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From Complete Book of The Sailor's Word-Book: An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc.
By Unknown Author
SYPHERED. One edge of a plank overlapping that of another, so that both planks shall make a plane surface with their bevelled edges, though not a flat or square joint.
SYSTEM. The method of disposing the correlative parts of a fortification, proposed variously by many eminent engineers.
SYSTEM OF THE UNIVERSE. See Copernican System.
SYZIGEE. Either conjunction or opposition, in reference to the orbit of the moon.
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SYPHERED. One edge of a plank overlapping that of another, so that both planks shall make a plane surface with their bevelled edges, though not a flat or square joint.
SYSTEM. The method of disposing the correlative parts of a fortification, proposed variously by many eminent engineers.
SYSTEM OF THE UNIVERSE. See Copernican System.
SYZIGEE. Either conjunction or opposition, in reference to the orbit of the moon.