Word Meanings - STAROSTY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A castle and domain conferred on a nobleman for life. Brande & C.
Related words: (words related to STAROSTY)
- 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,