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n. Clearance granted to a ship to proceed into port after compliance with health regulations or quarantine.

n. Permission to use a port given to a ship after compliance with a quarantine or on conviction that she is free of contagious disease.

n. practice; habits

n. Primarily, liberty of converse; intercourse; hence, a certificate, given after compliance with quarantine regulations, permitting a ship to land passengers and crew; -- a term used particularly in the south of Europe.

n. Practice; habits.

n. In com., intercourse; the communication between a ship and the port in which she arrives; hence, a license or permission to hold intercourse and trade with the inhabitants of a place, especially after quarantine, or certificate of non-infectiveness.

n. Experience; practice.

"Ordinary preventive measures went no further than the withdrawal of "pratique," as communication with the shore was called, for a period varying usually from ten to sixty-five days, and during this period no gang was allowed to board the ship."

intercourse    practice    habits   

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