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Home Dictionary Name: gulfIngulf
To swallow up or overwhelm in or as in a gulf to cast into a gulf See Engulf...
Sargasso
The gulf weed See under Gulf...
Sea grape
The gulf weed See under Gulf...
Registry of ships
Registry of ships. The registry of ships appears to have been introduced into this country by the (English) Navigation Act (12 Car. 2, c. 18, A.D. 1660); several provisions were made with respect to it by 7 & 8 Wm. 3, c. 22, and the whole was reduced into a system by the 27 Geo. 3, c. 19. It is now provided for by Part I. of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 60), Chit. Stat., tit. 'Shipping,' by which (s. 2) every British ship must be registered under the Act, except (s. 3) 'ships not exceeding fifteen tons burden employed solely in navigation on the rivers or coasts of the United Kingdom, or on the rivers or coasts of some British possession within which the managing owners of the ships are resident,' and 'ships not exceeding thirty tons burden, and not having a whole or fixed deck and employed solely in fishing or trading coastwise on the shores of Newfoundland or parts adjacent thereto, or in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, or on such portions of the coasts of Canada as ...
Bahrain
an island in the Persian Gulf...
Bahrein
an island in the Persian Gulf same as Bahrain...
Bayou
An inlet from the Gulf of Mexico from a lake or from a large river sometimes sluggish sometimes without perceptible movement except from tide and wind...
Bothnian
Of or pertaining to Bothnia a country of northern Europe or to a gulf of the same name which forms the northern part of the Baltic sea...
Brazos
a North American river flowing into the Gulf of Mexico...
Bull brier
A species of Smilax Smilax Pseudo China growing from New Jersey to the Gulf of Mexico which has very large tuberous and farinaceous rootstocks formerly used by the Indians for a sort of bread and by the negroes as an ingredient in making beer called also bamboo brier and China brier...
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