A tie-wig is a court wig tied
with ribbon at the bag.
Winds. The tradewinds are winds which blow all the year through on the
open ocean in and near the torrid zone. In the northern hemisphere they
blow from the north-east, in the southern from the south-east. The
regularity of the tradewind is interfered with by the neighbourhood of
large land masses. Their temperature varies much more with the change of
seasons than that of the ocean; and this variation produces a change in
the direction of the tradewind in the hot season, corresponding distantly
to a phenomenon which may be observed, daily instead of half-yearly, on
the English coast in hot summer weather, when a sea breeze blows during
the day and a land breeze at night. In the northern hemisphere the
monsoon--as this periodic wind is called--blows from the south-west (i.e.
towards the heated continent of South Asia) from April to October, and
from the north-east, as the ordinary trade wind, during the rest of the
year.
Works, upper. The sides of a vessel's hull from the water-line to the
covering board.
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