xible bar of iron or wood to raise weights, which takes rank as the
first and most simple of the mechanical powers.--_To lever._ An old word
for unloading a ship.

LEVERAGE. The amount of a lever power.

LEVES. Very light open boats of the ancients.

LEVET. The blast of a trumpet or horn.

LEVIN. The old term for lightning.

LEVY. An enrolment or conscription.--_To levy._ To raise recruits.

LEWER. A provincialism for handspike; a corrupt form of _lever_.

LEWIS-HOLES. Two holes in the surface of a mortar, superseding ears.

LEWTH [from the Anglo-Saxon _lywd_]. A place of shelter from the wind.

LEX, OR LEAX. The Anglo-Saxon term for salmon.

L.G. These uncials on a powder-barrel mean large-grain powder.

LIBERA PISCARIA. A law-term denoting a fishery free to any one.

LIBERTY. Permission to go on shore or ship-visiting.

LIBERTY-DAY. A day announced for permitting a part of the crew to go
ashore.

LIBERTY-LIQUOR. Spirits formerly allowed to be purchased when seamen had
visitors; now forbidden.

LIBERTY-MEN. Those on leave of absence.

LIBERTY-TICKET. A document specifying the date and extent of the leave
granted to a seaman or marine proceeding on his private affairs.

LIBRA. The seventh sign of the zodiac, which the sun enters about the
21st of September; the commencement of this constellation, where the
equator intersects the ecliptic, is called the _autumnal equinox_, from
night and day being equal.

LIBRATION OF THE MOON. _See_ EVECTION.

LIBURNA, OR LIBURNICA. Light ancient galliots, both for sails and oars;
of the latter from one rank to five; so called from the Liburni, pirates
of the Adriatic.

LICENSE. An official permission from the Board of Trade, to such persons
as it thinks fit to supply seamen or apprentices for merchant-ships in
the United Kingdom. (_See_ RUNNER, LICENSED.)

LICK. In common parlance is a blow. To do anything partially, is to
_give it a lick and a promise_, as in painting or blacking.--_To lick_,
to surpass a rival, or excel him in anything.--_Lick of the tar-brush_,
a seaman.

LICORN. An old name for the howitzer of the last century, then but a
kind of mortar fitted on a field-carriage to fire shells at low angles.

LIDO. A borrowed term signifying the shore or margin of the sea.

LIE A HULL. Synonymous with _hull to_, or _hulling_.

LIE ALONG, TO. (_See_ ALONG.) A ship is said to lie along when she leans
over with a side wind.--_To lie along the land_, is t