DRY FLOGGING. Punishing over the clothes of a culprit.
DRY GALES. Those storms which are accompanied with a clear sky, as the northers of the Gulf of Mexico, the harmattan of Africa, &c.
DRY HOLY-STONING. See [Holy-stone].
DRY-ROT. A disease destructive of timber, occasioned by a fungus, the Merulius lachrymans, which softens wood and finally destroys it; it resembles a dry pithy cottony substance, whence the name dry-rot, though when in a perfect state, its sinuses contain drops of clear water, which have given rise to its specific Latin name. Free ventilation and cleanliness appear to be the best preservatives against this costly evil.
DRY ROWING. "Row dry." Not to dash the spray with the blade of the oar in the faces of those in the stern-sheets.
D.S.Q. Means, in the complete book, discharged to sick quarters.
DUB. A northern term for a pool of deep and smooth water in a rapid river.
DUBB, To. To smooth and cut off with an adze the superfluous wood.—To dubb a vessel bright, is to remove the outer surface of the plank completely with an adze. Spotting to examine planks with the adze is also dubbing.
DUBBAH, or Dubber. A coarse leathern vessel for holding liquids in India.
DUBHE. A standard nautical star in the Great Bear.