the different orders and
disposition of fleets occasionally require, and which the several ships
are directed to perform by means of signals. (_See_ SIGNALS.)

EX LEX. An outlaw (a term of law).

EXPANSION-VALVE. In the marine engine, a valve which shuts off the steam
in its passage to the slide-valves, when the piston has travelled a
certain distance in the cylinder, leaving the remaining part of the
stroke to be performed by the expansion of the steam.

EXPEDIENT. A stratagem in warfare.

EXPEDITION. An enterprise undertaken either by sea or land, or both,
against an enemy; it should be conducted with secrecy and rapidity of
movement.

EXPENDED. Used up, consumed, or asserted to be so.

EXPENSE BOOKS. Accounts of the expenditure of the warrant officer's
stores, attested by the signing officers.

EXPLOITING. Transporting trees or timber by a river. Exploit was an old
verb meaning to perform.

EXPLORATOR. An examiner of a country. A scout.

EXPORT, TO. To send goods or commodities out of a country, for the
purposes of traffic, under the general name of exports.

EXPORTATION. The act of sending exports to foreign parts.

EXPORTER. The person who sends the exports abroad.

EXPOSED ANCHORAGE. An open and dangerous place, by reason of the
elements or the enemy.

EXTERIOR SIDE. The side of an imaginary polygon, upon which the plan of
a fortification is constructed.

EXTERIOR SLOPE. In fortification, that slope of a work towards the
country which is next outward beyond its superior slope.

EXTERNAL CONTACT. In a transit of Mercury or Venus over the sun's disc,
this expression means the first touch of the planet's and sun's edges,
before any part of the former is projected on the disc of the luminary.

EXTRAORDINARIES. Contingent expenses.

EXTREME BREADTH. The extent of the midships, or dead flat, with the
thickness of the bottom plank included.

EXTREMITIES. The stem and stern posts of a ship.

EY. _See_ EYGHT.

EYE. The circular loop of a shroud or stay where it goes over the
mast.--_To eye_, to observe minutely.--_Flemish eye_, a phrase
particularly applied to the eye of a stay, which is either formed at
the making of the rope; or by dividing the yarns into two equal parts,
knotting each pair separately, and pointing the whole over after
parcelling. This eye stopped by the mouse forms the collar. It is not
strong, soon rots, and seldom, if ever, used now where strength is of
more importance than