Definition of "nautics" [nautics]

• The art or science of navigation. (noun)
• Aquatic sports and exercises. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "During the short flight to Virginia the two Germans reminded Mott of the extraordinary group of people he was about to meet: "The National Advisory Committee for Aero-nautics"NACA, with each letter pronounced-is like nothing else in America."
• ""I suppose this will end up in the museum of Astro - nautics, when they decide where they're going to build it," he remarked."
• "He is evidently an actual, real water sailor who learned his nautics within the smell of bilgewater and the open sea."