Word Meanings - INTERCONTINENTAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Between or among continents; subsisting or carried on between continents; as, intercontinental relations or commerce.

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• CARRIBOO
  See CARIBOU
• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• CARRIABLE
  Capable of being carried.
• CARRIAGEABLE
  Passable by carriages; that can be conveyed in carriages. Ruskin.
• INTERCONTINENTAL
  Between or among continents; subsisting or carried on between continents; as, intercontinental relations or commerce.
• SUBSISTENCY
  Subsistence.
• CARRIAGE
  carriage, cart, baggage, F. charriage, cartage, wagoning, fr. OF. 1. That which is carried; burden; baggage. David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage. 1. Sam. xvii. 22. And after those days we took up our carriages and
• SUBSISTENCE
  See HOOKER (more info) 1. Real being; existence. Not only the things had subsistence, but the very images were of some creatures existing. Stillingfleet. 2. Inherency; as, the subsistence of qualities in
• CARRION
  1. The dead and putrefying body or flesh of an animal; flesh so corrupted as to be unfit for food. They did eat the dead carrions. Spenser. 2. A contemptible or worthless person; -- a term of reproach. "Old feeble carrions." Shak.
• SUBSISTENCE DEPARTMENT
  A staff department of the United States army charged, under the supervision of the Chief of Staff, with the purchasing and issuing to the army of such supplies as make up the ration. It also supplies, for authorized sales, certain articles of food
• BETWEEN
  betweónum; prefix be- by + a form fr. AS. twa two, akin to Goth. 1. In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia. 2. Used in expressing motion from one body or place to another; from one to another of
• COMMERCE
  1. The exchange or buying and selling of commodities; esp. the exchange of merchandise, on a large scale, between different places or communities; extended trade or traffic. The public becomes powerful in proportion to the opulence and extensive
• CARRICK
  A carack. See Carack. Carrick bend , a kind of knot, used for bending together hawsers or other ropes. -- Carrick bitts , the bitts which support the windlass. Totten.
• AMONG; AMONGST
  among, AS. onmang, ongemang, gemang, in a crowd or mixture. For the 1. Mixed or mingled; surrounded by. They heard, And from his presence hid themselves among The thickest trees. Milton. 2. Conjoined, or associated with, or making part
• SUBSIST
  sub under + sistere to stand, to cause to stand, from stare to stand: 1. To be; to have existence; to inhere. And makes what happiness we justly call, Subsist not in the good of one, but all. Pope. 2. To continue; to retain a certain state. Firm
• SUBSISTENT
  1. Having real being; as, a subsistent spirit. 2. Inherent; as, qualities subsistent in matter.
• CARRIER
  That which drives or carries; as: A piece which communicates to an object in a lathe the motion of the face plate; a lathe dog. A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding machine. A movable piece in magazine guns which transfers the cartridge
• COMMERCE DESTROYER
  A very fast, unarmored, lightly armed vessel designed to capture or destroy merchant vessels of an enemy. Not being intended to fight, they may be improvised from fast passenger steamers.
• SCARRING
  A scar; a mark. We find upon the limestone rocks the scarrings of the ancient glacier which brought the bowlder here. Tyndall.
• RECARRIAGE
  Act of carrying back.
• MISCARRIAGEABLE
  Capable of miscarrying; liable to fail. Bp. Hall.
• GINNY-CARRIAGE
  A small, strong carriage for conveying materials on a railroad.
• GO-BETWEEN
  An intermediate agent; a broker; a procurer; -- usually in a disparaging sense. Shak.
• HYDROPNEUMATIC GUN CARRIAGE
  A disappearing gun carriage in which the recoil is checked by cylinders containing liquid and air, the air when compressed furnishing the power for restoring the gun to the firing position. It is used with some English and European heavy guns.
• MISCARRIAGE
  1. Unfortunate event or issue of an undertaking; failure to attain a desired result or reach a destination. When a counselor, to save himself, Would lay miscarriages upon his prince. Dryden. 2. Ill conduct; evil or improper behavior;
• WATER CARRIAGE
  1. Transportation or conveyance by water; means of transporting by water. 2. A vessel or boat. Arbuthnot.
• CARRAGEEN; CARRIGEEN
  A small, purplish, branching, cartilaginous seaweed (Chondrus