to ship, and _eskipped_ was used for shipped.

ESKIPPESON. An old law term for a shipping or passage by sea.

ESNECCA. In the twelfth century, a royal yacht, though some deem it to
have been a kind of transport.

ESPIALS. Night watches afloat, in dockyards and harbours; generally a
boat named by the ordinary.

ESPLANADE. Generally that space of level ground kept vacant between the
works of a fortress and neighbouring houses or other obstructions;
though originally applied to the actual surface of the glacis.

ESQUIMAUX. A name derived from _esquimantsic_, in the Albinaquis
language, _eaters of raw flesh_. Many tribes in the Arctic regions are
still ignorant of the art of cookery.

ESSARA. The prickly heat.

ESTABLISHMENT. The regulated complement or quota of officers and men to
a ship, either in time of war or peace. The equipment. The regulated
dimensions of spars, cabin, rigging, &c.--_Establishment of a port._ An
awkward phrase lately lugged in to denote the tide-hour of a port.

ESTIVAL. _See_ AESTIVAL.

ESTOC. A small stabbing sword.

ESTUARY. An inlet or shoaly arm of the sea into which a river or rivers
empty, and subject to tidal influence.

ESTURE. An old word for the rise and fall of water.

ETESIAN WINDS. The _Etesiae_ of the ancients; winds which blow constantly
every year during the time of the dog-days in the Levant.

ETIQUETTE. Naval or military observances, deemed to be law.

EUPHROE. _See_ UVROU.

EVACUATE. To withdraw from a town or fortress, in virtue of a treaty or
capitulation; or in compliance with superior orders.

EVECTION. A term for the libration of the moon, or that apparent
oscillatory inequality in her motion, caused by a change in the
excentricity of her orbit, whereby her mean longitude is sometimes
increased or diminished to the amount of 1 deg. 20', whereby we sometimes
see a little further round one side than at others.

EVE-EEL. A northern name for the conger; from the Danish _hav-aal_, or
sea-eel.

EVENING GUN. The warning-piece, after the firing of which the sentries
challenge.

EVEN KEEL. When a ship is so trimmed as to sit evenly upon the water,
drawing the same depth forward as aft. Some vessels sail best when
brought by the head, others by the stern.

EVERY INCH OF THAT! An exclamation to belay a rope without rendering it.

EVERY MAN TO HIS STATION. _See_ STATION.

EVERY ROPE AN-END. The order to coil down the running rigging, or braces
and bowlines, a