1. [n]  
2. [v]  travel by ship
3. [v]  transport commercially
4. [v]  go on board
5. [v]  hire for work on a ship

Ship
Two fictional stories based on factual information about a sailing ship that sank in the Caribbean. The first account describes modern-day attempts to retrieve treasures and artifacts from the sunken vessel. The second tells of how the ship was financed, built, and launched in 1405. B&w; drawings and watercolor paintings in blue and brown accompany the text.

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1. \-ship\ [OE. -schipe, AS. -scipe; akin to OFries. -skipe,
   OLG. -skepi, D. -schap, OHG. -scaf, G. -schaft. Cf. {Shape},
   n., and {Landscape}.]
   A suffix denoting state, office, dignity, profession, or art;
   as in lordship, friendship, chancellorship, stewardship,
   horsemanship.
   

2. \Ship\, n. [AS. scipe.]
   Pay; reward. [Obs.]
         In withholding or abridging of the ship or the hire or
         the wages of servants.                   --Chaucer.
   

3. \Ship\, n. [OE. ship, schip, AS. scip; akin to OFries.
   skip, OS. scip, D. schip, G. schiff, OHG. scif, Dan. skib,
   Sw. skeep, Icel. & Goth. skip; of unknown origin. Cf.
   {Equip}, {Skiff}, {Skipper}.]
   1. Any large seagoing vessel.
            Like a stately ship . . . With all her bravery on,
            and tackle trim, Sails filled, and streamers waving.
                                                  --Milton.
            Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State!  --Longfellow.
   2. Specifically, a vessel furnished with a bowsprit and three
      masts (a mainmast, a foremast, and a mizzenmast), each of
      which is composed of a lower mast, a topmast, and a
      topgallant mast, and square-rigged on all masts. See
      Illustation in Appendix.
   

4. \Ship\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shipped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Shipping}.]
   1. To put on board of a ship, or vessel of any kind, for
      transportation; to send by water.
            The timber was . . . shipped in the bay of Attalia,
            from whence it was by sea transported to Pelusium.
                                                  --Knolles.
   2. By extension, in commercial usage, to commit to any
      conveyance for transportation to a distance; as, to ship
      freight by railroad.
   3. Hence, to send away; to get rid of. [Colloq.]
   4. To engage or secure for service on board of a ship; as, to
      ship seamen.
   5. To receive on board ship; as, to ship a sea.
   6. To put in its place; as, to ship the tiller or rudder.
   

5. \Ship\, v. i.
   1. To engage to serve on board of a vessel; as, to ship on a
      man-of-war.
   2. To embark on a ship. --Wyclif (Acts xxviii. 11)