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Ships in general. [Poetic] Shak. Aërial navigation, the act or art of sailing or floating in the air, as by means of ballons; aëronautic. -- Inland navigation, Internal navigation, navigation on rivers, inland lakes, etc.

The act of circumnavigating, or sailing round. Arbuthnot.

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

Aërial navigation; the art of raising and guiding balloons in the air.

A path through the air made easy for aërial navigation by steady winds.

Art, skill, or ability in the practice of aërial navigation.

(Hydrocharidaceæ), native to America. Transferred to England it became an obstruction to navigation. Called also waterweed and water thyme.

speculative principles; as, the art of building or engraving; the art of war; the art of navigation. Science is systematized knowledge . . . Art is knowledge made efficient by skill. J. F. Genung.

help of the line of numbers, solve, with tolerable exactness, questions in trigonometry, navigation, etc. -- Artificial numbers, logarithms. -- Artificial person (Law). See under Person. -- Artificial sines, tangents, etc., the same as logarithms of the natural, tangents, etc. Hutton.

so as to rise and float in the atmosphere; especially, one with a car attached for aërial navigation.

ank of sand, gravel, or other matter, esp. at the mouth of a river or harbor, obstructing navigation.

ne of spars bound together, extended across a river or the mouth of a harbor, to obstruct navigation or passage.

A pilot who has a branch or commission, as from Trinity House, England, for special navigation.

Navigation along the coast; the details of coast pilotage.

An artificial channel filled with water and designed for navigation, or for irrigating land, etc.

Fitted to harass, perplex, or insnare; insidious; troublesome. Captious restraints on navigation. Bancroft.

A closed sea, a sea within the jurisdiction of some particular nation, which controls its navigation.

To sail by or near the shore. The ancients coasted only in their navigation. Arbuthnot.

battery. They carried sometimes as many as fifty guns. After the application of steam to navigation steam frigates of largely increased size and power were built, and formed the main part of the navies of the world till about 1870, when the introduction of ironclads superseded them. [Formerly spelled frigat and friggo…

A lighter, or vessel for inland navigation. [Scot.] Jamieson.