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he mast or the keel, and parallel to the horizon; -- said of the yards of a square-rigged vessel when they are so braced.

ddle, as distinguished from fore-and-aft sails; thus, a ship and a brig are square-rigged vessels.

Formerly, a small swab for drying a vessel's deck; now, a kind of scraper having a blade or edge of rubber or of leather, -- used for removing superfluous, water or other liquids, as from a vessel's deck after washing, from window panes, photographer's plates, etc. [Written also squillgee, squillagee, squeegee.]…

rds a conduit for smoke; as, the brick smokestack of a factory; the smokestack of a steam vessel. (Computer programming)

; an elevated staging upon a wharf for discharging coal, etc., as from railway cars, into vessels.

That side of a vessel which is one of the right hand of a person who stands on board facing the bow; -- opposed to Ant: larboard, or Ant: port.

displace or loosen; to dislocate; as, to start a bone; the storm started the bolts in the vessel. One, by a fall in wrestling, started the end of the clavicle from the sternum. Wiseman.

A slackening or arrest of the blood current in the vessels, due not to a lessening of the heart's beat, but presumably to some abnormal resistance of the capillary walls. It is one of the phenomena observed in the capillaries in inflammation.

A small apartment for lodging or sleeping in the cabin, or on the deck, of a vessel; also, a somewhat similar apartment in a railway sleeping car.

d, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; esp., one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, a pail, etc.

t, by being extended from the head of one mast down to some other, or to some part of the vessel. Those which lead forward are called fore-and-aft stays; those which lead to the vessel's side are called backstays. See Illust. of Ship. In stays, or Hove in stays (Naut.), in the act or situation of staying, or going abou…

To move or travel by the agency of steam. The vessel steamed out of port. N. P. Willis.

A boat or vessel propelled by steam power; -- generally used of river or coasting craft, as distinguished from ocean steamers.

A vessel propelled by steam; a steamship or steamboat.

A ship or seagoing vessel propelled by the power of steam; a steamer.

A vessel of clay or stone. "An huge great earth-pot steane." Spenser.

A vessel, vat, or cistern, in which things are steeped.

To direct the course of; to guide; to govern; -- applied especially to a vessel in the water. That with a staff his feeble steps did steer. Spenser.

The hinder part of a vessel; the stern. [R.] Swift.

A rate of motion through the water sufficient to render a vessel governable by the helm.