Word Meanings - COCKSWAIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The steersman of a boat; a petty officer who has charge of a boat and its crew.

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• CHARGEANT
  Burdensome; troublesome. Chaucer.
• CHARGEABLE
  1. That may be charged, laid, imposed, or imputes; as, a duty chargeable on iron; a fault chargeable on a man. 2. Subject to be charge or accused; liable or responsible; as, revenues chargeable with a claim; a man chargeable with murder. 3. Serving
• CHARGE
  1. To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill. A carte that charged was with hay. Chaucer. The charging of children's memories with rules. Locke. 2. To lay on or impose, as a task, duty, or trust; to command, instruct, or
• CHARGE D'AFFAIRES
  A diplomatic representative, or minister of an inferior grade, accredited by the government of one state to the minister of foreign affairs of another; also, a substitute, ad interim, for an ambassador or minister plenipotentiary.
• PETTYWHIN
  The needle furze. See under Needle.
• CHARGELESS
  Free from, or with little, charge.
• CHARGEABLENESS
  The quality of being chargeable or expensive. Whitelocke.
• OFFICER
  Specifically, a commissioned officer, in distinction from a warrant officer. Field officer, General officer, etc. See under Field, General. etc. -- Officer of the day , the officer who, on a given day, has charge for that day of the quard,
• CHARGEOUS
  Burdensome. I was chargeous to no man. Wyclif, .
• CHARGEABLY
  At great cost; expensively.
• CHARGER
  1. One who, or that which charges. 2. An instrument for measuring or inserting a charge. 3. A large dish. Give me here John Baptist's head in a charger. Matt. xiv. 8. 4. A horse for battle or parade. Macaulay. And furious every charger neighed.
• PETTY
  Little; trifling; inconsiderable; also, inferior; subordinate; as, a petty fault; a petty prince. Denham. Like a petty god I walked about, admired of all. Milton. Petty averages. See under Average. -- Petty cash, money expended or received in small
• CHARGEFUL
  Costly; expensive. The fineness of the gold and chargeful fashion. Shak.
• CHARGEHOUSE
  A schoolhouse.
• STEERSMAN
  One who steers; the helmsman of a vessel. Milton.
• PETTYCHAPS
  Any one of several species of small European singing birds of the subfamily Sylviinæ, as the willow warbler, the chiff-chaff, and the golden warbler .
• CHARGESHIP
  The office of a chargé d'affaires.
• MISCHARGE
  To charge erroneously, as in account. -- n.
• ENCHARGE
  To charge ; to impose upon. His countenance would express the spirit and the passion of the part he was encharged with. Jeffrey.
• OVERCHARGE
  1. To charge or load too heavily; to burden; to oppress; to cloy. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. To fill too full; to crowd. Our language is overcharged with consonants. Addison. 3. To charge excessively; to charge beyond a fair rate or price. 4.
• UNCHARGE
  1. To free from a charge or load; to unload. Wyclif. 2. To free from an accusation; to make no charge against; to acquit. Shak.
• SURCHARGEMENT
  The act of surcharging; also, surcharge, surplus. Daniel.
• OVERHEAD CHARGES; OVERHEAD EXPENSES
  Those general charges or expenses in any business which cannot be charged up as belonging exclusively to any particular part of the work or product, as where different kinds of goods are made, or where there are different departments in a business;
• RECHARGE
  1. To charge or accuse in return. 2. To attack again; to attack anew. Dryden.
• SURCHARGER
  One who surcharges.
• DOUBLE-CHARGE
  1. To load with a double charge, as of gunpowder. 2. To overcharge. Shak.
• SUBOFFICER
  An under or subordinate officer.
• UNDERCHARGE
  1. To charge below or under; to charge less than is usual or suitable fro; as, to undercharge goods or services. 2. To put too small a charge into; as, to undercharge a gun. Undercharged mine , a mine whose crater is not as wide at top as it is
• DISCHARGER
  One who, or that which, discharges. Specifically, in electricity, an instrument for discharging a Leyden jar, or electrical battery, by making a connection between the two surfaces; a discharging rod.