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OO ee IS LN A hg 900 THOMPSON'S COAST PILOT. to a ship's making great progress, as it deviates from being large, and obliges the vessel to steer close-hauled ,or nearly so. Scud, to go right before the wind; and going in this direction without any sail set, is called spooning. Scuttling, cutting large holes through the bottom or sides of a ship, either to sink her, or to unlade her expeditiously when stranded. Sea, ® large wave is so called. Thus they say a heavy sea. It implies, likewise, the agitation of the ocean ; as, a great sea. It expresses the direc- tion of the waves; as, a head sea. .A long sea means a uniform and steady motion of long and extensive waves; a short sea, on the contrary, is when they run irregularly, broken, and interrupted. Sea-boat, a vessel that bears the sea firmly, without straining her masts, etc. Sea-clothes, jackets, trousers, etc. Sea-mark, a point or object on shore conspicuously seen at sea. Sea-room, a sufficient distance from the coast or any dangerous rocks, etc., so that a ship may perform all nautical operations without danger of shipwreck. Seize, to bind or make fast. Serve, to wind something about a rope to prevent it from chafing or fretting. The service is the thing so wound about the rope. Setting, the act of observing the situation of any distant object by the compass, To set sat, to unfurl and expand the sails to the wind, in osdar to give motion to the ship, To set up, to increase the tension of the shrouds, back-stays, ete. , by tackles, laniards, etc. Settle, to lower; as, Settle the topsail halliards ; lower them. To settle the land, to lower in appearance. It is synonymous with to lay the land. ! Shank, the beam or shaft of an anchor. Shank-painter, the rope by which the shank of the anchor is held up to the ship's side; it is also made fast to a piece of iron chain, in which the shank of the anchor lodges. To shape a course, to direct or appoint the track of a ship, in --_ to prosecute a voyage. Sheer. The sheer of a ship is the curve that is between the head and the stern upon her side.--The ship sheers about; that is, she goes in and out. To sheer off, to remove to a greater distance. Sheers are spars lashed together, and raised up, for the purpose of getting out or in a mast. Sheet, a rope fastened to one or both of the lower corners of a sail, in order to extend and retain it in a particular situation. When a ship sails with a side wind, the lower corners of the main and fore-sails are fastened by a tack and a sheet, the former being to windward, and the latter to lee- ward, The tack is never used with a stern wind, whereas the sail is never