LIBRATION OF THE MOON. See [Evection].
LIBURNA, or Liburnica. Light ancient galliots, both for sails and oars; of the latter from one rank to five; so called from the Liburni, pirates of the Adriatic.
LICENSE. An official permission from the Board of Trade, to such persons as it thinks fit to supply seamen or apprentices for merchant-ships in the United Kingdom. (See [Runner, Licensed].)
LICK. In common parlance is a blow. To do anything partially, is to give it a lick and a promise, as in painting or blacking.—To lick, to surpass a rival, or excel him in anything.—Lick of the tar-brush, a seaman.
LICORN. An old name for the howitzer of the last century, then but a kind of mortar fitted on a field-carriage to fire shells at low angles.
LIDO. A borrowed term signifying the shore or margin of the sea.
LIE A HULL. Synonymous with hull to, or hulling.
LIE ALONG, To. (See [Along].) A ship is said to lie along when she leans over with a side wind.—To lie along the land, is to keep a course parallel with it.
LIE ATHWART, To. When the tide slackens, and the wind is across tide, it makes a vessel ride athwart.
LIE BY, To. Dodging under small sail under the land.