Word Meanings - HOUSING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A frame or support for holding something in place, as journal boxes, etc. That portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel. A covering or protection, as an awning over the deck of a ship when laid up. A houseline.
Additional info about word: HOUSING
A frame or support for holding something in place, as journal boxes, etc. That portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel. A covering or protection, as an awning over the deck of a ship when laid up. A houseline. See Houseline. (more info) 1. The act of putting or receiving under shelter; the state of dwelling in a habitation. 2. That which shelters or covers; houses, taken collectively. Fabyan. The space taken out of one solid, to admit the insertion of part of another, as the end of one timber in the side of another. A niche for a statue.
Related words: (words related to HOUSING)
- SUPPORTABLE
Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv. - HOLD
The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed. - SUPPORTATION
Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon. - COVER-POINT
The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point." - PLACEMENT
1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place. - AWNINGED
Furnished with an awning. - PLACENTARY
Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification. - PLACE-KICK
To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n. - COVERLET
The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser. - PORTIONIST
One of the incumbents of a benefice which has two or more rectors or vicars. (more info) 1. A scholar at Merton College, Oxford, who has a certain academical allowance or portion; -- corrupted into postmaster. Shipley. - COVERCLE
A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne. - SUPPORTFUL
Abounding with support. Chapman. - AWNING
awan, awang, anything suspended, or LG. havening a place sheltered 1. A rooflike cover, usually of canvas, extended over or before any place as a shelter from the sun, rain, or wind. 2. That part of the poop deck which is continued forward beyond - HOLDBACK
1. Check; hindrance; restraint; obstacle. The only holdback is the affection . . . that we bear to our wealth. Hammond. 2. The projection or loop on the thill of a vehicle. to which a strap of the harness is attached, to hold back a carriage when - SUPPORTLESS
Having no support. Milton. - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - HOLDER-FORTH
One who speaks in public; an haranguer; a preacher. Addison. - COVERT BARON
Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill. - PLACER
One who places or sets. Spenser. - HOLDER
One who is employed in the hold of a vessel. - DISPROPORTIONALLY
In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally. - IMPROPORTIONATE
Not proportionate. - UNFRAME
To take apart, or destroy the frame of. Dryden. - INHOLD
To have inherent; to contain in itself; to possess. Sir W. Raleigh. - RECOVER
To cover again. Sir W. Scott. - BRAWNER
A boor killed for the table. - DISPROPORTIONABLE
Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv. - DISPROPORTIONALITY
The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More. - COPYHOLDER
One possessed of land in copyhold. A device for holding copy for a compositor. One who reads copy to a proof reader. - PROPORTIONATE
Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional. Longfellow. What is proportionate to his transgression. Locke. - HIGH-HOLDER
The flicker; -- called also high-hole. - BLANCH HOLDING
A mode of tenure by the payment of a small duty in white rent or otherwise. - BEHOLDER
One who beholds; a spectator. - REPLACEMENT
The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing. - FAWNINGLY
In a fawning manner.