Fork chuck (Wood Turning), a lathe center having two prongs for driving the work. -- Fork head. (a) The barbed head of an arrow. (b) The forked end of a rod which forms part of a knuckle joint. -- In for…

, amelcorn. -- French roof (Arch.), a modified form of mansard roof having a nearly flat deck for the upper slope. -- French tub, a dyer's mixture of protochloride of tin and logwood; -- called also plum tub. Ure. -- French window. See under Window.

corvettes and ships of the line. Frigates, from about 1750 to 1850, had one full battery deck and, 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 par…

Built like a frigate with a raised quarter-deck and forecastle.