Blowe.
Every man knowes when the wind blowes: but there are some speeches used at Sea, which are not generally understood, as the wind blowes-home, or blowes through; That is, when the wind doth not cease, or grow lesse, till it comes past that place: Also, blow through, is sometimes used, when they think the wind will be so great, that it will blow asunder the sayles, In some places, (as I have seene at Santa Cray in Barbarie,) the wind being right-off the Sea, and a fresh gale, as much as we could beare out top-sayles, when we came within lesse then a League of the Roade, we had little or no wind at all, and it is in∣fallibly ever so. The naturall cause whereof, I could never find out: for it cannot be the height of the land, since all that Bay is low land, on∣ly the Cape which is not very high; and we know that at the Peekes of Tenneriff and Fyall (which are the highest Lands in all the world) it doth the contrary. Nor can it be the heate of the Land, which should duller the wind, for this happens there in the winter also, and besides we see the contrary in hotter Countries, when a wind increases so much that they cannot beare any top-sayles, then they use to say, that they were blowne into their courses, (that is,) could only have out those sayles. It blowes hard, fresh, stiffe, high; all words easily known when they expresse an extraordinary wind, they say, it will blow the sayle out of the Bolt-roapes: If the touch-hole of a Peece be gulld, much powder will flame out, and that is also called blowing.