Word Meanings - VOYAGEUR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A traveler; -- applied in Canada to a man employed by the fur companies in transporting goods by the rivers and across the land, to and from the remote stations in the Northwest.

Related words: (words related to VOYAGEUR)

• APPLICABLE
  Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv.
• APPLICATIVE
  Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv.
• TRANSPORTING
  That transports; fig., ravishing. Your transporting chords ring out. Keble.
• APPLICANCY
  The quality or state of being applicable.
• TRAVELER
  A traveling crane. See under Crane. (more info) 1. One who travels; one who has traveled much. 2. A commercial agent who travels for the purpose of receiving orders for merchants, making collections, etc.
• TRANSPORTAL
  Transportation; the act of removing from one locality to another. "The transportal of seeds in the wool or fur of quadrupeds." Darwin.
• TRANSPORTABILITY
  The quality or state of being transportable.
• APPLICABILITY
  The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.
• ACROSS
  1. From side to side; crosswise; as, with arms folded across. Shak. 2. Obliquely; athwart; amiss; awry. The squint-eyed Pharisees look across at all the actions of Christ. Bp. Hall.
• TRANSPORTED
  Conveyed from one place to another; figuratively, carried away with passion or pleasure; entranced. -- Trans*port"ed*ly, adv. -- Trans*port"ed*ness, n.
• APPLICATORILY
  By way of application.
• NORTHWESTWARD; NORTHWESTWARDLY
  Toward the northwest.
• TRANSPORT
  1. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops. Hakluyt. 2. To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a criminal; to banish. 3. To carry away with vehement emotion, as
• NORTHWESTERN
  Of, pertaining to, or being in, the northwest; in a direction toward the northwest; coming from the northwest; northwesterly; as, a northwestern course.
• TRANSPORTABLE
  1. Capable of being transported. 2. Incurring, or subject to, the punishment of transportation; as, a transportable offense.
• TRANSPORTER
  One who transports.
• EMPLOYER
  One who employs another; as, an employer of workmen.
• TRANSPORTINGLY
  So as to transport.
• GOODSHIP
  Favor; grace. Gower.
• CANADA
  A British province in North America, giving its name to various plants and animals. Canada balsam. See under Balsam. -- Canada goose. See Whisky Jack. -- Canada lynx. See Lynx. -- Canada porcupine See Porcupine, and Urson. -- Canada rice
• UNEMPLOYMENT
  Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent.
• LACROSSE
  A game of ball, originating among the North American Indians, now the popular field sport of Canada, and played also in England and the United States. Each player carries a long-handled racket, called a "crosse". The ball is not handled but caught
• UNAPPLIABLE
  Inapplicable. Milton.
• MISTRANSPORT
  To carry away or mislead wrongfully, as by passion. Bp. Hall.
• REAPPLICATION
  The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
• INAPPLICABILITY
  The quality of being inapplicable; unfitness; inapplicableness.
• POSTREMOTE
  More remote in subsequent time or order.
• PREREMOTE
  More remote in previous time or prior order. In some cases two more links of causation may be introduced; one of them may be termed the preremote cause, the other the postremote effect. E. Darwin.
• DRY GOODS
  A commercial name for textile fabrics, cottons, woolens, linen, silks, laces, etc., -- in distinction from groceries.
• UNEMPLOYED
  1. Nor employed in manual or other labor; having no regular work. 2. Not invested or used; as, unemployed capital.