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FRI1DAY, n., tbe sixth day of the week. A.S. Friged g, from Friga, the wife of the god Woden and mother of 1'hor, om whom Wed nesday-Wodnesd g-anJ Thnr day- rsd g,-are respective ly named. Similarly, Saturday was named om Seater, the Satur of the Saxons; Sunday, om the Sun; Monday, om the Moon; and Tuesday, om Tuesco, a divinity worshipped in the north of Europe.
Ho,\R'Y, a., white, whitish; om the A.S, harian, to wax gray or hoary.
Fo TIFICA1TIONS, n., places built r strength. F.forti cations. See "Forti ed," p. 82.
B1L'Lows, n., swollen waves; om the Gothic b1dgia, to bulge out,
LAR1BOA D, n., the left hand side of the ship, when one stands with his ce to the prow or head. Lar may he a contraction of laveer, om laveren, D., to go obliquely, to catch the wind ;-and that side is so called, because it laveers, or lies obliquely; in reference to the opposite side, or starboard.
S ALLS, n., howling, roaring gusts of wind :-a squall differs om a gale in the suddenness of its beginning, and the shortness of its continuance. Swed. squ la, om giellan (A.S.), to howl.
STERN, n., that by which the ship is moved, guided, or steered. A.S. stearn, that which is steren, or stirred.
CoNSI NEE1, n., the agent or commissioner; om consigner, F., to give anything rmally signed to another's custody; or simply to com mit, to entrust. See "Resignation," p. 100.
1. Turs island is one of the most windward or eastern of the est India Islands ; and in that group, which, by the French, are styled the nti es. This (Basseterre) is the seat of government; its port, if it may be so called, is but an open road in the Caribbean Sea, the water of which is beauti lly clear. e are, as you may observe by the map, a little lower than the sixteenth degree of latitude, on the south-western side of the island. The town is small; the number of the inhabitants is between ve and six thousand: it contains a poor rt and good barracks, and an excellent hospital, served by Sisters of Charity. It is the residence of the governor of Guadaloupe and its dependencies; that is, Guada loupe and Grandeterre, which appear on our maps as one island; :Marie-Galante, Deseada, Petite-terre, and rther west, a small cluster round two.islands,
