Sail
King James Dictionary [1]
SAIL, n. L. sal, salt.
1. In navigation, a spread of canvas, or an assemblage of several breadths of canvas, or some substitute for it, sewed together with a double seam at the borders, and edged with a cord called the bolt-rope, to be extended on the masts or yards for receiving the impulse of wind by which a ship is driven. The principal sails are the courses or lower salts, the top-sails and top-gallant-sails. 2. In poetry, wings. 3. A ship or other vessel used in the singular for a single ship, or as a collective name for many. We saw a sail at the leeward. We saw three sail on our star-board quarter. The fleet consists of twenty sail.
To loose sails, to unfurl them.
To make sail, to extend an additional quantity of sail.
To set sail, to expand or spread the sails and hence to begin a voyage.
To shorten sail, to reduce the extent of sail, or take in a part.
1. To strike sail, to lower the sails suddenly, as in saluting or in sudden gusts of wind. 2. To bate show or pomp.
SAIL,
1. To be impelled or driven forward by the action of wind upon sails, as a ship on water. A ship sails from New York for Liverpool. She sails ten knots an hour. She sails well close-hauled. 2. To be conveyed in a vessel on water to pass by water. We sailed from London to Canton. 3. To swim.
Little dolphins, when they sail in the vast shadow of the British whale.
4. To set sail to begin a voyage. We sailed from New York for Havre, June 15,1824. We sailed from Cowes for New York, May 10,1825. 5. To be carried in the air, as a balloon. 6. To pass smoothly along.
As is a wing'd messenger from heaven, when he bestrides the lazy pacing clouds, and sails upon the bosom of the air.
7. To fly without striking with the wings.
SAIL,
1. To pass or move upon in a ship, by means of sails.
A thousand ships were mann'd to sail the sea.
This use is elliptical, on or over being omitted.
2. To fly through
Sublime she sails th' aerial space, and mounts the winged gales.
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): ( n.) A sailing vessel; a vessel of any kind; a craft.
(2): ( n.) To move through or on the water; to swim, as a fish or a water fowl.
(3): ( n.) An extent of canvas or other fabric by means of which the wind is made serviceable as a power for propelling vessels through the water.
(4): ( n.) Anything resembling a sail, or regarded as a sail.
(5): ( n.) A wing; a van.
(6): ( n.) The extended surface of the arm of a windmill.
(7): ( n.) To set sail; to begin a voyage.
(8): ( n.) A passage by a sailing vessel; a journey or excursion upon the water.
(9): ( n.) To move smoothly through the air; to glide through the air without apparent exertion, as a bird.
(10): ( n.) To be impelled or driven forward by the action of wind upon sails, as a ship on water; to be impelled on a body of water by the action of steam or other power.
(11): ( v. t.) To pass or move upon, as in a ship, by means of sails; hence, to move or journey upon (the water) by means of steam or other force.
(12): ( n.) To be conveyed in a vessel on water; to pass by water; as, they sailed from London to Canton.
(13): ( v. t.) To fly through; to glide or move smoothly through.
(14): ( v. t.) To direct or manage the motion of, as a vessel; as, to sail one's own ship.
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types [3]
Isaiah 33:23 (b) It indicates that Zion had failed to take advantage of GOD's provisions to make progress over the sea of life and the ocean of time. Therefore, she had not progressed as she should have.
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [4]
Acts 27:17
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [5]
is the incorrect rendering in the passages Isaiah 33:23; Ezekiel 27:7, of the Hebrew נֵס , Nes, usually a Standard Or Flag-Staff, and in the passages in question a Flag of a ship. In Acts 27:17 it stands vaguely for Σκεῦος (a Vessel or Implement of any kind), which there designates the Tackling, or sailing apparatus in general of a ship. (See Mainsail).
