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170 THOMPSON'S COAST PILOT. Unfuri, cast loose the gasket of the sail, To unmoor, to reduce a ship to the state of riding at single anchor, after she has been moored. | To unreeve, to draw a rope from out of a block, timber, ete. To unrig, to deprive the ship of her rigging. Uvrou, the piece of wood by which the legs of the crofoot are extended. VAN, the foremost division of a fleet in one line. It is likewise applied to the foremost ship of a division. . Vune, a small kind of flag worn at each mast-head. To veer, or wear the ship, to change a ship's course from one tack to the other, by turning her stern to windward. Veer, to let out; as, Veer away the cable. Veer, shift-- The wind veers, that is, it shifts, changes. To veer and haul, to pull tight and slacken alternately. Viol, or veyal, a block through which the messenger passes in weighing the anchor. A large messenger is called a ool. Wakk, the path or track impressed on the water by the ship's passing through it, leaving a smoothness in the sea behind it. A ship is said to come into the wake of another, when she follows her in the same track, and this is chiefly done in bringing ships to, or in forming the line of battle. Wales are strong timbers that go round a ship a little above her water- line. : Warp, a small rope employed occasionally to remove a ship from one place to another. : To warp, to remove a ship by means of a warp. Waist, that part of a ship contained between the quarter-deck and the fore-castle. _ Water-line, the line made by the water's edge when a ship has her full proportion of stores, etc., on board. | Water-borne, the state of a ship, when there is barely a sufficient depth of water to float her off from the ground. Water-logged, the state of a ship become heavy and inactive on the sea, from the great quantity of water leaked into her. Water-tight, the state of a ship when not leaky. | Weather--To weather anything is to get to windward of it.--Synony- mous with windward. Weather-beaten, shattered by a storm.-- Weather-bit, a turn of the cable about the end of the windlass.-- Weather-gage. When a fleet or ship is to windward of another, she is said to have the weather-gage of her.-- Weather quarter, that quarter of the ship which is on the windward side.-- Weather side, the side upon which the wind blows.