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Treble :: Treble (v. t.) To make thrice as much; to make threefold.

Augment :: Augment (v. t.) To enlarge or increase in size, amount, or degree; to swell; to make bigger; as, to augment an army by reeforcements; rain augments a stream; impatience augments an evil..

Ledge :: Ledge (n.) A shelf, ridge, or reef, of rocks..

Coral Fish :: Coral fish () Any bright-colored fish of the genera Chaetodon, Pomacentrus, Apogon, and related genera, which live among reef corals..

Reefing :: Reefing (n.) The process of taking in a reef.

Footrope :: Footrope (n.) The rope rigged below a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling; -- formerly called a horse..

Reefer :: Reefer (n.) A close-fitting lacket or short coat of thick cloth.

Breaker :: Breaker (n.) A wave breaking into foam against the shore, or against a sand bank, or a rock or reef near the surface..

Reefy :: Reefy (a.) Full of reefs or rocks.

Treefuls :: Treefuls (pl. ) of Treefu.

Tern :: Tern (a.) Threefold; triple; consisting of three; ternate.

Reefing :: Reefing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ree.

Judgment :: "Judgment (v. i.) That act of the mind by which two notions or ideas which are apprehended as distinct are compared for the purpose of ascertaining their agreement or disagreement. See 1. The comparison may be threefold: (1) Of individual objects forming a concept. (2) Of concepts giving what is technically called a judgment. (3) Of two judgments giving an inference. Judgments have been further classed as analytic, synthetic, and identical..

Earing :: Earing (n.) A line for hauling the reef cringle to the yard; -- also called reef earing.

Tridacna :: Tridacna (n.) A genus of very large marine bivalve shells found on the coral reefs of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. One species (T. gigas) often weighs four or five hundred pounds, and is sometimes used for baptismal fonts. Called also paw shell, and fountain shell..

Tri- :: Tri- () A prefix meaning three, thrice, threefold; as in tricolored, tridentate..

Reef :: Reef (v. t.) To reduce the extent of (as a sail) by roiling or folding a certain portion of it and making it fast to the yard or spar.

Treeful :: Treeful (n.) The quantity or number which fills a tree.

Porites :: Porites (n.) An important genus of reef-building corals having small twelve-rayed calicles, and a very porous coral. Some species are branched, others grow in large massive or globular forms..

Bagreef :: Bagreef (n.) The lower reef of fore and aft sails; also, the upper reef of topsails..

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