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Definition of Becalmed

Becalmed
Becalm Be*calm", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Becalmed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Becalming.] 1. To render calm or quiet; to calm; to still; to appease. Soft whispering airs . . . becalm the mind. --Philips. 2. To keep from motion, or stop the progress of, by the stilling of the wind; as, the fleet was becalmed.
Becalm
Becalm Be*calm", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Becalmed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Becalming.] 1. To render calm or quiet; to calm; to still; to appease. Soft whispering airs . . . becalm the mind. --Philips. 2. To keep from motion, or stop the progress of, by the stilling of the wind; as, the fleet was becalmed.

Meaning of Becalmed from wikipedia

- Look up becalmed in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Becalmed may refer to: En rade or Becalmed, an 1887 novel by Joris-Karl Huysmans "Becalmed", a song...
- canvas, Tate Britain Dort or Dordrecht: The Dort packet-boat from Rotterdam becalmed, 1818, oil on canvas, Yale Center for British Art The Field of Waterloo...
- continued the voyage with six apprentices and four tradesmen but became becalmed in the Java Sea for three days. In desperation as matters moved from bad...
- India in September. Early on the morning of September 8, as the ships laid becalmed near Dabul the sea began to boil and the vessels pitched and rocked violently...
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- skirting the so-called horse latitudes of the mid-Atlantic, he risked being becalmed and running into a tropical cyclone, both of which he avoided by chance...
- particular bridge in their song Jigsaw. ('We are renaissance children becalmed beneath the Bridge of Sighs'). Giles Corey, an American slowcore band,...
- sea-beasts. In the Odyssey, Menelaus relates to Telemachus that he had been becalmed here on his journey home from the Trojan War. He learned from Proteus's...
- it was a mechanical problem due to the pressure of Venus's atmosphere. "Becalmed in ****" was nominated for the 1965 Nebula Award for best short story....
- Endor****ts". The New York Times. Shales, Tom (26 March 2001). "'South Pacific': Becalmed but Benign". The Washington Post. Holston, Kim R.; Winchester, Tom (2018)...