Word Meanings - AFFREIGHTMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of hiring, or the contract for the use of, a vessel, or some part of it, to convey cargo.

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• HIRUDINE
  Of or pertaining to the leeches.
• CONTRACTIBLE
  Capable of contraction. Small air bladders distable and contractible. Arbuthnot.
• HIRE
  See CHAUCER
• CARGOOSE
  A species of grebe ; the crested grebe.
• CONVEYER
  1. One who, or that which, conveys or carries, transmits or transfers. 2. One given to artifices or secret practices; a juggler; a cheat; a thief. Shak.
• HIRELING
  One who is hired, or who serves for wages; esp., one whose motive and interest in serving another are wholly gainful; a mercenary. "Lewd hirelings." Milton.
• CONTRACTED
  1. Drawn together; shrunken; wrinkled; narrow; as, a contracted brow; a contracted noun. 2. Narrow; illiberal; selfish; as, a contracted mind; contracted views. 3. Bargained for; betrothed; as, a contracted peace. Inquire me out contracted
• HIRUDINEA
  An order of Annelida, including the leeches; -- called also Hirudinei.
• HIRE PURCHASE; HIRE PURCHASE AGREEMENT; HIRE AND PURCHASE AGREEMENT
  A contract (more fully called contract of hire with an option of purchase) in which a person hires goods for a specified period and at a fixed rent, with the added condition that if he shall retain the goods for the full period and pay
• VESSELFUL
  As much as a vessel will hold; enough to fill a vessel.
• CONVEYANCER
  One whose business is to draw up conveyances of property, as deeds, mortgages, leases, etc. Burrill.
• CONVEYOR
  A contrivance for carrying objects from place to place; esp., one for conveying grain, coal, etc., -- as a spiral or screw turning in a pipe or trough, an endless belt with buckets, or a truck running along a rope.
• CONTRACTIBLENESS
  Contractibility.
• HIRES; HIRS
  Hers; theirs. See Here, pron. Chaucer.
• HIRCIC
  Of, pertaining to, or derived from, mutton suet; -- applied by Chevreul to an oily acid which was obtained from mutton suet, and to which he attributed the peculiar taste and smell of that substance. The substance has also been called hircin. Watts.
• CONTRACTION
  The process of shortening an operation. 3. The act of incurring or becoming subject to, as liabilities, obligation, debts, etc.; the process of becoming subject to; as, the contraction of a disease. 4. Something contracted or abbreviated, as a word
• CONVEY
  conviare, fr. L. con- + via way. See Viaduct, Voyage, and cf. 1. To carry from one place to another; to bear or transport. I will convey them by sea in fleats. 1 Kings v. 9. Convey me to my bed, then to my grave. Shak. 2. To cause to pass from
• HIRSUTENESS
  Hairiness. Burton.
• HIRSUTE
  Pubescent with coarse or stiff hairs. Gray. (more info) 1. Rough with hair; set with bristles; shaggy. 2. Rough and coarse; boorish. Cynical and hirsute in his behavior. Life of A. Wood.
• CONTRACTILITY
  The power possessed by the fibers of living muscle of contracting or shortening. Note: When subject to the will, as in the muscles of locomotion, such power is called voluntary contractility; when not controlled by the will, as in the muscles of
• SHIRT WAIST
  A belted waist resembling a shirt in plainness of cut and style, worn by women or children; -- in England called a blouse.
• THIRSTILY
  In a thirsty manner.
• SHIRKER
  One who shirks. Macaulay.
• WHIRLBONE
  The huckle bone. The patella, or kneepan. Ainsworth.
• CHIRRUP
  To quicken or animate by chirping; to cherup. (more info) Etym:
• CHURME; CHIRM
  Clamor, or confused noise; buzzing. The churme of a thousand taunts and reproaches. Bacon.
• CHIROGYMNAST
  A mechanocal contrivance for exercesing the fingers of a pianist.
• SUBCONTRACTOR
  One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.
• WHIRLWIND
  1. A violent windstorm of limited extent, as the tornado, characterized by an inward spiral motion of the air with an upward current in the center; a vortex of air. It usually has a rapid progressive motion. The swift dark whirlwind that uproots
• CHIRETTA
  A plant found in Northern India, having medicinal properties to the gentian, and esteemed as a tonic and febrifuge.
• CHIROGRAPHIST
  1. A chirographer; a writer or engrosser. 2. One who tells fortunes by examining the hand.
• RECONVEY
  1. To convey back or to the former place; as, to reconvey goods. 2. To transfer back to a former owner; as, to reconvey an estate.
• TINKERSHIRE; TINKLE
  The common guillemot.
• SHIRTING
  Cloth, specifically cotton cloth, suitable for making shirts.
• YORKSHIRE
  A county in the north of England. Yorkshire grit, a kind of stone used for polishing marble, and copperplates for engravers. Simmonds. -- Yorkshire pudding, a batter pudding baked under meat.
• AYRSHIRE
  One of a superior breed of cattle from Ayrshire, Scotland. Ayrshires are notable for the quantity and quality of their milk.
• CHIROGNOMY
  The art of judging character by the shape and apperance of the hand.
• CHIRAGRA
  Gout in the hand.