Word Meanings - PRINCEKIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A petty prince; a princeling. The princekins of private life. Thackeray.

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• PRINCELESS
  Without a prince. Fuller.
• PRINCEDOM
  The jurisdiction, sovereignty, rank, or estate of a prince. Thrones, princedoms, powers, dominions, I reduce. Milton.
• PRIVATEERING
  Cruising in a privateer.
• PRINCELY
  1. Of or relating to a prince; regal; royal; of highest rank or authority; as, princely birth, character, fortune, etc. 2. Suitable for, or becoming to, a prince; grand; august; munificent; magnificent; as, princely virtues; a princely fortune.
• PRINCEHOOD
  Princeliness. E. Hall.
• PETTYWHIN
  The needle furze. See under Needle.
• PRIVATEERSMAN
  An officer or seaman of a privateer.
• PRINCESSE
  A term applied to a lady's long, close-fitting dress made with waist and skirt in one.
• PRINCE
  1. The one of highest rank; one holding the highest place and authority; a sovereign; a monarch; -- originally applied to either sex, but now rarely applied to a female. Wyclif . Go, Michael, of celestial armies prince. Milton. Queen Elizabeth,
• PRINCELET
  A petty prince.
• PRINCEWOOD
  The wood of two small tropical American trees (Hamelia ventricosa, and Cordia gerascanthoides). It is brownish, veined with lighter color.
• PRINCESS
  1. A female prince; a woman having sovereign power, or the rank of a prince. Dryden. So excellent a princess as the present queen. Swift. 2. The daughter of a sovereign; a female member of a royal family. Shak. 3. The consort of a prince; as, the
• PRIVATE
  to an individual, private, properly p. p. of privare to bereave, deprive, originally, to separate, fr. privus single, private, perhaps originally, put forward and akin to prae 1. Belonging to, or concerning, an individual person, company, or
• PRIVATELY
  1. In a private manner; not openly; without the presence of others. 2. In a manner affecting an individual; personally not officially; as, he is not privately benefited.
• PRIVATEER
  1. An armed private vessel which bears the commission of the sovereign power to cruise against the enemy. See Letters of marque, under Marque. 2. The commander of a privateer. Kidd soon threw off the character of a privateer and became a pirate.
• PRINCELIKE
  Princely. Shak.
• PETTY
  Little; trifling; inconsiderable; also, inferior; subordinate; as, a petty fault; a petty prince. Denham. Like a petty god I walked about, admired of all. Milton. Petty averages. See under Average. -- Petty cash, money expended or received in small
• PRINCELINESS
  The quality of being princely; the state, manner, or dignity of a prince.
• PRINCEKIN
  A petty prince; a princeling. The princekins of private life. Thackeray.
• PRINCESSLIKE
  Like a princess.
• UNPRINCE
  To deprive of the character or authority of a prince; to divest of principality of sovereignty. Swift.
• DISPRINCE
  To make unlike a prince. For I was drench'd with ooze, and torn with briers, . . . And, all one rag, disprinced from head to heel. Tennyson.