45. behest: command.
78. shandy: resembling a shell or a scale.
94. oozy: muddy.
107. colen-bell: coined by Drake, probably the columbine.
114. nightshade: a flower also called henbane or belladonna. dern: drear.
119. thrids: threads, makes his way through.
160. prong: probably a prawn; used in this sense only in this one passage.
165. quarl: jelly fish.
178. wake-line: showing by a line of foam the course over which he has passed.
193. amain: at full speed.