bilgewater (biljwater)

Naut., water which enters a ship and lies upon her bilge or bottom. If allowed to remain, it acquires an offensive penetrating smell. Bilge-water discharge, a device for discharging bilge-water automat i bilge ways (bilj'wāz), n. pl. Naut., a series of timbers placed on each side of a ve el on the launching-ways, to a ist in supporting her hull in launching. Also called bulge ways and bilge - coad. See cut under launching - ways. bilgy (bil'ji), a. [ genus of the order Trema to idea, or fluke-worms, endoparasitic in the blood-ve els of man, especially in the urinary organs, the ova escaping through an ulceration which the presence of the parent causes. The animal is dicæcio us, the male being the card in ale the f phore formed by involution of edges of the concave side of the body.