EIGHEN. The index of the early quadrant.
EILET-HOLE [Fr. œillet]. Refer to [Eyelet-holes].
EJECTAMENTA MARIS. Sea products thrown on the beach, whence they become droits of admiralty. (See [Jetsam].)
EKE, To. [Anglo-Saxon eácan, to prolong.] To make anything go far by reduction and moderation, as in shortening the allowance of provisions on a voyage unexpectedly tedious.
EKEING. A piece of wood fitted, by scarphing or butting, to make good a deficiency in length, as the end of a knee and the like. The ekeing is also the carved work under the lower part of the quarter-piece, at the aft part of the quarter-gallery.
ELBOW. That part of a river where it suddenly changes its direction, forming a reach to the next angle or turn. Also, a promontory. Also, a communication in a steam-pipe.
ELBOW-GREASE. Hard labour with the arms.
ELBOW IN THE HAWSE. Two crosses in a hawse. When a ship, being moored in a tide-way, swings twice the wrong way, thereby causing the cables to take half a round turn on each other. (See [Hawse].)
ELDEST. The old navy term for first, as applied to the senior lieutenant.
ELEMENTS. The first principles of any art or science.—The elements of an orbit are certain proportions which define the path of a heavenly body in space, and enable the astronomer to calculate its position for past or future times.