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. - STATESWOMAN
A woman concerned in public affairs. A rare stateswoman; I admire her bearing. B. Jonson. - OFTENNESS
Frequency. Hooker. - 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. - 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 - UNITABLE
Capable of union by growth or otherwise. Owen. - 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.