Word Meanings - FREEMASONIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to, or resembling, the institutions or the practices of freemasons; as, a freemasonic signal.

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• SIGNALIZE
  1. To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish. It is this passion which drives men to all the ways we see in use of signalizing themselves. Burke. 2. To communicate with by means of a signal; as, a ship
• FREEMASONIC
  Pertaining to, or resembling, the institutions or the practices of freemasons; as, a freemasonic signal.
• SIGNALLY
  In a signal manner; eminently.
• RESEMBLINGLY
  So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
• SIGNAL
  1. A sign made for the purpose of giving notice to a person of some occurence, command, or danger; also, a sign, event, or watchword, which has been agreed upon as the occasion of concerted action. All obeyed The wonted signal and superior voice
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• RESEMBLANT
  Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower.
• SIGNALITY
  The quality or state of being signal or remarkable. Sir T. Browne.
• RESEMBLE
  sembler to seem, resemble, fr. L. similare, simulare, to imitate, fr. 1. To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other. We will resemble you in that. Shak.
• RESEMBLABLE
  Admitting of being compared; like. Gower.
• SIGNALMENT
  The act of signaling, or of signalizing; hence, description by peculiar, appropriate, or characteristic marks. Mrs. Browning.
• SIGNALMAN
  A man whose business is to manage or display signals; especially, one employed in setting the signals by which railroad trains are run or warned.
• SIGNALIST
  One who makes signals; one who communicates intelligence by means of signals.
• RESEMBLER
  One who resembles.
• RESEMBLANCE
  1. The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity. One main end of poetry and painting is to please; they bear a great resemblance to each other. Dryden. 2. That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness.
• BLOCK SIGNAL
  One of the danger signals or safety signals which guide the movement of trains in a block system. The signal is often so coupled with a switch that act of opening or closing the switch operates the signal also.
• WEATHER SIGNAL
  Any signal giving information about the weather. The system used by the United States Weather Bureau includes temperature, cold or hot wave, rain or snow, wind direction, storm, and hurricane signals.
• LIGHT SIGNALS
  A system of signaling in which balls of red and green fire are fired from a pistol, the arrangement in groups denoting numbers having a code significance.
• WIND SIGNAL
  In general, any signal announcing information concerning winds, and esp. the expected approach of winds whose direction and force are dangerous to shipping, etc. The wind-signal system of the United States Weather Bureau consists of storm,