An Universal Dictionary of the Marine / Or, a Copious Explanation of the Technical Terms and Phrases Employed in the Construction, Equipment, Furniture, Machinery, Movements, and Military Operations of a Ship. Illustrated With Variety of Original Designs of Shipping, in Different Situations; Together With Separate Views of Their Masts, Sails, Yards, and Rigging. to Which Is Annexed, a Translation of the French Sea-terms and Phrases, Collected from the Works of Mess. Du Hamel, Aubin, Saverien, &c.

by William Falconer

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NACELLE, a skiff, or small boat, without masts or sails, used to pass a river.

NAGE, the row-lock of a boat. See also Autarelle.

Nage à bord, come aboard with the boat! the order given to the rowers in the longboat, to bring her aboard, or along-side.

Nage à faire abattre, pull to leeward! the order to the rowers in a boat, to tow the ship’s head to leeward.

Nage au vent, pull to windward, or tow the ship to windward!

Nage de force, pull chearly in the boat! hooroa in the boat!

Nage qui est paré, pull with the oars that are shipped.

Nage sec, row dry! the order to row without wetting the passengers.

Nage stribord, & scie bas-bord, pull the starboard-oars, and hold water with the larboard oars! the order given to turn the boat with her head to the left.

Nager, Ramer, or Voguer, to row, or pull with the oars, in a boat or small vessel.

Nager à sec, to touch the shore with the oars in rowing.

Nager tant d’avirons par bande, to row so many oars on a side.

Nager de bout, to row standing, or with the face towards the boat’s head.

Nager en arriere, to back a-stern with the oars.

Nager la chaloupe à bord, to row the long-boat aboard.

NATES, mats used to line the sail-room, bread-room, or the hold when a ship is laden with corn, to preserve the contents.

NAVETTE, a small Indian vessel.

NAUFRAGE, shipwreck.

Naufragé, shipwrecked.

NAVIGABLE, navigable, capable of navigation.

NAVIGATEUR, a mariner, or seaman.

NAVIGATION, the theory and practice of navigation.

Navigation impropre, coasting, or sailing along shore.

Navigation propre, the art of sailing by the laws of trigonometry. See Pilotage.

NAVIGER, to sail, or direct a ship’s course at sea.

Naviger par terre, or dans le terre, to be ashore by the dead-reckoning; to be a-head of the ship by estimation.

Naviger par un grand cercle, to sail upon the arch of a great circle.

NAVIRE, a ship. See also Vaisseau.

Beau Navire en rade, a good roader.

NEUVE, a sort of small flight, used by the Dutch in the herring-fishery, and resembling a buss. See Buche.

NEZ, the nose, beak, or head of a ship.

NOCHER, a name formerly given to a pilot.

NOCTURLABE, a nocturnal.

NOIALE. See Toile.

NOIÉ, an epithet which answers to clouded, or indistinct; being expressed of an horizon, when it cannot be discovered by an observer, when taking an altitude.

NOIRCIR, to blacken, or daub with a mixture of tar and lamp-black; as the wales and black-strakes of a ship, the yards, cutwater, &c.

NOLIS, or Nolissement, a name given in Provence and the Levant to the freight or cargo of a ship.

NON-vue, no sight of, out of sight; a phrase which implies the fog or haze of the weather, that prevents a ship from discovering contiguous objects, as the shore, rocks, &c.

NORD, the north, or north point.

Nord-est, the north-east.

Nord-est quart à l’est, north-east by east.

Nord-ester, to vary towards the east; expressed of the east-variation of the compass.

Nord-ouester, to decline towards the west; spoken also of the magnetical needle.

NOYALE. See Noiale.

NOYÉ. See Noié.

NUAISON, a trade-wind, or the period of a monsoon.