FOKE-SILL. Among old salts may be termed a curt or nicked form of forecastle.
FOLDER. The movable sight of a fire-arm.
FOLLIS. A net with very large meshes, principally for catching thorn-backs.
FOLLOWERS. A certain number of men permitted by the regulations of the service to be taken by the captain when he removes from one ship to another. Also, the young gentlemen introduced into the service by the captain, and reared with a father's care, moving with him from ship to ship; a practice which produced most of our best officers formerly, but innovation has broken through it, to the serious detriment of the service and the country.
FOLLOWING, North or South. See [Quadrant].
FOMALHAUT. A standard nautical star, called also α Piscis australis.
FOOL. "He's no fool on a march," a phrase meaning that such a person is equal to what he undertakes.
FOOLEN. The space between the usual high-water mark in a river and the foot of the wall on its banks, built to prevent its occasionally overflowing the neighbouring lands.
FOOL-FISH. A name of the long-finned file-fish, and so called from its apparently whimsical manner of swimming.
FOOLISH GUILLEMOT. The web-footed diving-bird, Uria troile, common on our coasts.