Word Meanings - INDIAMAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A large vessel in the India trade. Macaulay.

Related words: (words related to INDIAMAN)

• TRADE-MARK
  A peculiar distinguishing mark or device affixed by a manufacturer or a merchant to his goods, the exclusive right of using which is recognized by law.
• INDIANEER
  An Indiaman.
• TRADESFOLK
  People employed in trade; tradesmen. Swift.
• INDIA RUBBER
  . See Caoutchouc.
• TRADESPEOPLE
  People engaged in trade; shopkeepers.
• TRADED
  Professional; practiced. Shak.
• INDIAMAN
  A large vessel in the India trade. Macaulay.
• VESSELFUL
  As much as a vessel will hold; enough to fill a vessel.
• TRADELESS
  Having no trade or traffic. Young.
• LARGE-ACRED
  Possessing much land.
• TRADES-UNIONIST; TRADE-UNIONIST
  A member of a trades union, or a supporter of trades unions.
• INDIA STEEL
  See WOOTZ
• TRADER
  1. One engaged in trade or commerce; one who makes a business of buying and selling or of barter; a merchant; a trafficker; as, a trader to the East Indies; a country trader. 2. A vessel engaged in the coasting or foreign trade.
• TRADESCANTIA
  A genus including spiderwort and Wandering Jew.
• LARGE-HANDED
  Having large hands, Fig.: Taking, or giving, in large quantities; rapacious or bountiful.
• LARGE-HEARTED
  Having a large or generous heart or disposition; noble; liberal. -- Large"-heart`ed*ness, n.
• TRADESWOMAN
  A woman who trades, or is skilled in trade.
• INDIAN
  river in Asia, L. Indus, Gr. Hindu, name of the land on the Indus, 1. Of or pertaining to India proper; also to the East Indies, or, sometimes, to the West Indies. 2. Of or pertaining to the aborigines, or Indians, of America; as, Indian wars;
• TRADESMAN
  1. One who trades; a shopkeeper. 2. A mechanic or artificer; esp., one whose livelihood depends upon the labor of his hands. Burrill.
• INDIADEM
  To place or set in a diadem, as a gem or gems.
• SOLE TRADER
  A feme sole trader.
• EAST INDIAN
  Belonging to, or relating to, the East Indies. -- n.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• FOOL-LARGESSE
  Foolish expenditure; waste. Chaucer.
• LINDIA
  A peculiar genus of rotifers, remarkable for the absence of ciliated disks. By some zoölogists it is thought to be like the ancestral form of the Arthropoda.
• AIR VESSEL
  A vessel, cell, duct, or tube containing or conducting air; as the air vessels of insects, birds, plants, etc.; the air vessel of a pump, engine, etc. For the latter, see Air chamber. The air vessels of insects are called tracheæ, of plants spiral
• WEST INDIAN
  A native of, or a dweller in, the West Indies.
• BALUSTRADE
  A row of balusters topped by a rail, serving as an open parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, staircase, or the eaves of a building.
• DEWAR VESSEL
  A double-walled glass vessel for holding liquid air, etc., having the space between the walls exhausted so as to prevent conduction of heat, and sometimes having the glass silvered to prevent absorption of radiant heat; -- called also, according
• TETRADECANE
  A light oily hydrocarbon, C14H30, of the marsh-gas series; -- so called from the fourteen carbon atoms in the molecule.