Word Meanings - HAVENER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A harbor master.

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• MASTERSHIP
  1. The state or office of a master. 2. Mastery; dominion; superior skill; superiority. Where noble youths for mastership should strive. Driden. 3. Chief work; masterpiece. Dryden. 4. An ironical title of respect. How now, seignior Launce ! what
• MASTEROUS
  Masterly. Milton.
• HARBOR MASTER
  An officer charged with the duty of executing the regulations respecting the use of a harbor.
• HARBOROUS
  Hospitable.
• MASTERFULLY
  In a masterful manner; imperiously. A lawless and rebellious man who held lands masterfully and in high contempt of the royal authority. Macaulay.
• MASTERSINGER
  One of a class of poets which flourished in Nuremberg and some other cities of Germany in the 15th and 16th centuries. They bound themselves to observe certain arbitrary laws of rhythm.
• MASTER
  A vessel having masts; -- used only in compounds; as, a two-master.
• HARBORLESS
  Without a harbor; shelterless.
• MASTERLINESS
  The quality or state of being masterly; ability to control wisely or skillfully.
• MASTERLY
  1. Suitable to, or characteristic of, a master; indicating thorough knowledge or superior skill and power; showing a master's hand; as, a masterly design; a masterly performance; a masterly policy. "A wise and masterly inactivity." Sir
• HARBORER
  One who, or that which, harbors. Geneva was . . . a harborer of exiles for religion. Strype.
• MASTERLESS
  Destitute of a master or owner; ungoverned or ungovernable. -- Mas"ter*less*ness, n.
• MASTERHOOD
  The state of being a master; hence, disposition to command or hector. C. Bronté.
• MASTER VIBRATOR
  In an internal-combustion engine with two or more cylinders, an induction coil and vibrator placed in the circuit between the battery or magneto and the coils for the different cylinders, which are used without vibrators of their own.
• HARBOR
  The mansion of a heavenly body. 4. A portion of a sea, a lake, or other large body of water, either landlocked or artificially protected so as to be a place of safety for vessels in stormy weather; a port or haven. (more info) herberge,
• MASTERFUL
  1. Inclined to play the master; domineering; imperious; arbitrary. Dryden. 2. Having the skill or power of a master; indicating or expressing power or mastery. His masterful, pale face. Mrs. Browning.
• MASTERPIECE
  Anything done or made with extraordinary skill; a capital performance; a chef-d'oeuvre; a supreme achievement. The top and masterpiece of art. South. Dissimulation was his masterpiece. Claredon.
• HARBORAGE
  Shelter; entertainment. Where can I get me harborage for the night Tennyson.
• HARBOROUGH; HARBROUGH
  A shelter. . Spenser.
• MASTERDOM
  Dominion; rule; command. Shak.
• CREMASTERIC
  Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery.
• BAGGAGE MASTER
  One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel.
• TOASTMASTER
  A person who presides at a public dinner or banquet, and announces the toasts.
• UNHARBOR
  To drive from harbor or shelter.
• TASKMASTER
  One who imposes a task, or burdens another with labor; one whose duty is to assign tasks; an overseer. Ex. i. 11. All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Taskmaster's eye. Milton.
• BANDMASTER
  The conductor of a musical band.
• WEIGHMASTER
  One whose business it is to weigh ore, hay, merchandise, etc.; one licensed as a public weigher.
• BEEMASTER
  One who keeps bees.
• POSTMASTERSHIP
  The office of postmaster.
• BARMASTER
  Formerly, a local judge among miners; now, an officer of the barmote.
• POSTMASTER-GENERAL
  The chief officer of the post-office department of a government. In the United States the postmaster-general is a member of the cabinet.
• POSTMASTER
  1. One who has charge of a station for the accommodation of travelers; one who supplies post horses. 2. One who has charge of a post office, and the distribution and forwarding of mails.
• 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.
• UNDERMASTER
  A master subordinate to the principal master; an assistant master.