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160 THOMPSON'S COAST PILOT. f To make a board, to run a certain distance upon one tack, in beating to windward. To make foul water, to muddy the water by running in shal- low places, so that the ship's keel disturbs the mud at the bottom. To make sail, to increase the quantity of sail already set, either by unreefing or by setting others. Zo make stern-way, to retreat or move with the stern foremost. Zo make the land, to discover it from afar. To make water, to leak. To man the yard, etc., to place men on the yard, in the tops, down the ladder, etc., to execute any necessary duties. NARROWS, a small passage between two lands. Neap tides, the tides in the first and last quarter of the moon, which are not either so high, so low, or so rapid as spring tides. A ship is said te be beneaped when she has not water enough to take her off the ground, or over the bar, etc. " Near !" or "No near /" an order to the steersman not to keep the ship so close to the wind. Nippers, certain pieces of cordage used to baton the messenger to the cable in heaving up the anchor. " Nothing of /" a term used by the man at the cun to the steersman, directing him not to go from the wind. : Nun buoy, the kind of buoy used. by ships of war. OAKuM, old rope untwisted and pulled open. : Off and on, when a ship is beating to windward, so that by one board she approaches towards the shore, and by the other stands out to sea, she is said to stand off and on shore. Offing, to seaward from the land. A ship 1s in the offing, that is, she is to seaward, at a distance from the land. She stands for the offing, that is, towards the sea. | - Offward, from the shore, as, when a ship lies aground, and leans towards the sea, she is said to heel offward. On board, within the ship; as, He 7s come on board. On the beam, any distance from the ship on a line with the beams, or at right angles with the keel. See Bearing. | On the bow, an arc of the horizon, comprehending about four points of the compass on each side of that point to which the ship's head is directed. Thus they say, Z'he ship in sight bears three points on the starboard bow; that is, three points towards the right hand, from that part of the horizon which is right ahead. See Bearing. On, the quarter, an arc of the horizon, comprehending about four points of the compass on each side of that point to which the ship's stern is directed. See On the bow. ~ Open, the situation of a place exposed to the wind and sea. It is also expressed of any distant object to which the sight or passage is not inter- eepted.