EXPLOITING. Transporting trees or timber by a river. Exploit was an old verb meaning to perform. EXPLORATOR. An examiner of a country. A scout. EXPORT, TO. To send goods or commodities out of a country, for the purposes of traffic, under the general name of exports. EXPORTATION. The act of sending exports to foreign parts. EXPORTER. The person who sends the exports abroad. EXPOSED ANCHORAGE. An open and dangerous place, by reason of the elements or the enemy. EXTERIOR SIDE. The side of an imaginary polygon, upon which the plan of a fortification is constructed. EXTERIOR SLOPE. In fortification, that slope of a work towards the country which is next outward beyond its superior slope. EXTERNAL CONTACT. In a transit of Mercury or Venus over the sun's disc, this expression means the first touch of the planet's and sun's edges, before any part of the former is projected on the disc of the luminary. EXTRAORDINARIES. Contingent expenses. EXTREME BREADTH. The extent of the midships, or dead flat, with the thickness of the bottom plank included. EXTREMITIES. The stem and stern posts of a ship. EY. _See_ EYGHT. EYE. The circular loop of a shroud or stay where it goes over the mast.--_To eye_, to observe minutely.--_Flemish eye_, a phrase particularly applied to the eye of a stay, which is either formed at the making of the rope; or by dividing the yarns into two equal parts, knotting each pair separately, and pointing the whole over after parcelling. This eye stopped by the mouse forms the collar. It is not strong, soon rots, and seldom, if ever, used now where strength is of more importance than neatness. EYE-BOLTS. Those which have an eye or opening in one end, for hooking tackles to, or fastening ropes. EYELET-HOLES, are necessary in order to bend a sail to its yard or boom, or to reef it; they consist of round holes worked in a sail to admit a cringle or small rope through, chiefly the robands (or rope-bands), and the points of the reef-line. (_See_ SAIL.) EYE OF A BLOCK-STROP. That part by which it is fastened or suspended to any particular place upon the sails, masts, or rigging; the eye is sometimes formed by making two eye-splices, termed lashing eyes, on the ends of the strop, and then seizing them together with a small line, so as to bind both round a mast, yard, or boom, as is deemed necessary. EYE OF AN ANCHOR. The hole in the shank wherein the ring is fixed. EYE OF A STAY. That part of a stay which is formed into a sort of collar to go round the mast-head; the eye and mouse form the collar. EYE OF THE WIND. The direction to windward from whence it blows. (_See_ WIND'S-EYE.) EYE-SHOT. Within sight. EYES OF A MESSENGER. Eyes spliced in its ends to lash together. EYES OF A SHIP. (_See_ EYES OF HER.)