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THOMPSON'S COAST PILOT. 199 Ftigging, ® general name given to all the ropes employed to support the masts, to extend or reduce the sails, or to arrange them to the disposi- tion of the wind. Righting, restoring a ship to an upright position, either after she has been laid on a careen, or after she has been pressed down on her side by the wind. Zo right the helm, is to bring it into so after it has been pushed either to starboard or larboard. Ttigging out a boom, the running out a pole at the end ofa yard, to extend the foot of a sail. To rig the capstan, to fix the bars in their respective holes. Load, a place near the land where ships may anchor, but which is not sheltered. : Robands, or rope bands, short, flat pieces of plaited rope, having an eye worked ut one end. They are used in pairs to tie the upper edges of the square-sails to their respective yards. Rolling, the motion by which a ship rocks from side to side like a cradle. Rough-tree, a name applied to any mast, yard, or boom, placed, in merchant ships, as a rail or fence above the vessel's side, from the quarter- deck to the forecastle. Rounding in; the pulling upon any rope which passes through one or more blocks in a direction nearly horizontal; as, Round in the weather- braces. | , Rounding, old ropes fastened on the cable, near the anchor, to keep it from chafing. Round turn, the situation of the two cables of a ship when moored, after they have been several times crossed by the swinging of the ship. Rounding up, similar to rownding in, except that it is applied to ropes and blocks which act in a perpendicular direction. | Rousing, pulling up a cable or rope without the assistance of tackles. To row, to move a boat with oars. Rudder, the machine by which the ship is steered. Rullock, the nich in a boat's side, in which the oars are used. Run, the aftermost part of a ship's bottom, where it grows extremely narrow as the stern approaches the stern-post--ARun is also the distance sailed by a ship; and is likewise used by sailors to imply the agreement to work a single passage from one place to another. To run out a warp, to carry the end of a rope out from a ship, in a boat, and fasten it to some distant object, so that by it the ship may be removed by pulling on it. To SAG TO LEEWARD, to make considerable lee-way. Sailing trim is expressed of a ship when in the best state for sailing. She sands or sends, when the ship's head or stern falls deep in the trough of the sea. Scanting, the variation of the wind, by which it becomes unfavorable,