Word Meanings - NOCK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The upper fore corner of a boom sail or of a trysail. (more info) 1. A notch. He took his arrow by the nock. Chapman.

ASSEMBLY
A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble. Note: In some of the United States, the legislature, or the popular branch of it, is called the Assembly, or the General Assembly. In the Presbyterian Church, the General
GALAXY
The Milky Way; that luminous tract, or belt, which is seen at night stretching across the heavens, and which is composed of innumerable stars, so distant and blended as to be distinguishable only with the telescope. The term has recently been used
CONSTELLATION
1. A cluster or group of fixed stars, or dvision of the heavens, designated in most cases by the name of some animal, or of some mythologial personage, within whose imaginary outline, as traced upon the heavens, the group is included.
PARTERRE
An ornamental and diversified arrangement of beds or plots, in which flowers are cultivated, with intervening spaces of gravel or turf for walking on. 2. The pit of a theater; the parquet.
ASSEMBLYMAN
A member of an assembly, especially of the lower branch of a state legislature.
SUBCONSTELLATION
A subordinate constellation. Sir T. Browne.
AGALACTIA; AGALAXY
Failure of the due secretion of milk after childbirth.
WESTMINSTER ASSEMBLY
See ASSEMBLY