and so on.

VICTUALLING-BILL. A custom-house document, warranting the shipment of
such bonded stores as the master of an outward-bound merchantman may
require for his intended voyage.

VICTUALLING-BOOK. A counterpart of the ship's open list, which is kept
by the purser, to enable him to make the necessary entries in it.

VICTUALLING-YARDS FOR THE ROYAL NAVY. Large magazines where provisions
and similar stores are deposited, conveniently contiguous to the royal
dockyards. The establishments in England and Ireland are at Deptford,
Gosport, Plymouth, and Cork; and abroad at Malta, Gibraltar, Cape of
Good Hope, Jamaica, Halifax, Trincomalee, and Hongkong.

VIDETTE. _See_ VEDETTE.

VI ET ARMIS. With force of arms.

VIGIA [Sp. look-out]. A hydrographical warning on a chart to denote that
the pinnacle of a rock, or a shoal, may exist thereabout.

VINTINER [from _vigintinarius_]. An officer in our early fleet who
commanded a company of twenty men.

VIOL, OR VOYOL. A large messenger formerly used to assist in weighing an
anchor by the capstan.

VIOL OR VOYOL BLOCK. A large single-sheaved block through which the
messenger passed when the anchor was weighed by the fore or jeer
capstan; its block was usually lashed to the main-mast. This
voyol-purchase was afterwards improved thus: the voyol-block was
securely lashed to the cable at the manger-board, the jeer-fall rove
through it, and brought to the jeer-capstan, and the standing part
belayed to the bitts; thus a direct runner purchase instead of a dead
nip was obtained. It was only used when other means failed, and, after
the introduction of Phillipps' patent capstan, was disused.

VIOLENCE. The question in tort, as to the amount of liability incurred
by the owners for outrages and irregularities committed by the master.

VIRE. The arrow shot from a cross-bow; also called a quarril.

VIRGILIAE. A denomination of the Pleiades.

VIRGO. The sixth sign of the zodiac, which the sun enters about the 21st
August. Spica, {a} Virginis, is a star of the first magnitude.

VIS INERTIAE. That physical property in all bodies by which they resist a
power that endeavours to put them in motion, or to change any motion
they are possessed of; it is in proportion to their weight.

VIS INSITA. The innate force of matter; another name for _vis inertiae_.
It is that by which a vessel "keeps her way."

VISITATION AND SEARCH. The law of nations gives to every belligerent
cruiser the rig