Word Meanings - FRIGATE-BUILT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Built like a frigate with a raised quarter-deck and forecastle.
Related words: (words related to FRIGATE-BUILT)
- RAISE
To create or constitute; as, to raise a use that is, to create it. Burrill. To raise a blockade , to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them. - RAISED
1. Lifted up; showing above the surroundings; as, raised or embossed metal work. 2. Leavened; made with leaven, or yeast; -- used of bread, cake, etc., as distinguished from that made with cream of tartar, soda, etc. See Raise, v. t., 4. Raised - QUARTER ROUND
An ovolo. - RAIS
See REIS - QUARTERON; QUARTEROON
A quadroon. - QUARTERON
A quarter; esp., a quarter of a pound, or a quarter of a hundred. Piers Plowman. - RAISING
1. The act of lifting, setting up, elevating, exalting, producing, or restoring to life. 2. Specifically, the operation or work of setting up the frame of a building; as, to help at a raising. 3. The operation of embossing sheet metal, - BUILT
Shape; build; form of structure; as, the built of a ship. Dryden. - QUARTERPACE
A platform of a staircase where the stair turns at a right angle only. See Halfpace. - QUARTERMASTER
An officer whose duty is to provide quarters, provisions, storage, clothing, fuel, stationery, and transportation for a regiment or other body of troops, and superintend the supplies. - RAISER
One who, or that which, raises . - QUARTERLY
1. Containing, or consisting of, a fourth part; as, quarterly seasons. 2. Recurring during, or at the end of, each quarter; as, quarterly payments of rent; a quarterly meeting. - QUARTERFOIL
An ornamental foliation having four lobes, or foils. - QUARTERED
1. Divided into four equal parts or quarters; separated into four parts or regions. 2. Furnished with quarters; provided with shelter or entertainment. 3. Quarter-sawed; -- said of timber, commonly oak. - FRIGATE
1. Originally, a vessel of the Mediterranean propelled by sails and by oars. The French, about 1650, transferred the name to larger vessels, and by 1750 it had been appropriated for a class of war vessels intermediate between corvettes and ships - QUARTERN
fourth part of a pound, or of a hundred; cf. L. quartarius a fourth part, quarter of any measure, quartern, gill. See Quarter, and cf. 1. A quarter. Specifically: The fourth part of a pint; a gill. The fourth part of a peck, or of a stone . - QUARTERING
Coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not directly astern; -- said of waves or any moving object. - RAISIN
1. A grape, or a bunch of grapes. Cotgrave. 2. A grape dried in the sun or by artificial heat. Raisin tree , the common red currant, whose fruit resembles the small raisins of Corinth called currants. Dp. Prior. - QUARTERSTAFF
A long and stout staff formerly used as a weapon of defense and offense; -- so called because in holding it one hand was placed in the middle, and the other between the middle and the end. - FRIGATE-BUILT
Built like a frigate with a raised quarter-deck and forecastle. - APPRAISER
One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates. - LIVRAISON
A part of a book or literary composition printed and delivered by itself; a number; a part. - HEBRAIST
One versed in the Hebrew language and learning. - MISRAISE
To raise or exite unreasonable. "Misraised fury." Bp. Hall. - PRAISEWORTHINESS
The quality or state of being praiseworthy. - KARAISM
Doctrines of the Karaites. - FRAISE
A large and thick pancake, with slices of bacon in it. Johnson. - OVERPRAISING
The act of praising unduly; excessive praise. Milton. - ULTRAISM
The principles of those who advocate extreme measures, as radical reform, and the like. Dr. H. More. - JERRY-BUILT
Built hastily and of bad materials; as, jerry-built houses. - PRAISER
1. One who praises. "Praisers of men." Sir P. Sidney. 2. An appraiser; a valuator. Sir T. North. - FRAISED
Fortified with a fraise. - ICE-BUILT
1. Composed of ice. 2. Loaded with ice. "Ice-built mountains." Gray. - BRAISE; BRAIZE
A European marine fish allied to the American scup; the becker. The name is sometimes applied to the related species. - DISPRAISABLE
Blamable.