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Veery :: Veery (n.) An American thrush (Turdus fuscescens) common in the Northern United States and Canada. It is light tawny brown above. The breast is pale buff, thickly spotted with brown. Called also Wilson's thrush..

Veer :: Veer (v. i.) To change direction; to turn; to shift; as, wind veers to the west or north..

South :: South (v. i.) To turn or move toward the south; to veer toward the south.

Veering :: Veering (a.) Shifting.

Flyer :: Flyer (n.) The fan wheel that rotates the cap of a windmill as the wind veers.

Laveer :: Laveer (v. i.) To beat against the wind; to tack.

Veered :: Veered (imp. & p. p.) of Vee.

Shiff :: Shiff (v. i.) To make a change or changes; to change position; to move; to veer; to substitute one thing for another; -- used in the various senses of the transitive verb.

Fetch :: fetch (v. i.) To bring one's self; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward..

Whimple :: Whimple (v. i.) To whiffle; to veer.

Bitt :: Bitt (v. t.) To put round the bitts; as, to bitt the cable, in order to fasten it or to slacken it gradually, which is called veering away..

Orientate :: Orientate (v. i.) To move or turn toward the east; to veer from the north or south toward the east.

Wear :: Wear (v. t.) To cause to go about, as a vessel, by putting the helm up, instead of alee as in tacking, so that the vessel's bow is turned away from, and her stern is presented to, the wind, and, as she turns still farther, her sails fill on the other side; to veer..

Boxhaul :: Boxhaul (v. t.) To put (a vessel) on the other tack by veering her short round on her heel; -- so called from the circumstance of bracing the head yards abox (i. e., sharp aback, on the wind)..

Easter :: Easter (v. i.) To veer to the east; -- said of the wind.

Weathercock :: Weathercock (n.) Hence, any thing or person that turns easily and frequently; one who veers with every change of current opinion; a fickle, inconstant person..

Whiffle :: Whiffle (v. i.) To waver, or shake, as if moved by gusts of wind; to shift, turn, or veer about..

North :: North (v. i.) To turn or move toward the north; to veer from the east or west toward the north.

Ware :: Ware (v. t.) To wear, or veer. See Wear..

Orientate :: Orientate (v. t.) To place or turn toward the east; to cause to assume an easterly direction, or to veer eastward..

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