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Word Meanings - FRIGATE-BUILT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Built like a frigate with a raised quarter-deck and forecastle.

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  • 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.

 

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