ship 
gone far toward rendering this restricted application of the 
word of little value. Owing to increase of size, and espe- 
cially increase in length, some sailing vessels now have 
four masts, and this rig is said to have certain advantages. 
Until recent times wood, such as oak, pine, etc., was the 
material of which all ships were constructed, but it is being 
rapidly superseded by iron and steel ; and in Great Britain, 
which is the chief ship-building country in the world, the 
tonnage of the wooden vessels constructed is small com- 
pared with that of vessels built of iron. The first iron 
vessel classed at Lloyd's was built at Liverpool in 1838, but 
iron barges and small vessels had been constructed long 
before this. Four-masted vessels which are square-rigged 
on all four masts are c&lled four-masted ships ; those which 
have fore-and-aft sails on the after mast are called four- 
masted barks. .See also cuts under beam, 3, body-plan, 
counter, forebody, forecastle, keel, poop, and prow. 
Swithe go shape a shippe of shides and of bordes. 
Piers Plomnan (B), ix. 131. 
Simon espyed a ship of warre. 
The Noble Fisherman (Child's Ballads, V. 33-2). 
2f. Eccles., a vessel formed like the hull of a 
ship, in which incense was kept: same as navi- 
cula, 1. Tyndale. 
Aeerra, a schyp for censse. 
Nominate MS., xv. Cent. (Hallimll.) 
A ship, such as was used in the church to put frankin- 
cense in. Baret, 1580. (HaUiweU.) 
About ship! See ready about, under about, ode. Anno 
Domini ship, an old-fashioned whaling-vessel. [Slang.] 
Armed ship. See armed. Barbette Ship. See bar- 
bette. Flee snip, a neutral vessel. Formerly a piratical 
craft was called a free ship. Hamersly. General ship, 
a ship open generally for conveyance of goods, or one the 
owners or master of which have engaged separately with 
a number of persons unconnected with one another to 
convey their respective goods, as distinguished from one 
under charter to a particular person. Guinea ship, a 
sailors' name for Physolia pelaffica, a physophorous si- 
phonophorous hydromedusan, or jellyfish, better known 
as Portuguese man-of-war. See cut under Physalia. 
Merchant ship. See merchant. Necessaries of a 
ship. See necessary. Register ship. See reyisteri. 
Registration of British ships. See reyistration. Re- 
peating ship. Same as repeater, 6 (a). Ship of the 
line, before the adoption of steam navigation, a man-of- 
war large enough and of sufficient force to take a place in 
a line of battle. A modern vessel of corresponding class 
is known as a battle-ship. Ship's company. See com- 
pany. Ship's corporal. See corporal?, Ship's hus- 
band. See husband. Ship's papers, the papers or docu- 
ments required for the manifestation of the property of 
a ship and cargo. They are of two sorts namely, (I) 
those required by the law of a particular country, as the 
register, crew-list, shipping articles, etc., and (2) those re- 
quired by the law of nations to be on board neutral ships 
to vindicate their title to that character. Ship's regis- 
ter. See register!. Ship's Writer, a petty officer in the 
United States navy who, under the immediate direction of 
the executive officer, keeps the watch-muster, conduct, 
and other books of the ship. Sister ships. See sister^. 
The eyes of a ship. Sec /i. To bring a ship to 
anchor, to clear a ship for action, to drive a ship, 
to overhaul a ship, to prick the ship off, to pump 
ship, etc. See the verbs. To take ship, to embark. 
ship (ship), v. ; pret. and pp. shipped, ppr. ship- 
ping. [< ME. shipen, schipen, < AS. seipian = 
D. sehepen = MLG. sehepen = MHG. G. sehif- 
fen, ship, = Norw. skipa, skjepa, sksepa = Sw. 
skeppa = Dan. skibe, ship: see ship, n. Cf. 
equip.] I. trans. 1. To put or take on board 
a ship or vessel: as, to ship goods at Liverpool 
for New York. 
It was not thought safe to send him [Lord Bury] through 
the heart of Scotland ; so he was shipped at Inverness. 
Walpole, Letters, II. 18. 
The tane is shipped at the pier of Leith, 
The tother at the Queen's Ferrie. 
The Laird o' Logie (Child's Ballads, IV. 113). 
2. To send or convey by ship; transport by ship. 
This wicked emperor may have shipp'd her hence. 
Shak., Tit. And., iv. 3. 23. 
At night, I'll ship you both away to Ratcliff. 
B. Jonson, Alchemist, iv. 4. 
Hence 3. To deliver to a common carrier, 
forwarder, express company, etc., for transpor- 
tation, whether by land or water or both : as, to 
sliip by express, by railway, or by stage. [Com- 
mercial.] 4. To engage for service on board 
any vessel: as, to ship seamen. 5. To fix in 
proper place : as, to ship the oars, the tiller, or 
the rudder To ship a sea, to have a wave come aboard ; 
have the deck washed by a wave. To ship off to send 
away by water. 
They also [at Joppa] export great quantities of cotton 
in small boats to Acre, to be ship'd of tor other parts. 
Pococke, Description of the East, II. i. 3. 
To ship on a lay. See layi. TO ship one's self to 
embark. 
But, 'gainst th 1 Eternal], lonas shuts his eare, 
And ships himself to sail another- where. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Schisme. 
The next day, about eleven o'clock, our shallop came to 
us, and we shipped ourselves. 
Mourt's Journal, in Appendix to New England's Me- 
[morial, p. 350. 
To ship the oars. See oari. 
II. intrans. 1. To go on board a vessel to 
make a voyage ; take ship ; embark. 
Fii-ste, the Wednysday at nyght in Passyon weke that 
was ye .viij. day of Apryll in the .xxi. yere of the reygne 
5576 
of our soueraygne lord kynge Henry the .vij., the yere of 
our Lorde God ,M.D.vj., aboute .x. of y<- cloke the same 
nyght, we stnjpped at Rye in Sussex. 
Sir Ii. Guylforde, Pylgrymage, p. 3. 
2. To engage for service on board a ship. 
-ship. [< ME. -scliipe, -scliepe. -schupe, < AS. 
-scipe, -scype = OFTies. -skipe = OS. -scepi, rarely 
-caft = MD. -scap, D. -schtip = OHG. MHG. 
-isciif, also -scaft, G. -schaft = Icel. -nkupr = Sw. 
-skap = Dan. -skab (not found in Goth.) ; < AS. 
scapan, etc., E. shape. This suffix also occurs 
as -scape and -skip i n hi n dscapt, landskip,i[.\ w .] A 
common English suffix, which may be attached 
to any noun denoting a person or agent to de- 
note the state, office, dignity, profession, art, or 
proficiency of such person or agent: as, lord- 
ship, fellowship, friends/dp, elerk*Mp, steward- 
ship, horsemans/uj}, worship (orig. worthship), 
etc. 
ship-biscuit (ship 'bis "kit), n. Hard biscuit 
prepared for long keeping, and for use on board 
a ship ; hardtack. Also called pilot-bread. 
Ship-board (ship'bord), . [< ship + board, n., 
l.J A board or plank of a ship. 
They have made all thy ship-boards of fir-trees of Senir. 
Ezek. xxvii. 5. 
Shipboard (ship'bord), n. [< ME. schip-bord (= 
Icel. skipborth, skipsborth ; < ship + board, n., 
13.] The deck or side of a ship: used chiefly 
or only in the adverbial phrase OH shipboard": 
as, to go on shipboard or a-shipboard. 
Let him go on shipboard. Abp, Bramhall. 
They had not been a-shipboard above a day when they 
unluckily fell into the hands of an Algerine pirate. 
Addigon, Spectator, No. 198. 
ship-boat (ship'bot), . A ship's boat; a small 
boat. 
The greatest vessels cast anker, and conueighed al theyr 
vytailes and other necessaries to lande with theyr shippe 
boatfs. Peter Martyr (tr. in Eden's First Books on 
[America, ed. Arber, p. 111). 
The shipboat, striking against her ship, was over- 
whelmed. Milton, Hist. Moscovia, v. 
ship-borer (ship'b6r"er), n. A ship-worm. 
ship-borne (ship' born), a. Carried or trans- 
ported by ship. 
The market shall not be forestalled as to flap-borne 
goods. Enjlish Gads (E. E. T. S.), p. 342. 
ship-boy (ship'boi), . A boy who serves on 
board of a ship. 
ship-breacht (ship'brech), . [ME. shipbreclie, 
schipbruche; < ship + breach.] Shipwreck. 
Thries Y was at shipbreehe, a nyjht and a dai Y was in 
the depnesse of the see. Wyclif. 2 Cor. xi. 25. 
Ship-breaker ( ship'bra"Ker), n. A person whose 
occupation it is to break up vessels that are un- 
fit for sea. 
More fitted for the ship breaker's yard than to be sent 
to carry the British flag into foreign waters. 
Contemporary Rev., LI. 262. 
Shipbreakingt, . [ME. schyppbrel.-ynge ; < ship 
+ breaking.] Shipwreck. Prompt. Pan-., 
p. 446. 
shipbrokent, . [< ME.*schipbroken,schypbroke; 
<ship + broken.] Shipwrecked. Prompt. Pare., 
p. 446. 
All schipmen and marinaris allegeing thame selffls to 
be schipbrokin without they have sufficient testimonials, 
salbe takin, adjudged, estemit, and pwnist as strang beg- 
garris, and vagabundis. 
Scotch Laws, 1579, quoted in Rihton-Turner's Vagrants 
[and Vagrancy, p. 346. 
ship-broker (ship'bro'ker), n. 1. A mercan- 
tile agent who transacts the business for a ship 
when in port, as procuring cargo, etc., or who 
is engaged in buying and selling ships. 2. A 
broker who procures insurance on ships. 
ship-builder (ship'bil"der), n. One whose oc- 
cupation is the construction of ships; a naval 
architect ; a shipwright. 
ship-building (ship'bil"ding), n. Naval archi- 
tecture ; the art of constructing vessels for nav- 
igation, particularly ships and other large ves- 
sels carrying masts: in distinction from boa t- 
bnilding. 
ship-canal (ship'ka-nal"), n. A canal through 
which vessels of large size can pass ; a canal 
for sea-going vessels. 
Ship-captain (ship'kap"tan), n. The commander 
or master of a ship. See captain. 
ship-carpenter (ship'kar"pen-ter), n. A ship- 
wright ; a carpenter who works at ship-build- 
ing. 
ship-carver (ship'kar"ver), n. One who carves 
figureheads and other ornaments for ships. 
ship-chandler (ship'chand"ler), n. One who 
deals in cordage, canvas, and other furniture 
of ships. 
ship-money 
ship-chandlery (ship'chand"ler-i), H. The bus- 
iness and commodities of a ship-chandler. 
ship-deliverer (ship'df-liv'to-6r), . A person 
who contracts to unload a vessel. Siinniotids. 
shipen, . See shippen. 
ship-fever (ship'fe'ver). n. Typhus fever, as 
common on board crowded ships. See fever. 
shipful (ship'f ill), i/. [< ship + -fill.] As much 
or many as a ship will hold; enough to fill a 
ship. 
ship-holder (ship'hoT'der), . The owner of a 
ship or of shipping; a ship-owner. 
ship-jack (ship'jak), n. A compact and port- 
able form of hydraulic jack used for lifting 
ships and other heavy objects. A number of such 
jacks may be used in combination, according to the weight 
to be lifted. E. H. Kniijhl. 
Ship-keeper (sliip'ke'per), H. 1. A watchman 
employed to take care of a ship. 
If the captains from New Bedford think it policy to 
lower for whales, they leave the vessel in charge of a 
competent person, usually the cooper the office being 
known as ship-keeper. Fisheries of the U. S., V. ii. 222. 
2. An officer of a man-of-war who seldom goes 
on shore. 
shipless(ship'les), a. [< ship + -less.] Desti- 
tute of ships. 
While the lone shepherd, near the shiplfss main, 
Sees o'er the hills advance the long-drawn funeral train. 
Rogers, Ode to Superstition. 
shiplett (ship'let), H. [< ship + -let.] A little 
ship. 
They go to the sea betwixt two hits, whereof that on 
the one side lieth out like an arme or cape, and maketh 
the fashion of an hauenet or peere, whither shiplete some- 
time doo resort for succour. 
Harrison, Descrip. of Britain, vi. (Holinshed's Chron.). 
Ship-letter (ship'lef'er), H. A letter sent by a 
vessel which does not carry mail, 
ship-load (ship'lod), w. A cargo; as much in 
quantity or weight as can be stowed in a ship, 
shipman (ship'man), .; pi. shipmen (-men). 
[< ME. shipman, schipman (pi. shipmen, ssipmen), 
< AS. scipmann (= Icel. skipiuathr, skipamathr), 
< scip, ship, + man, man.] 1. A seaman or 
sailor; a mariner. 
And the Schipwen tolde us that alle that was of 
Schippes that weren drawen thidre be the Adamauntes, 
for the Iren that was in hem. Mandeville, Travels, p. 271. 
The dreadful spout 
Which shipmen do the hurricane call. 
Shale., T. and C., v. 2. 172. 
2f. The master of a ship. Chaucer Shipman's 
cardt, a chart. 
Shypmans carde, carte. Palsgrave. 
All the quarters that they [the winds] know 
I' the shipman's card. Shak., Macbeth, i. 3. 17. 
Shipman's stonet, a lodestone. 
Aftre that men taken the Ademand, that is the Schip- 
manties Stan, that drawethe the Xedle to him. 
Mandeville, Travels, p. 161. 
shipmaster (ship'mas"ter), n. [< ME. schi/p- 
mayster; < ship + master 1 .] The captain, mas- 
ter, or commander of a ship. 
The shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What 
meanest thou, O sleeper? Jonah i. 6. 
shipmate (ship'mat), n. [< ship + mate*.] 
One who serves in the same vessel with another ; 
a fellow-sailor. 
Whoever falls in with him will find a handsome, hearty 
fellow, and a good shipmate. 
R. H. Dana, Jr., Before the Mast, p. 96. 
shipment (ship'ment), 11. [< ship + -ment.] 
1. The act of despatching or shipping; espe- 
cially, the putting of goods or passengers on 
board ship for transportation by water : as, in- 
voices visaed at the port of shipment; goods 
jeady for shipment. 2. A quantity of goods 
delivered at one time for transportation, or con- 
veyed at one time, whether by sea or by land ; 
a consignment : as, large shipments of rails have 
been sent to South America. 
ship-money (ship'mun"i), . In old Eng. law, 
a charge or tax imposed by the king upon sea- 
ports and trading-towns, requiring them to 
provide and furnish war-ships, or to pay money 
for that purpose. It fell into disuse, and was included 
in the Petition of Right as a wrong to be discontinued. 
The attempt to revive it met with strong opposition, 
and was one of the proximate causes of the Great Rebel- 
lion. It was abolished by statute, 16 Charles I., c. 14 
(1640), which enacted the strict observance of the Petition 
of Right. 
Mr. Noy brought in Ship-money first for Maritime 
Towns. Selden, Table-Talk, p. 107. 
Thousands and tens of thousands among his [Milton's] 
contemporaries raised their voices against Ship-money 
and the Star-chamber. Macatday, Milton. 
Case of ship-money, the case of the King . John 
Hampden, before the Star Chamber in 1C37 (3 How. St. Tr., 
825), for resisting the collection of a tax called ship- 
