Word Meanings - MESSENGER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A hawser passed round the capstan, and having its two ends lashed together to form an endless rope or chain; -- formerly used for heaving in the cable. (more info) 1. One who bears a message; the bearer of a verbal or written communication, notice,

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A hawser passed round the capstan, and having its two ends lashed together to form an endless rope or chain; -- formerly used for heaving in the cable. (more info) 1. One who bears a message; the bearer of a verbal or written communication, notice, or invitation, from one person to another, or to a public body; specifically, an office servant who bears messages. 2. One who, or that which, foreshows, or foretells. Yon gray lines That fret the clouds are messengers of day. Shak.

Related words: (words related to MESSENGER)

• PASS
  passer, LL. passare, fr. L. passus step, or from pandere, passum, to 1. To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal phrase defining the kind
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• ROUNDWORM
  A nematoid worm.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• ROUNDISH
  Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure. -- Round"ish*ness, n.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• PASSOVER
  A feast of the Jews, instituted to commemorate the sparing of the Hebrews in Egypt, when God, smiting the firstborn of the Egyptians, passed over the houses of the Israelites which were marked with the blood of a lamb. The sacrifice offered at
• PASSUS
  A division or part; a canto; as, the passus of Piers Plowman. See 2d Fit.
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• ROUNDFISH
  Any ordinary market fish, exclusive of flounders, sole, halibut, and other flatfishes. A lake whitefish , less compressed than the common species. It is very abundant in British America and Alaska.
• ROUND-UP
  The act of collecting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in.
• CHAINWORK
  Work looped or linked after the manner of a chain; chain stitch work.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• PASSIBILITY
  The quality or state of being passible; aptness to feel or suffer; sensibility. Hakewill.
• PASSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to passion or the passions; exciting, influenced by, or ministering to, the passions. -- n.
• PASSIVE FLIGHT
  Flight, such as gliding and soaring, accomplished without the use of motive power.
• NOTICE
  1. The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note. How ready is envy to mingle with the notices we take of other persons ! I. Watts. 2. Intelligence, by whatever means communicated; knowledge
• LASH
  G. lashe latchet, a bit of leather, gusset, stripe, laschen to furnish with flaps, to lash or slap, Icel. laski gusset, flap, laska 1. The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given. I observed that your whip wanted a lash to
• CHAIN PUMP
  A pump consisting of an endless chain, running over a drum or wheel by which it is moved, and dipping below the water to be raised. The chain has at intervals disks or lifts which fit the tube through which the ascending part passes and carry the
• MESSAGE STICK
  A stick, carved with lines and dots, used, esp. by Australian aborigines, to convey information.
• TOP-CHAIN
  A chain for slinging the lower yards, in time of action, to prevent their falling, if the ropes by which they are hung are shot away.
• WATER-BEARER
  The constellation Aquarius.
• SHEET CHAIN
  A chain sheet cable.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• APPLICABLE
  Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv.
• VOCABLE
  A word; a term; a name; specifically, a word considered as composed of certain sounds or letters, without regard to its meaning. Swamped near to drowning in a tide of ingenious vocables. Carlyle. (more info) fr. vocare to call, fr. vox, vocis,
• UNPLACABLE
  Implacable.
• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• CLASH
  1. To make a noise by striking against something; to dash noisily together. 2. To meet in opposition; to act in a contrary direction; to come onto collision; to interfere. However some of his interests might clash with those of the chief adjacent
• PROGNOSTICABLE
  Capable of being prognosticated or foretold. Sir T. Browne.
• FATHER-LASHER
  A European marine fish , allied to the sculpin; -- called also lucky proach.
• IMMEDICABLE
  Not to be healed; incurable. "Wounds immedicable." Milton.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• SHIELD-BEARER
  Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.