mariner (mariner)

[Early mod. E. also marriner; man, And [they] hadde goode wynde and softe, and goode maroners hem for to gide, till the i come to the Rochell withoute eny trouble or annoye. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 379. Thanne the Marryners song the letany. Torkington, Diarie of Eng. Travell, p. 22. Meantime his busy mariners he hastes His shatter'd sails with rigging to restore. Dryden, Annus Mirabilis, st. 65. It is an ancient mariner , And he stoppeth one of three. Cole ridge , Ancient Mariner. Fly of the mariners' compa t, the compa -card.Mariners' compa . See compa , 7.- Master mariner, the captain of a merchant ve el or fishing-ve el. =Syn. Seaman, etc. See sailor. mariners hipt (mar'i-nėr-ship), n. [ Having none experience in the feate of marinershippe . Udall , tr. of Apophthegms of Erasmus, p. 6. The Phœnicians, famous for Marchandise and Marri nership , sailed from the Red Sea round about Afrike. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 90.