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The art of managing a vessel; seamanship; navigation; as, globular sailing; oblique sailing.

publicly, esp. by a printed notice; as, to advertise goods for sale, a lost article, the sailing day of a vessel, a political meeting.

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.

by at (formerly sometimes by to), also by in and from. "Arrived in Padua." Shak. [Æneas] sailing with a fleet from Sicily, arrived . . . and landed in the country of Laurentum. Holland. There was no outbreak till the regiment arrived at Ipswich. Macaulay.

s, to assail a man with blows; to assail a city with artillery. No rude noise mine ears assailing. Cowper. No storm can now assail The charm he wears within. Keble.

Assailing; attacking. Milton.

The act or power of assailing; attack; assault. [R.] His most frequent assailment was the headache. Johnson.

A fast-sailing schooner, used in the Bermudas and West Indies.

Formerly, any small sailing vessel, as a pinnace, fishing smack, etc.; also, a rowing boat; a barge. Now applied poetically to a sailing vessel or boat of any kind. Byron.

To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse.

The process of sailing against the wind by tacks in zigzag direction.

To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of her. Blanket cattle. See Belted cattle, under Belted.

ter (British Marine), a blue flag with a white square in the center, used as a signal for sailing, to recall boats, etc. It is a corruption of blue repeater, one of the British signal flags. -- Blue pill. (Med.) (a) A pill of prepared mercury, used as an aperient, etc. (b) Blue mass. -- Blue ribbon. (a) The ribbon wo…

The act or practice of rowing or sailing, esp. as an amusement; carriage in boats.

of the sail. -- Bowline knot. See Illust. under Knot. -- On a bowline, close-hauled or sailing close to the wind; -- said of a ship.

To incline to one side, or lie over, as a ship when sailing on a wind; to be off the keel.

e a circuit as to recover, without bracing the yards, the same tack on which she had been sailing.

pass. -- Circular polarization. (Min.) See under Polarization. -- Circular or Globular sailing (Naut.), the method of sailing by the arc of a great circle. -- Circular saw. See under Saw.

The act of circumnavigating, or sailing round. Arbuthnot.