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Sail
SAIL, n. [L. sal, salt.]
1. In navigation, a spread of canvas, or an assemblage of several breadths of canvas, [or some substitute for it,] sewed together with a double seam at the borders, and edged with a cord called the bolt-rope, to be extended on the masts or yards for receiving the impulse of wind by which a ship is driven. The principal sails are the courses or lower salts, the top-sails and top-gallant-sails.
2. In poetry, wings.
3. A ship or other vessel; used in the singular for a single ship, or as a collective name for many. We saw a sail at the leeward. We saw three sail on our star-board quarter. The fleet consists of twenty sail.
To loose sails, to unfurl them.
To make sail, to extend an additional quantity of sail.
To set sail, to expand or spread the sails; and hence; to begin a voyage.
To shorten sail, to reduce the extent of sail, or take in a part.
1. To strike sail, to lower the sails suddenly, as in saluting or in sudden gusts of wind.
2. To bate show or pomp.
SAIL, v.i.
1. To be impelled or driven forward by the action of wind upon sails, as a ship on water. A ship sails from New York for Liverpool. She sails ten knots an hour. She sails well close-hauled.
2. To be conveyed in a vessel on water; to pass by water. We sailed from London to Canton.
3. To swim.
Little dolphins, when they sail in the vast shadow of the British whale.
4. To set sail; to begin a voyage. We sailed from New York for Havre, June 15, 1824. We sailed from Cowes for New York, May 10, 1825.
5. To be carried in the air, as a balloon.
6. To pass smoothly along.
As is a wing'd messenger from heaven, when he bestrides the lazy pacing clouds, and sails upon the bosom of the air.
7. To fly without striking with the wings.
SAIL, v.t.
1. To pass or move upon in a ship, by means of sails.
A thousand ships were mann'd to sail the sea.
[This use is elliptical, on or over being omitted.]
2. To fly through
Sublime she sails th' aerial space, and mounts the winged gales.
sail appears in definitions for these words:
Aback Action Aeronaut Aeronautic Aeronautics Afore After After-guard After-sails All Along Antennae Apparel Argonaut Argonauta Awning Back Backstays Baftas Balance Balance-reef Balancing Ballast Band Banian Bare Barque Bear Beat Beating Bend Board Boat Bolt-rope Bonnet Boom Bound Bowline Bowsprit Box Brail Bridle Bring Broach Bunt Buntlines Call Canvas Canvas-climber Careen Career Carry Casket Catachresis Catch Center Chain Chess-tree Circular Circumnavigable Circumnavigate Circumnavigation Circumnavigator Clearance Clevy Clew-lines Close Close-hauled Coast Coasted Coaster Coasting Colossus Construction Corporal Course Courses Crank Crew Cringle Cross-jack Crow-foot Crowth Cruise Cruiser Cruising Depress Depth Determine Direction Diversly Doggerman Double-tongued Down Down-haul Downwards Drabler Draw Drift-sail Drive Driver Drops Duck Ducking Earing Easy Eddy-water Eddy-wind Edge Embargo Embargoed Embargoing Encompass Ere Euroclydon Eye Fall Felucca Fill Fire-arrow Flaccidness Flog Flota Flutter Foist Foot Footrope For Foremast Foresail Fother Freshwater Furl Gaelic Gale Galeas Galiot Galley Garland Gasket Gin Going Goosewing Grommet Guy Halliard Hand Handsails Haul Head-rope Head-sail Heave Hemp Hoist Hold Horse Hug Hull Igated Imband Interdict Jib Landsman Langrage Lateen Laveer Lay Leech Leech-rope Loose Loxodromic Loxodromics Luff Luggs Main-sail Make Mariner Marline-spike Maroon Martinet Mechanic Midshipman Mission Mizzen Nautilus Navigable Navigate Navigation Navigator Navy Netting Nimble Nod Northerly Oblige Oblike Open Orlop Orthodromics Orthodromy Outsail Over Packet-ship Pass Peak Periplus Pinnace Pirate Pleasure-boat Pleiads Plow Point Pole Poor Porpess Pouch Press Pressure Prick Put Quarter Ragged Ramble Range Rate Ravenousness Reef Reef-bank Reefing Register Renavigated Resail Rigging Ring-streaked Rise Rope-bands Round Royal Run Saddle Sag Sail Sail-board Sail-borne Sail-loft Sail-maker Sail-making Sail-yard Sailer Sailing Sailor Save Scarcely Schooner Scud Sea-man Sea-mark Set Settee Sheet Shift Ship Shipman Shiver Shoaly Shoot Shorten Signal Skeet South Southwestern Spanker Spill Spilling-lines Split Spred Spring Sprit Sprit-sail Square Square-rigged Square-sail Stand Stay Stay-sail Steer Stem Stiff Stock Stretch Strike Striking Studding-sail Suffice Sweinmote Tabling Tack Tackle Tackling Take Tar Tarpaulin Tartan Ten This Threden Throw Thrum Thumping Top-sail Traverse Trim Try-sail Twine Unbend Unbending Unbent Unfurl Unlace Van Veliferous Vessel Voyage Voyager Water-sail Weather Weathering Westward Whistle Wind-sail Windbound Work Xebec Yard
Aback Action Aeronaut Aeronautic Aeronautics Afore After After-guard After-sails All Along Antennae Apparel Argonaut Argonauta Awning Back Backstays Baftas Balance Balance-reef Balancing Ballast Band Banian Bare Barque Bear Beat Beating Bend Board Boat Bolt-rope Bonnet Boom Bound Bowline Bowsprit Box Brail Bridle Bring Broach Bunt Buntlines Call Canvas Canvas-climber Careen Career Carry Casket Catachresis Catch Center Chain Chess-tree Circular Circumnavigable Circumnavigate Circumnavigation Circumnavigator Clearance Clevy Clew-lines Close Close-hauled Coast Coasted Coaster Coasting Colossus Construction Corporal Course Courses Crank Crew Cringle Cross-jack Crow-foot Crowth Cruise Cruiser Cruising Depress Depth Determine Direction Diversly Doggerman Double-tongued Down Down-haul Downwards Drabler Draw Drift-sail Drive Driver Drops Duck Ducking Earing Easy Eddy-water Eddy-wind Edge Embargo Embargoed Embargoing Encompass Ere Euroclydon Eye Fall Felucca Fill Fire-arrow Flaccidness Flog Flota Flutter Foist Foot Footrope For Foremast Foresail Fother Freshwater Furl Gaelic Gale Galeas Galiot Galley Garland Gasket Gin Going Goosewing Grommet Guy Halliard Hand Handsails Haul Head-rope Head-sail Heave Hemp Hoist Hold Horse Hug Hull Igated Imband Interdict Jib Landsman Langrage Lateen Laveer Lay Leech Leech-rope Loose Loxodromic Loxodromics Luff Luggs Main-sail Make Mariner Marline-spike Maroon Martinet Mechanic Midshipman Mission Mizzen Nautilus Navigable Navigate Navigation Navigator Navy Netting Nimble Nod Northerly Oblige Oblike Open Orlop Orthodromics Orthodromy Outsail Over Packet-ship Pass Peak Periplus Pinnace Pirate Pleasure-boat Pleiads Plow Point Pole Poor Porpess Pouch Press Pressure Prick Put Quarter Ragged Ramble Range Rate Ravenousness Reef Reef-bank Reefing Register Renavigated Resail Rigging Ring-streaked Rise Rope-bands Round Royal Run Saddle Sag Sail Sail-board Sail-borne Sail-loft Sail-maker Sail-making Sail-yard Sailer Sailing Sailor Save Scarcely Schooner Scud Sea-man Sea-mark Set Settee Sheet Shift Ship Shipman Shiver Shoaly Shoot Shorten Signal Skeet South Southwestern Spanker Spill Spilling-lines Split Spred Spring Sprit Sprit-sail Square Square-rigged Square-sail Stand Stay Stay-sail Steer Stem Stiff Stock Stretch Strike Striking Studding-sail Suffice Sweinmote Tabling Tack Tackle Tackling Take Tar Tarpaulin Tartan Ten This Threden Throw Thrum Thumping Top-sail Traverse Trim Try-sail Twine Unbend Unbending Unbent Unfurl Unlace Van Veliferous Vessel Voyage Voyager Water-sail Weather Weathering Westward Whistle Wind-sail Windbound Work Xebec Yard
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