ous
directions, and connecting the cellular substance which contains the
oil. They are what remains after the oil has been _tried_ out, and are
used as fuel to _try_ out the next whale.

FROG. An old term for a seaman's coat or frock.

FROG-BELT. A _baldrick_ (which see).

FROG-FISH. _See_ FISHING-FROG.

FROG-LANDERS. Dutchmen in colloquial language.

FROG-PIKE. A female pike, so called from its period of spawning being
late, contemporary with the frogs.

FRONT. The foremost rank of a battalion, squadron, file, or other body
of men.--_To front_, to face.

FRONTAGE. The length or face of a wharf.

FRONTIER. The limits or borders of a country.

FRONT OF FORTIFICATION. The whole system of works included between the
salient angles, or the capitals prolonged, of any two neighbouring
bastions.

FROSTED STEEL. The damasked sword-blades.

FROST-FISH. A small fish, called also _tommy-cod_; in North America they
are taken in large quantities in the depth of winter by fishing through
holes cut in the ice.

FROST-RIME. _See_ FROST-SMOKE.

FROST-SMOKE. A thick mist in high latitudes, arising from the surface of
the sea when exposed to a temperature much below freezing; when the
vapours as they rise are condensed either into a thick fog, or, with the
thermometer about zero, hug the water in eddying white wreaths. The
latter beautiful form is called in North America a "barber," probably
from its resemblance to soap-suds.

FROTH. _See_ FOAM.

F.R.S. The sigla denoting a Fellow of the Royal Society.

FRUMENTARIAE. The ancient vessels which supplied the Roman markets with
corn.

FRUSH. A northern term for wood that is apt to splinter and break.

FRY. Young fishes.

FUCUS MAXIMUS. An enormous sea-weed, growing abundantly round the coasts
of Tristan d'Acunha, and perhaps the most exuberant of the vegetable
tribe. Said to rise from a depth of many fathoms, and to spread over a
surface of several hundred feet, it being very tenacious.

FUDDLED. Not quite drunk, but unfit for duty.

FUELL. An old nautical word signifying an opening between two headlands,
having no bottom in sight.

FU-FU. A well-known sea-dish of barley and treacle, in merchant ships.

FUGITIVES OVER THE SEA. By old statutes, now obsolete, to depart this
realm without the king's license incurred forfeiture of goods; and
masters of ships carrying such persons beyond seas, forfeited their
vessels.

FUGLEMAN, or more properly FLUGELMAN. A corpora