DÉPENCIER, or DÉPENSIER d'un vasseau, the ship's steward. See MAITRE-VALET.

DÉPENDANT. Aller en DÉPENDANT, to sail in company; to follow.

Tomber en DÉPENDANT, to bear up; or to shorten sail in order to veer.

DÉPLOIER le pavillon, to let fly, or display the ensign.

DÉPLOIER une voile, to heave out, or set a sail.

DÉPREDÉ, goods plundered or robbed from a wreck, contrary to law.

DÉRADER, to drive with the anchors ahead; to be driven from the anchors and forced out to sea, by the violence of a storm.

DERALINGUE, to be blown from the bolt-rope, in a storm; spoken of a sail.

DERANGÉE. See ANCRE and TREVOR.

DERAPER, to loosen from the ground; understood of the anchor when it is almost aweigh.

DÉRIVATION, the yawing, or deviation from the line of the course.

DÉRIVE, the angle of lee-way, or drift.

DÉRIVE is also the stray-line, or allowance made for stray-line, occasioned by a ship's falling to leeward, when sounding, in deep water.

DÉRIVE is likewise ufed for a lee-board. See SEMELLE.

DÉRIVE qui vaut la route, a drift favourable to the course.

Belle DÉRIVER, a good offing, or sea-room.

DÉRIVER, to drive, to be driven to leeward by a tempest or foul wind.

DÉROBER, to becalm.

DÉROBER le vent d'un vaisseau, to becalm a ship; also to becalm some of the sails with others.

DÉSAFOURCHER, to unmoor.

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