Word Meanings - TIDEWAITER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A customhouse officer who watches the landing of goods from merchant vessels, in order to secure payment of duties. Swift.

Related words: (words related to TIDEWAITER)

• LANDLOCK
  To inclose, or nearly inclose, as a harbor or a vessel, with land.
• LANDSTHING
  See BELOW
• LANDSKIP
  A landscape. Straight my eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landskip round it measures. Milton.
• LANDSMAN
  A sailor on his first voyage. (more info) 1. One who lives on the land; -- opposed to seaman.
• MERCHANTRY
  1. The body of merchants taken collectively; as, the merchantry of a country. 2. The business of a merchant; merchandise. Walpole.
• SECURER
  One who, or that which, secures.
• SWIFTNESS
  The quality or state of being swift; speed; quickness; celerity; velocity; rapidity; as, the swiftness of a bird; the swiftness of a stream; swiftness of descent in a falling body; swiftness of thought, etc.
• SWIFTLET
  Any one of numerous species of small East Indian and Asiatic swifts of the genus Collocalia. Some of the species are noted for furnishing the edible bird's nest. See Illust. under Edible.
• SECURENESS
  The condition or quality of being secure; exemption from fear; want of vigilance; security.
• SWIFTER
  A rope used to retain the bars of the capstan in their sockets while men are turning it. A rope used to encircle a boat longitudinally, to strengthen and defend her sides. The forward shroud of a lower mast.
• LANDREEVE
  A subordinate officer on an extensive estate, who acts as an assistant to the steward.
• LANDFLOOD
  An overflowing of land by river; an inundation; a freshet. Clarendon.
• LANDWARD
  Toward the land.
• LANDGRAVIATE
  1. The territory held by a landgrave. 2. The office, jurisdiction, or authority of a landgrave.
• CUSTOMHOUSE
  The building where customs and duties are paid, and where vessels are entered or cleared. Customhouse broker, an agent who acts for merchants in the business of entering and clearing goods and vessels.
• ORDERLY
  1. Conformed to order; in order; regular; as, an orderly course or plan. Milton. 2. Observant of order, authority, or rule; hence, obedient; quiet; peaceable; not unruly; as, orderly children; an orderly community. 3. Performed in good
• LANDSCAPE
  land land + -schap, equiv. to E. -schip; akin to G. landschaft, Sw. 1. A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains. 2. A picture representing a scene by land or sea, actual
• MERCHANTLY
  Merchantlike; suitable to the character or business of a merchant. Gauden.
• LANDOWNER
  An owner of land.
• LANDSTREIGHT
  A narrow strip of land.
• GREENLANDER
  A native of Greenland.
• REPAYMENT
  1. The act of repaying; reimbursement. Jer. Taylor. 2. The money or other thing repaid.
• ROSLAND
  heathy land; land full of heather; moorish or watery land.
• ENGARLAND
  To encircle with a garland, or with garlands. Sir P. Sidney.
• GLANDULAR
  Containing or supporting glands; consisting of glands; pertaining to glands.
• MALANDERS
  A scurfy eruption in the bend of the knee of the fore leg of a horse. See Sallenders.
• COWPER'S GLANDS
  Two small glands discharging into the male urethra.
• GARLANDLESS
  Destitute of a garland. Shelley.
• HEADLAND
  1. A cape; a promontory; a point of land projecting into the sea or other expanse of water. "Sow the headland with wheat." Shak. 2. A ridge or strip of unplowed at the ends of furrows, or near a fence. Tusser.
• BLANDLY
  In a bland manner; mildly; suavely.
• GLANDULOSITY
  Quality of being glandulous; a collection of glands. Sir T. Browne.
• BLANDNESS
  The state or quality of being bland.
• FORELAND
  A piece of ground between the wall of a place and the moat. Farrow. (more info) 1. A promontory or cape; a headland; as, the North and South Foreland in Kent, England.
• LAYLAND
  Land lying untilled; fallow ground. Blount.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• SLANDEROUS
  1. Given or disposed to slander; uttering slander. "Slanderous tongue." Shak. 2. Embodying or containing slander; calumnious; as, slanderous words, speeches, or reports. -- Slan"der*ous*ly, adv. -- Slan"der*ous*ness, n.
• INLAND
  1. Within the land; more or less remote from the ocean or from open water; interior; as, an inland town. "This wide inland sea." Spenser. From inland regions to the distant main. Cowper. 2. Limited to the land, or to inland routes; within