ooked.

LOOSE, TO. To unfurl or cast loose any sail, in order to its being set,
or dried after rain.

LOOSE A ROPE, TO. To cast it off, or let it go.

LOOSE FALL. The losing of a whale after an apparently good opportunity
for striking it.

LOOSE ICE. A number of pieces near each other, but through which the
ship can make her way.

LOOSERS. Men appointed to loose the sails.

LOOSING FOR SEA. Weighing the anchor.

LOOT. Plunder, or pillage; a term adopted from China.

LOOVERED BATTENS. The battens that inclose the upper part of the well.
(_See_ LOOVER-WAYS.)

LOOVER-WAYS. Battens or boards placed at a certain angle, so as to admit
air, but not wet; a kind of Venetian-blind.

LOP AND TOP. The top and branches of a felled tree.

LOP-SIDED. Uneven; one side larger than the other.

LORCHA. A swift Chinese sailing vessel carrying guns.

LORD OF MISRULE. _See_ MASTER OF MISRULE.

LORDS COMMISSIONERS. _See_ COMMISSIONERS.

LORD WARDEN OF THE CINQUE PORTS. A magistrate who has the jurisdiction
of the ports or havens so called. Generally held by one high in office,
or an old minister.

LORICA. A defensive coat-armour made of leather; when iron plates were
applied, it became a _jack_.

LORN. A northern name for the crested cormorant, _Phalacrocorax
cristatus_.

LORRELL. An old term for a lubberly fellow.

LOSE WAY, TO. When a ship slackens her progress in the water.

LOSING THE NUMBER OF THE MESS. Dead, drowned, or killed. (_See_ NUMBER.)

LOSING GROUND. Dropping to leeward while working; the driftage.

LOSS. Total loss is the insurance recovered under peril, according to
the invoice price of the goods when embarked, together with the premium
of insurance. Partial loss upon either ship or goods, is that proportion
of the prime cost which is equal to the diminution in value occasioned
by the damage. (_See_ INSURANCE.)

LOSSAN. A Manx or Erse term for the luminosity of the sea.

LOST. The state of being foundered or cast away; said of a ship when she
has either sunk, or been beat to pieces by the violence of the sea.

LOST DAY. The day which is lost in circumnavigating the globe to the
westward, by making each day a little more than twenty-four hours long.
(_See_ GAINED DAY.)

LOST HER WAY. When the buoy is streamed, and all is ready for dropping
the anchor.

LOST! LOST! When a whale _flukes_, _dives_, or takes tail up to
"_running_," and the boats have no chance in chasing.

LOST OR NOT LOST. A p