Word Meanings - DISANCHOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To raise the anchor of, as a ship; to weigh anchor. Heywood.

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• ANCHORET; ANCHORITE
  One who renounces the world and secludes himself, usually for Our Savior himself . . . did not choose an anchorite's or a monastic life, but a social and affable way of conversing with mortals. Boyle.
• RAISE
  To create or constitute; as, to raise a use that is, to create it. Burrill. To raise a blockade , to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
• RAISED
  1. Lifted up; showing above the surroundings; as, raised or embossed metal work. 2. Leavened; made with leaven, or yeast; -- used of bread, cake, etc., as distinguished from that made with cream of tartar, soda, etc. See Raise, v. t., 4. Raised
• WEIGHTINESS
  The quality or state of being weighty; weight; force; importance; impressiveness.
• WEIGHTILY
  In a weighty manner.
• WEIGHMASTER
  One whose business it is to weigh ore, hay, merchandise, etc.; one licensed as a public weigher.
• ANCHOR LIGHT
  The lantern shown at night by a vessel at anchor. International rules of the road require vessels at anchor to carry from sunset to sunrise a single white light forward if under 150 feet in length, and if longer, two such lights, one near the stern
• ANCHORAGE
  1. The act of anchoring, or the condition of lying at anchor. 2. A place suitable for anchoring or where ships anchor; a hold for an anchor. 3. The set of anchors belonging to a ship. 4. Something which holds like an anchor; a hold; as,
• ANCHORESS
  A female anchoret. And there, a saintly anchoress, she dwelt. Wordsworth.
• WEIGHER
  One who weighs; specifically, an officer whose duty it is to weigh commodities.
• WEIGH-HOUSE
  A building at or within which goods, and the like, are weighed.
• RAISER
  One who, or that which, raises .
• ANCHORLESS
  Without an anchor or stay. Hence: Drifting; unsettled.
• WEIGHT
  The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it. Atomic weight. See under Atomic, and cf. Element. -- Dead weight, Feather weight, Heavy weight, Light weight, etc. See under Dead, Feather, etc. -- Weight of
• WEIGHTY
  1. Having weight; heavy; ponderous; as, a weighty body. 2. Adapted to turn the balance in the mind, or to convince; important; forcible; serious; momentous. "For sundry weighty reasons." Shak. Let me have your advice in a weighty affair. Swift.
• WEIGHBOARD
  Clay intersecting a vein. Weale.
• ANCHOR-HOLD
  1. The hold or grip of an anchor, or that to which it holds. 2. Hence: Firm hold: security.
• ANCHORETISM
  The practice or mode of life of an anchoret.
• ANCHOR WATCH
  A detail of one or more men who keep watch on deck at night when a vessel is at anchor.
• WEIGHABLE
  Capable of being weighed.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• COUNTER WEIGHT
  A counterpoise.
• MISRAISE
  To raise or exite unreasonable. "Misraised fury." Bp. Hall.
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• WELTERWEIGHT
  1. A weight of 28 pounds (one of 40 pounds is called a heavy welterweight) sometimes imposed in addition to weight for age, chiefly in steeplechases and hurdle races. 2. A boxer or wrestler whose weight is intermediate between that
• FRAISE
  A large and thick pancake, with slices of bacon in it. Johnson.
• PRAISER
  1. One who praises. "Praisers of men." Sir P. Sidney. 2. An appraiser; a valuator. Sir T. North.
• FRAISED
  Fortified with a fraise.
• BRAISE; BRAIZE
  A European marine fish allied to the American scup; the becker. The name is sometimes applied to the related species.
• OVERPRAISE
  To praise excessively or unduly.
• AWEIGH
  Just drawn out of the ground, and hanging perpendicularly; atrip; -- said of the anchor. Totten.
• UNWEIGHING
  Not weighing or pondering; inconsiderate. Shak.