Word Meanings - CARVEL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Same as Caravel. 2. A species of jellyfish; sea blubber. Sir T. Herbert.

SPECIES
A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes,
BLUBBERY
1. Swollen; protuberant. 2. Like blubber; gelatinous and quivering; as, a blubbery mass.
BLUBBERED
Swollen; turgid; as, a blubbered lip. Spenser.
BLUBBER
A large sea nettle or medusa. (more info) 1. A bubble. At his mouth a blubber stood of foam. Henryson. 2. The fat of whales and other large sea animals from which oil is obtained. It lies immediately under the skin and over the muscular flesh.
BLUBBERING
The act of weeping noisily. He spake well save that his blubbering interrupted him. Winthrop.
CARAVEL
A name given to several kinds of vessels. The caravel of the 16th century was a small vessel with broad bows, high, narrow poop, four masts, and lateen sails. Columbus commanded three caravels on his great voyage. A Portuguese vessel of 100 or 150
JELLYFISH
Any one of the acalephs, esp. one of the larger species, having a jellylike appearance. See Medusa.
BEBLUBBER
To make swollen and disfigured or sullied by weeping; as, her eyes or cheeks were beblubbered.
SUBSPECIES
A group somewhat lessdistinct than speciesusually are, but based on characters more important than those which characterize ordinary varieties; often, a geographical variety or race.
SEA-BLUBBER
A jellyfish.