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To furnish with a new mast or set of masts.

To chew or masticate again; to chew over and over, as the cud.

The act of masticating or chewing again or repeatedly.

A thin muscle which serves to draw up the testicle.

Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery.

The mast nearest the bow. Foremast hand or man (Naut.), a common sailor; also, a man stationed to attend to the gear of the foremast.

A man who practices lewdness; a lecher; a whoremonger.

Having the character of a whoremaster; lecherous; libidinous.

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

A threemasted vessel, having the foremast square-rigged, and the others schooner-rigged. [Spelled also barquentine, barkantine, etc.] See Illust. in Append.

ut.), as a common sailor, -- because the sailors live in the forecastle, forward of the foremast. -- Before the wind (Naut.), in the direction of the wind and by its impulse; having the wind aft.

-sail booms traverse. -- The booms, that space on the upper deck of a ship between the foremast and mainmast, where the boats, spare spars, etc., are stowed. Totten.

Of a red color; reddish; as, the erythroid tunic (the cremaster muscle).

wo sights of a gun which is near the muzzle. -- Fore tackle (Naut.), the tackle on the foremast of a ship. -- Fore topmast. (Naut.) See Fore-topmast, in the Vocabulary. -- Fore wind, a favorable wind. [Obs.] Sailed on smooth seas, by fore winds borne. Sandys. -- Fore world, the antediluvian world. [R.] Southey.…

The mast erected at the head of the foremast, and at the head of which stands the fore-topgallant mast. See Ship.

That part of the upper deck of a vessel forward of the foremast, or of the after part of the fore channels.

The sail bent to the foreyard of a square-rigged vessel, being the lowest sail on the foremast.

A large, strong rope, reaching from the foremast head to the bowsprit, to support the mast. See Illust. under Ship.

The platform at the head of the foremast.

The lowermost yard on the foremast.