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Nautical.

Of or pertaining to seamen, to the art of navigation, or to ships; as, nautical skill.

In a nautical manner; with reference to nautical affais.

Pertaining to aëronautics, or aërial sailing.

The science or art of ascending and sailing in the air, as by means of a balloon; aërial navigation; ballooning.

Of or pertaining to the Argonauts.

A club or association of persons interested in aëronautics.

A mechanic or mechanician expert in the art and practice of aëronautics.

Aëronautic; as, an aërostatic voyage.

equilibrium of elastic fluids, or that of bodies sustained in them. Hence it includes aëronautics.

On the ground; stranded; -- a nautical term applied to a ship when its bottom lodges on the ground. Totten.

(Aëronautics) A small plane or surface capable of being manipulated by the pilot of a flying machine to preserve or destroy lateral balance; a hinged wing tip; a lateral stabilizing or balancing plane.

d moon, eclipses, hours of full tide, stated festivals of churches, terms of courts, etc. Nautical almanac, an almanac, or year book, containing astronomical calculations (lunar, stellar, etc.), and other information useful to mariners.

r magistrate with his special knowledge of the subject to be decided; as legal assessors, nautical assessors. Mozley & W.

The art or practice of ascending in a balloon; aëronautics.

20 fathoms (720 feet), or about 100 fathoms (600 feet, an approximation to one tenth of a nautical mile). -- Cable tier. (a) That part of a vessel where the cables are stowed. (b) A coil of a cable. -- Sheet cable, the cable belonging to the sheet anchor. -- Stream cable, a hawser or rope, smaller than the bower cab…

of the astronomer and navigator; an astronomical almanac; as, the "American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac."

fair-weather friend. Fair-weather sailor, a make-believe or inexperienced sailor; -- the nautical equivalent of carpet knight.

(Aëronautics) A shed for housing an airship or flying machine; a hangar.

at bore Phryxus through the air to Colchis, and in quest of which Jason undertook the Argonautic expedition. (b) (Her.) An order of knighthood instituted in 1429 by Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy; -- called also Toison d'Or. -- Golden grease, a bribe; a fee. [Slang] -- Golden hair (Bot.), a South African shrubby co…