Word Meanings - AERONAUTICS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The science or art of ascending and sailing in the air, as by means of a balloon; aërial navigation; ballooning.

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• SAILBOAT
  A boat propelled by a sail or sails.
• SAILCLOTH
  Duck or canvas used in making sails.
• ASCENDANCY; ASCENDANCE
  See ASCENDENCY
• BALLOONED
  Swelled out like a balloon.
• BALLOONING SPIDER
  A spider which has the habit of rising into the air. Many kinds do this while young by ejecting threads of silk until the force of the wind upon them carries the spider aloft.
• SAILOR
  One who follows the business of navigating ships or other vessels; one who understands the practical management of ships; one of the crew of a vessel; a mariner; a common seaman. Syn. -- Mariner; seaman; seafarer. Sailor's choice. An excellent
• SAILABLE
  Capable of being sailed over; navigable; as, a sailable river.
• ASCENDENCY
  Governing or controlling influence; domination; power. An undisputed ascendency. Macaulay. Custom has an ascendency over the understanding. Watts. Syn. -- Control; authority; influence; sway; dominion; prevalence; domination.
• SAILMAKER
  One whose occupation is to make or repair sails. -- Sail"mak`ing, n.
• ASCENDIBLE
  Capable of being ascended; climbable.
• BALLOONING
  The process of temporarily raising the value of a stock, as by fictitious sales. (more info) 1. The art or practice of managing balloons or voyaging in them.
• BALLOON FISH
  A fish of the genus Diodon or the genus Tetraodon, having the power of distending its body by taking air or water into its dilatable esophagus. See Globefish, and Bur fish.
• SAIL
  1. An extent of canvas or other fabric by means of which the wind is made serviceable as a power for propelling vessels through the water. Behoves him now both sail and oar. Milton. 2. Anything resembling a sail, or regarded as a sail. 3. A wing;
• BALLOONER
  One who goes up in a balloon; an aëronaut.
• ASCENDING
  Rising; moving upward; as, an ascending kite. -- As*cend"ing*ly, adv. Ascending latitude , the increasing latitude of a planet. Ferguson. -- Ascending line , the line of relationship traced backward or through one's ancestors. One's father and
• BALLOON
  A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc., as at St. Paul's, in London. (more info) 1. A bag made of silk or other light material, and filled with hydrogen gas or heated air, so as to rise and float in the atmosphere; especially, one
• SAILER
  1. A sailor. Sir P. Sidney. 2. A ship or other vessel; -- with qualifying words descriptive of speed or manner of sailing; as, a heavy sailer; a fast sailer.
• NAVIGATION
  1. The act of navigating; the act of passing on water in ships or other vessels; the state of being navigable. the science or art of conducting ships or vessels from one place to another, including, more especially, the method of determining a
• SAILING
  The art of managing a vessel; seamanship; navigation; as, globular sailing; oblique sailing. Note: For the several methods of sailing, see under Circular, Globular, Oblique, Parallel, etc. Sailing master , formerly, a warrant officer, ranking next
• BALLOONIST
  An aëronaut.
• ASSAILMENT
  The act or power of assailing; attack; assault. His most frequent assailment was the headache. Johnson.
• SKYSAIL
  The sail set next above the royal. See Illust. under Sail.
• ASSAILER
  One who assails.
• STUNSAIL
  A contraction of Studding sail. With every rag set, stunsails, sky scrapers and all. Lowell.
• WATER SAIL
  A small sail sometimes set under a studding sail or under a driver boom, and reaching nearly to the water.
• TRYSAIL
  A fore-and-aft sail, bent to a gaff, and hoisted on a lower mast or on a small mast, called the trysail mast, close abaft a lower mast; -- used chiefly as a storm sail. Called also spencer. Totten.
• LUGSAIL
  A square sail bent upon a yard that hangs obliquely to the mast and is raised or lowered with the sail. Totten.
• PRESCIENCE
  Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight. God's certain prescience of the volitions of moral agents. J. Edwards.
• OMNISCIENCE
  The quality or state of being omniscient; -- an attribute peculiar to God. Dryden.