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Sea Fight :: Sea fight () An engagement between ships at sea; a naval battle.

Disengaged :: Disengaged (a.) Not engaged; free from engagement; at leisure; free from occupation or care; vacant.

Extension :: Extension (v. t.) A written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt..

Gear :: Gear (n.) Engagement of parts with each other; as, in gear; out of gear..

Engagement :: Engagement (n.) An action; a fight; a battle.

Engagement :: Engagement (n.) The state of being in gear; as, one part of a clutch is brought into engagement with the other part..

Combat :: Combat (n.) An engagement of no great magnitude; or one in which the parties engaged are not armies.

Pavesade :: Pavesade (n.) A canvas screen, formerly sometimes extended along the side of a vessel in a naval engagement, to conceal from the enemy the operations on board..

Pledge :: Pledge (n.) The transfer of possession of personal property from a debtor to a creditor as security for a debt or engagement; also, the contract created between the debtor and creditor by a thing being so delivered or deposited, forming a species of bailment; also, that which is so delivered or deposited; something put in pawn..

Rake :: Rake (v. t.) To enfilade; to fire in a direction with the length of; in naval engagements, to cannonade, as a ship, on the stern or head so that the balls range the whole length of the deck..

Engager :: Engager (n.) One who enters into an engagement or agreement; a surety.

Cockpit :: Cockpit (n.) That part of a war vessel appropriated to the wounded during an engagement.

Preengagement :: Preengagement (n.) Prior engagement, obligation, or attachment, as by contract, promise, or affection..

Disengagement :: Disengagement (n.) Freedom from engrossing occupation; leisure.

Accession :: Accession (n.) The act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force between other powers.

Pollicitation :: Pollicitation (n.) A voluntary engagement, or a paper containing it; a promise..

Mortgage :: Mortgage (v. t.) To grant or convey, as property, for the security of a debt, or other engagement, upon a condition that if the debt or engagement shall be discharged according to the contract, the conveyance shall be void, otherwise to become absolute, subject, however, to the right of redemption..

Close-fights :: Close-fights (n. pl.) Barriers with loopholes, formerly erected on the deck of a vessel to shelter the men in a close engagement with an enemy's boarders; -- called also close quarters..

Embarrass :: Embarrass (v. t.) To involve in difficulties concerning money matters; to incumber with debt; to beset with urgent claims or demands; -- said of a person or his affairs; as, a man or his business is embarrassed when he can not meet his pecuniary engagements..

Unattached :: Unattached (a.) Not attached; not adhering; having no engagement; free.

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