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To sail again; also, to sail back, as to a former port.

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

An additional piece of canvas laced to the foot of a jib or foresail in moderate winds. Hakluyt.

A rope applied to the fore yardarm, to change the position of the foresail.

Said of a fore-and-aft rigged vessel with foresail set on one side and mainsail on the other; wing and wing.

g sail (Naut.), one which tends to lift a vessel's bow out of water, as jibs and square foresails.

line (Naut.), a line or small rope by which seamen haul up the foot of the mainsail or foresail. Totten.

n either side; -- said of a schooner, or her sails, when going before the wind with the foresail on one side and the mainsail on the other; also said of a square-rigged vessel which has her studding sails set. Cf. Goosewinged. -- Wing case (Zoöl.), one of the anterior wings of beetles, and of some other insects, when…