Word Meanings - COURSEY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A space in the galley; a part of the hatches. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

Related words: (words related to COURSEY)

• ENCYCLIC; ENCYCLICAL
  Sent to many persons or places; intended for many, or for a whole order of men; general; circular; as, an encyclical letter of a council, of a bishop, or the pope.
• ENCYCLOPEDIAN
  Embracing the whole circle of learning, or a wide range of subjects.
• ENCYCLOPEDIST
  The compiler of an encyclopedia, or one who assists in such compilation; also, one whose knowledge embraces the whole range of the sciences. The Encyclopedists, the writers of the great French encyclopedia which appeared in 1751-1772. The editors
• GALLEY-WORM
  A chilognath myriapod of the genus Iulus, and allied genera, having numerous short legs along the sides; a milliped or "thousand legs." See Chilognatha.
• SPACE
  One of the intervals, or open places, between the lines of the staff. Absolute space, Euclidian space, etc. See under Absolute, Euclidian, etc. -- Space line , a thin piece of metal used by printers to open the lines of type to a regular distance
• ENCYCLOPEDIC; ENCYCLOPEDICAL
  Pertaining to, or of the nature of, an encyclopedia; embracing a wide range of subjects.
• ENCYCLOPEDISM
  The art of writing or compiling encyclopedias; also, possession of the whole range of knowledge; encyclopedic learning.
• ENCYCLOPEDIA; ENCYCLOPAEDIA
  The circle of arts and sciences; a comprehensive summary of knowledge, or of a branch of knowledge; esp., a work in which the various branches of science or art are discussed separately, and usually in alphabetical order; a cyclopedia.
• SPACE BAR; SPACE KEY
  A bar or key, in a typewriter or typesetting machine, used for spacing between letters.
• SPACELESS
  Without space. Coleridge.
• SPACEFUL
  Wide; extensive. Sandys.
• ENCYCLOPEDIACAL
  Encyclopedic.
• GALLEY-BIRD
  The European green woodpecker; also, the spotted woodpecker.
• GALLEY
  A vessel propelled by oars, whether having masts and sails or not; as: A large vessel for war and national purposes; -- common in the Middle Ages, and down to the 17th century. A name given by analogy to the Greek, Roman, and other ancient vessels
• DISPACE
  To roam. In this fair plot dispacing to and fro. Spenser.
• HYPERSPACE
  An imagined space having more than three dimensions.
• ANCHOR SPACE
  In the balk-line game, any of eight spaces, 7 inches by 3½, lying along a cushion and bisected transversely by a balk line. Object balls in an anchor space are treated as in balk.
• ESPACE
  Space. Chaucer.
• INTERSPACE
  Intervening space. Bp. Hacket.
• CROOKES SPACE
  The dark space within the negative-pole glow at the cathode of a vacuum tube, observed only when the pressure is low enough to give a striated discharge; -- called also Crookes layer.