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Word Meanings - ANCHORLESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Without an anchor or stay. Hence: Drifting; unsettled.

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  • DRIFT
    That causes drifting or that is drifted; movable by wind or currents; as, drift currents; drift ice; drift mud. Kane. Drift anchor. See Sea anchor, and also Drag sail, under Drag, n. -- Drift epoch , the glacial epoch. -- Drift net, a
  • ANCHOR
    1. To cast anchor; to come to anchor; as, our ship anchored in the stream. 2. To stop; to fix or rest. My invention . . . anchors on Isabel. Shak.
  • DRIFTBOLT
    A bolt for driving out other bolts.
  • ANCHORET; ANCHORITE
    One who renounces the world and secludes himself, usually for Our Savior himself . . . did not choose an anchorite's or a monastic life, but a social and affable way of conversing with mortals. Boyle.
  • DRIFTPIECE
    An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.
  • WITHOUT-DOOR
    Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak.
  • ANCHOR LIGHT
    The lantern shown at night by a vessel at anchor. International rules of the road require vessels at anchor to carry from sunset to sunrise a single white light forward if under 150 feet in length, and if longer, two such lights, one near the stern
  • WITHOUTFORTH
    Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.
  • ANCHORAGE
    1. The act of anchoring, or the condition of lying at anchor. 2. A place suitable for anchoring or where ships anchor; a hold for an anchor. 3. The set of anchors belonging to a ship. 4. Something which holds like an anchor; a hold; as,
  • DRIFTPIN
    A smooth drift. See Drift, n., 9.
  • DRIFTLESS
    Having no drift or direction; without aim; purposeless.
  • ANCHORESS
    A female anchoret. And there, a saintly anchoress, she dwelt. Wordsworth.
  • DRIFTAGE
    1. Deviation from a ship's course due to leeway. 2. Anything that drifts.
  • DRIFTWEED
    Seaweed drifted to the shore by the wind. Darwin.
  • ANCHORLESS
    Without an anchor or stay. Hence: Drifting; unsettled.
  • UNSETTLE
    To become unsettled or unfixed; to be disordered. Shak.
  • ANCHOR-HOLD
    1. The hold or grip of an anchor, or that to which it holds. 2. Hence: Firm hold: security.
  • HENCE
    ending; cf. -wards), also hen, henne, hennen, heonnen, heonene, AS. heonan, heonon, heona, hine; akin to OHG. hinnan, G. hinnen, OHG. 1. From this place; away. "Or that we hence wend." Chaucer. Arise, let us go hence. John xiv. 31. I will send
  • ANCHORETISM
    The practice or mode of life of an anchoret.
  • DRIFTY
    Full of drifts; tending to form drifts, as snow, and the like.
  • HEREHENCE
    From hence.
  • WHENCEFORTH
    From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
  • THENCEFROM
    From that place.
  • DISANCHOR
    To raise the anchor of, as a ship; to weigh anchor. Heywood.
  • THENCE
    see -wards) thennes, thannes , AS. thanon, thanan, thonan; akin to OHG. dannana, dannan, danan, and G. 1. From that place. "Bid him thence go." Chaucer. When ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Mark
  • ARCHENCEPHALA
    The division that includes man alone. R. Owen.
  • SPINDRIFT
    See MARR

 

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