ns when pressed by steam entering the condenser by the
blow-through valve, but the weight of the atmosphere is sufficient to
keep it shut so long as there is a vacuum in the condenser.

TAINT. By admiralty law, the taint of contraband extends to all property
on board belonging to the owners of detected contraband articles.

TAISHES. Armour for the thighs.

TAISTE. A northern name for the black guillemot.

TAJASO. The jerked beef supplied to ships on some parts of the coast of
America.

TAKE. The draught of fishes in a single drag of the net. Also, _to
take_, in a military sense, to take or adopt any particular formation,
as to take open order, or to take ground to the right or the left.--To
_take_ an astronomical observation, so to ascertain the position of a
celestial body as to learn from it the place of the ship.

TAKEL [Anglo-Saxon]. The arrows which used to be supplied to the fleet;
the _takill_ of Chaucer.

TAKEN AFT. Complained of on the quarter-deck.

TAKE-UP. The part between the smoke-box and the bottom of the funnel in
a marine boiler. Also, a seaman _takes up slops_ when he applies to the
purser for articles of ready-made clothes, to be charged against his
wages. Also, an officer _takes up the gauntlet_ when he accepts a
challenge, though no longer in the form of a glove.

TAKE WATER ON BOARD, TO. To ship a sea.

TAKING A DEPARTURE. Determining the place of a ship by means of the
bearing and distance of a known object, and assuming it as the point to
be calculated from.

TAKING IN. The act of brailing up and furling sails at sea; generally
used in opposition to setting. (_See_ FURL and SHORTEN.) Also said of a
ship when loading.

TAKING OFF. Said of tides, when decreasing from the spring-tides.

TALARO. A silver coin of Ragusa, value 3_s._ sterling: also of Venice,
value 4_s._ 2_d._

TALE [from Anglo-Saxon _tael_, number]. Taylor thus expressed it in
1630--

"Goods in and out, which daily ships doe fraight
By guesse, by tale, by measure, and by weight."

TALLANT. The upper hance, or break of the rudder abaft.

TALL SHIP. A phrase among the early voyagers for square-rigged vessels
having top-masts.

TALLY, TO. To haul the sheets aft; as used by Falconer--

"And while the lee clue-garnet's lower'd away,
Taut aft the sheet they tally, and belay."

TALUS. The old word in fortification for slope.

TAMBOUR. A projecting kind of stockade, attached to ill-flanked walls,
&c