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Word Meanings - STUNSAIL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A contraction of Studding sail. With every rag set, stunsails, sky scrapers and all. Lowell.

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  • EVERYWHERENESS
    Ubiquity; omnipresence. Grew.
  • EVERYWHERE
    In every place; in all places; hence, in every part; throughly; altogether.
  • STUDDERY
    A stud, or collection of breeding horses and mares; also, a place for keeping a stud. King Henry the Eighth erected a noble studdery. Holinshed.
  • CONTRACTION
    The process of shortening an operation. 3. The act of incurring or becoming subject to, as liabilities, obligation, debts, etc.; the process of becoming subject to; as, the contraction of a disease. 4. Something contracted or abbreviated, as a word
  • STUDDING SAIL
    A light sail set at the side of a principal or square sail of a vessel in free winds, to increase her speed. Its head is bent to a small spar which is called the studding-sail boom. See Illust. of Sail. Toten.
  • EVERYONE
    Everybody; -- commonly separated, every one.
  • EVERYDAY
    Used or fit for every day; common; usual; as, an everyday suit or clothes. The mechanical drudgery of his everyday employment. Sir. J. Herchel.
  • EVERYBODY
    Every person.
  • EVERYWHEN
    At any or all times; every instant. "Eternal law is silently present everywhere and everywhen." Carlyle.
  • EVERYTHING
    Whatever pertains to the subject under consideration; all things. More wise, more learned, more just, more everything. Pope.
  • STUDDING
    Material for studs, or joists; studs, or joists, collectively; studs.
  • EVERY
    1. All the parts which compose a whole collection or aggregate number, considered in their individuality, all taken separately one by one, out of an indefinite bumber. Every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Ps. xxxix. 5. Every door and
  • REVERY
    See REVERIE
  • EVERICH; EVERYCH
    each one; every one; each of two. See Every. Chaucer.
  • FEVERY
    Feverish. B. Jonson.
  • LOW-STUDDED
    Furnished or built with short studs; as, a low-studded house or room.
  • EVERICHON; EVERYCHON
    Every one. Chaucer.
  • REVERIE; REVERY
    1. A loose or irregular train of thought occurring in musing or mediation; deep musing; daydream. "Rapt in nameless reveries." Tennyson. When ideas float in our mind without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French
  • THIEVERY
    1. The practice of stealing; theft; thievishness. Among the Spartans, thievery was a practice morally good and honest. South. 2. That which is stolen. Shak.

 

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