EDDY-WIND. That which is beat back, or returns, from a sail, bluff hill, or anything which impedes its passage; in other words, whenever the edges or veins of two currents of air, coming from opposite directions, meet, they form an eddy, or _whirlwind_ (which see). They are felt generally near high coasts intersected by ravines. The eddy-wind of a sail escaping, in a curve, makes the sail abaft shiver. EDGE AWAY, TO. To decline gradually from the course which the ship formerly steered, by sailing larger, or more off, or more away from before the wind than she had done before. EDGE DOWN, TO. To approach any object in an oblique direction. EDGING OF PLANK. Sawing or hewing it narrower. EDUCTION PIPE. A pipe leading from the bottom of a steam-cylinder to the upper part of the condenser in a steam-engine. EEAST. The Erse term for a fish, still used in the Isle of Man. EEKING. _See_ EKEING. EEL. A well-known fish (_Anguilla vulgaris_), of elongated form, common in rivers and estuaries, and esteemed for food. EELER. An adept at knowing the haunts and habits of eels, and the methods of taking them. EEL-FARES. A fry or brood of eels. EEL-GRASS. A name for the sea-wrack (_Zostera marina_); it is thrown ashore by the sea in large quantities. EEL-POUT. A name for the burbot (_Molva lota_), a fresh-water fish. EEL-SKUYT. _See_ DUTCH EEL-SKUYT. EEL-SPEAR. A sort of trident with ten points for catching eels, called in Lincolnshire an _eel-stang_. EFFECTIVE. Efficient, fit for service; it also means the being present and at duty. EFFECTS. Personal property; sale of effects; or the auction of the property of deceased officers and seamen: "The _effects_ of that sail Will be a sale of _effects_." EFFLUENT, OR DIVERGENT, applied to any stream which runs out of a lake, or out of another river. All tributaries are affluents. EGG, TO. To instigate, incite, provoke, to urge on: from the Anglo-Saxon _eggion_. EGGS. These nutritious articles of food might be used longer at sea than is usual. The shell of the egg abounds with small pores, through which the aqueous part of the albumen constantly exhales, and the egg in consequence daily becomes lighter, and approaches its decomposition. Reaumur varnished them all over, and thus preserved eggs fresh for two years; then carefully removing the varnish, he found that such eggs were still capable of producing chickens. Some employ, with the same intention, lard or other fatty substance for closing the pores, and others simply immerse the egg for an instant in boiling water, by which its albumen is in part coagulated, and the power of exhalation thereby checked. Eggs packed in lime-water suffered to drain, have after three years' absence in the West Indies been found good; this does not destroy vitality. EGMONT, OR PORT EGMONT FOWLS. The large Antarctic gulls with dark-brown plumage, called _shoemakers_.