EFFECTIVE. Efficient, fit for service; it also means the being present and at duty.
EFFECTS. Personal property; sale of effects; or the auction of the property of deceased officers and seamen:
"The effects of that sail
Will be a sale of effects."
EFFLUENT, or Divergent, applied to any stream which runs out of a lake, or out of another river. All tributaries are affluents.
EGG, To. To instigate, incite, provoke, to urge on: from the Anglo-Saxon eggion.
EGGS. These nutritious articles of food might be used longer at sea than is usual. The shell of the egg abounds with small pores, through which the aqueous part of the albumen constantly exhales, and the egg in consequence daily becomes lighter, and approaches its decomposition. Reaumur varnished them all over, and thus preserved eggs fresh for two years; then carefully removing the varnish, he found that such eggs were still capable of producing chickens. Some employ, with the same intention, lard or other fatty substance for closing the pores, and others simply immerse the egg for an instant in boiling water, by which its albumen is in part coagulated, and the power of exhalation thereby checked. Eggs packed in lime-water suffered to drain, have after three years' absence in the West Indies been found good; this does not destroy vitality.
EGMONT, or Port Egmont Fowls. The large Antarctic gulls with dark-brown plumage, called shoemakers.
EGRESS. At a transit of an inferior planet over the sun, this term means the passing off of the planet from his disc.
EGYPTIAN HERRING. A northern coast name for the gowdanook, saury-pike, or Scomberesox saurus.
EIDER DUCK. The Somateria mollissima. A large species of duck, inhabiting the coasts of the northern seas. The down of the breast, with which it lines its nest, is particularly valuable on account of its softness and lightness.