AIGUILLE aimantée, the magnetical needle.

AIGUILLES de tré, or de trevier, sail-needles, or bolt-rope needles.

AIGUILLETTES. See PORQUES.

AILURES. See ILLOIRES.

AIMANT, the magnet or load-stone.

AIRE de vent, a point of the compass. Avoir de l' AIRE, to have fresh way through the water.

Prendre AIRE, to get under way.

Amortir l' AIRE, to lose head-way.

AISEMENT, a place of convenience in the gallery or head of a ship.

AISSADE, that part of the poop where the ship's breadth begins to diminish as it approaches the stern.

A LA BOULINE, close-hauled. See ALLER à la bouline. ALARGUER, to sheer off; to sail aloof from the shore or some contiguous object. A L'AUTRE, an exclamation pronounced by the sailors of the watch, at the striking of the watch-bell, every half-hour, to signify to the pilot that they keep a good look-out. See the English term LOOK-OUT.

ALIDADE, the index of a nocturnal or sea-quadrant. See OCTANT.

ALIZÉ, the reigning wind of a particular season or region. ALLEGE, a lighter or pram.

ALLÉGER un vaisseau, to lighten a ship by taking out a part of her lading.

ALLÉGER le cable, to buoy up the cable, by attaching barrels, or pieces of timber, to it lengthwise, so as to float it up from a rocky or foul ground : also to veer away the cable.

ALLER à la bouline, to sail with a scant wind.

ALLER à grasse bouline, to sail with the wind upon the beam, or large.

ALLER à la derive, to try under bare poles, or to try a hull. See DR'RIVE.

ALLER au plus près au vent, to sail close-hauled, or as near the wind as possible.

ALLER de bout au vent, to go head-to-wind, or right in the wind's eye.

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