Word Meanings - LONGSHORE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Belonging to the seashore or a seaport; along and on the shore. "Longshore thieves." R. Browning.

Related words: (words related to LONGSHORE)

• SHORER
  One who, or that which, shores or props; a prop; a shore.
• BROWNBACK
  The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.
• SHOREWARD
  Toward the shore.
• SEASHORE
  All the ground between the ordinary highwater and low-water marks. (more info) 1. The coast of the sea; the land that lies adjacent to the sea or ocean.
• ALONGSIDE
  Along or by the side; side by side with; -- often with of; as, bring the boat alongside; alongside of him; alongside of the tree.
• LONGSHORE
  Belonging to the seashore or a seaport; along and on the shore. "Longshore thieves." R. Browning.
• BROWNIE
  An imaginary good-natured spirit, who was supposed often to perform important services around the house by night, such as thrashing, churning, sweeping.
• BROWNNESS
  The quality or state of being brown. Now like I brown ; Only in brownness beauty dwelleth there. Drayton.
• BROWNWORT
  A species of figwort or Scrophularia , and other species of the same genus, mostly perennials with inconspicuous coarse flowers.
• BROWNY
  Brown or, somewhat brown. "Browny locks." Shak.
• BELONG
  attain to, to concern); pref. be- + longen to desire. See Long, v. Note: 1. To be the property of; as, Jamaica belongs to Great Britain. 2. To be a part of, or connected with; to be appendant or related; to owe allegiance or service. A desert place
• BROWNIAN
  Pertaining to Dr. Robert Brown, who first demonstrated (about 1827) the commonness of the motion described below. Brownian movement, the peculiar, rapid, vibratory movement exhibited by the microscopic particles of substances when suspended in water
• BROWN THRUSH
  A common American singing bird , allied to the mocking bird; -- also called brown thrasher.
• BROWNIST
  A follower of Robert Brown, of England, in the 16th century, who taught that every church is complete and independent in itself when organized, and consists of members meeting in one place, having full power to elect and depose its officers.
• BROWNISH
  Somewhat brown.
• LONGSHOREMAN
  One of a class of laborers employed about the wharves of a seaport, especially in loading and unloading vessels.
• BROWN
  1. To make brown or dusky. A trembling twilight o'er welkin moves,Browns the dim void and darkens deep the groves. Barlow. 2. To make brown by scorching slightly; as, to brown meat or flour. 3. To give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels,
• BROWNSTONE
  A dark variety of sandstone, much used for building purposes.
• BELONGING
  1. That which belongs to one; that which pertains to one; hence, goods or effects. "Thyself and thy belongings." Shak. 2. That which is connected with a principal or greater thing; an appendage; an appurtenance. 3. Family; relations; household.
• BROWN BILL
  A bill or halberd of the 16th and 17th centuries. See 4th Bill. Many time, but for a sallet, my brainpan had been cleft with a brown bill. Shak. Note: The black, or as it is sometimes called, the brown bill, was a kind of halberd, the cutting part
• KALONG
  A fruit bat, esp. the Indian edible fruit bat (Pteropus edulis).
• IMBROWN
  To make brown; to obscure; to darken; to tan; as, features imbrowned by exposure. The mountain mass by scorching skies imbrowned. Byron.
• BROWNISM
  The views or teachings of Robert Brown of the Brownists. Milton.
• NUT-BROWN
  Brown as a nut long kept and dried. "The spicy nutbrown ale." Milton.