on or other metal by placing in contact
the parts heated almost to fusion, and hammering them into one mass.

WELKIN [from, the Anglo-Saxon, _weal can_]. The visible firmament.

"One cheer more to make the welkin ring."

WELL [from the Anglo-Saxon _wyll_]. A bulk-headed inclosure in the
middle of a ship's hold, defending the pumps from the bottom up to the
lower deck from damage, by preventing the entrance of ballast or other
obstructions, which would choke the boxes or valves in a short time, and
render the pumps useless. By means of this inclosure the artificers may
likewise more readily descend into the hold, to examine or repair the
pumps, as occasion requires.

WELL, OR TRUNK OF A FISHING-VESSEL. A strong compartment in the middle
of the hold, open to the deck, but lined with lead on every side, and
having the bottom perforated with small holes through the floor, so that
the water may pass in freely, and thus preserve the fish alive which are
put into it. Lobster-boats are thus fitted.

WELL-CABINS. Those in brigs and small vessels, which have no
after-windows or thorough draught.

WELL-END. _See_ PUMP-FOOT.

WELL FARE YE, MY LADS! An exclamation of approbation to the men at a
hard heave or haul.

WELL FOUND. Fully equipped.

WELL-GROWN. A term implying that the grain of the wood follows the shape
required, as in knee-timber and the like.

WELL OFF, TO. A mode of shutting off a leak by surrounding it by timbers
screwed home through the lining to the timbers, and carrying up this
trunk, like a log-hut, above the water-line.

WELL-ROOM OF A BOAT. The place in the bottom where the water lies,
between the ceiling and the platform of the stern-sheets, from whence it
is baled into the sea.

WELL THERE, BELAY! Synonymous with _that will do_.

WELSHMAN'S BREECHES. _See_ DUTCHMAN'S BREECHES.

WEND A COURSE, TO. To sail steadily on a given direction.

WENDING. Bringing the ship's head to an opposite course. Turning as a
ship does to the tide.

WENTLE. An old term signifying to roll over.

WENTLE-TRAP. The _Scalaria pretiosa_, a very elegant univalve shell,
much valued by collectors.

WEST-COUNTRY PARSON. A fish, the hake (_Gadus merluccius_), is so
called, from a black streak on its back, and from its abundance along
our western coast.

WESTER, OR WASTER. A kind of trident used for striking salmon in the
north.

WESTING. This term in navigation means the distance made by course or
traverses to