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A term used specifically by seamen; a nautical word or phrase.
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A Greek measure of length, being the chief one used for itinerary distances, also adopted by the Romans for nautical and astronomical measurements. It was equal to 600 Greek or 625 Roman feet, or 125 Roman paces, or to 606 feet 9 inches English. This was also called the Olympic stadium, as being the exact length of the foot-race course at Olympia.
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Of or pertaining to seamen, to the art of navigation, or to ships; as, nautical skill.
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A mollusk, or shell, of the genus Nautilus or family Nautilidae.
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A fossil nautilus.
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Siphon-bearing, as the shell of the nautilus and other cephalopods.
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Of or pertaining to the sea; having to do with the ocean, or with navigation or naval affairs; nautical; as, marine productions or bodies; marine shells; a marine engine.
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Like or pertaining to the nautilus; shaped like a nautilus shell.
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In a nautical manner; with reference to nautical affairs.
v. t.
To throw; to cast; -- obsolete, provincial, or colloquial, except in certain nautical phrases; as, to heave the lead; to heave the log.
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Nautical.
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of Nautilus
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A vessel employed as a nautical training school, in which naval apprentices receive their education at the expense of the state, and are trained for service as sailors. Also, a vessel used as a reform school to which boys are committed by the courts to be disciplined, and instructed as mariners.
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of Nautilus
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An order of Cephalopoda having four gills. Among living species it includes only the pearly nautilus. Numerous genera and species are found in the fossil state, such as Ammonites, Baculites, Orthoceras, etc.
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A special organ of the nautilus, due to a modification of the posterior tentacles.
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One of the transverse partitions dividing the shell of a mollusk, or of a rhizopod, into several chambers. See Illust. under Nautilus.
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Being, affording, or according with, a standard for comparison and judgment; as, standard time; standard weights and measures; a standard authority as to nautical terms; standard gold or silver.
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The argonaut; -- also called paper nautilus. See Argonauta, and Paper nautilus, under Paper.
v. t.
To force from, or into, any position; to cause to move; also, to throw off; -- mostly used in certain nautical phrases; as, to heave the ship ahead.
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