Word Meanings - DOGGER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A two-masted fishing vessel, used by the Dutch.

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• MASTERSHIP
  1. The state or office of a master. 2. Mastery; dominion; superior skill; superiority. Where noble youths for mastership should strive. Driden. 3. Chief work; masterpiece. Dryden. 4. An ironical title of respect. How now, seignior Launce ! what
• MASTEROUS
  Masterly. Milton.
• FISHHAWK
  The osprey , found both in Europe and America; -- so called because it plunges into the water and seizes fishes in its talons. Called also fishing eagle, and bald buzzard.
• MASTHOUSE
  A building in which vessels' masts are shaped, fitted, etc.
• MASTICABLE
  Capable of being masticated.
• MASTICATION
  The act or operation of masticating; chewing, as of food. Mastication is a necessary preparation of solid aliment, without which there can be no good digestion. Arbuthnot.
• FISH-TAIL
  Like the of a fish; acting, or producing something, like the tail of a fish. Fish-tail burner, a gas burner that gives a spreading flame shaped somewhat like the tail of a fish. -- Fish-tail propeller , a propeller with a single blade
• MASTOIDITIS
  Inflammation in the mastoid process of the temporal bone.
• MASTOLOGY
  The natural history of Mammalia.
• MASTODONTIC
  Pertaining to, or resembling, a mastodon; as, mastodontic dimensions. Everett.
• FISHWIFE
  A fishwoman.
• MASTODYNIA; MASTODYNY
  Pain occuring in the mamma or female breast, -- a form of neuralgia.
• MASTERFULLY
  In a masterful manner; imperiously. A lawless and rebellious man who held lands masterfully and in high contempt of the royal authority. Macaulay.
• MASTICATORY
  Chewing; adapted to perform the office o
• FISHINESS
  The state or quality of being fishy or fishlike. Pennant.
• VESSELFUL
  As much as a vessel will hold; enough to fill a vessel.
• MASTICATE
  To grind or crush with, or as with, the teeth and prepare for swallowing and digestion; to chew; as, to masticate food.
• MASTICATOR
  1. One who masticates. 2. A machine for cutting meat into fine pieces for toothless people; also, a machine for cutting leather, India rubber, or similar tough substances, into fine pieces, in some processes of manufacture.
• MASTERSINGER
  One of a class of poets which flourished in Nuremberg and some other cities of Germany in the 15th and 16th centuries. They bound themselves to observe certain arbitrary laws of rhythm.
• MASTING
  The act or process of putting a mast or masts into a vessel; also, the scientific principles which determine the position of masts, and the mechanical methods of placing them. Masting house , a large building, with suitable mechanism overhanging
• SPILLET FISHING; SPILLIARD FISHING
  A system or method of fishing by means of a number of hooks set on snoods all on one line; -- in North America, called trawl fishing, bultow, or bultow fishing, and long-line fishing.
• BONEFISH
  See LADYFISH
• CREMASTERIC
  Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery.
• POLYMASTISM
  The condition of having more than two mammæ, or breasts.
• MUFFISH
  Stupid; awkward.
• BAGGAGE MASTER
  One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel.
• HEMASTATICS
  Laws relating to the equilibrium of the blood in the blood vessels.
• TIFFISH
  Inclined to tiffs; peevish; petulant.
• YELLOWFISH
  A rock trout found on the coast of Alaska; -- called also striped fish, and Atka mackerel.
• STYLOMASTOID
  Of or pertaining to the styloid and mastoid processes of the temporal bone.
• GREENFISH
  See POLLOCK
• DOGFISH
  1. A small shark, of many species, of the genera Mustelus, Scyllium, Spinax, etc. Note: The European spotted dogfishes (Scyllium catudus, and S. canicula) are very abundant; the American smooth, or blue dogfish is Mustelus canis; the common picked,
• REMASTICATION
  The act of masticating or chewing again or repeatedly.
• TOASTMASTER
  A person who presides at a public dinner or banquet, and announces the toasts.
• WINGFISH
  A sea robin having large, winglike pectoral fins. See Sea robin, under Robin.
• ELFISHLY
  In an elfish manner.
• SELFISHLY
  In a selfish manner; with regard to private interest only or chiefly.
• HEADFISH
  The sunfish .
• STAFFISH
  Stiff; harsh. Ascham.
• SWALLOWFISH
  The European sapphirine gurnard . It has large pectoral fins.