neatness.

EYE-BOLTS. Those which have an eye or opening in one end, for hooking
tackles to, or fastening ropes.

EYELET-HOLES, are necessary in order to bend a sail to its yard or boom,
or to reef it; they consist of round holes worked in a sail to admit a
cringle or small rope through, chiefly the robands (or rope-bands), and
the points of the reef-line. (_See_ SAIL.)

EYE OF A BLOCK-STROP. That part by which it is fastened or suspended to
any particular place upon the sails, masts, or rigging; the eye is
sometimes formed by making two eye-splices, termed lashing eyes, on the
ends of the strop, and then seizing them together with a small line, so
as to bind both round a mast, yard, or boom, as is deemed necessary.

EYE OF AN ANCHOR. The hole in the shank wherein the ring is fixed.

EYE OF A STAY. That part of a stay which is formed into a sort of collar
to go round the mast-head; the eye and mouse form the collar.

EYE OF THE WIND. The direction to windward from whence it blows. (_See_
WIND'S-EYE.)

EYE-SHOT. Within sight.

EYES OF A MESSENGER. Eyes spliced in its ends to lash together.

EYES OF A SHIP. (_See_ EYES OF HER.)

EYES OF HER. The foremost part of the bay, or in the bows of a ship. In
olden times, and now in Spanish and Italian boats, as well as Chinese
junks, an eye is painted on each bow. The hawse-holes also are deemed
the "eyes of her."

EYE-SORE. Any disagreeable object.

EYE-SPLICE. (_See_ SPLICE.) A kind of splice made by turning the end of
a rope back, and the strands passed through the standing part.--_Eye of
a splice_, the strand turned up, by the fid or marline-spike, to receive
the opposite strand.

EYGHT. An alluvial river-island, where osiers usually grow, called also
_ait_, _ayt_, _ey_, _eyet_, or _eyot_. Also, the thickest part of a
scule of herrings; when this is scattered by the fishermen, it is termed
"breaking the ey."

F.

FACE. The edge of a sharp instrument. Also, the word of command to
soldiers, marines, and small-arm men, to turn upon the heel a quarter or
half a circle round in the direction ordered.

FACED. Turned up with facings on the cuffs and collars of uniforms and
regimentals.

FACE OF A GUN. The surface of the metal at the extremity of the muzzle.

FACE-PIECE. A piece of elm tabled on to the knee of the head, in the
fore-part, to assist the conversion of the main piece; and likewise to
shorten the upper bolts, and prevent the cables from rubbi