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n.
A bog or quagmire.
n.
A strong, light-draft, Dutch merchant vessel, carrying a mainmast and a mizzenmast, and a large gaff mainsail.
a.
Hindmost; nearest the stern; as, the mizzen shrouds, sails, etc.
n.
A three-masted vessel, having her foremast and mainmast square-rigged, and her mizzenmast schooner-rigged.
imp. & p. p.
of Mizzle
n.
The hindmost mast of a three-masted vessel, or of a yawl-rigged vessel.
n.
An almost obsolete form of vessel, with a mainmast and a mizzenmast, -- usually from one hundred to two hundred and fifty tons burden.
n.
A fine rain; a thick mist; mizzle.
n.
A projecting beam or boom; as: (a) One projecting from each bow of a vessel, to haul the fore tack to, called a tack bumpkin. (b) One from each quarter, for the main-brace blocks, and called brace bumpkin. (c) A small outrigger over the stern of a boat, to extend the mizzen.
v. i.
To take one's self off; to go.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Mizzle
n.
A small sail carried at or near the stern of small boats; -- called also jigger, and mizzen.
n.
Specifically, a vessel furnished with a bowsprit and three masts (a mainmast, a foremast, and a mizzenmast), each of which is composed of a lower mast, a topmast, and a topgallant mast, and square-rigged on all masts. See Illustation in Appendix.
n.
The lowest square sail, or the lower yard of the mizzenmast.
n.
Mist; fine rain.
a.
Falling in small drops; mistling; mizzing.
n.
A kind of ketch very common in the Levant, which has neither topgallant sail nor mizzen topsail.
v. i.
To rain in very fine drops, like a thick mist; to mizzle.
n.
The hindmost of the fore and aft sails of a three-masted vessel; also, the spanker.
v. i.
To rain in very fine drops.
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