MITRAILLES, a general name for langrage shot.

MODELE. See GABARI.

MOIS de gages, the monthly pay, or wages of a sailor.

MOLE de port, a pier, or mole-head.

MOLER en pouppe, en poger, to bear away and bring the wind aft, in the dialect of Provence and Italy.

MOLIR une corde, to slacken, douffe, or case off a tight rope.

MONSON, or MOURON, a monsoon, or trade-wind of India.

MONTANS de poulaine, the timbers of the head, or vertical rails, which are usually ornamented with sculpture.

MONTAIS de voute, the stern-timbers.

Le MONTANT de l'eau, or le flot, flowing water; the flood-tide.

MONTÉ, mounted, or equipped with a certain number of guns, or men; as, Vaisseau MONTÉ de 50 ou 60 canons, a ship mounting 50 or 60 guns.

Vaisseau MONTÉ de trois cents hommes, a ship manned with three hundred hands, or whose complement consists of three hundred.

MONTER le gouvernail, to hang the rudder.

MONTER au vent, to spring the luff, or haul the wind.

MONTURE, the arming a ship for war, or mounting her with cannon, and other fire-arms, and manning her.

MOQUE, a heart, or dead-eye of a stay.

MOQUE de civadiere, a sprit-sail sheet-block.

MOQUE de trelingage, the dead-eye of a crow-foot.

MORDRE, to bite, or hold fast; understood of the claw or fluke of an anchor which is sunk in the ground.

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