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gwynhefarperiplus: (n) 1. The action of sailing round, circumnavigation; a voyage (or journey) around a coast-line, etc.; a circuit. Also, a narrative of such a voyage.
2. A manœuvre in ancient Greek naval combats. (presumably in which one ship circles round the other)
lacinate: (adj) Cut into deep and narrow irregular segments; jagged, slashed.
axil: (n) The upper angle between a leaf or petiole and the stem from which it springs; also that between a branch and the trunk.
exuviæ: (n) Cast skins, shells, or coverings of animals; any parts of animals which are shed or cast off, whether recent or fossil. Also used figuratively.
cupreous: (adj) 1. Of copper; of the nature of copper; consisting of or containing copper.
2. Resembling copper; copper-coloured.
tafferel: (n) 1. A panel, esp. a carved panel.
2. The upper part of the flat portion of a ship's stern above the transom, usually ornamented with carvings, etc. In later use including, and now applied to, the aftermost portion of the poop-rail, and spelt taffrail.
transom: (n) 1. A cross-beam or cross-piece, esp. one spanning an opening to carry a superstructure; a lintel.
2. The transverse top-beam of a gallows, a swing, or the like; the lintel stone of a trilith.
3. A beam resting across a saw-pit to support the log.
4. A horizontal bar of wood or stone across a mullioned window, dividing it in height; also a cross-bar separating a door from the fan-light above it.
5. A window divided by a transom; aslo a small window above the lintel of a door. (short for transom-window)
6. The transverse member in a cross.
7. A cross-piece connecting the cheeks of a gun-carriage.
8. In a perch-carriage, each of two cross-timbers framed across the perch, and upon which the springs are fixed.
9. On a railway: Cross-timbers laid between (or, formerly, beneath) longitudinal sleepers.
10. The seat of a throne; also, a couch or seat built at the side of a cabin or state-room on board ship.
11. A cross-beam in the frame of a ship; specifically each of several transverse beams bolted to the stern-post, which support the ends of the decks and determine the breadth of the stern at the buttocks.
poop: (n) The aftermost part of a ship; the stern; also, the aftermost and highest deck, often forming the roof of the cabin built in the stern.
Amusingly, this sense came first, from the Latin puppis, meaning "stern". The more common current meaning came from analogies between the stern of a ship and the rear-end of an animal.
trilith: (n) A prehistoric structure or monument consisting of three large stones, two upright and one resting upon them as a lintel.
mullion: (n) 1. Any of the (usually vertical) bars dividing the lights in a window, esp. in Gothic architecture. Also: a similar bar forming divisions in screen-work or panelling.
2. In Geology, each of a series of ribs or columns of rock on a rock face, typically composed of the local rock and usually formed by folding.
fan-light: (n) A fan-shaped window over a door; sometimes applied loosely to any window over a door.
sleeper: (n) A piece of timber or other material used to form support (usually transverse) for the rails of a tramway or railway.
buttock: (n) (Nautical)The breadth of a ship astern from the tuck upwards; that part abaft the the after body, which is bounded by the fashion pieces, and by the wing transom, and the upper or second water-line.
light: (n) 1. A window or other opening in a wall for the admission of light; specifically one of the perpendicular divisions of a mullioned window.
2. One of the glazed compartments (usually admitting of being opened) forming the roof or side of a greenhouse or the top of a frame.
tuck: (n) The gathering of the ends of the bottom planks of a ship under the stern; that part of the hull where the bottom planks are collected and terminated by the tuck-rail.
abaft: (adv) 1. Of direction: backwards.
2. Of position: literally back, behind, in the rear. From an early period, it seems to have been confined to a ship; the bows are the foremost, and the stern the aftmost part, hence abaft means 'in the after or stern half of the ship'.
(prep) In the rear of; behind. Only in nautical language.
pellicle: (n) A small or thin skin; a fine sheet or layer of some substance, either covering a surface or (less usually) enclosing a cavity; a membrane, cuticle, film. Chiefly in scientific use, and applied to natural formations, as a thin membrane in an animal or plant body, a fine scum on a liquid, etc.
alburnum: (n) The whiter, softer, and more recently formed wood in exogenous trees, between the bark and heart-wood; the sap-wood.
2. A manœuvre in ancient Greek naval combats. (presumably in which one ship circles round the other)
lacinate: (adj) Cut into deep and narrow irregular segments; jagged, slashed.
axil: (n) The upper angle between a leaf or petiole and the stem from which it springs; also that between a branch and the trunk.
exuviæ: (n) Cast skins, shells, or coverings of animals; any parts of animals which are shed or cast off, whether recent or fossil. Also used figuratively.
cupreous: (adj) 1. Of copper; of the nature of copper; consisting of or containing copper.
2. Resembling copper; copper-coloured.
tafferel: (n) 1. A panel, esp. a carved panel.
2. The upper part of the flat portion of a ship's stern above the transom, usually ornamented with carvings, etc. In later use including, and now applied to, the aftermost portion of the poop-rail, and spelt taffrail.
transom: (n) 1. A cross-beam or cross-piece, esp. one spanning an opening to carry a superstructure; a lintel.
2. The transverse top-beam of a gallows, a swing, or the like; the lintel stone of a trilith.
3. A beam resting across a saw-pit to support the log.
4. A horizontal bar of wood or stone across a mullioned window, dividing it in height; also a cross-bar separating a door from the fan-light above it.
5. A window divided by a transom; aslo a small window above the lintel of a door. (short for transom-window)
6. The transverse member in a cross.
7. A cross-piece connecting the cheeks of a gun-carriage.
8. In a perch-carriage, each of two cross-timbers framed across the perch, and upon which the springs are fixed.
9. On a railway: Cross-timbers laid between (or, formerly, beneath) longitudinal sleepers.
10. The seat of a throne; also, a couch or seat built at the side of a cabin or state-room on board ship.
11. A cross-beam in the frame of a ship; specifically each of several transverse beams bolted to the stern-post, which support the ends of the decks and determine the breadth of the stern at the buttocks.
poop: (n) The aftermost part of a ship; the stern; also, the aftermost and highest deck, often forming the roof of the cabin built in the stern.
Amusingly, this sense came first, from the Latin puppis, meaning "stern". The more common current meaning came from analogies between the stern of a ship and the rear-end of an animal.
trilith: (n) A prehistoric structure or monument consisting of three large stones, two upright and one resting upon them as a lintel.
mullion: (n) 1. Any of the (usually vertical) bars dividing the lights in a window, esp. in Gothic architecture. Also: a similar bar forming divisions in screen-work or panelling.
2. In Geology, each of a series of ribs or columns of rock on a rock face, typically composed of the local rock and usually formed by folding.
fan-light: (n) A fan-shaped window over a door; sometimes applied loosely to any window over a door.
sleeper: (n) A piece of timber or other material used to form support (usually transverse) for the rails of a tramway or railway.
buttock: (n) (Nautical)The breadth of a ship astern from the tuck upwards; that part abaft the the after body, which is bounded by the fashion pieces, and by the wing transom, and the upper or second water-line.
light: (n) 1. A window or other opening in a wall for the admission of light; specifically one of the perpendicular divisions of a mullioned window.
2. One of the glazed compartments (usually admitting of being opened) forming the roof or side of a greenhouse or the top of a frame.
tuck: (n) The gathering of the ends of the bottom planks of a ship under the stern; that part of the hull where the bottom planks are collected and terminated by the tuck-rail.
abaft: (adv) 1. Of direction: backwards.
2. Of position: literally back, behind, in the rear. From an early period, it seems to have been confined to a ship; the bows are the foremost, and the stern the aftmost part, hence abaft means 'in the after or stern half of the ship'.
(prep) In the rear of; behind. Only in nautical language.
pellicle: (n) A small or thin skin; a fine sheet or layer of some substance, either covering a surface or (less usually) enclosing a cavity; a membrane, cuticle, film. Chiefly in scientific use, and applied to natural formations, as a thin membrane in an animal or plant body, a fine scum on a liquid, etc.
alburnum: (n) The whiter, softer, and more recently formed wood in exogenous trees, between the bark and heart-wood; the sap-wood.
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Date: 2004-10-10 05:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-10 06:07 pm (UTC)I must forth again to-morrow!
With the sunset I must be
Hull down on the trail of rapture
In the wonder of the sea!