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The tropic bird. Boatswain's mate, an assistant of the boatswain. Totten.

See Boatswain. [Obs.] Dryden.

A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate, to summon the sailors to duty.

small body of men associated for a purpose; a gang; as (Naut.), the carpenter's crew; the boatswain's crew.

rey. The two middle tail feathers are usually decidedly longer than the rest. Called also boatswain, and marline-spike bird. The name is also applied to the skua, or Arctic gull (Megalestris skua).

A boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to their duties; also, the sound of it.

The boatswain of a Lascar or East Ondian crew.

Any jager gull; especially, the Megalestris skua; -- called also boatswain.

A petty officer among lascars, or native East Indian sailors; a boatswain's mate; a cockswain. [India] Malcom.

very long and slender. The yellow-billed tropic bird. Phaëthon flavirostris (called also boatswain), is found on the Atlantic coast of America, and is common at the Bermudas, where it breeds.

icer, as a sergeant, corporal, bandmaster, etc., in the army, or a quartermaster, gunner, boatswain, etc., in the navy. -- Warrant to sue and defend. (a) (O. Eng. Law) A special warrant from the crown, authorizing a party to appoint an attorney to sue or defend for him. (b) A special authority given by a party to his…

n in calling his dogs; the shrill note of a bird; as, the sharp whistle of a boy, or of a boatswain's pipe; the blackbird's mellow whistle. Might we but hear The folded flocks, penned in their wattled cotes, . . . Or whistle from the lodge. Milton. The countryman could not forbear smiling, . . . and by that means lost…

A call by the boatswain's whistle.

An interior officer under the boatswain, gunner, or carpenters, charged with the stowage, account, and distribution of the stores. Yeoman of the guard, one of the bodyguard of the English sovereign, consisting of the hundred yeomen, armed with partisans, and habited in the costume of the sixteenth century. They are mem…