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nautical, a.|ˈnɔːtɪkəl|
Also 6 nawtical, 6–7 nauticall.
[f. prec. + -al1.]
1. Pertaining to seamen or to the art of navigation; naval, marine, maritime.
1552–[see below]. 1656Blount Glossogr., Nautical, belonging to ships or Marriners. 1796H. Hunter tr. St.-Pierre's Stud. Nat. (1799) III. 25 The fifth nautical proof of the elevation of the Poles above the Horizon. 1800Colquhoun Comm. Thames Pref., Those..concerned in Navigation and Commerce, and who follow Nautical Pursuits. 1834M. Scott Cruise Midge (1859) 325 My nautical enthusiasm fairly got the better of me. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. I. xxvi. 349 As to nautical rules, they do not fit the circumstances.
b. In special applications, as nautical almanac, nautical angle, nautical astronomy, nautical card, nautical compass, nautical day, nautical distance, nautical ephemeris, nautical indicator, nautical mile, nautical planisphere, nautical stars, nautical tables, etc. (see quots. and the various ns.).
1765in Naut. Almanac (1767) p. i, That it..may be lawful to and for the said Commissioners to cause such *Nautical Almanacks..to be constructed. 1796Hutton Math. Dict. s.v. Ephemeris, The Nautical Almanac,..published in England by the Board of Longitude. 1854Moseley Astron. lxxxviii. (ed. 4) 232 The Nautical Almanac for 1835 contained ephemerides of two of them.
1823Crabb Technol. Dict., *Nautical angle, an instrument by which a ship's departure, meridional difference, etc. are obtained from inspection.
1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 492 *Nautical Astronomy, that part of the celestial science which..relates to the purposes of navigation.
1700Moxon Math. Dict. 103 *Nautical Card, for Multiplication, Division and Extraction of Roots with much ease.
1552Huloet B iiij b, Anaximander..inuented the *Nauticall..compasse. 1605Camden Rem., Impresses 172 He elegantly shewed by whom he was drawne, which depainted the Nauticall compasse [etc.]. 1668Moxon Mech. Dyalling 8 A Card of the Nautical Compass.
1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 492 *Nautical Day. This day commences at noon, twelve hours before the civil day.
1855Ogilvie Suppl. s.v., The rhumb⁓line intercepted between any two places through which it passes, is called their *nautical distance.
1815J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 558 The exact times at which the eclipses of Jupiter's satellites will occur..are given..in the *nautical ephemeris.
1850Ogilvie, *Nautical indicator, an instrument for finding the latitude, longitude, and variation of the compass at sea.
1599E. Wright Errors Navig. ii. C 3 To shew by what kinde of proiection..the *nautical planisphere may..be conceiued to bee geometrically made. 1704J. Harris Lex. Techn. I, Nautical Planisphere, is a Description of the Terrestrial Globe upon a Plane, for the Use of Mariners.
1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 492 *Nautical Stars, about 72 of the brightest, which have been selected for determining the latitude or the longitude.
Ibid., *Nautical Tables, those especially computed for resolution of matters dependent on nautical astronomy, and navigation generally.
2. absol. A nautical person or writer.
1840Barham Ingol. Leg. Ser. i. Mr. Peters's Story ix, Sir E. Lytton Bulwer, who brought up the rear of the ‘Nauticals’. 1842Ibid. Ser. ii. Dead Drummer xiii, [He] Began ‘spinning’ what nauticals term a ‘tough yarn’.
Hence nautiˈcality, the quality of being nautical; ˈnautically adv., in a nautical fashion.
1835Marryat Jac. Faithf. xliv, You are very nautically poetical. 1887Theo. Gift Victims I. i. 5 [Dress] almost Parisian in its dainty nauticality. |