Word Meanings - MIZZENMAST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The hindmost mast of a three-masted vessel, or of a yawl-rigged vessel.

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• THREE-SQUARE
  Having a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; -- said especially of a kind of file.
• THREE-MILE
  Of or pertaining to three miles; as, the three-mile limit, or the limit of the marine belt of three miles included in territorial waters of a state.
• THREE-PILE
  An old name for the finest and most costly kind of velvet, having a fine, thick pile. I have served Prince Florizel and in my time wore three-pile. Shak.
• MASTERSHIP
  1. The state or office of a master. 2. Mastery; dominion; superior skill; superiority. Where noble youths for mastership should strive. Driden. 3. Chief work; masterpiece. Dryden. 4. An ironical title of respect. How now, seignior Launce ! what
• THREE-DECKER
  A vessel of war carrying guns on three decks.
• MASTEROUS
  Masterly. Milton.
• THREE-SIDED
  Having three sides, especially three plane sides; as, a three- sided stem, leaf, petiole, peduncle, scape, or pericarp.
• THREE-CORNERED
  Having three prominent longitudinal angles; as, a three- cornered stem. (more info) 1. Having three corners, or angles; as, a three-cornered hat.
• MASTHOUSE
  A building in which vessels' masts are shaped, fitted, etc.
• THREE-PORT
  Having three ports; specif.: Designating a type of two-cycle internal-combustion engine in which the mixture enters the crank case through a port uncovered by the piston near the end of its stroke.
• MASTICABLE
  Capable of being masticated.
• THREE-PLY
  Consisting of three distinct webs inwrought together in weaving, as cloth or carpeting; having three strands; threefold.
• MASTICATION
  The act or operation of masticating; chewing, as of food. Mastication is a necessary preparation of solid aliment, without which there can be no good digestion. Arbuthnot.
• THREE-PARTED
  Divided into, or consisting of, three parts; tripartite. Three- parted leaf , a leaf divided into three parts down to the base, but not entirely separate.
• THREE-FLOWERED
  Bearing three flowers together, or only three flowers.
• MASTOIDITIS
  Inflammation in the mastoid process of the temporal bone.
• MASTOLOGY
  The natural history of Mammalia.
• THREEPENNY
  Costing or worth three pence; hence, worth but little; poor; mean.
• MASTODONTIC
  Pertaining to, or resembling, a mastodon; as, mastodontic dimensions. Everett.
• THREEFOLD
  Consisting of three, or thrice repeated; triple; as, threefold justice. A threefold cord is not quickly broken. Eccl. iv. 12.
• CREMASTERIC
  Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery.
• POLYMASTISM
  The condition of having more than two mammæ, or breasts.
• BAGGAGE MASTER
  One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel.
• HEMASTATICS
  Laws relating to the equilibrium of the blood in the blood vessels.
• STYLOMASTOID
  Of or pertaining to the styloid and mastoid processes of the temporal bone.
• REMASTICATION
  The act of masticating or chewing again or repeatedly.
• TOASTMASTER
  A person who presides at a public dinner or banquet, and announces the toasts.
• FORE-TOPMAST
  The mast erected at the head of the foremast, and at the head of which stands the fore-topgallant mast. See Ship.
• HEMASTATIC; HEMASTATICAL
  See HEMOSTATIC
• TASKMASTER
  One who imposes a task, or burdens another with labor; one whose duty is to assign tasks; an overseer. Ex. i. 11. All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Taskmaster's eye. Milton.
• BANDMASTER
  The conductor of a musical band.
• STERNOMASTOID
  Of or pertaining to the sternum and the mastoid process.
• FOREMAST
  The mast nearest the bow. Foremast hand or man , a common sailor; also, a man stationed to attend to the gear of the foremast.