Word Meanings - DISOCCIDENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To turn away from the west; to throw out of reckoning as to longitude. Marvell.

Related words: (words related to DISOCCIDENT)

• RECKON
  reckon, G. rechnen, OHG. rahnjan), and to E. reck, rake an implement; the original sense probably being, to bring together, count together. 1. To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate. The priest shall reckon to him the
• RECKONER
  One who reckons or computes; also, a book of calculation, tables, etc., to assist in reckoning. Reckoners without their host must reckon twice. Camden.
• THROW
  Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe. Spenser. Dryden.
• THROWING
  a. & n. from Throw, v. Throwing engine, Throwing mill, Throwing table, or Throwing wheel , a machine on which earthenware is first rudely shaped by the hand of the potter from a mass of clay revolving rapidly on a disk or table carried
• THROW-OFF
  A start in a hunt or a race.
• THROWER
  One who throws. Specifically: One who throws or twists silk; a throwster. One who shapes vessels on a throwing engine.
• THROWN
  a. & p. p. from Throw, v. Thrown silk, silk thread consisting of two or more singles twisted together like a rope, in a direction contrary to that in which the singles of which it is composed are twisted. M'Culloch. -- Thrown singles, silk thread
• THROWSTER
  One who throws or twists silk; a thrower.
• LONGITUDE
  The arc or portion of the equator intersected between the meridian of a given place and the meridian of some other place from which longitude is reckoned, as from Greenwich, England, or sometimes from the capital of a country, as from Washington
• RECKONING
  1. The act of one who reckons, counts, or computes; the result of reckoning or counting; calculation. Specifically: An account of time. Sandys. Adjustment of claims and accounts; settlement of obligations, liabilities, etc. Even reckoning makes
• THROWE
  A turning lathe.
• THROW-CROOK
  An instrument used for twisting ropes out of straw.
• THROWING STICK
  An instrument used by various savage races for throwing a spear; -- called also throw stick and spear thrower. One end of the stick receives the butt of the spear, as upon a hook or thong, and the other end is grasped with the hand, which also holds
• MISTHROW
  To throw wrongly.
• DEAD-RECKONING
  See A
• OUTTHROW
  1. To throw out. Spenser. 2. To excel in throwing, as in ball playing.
• TWO-THROW
  Capable of being thrown or cranked in two directions, usually opposite to one another; as, a two-throw crank; a two-throw switch. Having two crank set near together and opposite to one another; as, a two-throw crank shaft.
• MISRECKONING
  An erroneous computation.
• DOWNTHROW
  The sudden drop or depression of the strata of rocks on one side of a fault. See Throw, n.
• YTHROWE
  p. p. of Throw. Chaucer.
• OVERTHROW
  1. To throw over; to overturn; to upset; to turn upside down. His wife overthrew the table. Jer. Taylor. 2. To cause to fall or to fail; to subvert; to defeat; to make a ruin of; to destroy. When the walls of Thebes he overthrew. Dryden. that seeks
• OVERRECKON
  To reckon too highly.
• UNDERRECKON
  To reckon below what is right or proper; to underrate. Bp. Hall.