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Word Meanings - PRIZING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The application of a lever to move any weighty body, as a cask, anchor, cannon, car, etc. See Prize, n., 5.

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  • ANCHORET; ANCHORITE
    One who renounces the world and secludes himself, usually for Our Savior himself . . . did not choose an anchorite's or a monastic life, but a social and affable way of conversing with mortals. Boyle.
  • CANNON BONE
    See BONE
  • LEVERAGE
    The action of a lever; mechanical advantage gained by the lever. Leverage of a couple , the perpendicular distance between the lines of action of two forces which act in parallel and opposite directions. -- Leverage of a force, the perpendicular
  • CANNONADE
    1. The act of discharging cannon and throwing ball, shell, etc., for the purpose of destroying an army, or battering a town, ship, or fort; -- usually, an attack of some continuance. A furious cannonade was kept up from the whole circle
  • ANCHOR LIGHT
    The lantern shown at night by a vessel at anchor. International rules of the road require vessels at anchor to carry from sunset to sunrise a single white light forward if under 150 feet in length, and if longer, two such lights, one near the stern
  • ANCHORAGE
    1. The act of anchoring, or the condition of lying at anchor. 2. A place suitable for anchoring or where ships anchor; a hold for an anchor. 3. The set of anchors belonging to a ship. 4. Something which holds like an anchor; a hold; as,
  • ANCHORESS
    A female anchoret. And there, a saintly anchoress, she dwelt. Wordsworth.
  • CANNONEER; CANNONIER
    A man who manages, or fires, cannon.
  • ANCHORLESS
    Without an anchor or stay. Hence: Drifting; unsettled.
  • CANNONED
    Furnished with cannon. "Gilbralter's cannoned steep." M. Arnold.
  • LEVEROCK
    A lark.
  • WEIGHTY
    1. Having weight; heavy; ponderous; as, a weighty body. 2. Adapted to turn the balance in the mind, or to convince; important; forcible; serious; momentous. "For sundry weighty reasons." Shak. Let me have your advice in a weighty affair. Swift.
  • LEVERWOOD
    The American hop hornbeam , a small tree with very tough wood.
  • ANCHOR-HOLD
    1. The hold or grip of an anchor, or that to which it holds. 2. Hence: Firm hold: security.
  • ANCHORETISM
    The practice or mode of life of an anchoret.
  • APPLICATION
    1. The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb. 2. The thing applied. He invented a new application by which blood might be stanched. Johnson. 3. The act of applying as a means; the
  • ANCHOR WATCH
    A detail of one or more men who keep watch on deck at night when a vessel is at anchor.
  • PRIZER
    One who estimates or sets the value of a thing; an appraiser. Shak.
  • ANCHOR SHOT
    A shot made with the object balls in an anchor space.
  • LEVERET
    A hare in the first year of its age.
  • REAPPLICATION
    The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
  • OVERPRIZE
    Toprize excessively; to overvalue. Sir H. Wotton.
  • APPRIZER
    A creditor for whom an appraisal is made. Sir W. Scott. (more info) 1. An appraiser.
  • CANTILEVER
    See CANTALEVER
  • APPRIZEMENT
    Appraisement.
  • OUTPRIZE
    To prize beyong value, or in excess; to exceed in value. Shak.
  • FOREPRIZE
    To prize or rate beforehand. Hooker.
  • DISANCHOR
    To raise the anchor of, as a ship; to weigh anchor. Heywood.
  • DEMICANNON
    A kind of ordnance, carrying a ball weighing from thirty to thirty-six pounds. Shak.
  • REPRIZE
    See SPENSER
  • CANONIC; CANNONICAL
    Of or pertaining to a canon; established by, or according to a , canon or canons. "The oath of canonical obedience." Hallam. Canonical books, or Canonical Scriptures, those books which are declared by the canons of the church to be of

 

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