An Universal Dictionary of the Marine / Or, a Copious Explanation of the Technical Terms and Phrases Employed in the Construction, Equipment, Furniture, Machinery, Movements, and Military Operations of a Ship. Illustrated With Variety of Original Designs of Shipping, in Different Situations; Together With Separate Views of Their Masts, Sails, Yards, and Rigging. to Which Is Annexed, a Translation of the French Sea-terms and Phrases, Collected from the Works of Mess. Du Hamel, Aubin, Saverien, &c.

by William Falconer

Vaisseau Monté de 50 ou 60 canons, a ship mounting 50 or 60 guns.

Vaisseau Monté de trois cent hommes, a ship manned with three hundred hands, or whose complement consists of three hundred.

Monter le gouvernail, to hang the rudder.

Monter au vent, to spring the luff, or haul the wind.

MONTURE, the arming a ship for war, or mounting her with cannon, and other fire-arms, and manning her.

MOQUE, a heart, or dead-eye of a stay.

Moque de civadiere, a sprit-sail-sheet block.

Moque de trélingage, the dead-eye of a crow-foot.

MORDRE, to bite, or hold fast; understood of the claw or flook of an anchor which is sunk in the ground.

MORNE, a name given in America to a cape or promontory.