tshipless

[Eng. ship (1); -le .] Destitute of ships. "It is by no means a shiple sea."-Gray: To Dr. Whar ton , lett. 63. *ship-lět, s . [Eng. ship (1); dim in. suff. -let .] A little ship. "Whither ship lets sometime doo resort for succour."Holinshed: Descript. Britain , ch. xii. *ship'-man, *schip-man, s. [Eng. ship (1), and man.] 1. A seaman, a sailor, a mariner. "Hiram sent in the navy shipmen that had knowledge of the sea."- Kings , Pt. I., ix. 27. 2. The captain of a ship. "A shipman was ther, woned fer by west: For ought I wote, he was of Dertemouth." Chaucer: C. T., 390. (Prol.) ship-mas-ter, s . [Eng. ship (1), and master .] The master, captain, or commander of a ve el. "The shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God." -Jonah i. 6.