Word Meanings - WAGON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The Dipper, or Charles's Wain. Note: This word and its compounds are often written with two g's , chiefly in England. The forms wagon, wagonage, etc., are, however, etymologically preferable, and in the United States are almost universally used.

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The Dipper, or Charles's Wain. Note: This word and its compounds are often written with two g's , chiefly in England. The forms wagon, wagonage, etc., are, however, etymologically preferable, and in the United States are almost universally used. Wagon boiler. See the Note under Boiler, 3. -- Wagon ceiling , a semicircular, or wagon-headed, arch or ceiling; -- sometimes used also of a ceiling whose section is polygonal instead of semicircular. -- Wagon master, an officer or person in charge of one or more wagons, especially of those used for transporting freight, as the supplies of an army, and the like. -- Wagon shoe, a skid, or shoe, for retarding the motion of a wagon wheel; a drag. -- Wagon vault. See under 1st Vault. (more info) 1. A wheeled carriage; a vehicle on four wheels, and usually drawn by horses; especially, one used for carrying freight or merchandise. Note: In the United States, light wagons are used for the conveyance of persons and light commodities. 2. A freight car on a railway. 3. A chariot Spenser.

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• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• UNITERABLE
  Not iterable; incapable of being repeated. "To play away an uniterable life." Sir T. Browne.
• WAGON
  The Dipper, or Charles's Wain. Note: This word and its compounds are often written with two g's , chiefly in England. The forms wagon, wagonage, etc., are, however, etymologically preferable, and in the United States are almost universally used.
• UNIVERSALLY
  In a universal manner; without exception; as, God's laws are universally binding on his creatures.
• UNITIVE
  Having the power of uniting; causing, or tending to produce, union. Jer. Taylor.
• UNITARIANISM
  The doctrines of Unitarians.
• UNITARIANIZE
  To change or turn to Unitarian views.
• OFTENNESS
  Frequency. Hooker.
• STATESWOMAN
  A woman concerned in public affairs. A rare stateswoman; I admire her bearing. B. Jonson.
• UNIT
  The least whole number; one. Units are the integral parts of any large number. I. Watts. 3. A gold coin of the reign of James I., of the value of twenty shillings. Camden. 4. Any determinate amount or quantity (as of length, time, heat,
• STATESMANLY
  Becoming a statesman.
• UNITABLE
  Capable of union by growth or otherwise. Owen.
• STATESMAN
  1. A man versed in public affairs and in the principles and art of government; especially, one eminent for political abilities. The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the stronger light
• UNITIVELY
  In a unitive manner. Cudworth.
• UNITARIAN
  Of or pertaining to Unitarians, or their doctrines.
• CHARLES'S WAIN
  The group of seven stars, commonly called the Dipper, in the constellation Ursa Major, or Great Bear. See Ursa major, under Ursa. Note: The name is sometimes also applied to the Constellation.
• WAGONER
  The constellation Charles's Wain, or Ursa Major. See Ursa major, under Ursa. (more info) 1. One who conducts a wagon; one whose business it is to drive a wagon.
• WAGON-ROOFED
  Having a roof, or top, shaped like an inverted U; wagon-headed.
• OFTEN
  Frequent; common; repeated. "Thine often infirmities." 1 Tim. v. 23. And weary thee with often welcomes. Beau. & Fl.
• UNITY
  Any definite quantity, or aggregate of quantities or magnitudes taken as one, or for which 1 is made to stand in calculation; thus, in a table of natural sines, the radius of the circle is regarded as unity. Note: The number 1, when it
• CONESTOGA WAGON; CONESTOGA WAIN
  A kind of large broad-wheeled wagon, usually covered, for traveling in soft soil and on prairies.
• TRIBUNICIAN; TRIBUNITIAL; TRIBUNITIAN
  Of or pertaining to tribunes; befitting a tribune; as, tribunitial power or authority. Dryden. A kind of tribunician veto, forbidding that which is recognized to be wrong. Hare.
• JEJUNITY
  The quality of being jejune; jejuneness.
• TRIUNITY
  The quality or state of being triune; trinity. Dr. H. More.
• MUNITION
  fortification, fr. munire to fortify, defend with a wall; cf. moenia walls, murus a wall, and Skr. mi to fix, make firm. Cf. 1. Fortification; stronghold. His place of defense shall be the munitions of rocks. Is. xxxiii. 16. 2. Whatever materials
• PUNITION
  Punishment. Mir. for Mag.
• ALUNITE
  Alum stone.
• TRINIUNITY
  Triunity; trinity. As for terms of trinity, triniunity, . . . and the like, they reject them as scholastic notions. Milton.
• REUNITEDLY
  In a reunited manner.