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Hindmost; nearest the stern; as, the mizzen shrouds, sails, etc.

The hindmost mast of a three-masted vessel, or of a yawl-rigged vessel.

The sails on the mizzenmast, or on the stays between the mainmast and mizzenmast. Totten.

To make to look like a bagpipe. To bagpipe the mizzen (Naut.), to lay it aback by bringing the sheet to the mizzen rigging. Totten.

A three-masted vessel, having her foremast and mainmast squarerigged, and her mizzenmast schooner-rigged.

, and called brace bumpkin. (c) A small outrigger over the stern of a boat, to extend the mizzen. [Written also boomkin.]

The lowest square sail, or the lower yard of the mizzenmast.

A small sail carried at or near the stern of small boats; -- called also jigger, and mizzen.

A strong, light-draft, Dutch merchant vessel, carrying a mainmast and a mizzenmast, and a large gaff mainsail.

An almost obsolete form of vessel, with a mainmast and a mizzenmast, -- usually from one hundred to two hundred and fifty tons burden. Bomb ketch. See under Bomb.

A kind of ketch very common in the Levant, which has neither topgallant sail nor mizzen topsail.

ically, a vessel furnished with a bowsprit and three masts (a mainmast, a foremast, and a mizzenmast), each of which is composed of a lower mast, a topmast, and a topgallant mast, and square-rigged on all masts. See Illustation in Appendix. l Port or Larboard Side; s Starboard Side; 1 Roundhouse or Deck House; 2 Tiller…