sail cover (salkuv"er)

A canvas cover placed as a protection over a furled sail. sailed (sald), a. [ Prostrated, in most extreme ill fare, He lies before his high- sail'd fleet. Chapman , Iliad, xix. 335. ( Davies .) Over all the clouds floated like sailed ships anchored. L. Wallace , Ben-Hur, p. 457. sailer (sā'lėr), n. [Early mod. E. also sayler; = 5306 basking-shark, Cetorhinus maximus or Selache maxima. See cut under basking - shark. (d) A fish of the genus Histiophorus, whose dorsal fin is very ample. The best known and most widely distributed species is H. gladius, of European and some other waters, from which the Amer Sailfish (Histiophorus american us). ican sailfish, H. american us, differs so little that it has been considered specifically identical by most ichthyolo The whiff, a pleuronec gists. See also sailing - fish. Also called spike - fish. sail-fluke (sāl'flök), n. toid fish. [Orkneys.] sail-gang (sāl'gang), n. The seine-gang of a sailing ve el in the menhaden-fishery, including their gear and boats. Also sailing - gang. sail-hook (sāl'hük), п. A small hook used to hold sail-cloth while it is being sewed. sail-hoop (sāl'höp), n. One of the rings by which fore-and-aft sails are secured to masts and stays; a mast-hoop. sailing (sā'ling), n. [ when her own motion is combined with that of a cur rent. - Globular sailing. See globular. Great-circle sailing, a method of navigation by which the courses of the ship are so laid as to carry her over a great circle, which is the shortest path between two points on the globe. Mercat or's sailing, a method in which problems are solved according to the principles applied in Mercat or's See Mercat or's chart, under chart. - Middle latitude sailing. See latitude. Oblique sailing. See oblique.-Order of sailing. See order. - Parallel sailing, the method of sailing when the ship's track lies along a parallel of latitude. Its characteristic formula is: Distance difference of longitude x cosine latitude. This method may be used when the ship's course is nearly east or west. Formerly, when longitude could not be determined as accurately as at present, it was a common practice to make the latitude of the port of destination, and then sail east or west as required. Hence the importance then attached to parallel sailing. Plain sailing, an easy, unobstructed course in sailing, or, figuratively, in any enterprise. Plane sailing. See plane sailing. Sailing instructions, written or printed directions delivered by the commanding officer of a convoy to the several masters of the ships under his care. By these instructions they are enabled to understand and answer the signals of the commander, and to know the place of rendezvous appointed for the fleet in case of dispersion by storm, by an or by any other accident. Bouvier. Traverse sailing, the case in plane sailing where a ship makes several courses in succe ion, the track being zigzag, and the directions of its several parts traversing or lying more or le athwart each other. For all these actual courses and distances run on each a single equivalent imaginary course and distance may be found which the ship would have described had she sailed direct for the place of destination; finding this single course is called working or resolving a traverse, which is effected by trigonometrical computation or by the aid of a traverse-table. sain sailor (sā'lor), n . [Early mod. E. also saylor ; an erroneous spelling (perhaps prob. due to con- for mity with tailor , or with the obs. sailour , a dancer) of sailer : see sailer .] One who sails; a seaman; a mariner; one of the crew of a ship or ve el. O quhar will I get guid sailor To sail this schip of mine? Tennyson , In Memoriam, x. Free trade and sailors' rights. See free.- Paper sailor. See paper - sailor. - Pearly sailor, the pearly nautilus. - Sailors' Bible, Bowditch's Navigator. (Old, slang.]- Sailors' home, an institution where seamen may lodge and be cared for while on shore, or in which retired, aged, or infirm seafaring men are maintained. Syn. Sailor , Seaman , Mariner. To most landsmen any one who leads a seafaring life is a sailor. Nelson was a great sailor. Technically, sailor applies only to the men before the mast. To a landsman seaman seems a busine term for a sailor; technically, scam an includes sailors and petty officers. Mariner is an elevated, poetic, or quaint term for a seaman; shipman is a still older term. The technical use of mariner is now restricted to legal docu ments. There is no present distinction in name between the men in the navy and those in the merchant marine. sailor-fish (sā'lor-fish), n. A sword-fish of the family Histiophoridæ; a sail-fish. See Histi ophorus, sailing - fish, and cut under sail - fish. sailor man (sa'lor-man), n.; pl. sailor men (-men). A sailor; a seaman. It is not always blowing at sea, a mercy sailor - men are grateful for. W. C. Ru ell , Jack's Courtship, xxix. The beefsteak sailor-plant (sāʻlor-plant), n. plant or strawberry-geranium, Saxifraga sar mentos a.