Word Meanings - PRIZING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The application of a lever to move any weighty body, as a cask, anchor, cannon, car, etc. See Prize, n., 5.

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• ANCHORET; ANCHORITE
  One who renounces the world and secludes himself, usually for Our Savior himself . . . did not choose an anchorite's or a monastic life, but a social and affable way of conversing with mortals. Boyle.
• CANNON BONE
  See BONE
• LEVERAGE
  The action of a lever; mechanical advantage gained by the lever. Leverage of a couple , the perpendicular distance between the lines of action of two forces which act in parallel and opposite directions. -- Leverage of a force, the perpendicular
• CANNONADE
  1. The act of discharging cannon and throwing ball, shell, etc., for the purpose of destroying an army, or battering a town, ship, or fort; -- usually, an attack of some continuance. A furious cannonade was kept up from the whole circle
• ANCHOR LIGHT
  The lantern shown at night by a vessel at anchor. International rules of the road require vessels at anchor to carry from sunset to sunrise a single white light forward if under 150 feet in length, and if longer, two such lights, one near the stern
• ANCHORAGE
  1. The act of anchoring, or the condition of lying at anchor. 2. A place suitable for anchoring or where ships anchor; a hold for an anchor. 3. The set of anchors belonging to a ship. 4. Something which holds like an anchor; a hold; as,
• ANCHORESS
  A female anchoret. And there, a saintly anchoress, she dwelt. Wordsworth.
• CANNONEER; CANNONIER
  A man who manages, or fires, cannon.
• ANCHORLESS
  Without an anchor or stay. Hence: Drifting; unsettled.
• CANNONED
  Furnished with cannon. "Gilbralter's cannoned steep." M. Arnold.
• WEIGHTY
  1. Having weight; heavy; ponderous; as, a weighty body. 2. Adapted to turn the balance in the mind, or to convince; important; forcible; serious; momentous. "For sundry weighty reasons." Shak. Let me have your advice in a weighty affair. Swift.
• LEVEROCK
  A lark.
• LEVERWOOD
  The American hop hornbeam , a small tree with very tough wood.
• ANCHOR-HOLD
  1. The hold or grip of an anchor, or that to which it holds. 2. Hence: Firm hold: security.
• ANCHORETISM
  The practice or mode of life of an anchoret.
• APPLICATION
  1. The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb. 2. The thing applied. He invented a new application by which blood might be stanched. Johnson. 3. The act of applying as a means; the
• ANCHOR WATCH
  A detail of one or more men who keep watch on deck at night when a vessel is at anchor.
• PRIZER
  One who estimates or sets the value of a thing; an appraiser. Shak.
• ANCHOR SHOT
  A shot made with the object balls in an anchor space.
• LEVERET
  A hare in the first year of its age.
• REAPPLICATION
  The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
• OVERPRIZE
  Toprize excessively; to overvalue. Sir H. Wotton.
• APPRIZER
  A creditor for whom an appraisal is made. Sir W. Scott. (more info) 1. An appraiser.
• CANTILEVER
  See CANTALEVER
• APPRIZEMENT
  Appraisement.
• OUTPRIZE
  To prize beyong value, or in excess; to exceed in value. Shak.
• FOREPRIZE
  To prize or rate beforehand. Hooker.
• DISANCHOR
  To raise the anchor of, as a ship; to weigh anchor. Heywood.
• DEMICANNON
  A kind of ordnance, carrying a ball weighing from thirty to thirty-six pounds. Shak.
• REPRIZE
  See SPENSER
• CANONIC; CANNONICAL
  Of or pertaining to a canon; established by, or according to a , canon or canons. "The oath of canonical obedience." Hallam. Canonical books, or Canonical Scriptures, those books which are declared by the canons of the church to be of