Mizzen
- n. The hindmost of the fore and aft sails of a three-masted vessel; also, the spanker.
- a. Hindmost; nearest the stern; as, the mizzen shrouds, sails, etc.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.