| acoast | To or by the coast; ashore. | 1579 | Go To Quotation |
| albacore | Any of several small and medium-sized tunas of the genera Thunnus and Euthynnus; (in… | 1579 | Go To Quotation |
| Aleppine | Of or relating to Aleppo, a city in northern Syria, or its inhabitants. | 1584 | Go To Quotation |
| ambracan | Ambergris. | 1584 | Go To Quotation |
| appense | To append (a seal). | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| a-weather | Towards the weather or windward side, in the direction from which the wind blows; esp.… | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| Bairam | The name of two Muslim festivals—the Lesser Bairam, lasting three days, which follows the… | 1599 | Go To Quotation |
| baldachin | A rich embroidered stuff, originally woven with woof of silk and warp of gold thread; rich brocade. | 1598 | Go To Quotation |
| banian | A Hindu trader, especially one from the province of Gujarat (‘many of which have for… | 1596 | Go To Quotation |
| batman | An oriental weight varying greatly in value according to the locality. | 1583 | Go To Quotation |
| bey | A Turkish governor of a province or district: also a title of rank. | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| bilbo | A long iron bar, furnished with sliding shackles to confine the ankles of prisoners, and a… | 1583 | Go To Quotation |
| bilge | trans. To stave in a ship's bottom, cause her to spring a leak. | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| bombycine | Silken, silk; also as n., a silk fabric. | 1599 | Go To Quotation |
| breeze | orig. A north or north-east wind; spec. applied within the tropics to the NE. trade-wind. | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| broadside | ‘The whole array, or the simultaneous discharge, of the artillery on one side of a ship of war’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk.). | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| brustling | Rustling noise or movement. | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| Byzantine | = bezant n. 1. | 1599 | Go To Quotation |
| cambal | ? = cumbly n. (or next). | 1599 | Go To Quotation |
| caravanserai | A kind of inn in Eastern countries where caravans put up, being a large quadrangular… | 1599 | Go To Quotation |
| careen | trans. To turn (a ship) over on one side for cleaning, caulking, or repairing; to clean, caulk, etc. (a ship so turned over). | 1600 | Go To Quotation |
| cargason | The cargo or freight of a ship. | 1583 | Go To Quotation |
| chequeen | A gold coin of Italy and Turkey, worth from about 7 s. to 9 s. 6 d. in English money; a sequin n. | 1586 | Go To Quotation |
| chiaus | A Turkish messenger, sergeant, or lictor. | 1599 | Go To Quotation |
| Chinian | A Chinese person. | 1599 | Go To Quotation |
| cloth | To make into cloth. Obs. | 1582 | Go To Quotation |
| combat | intr. To fight or do battle (orig. esp. in single combat). Const. with, against. | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| comfortment | Comforting; entertainment. (Cf. comfort v. 5.) | 1557 | Go To Quotation |
| compact | A covenant or contract made between two or more persons or parties; a mutual… | 1555 | Go To Quotation |
| consortment | Association as consorts or partners. | 1557 | Go To Quotation |
| cook-room | a separate building or outhouse, cook-house n. | 1553 | Go To Quotation |
| copra | The dried kernel of the coco-nut, prepared and exported for the expression of coco-nut oil. | 1584 | Go To Quotation |
| cosmos | Early form of koumiss n. | 1598 | Go To Quotation |
| cotton-wool | Cotton in its raw and woolly state, as gathered from the bolls of the plant; raw cotton. | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| counter-sea | A sea running against the course of a ship, or against another sea or current. | 1599 | Go To Quotation |
| Cypriot | A native or inhabitant of Cyprus; the Greek (ancient or modern) or the Turkish dialect of Cyprus. | 1596 | Go To Quotation |
| defterdar | A Turkish officer of finance, esp. the accountant general of a province; also formerly, the Turkish minister of finance. | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| dimity | A stout cotton fabric, woven with raised stripes or fancy figures; usually employed… | 1569 | Go To Quotation |
| dipsin | App. mispr. for dipsie, dipsey n., deep-sea. | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| disbogue | intr. = disembogue v. | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| disclosure | The action of disclosing or opening up to view; revelation; discovery, exposure; an instance of this. | 1555 | Go To Quotation |
| discovery | The finding out or bringing to light of that which was previously unknown; making known… | 1553 | Go To Quotation |
| disship | trans. To remove from a ship. | 1557 | Go To Quotation |
| drumbler | A name in the 17th c. for a small fast vessel, used as a transport, also as a piratical ship of war. | 1598 | Go To Quotation |
| ducking | The catching or shooting of wild ducks. Also attrib., as ducking-punt; ducking-gun n.… | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| ensconce | intr. for refl. | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| factorship | The office or position of factor (senses 3, and 4a). | 1582 | Go To Quotation |
| figo | = fico n. in various senses. | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| flacket | A bunch (of hair). Cf. flaggat n. | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| flamingo | A bird of the genus Phœnicopterus, with bright scarlet plumage, extremely long and slender legs and neck, and a heavy bent bill. | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| Floridian | Of, pertaining to, or associated with Florida. | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| fluce | An old Persian coin; a small coin of north Africa, Arabia, India, and neighbouring countries. | 1584 | Go To Quotation |
| fondaco | An inn; also, in North Africa, †a building containing a merchant's residence and sale rooms. | 1599 | Go To Quotation |
| furl | trans. ‘To roll up and bind (a sail) neatly upon its respective yard or boom’ (Adm. Smyth);… | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| geminate | Duplicated, combined in pairs, twin, binate. geminate leaves, leaves springing in pairs… | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| giaour | A Turkish term of reproach for non-Muslims, esp. Christians. | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| gossipine | = gossampine n. | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| gripe | The piece of timber terminating the keel at the forward extremity; sometimes taken as = fore-foot n. 2. | 1580 | Go To Quotation |
| ground-tackle | A general name for all ropes, cables, anchors, or other tackle made use of in anchoring, mooring, or kedging a vessel. | 1557 | Go To Quotation |
| Guinea | | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| Guinean | An inhabitant of Guinea. | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| habitative | Of or pertaining to habitation or occupancy by inhabitants. | 1578 | Go To Quotation |
| herba | A sort of grass-cloth imported formerly from India. | 1599 | Go To Quotation |
| hing | The drug asafetida. | 1599 | Go To Quotation |
| hull | intr. Naut. Of a ship: To float or be driven by the force of the wind or current on the… | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| hullock | A small part of a sail let out in a gale to keep the ship's head to the sea. | 1553 | Go To Quotation |
| hungerly | Hungrily; greedily. | 1583 | Go To Quotation |
| hyperper | A Byzantine coin; the gold solidus (which at the cession of Crete was rather heavier… | 1598 | Go To Quotation |
| impignoration | The action or fact of impignorating; pledging, pawning, mortgage. | 1598 | Go To Quotation |
| incoached | Conveyed in a coach or carriage. | 1599 | Go To Quotation |
| indraught | An inward flow, stream, or current, as of water or air; esp. a current setting towards the… | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| indrawing | That draws in or inward. | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| ingenio | A sugar-mill, sugar-factory, or sugar-works (in the West Indies). | 1600 | Go To Quotation |
| invoice | A list of the particular items of goods shipped or sent to a factor, consignee, or… | 1560 | Go To Quotation |
| jangada | orig. A raft, used in the East Indies, often formed of two or more boats fastened together; a jangar n. | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| Japonian | A native of Japan. | 1600 | Go To Quotation |
| kehaya | A Turkish viceroy, deputy, agent, etc.; a local governor; a village chief. | 1594 | Go To Quotation |
| kiack | In Burma (Myanmar): a Buddhist temple. | 1599 | Go To Quotation |
| Kiswa | The black cloth which covers the Kaaba. | 1599 | Go To Quotation |
| koumiss | A fermented liquor prepared from mare's milk, commonly used as a beverage by the Tartars… | 1598 | Go To Quotation |
| kris | A Malay dagger, with a blade of a wavy form. | 1586 | Go To Quotation |
| kvass | A fermented beverage in general use in Russia, commonly made from an infusion of rye-flour or bread with malt; rye beer. | 1555 | Go To Quotation |
| Letto | A member of a Baltic people living mainly in Latvia; a Latvian; = Lett n. | 1557 | Go To Quotation |
| livre | An old French money of account, divided into 20 sols (or sous), and approximately equivalent to the franc of 1900. | 1599 | Go To Quotation |
| loom | Of a breeze or wind: Easy, gentle. Obs. exc. in loom gale n. ‘an easy gale of wind, in which… | 1600 | Go To Quotation |
| losh | losh hide, losh leather: the untanned hide of the elk, and later of the buffalo and… | 1583 | Go To Quotation |
| lowance | A limited portion of food or drink or its equivalent in money given in addition to wages. | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| machete | A broad, heavy knife or cutlass used as an implement or as a weapon, originating in Central America and the Caribbean. | 1575 | Go To Quotation |
| Magh | A member of the (largely Buddhist) people of Arakan, a district on the west coast… | 1599 | Go To Quotation |
| mammee | A large tree, Mammea americana (family Clusiaceae (Guttiferae)), native to the… | 1587 | Go To Quotation |
| Mangoak | A member of a North American Indian people inhabiting part of North Carolina in the 16th… | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| manilla | In West Africa: a metal armlet or bracelet (traditionally used as a medium of exchange); spec.… | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| Marsilian | A person from or inhabitant of Marseilles. | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| maund | In south and west Asia: a unit of weight, varying greatly in value according to locality. | 1584 | Go To Quotation |
| medin | A coin of low denomination formerly used in Egypt and the Ottoman Empire: (originally)… | 1583 | Go To Quotation |
| mestiza | A woman of mestizo descent. Freq. attrib. or as adj. | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| milly | A kind of millet, perh. African or Indian millet (sorghum), Sorghum bicolor. | 1600 | Go To Quotation |
| mirza | In Iran (Persia) and India used as an honorific title for an educated man. Hence: a clerk, secretary, or official. | 1560 | Go To Quotation |
| mocenigo | A Venetian silver coin weighing approx. 6.5 grams, introduced under Pietro Mocenigo… | 1599 | Go To Quotation |
| Mogul | Each of the successive heads of the Muslim dynasty founded by Zahīr-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Bābur… | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| mohair | A fabric or yarn made from the hair of the Angora goat, typically mixed with wool… | 1569 | Go To Quotation |
| monsoon | A seasonal prevailing wind in the region of South and South-East Asia, blowing from… | 1584 | Go To Quotation |
| neckland | A neck or narrow strip of land. | 1598 | Go To Quotation |
| nil | Any of various plants of the genus Indigofera (family Fabaceae (Leguminosae)) which yield the dye indigo; the dye itself. | 1583 | Go To Quotation |
| Nogaian | = Nogai n. 1. | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| Norse | The Norwegian language; the Norn language. Now rare. | 1559 | Go To Quotation |
| oarman | = oarsman n. | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| obarni | In full mead obarni. Scalded or boiled mead. | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| padre | In Italy, Spain, Portugal, Latin America, and other areas of Spanish and Portuguese… | 1584 | Go To Quotation |
| pargo | Any of various edible, deep-bodied fishes of the sea bream family Sparidae. Also: any… | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| parle | A debate or conference; discussion; negotiation; spec. a meeting between enemies… | 1552 | Go To Quotation |
| parliance | Conversation; debate; parley; conference. | 1553 | Go To Quotation |
| patacon | Any of various silver coins current in Portuguese and Spanish territories from the 16th to the 18th centuries. Now hist. | 1584 | Go To Quotation |
| Pegu | A native or inhabitant of the city or district of Pegu in southern Burma (Myanmar); = Peguan n. 1. Cf. Mon n. 1. Obs. | 1577 | Go To Quotation |
| pelluce | = plush n. 1a. | 1598 | Go To Quotation |
| perdrigon | More fully perdrigon plum. Any of several varieties of plum with black, purple, or yellow skin. Freq. with distinguishing word. | 1582 | Go To Quotation |
| pic | A unit of length used in parts of the eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East… | 1584 | Go To Quotation |
| piragua | A long, narrow canoe of a type chiefly found in Central and South America, hollowed from… | 1598 | Go To Quotation |
| plausibility | Readiness to applaud or approve. Obs. | 1557 | Go To Quotation |
| plumassier | A person who works with or trades in ornamental feathers or plumes. | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| Polish | The West Slavonic language of the Poles. | 1555 | Go To Quotation |
| pood | A Russian unit of weight, equal to 40 funt (Russian pounds) and equivalent to 16.4 kg (36 lb) approx. | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| port | trans. To turn (the helm or rudder of a ship, boat, etc.) towards the port side, causing… | 1580 | Go To Quotation |
| prejudicate | trans. To affect prejudicially; = prejudice v. 1a. Obs. | 1553 | Go To Quotation |
| pulque | A drink made in Mexico and some parts of Central America from the fermented sap of the… | 1572 | Go To Quotation |
| pumping | The action of pump v. (in various senses); an instance of this. | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| rear | intr. Of a ship: to move in some way. | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| reattempt | trans. To attempt (something) for a second or further time. | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| relade | trans. To reload (something, esp. a ship). | 1580 | Go To Quotation |
| rincon | Now esp. in the south-western United States: a piece of land, typically one situated in… | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| rippling | The formation or appearance of ripples on the surface of water; an instance of this… | 1600 | Go To Quotation |
| rippling | Of water: that ripples; flowing in ripples. | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| rockweed | Seaweed; esp. a seaweed of the genus Fucus or the genus Sargassum, growing in… | 1599 | Go To Quotation |
| rottol | In some Middle Eastern and North African countries: a unit of weight used chiefly for… | 1583 | Go To Quotation |
| rouble | The principal monetary unit of Russia and some other former republics of the Soviet Union… | 1557 | Go To Quotation |
| rusk | Originally: bread or cake broken into small pieces and hardened by rebaking, esp. for… | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| sag | Naut. Movement or tendency to leeward. | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| santon | A European designation for a kind of monk or hermit among the Muslims, a marabout; also, incorrectly †a yogi, Hindu ascetic. | 1599 | Go To Quotation |
| sapota | The tree Achras Sapota and its fruit; = sapodilla n. 1 2; (see also quot. 1887). As modern… | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| sarcocolla | A sub-viscid gum-resin brought from Arabia and Persia (now Iran) in light yellow or red grains. | 1584 | Go To Quotation |
| sash | A band of a fine material worn twisted round the head as a turban in some Middle-Eastern countries. Obs. | 1599 | Go To Quotation |
| scaffmaster | A steward. | 1555 | Go To Quotation |
| scamato | Some kind of textile fabric. | 1569 | Go To Quotation |
| scuffe | (See quot. 1599.) | 1599 | Go To Quotation |
| sea-crow | A local name for various birds: (a) the cormorant, Phalacrocorax carbo; (a)… | 1579 | Go To Quotation |
| sea-room | Space at sea free from obstruction in which a ship can be manœuvred easily. Esp. in phr. to have… | 1553 | Go To Quotation |
| shah | A Persian title equivalent to ‘king’; in Europe the usual designation of the monarch of Persia (Iran), the padishah n. | 1566 | Go To Quotation |
| shahi | Originally: a small silver coin of Persia varying between 4 d. and 10 d.; (subsequently)… | 1566 | Go To Quotation |
| shuba | A fur gown or greatcoat. †Also, a piece of fur. | 1598 | Go To Quotation |
| soldo | An Italian coin and money of account, formerly the twentieth part of a lira. | 1599 | Go To Quotation |
| sombrero | An Oriental umbrella or parasol. Obs. | 1599 | Go To Quotation |
| south-easterly | In a south-easterly direction; towards the south-east. | 1600 | Go To Quotation |
| state house | A town or city hall, esp. in the Netherlands. Cf. stadthouse n. Obs. | 1586 | Go To Quotation |
| stern-post | A more or less upright beam, rising from the after end of the keel of a boat and… | 1580 | Go To Quotation |
| subashi | In the Ottoman Empire: an official, as a military commander, local governor, or constable. | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| sub-treasurer | An assistant or deputy treasurer; an official having charge of a sub-treasury. | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| talisman | A name formerly applied to a Turk learned in divinity and law, a Mullah; sometimes to… | 1599 | Go To Quotation |
| tan | = tan-vat n. | 1600 | Go To Quotation |
| Tangut | A people of north-western China and western Inner Mongolia who formed the independent… | 1598 | Go To Quotation |
| telega | A four-wheeled Russian cart, of rough construction, without springs. | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| tide-gate | = tideway n. | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| toman | A Persian gold coin issued until 1927, nominally worth 10 silver krans or 10,000 dinars… | 1566 | Go To Quotation |
| tomin | In Spain and Spanish America, the name of various small silver coins. | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| tornado | A term applied by 16th c. navigators to violent thunderstorms of the tropical… | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| tow | A rope used for towing, a tow-line. | 1600 | Go To Quotation |
| towardliness | Furtherance, advancement, promotion. | 1553 | Go To Quotation |
| town | To make into or constitute (a community) a town. | 1585 | Go To Quotation |
| truck | The action or practice of trucking; trading by exchange of commodities; barter. Often in truck (for, †of), by truck for. | 1553 | Go To Quotation |
| Turkesco | = Turkish adj. | 1584 | Go To Quotation |
| undermasted | (See quot. 1841.) | 1599 | Go To Quotation |
| undernamed | Named or specified below. | 1598 | Go To Quotation |
| under-sailed | (under- prefix 5a(a).) | 1599 | Go To Quotation |
| unhealthy | Of places, climate, etc.: Prejudicial or hurtful to health; insalubrious; unwholesome. | 1600 | Go To Quotation |
| unloaden | = unloaded adj. | 1579 | Go To Quotation |
| unreeve | trans. To withdraw (a rope, etc.) from being reeved. | 1600 | Go To Quotation |
| vale-water | Ebb-tide. | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| varelle | Anglicized form of prec. Obs. | 1599 | Go To Quotation |
| veedor | An official invested with inspecting or controlling power. | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| vice-king | One who rules as the representative of a king; a viceroy. Also attrib. | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| vintem | In the coinage of Portugal and countries subsequently colonized from there: A small silver… | 1584 | Go To Quotation |
| voivode | = vaivode n. | 1570 | Go To Quotation |
| warning-piece | A signal-gun discharged to give notification of arrival, danger, time, etc. | 1591 | Go To Quotation |
| weathermost | Furthest to windward. | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| well-experienced | | 1599 | Go To Quotation |
| werke | Honey-comb. | 1598 | Go To Quotation |
| west-south-westward | = west-south-west n. | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| white bear | = polar bear n. | 1600 | Go To Quotation |
| windwards | = windward n. | 1589 | Go To Quotation |
| yacht | A light fast-sailing ship, in early use esp. for the conveyance of royal or… | 1583 | Go To Quotation |