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A TRANSLATION OF French SEA-TERMS and PHRASES: N
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NOIRCIR, to blacken, or daub with a mixture of tar and lamp-black; as the wales and black strakes of a ship, the yards, bowsprit, &c.
NOLIS, or NOLISSEMENT, a name given in Provence and the Levant to the freight or cargo of a ship.
NON-vûe, no sight of; out of sight; a phrase which implies the fog or haze of the weather, which intercepts the view of contiguous objects, as the shore, rocks, &c.
NORD, the north, or north point.
NORD-EST quart à l'est, north-east by east.
NORD-ESTER, to vary towards the east; expressed of the east-variation of the compass.
NORD-OUESTER, to decline towards the west; spoken also of the magnetical needle.
NUAISON, a trade-wind, or the period of a monsoon.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 386, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
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