Word Meanings - CARACK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A kind of large ship formerly used by the Spaniards and Portuguese in the East India trade; a galleon. The bigger whale like some huge carrack law. Waller. (more info) LL. carraca, fr. L. carrus wagon; or perh. fr. Ar. qorqur (pl.

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• TRADE-MARK
  A peculiar distinguishing mark or device affixed by a manufacturer or a merchant to his goods, the exclusive right of using which is recognized by law.
• INDIANEER
  An Indiaman.
• GALLEON
  A sailing vessel of the 15th and following centuries, often having three or four decks, and used for war or commerce. The term is often rather indiscriminately applied to any large sailing vessel. The gallens . . . were huge, round-stemmed, clumsy
• WAGON
  The Dipper, or Charles's Wain. Note: This word and its compounds are often written with two g's , chiefly in England. The forms wagon, wagonage, etc., are, however, etymologically preferable, and in the United States are almost universally used.
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• PORTUGUESE
  Of or pertaining to Portugal, or its inhabitants. -- n. sing. & pl.
• TRADESFOLK
  People employed in trade; tradesmen. Swift.
• WHALE
  Any aquatic mammal of the order Cetacea, especially any one of the large species, some of which become nearly one hundred feet long. Whales are hunted chiefly for their oil and baleen, or whalebone. Note: The existing whales are divided into two
• INDIA RUBBER
  . See Caoutchouc.
• TRADESPEOPLE
  People engaged in trade; shopkeepers.
• WHALEMAN
  A man employed in the whale fishery.
• WHALER
  A vessel or person employed in the whale fishery.
• WALLERIAN DEGENERATION
  A form of degeneration occurring in nerve fibers as a result of their division; -- so called from Dr. Waller, who published an account of it in 1850.
• WHALEBOAT
  A long, narrow boat, sharp at both ends, used by whalemen.
• TRADED
  Professional; practiced. Shak.
• WHALEBACK
  A form of vessel, often with steam power, having sharp ends and a very convex upper deck, much used on the Great Lakes, esp. for carrying grain.
• INDIAMAN
  A large vessel in the India trade. Macaulay.
• TRADELESS
  Having no trade or traffic. Young.
• BIGGER
  , compar. of Big.
• LARGE-ACRED
  Possessing much land.
• SOLE TRADER
  A feme sole trader.
• EAST INDIAN
  Belonging to, or relating to, the East Indies. -- n.
• CONESTOGA WAGON; CONESTOGA WAIN
  A kind of large broad-wheeled wagon, usually covered, for traveling in soft soil and on prairies.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• FOOL-LARGESSE
  Foolish expenditure; waste. Chaucer.
• LINDIA
  A peculiar genus of rotifers, remarkable for the absence of ciliated disks. By some zoölogists it is thought to be like the ancestral form of the Arthropoda.
• SPERM WHALE
  A very large toothed whale , having a head of enormous size. The upper jaw is destitute of teeth. In the upper part of the head, above the skull, there is a large cavity, or case, filled with oil and spermaceti. This whale sometimes grows to the