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THOMPSON'S COAST PILOT. 151 Dismasted, the state of a ship that has lost her masts. Dog-vane, a small vane with feathers and cork, and placed on the ship's quarter, for the men at cun and helm to see the course of the wind by. Dog-waich, the watches from four to six, and from six to eight in the evening. Doubling, the act of sailing round, or passing beyond a cape or point of land. Doubling upon, the act of inclosing any part of a hostile fleet between two fires, or of cannonading it on both sides. *. Douse, to lower suddenly, or slacken; to strike or haul down; as, Douwse the top-gallant-sails, that is, lower them. | Down-haul, the rope by which any sail 1 is hauled down, as the jib Ban haul. To drag the anchor, to trail it along the bottom, after it is loosened from the ground. To draw, when a sail is inflated by the wind, so as to advance the vessel in her course, the sail is said to draw, and so, To keep all drawing; is to inflate all the sails. Drift, the angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the nearest meridian, when she drives with her side to the wind and waves, and. is not governed by the power of the helm. It also implies the distance which the ship drives on that line. Driver, a large sail set upon the mizzen-yards in light winds. Drive-- The ship drives, that is, her anchor comes through the ground. : ' Drop, used sometimes to denote the depth of a sail; as, The fore-top-sail drops twelve yards. . Lo drop anchor, ned synonymously with to anchor. To drop astern, the retrograde motion of a ship. Dunnage, a quantity of loose wood, etc., laid at the patiole of a ship, to keep the goods from being damaged. ess EARINGS, small ropes used to fasten the upper corners of sails to the yards. To ease, to ease away, or to ease off--to slacken gradually; thus they say, Ease the bow-line, ease the sheet. " Huse the ship!" the command given by the pilot to the steersman, to _ put the helm hard a-lee, when the ship is expected to plunge her fore part deep in the water when close-hauled. : To edge away, to decline gradually from the shore, or from the line of the course which the ship formerly held, in order to go more large. To edge in with, to advance gradually towards the shore, or any other object. on Elbow in the hawse,is when a ship, being moored, has gone round, upon the shifting of the tides, twice the wrong way, so as to lay the cables one over theother. Having gone once wrong, she makes a cross in the hawse; and going three times wrong, she makes a round turn. silk