Word Meanings - WAFTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who, or that which, wafts. O Charon, Thou wafter of the soul to bliss or bane. Beau. & FL. 2. A boat for passage. Ainsworth.

Related words: (words related to WAFTER)

• BLISS
  Orig., blithesomeness; gladness; now, the highest degree of happiness; blessedness; exalted felicity; heavenly joy. An then at last our bliss Full and perfect is. Milton. Syn. -- Blessedness; felicity; beatitude; happiness; joy; enjoyment.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• PASSAGEWAY
  A way for passage; a hall. See Passage, 5.
• BLISSLESS
  Destitute of bliss. Sir P. Sidney.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• WAFTER
  1. One who, or that which, wafts. O Charon, Thou wafter of the soul to bliss or bane. Beau. & FL. 2. A boat for passage. Ainsworth.
• PASSAGE
  1. The act of passing; transit from one place to another; movement from point to point; a going by, over, across, or through; as, the passage of a man or a carriage; the passage of a ship or a bird; the passage of light; the passage of
• BLISSOM
  To be lustful; to be lascivious.
• BLISSFUL
  Full of, characterized by, or causing, joy and felicity; happy in the highest degree. "Blissful solitude." Milton. -- Bliss"ful*ly, adv. -- Bliss"ful*ness, n.
• CHARON
  The son of Erebus and Nox, whose office it was to ferry the souls of the dead over the Styx, a river of the infernal regions. Shak.
• PASSAGER
  A passenger; a bird or boat of passage. Ld. Berners.
• SACCHARONATE
  A salt of saccharonic acid.
• SACCHARONE
  A white crystalline substance, C6H8O6, obtained by the oxidation of saccharin, and regarded as the lactone of saccharonic acid. An oily liquid, C6H10O2, obtained by the reduction of saccharin.
• BY-PASSAGE
  A passage different from the usual one; a byway.
• SACCHARONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or derived from, saccharone; specifically, designating an unstable acid which is obtained from saccharone by hydration, and forms a well-known series of salts.
• PAINSWORTHY
  Worth the pains o
• REPASSAGE
  The act of repassing; passage back. Hakluyt.