Word Meanings - MORASSY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Marshy; fenny. Pennant.

MARSHY
1. Resembling a marsh; wet; boggy; fenny. 2. Pertaining to, or produced in, marshes; as, a marshy weed. Dryden.
PENNANT
A small flag; a pennon. The narrow, or long, pennant (called also whip or coach whip) is a long, narrow piece of bunting, carried at the masthead of a government vessel in commission. The board pennant is an oblong, nearly square flag, carried
FENNY
Pertaining to, or inhabiting, a fen; abounding in fens; swampy; boggy. "Fenny snake." Shak.
CONVOY PENNANT
Forward on all vessels on convoy duty. Alone by a senior officer present during evolutions or drills, when it commands "Silence." Over a signal number, when it refers to the signal number of an officer in the Annual Navy Register.