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Skysail :: Skysail (n.) The sail set next above the royal. See Illust. under Sail.

Fore-topsail :: Fore-topsail (n.) See Sail.

Assailant :: Assailant (a.) Assailing; attacking.

Grisaille :: Grisaille (n.) Decorative painting in gray monochrome; -- used in English especially for painted glass.

Mizzen :: Mizzen (a.) Hindmost; nearest the stern; as, the mizzen shrouds, sails, etc..

Prick :: Prick (n.) To run a middle seam through, as the cloth of a sail..

Sail :: Sail (n.) A wing; a van.

Spinner :: Spinnaker (n.) A large triangular sail set upon a boom, -- used when running before the wind..

Canvas :: Canvas (n.) A strong cloth made of hemp, flax, or cotton; -- used for tents, sails, etc..

Touch :: Touch (v. i.) To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes..

Gore :: Gore (v.) A wedgeshaped or triangular piece of cloth, canvas, etc., sewed into a garment, sail, etc., to give greater width at a particular part..

Calenture :: Calenture (n.) A name formerly given to various fevers occuring in tropics; esp. to a form of furious delirium accompanied by fever, among sailors, which sometimes led the affected person to imagine the sea to be a green field, and to throw himself into it..

Blackstrap :: Blackstrap (n.) Bad port wine; any common wine of the Mediterranean; -- so called by sailors.

Hoist :: Hoist (n.) The height of a fore-and-aft sail next the mast or stay.

Wassailer :: Wassailer (n.) One who drinks wassail; one who engages in festivity, especially in drinking; a reveler..

Wassail :: Wassail (n.) A festive or drinking song or glee.

Luff :: Luff (n.) The act of sailing a ship close to the wind.

Beating :: Beating (n.) The process of sailing against the wind by tacks in zigzag direction.

Pungy :: Pungy (n.) A small sloop or shallop, or a large boat with sails..

Belly :: Belly (n.) The part of anything which resembles the human belly in protuberance or in cavity; the innermost part; as, the belly of a flask, muscle, sail, ship..

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