Word Meanings - CHARON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Related words: (words related to CHARON)

• WHOSESOEVER
  The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever.
• INFERNALLY
  In an infernal manner; diabolically. "Infernally false." Bp. Hacket.
• OFFICEHOLDER
  An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
• RIVER
  One who rives or splits.
• INFERNAL
  1. Of or pertaining to or suitable for the lower regions, inhabited, according to the ancients, by the dead; pertaining to Pluto's realm of the dead, the Tartarus of the ancients. The Elysian fields, the infernal monarchy. Garth. 2. Of
• RIVERLING
  A rivulet. Sylvester.
• OFFICE WIRE
  Copper wire with a strong but light insulation, used in wiring houses, etc.
• RIVERY
  Having rivers; as, a rivery country. Drayton.
• RIVERET
  A rivulet. Drayton.
• RIVERSIDE
  The side or bank of a river.
• WHOSE
  The possessive case of who or which. See Who, and Which. Whose daughter art thou tell me, I pray thee. Gen. xxiv. 23. The question whose solution I require. Dryden.
• FERRYBOAT
  A vessel for conveying passengers, merchandise, etc., across streams and other narrow waters.
• OFFICER
  1. To furnish with officers; to appoint officers over. Marshall. 2. To command as an officer; as, veterans from old regiments officered the recruits.
• RIVERED
  Supplied with rivers; as, a well rivered country.
• EREBUS
  A place of nether darkness, being the gloomy space through which the souls passed to Hades. See Milton's "Paradise Lost," Book II., line 883.
• RIVERHOOD
  The quality or state of being a river. "Useful riverhood." H. Miller.
• FERRYMAN
  One who maintains or attends a ferry.
• OFFICE
  The apartments or outhouses in which the domestics discharge the duties attached to the service of a house, as kitchens, pantries, stables, etc. As for the offices, let them stand at distance. Bacon. (more info) 1. That which a person does, either
• FERRY
  1. A place where persons or things are carried across a river, arm of the sea, etc., in a ferryboat. It can pass the ferry backward into light. Milton. To row me o'er the ferry. Campbell. 2. A vessel in which passengers and goods are conveyed over
• POST OFFICE
  See POST
• BOOKING OFFICE
  1. An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship. 2. An office where passage tickets are sold.
• CROWN OFFICE
  The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases. Burrill.
• DRIVER
  A part that transmits motion to another part by contact with it, or through an intermediate relatively movable part, as a gear which drives another, or a lever which moves another through a link, etc. Specifically: The driving wheel of a locomotive.
• SCREW-DRIVER
  A tool for turning screws so as to drive them into their place. It has a thin end which enters the nick in the head of the screw.
• CONTRIVER
  One who contrives, devises, plans, or schemas. Swift.
• PERIVERTEBRAL
  Surrounding the vertebræ.
• ARRIVER
  One who arrives.
• ALL SOULS' DAY
  The second day of November; a feast day of the Roman Catholic church, on which supplications are made for the souls of the faithful dead.
• SUBOFFICER
  An under or subordinate officer.