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THOMPSON'S COAST PILOT. A167 Square. This term is applied to yards that are very long, as tawnt is te high masts, To square the yards, to brace the yards so that they may hang at right angles with the keel. To stand on, to continue advancing.-- To stand in, to advance towards the shore.-- Zo stand off, to recede from the shore. Starboard, the right-hand side of a ship, when ioe forward.--Star- board tack. A ship is said to be on the starboard tack when sailing with the wind blowing upon her starboard side. : "Starboard the helm /" an order to push the helm to the starboard side, To stay a ship, to arrange the sails and move the rudder so as to bring the ship's head to the direction of the wind, in order to get her on the other tack. Stays, large ropes coming from the masse head down before the masts, to prevent them from springing, when the ship is sending deep. "Steady /" the order to the peypemen to keep the ship in the direction she is going at that instant. Steering; the art of directing the ship's way by the movement of the helm. 3 Steerage-way, such degree of progressive motion of a ship as will give effect to the motion of the helm. Stem, a circular piece of timber, into which the two sides of a ship are united at the fore end; the lower end is scarfed to the keel, and the bow- sprit rests on the upper end. : To stem the tide. When a ship is sailing against the tide, at such a rate as enables her to overcome its power, she is said to stem the tide. Steeve, turning up.--The bowsprit steeves too much, that is, it is too upright. Sternfast, a rope confining a ship by her stern to any other ship or toa wharf. Sternmost, the farthest astern, eenorel to headmost. Stern-way, the motion by which a ship falls back with her stern foremost. Stiff, the condition of a ship when she will carry a great quantity of sail without hazard of oversetting. It is used in opposition to crank. Stoppers, a large kind of ropes, which, being fastened to the cable in different places abaft the bitts, are an additional security to the ship at anchor. To stow, to arrange and dispose a ship's cargo. Strand, one of the twists or divisions of which a rope is composed. It also implies the sea beach. 3 Stranded. This term, speaking of a cable or rope, signifies that one of its strands is broken; applied to a vessel, it means that she is run aground and is lost.