NAVIGATION impropre, coasting, or sailing along shore.

NAVIGATION propre, the art of sailing by the laws of trigonometry. See PILOTAGE.

NAVIGER, to sail, or direct a ship's course at sea.

NAVIGER par terre, or dans le terre, to be ashore by the dead-reckoning; to be ahead of the ship by estimation.

NAVIGER par un grand cercle, to sail upon the arch of a great circle.

NAVIRE, a ship. See also VAISSEAU.

Beau NAVIRE en rade, a good roader.

NEUVE, a sort of small flight, used by the Dutch in the herring-fishery, and resembling a buss. See BUCHE.

NEZ, the nose, beak, or head of a ship.

NOCHER, a name formerly given to a pilot.

NOCTURLABE, a nocturnal.

NOIALE. See TOILE.

NOIÉ, an epithet which answers to clouded, or indistinct. It is expressed of the horizon, when it cannot be easily distinguished by an observer, in taking an altitude.

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