Within the navel of this hideous wood, Immured in cypress shades, a
sorcerer dwells.
Milton.
3. (Gun.) An eye on the under side of a carronade for securing it to a
carriage.
Navel gall, a bruise on the top of the chine of the back of a horse,
behind the saddle. Johnson. -- Navel point. (Her.) Same as Nombril.
Na"vel-string` (?), n. The umbilical cord.
Na"vel*wort` (?), n. (Bot.) A European perennial succulent herb
(Cotyledon umbilicus), having round, peltate leaves with a central
depression; -- also called pennywort, and kidneywort.
Na"vew (?), n. [OE. navel, naveau, a dim. fr. L. napus navew. Cf.
Napiform.] (Bot.) A kind of small turnip, a variety of Brassica
campestris. See Brassica. [Writen also naphew.]
Na*vic"u*lar (?), a. [L. navicularius, fr. navicula, dim. of navis
ship: cf. F. naviculaire.] 1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a boat
or ship.
2. Shaped like a boat; cymbiform; scaphoid; as, the navicular glumes of
most grasses; the navicular bone.
Navicular bone. (Anat.) (a) One of the middle bones of the tarsus,
corresponding to the centrale; -- called also scaphoid. (b) A proximal
bone on the radial side of the carpus; the scaphoid. -- Navicular
disease (Far.), a disease affecting the navicular bone, or the adjacent
parts, in a horse's foot.
Na*vic"u*lar, n. (Anat.) The navicular bone.
Nav`i*ga*bil"i*ty (?), n. [Cf. F. navigabilité.] The quality or
condition of being navigable; navigableness.
Nav"i*ga*ble (?), a. [L. navigabilis: cf. F. navigable. See Navigate.]
Capable of being navigated; deep enough and wide enough to afford
passage to vessels; as, a navigable river.
By the common law, a river is considered as navigable only so far as
the tide ebbs and flows in it. This is also the doctrine in several of
the United States. In other States, the doctrine of the civil law
prevails, which is, that a navigable river is a river capable of being
navigated, in the common sense of the term. Kent. Burrill.
-- Nav"i*ga*ble*ness, n. -- Nav"i*ga*bly, adv.
Nav"i*gate (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Navigated (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Navigating.] [L. navigatus, p. p. of navigare, v.t. & i.; navis ship +
agere to move, direct. See Nave, and Agent.] To journey by water; to go
in a vessel or ship; to perform the duties of a navigator; to use the
waters as a highway or channel for commerce or communication; to sail.
The Phenicians navigated to the extremities of the Western Ocean.
Arbuthnot.
Nav"i*gate, v. t. 1. To pass over in ships; to sail over or on; as, to
navigate the Atlantic.
2. To steer, direct, or manage in sailing; to conduct (ships) upon the
water by the art or skill of seamen; as, to navigate a ship.
Nav`i*ga"tion (?), n. [L. navigatio: cf. F. navigation.] 1. The act of
navigating; the act of passing on water in ships or other vessels; the
state of being navigable.
2. (a) the science or art of conducting ships or vessels from one place
to another, including, more especially, the method of determining a
ship's position, course, distance passed over, etc., on the surface of
the globe, by the principles of geometry and astronomy. (b) The
management of sails, rudder, etc.; the mechanics of traveling by water;
seamanship.