Word Meanings - LUGSAIL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A square sail bent upon a yard that hangs obliquely to the mast and is raised or lowered with the sail. Totten.
Related words: (words related to LUGSAIL)
- RAISE
To create or constitute; as, to raise a use that is, to create it. Burrill. To raise a blockade , to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them. - RAISED
1. Lifted up; showing above the surroundings; as, raised or embossed metal work. 2. Leavened; made with leaven, or yeast; -- used of bread, cake, etc., as distinguished from that made with cream of tartar, soda, etc. See Raise, v. t., 4. Raised - LOWERMOST
Lowest. - SQUARE-TOED
Having the toe square. Obsolete as fardingales, ruffs, and square-toed shoes. V. Knox. - SQUARELY
In a square form or manner. - RAIS
See REIS - LOWERY
Cloudy; gloomy; lowering; as, a lowery sky; lowery weather. - SQUARE-RIGGED
Having the sails extended upon yards suspended horizontally by the middle, as distinguished from fore-and-aft sails; thus, a ship and a brig are square-rigged vessels. - RAISING
1. The act of lifting, setting up, elevating, exalting, producing, or restoring to life. 2. Specifically, the operation or work of setting up the frame of a building; as, to help at a raising. 3. The operation of embossing sheet metal, - LOWER
Compar. of Low, a. - RAISER
One who, or that which, raises . - SQUARE
An instrument having at least one right angle and two or more straight edges, used to lay out or test square work. It is of several forms, as the T square, the carpenter's square, the try-square., etc. 5. Hence, a pattern or rule. (more - LOWER-CASE
Pertaining to, or kept in, the lower case; -- used to denote the small letters, in distinction from capitals and small capitals. See the Note under 1st Case, n., 3. - RAISIN
1. A grape, or a bunch of grapes. Cotgrave. 2. A grape dried in the sun or by artificial heat. Raisin tree , the common red currant, whose fruit resembles the small raisins of Corinth called currants. Dp. Prior. - LOWERING
Dark and threatening; gloomy; sullen; as, lowering clouds or sky. - RAISONNE
Arranged systematically, or according to classes or subjects; as, a catalogue raisonné. See under Catalogue. - OBLIQUELY
In an oblique manner; not directly; indirectly. "Truth obliquely leveled." Bp. Fell. Declining from the noon of day, The sun obliquely shoots his burning ray. Pope His discourse tends obliquely to the detracting from others. Addison. - SQUARER
1. One who, or that which, squares. 2. One who squares, or quarrels; a hot-headed, contentious fellow. Shak. - SQUARE-TOES
A precise person; -- used contemptuously or jocularly. Thackeray. - SQUARENESS
The quality of being square; as, an instrument to try the squareness of work. - WILLOWER
A willow. See Willow, n., 2. - WINDFLOWER
The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone. - APPRAISER
One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates. - THREE-SQUARE
Having a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; -- said especially of a kind of file. - FLOWERY-KIRTLED
Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton. - CAULIFLOWER
An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L. - LIVRAISON
A part of a book or literary composition printed and delivered by itself; a number; a part. - HEBRAIST
One versed in the Hebrew language and learning. - FLOWER-DE-LUCE
A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north - T SQUARE
See T - MISRAISE
To raise or exite unreasonable. "Misraised fury." Bp. Hall. - PRAISEWORTHINESS
The quality or state of being praiseworthy. - WALLOWER
A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows. - FLOWERY
1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China. - FLOWERLESSNESS
State of being without flowers. - MAYFLOWER
In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus ; also, the blossom of these plants. - KARAISM
Doctrines of the Karaites. - UNFLOWER
To strip of flowers. G. Fletcher.