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Cease; stop; stay. "Avast heaving." Totten.

wind; in the direction from which the wind blows; -- opposed to alee; as, helm aweather ! Totten.

Just drawn out of the ground, and hanging perpendicularly; atrip; -- said of the anchor. Totten.

bagpipe the mizzen (Naut.), to lay it aback by bringing the sheet to the mizzen rigging. Totten.

A row of bright spots observed in connection with total eclipses of the sun. Just before and after a total eclipse, the slender, unobscured crescent of the sun's disk appears momentarily like a row of bright spots resembling a string of beads. The phenomenon (first fully described by Francis Baily, 1774 -- 1844) is tho…

An equality between the sums total of the two sides of an account; as, to bring one's accounts to a balance; -- also, the excess on either side; as, the balance of an account. " A balance at the banker's. " Thackeray. I still think the balance of probabilities leans towards the account given in the text. J. Peile.…

A solution used as a vehicle in applying bronze pigments. In addition to acetote, benzine, and a little pyroxylin, it contains amyl acetate, which gives it the odor of bananas.

The condition of being barren; sterility; unproductiveness. A total barrenness of invention. Dryden.

ay. Sick bay, in vessels of war, that part of a deck appropriated to the use of the sick. Totten.

sel are strong pieces of timber stretching across from side to side to support the decks. Totten.

, supposed to be the most ancient Bantu population of South Africa. They are divided into totemic clans; they are intelligent and progressive.

To make fast, as a rope, by taking several turns with it round a pin, cleat, or kevel. Totten.

ope to another, or as a sail to its yard or stay; or as a cable to the ring of an anchor. Totten. To bend the brow, to knit the brow, as in deep thought or in anger; to scowl; to frown. Camden.

An allotted place; an appointment; situation or employment. "He has a good berth." Totten.

dventure. See under Adventure. -- Bill of costs, a statement of the items which form the total amount of the costs of a party to a suit or action. -- Bill of credit. (a) Within the constitution of the United States, a paper issued by a State, on the mere faith and credit of the State, and designed to circulate as mon…

on the bow or fore channels of a vessel, for the bill or fluke of the anchor to rest on. Totten.

ced near the helmsman, containing the compass of a ship, and a light to show it at night. Totten.

he cable, in order to fasten it or to slacken it gradually, which is called veering away. Totten.

named Hæmanthus, of the Amaryllis family. The juice of H. toxicarius is used by the Hottentots to poison their arrows.

The distinctive badge of certain temperance or total abstinence organizations, as of the Blue ribbon Army. -- Blue ruin, utter ruin; also, gin. [Eng. Slang] Carlyle. -- Blue spar (Min.), azure spar; lazulite. See Lazulite. -- Blue thrush (Zoöl.), a European and Asiatic thrush (Petrocossyphus cyaneas). -- Blue verdi…