Word Meanings - EQUIPAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Furniture or outfit, whether useful or ornamental; especially, the furniture and supplies of a vessel, fitting her for a voyage or for warlike purposes, or the furniture and necessaries of an army, a body of troops, or a single soldier,

Additional info about word: EQUIPAGE

1. Furniture or outfit, whether useful or ornamental; especially, the furniture and supplies of a vessel, fitting her for a voyage or for warlike purposes, or the furniture and necessaries of an army, a body of troops, or a single soldier, including whatever is necessary for efficient service; equipments; accouterments; habiliments; attire. Did their exercises on horseback with noble equipage. Evelyn. First strip off all her equipage of Pride. Pope. 2. Retinue; train; suite. Swift. 3. A carriage of state or of pleasure with all that accompanies it, as horses, liveried servants, etc., a showy turn-out. The rumbling equipages of fashion . . . were unknown in the settlement of New Amsterdam. W. Irving.

Related words: (words related to EQUIPAGE)

• TROOPSHIP
  A vessel built or fitted for the conveyance of troops; a transport.
• SOLDIERLY
  Like or becoming a real soldier; brave; martial; heroic; honorable; soldierlike. "Soldierly discipline." Sir P. Sidney.
• SOLDIERLIKE
  Like a soldier; soldierly.
• SINGLE-BREASTED
  Lapping over the breast only far enough to permit of buttoning, and having buttons on one edge only; as, a single-breasted coast.
• ORNAMENTAL
  Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing. Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles. Sir T. Browne.
• SINGLE
  1. To select, as an individual person or thing, from among a number; to choose out from others; to separate. Dogs who hereby can single out their master in the dark. Bacon. His blood! she faintly screamed her mind Still singling one from
• SINGLE-ACTING
  Having simplicity of action; especially , acting or exerting force during strokes in one direction only; -- said of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.
• VOYAGEUR
  A traveler; -- applied in Canada to a man employed by the fur companies in transporting goods by the rivers and across the land, to and from the remote stations in the Northwest.
• SINGLE-HANDED
  Having but one hand, or one workman; also, alone; unassisted.
• OUTFITTER
  One who furnishes outfits for a voyage, a journey, or a business.
• WARLIKENESS
  Quality of being warlike.
• SOLDIER
  1. To serve as a soldier. 2. To make a pretense of doing something, or of performing any task. Note: In this sense the vulgar pronounciation is jocosely preserved. It needs an opera glass to discover whether the leaders are pulling,
• SINGLE-HEARTED
  Having an honest heart; free from duplicity. -- Sin"gle-heart"ed*ly, adv.
• SOLDIERING
  1. The act of serving as a soldier; the state of being a soldier; the occupation of a soldier. 2. The act of feigning to work. See the Note under Soldier, v. i., 2.
• VESSELFUL
  As much as a vessel will hold; enough to fill a vessel.
• SINGLE-MINDED
  Having a single purpose; hence, artless; guileless; single- hearted.
• OUTFIT
  A fitting out, or equipment, as of a ship for a voyage, or of a person for an expedition in an unoccupied region or residence in a foreign land; things required for equipment; the expense of, or allowance made for, equipment, as by the government
• SINGLENESS
  1. The quality or state of being single, or separate from all others; the opposite of doubleness, complication, or multiplicity. 2. Freedom from duplicity, or secondary and selfish ends; purity of mind or purpose; simplicity; sincerity;
• SINGLES
  See 2
• SINGLET
  An unlined or undyed waistcoat; a single garment; -- opposed to doublet.
• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• AIR VESSEL
  A vessel, cell, duct, or tube containing or conducting air; as the air vessels of insects, birds, plants, etc.; the air vessel of a pump, engine, etc. For the latter, see Air chamber. The air vessels of insects are called tracheæ, of plants spiral
• BEFITTINGLY
  In a befitting manner; suitably.
• UNSOLDIERED
  Not equipped like a soldier; unsoldierlike. J. Fletcher.
• DEWAR VESSEL
  A double-walled glass vessel for holding liquid air, etc., having the space between the walls exhausted so as to prevent conduction of heat, and sometimes having the glass silvered to prevent absorption of radiant heat; -- called also, according