n. [ A different orthography of bulge, of same origin as belly. Cf. Belly, Bulge. ] 1. The protuberant part of a cask, which is usually in the middle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) That part of a ship's hull or bottom which is broadest and most nearly flat, and on which she would rest if aground. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Bilge water. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bilge free (Naut.), stowed in such a way that the bilge is clear of everything; -- said of a cask. --
Bilge pump, a pump to draw the bilge water from the gold of a ship. --
Bilge water (Naut.), water which collects in the bilge or bottom of a ship or other vessel. It is often allowed to remain till it becomes very offensive. --
Bilge ways, the timbers which support the cradle of a ship upon the ways, and which slide upon the launching ways in launching the vessel. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Bilged p. pr. & vb. n. Bilging. ] 1. (Naut.) To suffer a fracture in the bilge; to spring a leak by a fracture in the bilge. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To bulge. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. (Naut.) To fracture the bilge of, or stave in the bottom of (a ship or other vessel). [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cause to bulge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. in a vessel with two hulls, an enclosed area between the frames at each side. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Having the smell of bilge water. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. 1. (Sumerian mythology) A legendary king of Sumeria and the hero of famous Sumerian and Babylonian epics. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. The Epic of Gilgamesh, a long Babylonian epic written in cuneiform in the Sumerian language on clay tablets. Early versions of the written story date from 2000 B. C.; it is probably the first written story still in existence. A longer version was written in the Akkadian language, on 12 clay tablets found at Nineveh in the ruins of the library of Ashurbanipal, king of Assyria from 669 to 633 B. C. The story depicted the life and heroic deeds of the legendary Gilgamesh, apparently derived from stories about a real king of ancient Mesopotamia who lived around 2700 B. C. The story includes a tale of a great flood, which has some parallels to the biblical story of the flood survived by Noah. The Nineveh tablets name the author of that version of the story, a Shin-eqi-unninni. [ PJC ]

☞ The entire text may be found in:
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Translated by Maureen Gallery Kovacs
(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990)

and

Gilgamesh
Translated by John Maier and John Gardner
(New York: Vintage Press, 1981)

n. (Zool.) see Nylghau. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Etymol. uncertain. ] One who has lost his hair by disease; a sneaking fellow, or one who is hardly used. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. pilgrim, pelgrim, pilegrim, pelegrim; cf. D. pelgrim, OHG. piligrīm, G. pilger, F. pèlerin, It. pellegrino; all fr. L. peregrinus a foreigner, fr. pereger abroad; per through + ager land, field. See Per-, and Acre, and cf. Pelerine, Peregrine. ] 1. A wayfarer; a wanderer; a traveler; a stranger. [ 1913 Webster ]

Strangers and pilgrims on the earth. Heb. xi. 13. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who travels far, or in strange lands, to visit some holy place or shrine as a devotee; as, a pilgrim to Loretto; Canterbury pilgrims. See Palmer. P. Plowman. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to a pilgrim, or pilgrims; making pilgrimages. “With pilgrim steps.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pilgrim fathers, a name popularly given to the one hundred and two English colonists who landed from the Mayflower and made the first settlement in New England at Plymouth in 1620. They were separatists from the Church of England, and most of them had sojourned in Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To journey; to wander; to ramble. [ R. ] Grew. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. pilgrimage, pelgrinage; cf. F. pèlerinage. ] 1. The journey of a pilgrim; a long journey; especially, a journey to a shrine or other sacred place. Fig., the journey of human life. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The days of the years of my pilgrimage. Gen. xlvii. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A tedious and wearisome time. [ 1913 Webster ]

In prison hast thou spent a pilgrimage. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Journey; tour; excursion. See Journey. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To wander as a pilgrim; to go on a pilgrimage. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Formerly, a small swab for drying a vessel's deck; now, a kind of scraper having a blade or edge of rubber or of leather, -- used for removing superfluous water or other liquids, as from a vessel's deck after washing, from window panes, photographer's plates, etc. [ Written also squillgee, squillagee, squeegee. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Squilgeed p. pr. & vb. n. Squilgeeing. ] To swab, press, or treat with a squilgee; as, to squilgee a vessel's deck. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]