VOGUER, Fr. To make way upon water either by means of sailing or by oars. It also signifies generally to row.
VOIE, Fr. Way, means, course of communication.
VOILE, Fr. A sail. This word is frequently used by the French to signify the ship itself; as we say, a sail in sight.
Voile quarrée ou à trait quarrée, Fr. A square sail, such as the main-sail.
Voile Latine, Voile à tiers-point, ou a Oreille de Liévre, Fr. A triangular-shaped sail, such as is used in the Mediterranean.
Jet de Voiles, Fr. The complete complement of sails for a ship.
Faire Voile, Fr. To go to sea.
VOITURES, Fr. Carriages, waggons, &c.
VOL, Fr. Theft. The military regulations on this head during the existence of the French monarchy, were extremely rigid and severe.
Whosoever was convicted of having stolen any of the public stores, was sentenced to be strangled; and if any soldier was discovered to have robbed his comrade, either of his necessaries, bread, or subsistence money, he was condemned to death, or to the gallies for life. So nice, indeed, were the French with respect to the honesty of the soldiery in general, that the slightest deviation from it rendered an individual incapable of ever serving again. When the French troops marched through the United States during the revolution so exact was their discipline, that in marching through an orchard loaded with fruit not an apple was touched.