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Word Meanings - STAROSTY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A castle and domain conferred on a nobleman for life. Brande & C.

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  • CASTLEWARD
    See CASTLEGUARD
  • CASTLE
    1. A fortified residence, especially that of a prince or nobleman; a fortress. The house of every one is to him castle and fortress, as well for his defense againts injury and violence, as for his repose. Coke. Our castle's strength Will laugh
  • CONFERRABLE
    Capable of being conferred.
  • BRANDER
    1. One who, or that which, brands; a branding iron. 2. A gridiron.
  • CASTLET
    A small castle. Leland.
  • CASTLERY
    The government of a castle. Blount.
  • CONFERRER
    1. One who confers; one who converses. Johnson. 2. One who bestows; a giver.
  • CASTLEBUILDER
    Fig.: one who builds castles in the air or forms visionary schemes. -- Cas"tle*build`ing, n.
  • CASTLED
    Having a castle or castles; supporting a castle; as, a castled height or crag. 2. Fortified; turreted; as, castled walls.
  • CONFERRUMINATE; CONFERRUMINATED
    Closely united by the coalescence, or sticking together, of contiguous faces, as in the case of the cotyledons of the live-oak acorn.
  • CONFERREE
    See CONFEREE
  • DOMAIN
    Ownership of land; an estate or patrimony which one has in his own right; absolute proprietorship; paramount or sovereign ownership. Public domain, the territory belonging to a State or to the general government; public lands. in the public domain
  • NOBLEMAN
    One of the nobility; a noble; a peer; one who enjoys rank above a commoner, either by virtue of birth, by office, or by patent.
  • CASTLE-GUARD
    A tax or imposition an a dwelling within a certain distance of a castle, for the purpose of maintaining watch and ward in it; castle-ward. 3. A feudal tenure, obliging the tenant to perform service within the realm, without limitation of time.
  • BRANDENBURG
    A kind of decoration for the breast of a coat, sometimes only a frog with a loop, but in some military uniforms enlarged into a broad horizontal stripe. He wore a coat . . . trimmed with Brandenburgs. Smollett.
  • UNCASTLE
    To take a castle from; to turn out of a castle.
  • FORECASTLE
    A short upper deck forward, formerly raised like a castle, to command an enemy's decks. That part of the upper deck of a vessel forward of the foremast, or of the after part of the fore channels. In merchant vessels, the forward part of the vessel,

 

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