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A rope fastened near the middle of the leech or perpendicular edge of the square sails, by subordinate ropes, called bridles, and used to keep the weather edge of the sail tight forward, when the ship is closehauled.

• Weather-driven
  Driven by winds or storms; forced by stress of weather.
• MIDDLEGROUND
  That part of a picture between the foreground and the background.
• Calligraphy
  Fair or elegant penmanship.
• Forwardness
  The quality of being forward; cheerful readiness; promtness; as, the forwardness of Christians in propagating the gospel.
• Perpendicularly
  In a perpendicular manner; vertically.
• Tighter
  A ribbon or string used to draw clothes closer.
• Weather-fend
  To defend from the weather; to shelter.
• ROPESEND
  To punish with a rope's end.
• Calliope
  The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses.
• Callous
  Hardened; indurated.
• Tightly
  In a tight manner; closely; nearly.
• Weatherglass
  An instrument to indicate the state of the atmosphere, especially changes of atmospheric pressure, and hence changes of weather, as a barometer or baroscope.
• SQUARERIGGED
  Having the sails extended upon yards suspended horizontally by the middle, as distinguished from fore-and-aft sails; thus, a ship and a brig are square-rigged vessels.
• Calliopsis
  A popular name given to a few species of the genus Coreopsis, especially to C. tinctoria of Arkansas.
• Leeched
  of Leech

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