Word Meanings - ONLOFT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Aloft; above ground. She kept her father's life onloft. Chaucer.

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• FATHER-LASHER
  A European marine fish , allied to the sculpin; -- called also lucky proach.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• ONLOFT
  Aloft; above ground. She kept her father's life onloft. Chaucer.
• GROUNDNUT
  The fruit of the Arachis hypogæa ; the peanut; the earthnut. A leguminous, twining plant , producing clusters of dark purple flowers and having a root tuberous and pleasant to the taste. The dwarf ginseng . Gray. A European plant of the genus
• ALOFT
  In the top; at the mast head, or on the higher yards or rigging; overhead; hence , in or to heaven. (more info) 1. On high; in the air; high above the ground. "He steers his flight aloft." Milton.
• GROUNDLESS
  Without ground or foundation; wanting cause or reason for support; not authorized; false; as, groundless fear; a groundless report or assertion. -- Ground"less*ly, adv. -- Ground"less*ness, n.
• FATHERLESSNESS
  The state of being without a father.
• ABOVEBOARD
  Above the board or table. Hence: in open sight; without trick, concealment, or deception. "Fair and aboveboard." Burke. Note: This expression is said by Johnson to have been borrowed from gamesters, who, when they change their cards, put their hands
• FATHERLAND
  One's native land; the native land of one's fathers or ancestors.
• ABOVESAID
  Mentioned or recited before.
• FATHER
  OHG. fatar, G. vater, Icel. Fa Sw. & Dan. fader, OIr. athir, L. pater, Gr. pitr, perh. fr. Skr. pa protect. Papa, Paternal, Patriot, 1. One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a generator; a male parent. A wise son maketh a glad
• FATHER-IN-LAW
  The father of one's husband or wife; -- correlative to son-in- law and daughter-in-law. Note: A man who marries a woman having children already, is sometimes, though erroneously, called their father-in-law.
• ABOVE-MENTIONED; ABOVE-NAMED
  Mentioned or named before; aforesaid.
• FATHERLESS
  1. Destitute of a living father; as, a fatherless child. 2. Without a known author. Beau. & Fl.
• FATHERLY
  1. Like a father in affection and care; paternal; tender; protecting; careful. You have showed a tender, fatherly regard. Shak. 2. Of or pertaining to a father.
• GROUNDLY
  Solidly; deeply; thoroughly. Those whom princes do once groundly hate, Let them provide to die as sure us fate. Marston.
• GROUNDING
  The act, method, or process of laying a groundwork or foundation; hence, elementary instruction; the act or process of applying a ground, as of color, to wall paper, cotton cloth, etc.; a basis.
• FATHER LONGLEGS
  See 2
• GROUNDAGE
  A local tax paid by a ship for the ground or space it occupies while in port. Bouvier.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• FOREGROUND
  On a painting, and sometimes in a bas-relief, mosaic picture, or the like, that part of the scene represented, which is nearest to the spectator, and therefore occupies the lowest part of the work of art itself. Cf. Distance, n., 6.
• BACKGROUND
  The space which is behind and subordinate to a portrait or group of figures. Note: The distance in a picture is usually divided into foreground, middle distance, and background. Fairholt. 3. Anything behind, serving as a foil; as, the statue had
• UNDERGROUND
  The place or space beneath the surface of the ground; subterranean space. A spirit raised from depth of underground. Shak.
• MIDDLE-GROUND
  That part of a picture between the foreground and the background.
• GODFATHER
  A man who becomes sponsor for a child at baptism, and makes himself a surety for its Christian training and instruction. There shall be for every Male-child to be baptized, when they can be had, two Godfathers and one Godmother; and for