order to extend the clues of sails to the yard-arms.--_The
wind blows home._ When it sets continuously over the sea and land with
equal velocity. When opposed by vertical or high land, the breeze loses
its force as the land is neared: then it does not blow home, as about
Gibraltar and Toulon.

HOME-SERVICE. The Channel service; any force, either naval or military,
stationed in and about the United Kingdom.

HOME-TRADERS. The contradistinction of foreign-going ships.

HOMEWARD-BOUND. Said of a ship when returning from a voyage to the place
whence she was fitted out; or the country to which she belongs.

HOMEWARD-BOUNDER. A ship on her course home.

HOMMELIN. The _Raia rubus_, or rough ray.

HONEST-POUNDS. Used in contradistinction to "_purser's pounds_" (which
see).

HONEYCOMB. A spongy kind of flaw in the metal of ordnance, generally due
to faulty casting.

HONG. Mercantile houses in China, with convenient warehouses adjoining.
Also, a society of the principal merchants of the place.

HONOURS OF WAR. Favourable terms granted to a capitulating enemy on
evacuating a fortress; they vary in degree, according to circumstances;
generally understood to mean, to march out armed, colours flying, &c.,
but to pile arms at a given point, and leave them, and be sent home, or
give parole not to serve until duly exchanged.

HOO. _See_ HOWE.

HOOD. A covering for a companion-hatch, skylight, &c. Also, the piece of
tarred or painted canvas which used to cover the eyes of rigging to
prevent water from damaging them; now seldom used. Also, the name given
to the upper part of the galley chimney, made to turn round with the
wind, that the smoke may always go to leeward.--_Naval hoods or whood._
Large thick pieces of timber which encircle the hawse-holes.

HOOD-ENDS. The ends of the planks which fit into the rabbets of the stem
and stern posts.

HOOD OF A PUMP. A frame covering the upper wheel of a chain-pump.

HOODS, OR HOODINGS. The foremost and aftermost planks of the bottom,
within and without. Also, coverings to shelter the mortar in
bomb-vessels.

HOOK. There are several kinds used at sea, as boat-hooks, can-hooks,
cat-hooks, fish-hooks, and the like. A name given to reaches, or angular
points in rivers, such as Sandy Hook at New York.--_Laying-hook._ A
winch used in rope-making.--_Loof-tackle hooks_, termed _luffs_. A
tackle with two hooks, one to hitch into a cringle of the main or fore
sail in the bolt-rope, and