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188 THOMPSON'S COAST PILOT. EaRrmnes; 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. " Hase 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. 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 the other. Having gone once wrong, she makes a cross in the hawse; and going three times wrong, she makes a rownd turn. | Find for end, a term used when a rope runs all out of a block, and is unreeved ; or, in coming to an anchor, if the stoppers are not well put on, and the cable runs all out, it is said to have gone out end for end. Hind on. When a ship advances to a shore, rock, etc., without an apparent possibility of preventing her, she is a to go oa on for the shore, etc. | Engagement, action or fight. : Ensign, the flag worn at the stern of a ship. Hntering-port, a large port in the side of three-deckers, leading into the middle deck, to save the trouble of going up the ship's side to get on board. Ewen keel. When the keel is parallel with the horizon, a ship is said to be upon an even keel. Farr; a general term for the disposition of the wind, when favorable to a ship's course. . Fair way, the channel of a narrow bay, river or haven, in which ships usually advance in their passage up and down. - Fack, or fake, one circle of any rope or cable coiled. Fag-end, the end of any rope which is become untwisted by frequent use; to prevent which, the ends of ropes are wound round with pieces of twind, which operation is called whipping. ' To fall aboard of, to strike or encounter another " whiety one or both are in motion.--Zo fall astern, the motion of a ship with her stern foremost. Zo fall calm, to become fn a state of rest by a total cessation of the wind.--To fall down, to sail or be towed down a river nearer towards its mouth. 3 Falling off, denotes the motion of the ship's head from the direction of the wind. It is used in opposition to coming to. " Fall not off, or nothing of!" The command of the steersman to keep the ship near the wind. Fathom, a measure of six feet.