Word Meanings - AHULL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

With the sails furled, and the helm lashed alee; -- applied to ships in a storm. See Hull, n.

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• APPLICABLE
  Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv.
• APPLICATIVE
  Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv.
• APPLICANCY
  The quality or state of being applicable.
• APPLICABILITY
  The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.
• STORMING
  from Storm, v. Storming party , a party assigned to the duty of making the first assault in storming a fortress.
• LASH
  G. lashe latchet, a bit of leather, gusset, stripe, laschen to furnish with flaps, to lash or slap, Icel. laski gusset, flap, laska 1. The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given. I observed that your whip wanted a lash to
• APPLICATORILY
  By way of application.
• LASHING
  The act of one who, or that which, lashes; castigation; chastisement. South. Lashing out, a striking out; also, extravagance.
• STORM
  A violent assault on a fortified place; a furious attempt of troops to enter and take a fortified place by scaling the walls, forcing the gates, or the like. Note: Storm is often used in the formation of self-explained compounds; as, storm-presaging,
• STORMGLASS
  A glass vessel, usually cylindrical, filled with a solution which is sensitive to atmospheric changes, indicating by a clouded appearance, rain, snow, etc., and by clearness, fair weather.
• FURLONG
  A measure of length; the eighth part of a mile; forty rods; two hundred and twenty yards. (more info) prop., the length of a furrow; furh furrow + lang long. See Furrow,
• SHIPSHAPE
  Arranged in a manner befitting a ship; hence, trim; tidy; orderly. Even then she expressed her scorn for the lubbery executioner's mode of tying a knot, and did it herself in a shipshape orthodox manner. De Quincey. Keep everything shipshape, for
• STORMINESS
  The state of being stormy; tempestuousness; biosteruousness; impetuousness.
• STORMILY
  In a stormy manner.
• STORM-BEAT
  Beaten, injured, or impaired by storms. Spenser.
• APPLICATE
  Applied or put to some use. Those applicate sciences which extend the power of man over the elements. I. Taylor. Applicate number , one which applied to some concrete case. -- Applicate ordinate, right line applied at right angles to the axis of
• STORMWIND
  A heavy wind; a wind that brings a storm; the blast of a storm. Longfellow.
• LASHER
  One who whips or lashes.
• APPLICATION
  1. The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb. 2. The thing applied. He invented a new application by which blood might be stanched. Johnson. 3. The act of applying as a means; the
• APPLIABLE
  Applicable; also, compliant. Howell.
• CLASH
  1. To make a noise by striking against something; to dash noisily together. 2. To meet in opposition; to act in a contrary direction; to come onto collision; to interfere. However some of his interests might clash with those of the chief adjacent
• FATHER-LASHER
  A European marine fish , allied to the sculpin; -- called also lucky proach.
• UNAPPLIABLE
  Inapplicable. Milton.
• REAPPLICATION
  The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
• UNFURL
  To loose from a furled state; to unfold; to expand; to open or spread; as, to unfurl sails; to unfurl a flag.
• INAPPLICABILITY
  The quality of being inapplicable; unfitness; inapplicableness.
• SLASH
  1. To cut by striking violently and at random; to cut in long slits. 2. To lash; to ply the whip to. King. 3. To crack or snap, as a whip. Dr. H. More.
• SLASHED
  Divided into many narrow parts or segments by sharp incisions; laciniate. (more info) 1. Marked or cut with a slash or slashes; deeply gashed; especially, having long, narrow openings, as a sleeve or other part of a garment, to show rich lining
• FLASHING
  The creation of an artifical flood by the sudden letting in of a body of water; -- called also flushing.