Word Meanings - AGROUND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

On the ground; stranded; -- a nautical term applied to a ship when its bottom lodges on the ground. Totten.

Related words: (words related to AGROUND)

• 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.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• BOTTOMRY
  A contract in the nature of a mortgage, by which the owner of a ship, or the master as his agent, hypothecates and binds the ship as security for the repayment of money advanced or lent for the use of the ship, if she terminates her voyage
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• APPLICATIVE
  Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv.
• APPLICANCY
  The quality or state of being applicable.
• APPLICABILITY
  The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.
• GROUNDNUT
  The fruit of the Arachis hypogæa ; the peanut; the earthnut. A leguminous, twining plant , producing clusters of dark purple flowers and having a root tuberous and pleasant to the taste. The dwarf ginseng . Gray. A European plant of the genus
• APPLICATORILY
  By way of application.
• GROUNDLESS
  Without ground or foundation; wanting cause or reason for support; not authorized; false; as, groundless fear; a groundless report or assertion. -- Ground"less*ly, adv. -- Ground"less*ness, n.
• NAUTICALLY
  In a nautical manner; with reference to nautical affais.
• BOTTOM
  The part of a ship which is ordinarily under water; hence, the vessel itself; a ship. My ventures are not in one bottom trusted. Shak. Not to sell the teas, but to return them to London in the same bottoms in which they were shipped. Bancroft. Full
• APPLICATE
  Applied or put to some use. Those applicate sciences which extend the power of man over the elements. I. Taylor. Applicate number , one which applied to some concrete case. -- Applicate ordinate, right line applied at right angles to the axis of
• APPLICATION
  1. The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb. 2. The thing applied. He invented a new application by which blood might be stanched. Johnson. 3. The act of applying as a means; the
• GROUNDLY
  Solidly; deeply; thoroughly. Those whom princes do once groundly hate, Let them provide to die as sure us fate. Marston.
• GROUNDING
  The act, method, or process of laying a groundwork or foundation; hence, elementary instruction; the act or process of applying a ground, as of color, to wall paper, cotton cloth, etc.; a basis.
• GROUNDAGE
  A local tax paid by a ship for the ground or space it occupies while in port. Bouvier.
• APPLIABLE
  Applicable; also, compliant. Howell.
• APPLIEDLY
  By application.
• GROUNDLING
  A fish that keeps at the bottom of the water, as the loach. 2. A spectator in the pit of a theater, which formerly was on the ground, and without floor or benches. No comic buffoon to make the groundlings laugh. Coleridge.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• SULPHUR-BOTTOM
  A very large whalebone whale of the genus Sibbaldius, having a yellowish belly; especially, S. sulfureus of the North Pacific, and S. borealis of the North Atlantic; -- called also sulphur whale.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• UNAPPLIABLE
  Inapplicable. Milton.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• REAPPLICATION
  The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
• UNBOTTOMED
  Deprived of a bottom. 2. Etym: (more info) 1. Etym:
• AERONAUTIC; AERONAUTICAL
  Pertaining to aëronautics, or aërial sailing.
• INAPPLICABILITY
  The quality of being inapplicable; unfitness; inapplicableness.
• FOREGROUND
  On a painting, and sometimes in a bas-relief, mosaic picture, or the like, that part of the scene represented, which is nearest to the spectator, and therefore occupies the lowest part of the work of art itself. Cf. Distance, n., 6.